Atulpatel's Q&A profile

• SQL Server How to change the height of a row using expressions?

  Is it possible to have a report parameter that will change the height of rows in a report The height property of a matrix row does not seem to support expressions. My goal is to instruct a single row sub-report to grow in height until it fits the height of the parent report cell. I thought that I could pass the height of the parent row as a parameter to the sub-report and then change the height of the sub-report using an expression. Any help will be appreciated, Dom. Thanks for the reply, a lot of posts in this section are left unanswered. Do you know then how I could tell a sub-report to grow in height until it fits the parent cell of the main report ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. xna racer, how and when can i get it

  i saw this thing on something called xna racer, and it amazed me that we could do this with xna http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xna/clips-xna-racer-preview-213594.php does anyone know anything about getting this David Weller - MSFT wrote: andyfraser wrote: Hold onto your hat until the 11th December Andy Nope. Although the XNA Racer game will be available to Creators Club members, the game itself will not be avilable for download on Dec 11th. It will probably not be available until early next year (we are making a few changes to the game). Adding that multiplayer component and Achievements, right ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Vector maths methods...

  Following a long day of writing and debugging some nasty rigid body physics code, and feeling the pain of the maths library I have to use for this C++ work, I thought I'd take another look at the XNA maths code to see if the results would be more readable (as you might hope ;). ... But my quick look at the framework docs seems to show more deficiencies than in the code I have been using all day... 1/ There is no Point3 class. This is a real pain as libraries that don't distinguish points and vectors are a right pain - transforming a point by a 4x4 matrix will result in a different result to transforming a vector. (And I don't want to resort to coding every point/vector as a homogeneous coordinate either!). There appears to be a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Need Links For Free device simulators of different types of mobiledevices

  Could Any Body Provide me Links For Free device simulators of different types of mobile devices. That link you provide does provide the download links for the Emulator Images for WM5.0 PPC2003 and SP2003 for Device Emulator 1.0. But the links for all 3 of them all link to the basic Device Emulator 1.0 download page. The only image available from the two files that you can download off that page is the WM5.0 with MSFP.  So you still can't get any other image besides the WM5.0 with MSFP for Device Emulator 1.0. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Where is the "Custom Properties" dialog?

  Hi i just fell upon this tutorial: http://www.morganskinner.com/Articles/ActivityValidation/ I can see he uses some kind of property builder. How do i access that Regards Anders that dialog went away in one of hte beta 2 builds and is no longer available. You can define properties and/or dependency properties on your activity just like any other class. use the snippets for dependency properties to make it really easy (type wdp + tab + tab). Matt ...Show All

• Visual C# Layering an Onpaint Event?

  Hi, I'm creating an application with gps-coordinates. Everything works fine but it goes very slow to redraw the panel with : 1) a background 2) a grid (line X and Y, not a datagrid) 3) and a circle wich represents the coordinate. When I click on play the circle starts (slow)moving and you see that the panel is refreshed all the time. The background and the grid do not change and take alot of processing. So I thought it would be handy that those two "layers" are drawn the first time but when playing only the circle is updated. Is this possible Grtz, Annihil8 Hi Matthew, Very interesting, but I'm not sure if I understand it completely. How does your method differ from, for instance, the sug ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System DataGeneratorTask needs better output

  I'm using the DataGeneratorTask and the output for the MSBuild log is horrible. All it states is "Data Generation Task". That's it. Not if it succeeded (which it did), or failed. Not how many tables it populated, nothing that is helpful other than the fact that the task was run. I've added a suggestion on connect about the issue: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=249493 DOH!  Okay, so I get the Homer Simpson award today.  When I set the Verbose=True then I do get additional information. I would be nice if when Verbose is not set to true that it at least indicated it completed rather than just having the task name, but obviously it isn't necessary since if it ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How are InvokeRequired/Invoke supported in WPF?

  Are they I need to port this to WPF, but InvokeRequired has been removed from the control and there is no form :(( public static void AppendText( Form form, TextBox textbox, string text) { if (textbox.InvokeRequired) { AppendTextCallBack CallBackAppendText = new AppendTextCallBack (AppendText); form.Invoke(CallBackAppendText, new object [] {form, textbox, text }); } else { textbox.AppendText(text); } } Nick Kramer has devoted several pages of word document on WPF threading , you should check it out, its just so great. Sheva ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I find dependencies between sourcecode/changeset/workitems

  My company are trying to use CMMI in TFS for our development. In CMMI is used a Change Control Board, a board of people deciding which changes that can be included in the next release. The way I am planning to work is to make a developer branch where all developers deliver there work. My job as a configuration manager is to make a list of all changes (as workitems) to the configuration board, so they can decide which workitems they want to include in the next build. Then I cherry-picking the workitems and merge them into the last release in another branch. My question is, how do I find dependencies between the changesets (Seen from a workitem point of view) An example. Dev ...Show All

• SQL Server Content Manager can't access rs properties page

  Hi, in one of our team projects users whom are members of the reporting services “content manager” role are not able to get onto the “sql server’s reporting services” properties page of their team project. Instead of that page they receive the following error message: The permissions granted to user '<UserName>' are insufficient for performing this operation. (rsAccessDenied) With four eyes we double checked that the users really have the content manager role, we also tried all kinds of role combinations with no success. The interesting thing is that as soon as they ‘only’ in the Browser role they have access to that particular page – but as expected are unable to administer their team projects reporting services. The ...Show All

• Visual Basic convert datagridviewtextcolumn to strings(window applications)

  Using VB2005 Can anyone help me with this How to convert the datagridviewtextcolumn to strings but if i need to clone to a data-bind table with the above code and some more rite pls reply asap ...Show All

• Visual C++ initialize array?

  How come when i try to write to results[0] = "test" it gives me a compile runtime error of "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." I assume you've got a string array declared in a fashion such as array<System::String^>^ results; In that case, you've got to allocate it before you assign values. Try the following: results = gcnew array<System::String^>(10); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Outlook Add-in Debug errors even for simple HelloWorld add-in

  I am trying to learn about VSTO Outlook development and I've tried several Outlook add-in samples online. I'm getting all kinds of weird behavior when I try to debug even a simple HelloWorld add-in. public class ThisApplication Private Sub ThisApplication_Startup( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Startup MsgBox( "Hello World" ) End Sub Private Sub ThisApplication_Shutdown( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Shutdown End Sub End class Sometimes I get the following in a Microsoft Visual Studio message box: "Unable to start debugging. Check for one of the following. The application you ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista get ip of remote pc

  Hello Everbody I have a problem in getting ip address of the remote pc i m connected with that pc through dial up connection that is throught the API RasDial() which is the part of ras32.ll As u know in dial up connection there is a phone line so i dial a phone number and through PPP we are able to get the ip address Now the thing is i want to know the ip address to which i am connected with. I hope u got my problem 1) Connect to remote pc throught dial up i.e. PPP come 2) i m getting my ip that happens through negotiation betn 2 pc 3) i want to know the ip of remote pc Where are you calling RasDial() from If you're calling this from a Windows CE device, please repost your question in the  Smart ...Show All

• SQL Server Return value for "NOT EXISTS"

  Hi I frequently use the "If NOT EXISTS (Select ...) Insert ..." statement and would like to display a message to the user after the execution of the statement to say whether the Insert was or wasn't executed. Is there a way to get SQL to return a value that will tell me if the Insert was carried out or not If not, perhaps you know of some other efficient way of handling this situation. Regards Neil Thanks for you reply, I have it working in SQL Server Management Studio but can you please show me how to extract the returned value from a recordset. Regards Neil ...Show All