Thomas Root's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Load Test Results - How to see later?

  Hi, I need to save the load test results some where for retreiving later on. My requirement is to: 1. Save this results (with graphs and all info) as a PDF or HTML file 2. Save results as XML file 3. I published to Team Foundation Server, but how can I again retrieve it later on I am unable to find any reports or queries on test results. Thanks for help Praveen Hi Praveen, To open and ...Show All

• Visual C# Is XML Config files for project specific settings the best approach...

  Hi all, I have the scenario where I have a Class (assembly) that applies settings that are specific for each proejct that we rollout. Now, the question I ask is, where is the bet place to store these specific settings For example, we will be rolling out to mobile devices, where each device has its own set of features, so we need to cater for them, as well as project/cleint specific features. Is it best to store these details in a XML config file ...Show All

• SQL Server Populating Package variables from a query with 1 input paramater.

  Hi, I am having real big problems assigning values to package variables from the result of a simple SQL query.  My query is as follows: SELECT convert(char(10),StartDate,120) AS StartDate, convert(char(10),EndDate,120) AS EndDate, TimeFlag AS TimeFlag FROM myTable WHERE SourceID = 3 AND InstanceID = My connection manager is an OLE DB type (SQL Server 2005 database). The StartDate, and EndDate are of type smalldatetime, and TimeFlag is  ...Show All

• SQL Server Exporting SQL Maintenance Plans

  I have taken a look at the new maintenance plan designer and have come up with a maintenance plan I would like to be able to deploy on an enterprise level.  Anyone know of a way I can export the plan to another SQL 2005 server - without directly pulling from the msdb system tables   I like the fact that you can script the output of most of the wizards, but the maintenance plan wizard does not appear to be one of them. Thanks, Matt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Filling a DataGridView

  hi, i have a form contains a combobox and a datagridview the combobox ( valuememeber called "catid", displaymemeber called "catname") the datagridview has three columns (subcatid, subcatname, subcatcatid) i want when i add a new row to the datagridview the last column "subcatcatid" to take its value automaticly from the combobox valuememeber i can't do that useing the wizard because my dataset doesn't retrieve data from datab ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting the index = -1 in Databound combo box

  HI, I am having a problem in a databound combobox , whenever I set the selectedindex value = -1 an error is poping up " There is no row at position -1". What I am doing here I have a text box on my form which is bo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Create texture from internal bitmap

  Using TextureLoader to create textures from external files is dead easy. But, in my actual application, I don't want the users to be able to screw around with external bitmaps, so I've created a class that encapsulates all of my graphics into one binary file. I have no trouble saving and loading a binary file, but once I've loaded the file and I have all these Bitmaps sitting around... how in the WORLD do I get textures out of them I've tried ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OpacityMask and PerPixelAlpha

  Hello people !! I'm trying fx3.0 and I want to made the principal window with a mask of opacity like I do with a rectangle (example I have an image like mask.png with alpha transparency). Can any give an idea of how to do that Thanks a lot !!!! The timeline for future releases is not clear, but yes, you would be able to use the a png mask. Of course, you could do this today using the hwndSource property ...Show All

• Visual Studio Default Excludes a la nAnt

  Hi, Is there a way for me to specify default excludes ( or define it for multiple ItemGroups ) This is so that files like .svn for subversion, _vti*  etc are ignored during processing of lists (especially copy ). Alternatively is it possible for me to give a set of wild cards in the exclude attribute of Item Group Thanks, Hari  The only recognized attribute on ItemGroup is Condition so you can't "exclude" at the It ...Show All

• .NET Development Need help with odbccommand.ExecuteNonQuery

  Hi, I am writing a VB.net application which inserts a row in Oracle/MSSQL/AS400 databases. Here is a function I use to execute the sql statement: Private Sub ExecuteCommand(ByVal sqlstmt As String, ByVal useAutoCommit As String) Dim rowAffected As Integer Dim myTrans As OdbcTransaction Dim myCommand As OdbcCommand Dim _ODBCConn As OdbcConnection If UCase(useAutoCommit) = "TRUE" Then Try myCommand = New Od ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problem with Binding Source witn ResultSet as datasource

  I have a binding Source witn a ResultSet as datasource,I use resultset instead of a dataset becasue the DB that i’m working witn has 30000 and witn a dataset the aplication is to slow and uses a lot of memory. But I have a problem: When I try to cast bindingsource current Item to datarowview,i have this exception "InvalidCastException",this exception also occurs when I’m try to addnew Item to my bindingsource. Dim DRV As ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mouse input

  why am i getting theses numbers from my mouse http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/4944/untitled5tb.jpg please help thanks private ACEIDev ACEMouse; public int ACEMouseX=0; public int ACEMouseY = 0; public int ACEMouseZ = 0; public ACEMou(Control ff) { ACEMouse = new ACEIDev(SystemGuid.Mouse); ACEMouse.Properties.AxisModeAbsolute = true ; ACEMouse.SetCooperativeLevel(ff, CooperativeLevelFlags.Foreground | ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL String Help Please

  I'm in the process of creating an application that converts one database to another database with different fields...pointless, yes, but easier than typing in 4000 entries My SQL string is SELECT * FROM tblInformation However, that's all fine and dandy, until I don't know the name of the table in the database...I know this doesn't work: SELECT * FROM * or SELECT * FROM ALL but I don't know what else to try. Is it even possible to se ...Show All

• Visual Basic Upgrading: Is it worth it?

  Hi all, I currently have a VB6 application in which I have invested years of development on it. The application has a mixture of everything, such as: Client / Server architecture Data Services layer Tons of complex custom controls API calls, notifications, subclassing of every kind and more... Now that VS.NET 2005 is out, is it worth all the hassle to port such an app Thanks, Ivan ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem With Stored Procedure

  Hi, I am using Stored Procedures on SQL SERVER 2005. It uses cursor to perform row by row operations of string searching. Now the performance of the cursor is fine till the records to be searched are below hundread as the records in which i am searching is 1.5 lakhs. As one of the fields that i search in a bigger field rises to 7,500 unique entries the peroformance drastically decreases. I know cursors can decrease performance but i ...Show All