Stoil Pankov's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista and Symantec Ghost 8.x

  Ever since build 5231, I've found myself unable to use Ghost (8.0 or 8.2) "as I've always been able to".  By which I mean with 5219, XP, 2000, etc., I can just create a partition backup, restore a partition backup, no muss, no fuss, all successful. (I have an XP-compatible boot manager, have four independant partitions that are always hidden from one another, and I restore just one partition based on what OS/test/scenario I need to create.) Now with 5231 and later, creating a Ghost image of a partition always results in the "unable to access \windows\winload.exe" (or whatever that exact full-screen message from the Vista boot mana ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unable to change size property...

  I am using an inherited form with the base size property set to 700, 600.  In the inherited form, the size is set to 6,6 and I am unable to change it.  Any solutions Has anyone found the answer to this problem.  Its driving nuts.  Is it a designer issue ...Show All

• SQL Server Stored Procedure being saved in System Stored Procedures

  We recently upgraded to SQL Server 2005. We had several stored procedures in the master database and, rather than completely rewriting a lot of code, we just recreated these stored procedures in the new master database. For some reason, some of these stored procedures are getting stored as "System Stored Procedures" rather than just as "Stored Procedures". Queries to sys.Objects and sys.Procedures shows that these procs are being saved with the is_ms_shipped field set to 1, even though they obviously were not shipped with the product. I can't update the sys.Objects or sys.Procedures views in 2005. What effect wi ...Show All

• SQL Server Watermark Generation is Invalid Error

  We are currently doing a proof of concept using SQL 2005 merge replication.  However we are currently encountering the following errors: "The common generation watermark is invalid at this replica since it does not exist or metadata for changes not yet propagated may have been cleaned up." " The merge process failed because it detected a mismatch between the replication metadata of the two replicas, such that some changes could be lost leading to non-convergence. This could be due to the subscriber not having synchronized within the retention period, or because of one of the replicas being restored to a backup older than retention ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Geometry.BoxBoundProbe not working as intended?

  Hi, yesterday I was writing the collision detection code, and I had a really pain, figuring why the code: Geometry.BoxBoundProbe(BoundingMin, BoundingMax, Position, Direction); isn't the same as: if(BoundingMin.X<(Position.X + Direction.X) && (Position.X + Direction.X)<BoundingMax.X)    if(BoundingMin.Y<(Position.Y + Direction.Y) && (Position.Y + Direction.Y)<BoundingMax.Y)       if(BoundingMin.Z<(Position.Z + Direction.Z) && (Position.Z + Direction.Z)<BoundingMax.Z)          return(true); return(false); I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSBUILD : Warning : Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers is required to run tests as part of a Team Build

  I have a Team Foundation Server. I am running the Build from my workstation. I have Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200). When I run my Build Type which is configured to execute a test, I get the following warning: MSBUILD : warning : Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers or Visual Studio Team System for Software Developers is required to run tests as part of a Team Build. I've done some research and some folks have said that you absolutely need Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers for this to work. We only have Visual Studio Team Editon for Software De ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SQL Like & In Operators | other errors

  hi there I am missing the SQL LIKE and IN operators. Are those currently not available or did I not find them I expected something like var q =    from t in something    where t.somecolumn like "blah%"     select t; and var q =    from t in something    where t.idcolumn in (myIDarray)     select t; In the samples I saw a category " EXISTS/IN/ANY/ALL", but there were no IN and no EXISTS samples. I also have a problem with enums, but there's a work arround. If I have an field wich is of an enum type (int) and saved in the db as a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cannot call Close() while doing CreateHandle()

  If I load the form below as an mdichild and try to close it again, say after a condition failed I get the error Cannot call Close() while doing CreateHandle(). I tried to pu then check condition that close the form in MyBase .Activated event by its still comes back with the error Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Try Dim f As New frmTranSetup If f.ShowDialog <> DialogResult.OK Then Me .Close() Catch ex As Exception End Try End Sub Load is fired as a form is in the process of being created. Decisions o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSBUILD with Unit Tests

  I have a build type that is working just fine. I updated it by setting the RunTest key to true and now my builds are failing. The log contains the following that seems to be applicable. MSBUILD : warning : Please specify the results file to publish using the /PublishResultsFile switch, or specify tests to run to have those results published. I have added the following to the TFSBuild.rsp file /PublishResultsFile:"C:\Temp\BuildResults.trx" But now the build fails immediately and gives me not indication as to why. I have tried various combinations of the parameter in the TFSBuild.rsp file but to no avail. I am obviously m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to get windows to open text with my app

  Hi,how do i get windows to open txt files with my program i made with vb2005 from textBox to richTextBox did the trick ! thank you so much for the help jim ...Show All

• SQL Server SSMS - Opening a new file

  My problem is that everytime you open a new file you have to reconnect to the server and select the database your working on. Isn't there an option to open all new files with the current connection settings Unfortunately no, not in SP1. We have plans to make the connection dialog come up much less often in SP2, mainly by getting the connection context from the currently selected item. So if you are editing a file, the next file you open would connect to the same server/database automatically. Thanks, Steve ...Show All

• .NET Development Web service in VS 2005

  I am trying to debug a webservice by steping into a web method called from a web project. The strange thing is that sometimes it works but often it does not. When it does not work I get the following error when trying to step into a web method: Unable to automatically step into the server. The remote procedure could not be debugged. This usually indicaes that debugging has not been enabled on the server. See help for information. Here is how my project looks like: 1. project: Web project which has a button that activates a web method. 2. project: Web service which is consumed in project 1. Web.config is set to: <compilation ...Show All

• Windows Forms Changing logon programmatically from windows app

  I have an application that needs to be used by several different persons. The application identifies the person who is logged on to the machine to record in a SQL database who is saving a record. I would like to programmatically change the logon so that one person could change the logon without using the windows logoff - logon (to prevent the  ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I cant Install Directx 9.0c

  When I try install Directx 9.0c December 2005 Redlist I Envisage with this Error : "An internal system error occurred. Please refer to DXError.log and DirectX.log in your Windows folder to derermine problem." I several time download Directx 9.0c December 2005 and November 2005 but everytime I Envisage with this error and when I go to DXError.log and DirectX.log see this Problem with dsound.inf : -------------------- [01/05/06 01:40:11] module: dsetup32(Sep 28 2005), file: setup.cpp, line: 6443, function: CSetup::InstallDirectXInfsFromInfSection     Installation of 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\DirectX\DX113.tmp\dsou ...Show All

• Smart Device Development error - Connect to device failed!!

  hi there, I'm getting an error "Connect to device failed", whenever I tried to deploy my applications to emulator. I'm working on Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC using VS2005 and Active Sync 4.0. Yesterday, I installed "Microsoft Virtual Machine Network Driver" for Internet Connection issues on emulator, Internet issues were solved but raised new problem for me. Could this be a problem, Can any body please tell me why this is happening and whats the procedure to overcome this error. Plz help me. Thanx in advance Regards Harish Could you try these a)If you have checked ssl connection for active sync, please uncheck ...Show All