ajliaks's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Disable visually impairing ClearType in WPF?

  Hello,   I'm a developer and spend quite a bit of time on the computer.   After upgrading to the latest expression betas, I noticed the expression products got a nice UI overhaul.   They look nice!   However, I wear glasses for viewing objects in the distance because of my myopic vision and I do not use my glasses while working on the computer because I can see things quite clearly up close.   I've tried ClearType technology in the past, and tried various ClearType PowerToy tweak settings and still find that clear type anti-aliases fonts and makes them appear "blurry", "fuzzy" and "soft".   After working with the new expression products with ClearType enabled for about 3 minutes, my ey ...Show All

• SQL Server RS 2000 Report Designer Install

  I have a small business 2003 server with IIS and SQL 2000 standard editiion and I installed the server components for RS 2000. However I cannot install the report designer on an XP workstation which has VS 2003. I followed the instructions in the Hitchhiker's Guide To RS 2000. In the book they tell you to get the SQL cd key form the server registry and use that for the install. I did that and it gives me an invalid key error. Am I missing something Do I have to install SQL on the workstation just to get the report designer to install Hope somebody can guide me in the correct direction. The RS install cd is for SQL server 200 standard edition only. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Reporting in Visual Express editions...

  as i was searching for a way to do reports in visual studio i found few things that can help .. i hope... so i decided to share with you here... http://www.neodatatype.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncreport/ and for printing on dot matrix printers http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx id=07343be6-be94-403c-a992-8e6b68979a02 hope this helps... :-D Hi, Also, you can now use the reporting services in SqlExpress. It's called SqlServer Express Edition with Advanced Services. ANd you can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=4C6BA9FD-319A-4887-BC75-3B02B5E48A40&displaylang=en cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Visual C++ QueryInterface return E_NOINTERFACE when executing in native code and called through managed wrapper

  (Environment: WinXP, Visual Studio 2005) The structure of my sample program is listed as follows: 1. Create a native COM component Fun, with interface IFun;(ATL project) 2. Create a native c++ class using this COM component(Win32 application and build to a dll file) class CSample{ private: IFun* m_pFun; public: void Initialize(){ ... IUnknown* pUnk; hr = ::CoCreateInstance( CLSID_Fun, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IUnknown, (LPVOID*)&pUnk); hr = pUnk->QueryInterface( IID_IFun, (LPVOID*)&m_pFun);...} ...}; 3. managed Wrapper for nat ...Show All

• .NET Development Create Virtual Disk and Drive to Manage it

  I'm looking to create a virtual drive in windows and have every I/O operation performed on it: list, create, open, etc.....done through custom code. Basically I'm storing a whole bunch of files in a single file and I have a library of code that accesses each file within this large file but I would like to map the big file's contents to a drive letter. Basically just like what Daemon tools does. Could somebody point me in the right direction The following code creates a virtual drive in the load event. Imports System.io Public Class Form1 Dim AvailDr As String = "" Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Butt ...Show All

• SQL Server native vs. clr stored procedures

  Hello, my question is, what is "better" for relative simple querys. native stored procedures or the clr method The procedures are relative simple select's or insert's. What are the advantages of clr procedures perhaps you have some links to read about... thanks and greets from germany! Dirk Hi, The Overview of CLR Integration topic in the BOL has some good info, as well: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms131045.aspx -Ryan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Strongly Typed DataSet analysis

  Hi, It appears that VS2005 Code Analysis ignores the code in strongly typed datasets, probably because of the GeneratedCodeAttribute on the class. Is there anyway to force my partial class code or ideally, all of the generated code to be analysed I understand that some stuff in the auto-generated dataset code will violate CA rules but picking up naming issues and ensuring my extensions are valid would be very helpful. I've considered hand removing the GeneratedCodeAttribute from the .designer file but it will only be replaced when the file is regenerated from the source .xsd during a build. Thanks, - Jason Jason, Unfortunately this is something that we implemented late in the cycle of Visual Studio (ig ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView row automatically selected

  This seems to be a really simple issue, but for some reason I've failed to find an answer. I have a DataGridView with MultiSelect = true and SelectionMode = FullRowSelect. I'm binding a business entity collection to the DataGridView. The collection may or may not be empty when it is set to the DataGridView DataSource, or objects may be added to the collection later. The problem I'm having is that as soon as the DataSource is set, the first row on the DataGridView is selected. I've done a few tests and it seems like no matter what happens with the DataGridView, as soon as something is bound to the data source something (first row or cell) will get selected regardless of the SelectionMode. Is there anyway to have nothing selected Ok ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ debugging

  When I'm debugging a C++ application using the debugger in VC2005 some times it shows that variables are not properly set. When I go through step by step in debugging, one step shows that variables are not properly set by indicating with red. When I go to the next line suddenly all the variables have correct values. The line that I have passed has nothing to do with the variables. Is this a normal scenario. smk_k wrote: [...]When I go through step by step in debugging, one step shows that variables are not properly set by indicating with red. [...] I think red is used to emphasize the variables that were just changed during last step. Red does not mean "not properly set". ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How many DBP warmup submissions are already submitted, and how many still in the pipeline?

  Hello all. Just curious about the competition. I know that I'm typing (and scribbling in photoshop) as fast as I can to try to meet the deadline, but I'm curious as to how many others are doing the same. I realise the MSFT people probably want to keep the number of entries secret until the end, but if you've got a project submitted, or underway, speak up - (not looking for ideas to pillage, just want to know how big the playing field is) Cheers from the frozen North. Dan Lingman NogotoGames.com ...Show All

• Architecture Objects with many child object relations - Need design help!

  Hello, First let me start by saying that I am just getting started with OOP and Domain driven design so please take it easy on me. I am designing a domain model that consists of PROJECT objects that can contain ISSUE objects that can contain other objects like NOTES and ATTACHMENTS. There will be times in which my application will need to populate each PROJECT object along with all related child objects. However, sometimes I just need to get a list of PROJECTS to fill a dropdown or list UI control. In this case I just need some basic PROJECT properties like name and ID. I think it would be too much overhead if I populated all child objects just to fill a list (especially if there are many PROJECTs). Shoud I create 2 separate PROJ ...Show All

• SQL Server Zero converted to null

  I have restore a SQL Server 2000 database in SQL Server 2005. I have a web aplication that uses dll to talk to the database using ODBC - SQL Native Cliente provider. I have a table with a key integer not null. The first element of my table has a key = 0. When the asp page recive the record set the value of the key field is null, why If i use the query directly in the SQL Server the value of the key is 0. Please help. Hi, thats really strange. Check your query in your frontend if you really did not request the second value. The SNAC does not rewrite queries on his own, there must be a difference in the queries. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I run an User Control using a Web Application...

  Framework Version1.1. I have a User Control inside a Windows Control Library named WCL1. I embed that User Control inside the web Application(named WA1) using <Object> tag.. Along that I have Add the reference for the WCL1 Now if I access through. http://localhost/WA1/WebForm1.aspx means it works... But if I access through IP Address for eg.. http://IP/WA1/WebForm1.aspx means it will not works... Please anyone give me an Idea.. I am using the IP address like 192.168.*.* which is provided by the IPCONFIG from the cmd .. One thing you note please.. If I Provide some web controls along the user control means web controls displayed... but user controls does not... Please try on example and give to me. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS 6.0d (SP6) names.dat may be corrupt

  Two problems.  I can't add new users to the program, and, I tried archiving a database and received the message "File names.dat may be corrupt."  The Help for this message said to run Analyze.exe alone (without extensions), then run Analyze.exe -F.  I ran Analyze.exe and Analyze.exe -F and the results were no errors.  It doesn't seem to see a problem with names.dat yet I still can't perform either of the above tasks.  I have tried deleting names.dat and running Analyze.exe but this also did nothing to fix the problem. Thanks in advance.   Steve Hi Steve, Yes, the Help/About dialog in VSS Explorer should display the build number. The reason I'm asking is that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions progress bar....please help

  can anyone please help with this progress bar Dim i As Integer Dim TrackLength As Integer = 100 Dim TrackPosition As Integer = 0 Dim TrackPositionPercentage As Integer = 1 Bar1.Value = 1 If TrackLength > 0 Then TrackPositionPercentage = CInt (TrackPosition / TrackLength * 100) For i = 1 To 100 Bar1.Step = 1 Next (i) End If   One thing I would do is to change this:   CInt (TrackPosition / TrackLength * 100) to this:   CInt ((TrackPosition / TrackLength) * 100) To insure the order that the expression is evaluated. Oh....... Dim TrackLength As Integer = 100 Dim TrackPosition As Integer = 1 .... ...Show All