Malefactor's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Exports

  Hi. All of my exports are being exported as _<functionname>@24, how can I export them as <functionname> I'd appreciate a step by step explanation :) Do a search on .DEF files and find out. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d91k01sh(VS.80).aspx . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Terrarium 1.2 not showing any text on buttons?

  I just installed Terrarium 1.2 and noticed there is no text on the buttons. Is this a known problem  Is it because I've ClearType enabled --Dion Hi guys, Don't click on the link as you will get the JIT Debugging dialog with the&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error in creating a work item via the webservice

  Hi, I am writing a java webservices client to interact with the work item database. I have written some test code to try to create a new work item in the database. I used a packet sniffer to figure out exactly what parameters need to be set in the soap calls. Anyhow I am getting the following error from the server. Can anybody help me figure out what is causing the error thanks.. faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/} ...Show All

• SQL Server Drill through in migrated cubes ?

  We have some migrated cubes that implemented drillthrough in Analysis Services 2000 and appear to have drill through in the migrated version if viewed through Proclarity. But when I look at the cube in the 2005 BI studio, I see no structure to implement this drill through. Nor am I able to drill through from the Management Suite--just Proclarity. What's going on Dan, Drillthrough has gone through si ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET structure for VB6's integer AND key indexable Dictionary?

  I'm on VB.NET 2005 so I have access to generics, but I seem to keep running into trouble when trying to "translate" the VB6 Dictionary to a .NET equivalent. It all began when translating VB6 "Dictionary" to the .NET: Dim Pairs As Hashtable That looked great, until I found out the code relied on the VB6 Dictionary being sorted by the item insertion order, as the indices are later matched against another table. The .NET Hashtable doesn't se ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to create a simple 3D Text

  Hi, i want to create a simple 3D Text displaying "Hello World" on the window with DircetX. I did not found a simple example in the docs so I hope someone can help me here. Thanks in advance.   Hi, I had the same problem. Below, you can see a sample of my code. Maybe you can find it useful. PS. It is written in VB.Net. I hope you will have no problems to translate it into VC++. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CAchive

  Is that true that CArchive is not support under MFC 8 It's supported. After Beta2, we decided to take it back per customer requests and also because that the size of the MFC dlls was no longer the biggest concern on devices. ...Show All

• .NET Development If I want to work with an xml file as a dataset

  I have an XML file and I want to know the easiest way to work with it in general. What is the easiest way to get access to all the data and then have the power to manipulate and modify the data before then saving back to file. If I have xml file like this: <people> <person> <name>Bob</name> <age>20</age> <gender>M</gender> </person> ... </people> and I want to read all ab ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding a domain user account to a TFS group after a "local" installation

  I installed all three tiers of VSTS on a single "development" PC. I used local user accounts. Now, I would like to add my everyday domain user account into the TFS security groups. I cannot because I can only connect to TFS using a local user account. As such, I do not have the credentials to query AD when I want to add my domain user account. And, I seem to be stuck in this chciken and egg scenario. I read the installation guid ...Show All

• SQL Server Table Name as a parameter on Execute SQL Task?

  Is it not possible to have table name as a parameter For example have the SQL something like: Delete From Where ID = .. I get error: [Execute SQL Task] Error: Executing the query "Delete From Where ID = " failed with the following error: "Must declare the table variable "@P1 ".". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correct ...Show All

• Windows Forms Updating on form with many to many relationship

  Hi all, I need to design a form that will take care of updating user details and their roles withing the software. Things to know... 1) The data relationships... a) tblUsers UserID Name UserName Password b) tblRoles RoleID RoleName c) tblUserRoles UserID RoleID CanEdit - Boolean CanDelete - Bo ...Show All

• SQL Server Debugging stops without messages

  Have a task that has 120 tables (components) that I am running in debug mode. Just over half of the components run which takes btrieve db and converts into a sybase db. When it stops running there are a few components that are yellow, the components which completed are green and the rest are still white because they have ran yet. The problem is there is not a message to indicate as to why it stopped. I've broken up the task into two tasks and al ...Show All

• Visual C# Directory vs. DirectoryInfo and copying files

  I'm working on a project where I have to programmatically move files from one set of directories to another.  Sounds easy, but I'm a bit confused about which object I need to use to get the file information I need to perform this.  The directory structures look like this: Source Directory \\Server1\Archived Reports   Folder A (random name)     report A.rpt  (random name)    ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build failing in Beta 3.

  I'm trying to create a team build for a team project, specifying the same server that TFS is installed on as the build location.  I get the following error message: TF42004:  Team Build failed to open folder "xxx".  The system cannot find the path specified. If I explicitly create the server directory in "xxx" I then get a message saying the folder already exists, so the problem seems to be some kind of rights issue with the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Express 2005 C# or VB

  Can these versions work with Terrarium  I tried using C# but the resulting DLL file (using a sample bug) Gives this error when loading into Terrarium mode Assembly failed validation process. Please fix the following: But it does not list anything, but  ...Show All