rwilson06's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Clustering failure on install

  Hi, Where can I post issues with SQL 2005 clustering. Is there any prereq that needs to be followed before installing SQL 2005 on a windows cluster Thanks If your other node or nodes do not have access to the CD-ROM or install point, that is a likely cause of this. It could also be a missed configuration step in the preparation, but it's most likely access to the install bits. ...Show All

• Visual Basic What's the difference

  Ok folks, so I've got a program that runs code that has a FOTRAN dll that (thank god) I finally have working, for the most part.  At least it does when I pass it the path/name of a file that I've created using notepad.  Buuuut, that's not gonna cut it when it comes down to it.  What I've done is created a GUI that creates an input file for FORTRAN and all it does is write a line of text for each input in FORTRAN.  But when this VB written file,written using streamwriter or FileSystem.AppendText (I wondered if there might be a problem with the streamwriter making hidden characters but no), is passed to my FORTRAN dll and the methods native to the FORTRAN code attempt to consume the data, I run into an interesting problem ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Creating a team?

  Ok... 1. I want to get started learning C# for XNA studio. (Im getting a "for dummies" book) but i realy dont know where I can learn XNA. (where to find video tutorials ect.) 2. I currently use Maya unlimited for my animation, but im trying to put together a budget team (a few friends) to form a studio. (what would be the best shareware 3D program to incourperate to XNA) 3.Is C# easy to learn. (Im willing to learn harder stuff anyway) 4. What are 3D file formats that can be incourperated into XNA 5. I have no prior knowledge to computer programming, so will XNA be easy to learn AND THEN teach to the rest of my team Answeres are really apreciated. 1. Google - XNA tuto ...Show All

• Visual Basic msgbox, multiple answers

  I have a quick question I use Msgboxes for simple yes no aswers is there a way to offer more than two options Like 4 Here is what I do now. I would like yes, no, help, add to temp file...... answer = MessageBox.Show( "DO YOU WANT TO SAVE The Data To The DATABASE " , "ADD CALL DATA" , _ MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question) If answer = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.No Then Me .listTowns.Hide() Exit Sub Else ADDTODATABASE() End If thank you Hi, You could use radiobuttons and for YES or NO put two radiobuttons in a groupbox so that only one can be selected at a time. Regards, S_DS ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to choose the execution thread for a delegate?

  Hello. I wonder how to choose a specific execution thread for a delegate. With "simple" async delegate calls, we just know it will run on some thread of the thread pool, but not on which one. Control.Invoke(...) method allow to get the delegate running on the GUI thread of the control. The BackgroundWorker component matches it, I don't know how, to get back to the "main" thread (in opposition to the worker thread), whithout a reference to a control. Is there any way I can do something similar to the BackgroundWorker component, choosing the executing thread for a delegate without reference to a control Thanks... ;) BGW invokes its event handlers on the thread that ...Show All

• SQL Server Aggregate function don't work with calculated measure.

  Hi, I can't get my AS2000 calculated measure to work with the Aggregate function. We are using Excel as our frontend for our cubes and Excel is using the Aggregate function when the user selects multiple items for a filter dimension. Here is the expression for my calculated measure: Sum({Descendants([Period].[Quarter].CurrentMember, [Month])}, IIF([Currency].CurrentMember.Properties("Fixed") = "1", [Amount Fixr], [Amount Flor]) * ValidMeasure([Rate])) I have tried different solve orders for the measure: -7000, -1, 0, 1. When I use solve orders < 0 I get following error: "The aggregate function cannot operate on measure ..." When I use solve orders >=0 I get an empty result set. An ...Show All

• Smart Device Development GPRS Disconnection

  I have a small app that switches between 2 gprs connections. The call to ConnMgrReleaseConnection does not stop the current connection as stated in the docs, does anyone know a fix for this. thanks Take a look at my post at http://blogs.msdn.com/anthonywong/archive/2006/10/27/terminating-a-gprs-connection.aspx . Cheers, Anthony Wong [MSFT] ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debug Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK with VS2005

  I am new to this. I am porting a Windows appliction to Smartphone platform. I've installed VS2005 and Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK. And by following samples, I compiled an DLL and EXE. I haven't got any real smartphone device and want to do debug only on the emulator. Without calling the DLL, I can launch my EXE and debug with it freely. But as long as I call the functions in the DLL, I got the problem. The debugger can't find the DLL no matter what i do. I've put the DLL file into the same directory with the EXE, and try the both way to link the lib of the DLL or call LoadLibrary, I just can't find the DLL. I suspect there should be some directory to put files for the emulator, I've tried several places, but nowhere workable. Now ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Screen Sharing

  I'd like to write a program that allows me to work on my PC from other PCs in our LAN, or over the internet. (a kind of screen sharing app). I think it would be fairly easy by sending compressed images over TCP to the guest, then having the guest sending input back to my PC. So how do I: Take a screenshot Compress it to a small JPG Send it over a TcpClient connection Thanks in advance. OK i made a memorystream, and checked if an image was about to be sent like this: Dim bytes(client.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte client.GetStream.Read(bytes, 0, CInt (client.ReceiveBufferSize)) Dim clientdata As Char () = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes).Trim( "" ).ToCharArray If clientdata = "Beg ...Show All

• SQL Server where can I find Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportRendering?

  Hi, I could not find this assembly in folder X:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer. Please help. I suppose you are looking for the assembly that defines the "ReportRendering" namespace. In RS 2005, this is: Microsoft.ReportingServices.ProcessingCore.dll -- Robert ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Changing colors of a texture on the fly?

  Let's say I have a black and white image and I want to be able to replace the white in the image with another random color on the fly. How would I go about doing this Would it also be possible to replace BOTH colors at the same time Using SpriteBatch, the color parameter to the Draw method does exactly this. If you are using BasicEffect, enable lighting, set the diffuse light color to zero, and modify the ambient color to tint your textures. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Decorations on C++ DLL function declarations really needed?

  I used the _stdcall decorators on the Visual C++ function definitions and declarations, but I couldn't get communication between the DLL and the Visual Basic application that was trying to call the functions of the DLL.. When I removed the declarations from the VC code almost completely (all but for the DLL_Main function definition), it worked fine.  Is there any disadvantage to using this approach   Everyone I communicated with about it , including my boss and people that answered the MIcrosoft help posting that I put up, stated that you have to use those decorations.  Why is that   It works fine without it so far.  My boss will be back from travel tommorrow.  I was hoping to find out today so I can make ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle - System.NullReferenceException related to interface implementation

  Firstly, I should note that I have found the solution to the problem I am about to describe, and that what I am querying is if the behaviour I have found is a bug. I am receiving the error message below from BuildAssembler during the processing of several of my assembly's type information. Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.Ddue.Tools.CSharpDeclarationSyntaxGenerator.WriteNormalMethodSyntax(XPathNavigator reflection, SyntaxWriter writer) at Microsoft.Ddue.Tools.CSharpDeclarationSyntaxGenerator.WriteMethodSyntax(XPathNavigator reflection, SyntaxWriter writer) at Microsoft.Ddue.Tools.SyntaxGeneratorTemplate.WriteMemberSyntax(XPathNavigator reflection, Synt ...Show All

• SQL Server Database mirroring support also by SQL server 2005 without SP1

  Hi All, I get a general question about the feacture "Database Mirroring". Is it support by SQL Server Standard. Edition without SP1 Of i still need to upgrade the server from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2005 with SP1 Another question: are there any problem if the one machine(server) has installed SQL server 2005 Standard edition and the other with "Developer Editon". I hope some one can answer my question. Thanks anyway! Regards, Pat I believe your question was answered by the above post YES, you can do database mirroring in SQL2005, with or without SP1 (need to set trace flag 1400) For your other question, mirroring between STD and DEV edition This post should help, even though it's ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Codecs for video playback in games

  Can anyone recommend a good codec for playing back video in a game for such things as cut-scenes etc I'm aware that many professional games use Bink but obviously this technology requires a SDK license fee in the thousands of dollars range. Are there no free codecs out there that compare well with Bink that you can statically or dynamically link to your game application It would be ideal if the codec offered true-colour lossless quality and had a relatively low resource requirement and memory footprint in your code. Most general video codecs are resource hungry and not suitable for programmatic access in a real-time game, so something targetted at game video playback like Bink would be preferable. Also useful would be a 256 colou ...Show All