Chris Monachan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System OverflowException when analyzing performance data

  I'm running the RTM version of VSTS on a dual-core AMD64 processor and XP SP2. I'm attempting to profile an application I'm working on, and I've made great strides in improving performance using the VSTS SD profiler. However, lately, I've been seeing a message box that says, "Value is either too large or too small for an Int64" whenever I attempt to open the results of an instrumented run. The problem goes away if I reduce my scenar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Offtopic posts will be deleted immediately without warning

  See this link for more information: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=208999&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Error refencing DLL in XLA

  Hi ! I have prepared an MSI Installer for my XLA to be deployed on the server, the MSI contains all the DLL referenced by the XLA. The MSI runs fine but when I try to open Excel on that server it gives me a reference error, I have to *explicitely* go in VBA Editor and set the reference for the erroring DLL, after that the XLA works fine. The strange thing is that in the MSI I have set the path to D:\ Prog Files\... but strangely the MISSING ...Show All

• Visual Studio access project files through automation

  I have a custom macro that reads a file using the code Dim file As ProjectItem file = DTE.Solution.FindProjectItem( "myfile" ) file.Open() If file.IsOpen Then This works fine when there is only one "myfile" in a solution. What I am really looking for is to open the current "myfile" in the currently selected project. The documentation has me going around in circles. Can anyone point me in the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error TF42052.

  I'm getting the following error when attempting a build via TFS Dec CTP: "TF42052: The file system on the build machine does not support access control lists. Please specify build directory on a file system that supports access control lists like NTFS." The drive in question absolutely has NTFS. Ideas Sorry, I posted this in another forum as well but I wasn't gettin ...Show All

• Visual C# txtbox

  hi,   i want to enable my 2nd textbox and button after the input on my 1st textbox. i am doing it in C# and ASP .NET.   i tried this code but it didn't work. private void textbox1_TextChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { textbox2.Enabled=true; button.Enabled=true; } No worries - intellisense will only show you the ASP.NET server side stuff.  Anything else you add will just be ignored by AS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is it possible to run a sql script as a test or a step inside the test?

  Hi, Is it possible to run a sql script from inside visual studio as one of the tests or a step inside a test This is what I'm trying to do. I have a bunch of web tests that I am running through an ordered test. My tests get executed as follows: Web Test1 Web Test2 Web Test3 ... Web TestN I need to insert some data into the database between Web Test2 and Web Test3. The way I do it now is I have two ordered tests. The firs ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Early Out

  Hi. I tried at the "regular" DirectX forums but since there was no answers or even faint ideas I am gonna post my question here. I have a fairly simple shader which loops over a numer of calculations. With ps_3_0 can we exit an loop and the fragment program early on if a certain condition is obtained for( ... ){ if( b > constant ) return Output; } } return Output; The compiler tells me ...Show All

• Visual Basic Compare objects

  Which function should I override to compare objects I'm solving the following problem. I'm creating a dictionary object using an object as the key, like ItemDictionary(Of ItemKey, String). The itemKey is a simple object like the following. class ItemKey _id _name ... other definition is not shown here. end class The problem is when I try to use the ItemKey object as a key. The dictionary object will report the specific instance is no ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro editbox control snaps.

  It is a fairly mild problem but still an inconvenience. I have an editbox and a text is assigned to it in the following manner: THISFORM.Pageframe1.Page4.Edit1.ControlSource = "(ThisForm.cData)" All other operations are done programmatically. I may force it to count the number of lines and go to a specific line and highlight it. It does. But then after a while, perhaps in about 2 minutes, it snaps to the first line (beginning of ...Show All

• Visual Basic Serial Port Error Code Definitions

  Where are they explained/defined Is this what you are looking for: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.ports.serialerror.aspx Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• .NET Development Web service request fails with HTTP status 400: Bad Request

  I am having troubles with the 400: Bad Request error with my web services, called from ASP.NET 2.0. Here is the setup: App Server A: IIS 6, Windows Server 2003, ASP.NET 2.0 (local dev box) App Server B: IIS 6, Windows Server 2003, ASP.NET 2.0 (test server) App Server C: IIS 6, Windows Server 2003, ASP.NET 2.0 (production server) DB Server D: SQL Server 2005 running native web services (Windows Server 2003) Servers A, B and D are on the same subn ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System There is a way to change the system popup alerts?

  Hi, I have a lot of constraints on my WI. The thing is that not all of the system alerts - when user did not fill correctly the WI form , clearly understood to the user, For example I decided on some mandatory field called 'bug owner' to be fill, If the user that opened the WI trying to save the WI without filling this field he will get popup alert : “save failed - field 'owner' cannot be empty ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditional Split to send top 10, top20, and top 30 in three different flows ?

  I  have dataflow that i wish to split. The recordset that i uses is sorted by the Sort Task. After that i'll like to take the Top 10 records and send in one direction, then ill like to take the top 20 and send in another direction and finally Top 30 in a third direction. How can i do that Thank you Jamie! Your "SSIS Nugget: Select Top N in a data-flow" worked great. I have one question though - I couldnt ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Web file existist

  Hi, I'm building a small program which displays images that are downloaded from a website during runtime. My question is: How do you determine whether a file exists on the web (i.e. check to see if a .gif file exisist at a URL e.g. "http://www.somedomain.com/someimagename.gif") If it's expected behaviour to not find a file on the server it would be nice if no exception would be thrown. Is the ...Show All