Russell Hunter's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registering Express editions

  Hi,  Can I reuse my registration number for the Express Editions on more than one PC or do I need to register again Thanks The code that is provided at the end of the registration process is tied to the machine that you registered from.  You must obtain a new code to unlock copies of Visual Studio Express installed on other machines. Apologies for any inconvenience that causes, Scott Currie DDCPX ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Integration with Jbuilder

  Hi, Is there integration or VSTS plug in which can be installed in Jbuilder 2005/2006 This feature is needed for source control and work items tracking abilities. Thanks, Michael According to http://info.borland.com/techpubs/jbuilder/jbuilder9/teamdev/vss0intro.html , JBuilder supports integration with SourceSafe.  Thus, it may work with the new, pre-beta release of the MSSCCI client for TFS.  You can download it f ...Show All

• SQL Server Gauge Controls for Reporting Services 2005

  Dear Anyone, Does anyone know where I can get gauge controls ans sorts that can be used in RS2005 Thanks, Joseph Actually, Dundas Gauge is not available yet for Reporting Services. The only Custom Report Items I know of are chart and barcode. I expect that Dundas will release gauge for SSRS sometime in 2006. ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with GetHostEntry

  Hi, my little program shall resolve a name or a ipaddress with method DNS.GetHostEntry, but it doesn't work fine. Dim a As System.Net.IPHostEntry a = Dns.GetHostEntry(" www.netzmix.com ") With www.netzmix.com it works fine, but with a ipadress it fires a exception. Dim a As System.Net.IPHostEntry a = Dns.GetHostEntry(" 192.166.200.220 ") Following exception comes: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Upload Bugs Database

  I have been able to convert our current Bugs Database into a Excel or .CSV file. How can I upload these bugs into VSTS without manually entering in the information. Export the bugs that are currently contained within your TFS team project into a new excel spreadsheet. Cut and paste the text from your current Bugs Database spreadsheet into the new excel spreadsheet, you may need to massage the data a little i ...Show All

• SQL Server JDBC: DatabaseMetaData.getURL() returns jdbc:sqljdbc://

  Hi, I'm using: Microsoft SQL Server 9.00.1399 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.0.809.102 Executing the DatabaseMetaData.getURL() method when database is connected returns "jdbc:sqljdbc://". The documentation for getURL() specifies that this URL is returned only when accessing pre SQL Server 2005 versions while when connected to 2005 it should return the correct URL (ex: jdbc:sqlserver://192.168.1.105:1223;databaseName=test) My question is ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Will # of votes per time avail be considered?

  Will the time an app has been on the site be considered when tallying the votes An app that's added late in the game won't have a chance to gain votes like the older entries yet may actually be more popular with less time to prove it. Thanks in advance! I am quite sure this is NOT the case. 1) It doesn't say anything about this in the rules. 2) Check out this thread , where Scott tells us about the advantage of submitting your application ...Show All

• Visual C# Searching in a textBox

  Hi, Well, I have a tiny problem.. I got 2 textboxes, one where i load in a file, and another where from i want to search for a word in the first textbox like notepads search function, I have looked around but cant understand it properly. Hope anyone could give me a hint on where to look or something:) Kind Regards //Rickard What you are trying to do is search for a match in a string (Text property of the TextBox), arent you Try regular ex ...Show All

• SQL Server High CPU Usage SSIS Package

  Anyone aware of anything I can look at to improve performance of my SSIS packages i basically have two master packages that call about 15 child package tasks each. All the package tasks are called sequentially and all they do is just load flat files into temporary tables and execute a simple stored proc. Each package tasks check to see if a file is there and if so it processes it else it just ends. The packages are scheduled to run every minute ...Show All

• Visual C# SqlDataAdapter from DataSet

  How can I get SqlDataAdapter object associated with DataSet Good idea. I have only one table in each DataSet in this application. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem debugging with VS2005 and DecemberSDK

  Hi all... I'm in the process of writing an WorldEditor for my little engine. My engine was working real good in C#/MDX. DX was reporting messages, warnings, errors to the output windows of VS. But now that i've port my engine back to C++/DX.. DX is no longer reporting to the output window of Visual Studio. I must admit that tsi make a long time i didnt program in C++ but its not much more different from C# except maybe to setu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX on XBOX360

  where can i get xbox360 dev. license or some indi game license for xbox360 live acade IIs there a person we have to talk to in the usa. i have tryed microsoft in denmark , but thay dont no. Michael Hansen http://www.3devolution.net   This article may help you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions asp to php on a freebsd webserver with only php allowed (currently)

  yeah, i have this website @ globat.com and i wandered if there is a way i could make somthing with this visual web developer, make it look all nice and pretty and the like, BUT, with the exception of somehow converting whatever i created to a PHP format without messing with command line anything or some other app that brands (made with x-y-z a product) somewhere on it, u see i have this domain 4druids.com, and i use subdomains on it too i use ...Show All

• Visual C# Speeding up the TcpClient method

  I am working on a set of programs that communicate over a stand alone network. I have 1 client and 10 servers. The client trys to connect to the servers when the program starts. The client uses return new TcpClient(StudentIP, port); to try to connect to the servers. StudentIP is a String that is "192.168.0.101" , port is an integer equal to 60000. The TcpClient hangs(blocks ) over 1 minute when trying to connect to a ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Meet the MSN Messenger Team at the PDC (9/12 to 9/16)

  If you are attending the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles this week, you can meet members of the MSN Messenger Team. MSN Messenger has a demo station in the Microsoft pavillion.  Stop by and say, "Hi". Attend the COM301 breakout session on Wednesday, Sept 14,  at 1:45pm -  Room 406 AB, to learn the details of building an Activity API application. "Ask the Experts" on Thursday, Sept 1 ...Show All