Matt A's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Calling Map Object From Another Browser Window

  Is there some reason why I can't do step "(c)" The intent is to enable a given hyperlink, when clicked, to pan to a specific lat/lon. This used to work before new Map control version. (a) Create a map instance in Window #1. (b) From Window #1, open a popup window populated with hyperlinks containing lat/lon data. (c) Refer to the map object in Window #1 using, var map = opener.map; Here is the relevant script located in the popup window: < html xmlns ="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > < head > < title > Mapped Facilities </ title > < script language ="javascript" type ="text/javascript" src ="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol ...Show All

• Visual Basic Clarification on project start up in VB.NET

  Hi, i have created a sample project in VB.NET. i have one form(Form1) and a module(Module1) . i have written a sub main function in module and inside it i have asked to show the Form1 as shown below. Module Module1 Sub Main() Form1.Show() End Sub End Module Also i have disabled the Application Framework in settings and given the start up project as Sub Main(). The code gets compiled without any error. But when i run, it does'nt shows the form. Thanks, Ganesh Just a little info on what's happening.... the form is being shown, but it falls out of scope the moment the sub ends. This forces the form to unload and disappear. Using the Application.Run tells it to restart the app, with a new start form. - ...Show All

• Visual Basic passing a function's name to another function (or sub)

  Dear all when programming in FORTRAN I was used to pass the name of a function to another sub or function. With VB.NET I have some problem. Suppose I have several functions, named F1,F2, F3,.., and that I have to perform some common task on these functions (for instance numerical integration). Well, I wish to manage things in such a way to have a library function or subroutine (to do integration) and to call it passing various parameters 'and' a function name ( e.g. F3 ) to perform the integration of F3 . In other words I wish something similar to this fragment of code to work (declarations and initialization omitted): module main integ1= integration(a,b,step,F1) integ2= integration(a,b,step,F2) end module m ...Show All

• .NET Development System.speech

  Okay I want to are functions from System.speech to use some speech synthesis but the assemblies required simply do not appear to exist! I am using Vista so my understanding was these should be native but alas I cannot find them. "system.speech.dll" is not on my computer anywhere. I tried to install .net 3 but it just says sorry I can't do this 'cos you are running Vista. I seem to be stuck between a rock and a hard place and can find nothing on the web from other users suffering this issue. Can anybody suggest why I have this problem (I'm using C# Express sp1) many thanks for any help you can give. Trevor Try this location C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework ...Show All

• Visual Studio Showing the summary data only on last page?

  I have a summary field in my Invoice report. It is the Total of the Amount (currency) field. I would like to show it only on the last page, so I use the formula: If PageNumber = TotalPageCount Then Formula = Sum ({GetOrder;1.Amount}) However, suppose my report is 2-page long, the first page will show $0.00 for this Total field . I like to hide this $0.00 and show nothing. In other words, I would like to hide the field object. Is this possible Thanks for replying. Hi, Modify the Suppress Formula in your Format Editor (Common Tab) create a statement that would return true (to suppress it) if your field value is 0. cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• SQL Server Calculated Measure at Totals Level

  Hello guys, Y have the following cube. Dimensions: Age group, Year Measures: Mortality, Population, Standard Population (this measures doesn't have Year dim relation because it applies to all Years) I need to get the [Mortality Age Adjusted Rate] defined as: SUM(Expected Death) / SUM(Standard Population) * 100 000 Where: Expected Death = (Mortality / Population) * Standard Population As you can see the Mortality Age Adjusted Rate (MAAR) is a measure that is not at the row level but it depends of the set of Age Group(s) selected. Example: This is an extract for Year 2003 to show you as example: Age group Mortality Population Standard Population Expected Death 0-4 years 6 275, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Insert Comments

  Hi all, I am new to Visual Studio Express and was trying to find out if there was a way that I could insert comments into any of my forms For instance, I just created a menu bar and wanted to say that when a user clicks on this, this new form field should popup. I am a visual designer and dont know to program using VS so I am trying to lay the app out so that a developer can take my design and turn it into a real working app. You can place comments in the code - by using a leading ' mark and then typing your comment after it. Each comment statement needs to contain this and you can add comments at the end of statement lines as well. You cant add comments onto the form designer - The only way ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sprite Doesn't Animate

  Alrighty, here we go again with another problem. I used to use a simple sprite sheet, but in recent days I have found I need to add some more functionality. My previous spritesheet class would load a sheet which had all frames have the same height and width. They were laid out horizontally, and the height and width were hardcoded. It worked, but I wanted to make a sprite sheet loader that could load and animate any sprite sheet, provided there was an XML document to explain where to look on the sheet. Thus, the actual frames can be anywhere on the sheet, in any order, just so long as the XML file is correct. So, I wrote that class. Now, come time to test it, the animation part of it doesn't work. Hard coding a frame to use shows that ...Show All

• SQL Server How to increase SSIS performance

  Hello again, I'll just throw my question: how could I increase SSIS-performance I have a really heavy job with thousands of records my base selection, then I perform some lookups (I replaced most of them by sql) and derived columns (again, I replaced as much as possible by sql). Finally, after a slowly changing dimension task, I do update/insert on a given table. Is there a trick to speed up lookups and inserts (something like manipulating the buffer sizes - just asking). Fact is that I replaced a script task by pure sql-joins and gained 6 of the 12 hours this job took. Any ideas Greets, Tom Tom De Cort wrote: Hello again, I'll just throw my question: how could I increase SSIS-performance I have a really h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help in capturing CMD output

  Hello again. I have been working on quite a few programs lately. One thing I’ve been working on is a program to help me with my Game Design, Halo CE. One of the tools that are used is in the creation process is tool.exe. It’s a command-based program but I’m trying to make a GUI for it. I know of the “variable = New ProcessStartInfo” but it just doesn’t seem to work with this. Xdfgsdfga Appreciate This is my code to read the output of the tool.exe program: If Trim(txt_ToolCMD.Text) = "" Then MsgBox("Please Enter A Tool Command.", MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation, "Tool UI Error") : Exit Sub If chk_Append.Checked = False Then txt_ToolOut.Text = "" Dim exe As ProcessStartInfo Dim sLine As String ...Show All

• Visual Basic datagridview - 2005

  i want to make the current cell as last row after the row exceeds the visible area, while inserting new row. code below i use to insert. dataGridView1 . Rows . Insert dataGridView1 . Rows . Count - 1, 1) dataGridView1 . CurrentCell = dataGridView1 . Rows dataGridView1 . Rows . Count - 1). Cells (1) I want to scroll to last row automatically after an insert after the visible area. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Learning to draw in 2D (tutorial)

  We just finished a new tutorial that should help teach the basics of using sprites including rotation and scaling.   http://www.xnaspot.com/Tutorial_Learn2D.aspx   Please let us know what you think. Submit@XNASpot.com   Also we really want to post what people have been working on so if you have any code samples or even just a screen shot of a game you are working on send it in. seems like everyones making pong as a first game lol... I on the other hand am making the best game ever... Breakout! I only got the ball and paddle at the moment... as I need to come up with a better way of rendering mass sprites. Now, I've tried making a class, and a "scene" as I h ...Show All

• .NET Development Asp / Ado databinding to Sql database

  I am trying to build our web applications in a VB Website with .asp I am using Visual Studios 2005. I have no clue where to start. Can someone point me in the right direction. I have books and been looking around on the web I can't find anything possible. Ray, Have a look on MSDN topic http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/ado270/htm/mdconusingconnectionobj.asp which applies for ADO 2.8. If you are planning to use ADO.Net, then take a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254507.aspx . Both articles have sample code that shows how to connect to a SQL Server. Jimmy ...Show All

• SQL Server SMO Weirdness on SQLExpress box

  so i created a SMO console app (.exe) that backs up all user databases. we scheduled it via windows scheduler and life was good... THEN we had to migrate our sqlexpress instance to a different server and this ofcourse included migrating the SMO scripts I had written. The scheduled task keeps failing and the eventlog is recording events in the appLog. I noticed that in the GAC the SMO assemblies are present but i dont see the ProgFiles\sql server\90\sdk\assemblies directory where I thought the dll's physically resided at. Also I installed vb2005 express edtiion on the box and it does not "see" the SMO libraries via an add reference operation. The other intesting thing is this new box has the RTM of Mgmt. Studio Express and it runs just f ...Show All

• Windows Forms patterns

  There is, what I consdider, a common pattern for an application used to enter, maintain, and view data. All of the development parts are available for this pattern in .NET 2.0, but it requires some work to get there; the defaults generated in VS 2005 have a different architecture in mind. I want to confirm that the approach in my solution is sound. I would like to know if there is an existing pattern and practice for this functionality. The basic idea is around display and navigation of data using a grid for an overview, and item forms for entry and maintenance. The architectural issue I've encountered is this: I want to have a normalized data structure I want the grid and the item forms to maintain synchronization ...Show All