MarbleheadMan's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Render to texture

  this is in response to another thread that I have in this forum. I am having problem of rendering to a texture. I have a texture that I populate by using lockRect and the usage is D3DPOOL_MANAGED.  The problem is that I cannot populate this texture using lockRect and D3DPOOL_MANAGED but rather D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, which cannot be populated with lockRect.  I have to use D3DPOOL_MANAGED inoder to use SetRenderTarget 1.Is there a way to popu ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Build/Deploy issue - individual files being pushed

  I only recently installed the official release of VS2005. After doing so i opened a project i was working on with the Beta version, cleaned it, then built it. When i did this, i notice that in the bin directory, all dependent files are copied. This also occurs if i attempt to deploy to my device. Why would it need to deploy these files if the are already part of .net 2.0 some of the files are: Microsoft.WindowsMobile.dll, Microsoft.WindowsM ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can Team System import data from Visual SourceSafe?

  I have never tried Team System and want to know whether Team System can import data from Visual SourceSafe without losing history. If the answer is no, will it Thanks. Yes, you can migrate source code (and history) from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation version control using a converter we ship with Team Foundation Server. See this post on Akash Maheshwari's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/akas ...Show All

• Visual C++ Adding tooltip controls in unicode fails

  Hi guys! I'm having problems making tooltips work with unicode. At first, I used them in infotip feature of the listview controls in WTL. What happens is, it works when I set the project to use Multi-byte libraries and fails when I set it to unicode(no infotip appears). In both cases, LVN_GETINFOTIP is called. Assuming that it's probably a bug in WTL or in the listview infotip implementation, I tried manually using tooltips in WinAPI.... Here's ...Show All

• SQL Server auto uncheck the table permit

  I have database called "backoff" at both server A and server B. server A and server B is same, but I copy the server A database to server B the server B before paste the server A database, I set the userA in security > logins > "userA" > checked the database access permit for some table but after paste the database, it auto uncheck. Information --> The userA are owner for some table in the database he ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't find rsactivate.exe

  I've spent a few hours bashing my head into the wall - no matter what I install and uninstall, I can't seem to get setup to put the rsactivate.exe file into my sql server 2005 installation. Without this tool, I can't get sql reporting working. Can anyone tell me step by step what I need to do to get this tool installed Thanks! rsactivate.exe does no longer exist and is no longer needed in RS 2005. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development can't add a cert in a device application...

  These are the steps I've taken... Right click the project node in the solution explorer Click Properties Choose the Device tab on the left Check the 'Authenticode Signature' checkbox Click 'Select Certificate' There were no certs visible in the 'Select Certificate' dialog box so I chose 'Manage Certificates' I then imported the proper cert from the 'Manage Certificates' dialog box Browsed to the cert in the 'Trusted Root Certification A ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Visual Studio hangs after WWF 1.2 is installed

  I've just installed WWF 1.2 beta, and now Visual Studio (RTM) appears to hang in an endless loop on startup. I've installed the Windows SDK, WWF platform components, VS WWF extenstions, as well as WinFX and VS WinFX extensions, all in one go. The only visible sign of an error I can find (apart from VS now being broken :) are some entries in the Application event log (something is complaining about a missing assembly, Microsoft.ReportingServices. ...Show All

• .NET Development setting up admin error for personal web site

  I am a new user. I am workign with Visual studio express and in trying to compele the intial project of a personal website, I get an error everytime I try to set up the admin user. The error is that my password does not match the format, but it does. How do I get started, I can't find an answer for this in the knowledge base. ...Show All

• SQL Server default schema not working?

  I am confused. I added my NT account to the sql server logins for my sql server (2005), then I added a corresponding user account to my database. I then set my default schema. I connect to the database, and the default schema seems to be set to dbo. Can anyone thing of a reason why this might be happening Is there some sort of override if I have additional privledges on the server I appreciate any thoughts... -Mike Graham AH H ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changesets, work items and merging

  We are hoping to link changesets to work items whenever possible so as to preserve a history as to why/when code was changed. However, I’m finding that when this is done in a branch and then a merge is completed, the merge process does not move this historical information to the target (i.e. the changeset/workitem information is only accessible through the branch). Is there some way to get this information moved to the target when merging Or i ...Show All

• Visual C# String Manipulation. Substring

  Hi, I need to know how can I transform the following string:           string recv = "Matthew:White:13:044532453";                       Note the colens (:) in the string to the following four string:                  ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Do Text Mining

  Hi All Can anyone tell me how to do text mining using Analysis Servvices in sql server 2005 I have a some financial document in text format and i want to mine those Thnaks in advance Satish The text mining tutorial here should be helpful: http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/Tutorials/Links_LinkRedirector.aspx id=689 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Receiving unknown faults - UnrecognizedException

  We have ReturnUnknownExceptionsAsFaults turned on on a service (on only internal services so we don't mind passing around these things). When an Indigo client receives a message from a server that has an exception, we get this ProtocolException: A reply message was received for operation 'MyOperation' with action ' http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/Microsoft/WindowsCommunicationFoundation/2005/08/Faults/UnrecognizedException '. However, your clie ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to write data to HttpWebRequest...

  Hi All,          I am using HttpWebRequest in my code. My problem is that I want to post some data using HttpWebRequest, I have also written some code for this, see the part of code below,       HWReq.ContentLength = Buffer.Length;       Stream PostData = HWReq.GetRequestStream();               &nbs ...Show All