Skippy1313's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Blue Screen O-death at install of vista

  When I goto install windows vista release canidate 1 straight from the microsoft download site. In the boot up process of the software install i get a blue screen that says system engine error. I tried the x86 version and the x64 versions same results. Also i ran the windows vista compatibility test and all devices passed. If anyone has a fix for this or maybe something i can try to fix it let me know. Ive also tried disableing devices such as integrated sound and NIC to try to get it to work. Also I tried running the setup from the windows xp pro desktop and it formats the drive then restarts and locks up right after that with a blue screen. For now ive gone back to XP home until i can try further tests. Below is my systems stats. ...Show All

• SQL Server SP2 Copy Database Wizard better, but still problems

  I installed SP2 today and started transfer databases from our old production server with SQL 2000. The Wizard is much better now when using SMO Online transfer and I succeefully transferred several databases. But I now have three databases with a strange error: Here is one error when I try to copy the database OEWRegister. It seems like all objects are transferred and it fails in the end with: OnError,JABBA,VD-ISP-NET\SQLServer,QUI-GON_JABBA_Transfer Objects Task,{FD7EE38E-70E0-4D01-8E4E-9CC1D44BA7B4},{19F9A272-F90C-446D-BF0E-EA333D06ACD3},2/21/2007 9:06:15 PM,2/21/2007 9:06:15 PM,0,0x,ERROR : errorCode=-1073548784 description=Executing the query "IF EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sys.databases WHERE name = N'OEWRegister') DROP DATABASE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook Application ItemSend Event signature

  Hi, I'm trying to develop a solution that filters the outbound emails sent from the company, compares the email addresses of the recipients with those stored in the company contacts database and stores the message into a database table. The best way to do this would probably be to do it on the server. I was able to do this for the inbound mail interacting with the Exchange event sink. Not a nice thing to do, having to do that in VB6 components that have to be registered with vbs scripts. But for outbound mail I was not able to do that. So I'm tring to develop a c# Outlook 2007 add-in that reacts to the Application_ItemsSend event (which has the advantage that I can put a checkbox on the ribbon to allow the user to choose wether or no ...Show All

• Visual C# use of static modifier

  hi, consider I am creating a class with all it members as STATIC. And If, now I am using the class in my application..I am calling some Methods in it...OK..Consider now ClientA calls a method...simultaneously ClientB calls the same method..I want to know, in this case whether the same copy of the method handles both clients or a separate copy. I think , as I am using STATIC , it would maintain only one copy. Am I right or not . So ,if I want to maintain a separate copy of data for different clients, then I should use normal class declaration without STATIC, am I right or not your suggestions pls.. thanx.. hi, As a method, it has one copy for execution whatever its declaration is static or not. And for other members, ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to format excel destination column for numbers

  Hi, I have an excel export with numeric values. When the SSIS package writes into the excel it treats all data types as strings and attaches an apostrophe in the beginning. I tried formatting the excel sheet with the number data type and saving it . It doesnt work. Other strange thing is that when I go into the advanced editor for the excel destination and look into the properties of the external columns all of them have the data type as Unicode String[DT_WSTR] irrespective of what the data type is from the input.The UI allows me to change it to numeric for numeric columns without any error but the value is not saved at all which is very frustrating. I also tried changing it in the xml file of the package, it some how seems to overwr ...Show All

• SQL Server Need drillthrough for just one month--but cube goes back two years

  First, let me ask if I am correct in understanding that while fact tables can be partitioned, a drillthrough dimension cannot Thus, a drillthrough dimension must span the entire fact table My users both want one to two years of info in the cube, and also want drillthrough. We have been able to persuade them to accept only a month or two of drillthrough. Unfortunately, it appears that this is not doable. Hi Edward, I was wondering if you could quickly help me out as i am having similar issues with drillthrough queries. I have created a view of the partitions for a particular cube as you described . The partitions are based on different tables with the same schema. I then have tried to set this as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Making VB recognize a Dance Dance Revolution dance pad

  Hi there, As a school project, my group has elected to do a version of the popular game Dance Dance Revolution in Visual Basic, since that is the language we are most familiar with. For those who do not know, basically, arrows like the arrow keys move up the screen. You have a dance mat set up similar to the arrow keys on your keyboard; when the moving arrow overlaps an outline at the top of the screen, the user presses the arrow to earn points. Moving on, we would like to attach a Gamecube dance pad to the computer and see if we can get Visual Basic 2005 Express to register it like a controller and react when the player presses buttons, e.g. when they press the "up" arrow the program will register this and react accordingly (this would be ...Show All

• .NET Development Handling Exception in .NET 2.0 Async web service

  Hi, I have problem calling asynchronous web service via the "XXXAsync" method. In .NET 1.1 I can wrap the try...catch block around the "EndXXXX" method and catch any exception that could occur during asynchronous call (such as the internet connectivity problem, blah blah) But in .NET 2.0 there are no "BeginXXX" and "EndXXX" anymore. There is "XXXAsync" instead. In some conditions, when my program call "XXXAsync" method. There is an unhandled exception of type "TargetInvocationException" rises (at "Application.Run(new FormMain());" ) There is a description inside which says "502 Bad gateway". How can I catch such exception which occur during asynchronous call in .NET 2.0 I try to wrap try..catch block around "Application.Run(.." but after ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Customize the permissions to "My site" before is created

  Hi I need to give permissions to every "MySite" is created before is created, so every user gets this permissions when the user site is created ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to start process in session before user logs on?

  I have a need to start a process in a session before the user logons on. On XP I used a Windows Logon Notification Package to do this. When a new session was created, Winlogon.exe in that new session called my WLNP and it was able to start the process before the user logged on. The process is used to support smart card logons for that session. I'm trying to find out how to do something similar on Vista. I know logon notification packages are no longer supported. I know how to write a service to get session creation notification, but I don't know how to start a process in the new session before the user logs on. Is there a function I can use to start a process in another session If so, I could have my session tracking sevice start th ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with Look up

  Hi all; I have created a SSIS package to import data from flat file to database table, which consists of Flat file Source -> Look up -> OLE DB Destination. I'm using Look Up in order to avoid duplicate records. My database table contain around 35,00000 s of rows. So when I'm running the package the above amount of data goes to Lookup cache, which require a large storage memory. So I'm not able to execute my package. I need to run the package in order to update my database. So is there any solution, in which I can check the duplicate records to get into the database and time consumption to run the package will be less. Thanks in advance... My apologies Sanidha, I thought the lookup tab ...Show All

• .NET Development Help vb.net db problems!

  hi im a vb.net newbie. im trying to connect a access database to vb.net using jet. i would like the database to fill in the interface in the form i created but when i run it, it shows this error message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in system.data.dll. When i tried using TRY..CATCH it showed this message: Record(s) cannot be read; no read permission on 'tblTest' tblTest is the table in my db. This is the code: Dim con As New OleDb.OleDbConnection Dim ds As New DataSet Dim da As OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter Dim sql As String Dim mytbl As DataTable con.ConnectionString = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source = C:\DB\test.mdb" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to do a wild card parameter query?

  Greetings folks, What must I do to enable a wild card search in a parameter query Using the inter SQL systems I have set up a dictionary table and want to do a wild card search across the list to return a subset based on the wild cards. eg F H would return FISH and others in a list. The SQL I am trying is as follows: SELECT Words FROM WordList WHERE (Words LIKE @SearchString) I have set up the form and it is auto generating the parameter query. I can correctly search for FISH and return one record but if I type F H it returns nothing. What must I do to enable a wild card search in a parameter query Thank you all for you knowledge and skill. Warwick ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Programmatically logging off a certain user

  Hi, I would like to build a windows service that decide to log off a certain logged user. I've seen some samples to log off using the ExitWindowsEx function of user32.dll. That function will log off the current user (the user that is running the process) But, since I want to log off (from a windows service that is running with Local Service) a certain user session. Thanks, David Ok ... I think I am getting closer but still missing some parts. What I could do is to create a really simple exe program that does Force Log Off current user. And in the service I would need to call that exe through the call CreateProcessAsUser. The "thing" that I am missing is the user token that I need to pass to the CreateProcessAsUs ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What language versions of the VC# express are supported?

  I'd like to know if just the English version of the Visual C# Express IDE is supported because I'm using the German version so far. The XNA Game Studio Express should be able to integrate with other language versions of C# Express than English, but as you said XNA itself will not be localized, so XNA specific things will be in English in any C# Express version. ...Show All