lbamburg's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Last Version Of WWF

  whats the time that microsoft with get the last release of wwf because iam working with wwf in actual project. It was released Nov 6th. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Advice about selecting Vb or C# to learn.

  I have been using VBexpress for about 10 months now. I am going to upgrade to a full version of Visual studio and I need some guidance. I feel like I have the most of the basics of VB down pretty good and want to get into programming a little deeper. I find programming languages difficult to learn and am in all of people who switch effortlessly between languages. I just can’t do it. I want to select one that will serve me well for a long time to come. So, do I want to stick to VB, or go to C#, I tried C++ several years ago and found it a little too difficult for me. At this point at my level of knowledge things are still pretty much common between the two languages. But that will change as I get deeper into it. I kind of feel like if I don ...Show All

• Visual C++ Graphics Card memory

  Does anyone know how to find out how much memory is on a graphics card of the current computer I want to be able to adjust graphics settings according to this value....Please provide a code sample. Have a look at http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com/forums/viewtopic.php t=2072&sid=7555d1571cdd7966a5c50ea7e9fcb9e1 (don't let the url scare you -- the example is C++). Direct future questions surrounding this matter to http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wmi&lang=en&cr=US or http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.sdk&lang=en&cr=US . Thanks! ...Show All

• Windows Forms changing property after displaing dialog

  i have this code MyDialog ^ d = gcnew MyDialog (); d ->ShowDialog(); ..... ..... d->Text = "hello" ; I want to display the dialog and to change the text (or some other) property after displaing. I tried but does not change. Thank you That's too late. After ShowDialog() returns, the form is already dismissed. Put the statement *before* the ShowDialog() call. Next time, please post in the Windows Forms General forum; the BCL forum only handles the base classes. I'll move your thread. ...Show All

• SQL Server reporting server failing....System outof memory exception

  Hi : We have a setup reporting services for reporting...and our reports are working fine for 100-200 thousand records which is basically 1 year worth of data. The reporting server fails when it starts processing beyond 200 thousand records...when I check the reporting log I see System outof memory exception. The reporting server has 8GB of ram and its a blade server. I dont know how to solve this issue. Please let me know where I am doing wrong.... Thanks, Pramod Are you sure that SQL Server has not been restricted in how much memory is available for it to use Also as a general rule, I try to return as little data in the dataset for RS to process as possible. So it's better to do some GROUP BY clases in your que ...Show All

• Windows Forms System.Data.ConstraintException

  In my first ADO.Net 2.0 project I'm trying to create a Windows Forms application that allows updating customer records. These records are in an SQL Server 2003 database, and I am using the VS.Net 2005 DataSet Designer to create a typed DataSet and Customer TableAdapter. To start, I just output the internal IDs of fields to TextBoxes on a form. So far, so good. One of the fields is for Language (English, French, Spanish, etc.), and there is a database table with language names and IDs. So I add a new Language TableAdapter and Relation to the DataSet Designer. The Relation is: Parent table: Language Child table: Customer Key Column: Language.languageID Foreign Key Column: Customer.languageID Both Relation and Foreign Key ...Show All

• Smart Device Development HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream() throwing multiple exceptions

  Hi, I posted for some help on this in another msdn forum, and got some replies that my code was fine, but after a lot of debugging I am still stuck, so I would appreciate your help once more. I am pretty new to the .NET world, getting started on C# after learning a little Java. I am working on a handheld application that simply launches a browser and uploads some GPS data. The app used to work fine but after returning to it from a couple weeks on another project it seems to be completely broken. The problem is in the HttpWebRequest's GetRequestStream() method. It seems to always return an exception on the PPC, but the same code in a WinXP development environment executes it flawlessly. At first it seemed to be a simple web exception, but a ...Show All

• .NET Development Can't step into web service in debugger

  I have a windows forms application that calls a c# dll which calls a web service (on my local web server). I wrote the code using VS.NET 2003 and had no trouble debugging. I have recently upgraded to VS.NET 2005 and can no longer step into the web service. When I set a breakpoint in the web service and start the app, I see an icon next to the breakpoint that says no symbols have been loaded for the document. I have added the following line to the webconfig file: < compilation debug = " true " > The configuration Manager shows all projects being built with debug on and when I look at the property pages for my web service, the asp.net debugger is checked. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong ...Show All

• Visual C++ tabs in mfc

  i want ot use a tabbed view in a mfc mdi project. i used CFormView and CTabCtrl, but from what i could find in the documentation i can make new tabs but i can't add a resouce to them like i'd do with a proprietypage, and all it did was add tabs at the top of the window, but nothing more. how do i solve this www.codeproject.com/tabctrl/mditabs.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Strings, Integers, and Colors in Resources?

  Hi all, I'm trying to figure out the best way to store and reuse several settings that are integers, strings and Colors. For instance, I'd like a common margin of '7' to be defined that I can reference around all my controls for their Margin property instead of hardcoding it. I also would like to be able to name certain colors like MyControlGradientStart and be able to reuse that color value in various Color properties. What is the recommended pattern for doing this Is it to define the items in resources and then reference them with a {StaticResource} Or is there a better way Any help, especially with some code snippets, is much appreciated. You can import the System namespace into a XAML file if you need to have ints and str ...Show All

• Visual C++ StgopenstorageEx

  hr1 = ::StgOpenStorageEx(s.AllocSysString() , STGM_READ | STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE , STGFMT_STORAGE, 0,0,0, IID_IPropertySetStorage , ( void **) &pPropSetStg); it gives result correct as S_OK but again i am trying to open that storage it gives share violation as useal but i want to open that storage again in read only mode .. can anyone help me how to write following code (Eg .correction in flags etc so that i will get S_OK) hr1 = ::StgOpenStorageEx(s.AllocSysString() , STGM_READ | STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE |STGM_TRANSACTED , STGFMT_STORAGE, 0,0,0, IID_IPropertySetStorage , ( void **) &pPropSetStg); No i am not closing before opening it. i want t ...Show All

• SQL Server Standard Edition Limits and Partitioning by Multiple Cubes

  I have an application that is going to process large amounts of data and am planning on using the Standard Edition due to cost reasons. I'd like a validate a few items based on other people's experiences: What's a reasonable fact table size Can a 100 million row fact table be supported be reasonably supported on a 2 CPU server I know this is a loaded question...less than 10 dimensions, 10 or so measures...just looking for some other data points to compare to. I could create as many as 25, 4 million row cubes because of how my data is functionally separated and then issue by queries to different cubes. Has anyone operationally built a warehouse that is partitioned by building separate cubes There is little data shared, so not much ...Show All

• Windows Forms User control with some parts drawn translucent

  Hi, everyone! I'd really like to hear (or read ;)) some help on solving my problem. I want to create a custom user control. I'd probably derive it from Control class, I want to draw everything on the control by myself (it's actually not going to be really complicated). The problem is that I want to draw some kind of a shadow that drops onto the background of this control. Obviously, it has to be translucent. And I would maybe make some other parts of the control translucent. So I tried to draw the shadow using brush colored as Color.FromArgb(100, Color.Gray), for example. I do my drawing in overridden OnPaint method. This did NOT work. I started to look for the solution on the web. Everything I found was one method of creating such a beha ...Show All

• SQL Server Character count limit?

  Does anyone know what the character count limit is for a SQL table We have a table with a column called body_text. It contains characters from a story we publish every day. Example: News from Canada and Turkey We get our weekly news update from our Canadian correspondent, Vaughn Palmer. Plus, the Pope is in Turkey. The visit is provoking opposition from secular nationalists and Islamists. We talk to a reporter in Istanbul. Also, our weekly listener's forum. I did a word count in MS Word. This paragraph is 275 characters long. I found this in the only SQL book I currently have called Beginning SQL Server 2005. I found a snippet I thought might be related to my question. Char The char data type is fixed in length. If you define ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Physic Based Games?

  Would I be able to create Physics Based Games on XNA For example a game where you can move around objects and also, could I make my own map on Marble Blast Ultra I don't believe Torque X actually COMES with GSE. I also don't know if the Torque Game Builder is going to support Torque X. I believe that Torque X is a standalone product that is NOT the Torque engine as most know it. ...Show All