Dana Reed's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation RC install Failures, Dr Watson

  Hi, I have been trying for serveral days to try to figure out what the heck is going on with this install. The issues I have ran into was during the install on TFS (RC), I keep getting these watson failures. I am so stumped on why this is doing this. I have everything else working fine such as sharepoint, reporting/SQL. Here is the last line of the error log file. [03/23/06,20:32:24] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({4F8791EE-486F-44B ...Show All

• SQL Server Oracle 9i -> SQL Server 2005: Snapshot agent aborts suddenly uninterrupted

  Hi - I hope some of you can help me with this problem. I'm trying to run the snapshot agent for 77 published tables, but the agent stops suddenly uninterrupted. It stops in the middle of taking a snapshot of a table containing 81,719,531 rows. The error message is pasted below. Message 2006-06-14 05:33:33.53 [89%] Bulk copied 100000 rows from "ORAMSSQLREPL"."HREPL_ARTICLE_21_21" (57200000 total rows copied) 2006-06-14 0 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. loading mesh like mesh viewer

  is there a way and if so how can one load mesh files like the mesh viewer loads them, I took just for kicks the tiger sample and loaded a mesh that a friend made and it dident load right, rotates right off the screen, I dont really understand VC++ much to find my way through the mesh viwer code I am using C#, and help would be great. I did both of those and maybe its not my lights, let me explain whats happening. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VisualStudio 2005 BUG

  Am developing a forms app using vs2005. All going fine till decided to publish via ClickOnce…. Having published to ClickOnce, now every time I try to debug (F5) the app after doing a code change or opening up the Publishing Project Properties, get “The operation could not be completed. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process” Try again – then get “Visual Studio could not copy a support file t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Item icon doesn't show

  Hi, What could be the problem if the icon doesn't appear in the 'add new item' dialog What tools/methods would you suggest to find the cause I'm using MDE 2002 version 7.0.9366 Framework 1.0 Also tested on Visual Studio 2005 with the same problem. Path to vsz-file is e:\program files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\VB7\VBProjectItems Could the param argument cause the problem Security issue I used filemon from sysinternals to find probl ...Show All

• Visual Studio C++ Support

  When the FAQ for Class Designer states " Class Designer in Visual Studio 2005 does not support C++, but is a top priority for the next release of Visual Studio" -- what constitutes the 'next release' Does this mean a service pack or that C++ developers are left out until Visual Studio 'Orcas' is released Does anyone know what kind of timeframe we're looking at for C++ support in the Class Designer C++ suppo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there a way to use a Web UserControl (.ascx) as the body of an email

  I know that this can be done in ASP .NET I was wondering if there was a way to use a Web UserControl (.ascx) as the body of an email, to send html template based emails though a console/winforms application. The LoadControl method fails to ...Show All

• SQL Server Return the data from a table ordered by its hierarchy

  How can I create a function that returns hierarchical data from a table with this structure: - CategoryID - CategoryName - CategoryFather I want to bring the result set like this... CategoryID | CategoryName | CategoryFather | HierarchicalLevel 1 | Video | 0 | 0 2 | DivX | 1 | 1 3 | WMV | 1 | 1 4 | Programming | 0 | 0 5 | Web | 4 | 1 6 | ASP.Net | 5 | 2 7 | ColdFusion | 5 | 2 How can I do this Does anybody has a sample code I need th ...Show All

• .NET Development brain cramp on SQLDataReader

  I understand OOP in principle, but the application requires a code-level knowledge I just don't have yet.   I'm trying to break pieces out into discrete entities and encapsultat them, but the problem I'm having lies in understanding the types of data that I'm passing around.   eg. My datagrid demands an SQLDataReader object to populate its grid. If I have everything integrated (not OOP), it works fine, since I directly produce ...Show All

• SQL Server Using 2 connections and DB in a query

  Hi, this is proberly a really stupid question, but I am new at this, so here goes: Is it possible to use two connections in a SELECT, i.e. SELECT * FROM p WHERE pno IN (SELECT pno FROM sp) where p is from one connection, and sp is another. Why Well I am trying to stage some data, (my very first attempt at it), and want data from the foreign table where a date is higher than a date stored in my "settings" table located in my ...Show All

• System Center OutlookCached SendMessage latency

  How to interpret the OutlookCached SendMessage latency Result (I currently have an average of 1.8 sec/max or 21.8 sec for a specific site); what do this 21.8 sec mean I am trying to determine how long would it take to send a message from Site A to Site B via central site C; can you help Hi Philippe - if I understand your scenario correctly, you can use the “Latency by site” report to solve your problem. Fil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Performance Profiler - OutOfMemoryException

  When attempting to profile our application (consists of console application and several class libraries - all C#), I get an OutOfMemoryException thrown almost immediately upon startup. The application runs just fine outside the profiler (standalone or in the debugger). Normal memory usage of the process typically sits in the mid-20MB range, so nothing out of the ordinary going on... Any thoughts as to what might cause this -Adam ...Show All

• Visual Studio custom tool registration

  Hello, it there any way how to register managed custom tool (in VsPackage) into VS I found ProvideGeneratorAttribute in msdn documentation, but it seems to be missing. ProvideObjectAttibute do part of the job (regarding docs) but not the main part. I'd like some ProvideXXX attribute even for this. Thanks in advance I found it: [ Guid ( "77BAF5D3-55AA-4878-BB75-D42747562E7D" )] [ ProvideObject ( typeof ( GDataSetG ...Show All

• SQL Server Questions about SQL Express

  What is the user limit for SQL Express Is there a free way to convert Access files and import them into SQL Express Is there any way to take databases offline without have to detach them If anyone knows the answers to even just one of my questions feel free to post. ...Show All

• .NET Development Error: Columns being marked Read Only and/or Unique during SqlDataAdapter.Fill()

  Columns marked Read Only and Unique during Fill -- why   My concern is described in the subject of this post and I have posted the related code snippets at the bottom of this post.   In short, my classes handle tables for which they have little schema knowledge -- nothing except a set of column names which may not include all columns in the table.   My classes read data from these tables, process data in named columns b ...Show All