Rajiv Roopan's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista redistribution of SDK components

  What are the legal requirements for redistribution of components like mt.exe We'd like to redistribute mt.exe so our customers can apply manifests to their applications. However, I'd prefer to not require our customers to download the entire and Windows SDK just to do this. Does the license agreement allow me to do this It isn't entirely clear. Thanks, Noel Adorno National Instruments Hi Noel: You are not allowed to redistribute the individual components of the SDK unless they are explicitly listed in the redist.txt, that is installed on your computer by the SDK (in the license folder). MT.exe is not listed there, and is not redistributable. Using our Web install, your users can go to t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with NTLM on IIS

  Hi everyone! I began to investigate different security option of the WCF and found this problem: WCF is hosting on IIS. So I have no problems while there was Anonymous access. Then I restrict access only with integrated Windows security and since this i wasn't able to make my service work. So first time it responded with such error: The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'. The authentication header received from the server was 'Negotiate,NTLM'. The problem seems to be clear: In Service and Client config's i set clientcredentialtype to Windows, then IIS responded generally the same error: The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Negotiate'. The authentication header receive ...Show All

• SQL Server READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT

  READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT in 2005 is what I wanted. However, I am still using 2000. READ_COMMITTED in 2000 is different. Can anyone give me advice on this issue (or there is no way in Sql Server 2000 to handle the following scenario: Process One UPDATE tableA SET fieldB = 'testing' WHERE fieldA = 1; Process Two SELECT * FROM tableA WHERE fieldA = 1; While Process One is working, Process Two will fail. But I just want to allow Process Two to read the data (i.e. the version that before Process One is working). This is what READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT do in Sql Server 2005. ) Thanks for any advice. Hi Wilson. There is no automatic method to allow this type of read i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista Media Center report "Video Error"

  I am working on TV Tuner driver developing. I  tried to hot plug the USB TV Tuner when Media Center is playing and the Media Center shows "Video Error" and stopped. Then re-pluging the device and choose Media Center live TV, Media Center restarts Playing. But if I tries to re-scan channel at that time, Media Center will hang in the scanning process.  I analyzed the message from my driver, it worked to change channel and send data to AP. I also tried other TV Application but no fault with them. Media Center will become normal after restarting the PC. Does anyone meet the situation What will make Media Center to show "Video Error" ...Show All

• SQL Server How to get Top 3 records in the group level?

  Hi all, I have a query which is grouped by a field called R_ID, which gives me a list of records for each R_ID. So here is the thing, I want to get only top 3 records for each R_ID. I tried using 'select top 3....', but the result is not what I wanted. It doesn't consider the grouping. Is there any way to achieve this task Please let me know if some body has any idea. Thx. How about this: -- sample table / data CREATE TABLE t1 ( R_ID nvarchar ( 3 ), text_data NVARCHAR ( 50 )); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ( 'A' , 'Text for A1' ); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ( 'A' , 'Text for A2' ); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ( 'A' , 'Text for A3' ); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ( 'A' , ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D fade transitions

  I'm attempting to do a 2d fade in/fade out effect on the screen, but I have no idea how to get that rolling. I've never played with .fx files or anything before. Could someone lend me some ideas Thanks! Jason You can produce simple but effective fades by drawing a sprite that covers the screen and modulating the alpha value of the sprite's Color. Use a simple 1 pixel white texture for the sprite and then adjust the Color value to have different colour fades. So to fade in from black, draw the sprite using a Color that changes over time from Vector4(0,0,0,1) to Vector4(0,0,0,0). Reverse the colours to fade out. Change the RGB values to use different colours. You could also use this to do cro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form won't click - is this another change from VB4?

  Probably another stupid question (all I ever ask!). My VB4 program allowed the user to click the background of the form to alter the background picture. In VBS, I put code into form event "click", run the program and the code does absolutely nothing. Put the identical code onto a button or label and it works fine. Does this mean that VBS won't let you click the form itself (The 'click' event shows in the list of form events, so am I missing something ) Andrus42 The purpose of VB Studio is to make old programmers feel their age... Thanks for the response. I did have a "Handles" section, but a bit different. Mine reads: Private Sub MDIGenMain_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Syst ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can't connect custom RAM source filter to AVI splitter

  Hi I'm trying to do something in DirectShow that is, obviously, not very conventional, so I'm currently experiencing some problems... I made a source filter, the output pin of which inherits CStreamSource. I want to connect it to an AVI Splitter. To do so, I made its output pin implement IAsyncReader too, and I overloaded the necessary functions, according to the AsyncFilter sample. My problem is when I try two connect those two filters, I receive an error. Particularly, the ReceiveConnection function of the AVI Splitter return an error code "Invalid file format". This is a big problem to me since my source filter doesn't work with a file as a source, but with a RAM buffer, and IAsyncReader seems to be made to be used with a fi ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Cannot Drop User

  Hello, I am new to SQL 2005 and I am trying to drop a user from a database called prod. When I try to delete the user I get the following error message: "The database principal has granted or denied permissions to objects in the database and cannot be dropped." Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. You're using both brackets and single quotes to quote the name, so you end with the single quotes being interpreted as part of the name: that's why the message says ‘‘domain name\username’’ and not ‘domain name\username’. Use only brackets to quote the user name. Thanks Laurentiu ...Show All

• SQL Server When I click on report menu link, report is displayed by default without clicking the View Report button in SSRS 2005.

  Hi, We are developing SSRS 2005 reports. So in the home page(web view), we are having different links like metrics report, activity report, statistics report link. etc...when I click the any report link, report is displayed by default without click on view report button. Suppose after going into the report page, if i change any search criteria parameters, I have to click View Report button. Problem is when I click on the any report link this problem is happening. Also in the report we have to show some default values for the parameters. How to stop displaying the report by default when I click on report link any idea, is there any config setting not show report by default Thanks, Kris ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CeFindFirstFile using VB6

  Ok, my first Smart Device project and I've come to a bit of a standstill, trying to find out what files are on the device. Tried the CeFindAllFiles, but from what I have read I don't think it will function in VB6. So, on to CeFindFirstFile and and CeFindNextFile. It all looks so easy. I'm confused as to how you set up the returning information. I keep seeing references to 'CE_FIND_DATA', but what is that all about If anyone has an example or ideas it would be appreciated. Bert Try clicking here to access the article. The article talks about the file management APIs on Windows Mobile 5.0 platform. You can use VB06 via eVB tool but this tool does not support the newer platforms for debugging & testing purpo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Beginner: VB & SQL

  Hello, I just started to learn Visual Basic 2005.NET. I have experience with VBA in Access and SQL Server. I now want to build applications (client/server) with VB & SQL Server. Does anyone have a simple example with which I can start learning Thank you in advance! there are many many examples on this forums using VB.NET and SQL Server, such as retrieving records or updating records. There are also many ways/methods to do this. It really depends on what you want to do and how you wish to do it. A simple example of retrieval:   Dim theSQLCommand as New SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM myTable" ) Dim theDataSet as new DataSet() theSQLCommand.Connection = new SqlConnection( connection ...Show All

• Visual Basic createing a text file

  Hi...i used to play around with vb 6 and now i have 2005 and i gt say...i can learn chinese faster then i can learn it... can someone show me how to create a simple text file in the programs folder and can you explain the code so i can learn how it workts..thanks! You need to decide how you are going to store the information from UserName, Nickname and WiiNumber as a single text so that it can later be broken up into Name, Nick and Number again.         So a seperation-character is needed (one that can't be in the name, nick or number). I'll use | for this example, so that the text in the file, is stored like this:         fred|Robert|999-999-999-999     &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System customizing process template &guidance

  Hello I am trying to customize the MSF for CMMI process template and process guidance. I have found several tools (PTE, MSWinBuild) and msdn articles; however, I get the impression that customization of the template is independent of customization of the guidance documentation. I would like to create a new work item type (e.g. MyBug) with the Process Template Editor and have it appear in the guidance too. Or the other way round, create it in the guidance source files and have the item "MyBug" appearing in any new team projects created. Is this possible Thanks Thanks for the answer, Randy. It's a good thing to know it is coming but, indeed, I am not going to wait. :) ...Show All

• Visual C# Creating a DLL in C#, then run regsvr32 and get "no entry point" error More options

  Hello, thanks for reading :-) I built a custom DLL in C# that works just fine dropped into other .Net projects build in VS 2005. However, I wanted to create an instance of this DLL within a Classic ASP page. Of course, to do this you must register the DLL. It try to register and I get an an error about "DLL loaded but DLLRegisterServer entry point was not found. DLL not registered". I've been Googling for two hours with no luck on how to resolve this. Is there some setting in the DLL project that will make this work I found a "COM enable" switch in the project properties but that didn't fix the error. Has anyone encountered this What is the trick to building COM components in VS2005 C# Thanks for any advice, ...Show All