LiquidMike's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio mscorsvw.exe

  When installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 (and when install has finished) a process named "mscorsvw.exe" runs, and takes up 95/100% CPU. I've no idea why this is. That, and when trying to start Visual Studio 2005 - It opens, then immediately exits. I've done the un-install of previous versions in perfect order, and yet the problem continues Can anyone shed any light i had a pb with mscorsvw : it was taking 95 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VBA + VSTO

  I am developing an excel VSTO spreadsheet/workbook in VS 2005, I have the majority of the code done in c#, but I want to embed some VBA in the actual spreadsheet itself. When i try to get to the excel tools menu within visual studio it doesn't appear, I select Tools | Microsoft Office Excel Tools | but no further menu appears, despite there being an arrow indicating one should appear. I can add the VBA code if I open the spreadsheet once compile ...Show All

• Architecture workflow engine and rule engine performance

  Please give me your criticakl comments on performance degradation issues arising out of usage ofworkflow and rule engine vis a vis increase in scalability and agility I think that at the end of the day it doesn't matter what performance degradation (if any) you have - it only matters does the architectural appraoch of workflows and/or rule engine fits your solution. for example, for business rules do you have c ...Show All

• Visual C++ DEBUG ASSERTATION FAILED....when cleaning out SPRITE vector in GAME

  Hello, I'm having a problem with algorithm,which I have from the 2D GAME book to clean up resources. I remember to have there a bug and caused my game to crash, but that did not happen every time, or not in few mins of play. I stopped working on that some time ago and now working on 3D GAME. I implemented this algorithm to my new game and it makes my game unplayable - when I call that function CLEANUPSPRITES - here it is vector< ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with mimimum value for DateTime Package Variable since SP1

  Since I've installed SP1 the minimum value for a package variable has changed. The former version used 12/30/1899 as the minimum value that can be entered. Now the min value has changed to something about 1960. During package execution I'd like to distinguish between two states: 1. The Variable has not yet been written to. 2. Any of my executable has written to it. At the moment I check the value of it to be the minimum value (see above) or not. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to create a geo-fence

  The PolyLine feature is a great feature in V3. I can now create a polygon for my geo-fence. However, I don't know how to figure out whether a new LatLong is within my previously defined polygon. Can somebody help Thanks. I haven't had the need to do it myself yet, but the only ways I could think to do it would be by some sort of mathematical calculation, or make use of some other sort of software which does. MAYB ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System I do not have permission to view the sharepoint webpage

  Hello! I've just installed Windows Sharepoint Services and when trying to got to http://localhost/ I get this: ------ You are not authorized to view this page You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied because your Web browser is sending a WWW-Authenticate header field that the Web server is not configured to accept. ----------- I am logged in to the Administrator of the domain, what is it ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Bind to existing object instance

  After searching high and low I don't see a simple example for binding to an existing object instance using XAML.  I am using the Nov. CTP How does one do the following in XAML < StackPanel x:Name = " MyPanel " > < TextBox x:Name = " TBName " Text = " {Binding Path=Name} " ></ TextBox > </ StackPanel > namespace BindToObject {  Class Window1   {    public Person person = new Person ...Show All

• Windows Forms resizeable

  This is probably a bit of an obvious question, but how do you create forms that are resizeable. (Not just the actual form but so that the controls on the form change size in accordance with the form changing size.) Any help would be appreciated If I understand your scenario correctly, you are not talking about running under different screen resolutions. E.g. you want to make sure that buttons on your form resiz ...Show All

• Visual Basic add Data connection in VS server explorer

  hi everyone, I'm new to .net programming and to VisualStudio. I installed VisualStudio 2005 Beta 2 and SQL server Express on my PC and created Pubs database for my exercise using a script downloaded from MSDN site. Then I tried to add a new Data connection in VS Server Explorer. choose SQL server as my Data source and enter {machine-name}\SQLEXPRESS as my server name and tried to testConnection. I got an alert -"timeout expired ......server ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions console window closes too fast!

  How do I configurate Visual Studio 2005 so that the console windows does not close after an exception is throw I've see systems with Visual Studio 2005 that does not close console windows unless they are manually closed. But my newly installed VS2005 closes my consoel output too fast for me to see anything. Thanks! create a loop around the console input... While Console . ReadLine <> "q ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Package load error when starting VS.NET 2005

  Similar to the issue reported here ->  http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=88635 I'm running the exact same version of VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 (beta2.050215.4400) on two machines but on one machine I get the following error when VS.NET starts up: Package 'Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner.DesignerPackage, Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner, Version 3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' has failed to load proper ...Show All

• SQL Server Execution Plan Mystery

  I was hoping someone could shed some light on wierd situation i'm experiencing. I have the following query: select count(*) LeadCount from auto_leads al where received > dbo.GetDay(GetDate()) dbo.GetDay simply returns a smalldatetime value of today's date. Now I recently got thrown into a data mess and for some reason this query takes 8 seconds to run. Now the first thing I did was update the stats on the Received column of this auto ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Embed baseline alignment information into a custom control

  Hello, I have designed some custom controls for displaying math equations and now I want to be able to display math equations in Paragraphs. First I was thinking to embed the control in a Figure, but the problem is that I need to align the control with the surrounding text. The alignment should be at baseline if my custom control has one, or if the control doesn't have a baseline (for example a fraction) the alignment should be at center. How ...Show All

• Visual Basic Late binding of type (class) name

  How do I do late binding (or reflection) of a class name to instantiate it   ex: Public Function GetData(ByVal p_Type as string) as data Dim obj as new <libraryname>[p_Type] return obj.getData All the classes in the library will have a standard interface. Thanx,   Is this what you are looking for: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.activator.createinstance(VS.80).aspx Best regards, ...Show All