BlackGrouse's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Code Analysis Policy not Migrating to Team System clients

  We have a nightmare of a problem. Our team has dilligently gone through every single item in the code analysis check-in policy and selected, selected or marked as warning what is appropriate for our project. "Migrate Code Analysis Policy Settings to Solution" We all migrated the policy down but discovered we had made some poor decisions that made building nearly impossible. In some cases we corrected our code and in others we concluded the rule is incompatible with our approach. As a result we changed the server policy. Now, when the team developers attempt to migrate there is a "success" message but the old rules continue to apply. We can m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Control Reporting

  Source Control is considerably more sophisticated than VSS and persists a lot of obviously useful historical data. However, I am not finding any information on how to unlock that info for SOX audit purposes. Question: Is there any documentation on how to run reports against Source Control Also, canned reports would be nice similar to the ones that are provided for bug tracking/velocity, code churn, etc.   Here is some info about the Source Control schema http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244703(VS.80).aspx   Good luck, Othmane ...Show All

• Visual Basic Splash Screen

  Vb .net if I create a spash screen and load a new form - when I dispose of the splash screen it kills the entire application. Any ideas or better methods to doing this rich I added it to the form closing event and it worked awesome!  Thanks for your help... rich ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Pixel shader 3.0 constant indexing

  Hi. I wanted to perform some deferred shading using pixel shaders 3.0 and DirectX 9.0c in a GeForce 7800. All was fine until I tryed to change the "stencil light volumes" for an unique pixel shader... Noticed the FXC ( effect compiler ) has two HEAVY problems: 1) Doesn't allow texture arrays. For example, you cant do "shared texture tex [ 8 ]". 2) Doesn't support pixel shader constant indexing. Surfing the Internet I found this http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/cgi_directory/ultimatebb.cgi ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=013925 thread in the OpenGL forums... And that situation is exactly the same I have... Due to the lack of that pixel shad ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamically shifting/collapsing fields on report

  Just curious if there's a way I can remove a field from my report at run time and shift all the fields underneath it up. I basically want to end up with the following: Design time ============================= Field 1: Fields!Field1.Value Field 2: Fields!Field2.Value // This one will be blank Field 3: Fields!Field3.Value Field 4: Fields!Field4.Value Run Time - eliminate any blank fields ============================= Field 1: "Data 1" Field 3: "Data 3" Field 4: "Data 4" Problem is, if I set the visibility of the field to false, it still takes up space on the form (as it shou ...Show All

• Visual Basic to get data from ipadress:port

  for example ip adress:192.168.0.100:2533 I want to get data from this adress  then what did it send to in my datagrid How can I do or another solution Unfortunately because your question is rather vague it is very difficult to easily answer, instead I would suggest looking into how to do network communications in VB.NET with tutorials such as these in order to better learn to work with networked devices/servers. The Ultimate Socket Library VB.NET TCP Client - Server Socket Communications Using .NET Sockets (in C#) ...Show All

• Windows Forms listbox formatting

  Is it possible to format the contents of a listbox   For example, have the a first name then tab then the surname on each row Cheers in advance   Antoher way is to owner-draw your list box. See this link: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/combobox/multicolumnlistbox.asp   ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC2005 %50 Slower then VC2003

  I just migrated a graphics application from VC2003 to VC2005.  After building it, I ran a small benchmark & found that VC2005 code was about %50 slower. The Application does a great deal of floating point and integer calculations.  It also converts doubles to int quite a bit (the VC2003 version used SSE to handle this). The VC2003 version used /G7 and /Ow (which are not available in VC2005) Compiler Switches Used: (vc2003)/arch:SSE2 /c /EHa /FD /GF /GL /Gs8192 /Gy /MT /nologo /O2 /Ob2 /Og /Oi /Ot /Ow /Oy /TP /W3 /WX /Zi (vc2005)/arch:SSE2 /c /EHa /FD /G7 /GF /GL /GS- /Gs8192 /Gy /MT /nologo /O2 /Ob2 /Og /Oi /Ot /Oy /TP ...Show All

• SQL Server How to limit the time Dimension to 24 months

  MSAS Time Dimension Question Well here it goes...I am trying to create a date dimension that will only pull in 24 months worth of date information. Example:  I want the end date to be the current date and the start date to be 24 months prior...as the current date changes (End date) the Start date will also change to reflect the date changes.  I'm thinking something similar to a rolling 12 or 24 month time dimension. NOTE: My time Dimension needs to be similar to that of a Bank account (NOT Accumulative) Ex: May 1 =$ 1.50 May 2 =$ 1.42 ect.. May 31 =$0.65 1-1 relationship on Date to Amount NO rol ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why no generics used in the WPF API?

  Ive just spent the last few days familiarising myself with the WPF API. Its seems that almost no generics are used in this API at all. It would be a shame to release yet another non-generic API now that Whidbey has shipped. Ya know, I can honestly think of only one place in the intrinsic API where a generic is used: PageFunction . A lot of the classes implement generic collection interfaces and such, but other than that I can't think of a generic class introduced in the API. That said, out of curiousity, what part of the API do you think would benefit from the use of generics Cheers, Drew ...Show All

• .NET Development Bidirectional Web Textbox

  Hi everyone.  Please help me with this. My job is on the line. I have made a website in which there are two textboxes. the english, and the bidirectional textbox(which doesnt work yet). how can i make a custom control textbox that can take bidirectional language. why can't i find anything about that in any books, or on the net. I know that there are acouple of ways of doing that(one is by windows script, the other is Activex, and the third is just by making a windows custom control and registering,and using it on my website. but when i do that my custom control doesnt work.           &nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Getting the last number of a column

  How can I get the last number of a column in a certain table of my database.I had a form that was bounded to this table that has an autonumber field.To be able to add another record and automatically add the autonumber, I want to get the last value in the table to be able to increment it by one when i click the add new button.thanks.... An identity column adds itself, by definition. You can do a select TOP(id) to get the highest number there, or if you were to write your insert as a stored proc, you could have it return @@IDENTITY, which would be the value you inserted into the identity column. ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Play a video (eg: .mwv) file on Pocket PC ?

  Hi, I would like to play video files on the Pocket PC. How to do this Any ideas/code snippets plz Thanks, ramakrishna. Hi Swamy ...!!! Its really Great...!!! Its absolutely working fine for my expectations for PC. But i'm using the Windows CE.Net. So the function ( mciSendString ) which you 've used in the winmm.dll is not supported in the Pocket PC. So plz find me an alternative or give me a way where can i use alternative function instead of this ( mciSendString )  function. Is there any way to do so Many Thanks Once again. ramakrishna. ...Show All

• SQL Server Format using SQL server

  I'm new to SQL server. My question here is how can I format the data that is retrieved as a result of SELECT. Similar defining the column format in SQL Plus. For some reason SQL Server puts in extra spaces between the data fields in the .dat file. If you have additional trainling spaces, it seems that you specified a fixed character length instead of a variable. THe data won’t be chopped until you will specify it either in the table structure or within the Select statement while pumpoing the data out of the database (CONVERT). HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server Uninstall of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition CTP fails

  I'm trying to remove this before installing the RC version of studio 2005 but the uninstallation fails, presenting a dialog with... The setup has encountered an unexpected error in datastore. The action is RestoreSetupParams. The error is :Failed to read property "Installlds" {"MachineConfiguration", "", "DEVVII"} from cache Unable to write property into cache: IsClustered Unable to write property into cache: "IsClustered" XmlRW Error: Failure loading xmlrw.dll CheckAllProcedures() returned 2 Any ideas how get get past this Thanks, Graeme Well, I finally got past this and installed the RC of studio 2005 ...Show All