Janet Robinson - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Load Test requests/sec drop to zero

  I'm seeing a recurring problem in a load test where requests/sec drop to zero during the test, and then resume normal levels 1 minute and 15 seconds later. The load test has 25 users, starting at 1 and ramping by 3 every 8 seconds - it consists of 2 webtests. I reach a constant user load and everything cranks along pretty well until about 30 minutes into the test. Then requests/sec drop to 0. I don't see any corresponding spikes in any other counters - just % processor on the servers also drops to 0. Every time I re-run the test, I see the same type of behavior, but ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need Help with Combo Box at Page Render

  Hi, I have combo box inside a data grid. At page render event I want to have additional entry as "Select One..." with value -1 but display the existing old value as default value in drop down list. To get this result first I create a object of ListItemCollection, I add entry as "Select One..." with value of -1 and then assign that ListItemCollection as a datasource to drop down list, but with this method I cant compare values because Values changes to Texts and both text/value pairs in list item have same values as that of list item text I am using following code Dim cmbSegmentation As DropDownList Dim lstOldSegmentation As ListItem ...Show All

• Visual C# Row Filter

  I wanna filter a dataview. The column which is used is password and the string contains ' sign. That's the problem. For example: [DataViewName].RowFilter = "'I ' mVerygOOd'" The ' makes ana error. What can I do That doesn't work or I have missunderstood. I tried it so: The password was c#'llCOMESOoN I typed c#\\'llCOMESOoN And got the error again! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databind to collection object

  I've created a customized collection and want to databind it to a DataGridView. After some research, I found that I need to create a bindingsource control and then bind to the specific collection object. The first problem is that I need to retrieve the collection instance for some additional method calls. How can I get the underlying collection instance back I found that the databingsource will use BindingList<T> as its internal store. How can I convert it back to my specific collection so that I can make additional method call Belair, thanks for your help first. Actually, I've just made the same thing worked. (Certainly with ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mouse Hit Testing when primatives used not meshes

  I did search the existing threads and have read them - those that I can understand - but they do not seem to apply - at least with my limited understanding. I have a "2D" card game started in DirectX3D using managed C#. I read Tom Miller's book as the basis and starting point. I have several "playing" cards rendered as CustomVertex.PositionedNormalTextured that I add to a VertexBuffer. I draw them with the DrawPrimatives call. The are all "flat" (have the same Z axis) so that should help, and there is nothing "behind" them. Simply non-overlapping cards arrange on the screen. Everything works g ...Show All

• Visual Studio Where did Favorites folders go in Document Explorer v8?

  I'm just getting started with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0, and I'm wondering what happened to the ability to create folders in the Favorties area of my local MSDN help (Document Explorer). Does anyone know If it has been removed, this is a very very bad usability mistake, IMHO. Anyone agree -Bill B Hello Bill, The Favorites feature in Visual Studio 2005 represents a change over previous versions of VS in that VS Favorites are now separate from IE Favorites.  We heard strongly from customers that they wanted VS & IE Favorites to be separate, so we created the new Favorites toolwindow, which can store links to local ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. VertexBuffer problem

  Hello, Im write simple bitmap font manager for my game. In my font class im created vertex buffer for 100 chars(600 TransformedTexturedColoredVertices). Vertex Buffer is dynamic and WriteOnly. My problem is in rendering function. In each call of this function vertex buffer is locked with discard option and then filled with data. Next some set render states and rendering with TriangleList. In game im render 10000 chars (60000 vertices) for speed testing. Each call to draw function render 100chars. This code generate about 4 fps on Athlon 1.16ghz 256 ram and GeForce 4 MX440. For testing im write another 2 functions for rendering: 1) In t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions container?

  hi everyone, this is my first post and I just downloaded VB2005 Express less than a week ago. I have experience in html,css, and php but i`m new to this. my question is, Im workiing on a program that, when started, opens maximized and contains a splitcontainer. At this time I have the settings set up so that Panel1 takes up 100% of the window (settings will be changed when other settings are set by the user). I also have other windows that open, Form2 and Form3 that I would like to open and load into Panel1. I did a search and was unable to find this answer, anyone have any ideas Thanks! Michael At ...Show All

• Windows Forms App Config file problem w/ No-Touch Deploy

  Hello... I have a simple DotNet WinForm app which runs great using No-Touch deployment - with one exception.  When I added an application config file - the app fails to run using No Touch. It's unable to read from the config file stating that my "key does not exist" in the file. However - if I run it standalone - all works fine. Is there ...Show All

• .NET Development System date

  Hi there.. In my program I want to show show the current system date in a textBox. How can that be done I read about DateTime structure but couldn't understand it well. Thanks in advance. Hello. You would just need to do something like the following: this .textBox1.Text = System.DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString(); ...Show All

• .NET Development how that I can create a cursor in execution time using the c# 1.1?

  how that I can create a cursor in execution time using the c# 1.1 Hello Paulo, You can get a stream for the image and pass it in the cursor's constructor. Please see at Cursor class constructor page in MSDN for more details. HTH. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Skin Editor for vs 2005

  I search an Skin Editor for vs 2005 Where i can download a skin editor Hi, You could open it in the VS. Or you could just open it in wordpad. It just contains the image url's for the skin. The editor is not graphical.     cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting vs Indigo taking *nix and Mono into account

  I'm designing a distributed system (actually redesiging DCOM app).  Planning to use Remoting but Indigo is on the horizon so have been taking a look at that.   Ideally, I'd like the same code base for Unix/Linux.  I understand Remoting should theoretically work on Mono.  I've been told Indigo will never be ported to Mono because MS isn't going to license the technology to allow it.   If Indigo isn't going to be there, I'll probably stay behind with Remoting.  any comments Dave Thanks Doug.  Why did you bother typing that reply   Ya, I know MS doesn't develop Mono but it has contro ...Show All

• SQL Server error execute sp_addlinkedserver in stored procedure

  Error Message : Msg 7202, Level 11, State 2, Procedure LoadConvertsDB, Line 24 Could not find server 'CONVERTSDB' in sysservers. Execute sp_addlinkedserver to add the server to sysservers. T-SQL: EXEC master . dbo . sp_addlinkedserver @server = N 'CONVERTSDB' , @srvproduct = N 'Access' , @provider = N 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' , @datasrc = N 'F:\Converts.mdb' ; Environement: SQL 2005 Std, Win2000 Pro SP4, same computer. F is the network drive. SQL Log with the Windows NT domain account. F is the network drive. Symptoms: 1. I can execute the T-SQL in the Query window in the SQL2005 Management Studio wit ...Show All

• Visual Basic Directory/File Selection Control

  Does anyone know of an OCX (or code) which provides the user the capability of selecting Folders and/or individual Files in the manner of the Windows Backup application, ie Treeview with Folder and File Checkboxes etc ...Show All