MaximumBob's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Media Center timebomb... again?

  I've just tried to start live tv in my mediacenter but i get the following error: this trial version has expired and can no longer be used... changeing the date before today (31.12.06 everything works fine again). this was also a problem in the beginning 2006. Is there any solution It's still 1 month until Vista will be released and i don't want to reinstall my old Windows MCE 2005. cheers and happy new year j.lipensky ARGH! This got me too. I'm wondering what trial has expired. I thought perhaps the video decoder since I had to get another one b/c of the last time bomb. An informative error message would have been nice. And yeah - it's very unfortunate if we can't use Vista AND we can't buy/inst ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. VertexPositionTexture Problem xna beta 1

  Hello guys!! I'm trying to texture a simple face of a box composed by 2 triangles! I'm using the documentation example "How to: Apply texture to 3D primitives" the code... effect.fx uniform extern float4x4 WorldViewProj : WORLDVIEWPROJECTION; uniform extern texture UserTexture; struct VS_OUTPUT { float4 position : POSITION; float4 textureCoordinate : TEXCOORD0; }; sampler textureSampler = sampler_state { Texture = <UserTexture>; mipfilter = LINEAR; }; VS_OUTPUT Transform( float4 Position : POSITION, float4 TextureCoordinate : TEXCOORD0 ) { VS_OUTPUT Out = (VS_OUTPUT)0; Out.position = mul(Position, WorldViewProj); Out.textureCoordinate = TextureCoordinate; ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel: Read column as text (IMXE=1 does not seem to help)

  Hi! We currently have a problem while reading Excel files. The file has one column we want to read as DT_(W)STR which Jet delivers to us only as DT_R8 as there are plenty of numerical entries in that column before one alphanumerical appears. We first tried with IMEX=1 but as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194124/en-us will only parse the first eigth characters as "TypeGuessRows" is set to 8 and can't be edited. Is there any way to read a column in Excel in a way typed by the SSIS designer (DT_(w)STR in our case) With best regards, Hauke Schlichting PS: Designing a "decoy" Excel file with column headers and first columns set is not really considered an option ;-) ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem Installing SQl express

  hi, Im trying to install SQL express 2005 on my Desktop Computer and I keep running into the error "Setup has detected a problem with Microsoft .Net Framework installation and cannot proceed .Net Framework 2.0 is either not installed on this system or is corrupt" when infact it is installed.. any sugestions By the way im Running Windows X64 Pro with a AMD athlon X2 3800+ CPU and 2GB of Corsair DDr2 ram same problem... and error happen when I try install any sql servers... sql 2005 enterprise, sql 2008 dev, sql express 2005 ... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Moving Data to localized Foundation Server

  Our group is using english TFS. Now is our Firm wants to install a new TFS (German version) for all developer groups. And our group need to move our Data (only WorkItems, no source code) to this new server. Is it possible to back our database and restore it on a new server Or can we export english WorkItems and re import them on german TFS Marking this as answered because it is answered in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/showpost.aspx postid=596497&siteid=1 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Programmatically size a DataGridView

  Hi, I posted this in the 'windows forms data controls & databinding forum' but didn't get any response -- so am trying here as well. i'd like to set up a DataGridView with: (a) just a horizontal scroll bar at design time (b) porgrammatically size it vertically to accomodate all rows plus the column header, unless the number rows exceeds N, in which case, programmatically add a vertical scroll bar. The datagridview will not be bound to any data-source. Instead i programmatically add rows to its (initially empty) DataGridViewRowCollection. I have experimented with trying to programmatically determine the height to set it to with the following code: dgv.height = dgv.r ...Show All

• Visual Basic Merge files

  In the old dos days you could combine 2 files as save to a third file: copy file1 + file2 file3 It still works in a dos shell. I did this: Shell("copy " & file1 & " + " & file2 & " " & file3) I got an error that file3 cannot be found. I know it doesn't exist I want to create it. So I created a bat file: copy %1 + %2 %3 and called it as such: Shell("ccopy " & file1 & " " & file2 & " " & file3) I still get the error that file3 cannot be found. First I don't see how it can tell from the shell that file3 is a file. How do I do this otherwise Do I have to create a blank file before calling it It was not finding the ccopy.bat without the full path. Solves the file not found. However, i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Detect .NET Framework

  Is their an application, not written in .NET that i can use to write a system to check for the correct version of the .NET Framework, and if its not installed start the .NET Framework installer, then once thats done or it it already exists run my installer which i have written in .NET to install my .NET application. how to find it doesn't help me, unless i learn something like C++. I am looking for a program to make an executable that can detect if .NET Framework 2.0 or higher is installed and if not run the installer which will be bundled on the CD, then run my installation.exe then exit, or if it doesn't exit i can have my installer terminate the process. I was woundering if anything like that exists ...Show All

• Visual Basic Looping

  How do I setup a for next loop array to open files if I don`t know how many files are in the folder You could get an out of memory exception if the file you're trying to load is not a valid image file. Please check what kind of file you're loading before setting picturebox's Image property. Also, setting the pattern to limit the search to a certain extension could help: Dim folder As String = "d:\MyImageFiles" Dim pattern As String = "*.jpg" ... Andrej ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS.net 2003 & VS.Net 2005

  i have Visual Studio.Net 2005 installed on my computer and wanetd to know if I could install Visual Studio.Net 2003 with out any issue or if i could even install it. Visual Studio 2005 has been designed to run side-by-side with previous Visual Studio .NET installations. The only thing you need to do when you install Visual Studio .NET 2003 after Visual Studio 2005 is that you restore the file associations in Visual Studio 2005. After installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 start Visual Studio 2005 Click menu Tools => Options Navigate to the node Environment => General Click on "Restore File Associations" ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you replace text in Rich textbox?

  When i use the replace command on a rich textbox, the formatted text suddenly resets.. If a word is bold, the whole text gets bold. Im using the command this way: RTF.text = RTF.text.Replace("Firststring","Secondstring") I have also tried this solution dim txt as string = RTF.text txt = replace(txt,"Firststring","Secondstring") rtf.text = txt But this dont seem to work. The thing is, the document is written as a file, and then when you want to open the file in my vb2005 application, it replaces words like [name] with the actual name. And it should keep the formatting if some text is bold or underlined.. Hello Dan There is a lot to know ...Show All

• Windows Forms Possible to apply column style to ListView control?

  Is it possible to apply column style to the ListView control  If you have something like the  DefaultCellStyle as in the DataGridView control. The columns in the ListView looks very old and square-shaped with the Office 2003 style on the other controls. ListView is a very old control, dating back to Windows 95. That's why they invented DataGridView... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Q: Accessing a control from another thread

  Hello everybody. I have the following situation. On the main form I have a Button and a ProgressBar. When I press the button I execute the following lines: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { myClass o_myClass = new myClass(ref progressBar1); ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(o_myClass.Work)); } And here is how the myClass looks like: public class myClass { ProgressBar m_progressBar; public myClass(ref ProgressBar progressBar) { m_progressBar = progressBar; } public void Work(object state) { int max = 30000; m_progressBar.Maximum = max; for (int i = 0; i <= max; i++) { m_progressBar.Value++; } } } After pr ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Logging or warning or output for debug goals

  For debug goals I need to output some information. Usually in java script I use the function 'alert'. Do I have a possibility to write an information to status bar or to message box or to some other visible place iHD supports a "Diagnostics" object that lets you output trace messages. In theory you can go to a file, a network machine, or a debugger, but I *think* that iHDSim only supports file logging. Something like this will work: Diagnostics.listeners.add( "file" ); Diagnostics.trace.writeLine( "Here is a message" , "Message Category" , intMessagePriority); // eventually make sure all output is written Diagnosticis.trace.flush(); Of cour ...Show All

• SQL Server DMX from Java

  My preferred programming language is Java (sorry Microsoft). I've searched for examples of running DMX queries into an Analysis Services database from Java but failed to locate any. I've seen suggestions that XMLA could be used but again, I can't locate any examples (in any language). For my current project I ran up the white flag and used C# instead but this wouldn't be an option in other cases. It would be possible to make the DMX calls from C# objects and call those from Java but that's pretty labourious to code. Suggestions have you tried the XMLA Thin Client sample at http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/LiveSamples/124.aspx ...Show All