vrushali's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. New XNA Game "Microbe Patrol"

  Hi, I've written a game called "Microbe Patrol" and posted it on my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/manders/archive/2007/01/15/microbe-patrol-1-0-an-actual-xna-game-finally.aspx Give it a try and let me know what you think! -Mike Interesting. Took me a while to figure out how to score.  Guess I should have read the instructions. ...Show All

• Visual Basic winsock.dll error

  I'm trying to run an upgraded (VB6 to VB.NET) application which uses methods available in WINSOCK.DLL in Windows\system32 file. Though this .dll is present on my machine, it shows the following error: "The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINSOCK.DLL is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette. Please suggest how to solve this error. Is it ok to copy winsock.dll from someone else's pc or download it from internet. Here is more info about winsock and how to get it is on the page... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/122928/EN-US/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Recording Atlas (Ajax) control

  Hello, After recording a web test with a page including an Atlas control, there is no Form Post Parameter recorded from the page. How can I go around it Thank you in advance for your help Jeanvo QA Actually analyzing network traffic for Ajax applications is not reliable and does not work for all scenarios. For example, in many cases with Ajax applications, the client script performs actions against the DOM without having to go over the network. For example, an application can go over the network to retrieve some data and cache iit on the client. When future actions are performed on the client, no network traffic is performed and the execution logic is purely done in the browser. That is one scenario, the ...Show All

• SQL Server sequence clustering and association rules

  Hi I read the paper of sequence clustering. It seems that the major application of the algorithm is for the web site. I was just thinking that can I apply this algorithm on the purchase sequences of credit card data If so,please also tell me the difference between sequence clustering and association rules on credit card data application. Although I realize that sequence clustering is a fully probabilistic model and it has the capability of prediction, association rules also give the probabilities of purchasing the other products. Thanks in advance. To Wong Association Rules analyzes items that occur together, say in a single purchase transaction, whereas Sequence Clustering analyzes items or e ...Show All

• Community Chat Xceed DataGrid for WPF launched. Free product.

  We've built a Datagrid control for Windows Presentation Foundation, and have released it for free (it is a full professional-quality product, not a lite or trial version). If you are running IE 6 or 7 and Vista, or have XP with .NET 3.0, there's an XBAP demo you can try and requires no installation (uses ClickOnce) and no security questions asked, either. The XBAP demo: http://www.xceed.com/Grid_WPF_Demo.html The product page: http://www.xceed.com/Grid_WPF_Intro.html I hope it is OK to post this here (the "Hot technology" forum seems to be appropriate for such an announcement, right ). I added a few rows before with ID = 1 and now when I add it I add an ID = 1 I get duplicate error, new browser window. :) But I can not se ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development How to use fullscreeen mode?

  Hi. I'm trying to use Full screen mode in my player. I called IMFVideoDisplayControl::SetFullscreen(TRUE) while playback was running, but it will blackout screen and doesn't show any picture. My player creats topology below. source->decoderMFT->EVR decoderMFT uses DXVA2.0 and MFT_OUTPUT_STREAM_PROVIDES_SAMPLES flag on. What should I do to show picture on full screen Thanks. kasumi. It looks like we are seeing this bug that you're reporting, and it's most likely driver-specific. So I know this isn't a great answer, but you might want to avoid Set/GetFullscreen for now if you're having problems getting it working. ...Show All

• SQL Server No compatibilty level 90 option after upgrade from SQL 2000 to 2005

  I did an in place upgrade of my SQL 2000 server to SQL 2005. Now all the system and user databases are set to compatibilty mode 80 and in the options tab there is no compatibilty mode 90 option. How can I set the databasbes to compatibility mode 90 Thanks! Stange thing, did you try using the TSQL command for that sp_dbcmptlevel [ [ @dbname = ] name ] [ , [ @new_cmptlevel = ] version ] 90 = SQL Server 2005 HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual C++ Get active window

  Hi, Im writing an application which needs to get a handle to the active window and its content. It needs to work like the "Babylon (TM) " translator - get the active window, retrieve the text at mouse location and open its own dialog. It is not as simple as it seems ..., may be someone can give me a clue/link or a snippet. Best regards. Thanks for the reply, however, I don't want my application to be mouse dependent -  I want to enable key-strokes . Hopefully you have an idea for improvements . . . Regards.   ...Show All

• Visual C# Server.mapPath

  hi, everyone. I using server.mapPath to set as my dir but it could work. Anyone have idea why is it so string myDir = server.mapPath( "" ); especial this part of code.i wan to get any xml file from my folder rather than using absolute path like this @"H:\WSAT\WSAD Assignment"; becuase when i move my file i can just view it without changing my address. public static string [] getXMLFile() { string myDir = server.mapPath( "" ); string fileType = "*.xml" ; string [] files = Directory .GetFiles(myDir, fileType); return files; } Server is peroperty to System.Web.UI. Page class so you have to use it in page body. if ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Active/Active, Possible?

  Dear all, I am a newbies in SQL server. One of my client what to using Clustering and SAN Feature to make his SQL server have high avaliabilty. However, since they want to utilize the SQL server, they would like to active/active cluster with network load balancing. However, questions comes: 1. Can I mount a same database in a Active/Active Cluster environment 2. If I can do that, how will the SQL server handle those instance/how can I set it up 3. When there have two users using difference node SQL server to insert data, what will happen Please help. Thanks and Regards Jacky SQL Server's implementation of clustering is not a RAC-like solution. It is not a load balanced/scale out solut ...Show All

• SQL Server My Problem with calculated field

  I have a table for tracking the movement of cash register it has the fields ID Date Amount_Debit Amount_Credit Explanation I want to add a calculated field named balance that shows the actual balance of the cachregister after the entry in the row I used this but it gave me an error sum(amount_debit-amount_credit) where id<=id the general idea is to get the summary of the rows that has an Id equal or less than the row id of the row that I want to show the balance of it can any one help me to get the desired result in the best way possible additional question if possible can I get correct cash balance if I drop the ID field depending on date I use SQL Server 2005 Express hi, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Get Latest Changeset for a specific Team Project

  Hello, I am looking for a way to get the lastest ChangeSet for a specific project. Reason being, we use continuous integration builds, and I would like to send an email to user who checked in the code that kicked off the build when that build fails. Currently, I have a solutions that gets the latest ChangeSetID for the entire server. I thought it got the latest ChangeSet per project but that is not the case. What I have now does work b/c currently we only have a small number of our developments using TFS. Below is my current code to get the name of the person who kicked off the build. This work only if no one esle checks in to any of the Team projects we have during the minute or so in between when the developer checks in and the build ...Show All

• Visual Basic data storage

  As posted in another thread, I'm planning to build an accounting program. I'm wondering what would be the best way to store the data, using databases or perhaps XML There will be over 50 administrations and several users. Would one database per administration be most efficient considering one administration will usually be accessed by one user at a time Using XML probably means smaller file sizes and therefore less network traffic, but databases offer more functionality. Anyone has experience with this Any help would be welcome. Regards, Eric Okay, I see what you are saying. I thnink you need to think about your overall goal. It may be that these businesses are the same (structure wise), but it may be e ...Show All

• SQL Server table relationship in VB express

  I have 3 tables I am trying to relate for a music player. I was following the example in the msdn however, my relationships do not seem right. Here are tables i want to relate: Table 1: ArtistID ArtistName: Table 2: RecordingID RecordingName ArtistID Table 3: TrackID TrackName TrackNumber TrackLocation RecordingID So the main idea here is that the foreign keys are recordingId and artistID. So what i did is created the 3 tables and then make a diagram to create the relationships. I then was reading this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=219696&SiteID=1 What i want to do is use 2 different text boxes lets say and as i move from the records i ...Show All

• Visual C# How to Split text file into multiple text files?

  Hi experts I'm looking for help to split a large text file into multiple text files based on size of the File. Can anybody help me in this Some more information about your requirements would help. What exactly do you mean when you say "based on size of the File" If you wanted each file to be a maximum of a certain size you could do something like: string sourceFileName = @"C:\VS2005 SP1.exe" ; string destFileLocation = @"C:\" ; int index = 0; long maxFileSize = 52428800; byte [] buffer = new byte [65536]; using ( Stream source = File .OpenRead(sourceFileName)) { while (source.Position < source.Length) { index++; ...Show All