Andrew Kinloch's Q&A profile

• System Center SSCP running on Windows Vista

  I'm running Vista Ultimate RC1 (build 5600) and SSCP won't install. Any way to get it to install or is there an expected time when we can load SSCP on Vista I'm happy to report that the fix is now out - SCCP SP1 has been released, with compatibility with Vista RC1 (build 5600) and RC2 (build 5744). It's available for download to all TechNet Plus and MSDN Premium subscribers. A very few more details and download pointers are at http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/overview/sp1.mspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Scan my files ? - How do i do ?

  How do i do to scan my files and show in textbox1... Example: Scan files which i want : "abc.exe"; "abc.dll"; "abc.ogx"; "abc.txt"; etc... If you find those files, show in textbox1 . And we create a new button with name "delete" because i want to delete files in textbox1 (delete files form textbox1 and computer) Please post the code well it will be hard to do. you pretty much need some algorithm to scan for viruses and what not which is not easily done. There is no "set" algorithm to do this, you will have to create one. Do some research about how to detect files which could be infected. It's something that's not easy to learn and not easily told. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Is there a web server built into Pocket PC

  Does Pocket PC 2003 and 2005 contain a local IIS capable of running ASP or ASPX pages I picked up on a couple of sites that there might be one but couldnt get any further I am hoping to write a web app that automatically switches to the local IIS and local Sql CE when the device is disconnected from the network. thanks Thanks Ilya I was hoping to have a browser based application so I could use the same forms that we can generate when the server is connected. The problem is that a browser cannot update a local CE database without a web server in between (unless I write an activex ) ...Show All

• Visual C# Is there a place for C++ anymore?

  If you want to write large applications, it seems like C# and Java are the way to go. If you want your code to be efficient, you write it in C. If you want to be really really efficient, you write in assembly and call from C. Can you call C functions from C# Is C++ on its way out Is there a reason to learn C++ anymore MedicineMan wrote: Is C++ on its way out Is there a reason to learn C++ anymore Lord no. Even the upcoming Windows Vista is primarily written in C and C++ despite all of the managed features that have been introduced and there are today and will likely to continue to be plenty of areas where it excels over managed code, like in low level operating system work such as kern ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to store data without database

  Dear all, I am developing a sales management application for small business use. Besides delivering program with MSDE or Access, is there any way to store data without database It is because I find it troublesome to deliver database togather. Please give some advice. Thanks. Javad Khadivi is right. If your classes aren't that complicated look up for XMLSerializer. ...Show All

• SQL Server Parsing CSV name=value pairs into columns

  Hello smart SQL people, I have a field in the DB that contains name value pairs in the form of csv. Is there a neat trick (using a stored proc) to get it to be diplayed as in columns (maybe create a view around it or somthing ) EX. Select 'name1=val1;name2=val2;name3=val3' as MyData --> Returns MyData ----------- name1=val1;name2=val2;name3=val3 ============================================ How can i get it to return name1 name2 name3 -------------------------------- val1 val2 val3 You should really normalize your tables so that you can do simple and efficient operations. You can split the string using various techniques. The link below discusses lot of those: http: ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem With Commenting Sections Out (Coding4Fun Beginning Game Development: Part II)

  Now, this may sound silly, but I'm having trouble using "comment." I'm at Part II of the Beginning Game Development tutorials, and just at the start I'm asked to "comment out all of the code other than that in the Native Methods and Timer regions." Usually, using the comment is just "//", however when I type the double slashes infront of the RefWarningDialog Form, (or any of the other groupings, for that matter) it just comments out the first line of code, not the entier section. I deleted all the sections, and I can make my build fine, so the only problem is commenting it all out.  I don't want to permenently delete the groups, in case I need them later, but I don't want to manually comment out every line in the groups (unl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Create Assembly--I know...I know

  In CTP 5, I believe, when building the project, the CREATE ASSEMBLY FROM 'x.dll' autmatically built the required binary code to build the project WITHOUT having to do the manual create/script and then put in the project. Why was this dropped from--not only 6 and 7--the RTM This seems like a step backward not forward. Any changes to the dll require performing an ALTER ASSEMBLY, script, and paste all over again. Hi Kevin, The main reason this was removed is due to the fact that the pathing for the assembly can not be relative pathing based on a user enlistment to source control which makes the use of the file path in the CREATE ASSEMBLY statement problematic in a team working environment. We a ...Show All

• SQL Server Conversion between code pages necessary?

  Hi Guys, We want to load data from one server to another. The source database has a code page of 850 while the target database on another server has a code page of 1250. In production, there is a dts package that converts the code page of the data to 1250 before it's inserted into the 1250 database. Can an SSIS package deliver data from the source database with code page 850 to the target without using the dts package in the middle I mentioned SSIS and DTS because we have just replatformed to SISS packages and we want to know if the DTS package is still needed or not. Other servers in production use 850 (standard) but there is just nthis one that uses 1250. Thanks, Kervy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office SharePoint with single sign on Very urgent

  Hi There, I got the basic understanding of the SSO (single sign on) in SPS 2003. but would like to know more in detail about configuring the SSO and conneting enterprising applications. If any one have worked on this or any related articles please pass it on to me. In simple i want to know how can we configure SSO with SPS 2003 and what are the different enterprise applications are compatible with SPS 2003 SSO feature. Regards, Saradhi This forum is for questions concerning the VSTO technology. To discuss Sharepoint, please address your questions to the appropriate group in this interface: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver.development&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• Commerce Server Who is using Commerce Server 2007?

  I am looking for companies using Commerce Server 2007 One of my clients, wants to move to Commerce Server 2007 but I am not sure how successful it is. Any help is appreciated! -- Salim Hemdani Would someone be interested in sharing best practices for migration from CS2002 to CS2007 Pitfalls, hadware considerations, performance considerations would be helpful. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Create Bug from Web Test result, assign to developer, but can see the Test Result only in XML format ???

  Hi, as a Tester role, I had create a Web Test running a Web page. the I had found a bug, create directly from Test Result. The TFS server did ask me to publish the test result to the target build. and I did ! the Team Explorer say the publish is complete !!! but when the bug owner open the bug in his Team Explorer, he try to open an text result xx.trx from the WorkItem Link Tab. the system shows, the test report is not published therefore I can only see the .trx report in XML format from attachment Tab. could anyone guild me, what am I missing Hi, To verify the test result file was published, you can go check to make sure it shows up on the Build Report. In Team Foundaction Client, open the serv ...Show All

• Visual C# Diff between internal & protected internal modifiers..

  hi, We know that if we declare anything as internal, that will be accessible within the assembly. And any protected members will be accessed by the subclasses within the assembly. But what is the use of declaring a member as protected internal Any one pls, help me in this regard... thanx... A class in a different assembly derived from the class with the pi attribute still has access to it. If it was internal only the derived class in the other assembly couldn't reach it. And, of course, protected only means the derived class in any assembly can reach it. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Generate random numbers for every class instance

  I'm trying out some AI techniques but I'm having a problem generating a TRULY random number. I create 20 instances of an ant class that should move and change directions on a random basis. They are doing that, but all in unison instead of each changing directions at different times. Its like synchronized ants. Anyone know how to create a truly random number each time the ants use this method Random r = new Random (); if (r.Next(100) < 5) ant.Speed = new Microsoft.Xna.Framework. Vector3 (-ant.Speed.X, ant.Speed.Y, ant.Speed.Z); if (r.Next(500) < 2) ant.Speed = new Microsoft.Xna.Framework. Vector3 (ant.Speed.X, -ant.Speed.Y, ant.Speed.Z); Thanks kindly, George. I don't wan ...Show All

• SQL Server reference member in user hierarchy

  hi, I have a user hierarchy in my Date Dimension such as [Calendar]->[Years]->[Quarters] And I can access the member by directly call the memeber name, for example: select [Date].[Calendar].[Years].[2006].[Q2] on columns, ................................... The results will be correct. However, if I use reference to call the member, for example: select [Date].[Calendar].[Years].[2006].&[2] on columns, ................................... There will be nothing in my results. Would you please tell me what shall I do to enable the reference call to my hierarchy member Thanks. I realized this now. So you have a join on one of the levels in your time hierarchy above ...Show All