QuikOzi's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Burning to CD demo install of SQL Expr Ed

  We burn to CD a demo install of our app along with SQL Expr Ed for potential new clients. (yeah, we filled out the paperwork) For the SQL, we pre-extract the SQLExpr.exe files and setup a custom template. Batched the install with our app. AOK perfect so far. The problem is when we burn to CD. The file names under \SQL2005Express\setup\program files\microsoft sql server\90\tools\binn\windows\winsxs\manifests\ are all over 64 chars in length... which is a problem for all/most CD burners.... Who on earth really needs file names 75 chars long I don't have an answer, but would like to TELL MICROSOFT about this. It's hindering our abilily to sell our app and sell MS SQL products. (we're also a MS Partner). How about in the next release ( ...Show All

• .NET Development Permissions On Access Database

  What permissions are required for my .NET 2.0 application to read and write to an access database Thanks. In addition to what Bill mentioned you also need read/write access to the folder where the Access database is located. This is so the corresponding .LDB file can be created, modified and deleted. ...Show All

• SQL Server Long parameter list for stored procs

  Hi All, I've got a problem with increasingly long parameter lists for SProcs... Especially when one calls another SProc, and so on. Is there any way around this Like can you dynamically construct a string and pass that I'm just looking to see if more experienced players have found ways around this, or have just dealt with it by using well formed code. Thanks Chris thats a useful link carlop has given... u can construct any synamic sql statement dynamically..using string and variables...and execute it..including calling an sp.. look for execute and sp_executesql in books online.. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help on PropertyGrid

  Hi there! Is there another way of setting the properties in a PropertyGrid besides using propertyGrid.SelectedObject or propertyGrid.SelectedObjects I would like to load the properties without having the PropertyGrid read them from myObject. For example, is there a way of doing something like: propertyGrid.SetProperties (collectionOfProperties) or anything similar to that You can do two things,set the Browsable attribute for a property to false,if you dont want to see the property in a property grid. [Browsable( false )] public string Name { get { } set { } } Will this help you ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS3.0 and OneNote 2007 Beta: Won't search accross pages or sections or notebooks

  Hi, This may be related to the other problems I am having in Outlook (see my other threads) but when I do an instant search in OneNote 2007 it will only search the current page and it will not find the word in other pages, sections or notebooks. One weird thing I have noticed is that I appear to have two entries for OneNote in the "indexing options" control panel. I only have one mapi: entry so two entries for onenote looks wrong. I have; oneindex://{S-1-5-21-blah-blah}/LocalHost (MYDOMAIN\MYLOGIN) and oneindex://{S-1-5-21-blah-blah}/LocalHost/ (MYDOMAIN\MYLOGIN) There is an extra "/" in the second entry after LocalHost. Do I need to zap one of those How do I zap it Or is that normal and I have s ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to process Large Binary Files

  I'm trying to read Test.bin but I keep getting out-of-memory error The file size is >300MB. I can read smaller files well - but large files are a problem. Anyone has a good snippet fileContents = My .Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllBytes( "C:\Test.bin" ) Thanks. Thanks... I tried it but it was very, very slow. Perhaps I need to read and write in blocks instead of bytes. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Include Directories on VISTA write protected

  Hi, I have a strange problem here. I can not remove the write protection of the include files of the DX December SDK under VISTA ... is that the expected result or do I anything substantially wrong I know how to remove the read only attribute ... I can repeat this as often as I want they seem to stay write-protected == read-only. Thanks for your help, - Wolfgang I'm not in front of my Vista machine right now, but I have seen similar during my repeated (re-)installs of Vista over the last year or so. It all boiled down to permissions - If one user creates the files then other users may not have permission to modify them. In my case I had files installed on a seperate partition and re-in ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development ACA Explorer

  Hello, Don't know if anyone has created one yet but I figured I'll share this small tool i made with everyone. AcaExplorer allows you to view the content of unencrypted Advanced Content Archives and extract files. Usage: Run acaexplorer.exe > Click on [Open Archive]  > Select an *.aca file and click [Open] > Select one or more files from the listbox > Click on extract and choose the destination > Click [Choose] and voila! Tip: use [CTRL] to select multiple files The tool is free and can be downloaded from: http://www.levelx.eu Notes: The program doesn't warn if there is already a file with the same name in the destination map and overwrites. Currently there is a max 16MB limit.   ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContract passing null values

  I am using WCF to build some web services. Passing strings seems to work just fine, so I'm on to passing a more complex data type. To keep things simple, I created a class with five public strings. I set up one web service to accept an object and one to send it out. In both cases, the object that comes across has five null strings. I have tried to follow some of the examples I have seen online as closely as possible. I'm hoping this is a common problem and there is some simple thing that I'm missing. Any ideas <DataContract([Namespace]:= "my.test.namespace" )> _ Public Class ItemInfo <DataMember()> _ Public ItemID As String <DataMember()> _ Public Branch As String &l ...Show All

• .NET Development bytecode verification in a single forward-pass

  ECMA for CLR claims that "It shall be possible, with a single forward-pass through the CIL instruction stream for any method, to infer the exact state of the evaluation stack at every instruction" In other words, it shall be possible to perform bytecode verification in a single forward-pass. To make that possible , ECMA requires that "if that single-pass analysis arrives at an instruction, call it location X, that immediately follows an unconditional branch, and where X is not the target of an earlier branch instruction, then the state of the evaluation stack at X shall be empty." On the other hand, ECMA claims that it "simulates all control flow paths". I don't get how this simulation of all paths i ...Show All

• .NET Development help with string match regex

  With ref to Egyptian's code http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=570980&SiteID=1 to find paras in a string and split each para and populate datagridview1 col1, row1 with para1... col1, row2 with para2 etc... I am unable to translate this to c# and request help esp with the regex. Here is the vb.net code again...           Dim delma As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex = New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(""& vbLf& vbLf)         Dim singleLines() As String = delma.Split(MyOrigionalTable.rows[index])                   &nb ...Show All

• Visual C++ what after win32 api? and general programming advice!

  Hie , i'm nearly 16 , i started programming in flash and javascript when i was 13.I moved to VB when i was 14 and also recently made a full fledge application in VB6 .Then i moved to VC 6 some time ago.I know C but NOT C++.I made a few SIMPLE applications in VC using C and win32 API only.and i did'nt forget flash.. i'm still keeping myself updated there! now i got VCE 2005 , and some explained to me that i need to install the PSDK to have win32 api support. I'm still not well versed with VC so i'm reading charles petzolds book on windows programming.Now my question is .. where do i go next.Should i learn C++ and MFC , and when should i move to C++ immediately after i finish this book i have bruce eckel's : thinking in C++ , but does any1 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to make a facial animation system with c#?

  Someone can give me some idea thank you ...Show All

• .NET Development How to animate in the console?

  Hi, how can i "animate" the Text in the console, so that i can show that something is going on. e.g. . .. ... . .. ... usw. You know what i mean I've seen this kind of animation several times, but i don't know how to do that. using System; public class MyClass { public static void Main() { bool done = false ; int n = 0 ; int m = 0 ; string waiting = ""; Console.Clear(); Console.WriteLine(" Doing some work "); int line = Console.CursorTop; while (!done) { Console.SetCursorPosition( 0 , line); if ( ++n == 6 ) { n = 0 ; m++; waiting ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error connecting to Team Foundation from all client machines

  Hello! Could someone help me resolving the TF31004 error TF31004: Team Foundation encountered an unexpected error while connecting to Team Foundation Server <server_name>. Wait a few minutes and try again. If the problem persists, contact your Team Foundation Server administrator. I get this message when connecting to TFS from all client machines. TFS is up and running and I don't have any issue working in VS2005 on the server itself. Thanks! To help us better understand your issue, can you please tell me if you were ever able to connect to the server via the clients If so, were there any server configuration changes or reboots around the time this started happening ...Show All