Shagun's Q&A profile

• .NET Development When does the garbage collection get run

  The garbage collector is run on a low priority thread and called when any of the required generations on the heap are full. If I call a method that runs a loop creating objects on generation 0 of the heap, and the total amount of memory required to create all my objects is greater than the size of generation 0, then will the garbage collection thread force garbage collection before the loop has finished If not, then will an outofmemory ex ...Show All

• SQL Server After Transaction Log Grows, it won't shrink.

  The other day I had someone truncate an extremely large transaction log (100GB) but it wouldn't return the space to the OS, not even after a backup and restore operation. There’s an interesting bit of trivia around shrinking this file. When the log file is truncated, you may not see all of the space returned to the OS. The reason is the way the data might be spread. Here’s the way we think data looks in the log file: <BeginFile>xx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS RTM Trial Upgrade to Full Version

  We are currently using TFS RC, and are planning on purchasing the full released version as soon as it is available for purchase. We would like to install the trial version that is available for download on MSDN, so we don't have to wait for media, but we are concerned about needing to reinstall once we do have the purchased media. Ideally once we make the purchase, we would like to be able to enter the key and have the trial turn into the f ...Show All

• Visual C++ Upgrading to VC++ 2003

  I believe that this is probably a stupid question, but I would just like to know for sure before I spend the money. I currently have Visual C++ 6, and the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta. I am interested in purchasing Visual C++ 2003, however, I need to know whether or not I will still be able to build and maintain the OLE Automation Servers that I have in VC++6. I have tried to build one in VC++ 2005 Express Edition and it won't build beca ...Show All

• SQL Server UPDATE STATISTICS Breaks Optimizer

  I thought this was a partition problem (may be related, but is directly reproducable with UPDATE STATISTICS). I have a partitioned table (by day for 31 days, 32 partitions)with over 26,000,000 rows in it. The rows are relatively evenly distributed across the partitions. The table has a clustered nonunique index based on reporttime and a nonclustered nonunique index based on callsignssid and reporttime (see below, pasted from the SQL Server Manag ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2000 sign-on to 2005

  Good morning, I'm wondering if it's possible to connect to SQL Server 2005 from 2000 I'm having no trouble going from 2005 to 2000 but I can't seem to connect the other way. Any help would be apprciated. Thanks, Yes, it is certainly possible to create a linked server from a 2005 server to a 2000 server.  I have one set up on this end, with no problems.  What issue a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Loading images as embedded resource: How to optimize

  Hi!!! I have a pda application that uses a dll that I made. That dll has some images that i load as an embedded resource, when i run the application, it takes some time t load all images and i can see in the emulator the images loading... What can I do to make the images load at the same time Thanks in advance A useful method of determining the full name of all embedded resources in your assembly is to use GetM ...Show All

• Visual C++ When is operator void* invoked.

  I have a class A and it has an STL container as a member. I also have a class A_Iterator which provides functionality to iterate over the member variable within A, in different ways. When I want to use this iterator , I do something like main(){ A a; A_Iterator iter(a); do{ // do some stuff; } while (iter++); } For the while loop to exit, I am having to provide a conversion function within A_Iterator of the for ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista RPC_E_WRONG_THREAD in Vista; but not 98/2000p/2000s/2003s/XP pro

  RPC_E_WRONG_THREAD I am working at company that uses COM and DCOM to provide OPC data. Their application works fine on all OS (XP Pro requires some security tweaking to make the data server available externally). Vista throws RPC_E_WRONG_THREAD when I try to access the underlying COM data server.  Is there a Vista patch or security setting to allow vista to do this. Windows 98, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting icon to form

  Hi I face the following problem. I m using Visual Studio C# 2003 standard edition.In my project i use Modaless Form and i dont show that form in TaskBar .Now i need to set a icon for that form.I tried setting my own icon but it always displays the default one.i like to know how to set the icon for a form which is not shown in the taskbar. Please Help... Thanks private Form1_Load( object sender, Eventarg e ) { this .I ...Show All

• SQL Server Pakcage Error...How to read files on a different domain?

  So did some troubleshooting on the my previous post - http://forums.microsoft.com/forums/ShowPost.aspx PostID=272319&SiteID=1 Thanks to everyone who tried to help... So I got some insight into what is happening. My package was having trouble reading files on a remote domain although I mapped the drives locally. This does not cause either running the package to failed either through directly running under VSS, or Execution Utility. But i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help crashes Visual Studio 2003

  I am a computer science major at a university that has Visual Studio 2003 available through the MSDN academic alliance. I installed VS without the MSDN library for an assignment and everything was great, then when I later tried to install the library it won't work. If I try to directly open the library, a message comes up saying "updating help..." then Document Explorer crashes. If I open VS the same message comes up and the whole prog ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WebService - Correlation - Persistance

  Hi, I started playing with the WWF now, to see what one can do with it. I am targeting a stupid scenario as a test case. Let's say a story teller service with 3 words: I implemented an interface IStory with 2 functions: string StartStory(int id, string word); string ContinueStory(int id, string word); the CorrelationParameter is "id", StartStory is the CorrelationInitializer. I also implemented a small class: public class ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem seeing my window

  I just got Visual Studio 2005 and I tried to make a program using Win32. The program is just displaying a window. When I compile the code I get no errors at all, but nothing happens after that. My window doesn't pop up. I made sure that I had the functions: ShowWindow() and UpdateWindow, but apparently that wasn't the problem. Please help. Well, it's really impossible to comment without seeing the code... &nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Cast null values

  I have a query in my TableAdapter that returns a decimal type, but can have also return a null value. How can I assing a 0 if it returns a null value My actual code is: decimal idUsuario; idUsuario = ( decimal )queriesTableAdapter.GetIdUsuarioByUsuario(Usuario)   and it fails if a null value is returned. I have test this code and it works: if (queriesTableAdapter.GetIdUsuarioByUsuario(Usuario) == DBN­ull.Value)   id ...Show All