James Strickland's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Access Security Warnings

  Because of the changes with Access 2003, i have had to buy a digital signature to sign my projects, this has cost many hundreds of dollars. My problem is that if i sign the project, computers with Scandinavian regional settings are unable to read the digital signature, when the file is opened the message comes up saying that it cannot be opened because it is not digitally signed. I have tried code signing certificates with both Thawte and Verisign, the same happens with both of them and have spoken to their support teams who are at a loss as what to do. I know there are several workrounds, but i dont want to leave my customers potentially exposed If anyone has any ideas it would be great Regards Steve ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mesh question

  Is Mesh only constructed from triangles if the answer is yes - is there an equivilent to Mesh which can contains also other shapes - points, lines, other meshes Thanks. Yes, a mesh uses a triangle list. You also have a progressive mesh, simplification mesh and a patch mesh. None that really deal with lines, those you’ll have to implement yourself. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is it a good Idea to Access Database in the Constructor

  Hi All Is it a good Idea to access DB in the Constructor of object itself and populate the Fields of a object. Or Should I have a seperate method which will do this once I initaialize the object. Please let me know the Good practice and pros and Cons of each of the above method Thanks in advance Amol Wankhede Thanks for the replies, However, I think this is the performance issue, Constructors are to Build the In Memory objects and not for Accessing Or Insertinginto the DB. I am looking for all the problems that can happen if I use to Fetch OR Insert Into DB in the Constructor Thanks in Advance ...Show All

• SQL Server Database setup for backup and recovery

  I am new to SQLServer but a DB2 DBA. I want to be able to backup a specific table and restore it. Actually, i may want to backup/restore several tables - a sub-set of tables on the database. I understand that backup-recovery is at a database level, not a table-file-filrgroup level. Therefore i have to backup-restore a database, but i only want a table. How do sites handle this. Are many databases created based on backup recovery requirements. If so, then how do developers know what database tables reside in - given that there are now many databases created to handle recovery requirements. A synonymns/alias/views added tia glenn If you put the table on its own filegroup, you can restore just that filegroup/table ...Show All

• .NET Development Synctoy says I don't have .NET 2.0, but I do

  Upon trying to install Synctoy it is telling me to install .NET 2.0.50727, then refuses to continue installation. But I have .NET 2.0.5239 installed. How do I "trick" Synctoy install to accept the .NET I have - or is there another solution I wonder how many other people are having this trouble Same problem for me. I used your link to download .NET, when installed, it is 2.0.5239. I must have made the wrong download choice on the download site. Do you know which link gets 2.0.50727 Also, I just installed synctoy on another machine without any problems. I don't know which version of .NET is installed, but the program list shows 1.1 and 2.0 in the add/remove list. I'm stumped an ...Show All

• Visual C# using SHObjectProperties?

  How to use the SHObjectProperties in .net please help with an example please help public static extern bool CallPropDialog( this .Handle , GetProperties .SHOP_FILEPATH , "c\\windows\\notepad.exe" , null ); This line has to be a method signature not a method call. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Overloads are displayed using parameter names instead of types in Content-tab

  Hi, Don't really know if it this should be considered a bug cause I'm not really sure myself if I consider it to be desired behavior or not. Anyway here goes... Apparently using the September CTP, overloads of a member now have their parameters displayed in the Contents-tab (this used to be a bug in the August CTP). But I noticed that these parameters are displayed using the names and not using their types (at least in the Prototype-presentation). This is different from what MSDN normally does, and it even is different from what is displayed in the page describing all the members of a class. For example, my CopyFrom overloads are displayed in the Contents-tab as follows: CopyFrom Method (fields) CopyFrom Method (fields) Cop ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Value cannot be null.

  Can anyone explain why I get the error : Value cannot be null. Parameter name: value My program was ok, I added a new component to it nd this error started appearing.. I removed the new component and it still appears. I get it ~5 times as soon as I run the game even before I get into the code, even if its already stopped on 1 error. Also I get it when changing between source files when the debugger is stopped. Any explanations Btw, why is the box to type a message in on the forums 2x6 pixels big I can't see a thing I type. Edit: Seems the small text entry box is a problem with Opera, it works fine with Firefox. 1. Delete all temporary files, force visual studio to recompile everythin ...Show All

• Visual C++ 3rd party HTTP GET/POST class for MFC

  I haven't received any solutions to my earlier query about doing GET and POST from within an MFC application. I'm looking at: http://www.codeproject.com/internet/httpget-post.asp and when I try to download the ZIP file containing their source code, I get a corrupt ZIP file. Could somebody else please try downloading this guy's code and check it out I'd prefer to just use stuff from Microsoft, but because of time pressures, I'm starting to get desperate. longwood ...Show All

• Visual C++ If so....Why Scanf copy the line feed at that point???

    There are two '\n' characters in buffer(stdin) when we have successful input or not.  Following codes show that two of '\n' are exsisting. #include<stdio.h> void main() { int a; scnaf("%d",&a); printf("%d %d %d",stdin->_ptr[0],stdin->_ptr[1],stdin->_ptr[2]); } When we input the data to program, we press the enter button once. But two of  '\n' are in the stdin buffer.  Someone  who konws the reason demonstrates me.. please.. I'm not sure you understand what I meant. Scanf fetches a number off the stream, stopping at the line feed. The line feed remains on the stream, in the first position, since the number has been extra ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup Transform

  Hi! I am a newbie, grateful for some help. I have a Source Ole DB w sql-command selecting the customer.salary and customer.occupation, which I want to match with demo_id in Ole DB destination. salary, occupation also in dim_demographic. But in Lookup editor I find no column demo_id... how do I do this The lookup must select against your table with demo_id in it... We need more information here... If you can't find demo_id in your lookup table, and you need it to be there, well then you probably have the wrong table defined in your lookup. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Microsoft Browser Component INCOMPATIBLE with Internet Explorer 7 In Certain Cases

  I have a discovered another bug :( . Microsoft Browser COM component does not work with .swf files with IE7 installed. Two users of my program have complained that it hasn't work, they both have Internet Explorer 7. I don't use webbrowser becuase...ITS BUGGED TOO (stupid Windows bugs)....flash buttons dont work in webbrowser so I am forced to use Microsoft Browser... What can I do to fix the problem Embedded swf files do work, but the the swf file directly does not work... But it's not embedded! The .swf file is direct ex. www.microsoft.com/something.swf Going directly to a swf file works in the .NET browser but the buttons don't work, and going directly to a .swf file in Microsoft Browser works with IE6 installed but NOT with IE7 i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error with creation Project "SharePoint"

  Any Idea, ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 2007-02-07 20:32:35Z Module: Engine Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: The Project Creation Wizard encountered an error while uploading documents to the Windows SharePoint Services server on ServerName. Exception Details: The Project Creation Wizard encountered a problem while uploading documents to the Windows SharePoint Services server on ServerName. The reason for the failure cannot be determined at this time. Because the operation failed, the wizard was not able to finish creating the Windows SharePoint Services site. Stack Trace: at Microsoft.Vis ...Show All

• SQL Server Could not load package because of error 0xC001000A

  I am trying to run an SSIS Package by using DTRun.exe this way C:\Documents and Settings\Fahad>dtexec /SQL DataDownload /Conn "Data Source =TriMurti;User ID=sa;Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Persist Security Info=True;Auto Translate =False;Password=gamba" /U sa /P gamba And the outcome of the command was Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version 9.00.1399.06 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 9:03:52 AM Could not load package "DataDownload" because of error 0xC001000A. Description: The specified package could not be loaded from the SQL Server database. Source: Started: 9:03:52 AM Finished: 9:03:52 AM Elapsed: 0.25 seconds ----------------------------- Any help in this ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Populating a VisualCollection from a background thread

  Hi all, I have a UIElement whose child VisualCollection I'd like to populate using a background worker thread. BackgroundWorker initially seemed like it would do the trick, but I haven't been able to get it to work correctly. What is the proper way for me to declare/scope/use my UIElement so that I can populate the VisualCollection in Thread "B" and when the work is complete, actually use said object in the rendering (UI) thread Right now I'm running into thread affinity issues. BackgroundWorker.RunWorkerCompleted allows me to return simple data back to the UI thread, however attempting to return my UIElement generates an exception when I try to access it's members, since it is 'owned' by the background thread. Is there ...Show All