Steven Barden's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System First impressions....

  ...In case anyone is bothered!!! http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/06/13/4072.aspx Anyone else got stuff to say -Jamie Thanks for taking a look. I noticed when you created the project you choose "Other Projects>Database Projects" not just the Projects Node (notice on your screen shot ) just above Other Project Types. Our product project is that one. The one you used is the existing VS pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect

  How do I solve this : Error Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at 192.168.1.12  Explanation The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at 192.168.1.12. The reason for the failed connection cannot be determined at this time. Because the connection failed, the wizard was not able to complete creating the Windows SharePoint Services site.  User Action Contact the administr ...Show All

• SQL Server Error connecting to Reporting Services 2005 using SQL Server Management Studio

  I have configured my report server using Reporting Services Configuration Manager. I have green checks across the board. I can connect to the report server via the web to view reports and I can develop and publish reports, but I can not connect to Reporting Services using SQL Server Management Studio. I receive the error listed in plain text below. I've spent four hours trying to resolve this with no luck. OS: Windows 2003 SP1 Microsoft SQ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help Integration Wizard broken

  I'm trying to use the html help integration wizard, but get a dialog box telling me Microsoft Visual Studio (as title) The operation could not be completed [OK] when I try to create a new project using the wizard. First try I got it to work but canceled it somewhere in the middle, after that I get the error message mentioned, I've tried doing a repair from add/remove programs, I've removed and re-installed it, but still the same problem.. Ho ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Comparison Question

  I am not sure if this is the correct forum for my question but I will give it a shot. I want to be able to create a dataset from an ODBC datasource and compare it to existing data in my SQL DB. If there are changes (inserts/updates/deletes) I want to raise seperate events for each row state. Is this possible to do with SSIS/DTS or am I on the wrong track with what I am trying to do Thank you very much you have b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Reading from MS Word tables with .NET

  In my project I need to get data from MS Word tables and insert it to database. I found on the net how to open word document to get tables. But when I start to read table row by row it gives me an exeption 'Cannot access&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Question about Decision Trees and Neural Networks

  I have some accounting data, with some transaction attributes and amounts. I'm using Decision Trees to try and predict the next month's amount for certain combinations of attributes. I've tried two different structures for the model: A: one with 9 discrete text input attributes. B: And another with the same 9 attributes + a avarage Amount for all combinations of the nine attribute for every transaction. When i've processed them and look in th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Software pattern for sequence handling

  Hello, can someone give me some pointers on where to find a good software pattern for structuring playback of predefined animation sequences (or any event that I would like to take place) in games The animations/events should be played back in structured order with exact timing. I have a set of animations that have a specified starttime, I need to take into account two types of animations; animations that are stored in .x files and animations th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WorkItems as Sharepoint Lists with associated Infopath Forms?

  Depending upon the process template used, will it be possible to come up with Infopath forms for the various WorkItem Types and have a common WorkItem List as a native Sharepoint List This will make it so much easier for the Business Analysts and will not require them to use the Team Explorer. The current work around for this is to use Excel. We don't support InfoPath and Sharepoint List integration with work it ...Show All

• SQL Server cmdexec subsystem failure

  have a scheduled job that has been running fine for 2 years, but this week I keep getting the following error: 0x469A75B7998F8142A910FA7E9983CCDF has caused an exception in the CmdExec subsystem and has been terminated. the enterprise manager shows that the job failed, but the app still shows up in task manager. the .cmd file has a single step in it that calls the .exe file and does an "if errorlevel = 1" option that displays an erro ...Show All

• Visual C++ SHFileOperation, copy a file in the same folder

  hi, I want to copy a file in the same folder just as on the PC.For example, I want to copy the C:\11.bmp , so the inFile is  C:\11.bmp  and I replace the  outFile with  C:\copy_11.bmp,   but then SHFileOperation failed  ruturn 1 .   fileop.hwnd = this->GetSafeHwnd();   fileop.wFunc = m_wFunc;   fileop.pFrom = inFile;   fileop.pTo = outFile;   f ...Show All

• Visual Basic playing mp3 and mpeg

    hello how i can play mp3 and mpeg with VB is there a free activex   is it possible : playing mp3 with "windows media player" OLE Object   Thanks   This should be a simple process of determining the file that you have selected from the open file dialog and using this to set the URL property of the media player OCX.   You may want to restrict the open file dialog to files that you know media player ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable the X

  Is there anyway that i can disable the X close button but i still want to have maximize and minimize. I just want X to be either gone or X to be grayed out so it can't be used. hi, I tried out this coding. but i am getting this error. 'User.CreateParams': no suitable method found to override Can u suggest some solution for this. Thanks.. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Failed to open VPC Network driver

  Hi, I have just installed VS 2005 Beta 2. When deploying to the emulator, it launches the emulator but then comes up with: "Failed to open VPC Network driver. The driver might not be installed". Thanks. I am posting this here, because it is one of the first pages that Google turned up on this topic, and since I struggled a bit with this, I would like to help other people with the answer. I am using Visual Stu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Multicast with UDP Transport Sample

  I'm trying to use the UDP Transport sample to perform a multicast from a single server app to multiple clients. I'd like the server to broadcast the message on a subnet to any clients that just happen to be listening. My problem is that I can't find any documentation on how to do this using the UDP transport sample. Any ideas or suggestions Thanks. Bruce Bukovics You need to change the UdpChannelListener.CreateSocket implementation to the fol ...Show All