Boerboon's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Picture Splitting 2D RPG DirectX

  Say if i wanted to split a picture up into an array, every 32x32 pixels is a index of the array. So like i could say i want index 1 to go here (x, y)... then index 2 (some other x, y) to go here and so on. I have no idea how to do this and no idea where to start. For an assignment in either VB 6.0 or VB.Net i have to create a basic 2D game and i decided that this would be the best way to do so (since loading an array of picture boxes uses up alot of memory). If there is a better way then please tell me. The ability to have the map move (so you can explore) Which is a scrolling map, like pokemon. Keyboard inputs to move the sprite. The rest i will figure out myself, but if you generous you will tell me them . I ...Show All

• SQL Server Can I automatically see which VIEWS are used for each REPORT?

  Is there a way to see which database views (or tables) were used for each report (For example, I have a report called "Customer Oriented" and it uses 2 views: Customers, and Products. Can I automaticaly pull out this information Thanks, In all honesty you shouldn't try to do this from Reporting Services. The data entered in the query box is any valid statement that will return a result set. Considering just SQL server as a data source, valid statements include stored procedure and table valued function calls and trying to parse the SQL to extract table names is crazy. You should perform an audit and store and maintain that information in some spreadsheet. That's my 2 cents. ...Show All

• Visual C++ I want to get the language of the window xp operating system, which function should I use to realize my purpose?

  I want to get the  language of  the window xp operating system, which function should I use to realize my purpose If you can give me one example that will be better. Thank you very much.   Jakein2006 wrote: If the localization of language is Chinese, the second parameter of GetLocaleInfo is LOCALE_SLANGUAGE  or LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME  or something else  LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME  will print the three letter ISO language code  (standard 639) .   LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE  will give you the full English name of the language.   e.g.  French , German LOCALE_SNATIVELANGNAME will give you the native name of the language.   &nb ...Show All

• Windows Forms Limit rows in datagridview

  VS 2005 I want to limit the number of lines added in a gridview, can anyone show me the code and which event to place it. Thanks In advance yes that won't work as the event will be fired/raised AFTER a row has been added, not before. I will see what else I can dig up. where are you obtaining the rows from the database you may wish to select the first few rows in this case then bind to the datagridview otherwise say if you have 1000 rows of data in SQL, you selected all of them but only want to show 30 - this would be ineffecient. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to fix?: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "extern "C" ........

  Hi! How can I fix this error: Error 1 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "extern "C" long __stdcall SHFlushClipboard(void)" ( SHFlushClipboard@@$$J10YGJXZ ) UnmanagedTest.obj Im basically calling the SHFlushClipboard method from the shlobj.h (Win32) file in a managed c++ app. How can I fix that problem ~Matt Hi, link errors like these happen when you are not linking your project with a library that contains the definition of a function you're using from that library. It may also happen when you have declare a function but don't implement it and then you use it somewhere. It will give a link error with your function's name. To solve your problem you have to link y ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with styles in reporting services 2005 - help

  Hi all,I have some reports built using vs.net 2005. On the reports i am changing lots of styling definitions such as the backround image of the report and the gradient style of the charts etc....... when i am deploying the reports into the reports manager lots of the style and changes i havr made does not apear on the web. I have installed sql server 2005 sp1. Any ideas But you aren’t using external images etc. Which are evenentually not reachable form the report server What changes did you make HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Copy File to System32\Drivers

  Hello, I encountered a problem that my program cannot CopyFile to C:\\Windows\\System32\\Drivers even though my property is Administrator, what I got by using GetLastError is Access Deny. But I really need to copy some files to that place, is there any other way I can do this Thanks! Nothing executed in the user's context will elevate silently -- it will always require user interaction. If a DLL needs to be copied into system32 (why, though ), it should be done as part of a proper application installation, not something that the end user who runs the program should be expected to do. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cluster Names

  I have a basic segmentation model that uses the clustering algorithm. I've renamed the clusters in the cluster diagram, but they still show up as Cluster 1-n in the dimension browser and in the cube browser. After renaming the clusters, I did a full reprosses on the data mining dimension and on the linked cube. Can anyone tell me what else I need to do to use the new cluster names in the report Thanks A full reprocess of the DM dimension and the linked cube should do the trick - in fact, you don't really need to reprocess the cube with the linked DM dimension. Are you sure the reprocess completed successfully and you refreshed the dimension/cube browsers ...Show All

• Visual C# Passing C# byte array to unmanaged code

  This should be simple but I can't get it to work. I have C function: BYTE _stdcall DrawFrame( short portAddress, unsigned char * pBuffer, int length, int pps) How do I import it to C# and call it with a byte[] I tried the following but it doesn't work: [ DllImport ( "inp.dll" , EntryPoint = "DrawFrame" )] public static extern byte DrawFrame( short address, byte [] framePoints, int length, int pps); Thanks, Gary When I check the values inside the array on the C side they are not the same as on the C# side.  The values are always 1 on the C side for some reason!  Is there a special way I need to specify the byte[] parame ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help...windows xp now asks if i want to start vista?????

  I have 2 hard disk drives in my computer. 1 with my normal XP installation on it and the other which I'd installed the Vista Beta on. Now Vista final has been released I decided to remove the beta and carry on with XP for the time being so I formatted the drive with Vista on. The problem I have now is when i first turn on my computer I get a choice as to which OS I want to start, XP or Vista. vista isn't there though and automatically selected so unless I sit there waiting for the selection screen to come up and manually choose XP, a timer runs down and selects Vista as my OS and the computer just hangs. Vista has obviously written something onto the boot sector of the other hard drive but does anyone know how I can remove or modify it ...Show All

• Visual C++ command-line build

  Hi dear pigs, i have some .cpp and .h files and i want to build them from command-line. Actually visual studio provide this feature with one of these tree commands: 1- devenv 2- nmake 3- vcbuild The problem is that all of the above commands take a solution or .vcproj file as the prameter, but i want to build my files without having any solution and project. i emphasis that i want to build some C++ files without having any project but just the files. is there any way that i can make this i also appreciate any other approaches rather than command-line build. I believe you just call cl directly: cl file1.cpp of course you'd have to sort out your command line options for includes and defines. you can get those ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3.0 and MS Outlook

  I just reinstalled my computer and unfortunatly before i installed WDS i didn't install MS Outlook and now i don't have that need "search toolbar" up there with my other toolbars. Now i was wondering if it is possible to have that done manualy Please help if you can! Are you running Outlook 2003 w/ Live Toolbar installed If you do, click on Toolbar's options from your IE and go to Install button. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Filling a strongly typed dataset

  Guys, A simple problem I hope. I can fill a normal dataset without a problem. However, I now have a dataset which I created design time (hence the strongly typed dataset). I want to use a stored procedure within code to populate this strongly typed dataset can anyone provide an example hope so Cheers ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance problem: 2000 vs. 2005

  I copied a 2000 database onto 2005 on another box. Running the exact same SELECT query, with 7 tables joined, is running in less than 2 minutes on 2000 and almost 3 hours on 2005. The 2005 box is "bigger and better". I've compared the sp_configure output. There are differences in max worker threads, cost threshold for parallelism, and priority boost. I don't think any one of these is significant. I checked the server properties and the database properties and, again, I did not see what I would consider any significant differences. The 2005 instance has 4GB memory, as opposed to 2GB, but not using that much. In fact, the Total Server Memory (KB) for the instance indicates around 1,230,000 for some reason. We need to reso ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I show a confirmation box instead of a MessageBox?

  I am trying to find a relatively simple way of showing a MessageBox with a "Yes" and "No"(Confirmation box). Can anyone help me please MsgBox is the VB6 way of showing the messagebox. But in vb.net it is replaced with MessageBox. So If You are working in VB.Net then use it's provided method. But there is no problem in using MsgBox because it is still supproted by .net. ...Show All