Lewis Clark's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Compact Framework Rules

  Hi, My team is currently developing an application that we would like to be able to run on the compact framework at some stage with minimal effort. It occurred to me that perhaps there are some FxCop rules that could tell us when we are using types that are not supported on WinCE. Can anyone confirm this Is this approach a bad idea Thanks, Kent This analysis always occurs on build, and problems show up ...Show All

• SQL Server Str() not locale aware

  If I execute the following Transact-Sql: declare @number float set @number=123.4567 select str(@number,10,2) I get: 123.46 Now, my windows is setup to use "," as a decimal symbol and I would have expected SQL Server to return "123,46". But apparently SQL Server does not take that into account. Is there a setting within SQL Server that controls what SQL Server uses as decimal symbol Or will it always use "." as decimal symbol If it always uses ". ...Show All

• Visual Studio Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  I installed vs2005 team system suite beta 2 over a previous ctp (I follow all the uninstall guidelines) on a w2k3 SP1 server. When I try to create a new item in a web project (either Dataset, xsd, web form, master page...) I get the error on the subject. I tried to reinstall vs2005 but I always get the same problem. I also tried vs2005_beta_cleanup_tool.exe with same behavior. I want to print the out put on a s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deleting a Team Project

  Hi, is there any way to delete a Team Project created by me From Team Explorer exists the remove option but I couldn't find one to delete all the different parts of a Team Project (SCC, Project Portal, Work Items, etc). Is it possible Thanks a lot LucasC In VSTF Beta 3, I can not even find the deleteteamproject.exe file. Can someone confirm that it is supposed to be present, and if so, where I've installed the data tier, app tier, full c ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Games with sound impossible in MDX 2.0

  Hi, I'm converting a game project to MDX2.0 (becuase with 1.1 it doesnt run properly on my new 64 bit setup - but thats another story) Here's my problem: First compile error: Microsoft.DirectSound.Device is multiply defined in DIrectSound.dll and DirectX.dll (2.0) Action: remove refernce to DirectSound.dll Second compile error: Microsoft.DirectSound.SecondaryBuffer is not defined ... becuase that was is the DirectSound.dll !! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Publishing a C# Application

  Hello, I like C# and the Visual Studio is a nice environment and although I understand it’s beta I’ve got into a little bit of trouble trying to publish an application; we need this tool yesterday and now I find I can’t share it. I’ve read the related posts but still no luck, here’s what happens when someone else tries to install the tool from a network drive: Windows version: 5.1 system.deployment.dll (in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bad quality of drawn metafiles

  Hi, I'm working under .NET Framework 1.1. It is known that anti-aliasing is not supported when drawing metafiles using Graphics or converting them to bitmaps. I would really want to avoid writing my own class which plays metafiles records with anti-aliasing turned on - afaik EmfPlusPlayRecord is the largest enumeration in .NET  Could anyone point me to some ready source code over the Intermet I'm sure it does present somewhere ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registering an ISO or IMG installation...

  I have a little problem here, my network setup allows me to have only one computer connceted to internet, because of poor  service quality from my isp,  so i decided to download the ISO image so i could install VC++  Express edition without messing my internet access. But  it seems that these Express Editions need to be registered via web, is there need to register, when you installed from ISO or can you just ignore it, witho ...Show All

• Visual Basic Deploying help file

  Ok, first ever post. I've developed a VB application and associated chm which I want to deploy together, currently deploying VB application ok without the helpfile using ClickOnce using 'cd' option. I can get it all to run in Visual Studio by specifying the full path to the chm under HelpName space on the help provider, but of course the deployed application wont have the file in that place. So I've tried adding the chm file to the project an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Customizing a project item template

  Hello, I'd like to set the custom tool and the build action of a project item through a project item template. I saw on a post titled "Is it possible to associate a custom tool with a file extension" posted on 4. July, but could not make it work (with both VS 2005 Beta 2 and RC1) After exporting a template through VS2005 and modifying it according to the mentioned post, I get: <VSTemplate Version="2.0.0" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/d ...Show All

• Smart Device Development My Pocket PC IE browser does not read XML files!!!!

  Hi all, When I uploaded an XML file from my PC to my Pocket PC and tried to open the file with the pocket pc IE explorer, it gives me a blank page, and doesn't show me the contents of the XML file, is there any known issue that I don't know regarding this problem Thanks in advance.. MEDO:where can I find the registry editor of Windows Mobile 2003 You need a 3rd party tool... http://www.kilmist.com/ppcRegistryEd ...Show All

• .NET Development How about a 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Server 64-bit OS issues forum?

  After installing SQL Server 2005 CTP April on Windows Server 2003 64-bit x64, I mistakenly disabled  Volume Shadow Copy Service. Tried to make a System State backup with NTBackup and of course it failed. I re-enabled Volume Shadow Copy Service but now every time the machine boots, the service fails to start. There's no place to post this kind of question on these forums. Correct, this forum is specifically for questions rega ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Creating project bombs due to lack of admin sharepoint rights

  I've been trying unsuccessfully to configure users of TFS to be able to create new projects. I continuously get an error message (below) that the domain user accounts do not have administrative priviledges in SharePoint. Assume a single server install. Here's what I have tried: 1. New user account Xuser is created on domain. 2. Xuser is added as a Team Foundation Administrator. 3. Xuser is added as a Content Manager to Reporting Services 4. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF and SCORM

  Is there any research or effort ongoing at Microsoft (James ) on using WWF in a SCORM compliant solution I'm referring to the ADL Sequencing specification (SCORM 2004 Sequencing and Navigation). Is Microsoft interested in SCORM at all There is very little info on Microsft.com on e-learning, specifically on Learning Management Systems (LMS). Looking at WWF and SCORM, it may be a task as simple as providing an XSLT transform between XOML (XA ...Show All

• Visual Basic Very slow speed on displaying controls in a form

  How to improve the display performance on dynamics create controls on form load event The following code is very slow.   Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Me .Location = New Point(0, 300) Me .Size = New Size(800, 300) Me .Refresh() Dim but As Button Dim x As Integer Dim y As Integer Dim bHeight As ...Show All