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• SQL Server Variable Memory Utilization and Performance Considerations

  Can someone point me to some good articles or perhaps directly supply some words of wisdom with regard to wise utilization of variables within a T-SQL script from and standpoint of conserving memory usage and improved execution cost For example: (1) Is it better to use varchars, nvarchars, etc. defined with minimal lengths to support the needs of the script or is it just as efficient to declare all with a length of say 4,000 (2) I've se ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can't find Font class in Managed C++ of DirectX 9.0

  Hello, I'm working on a Managed C++ application with DirectX 9.0. In the application, I only use 2D operations. One of the things I want is displaying text on the screen. When looking at the Text3D sample (C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (April 2006)\Samples\Managed\Direct3D\Text3D_2005) there is a statement in the C# program, which states: firstFont.DrawString( null , "This is a trivial call to Font.DrawString" , new Syst ...Show All

• SQL Server Exception message: The operation was canceled.

  hi all.... i try to open report from Report Manager but it takes a very long time (1-2 hours) for the reports to be displayed. i'm not even pressing the view report button yet. it works ok using reportserver. i received the following warning message in my event viewer (application). Event code: 3005 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. Event time: 5/11/2006 11:45:55 AM Event time (UTC): 5/11/2006 3:45:55 AM Event ID: 1136 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to check if a workflowruntime has been loaded

  Hi there, since only one workflowruntime allowed in a appdomain, I need a mechanism to check if the runtime has been loaded, if yes, I also need to get the reference for the runtime so that I can run my workflow. Thanks in advance. Hi Walter, In a given appdomain the program would know if the workflowruntime is created or not. If a second runtime is created an exception is thrown. May be I am missing som ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Builder in June CTP

  Does the Report Builder included in the June CTP work How can I create a report in Report Builder The cmmand File.. New report... said that I don't have a data source... Also the documentation for Report Builder is pre-alpha, and it is supposed to be beta 3. Thank you Here is a good webcast that will show you everything you need. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx xml=episodes/en/20050531SQLServerCC/manifest.xml -w ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Menus Role management

  Is their any special way to limit menu items based on roles For example I have five menu items one role has access to all five menu items but another menu role only has access to two items How would you do this Thanks Chris When you load the page, for each item just set: menuitem.Visible = myrole; where 'myrole' is a boolean value of whether or not that role can see the item or not. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migrate work items from Beta 2 to Beta 3?

  Ok, first of all let me state clearly for the record. I fully realize that MSFT does not officially support work item migration from Beta 2 to Beta 3.  I also realize Beta 2 did not have a GO-LIVE license with it, so I am officially on my own on this one.  Having said that, "un-officially" is there anything I can do to half-way get this to work When my team moved from Beta 1 Refresh -> Beta 2, we exported all of our work item ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView leaks due to insuficent ToolTip cleanup

  We have a control in our application that derives from the DataGridView control. I've spent all day tracking down leaks in our app using the SciTech profiler. I believe that I have found a leak in the DataGridView that occurs through the internal DataGridViewToolTip class. When the grid is setup to use tooltips and the first one is activated the underlying ToolTip coomponent is created and part of that initialisation is to figure out what ...Show All

• Visual C# Index Out Of Range Error

  Hello, I am getting An Index Out of bound error after my site is uploaded. The problem does not occur in the localhost. This error is not frequent but is rare. Please suggest me with a solution Thank You Anoop.H ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to configure Visual Source Safe in .Net 2005

  Hi All, I am using beta version of .Net 2005. I need to configure Visual Source Safe as my configuration control. But when i click tools --> Option --> Source Control --> Plug-In Selection, it shows me none as default selected and no other option is available and i cannot add in it. Can anybody help me.   Thanks in advance Hi Jatin, Have you installed Visual SourceSafe It is on a se ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to use Pointers to pass an matrix array?

  I used to pass a one-dimension array by using pointer,like the following code: int * entry(int *a){ for(int be = 0; be<7; b++){ cout<<"Input: "; do{cin>>a[be]; }while(foo) return a; }; So I can read from arrays with no problems. However, when trying to pass a two-dimension array( Ex: a[50][50] ) using the same trick, I got the error C2109 message: How to use pointers or any methods to pass a matrix a ...Show All

• Windows Forms smart devices ::: datagrid alignment

  how to align datagrid from left to right thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Linked Item Columns

  Is there a way to modify the default Links columns, "Link Type" "Description" "Comments".. They want to have it also display the status of the work item. Hey Keith, Unfortunately, that scenario is not enabled in v1. The columns are fixed. It is, however, a product idea for later versions. Thanks, karthik ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 doesn't want to run!

  I downloaded uninstall tool to kill previously installed Beta2. Than I ran Visual Studio 2005 Final Release setup. All went well, setup completed successfully. But... I launched Studio IDE, it showed Studio Logo and than disappeared. It didn't run. Oh, Lord, give me strength... :) To fix my machine, I only had to uninstall the VS 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation. Thanks for the tip! ...Show All

• .NET Development Publishing VWD site to IIS with SQL 2000

  I need to know what changes need to be made where so I can do testing on my new website. I designed the site in VWD with SQL 2005 EE. My webserver has SQL 2000 installed. The site copied fine, but my login system doesn't work as the connection for the provider is set to SQLExpress. Can anybody tell me what to change and where changes need to be made or are you locked into SQL 2005 If so how does this work when publishing to a commercial host Tha ...Show All