Tetchro's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System MSF 3.1 is still far superior for enterprise project mgmt and delivery

  As I  learn more about VSTS 2005, I am concerned that the software can not replace power of MSF 3.1. Remember, MSF is a Microsoft methodology proven over years to deliver  IT projects on spec and schedule. VSTS  based solution framework 4  is more suited for workgroup projects  and small teams. It is not suitable for enterprise wide  project  which definitely  needs  traditional six team roles.  Very existence of six team roles forces right team play throughout software development cycle. Microsoft should refocus MSF 3.1 as template driven enterprise framework. It is tool independent,  a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Positioning a sprite.

  This is my first real directX attempt, and it doesn't seem to be going too well. Here's my "render" method, that gets continually called. (C#)             device.Clear(ClearFlags.Target, System.Drawing.Color.Blue, 1.0f, 0);             device.BeginScene();             Bitmap grass = new Bitmap("c:\\grass.bmp");             Texture texture = new Texture(device, grass, Usage.None, Pool.Managed);         &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installs fails

  When I try to install I get the following: [06/21/06,09:34:18] Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects Collection: f:\setup\..\wcu\RunMSI.exe exited with return value 1603 [06/21/06,09:34:18] InstallReturnValue: GFN_MID XMO, 0x643 [06/21/06,09:34:18] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty [06/21/06,09:34:18] Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects Collection: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation. " [06/21/06,09:34:18] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty [06/21/06,09:34:18] Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects Collection: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Setup Failed on com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reading test data from vsmdi file

  Hi All, I am new to this gruop. I have been working with TFS for around 1 month. I have programmed it in C# to get the WorkItems as per the Team Requirements (i.e connecting to the server/ getting project names/getting bug details etc...). I was trying to get the test case details using C#. These test cases are there in the 'Source Control' listed with the particular Team Project in the Team Explorer. The test cases file is a *.vsmdi file. I am unable to read the data from this file using C# as i am not able to locate the Source Control entry for the Team Project programmatically. Can you please suggest me some way to do this My ba ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Ways of Rendering mouse cursor in directx9

  I'm trying to build a GUI using directx 9. I find that rendering mouse cursor is something different from the main rendering process. It needs to have higher priority to make cursor looks "smooth" even when main rendering process's frame rate is low. Others give me some advice, but I'm not sure which is better. The following are the ways I figure out. 1. Using windows mouse cursor.  It's fast but in full screen mode it failed. 2. Drawing cursor in seperate thread using windows GDI. The cursor is just blinking. 3. Drawing cursor in seperate thread using directx. I don't know how to do that. Should I share the same d3d device or ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Linking Error: it wants libboost_regex-vc80-mt-1_33_1.lib but boost installed boost_regex-vc80-mt-1_33_1.lib

  Hello, The subject pretty much says it all... here is the error from the builder: Linking... LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_regex-vc80-mt-1_33_1.lib' I do have boost_regex-vc80-mt-1_33_1.lib, and i tried renaming that to libboost_regex-vc80-mt-1_33_1.lib, and it satifised the linker, but then I recieved this error: PasswordFilterRegEx.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "wchar_t * __stdcall _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR(char const *)" ( ConvertStringToBSTR@_com_util@@YGPA_WPBD@Z) referenced in function "public: __thiscall _bstr_t::Data_t::Data_t(char const *)" ( 0Data_t@ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LayoutTransform

  Is there a method of setting two or more Transform (MatrixTransform, RotateTransform, ScaleTransform)  to FixedPage->LayoutTransform, though it wants to set two or more layout of FixedPage. You can use a TransformGroup to combine multiple transforms, then animate or change them separately.  If you are trying to change between different transforms you can use triggers to change the value depending on some other condition. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Question about C++ char Pointer

    When I use VC++ 6.0(with SP5.0) like this:   char temp[2];   memset(temp,0,sizeof(temp));   strcpy(temp,"This is a test\0");   MessageBox(0,temp,temp,MB_OK);   The result in temp[2] is "This is a test".There is only two bytes of memory,why can copy more than 2 bytes char Very thank you Chris.But both strcpy() and memcpy() have this problem,and I copy other char* after this operate,it have no problem,maybe my test app is tiny ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Fails to register Visual Studio 2005 Express

  Hi all, I've installed Visual Studio 2005 Express via internet and tried to register it several times but I haven't got any answer with the key. My email address is ok and my email server also.   Juergen http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/register/faq/default.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development persisting session information across different browsers.

  i am using session variables to maintain user specific info in a website.if i login as ... lets say user1 and i set the session("username") = user1 and then i launch another browser wher i login as user2...session("username") = user2. now when i refresh the first browser the session("username") gets replaced with user2. how do i prevent this and maintain session uniqueness per browser. Hello, I recommend posting to the ASP.NET web forums. This forum is specific to ASP.NET Web Services related questions. Your question sounds like a more general ASP.NET issue. http://forums.asp.net Daniel ...Show All

• SQL Server listchildren performance

  I have the following code populating a menu on a webform.  I was wondering if there was a way to increase performance of the code.  Currently, it takes about 7 seconds to load the page, regardless if a user previously had the page open (cache).  Any ideas     void PopulateMenu()     {         WindowsImpersonationContext impersonationContext;         WindowsIdentity currentWindowsIdentity;         currentWindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();       &nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development How to add prefix to parent namespace

  Hi we are writing a Webservice for a standar client. The client is sending the SOAP message as : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- < xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SOAP-ENV:Header> <pre:user xmlnsre="urn:IciUserInterface" SOAP- ENV:mustUnderstand="0" xsi:type="xsd:string">SPAREKH</pre:user> <pre:language xmlnsre="urn:IciUserInterface" SOAP-ENV:mustUnderstand="0" xsi:type="xsd:string">EN& ...Show All

• Visual Basic Bug in For .. Next with Single data type

  Try the following simple code, by stepping through: Dim S As Single, T As Single For S = 16777214 To 16777218     T = S - 16777214 Next S Once S reaches 16'777'216 (hex FFFFFF) it will stop incrementing in the for..next loop, consequently T will remain at 2 I have the following System: Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 1, CPU is Pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GHz,  CPU-Driver Microsoft processr.sys Version 5.1.2600.1106 and Visual Basic 6 Version 8176. The same behaviour occurs with my office computer and laptop. Where is the problem Glad to get feedback at net dot meier @ bluewin dot ch ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Deployment question - additional files on network share?

  I am in the process of changing the deployment model of a VSTO Word solution that is currently deployed locally. It needs to be deployed on a network share, so that all user's solution Word documents, whether email to one another or accessed from a Sharepoint site, point to the same assemblies and can be used with the VSTO solution. Users will often be working offline, and it is my understanding that the assemblies from the network shares will automatically be cached onto the users' local machines. However, we have additional files that are needed by the application, including an XSD that we bind to the document, the assembly.dll.co ...Show All

• SQL Server Virtual Cube Migration

  What are best practices around virtual cube migration When the cube was migrated, it became a physical cube with linked measure groups. However, when I try and add a dimension to the cube, and edit the granularity within the Dimension Structure tab, I get this. Regular relationships in the current database between non-linked (local) dimensions and linked measure groups cannot be edited. These relationships can only be created through the wizard. This dialog can be used to delete these relationships. What's the purpose of a linked measure group if I cannot add a dimension to the same cube What wizard Hi Andrew, ...Show All