Dietz's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Need help on way of storing Data - Any advice would rock.

  I'm new to Client side application development so my mind sometimes still works it's way back to ASP.NET development. I'm desiging a client application to help our users that user our website do some very advanced work that they cannot do on our current website until we start fully working with Web 2.0. Users can download objects called packages. In raw SQL Rows, a package will have over 8000 rows of data per package. A user might be working on 1-10 packages at any given time. I need a way to store the Data in a Package onto a clients computer. XML is the best way for me to do this. I've designed the XML format I need, and I've stripped out a lot of crap I don't need. Each Package has it's own XML file, this way 1 file will not get huge. I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to make the whole scene visible in a viewport3d?

  I am currently writing an app that does a 3d scene of the layout of open application windows in a viewport3d. The problem I'm having is when a model3d is positioned outside the visible area of the viewport. Is their a way to automatically ensure the whole scene is visible in the viewport Is there a way to automatically pull the camera back to insure visibility of the entire scene or a way to expand the viewport inside a scrollviewer so the scene can then be scrolled ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Database problem

  Hello to all: I have a database program that is supose to let the user select a date from a DateTimePicker control or I can use a text box but then again maybe a combobox might be better, don't really know. Anyways, the program must display the first and last names of all members who joined before the selected date(1992 to 2005). My problem is that I do not know how and what to install in the Date timePicker or textbox control or combobox. Please note that I already have the grid complete with the lastnames, first names, phone and date joined. Any code examples and help are welcome well you can use the datetimepicker and look at the date they chose using the Value property then perform your query against the database based o ...Show All

• Windows Forms Arg - Closer but now Too Many Rows. Please Help:)

  Hi: I created a User Control for my label which worked out fine (previous post). Now I've got it looking GREAT EXCEPT: It's making rows and I can't figure out why. Look at the pic and you'll see, for every row in the MAIN table that has been displayed 'so far', the number of rows in the nested table in the right column of the Main table is equal or greater than the sum of the rows displayed 'so far' in tblMain. Example: Row 3 of the Main table has 3 rows in the 2nd column. Row 4 of the Main table has 4 rows in the 2nd column. WHY http://www.softlinksys.com/toomanyrows.jpg The problem appears to be in tblOrders. Notice that I create a NEW one for each iteration. I've checked the record counts, the count in the array arOrders an ...Show All

• SQL Server Select the Greatest/Least

  I have a table that lists information about employment terms for adjunct (class-at-a-time contract) professors. For every term that they teach, they have a record in the database. Two of the fields in these records are ExpectedStartDate and ExpectedEndDate which demark the dates of the term. For example, I might teach in the fall semester: ExpectedStartDate = 9/1/06, ExpectedEndDate = 12/31/06, or I might teach in the spring semester: ExpectedStartDate = 1/1/07, ExpectedEndDate=5/31/07 The report I am trying to create is based on the year, so all terms (amount of terms will vary from person to person) for the year need to be combined into one start and finish period. My report needs to show that my work period was from 9/1/06 to 5/31 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems making a LabelArray

  Hello all, I'm having trouble making a LabelArray in VB 2005 Express Edition. First of all, I can't find an Index property when I look at the label properties. Secondly I can't use the same name on different labels. It for use in a loop: For i As Long = 1 To 4 Label(i).Text = TextBox1.Text Next i or something like that. I need a LabelArray, but how to make it in VB 2005 Express Thanks so far. If I understand it correctly there are 2 ways to achieve this. Atm I like the second solution (with M.Controls) best, as I can use the VB enviroment to add the controls visually. I came across 1 other problem though. I also want to apply this for a series of ComboBoxes. They are all on 1 form and have all to be filled ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Execute Task

  Hi how would you use a package variable in inline sql, is there a format utilized Are there any steps I need to take to do that I currently have the SQL Execute task inside a ForEach Loop container, which has the variable mapping for the ID that i need for the SQL Execute task. I just need to know the syntax to use parameters in my query in my task. here is the current code which doesnt work: INSERT INTO LAFProcess.ProcessList (WorkListID, CreatedOn, ProcessStartedOn, Status) SELECT WorkListID, GetDate(), NULL, 2 FROM LAFProcess.WorkList WHERE Status = 2 AND LoanApplicationID = " + @[User::LoanApplicationID] +" UPDATE LAFProcess.WorkList SET Status = 1 WHERE LoanApplicationID = " + @[User::LoanApplicationID] +& ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies wds exception error when clicking file types tab

  System WinXP current with all updates. WDS 3.0 beta 2. Uninstalled previous version of WDS prior to installing 3.0. When using control panel to access indexing options, then advanced button, then file types tab, I recieve the following error. RUNDLL An exception occured while trying to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\srchadmin.dll",Indexing Options" When accessing indexing options from right click on tray icon, then advanced button, then file types tab, I get the following. RUNDLL An exception occured while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "srchadmin.dll"" I've spent most of the morning trying to find any information on this with no luck. I've also un ...Show All

• Visual Basic ProgressBar in VB.net

  Okay, I have a progress bar that I want to use to track the reading of a text file and the creation of a CrystalReport. The file size will vary from .txt to .txt. How would I set this up I have read many things online about the progress bar but everyone is setting their ProgressBar.Maxiumum to a static number, I need mine to be dynamic based on the file size. After the file has been completely read and shows 100% on the ProgressBar, I want it to reset itself and show the progress of the CrystalReport being generated. Please anyone HELP me!!!! Im lost! Check my replies in this topic - using a percentage (0-100) is just a lot easier and more dynamic: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Post ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista not appending primary DNS suffix beyond one level deep, Anyone Seen this ?

  This is new to Vista as XP works fine. When you simply set append Primary DNS suffix, the system should always append it, such that is your domain is mydomain.com, and you look up www, it should append so the FQDN=www.mydomian.com That seems to work fine, but if you do one more deep, such as www.test , you would expect as in XP and in DNS in general to append the primary suffix, such that the FQDN = www.test.mydomain.com Vista does not do this, and this is a very major problem for our company as we have many DNS zones and normally the user does not need to append the domain he/she is in and it should recursive lookup. It is not. We are not going to GPO 100 domain suffixes to each workstation just so they don’t have to type the & ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Connect To Pocket Pc

  hi iuam trying to connect to PPC 2003 ,i have tried this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/Desktop_Device_Tools_SQL_Mobile.asp i have a PPC 2003 device and i connect to it using a USB cabel and active sync 4.2 i have done all what is needed and i cant mange to get the data from or to the device iuse vs.net 2005 and sql server 2005 \when i ret to connect to the sqlcesa30.dll i can see it from the device but i cant send and recive data so plz can u tell me what to do thanx Checkout this post. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=578139&SiteID=1 Manav ...Show All

• SQL Server Error when changing the length on DataReader Source

  Hi, I am trying to import data from Oracle RDB into SQL Server 2005 using SSIS. Created a ODBC data source to connect to Oracle and used DataReader Source component and ADO.net to connect to the ODBC data source. Under the Component properties tab, the SQL Command looks something like this. Select ID, ADDRESS, REVISED from ADDRESS The data type for the source columns are Integer, Varchar(30) and DATE VMS. Now when I look at the Input and Output properties window, The External columns has the following data types. ID - four-byte signed integer [DT_I4] ADDRESS - Unicode string [DT_WSTR], length = 0 REVISED - database timestamp [DT_DBTIMESTAMP] The Output columns has the following data types ID - four-byte signed integ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Best way to display large datasets?

  I have an application (VB.Net, SQL Server) in which users routinely need to display large amounts of data. We are currently getting the data from the database via stored procedures. The data is then loaded into ADO.Net data tables and data sets. The data is displayed using a DataGridView class which uses a DataView as a binding source. We are finding that when we load large amounts of data into the datagrid there is a considerable delay, which seems to be much larger than a similar amount of data being displayed in Qurey Analyzer. Does anyone have any suggestions for speeding up the data display, or are there better objects to use for displaying large amounts of data TIA Ron L Damiaan has gived some detail advices,i will g ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista [Win32/Qos] Prioritizing empty TCP ACKs with Traffic Control API

  Hi! Surfing the internet I encountered an interessting read at http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html . Now I'm trying to accomplish the same thing under Windows using it's Traffic Control API. Problem is I don't know how to correctly set up my patterns in the TC_GEN_PATTERN structure. The only ones which come with the SDK are IP_PATTERN and IPX_PATTERN , and IP_PATTERN is declared as: typedef struct _IP_PATTERN { ULONG Reserved1; ULONG Reserved2; ULONG SrcAddr; ULONG DstAddr; union { struct { USHORT s_srcport,s_dstport; } S_un_ports; struct { UCHAR s_type,s_code; USHORT filler; } S_un_icmp; ULONG S_Spi; } S_un; UCHAR ProtocolId; UCHAR Reserved3[3]; } IP_PATTERN, *PIP_PATTERN; Now, according to the TCP ...Show All

• Visual Basic Communicating high scores

  So, i have finished a game I have been making, but i am interested in communicating the high scores between computers. Somebody suggested that i create a master computer, which will keep track of all the high scores, and they will all check with it to bring up a current list of high scores, is this easily doable While i am up for a challenge i am somewhat new to visual basic 2005 (learned in 6.0) and have a limited knowledge pertaining to inter-computer communication. Would i have to set up a server to do this If so how would i do that, and is it simple for somebody who has never done it before If a server is not required, how would this work I would appreciate any help. This is a for fun coding pr ...Show All