Buda56's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Re-indexing:TfsIntegration failed

  I noticed this SQL job was failing and was wondering if I should be concerned TFSIntegration Mainetance Job. Error: Date 23/04/06 00:00:01 Log Job History (TfsIntegration Maintenance Job) Step ID 1 Server TFS Job Name TfsIntegration Maintenance Job Step Name Re-index Databases Duration 00:00:12 Sql Severity 15 Sql Message ID 0 Operator Emailed Operator Net sent Operator Paged Retries Attempted 0 Message Exe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Print button disabled in ReportViewer

  Hi! I'm facing what I think is a strange bug in ReportViewer control. I using a server report, it opens without problems on the ReportViewer in my WinForms app. But there are 2 strange things: the print button is disabled and the printpreview dialog does nothing. Does anybody know something about it BTW, I'm using VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 (April CTP). Thanks in advance. Anderson In Beta 2, Print ...Show All

• Windows Forms Anyone know why my pretty icons look stupid on toolbars? :-)

  Hi everyone, Any help with the following would be very greatfully received. I've been having a lot of problems trying to get the standard winforms toolbar to display my images correctly. The image in question is a 32x32 icon graphic saved as a png (with& ...Show All

• .NET Development Implementing a custom Permission

  I've developed the following 2 classes: - class SomePermission : IPermission, IUnrestrictedPermission, ISecurityEncodable (like PrincipalPermission) (ISecurityEncodable isn't implemented yet) - class SomePermissionAttribute : CodeAccessSecurityAttribute (with CreatePermission() overrided to return a instance of SomePermission) I'm using Beta 2 framework (v2.0.50215). I've only tested this code in an ASP.NET WebServices application so far bu ...Show All

• Visual C++ scanf deprecated

  Hi there, I'm getting this warning: test.c(10) : warning C4996: 'scanf' was declared deprecated C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\stdio.h(295) : see declaration of 'scanf' Message: 'This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using scanf_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. See online help for details.' 1) I don't want to use _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE in every project I write, I'm compiling fr ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to read and write text files?

  My question is how to read the content of a text file into my programme, and write it into another text file created by the programme. Could anybody tell me the most common method of doing that Thanks in advance! By the way, where can I find a good online tutorial for VB6 The File System Object is still the way to do this Why have you decided to stick with VB6 instead of downloading VB.NET Express ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX, where do I put the symbol files?

  Sorry for the newbie question, but where do I put the Symbol files I am using April 2006 release, VS2003, MDX, x86. Thank you. Well I didn't have that directory, but after a little hunting I discovered that its a separate download. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=562D72FC-61C8-41A3-8BFF-509466F3D6AA I always assumed these were for C++ only but you are correct that there are symbols for the managed assemblies t ...Show All

• SQL Server Which sql statement is more efficient

  There are two sql statement which do the same thing, I wonder which is more efficient and why The two sql statement are as below: 1.    select Sessionid from tableTest1    where sessionid in    (       select sessionid from tableTest2    ) 2.    select t1.Sessionid from tableTest1 t1,tableTest2 t2    where t1.Sessionid = t2.Sessionid Be ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to call unmanaged code from managed code?

  Hi, I am very new to the .Net frame work and the whole idea of managed and unmanaged code. I have a question though. The latest version of VC++.Net makes it so simple and easy to design UIs thanks to its drag and drop approach (which had been an integral part of VB). However, my program is supposed to perform some very intensive mathematical routines. For that part, I don't want my code to be managed as that would slow things down considera ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Publishing Cab File

  Hi, In VS2005 there is an option to publish WinForm application. other user can access this web page and download the latest application. how is it possible to do the same with Cab files created for mobile device applications. “Click Once” deployment is not supported for devices. You can publish CAB file on your WEB server manually, though. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Feature Request

  I keep online copies of backups on seperate hard disks from my documents, I would like to be able to choose which drives and partitions indexing is run on as I can with the indexing service thereby eliminating duplicates of my searchs. Would also REALLY like to be able to have the keyword highlighted in the preview pane :P Thanks - I'll be sure to forward this along! Bill Connors Program Manager, Windows ...Show All

• Windows Forms Thread question

  Hi, I have a winform application that fire a thread that verifies a database, if the database has some new entry, the thread needs to communicate the main thread.. How can I do this via message via event via fire balls =P Thanx! To see an example of the BackgroundWorker in action check out the Application at the bottom of the page - http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx tabindex=9&tabid=3 App Summary - ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WOTB (Way off Topic But..) What portal framework is the WWF site using?

  It's hard not to notice that the WWF site is building up its content dynamically, would anyone be at liberty to say if the code behind the site could be available as a starter portal Id prefer yours over the one I'll cobble together to emulate it. Thanks! James James, The WF portal is and the ASP.NET site both utilize the same portal framework.  As far as I know, I don't believe the framework's source code& ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Todd @ Devdays in Amsterdam question (about bots on MSN)

  Hi Todd, On the devdays confernce today in Amsterdam you mentioned that to make a bot on MSN you could either go through the Partners, or you could also talk directly through MSN (but have some limitations then) and parse the send strings yourself. Now browsing the forums and the messages about the Bots I see no where mentioned that you can also do it yourself WITHOUT using these partner platforms. Could you clarify how and where I coul ...Show All

• SQL Server How to initialize pull transactional subscription with attaching of a database

  What do I need to do to initialize pull transactional subscription with attaching of a database It defers from initializing from backup. ...Show All