Ron A. Buckton's Q&A profile

• .NET Development diffrence b/w .net 2.0 and .net 3.0?

  what is .net 3.0 frame work hw it is diffrent from .net 2.0 can we install it on windows xp service pack 2 The .NET Framework 3.0 is a superset of 2.0 . It includes the .NET Framework 2.0. In addition, it has some additional features such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation. Yes it can be installed on XP sp2. Thanks, Manisha. ...Show All

• SQL Server Auto Updates for SQL Server?

  Our IT guy insists that he must be present anytime the SQL Server automatic updates from Microsoft are installed on the server or the server will crash. What has he been tinkering with to cause this to happen or is he just giving us a line I guess I needed to be a little more specific. He is referring to the auto updates which come from Microsoft (just like on a personal PC). He evidently has the server set up so that the updates sit there until he decides to install them (like the option on a personal PC) which isn't really the problem but then he has turned around and is saying that when he does install the updates (rather than anyone with knowledge to do so) he absolutely has to be there or the server ...Show All

• Visual C# Need help converting VB to C#

  Hi Can someone help me by converting this VB to C#. Thanks a bunch. James Keele Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click MsgBox(Modulo10(TextBox1.Text)) End Sub Private Function Modulo10(ByVal strNummer As String) As Integer 'strNummer may only contain numbers between 0 und 9! Dim intTable(10) As Integer Dim intTransfer As Integer Dim intIndex As Integer intTable(0) = 0 : intTable(1) = 9 intTable(2) = 4 : intTable(3) = 6 intTable(4) = 8 : intTable(5) = 2 intTable(6) = 7 : intTable(7) = 1 intTable(8) = 3 : intTable(9) = 5 For intIndex = 1 To Len(strNummer) intTransfer = intTable((intTransf ...Show All

• Visual C++ Which One(Managed C++ or Native C++)

  Hi everybody i am starting a new project and i ma in doubt about my programming language, should i use native c++ managed c++. i should use following thing in my project: wlan communication. direct input. direct show ( previewing) direct sound (capture wave) using usb. so know please tell me which one give me more freedom to do my project. Core c++! On the other hand, your choice is dependent on software plan and time you want to spend coding. In both cases though I think Windows offers the API for media and communications both managed and core. valikac ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When I throw exception from a server, the server crashes!

  For example when the login fails, I throw the exception, but it seems that the server itself crashes! Do I need to do Duplex Need more information to diagnose the problem, please. Where/when are you throwing an exception What exception type And after this the server is unresponsive to new client connections ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Setting Width and Height of User Control

  Hi , How can I set the Height and Width of a User Control so that it increases or decreases depending on the height and width of the parent control. I have created a Custom control with a Canvas and placed this control in a Tab Item. I am unable the set the Width when I resize the Tab Item (this is again in a Grid Splitter). I tried using the ActualWidth Property .. how ever that value seems to be NaN. Thanks for the help. The UserControl is automatically resized when put into a container like a window, page or a grid that adjusts its content (by default) - your control requires explicit sizing when put e.g. in a StackPanel because this panel adjust its size to its content. Try the following code in ...Show All

• Visual Basic page inherit in .Net 2.0

  Hi all, I am migrating an ASP.Net project from 2003 to 2005. When I compiled, the worning of property 'profile' shadows an overloadable member declared in the base class happened. Only those files that inherit from a base class that I have created have this warning. And the code is just as simple as: Partial Class _Default Inherits ParentPage End Class Could anybody help with this thanks! Try posting on the ASP.NET forums... ...Show All

• SQL Server Error

  receiving error during backup. Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000) The media set for database '%' has 2 family members but only 3 are provided. All members must be provided. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. ...Show All

• .NET Development URGENT!!! PLEASE HELP... *whimpers*, Need Help With system.drawing and the color, brush and pen classes

  Hi i'm building a raytracing application in VB.Net 2005 EE, and my raytracing app does the following: Divide A View Window Into A 'Grid' 1 Pixel = 1 Cell/Square Builds Virtual 3D-SPACE Points On X Y Z Axis, And Adds Them To Lists Sends A Virtual 'Ray' Of Light Out Of The Grid's Cell Ray 'Bounces' Off Of The Objects From The 3D Points, Picks Up Red,Green & Blue Colour Values As It Goes Along When The Ray Returns To The View Window, The Colour Associated With The Cell, Then Becomes The Same As The Colour The Ray Now Has. The Process Is Repeated With Every Cell. The Challenge Is This: Drawing Pixels On The Image, To Match The Colour. As there is no pixel draw in the graphics base, you have to use the drawelli ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Question on generating the planes for BoundingFrustum

  I was porting my Frustum class from Direct3D 9 and decided to compare its output against that of XNA's. To my great surprise, when generating the planes, every number was the same except XNA's are negated. When looking at BoundingFrustum in MSIL I noticed you negate the left operand and perform the opposite operation (i.e. add instead of sub). I am curious why it is done this way Does it have something to do with the fact that XNA is using RH matrices My D3D9 frustum code for the left plane: m_vLeft . a = mat . _14 + mat . _11 ; m_vLeft . b = mat . _24 + mat . _21 ; m_vLeft . c = mat . _34 + mat . _31 ; m_vLeft . d = mat . _44 + mat . _41 ; D3DXPlaneNormalize (& m_vLeft , & m_vLeft ); The XNA frustum ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Reading the registry on Vista?

  Hi all, I'm trying to read a key from the registry on Windows Vista (Beta 2) from my C# program. It works fine on win XP and I know Windows Vista implements a lot of registry virtualisation and such. Should this prevent me reading from the registry though No write operation is being performed - I'm simply trying to find the location of the windows task scheduler logPath (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SchedulingAgent\LogPath) All help appreciated! Henri Can anyone else help with this error Or tell me definitively whether the vista virtualisation stuff shouldn't be interfering with reads so I can look for problems elsewhere Cheers, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Running code coverage for managed windows service from remote desktop (windows XP)

  I'm trying to run code coverage for a managed windows service from remote desktop, this are the steps: - instrument the code by running vsinstr -coverage mydll/exe - resign my assemblies/executable sn -r mydll/exe keyfile - start vsperfmon tool in new command window start vsperfmon /coverage /output:test.coverage /user:"SYSTEM" /user:"LOCAL SERVICE" - output from vsperfcmd /status: ... Users with access rights to monitor: UserName (SID) NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE (S-1-5-19) NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (S-1-5-18) LOCALMACHINE\username (S-1-5-21-507921405-1715567821-682003330-1003) LOCALMACHINE\username (S-1-5-21-507921405-1715567821-682003330-1003) - install the service by running installutil. On v ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Start Page Updates

  When I start VB Express, I have a dial-up internet connection active. The Start Page never says "Wait while I update the news" (or something close -- it never says it, so I'm not exactly sure of the message). The right-hand box contains slightly old news, the most recent dating from 14 June. The contents never change from session to session. Is there any way to ask the system to go to the net and update this part of the Start Page By the way, when I use Help's search feature, it does search through the online Help resources. And I did get into this forum, although I have no idea exactly how this happened. It started when I clicked Community/Ask A Question, but there were lots of intermediate steps that seemed irrelevant, but ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Suite Integration Support for VS2003 / .Net 1.1 Fraoework

  Whether Visual Studio Team System (latest version) would support for an existing product code base which runs on VS 2003 IDE with .Net 1.1 framework. We require the features such as Developers, Testers, architest and Designers. ...Show All

• Visual Studio filtering reference dropdowns in the propertygrid

  I have a basic model, where I have a Table class, a Key class, a Field class, and a FieldReference class. The idea is that this can be used to model a database structure. Tables may have multiple Fields, and Tables may also reference multiple Keys. Each Key may contain multiple FieldReferences, and a FieldReference can have 1, and only 1 Field selected from a dropdown in the propertygrid. My problem, is that the dropdown for the Field component of the FieldReference lists ALL Field instances in the entire diagram, I need it to be filtered to show just the set of Fields that belong to the Key classes owning Table class. This is becuase its not possible for a tables PrimaryKey to contain columns from a different table... An ...Show All