Tdar's Q&A profile

• SQL Server How to address cells in a calculation

  I have a calculation where I need to get the value of a certain cell in my cube. It looks like this: ([Measures].[Amount], [Table].[Table].&[{327365F8-F148-4C34-A749-D3F56FD3B8F6}], [Line].[Line].&[{2155F898-47EA-4269-B167-BE940C79E9F6}], [Column].[Column].&[{83435F85-93AB-48D1-B2F3-B5E0BAF62642}], [Currency].[Currency].&[{2FA606E1-0A20-4A21-B360-643A530C297B}], [Maturity].[Maturity].&[{188601ED-2E02-4883-9336-45BC831C5EE8}], [Region].[Region].&[{0712BAAF-FEE4-479E-8287-E75DAD405B40}], [Sector].[Sector].&[{E52C493D-6528-490E-BD63-4A0857F8B53F}], [PastDue].[PastDue].&[{524942A0-A1ED-4BF5-86D2-F8EF393F0004}], [Custom].[Custom].&[{7FCAB9D1-4D7B-48CD-8EEC-1AA47F5D9CD1}], [Sit ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) May CTP Installation problems ...

  Hey guys, I've run the May CTP installer on my machine ( Win XP Pro SP2) with VS 2005 Pro - both US English. The installer succeeds, everything seems to be working ok, however the project templates for LINQ are nowhere to be found in my C# New Project options. If I open the sample solutions off the hard drive, they compile and run file, therefore I assume that there's something wrong with the project templates Anybody have a clue Cheers, Angel Well, I found the solution here ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with modifying my function in order to seek out and return specific values

  I'll try to make this simple, but first, a few requests & info for you: 1) Do not ask the "why", just help me with my question, how to change my SQL 2) I will try to explain this in as simple terms and with enough info that I think is needed for this post 3) Do not tell me this should be done more easily in an OOP language..I have already realized this but, I don’t have time to turn back now. I want to use what I have that works, and simply modify it for now to get the results I need with your help 4) I am not using SQL 2005 so I cannot put in nice regex functions. I realized now, I should have used C# for this *** but oh well, too late to turn back, time is of the essence 5) Y ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. EffecMaterialContent behavior in a custom model processor

  Hi, I'm writting a custom model processor and I have some questions about it, if anyone can help me I should be grateful.  I'm using MeshBuilder to build my mesh, geometry, texture channels, normals... and this works perfectly. I'm putting my textures with 'EffectMaterialContent myMaterial = new EffectMaterialContent(); myMaterial.Textures.Add(keyname, new ExternalReference<TextureContent>("mytexture"))' method. a) I build my asset model in my game project and the texture is named "mytexture~0" and I don't understand why appear that sufix "~0"  if I don't have other texture with this name in my project. b) I would like to know if I must load my model’s texture with 'myCo ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLRUN_SQL.MSI is not valid for Service pack 1 SQL 2005 command line REINSTALL

  Hello, I have recently tried to run this command line utility for SQL Server 2005 - "start /wait \sqlfoder\setup.exe /qb INSTANCENAME=myinstance REINSTALL=SQL_Engine REBUILDDATABASE=1 SAPWD=[password] SQLCOLLATION=SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI" Unfortunately I recived an error stating the "Installation package for the product SQL Server 2005 (64bit) cannto be found. Please locate a valid SQLRUN_SQL.MSI". Which I couldn't find anywhere., so.... I created a fresh instance on my 2005 server, held back on installing SP1, and ran the command line again. This time it worked. My best guess is that the installation scripts check the version header on the MSI file during install and display a compatibilty error t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to read an incoming SMS?

  In my code I need to get notified about an incoming SMS and read it. I have figured out how to get notifies trough IMAPIAdviseSink::OnNotify and I can enumberate all SMS messages trough IMsgStore/IMAPIFolder/IMAPITable interfaces. What I can't figure out is how to use the LPNOTIFICATION argument of IMAPIAdviseSink::OnNotify to figure out which SMS message out of the all SMS messages present on the device was just recieved. Microsoft documentation is very cryptic about this and I failed to find any sample code about the subject. I appreciate if anybody can help me with this issue. Pavel I've heard that can use PocketOutlook to send SMS, but it not include how to read sms or read sms at receiv ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dynamic Control binding to dataset

  dont call acceptchanges on the dataset. In order to update the database, you need to use a DataAdapter/TableAdapter and call the Update() method How are you creating this binding source How are you retrieving data take a look at this and see if it guides you also: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=932108&SiteID=1&mode=1 ...Show All

• .NET Development BarcodeGenerator Class

  I would like to use the BarcodeGenerator Class, located in the Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures namespace. I do not have this class, presumably because I do not have the microsoft.office.policy.barcode.generator.dll. Does anyone one know what software this .dll comes with I am running Office 2007 Enterprise and Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Not exactly an answer to your question, but wouldn't it be a lot easier if you used a 'BarCode font' eg: http://www.barcodesinc.com/free-barcode-font/ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Directx SDK (december 2006) viewer crashes on startup

  Well, the title basically describes what is the problem... I've uninstalled my directx sdk (october), rebooted to make sure things were clean. Then I installed the last SDK (december) and my viewer (directx sdk's viewer for .x and .fx files) simply stopped to work. Whenever I start it, it crashes with the 'send report' error. Any ideas what could've caused this " I am m3rcyful ag3nt on gamedev.net :) Check here . ...Show All

• SQL Server Formatting Issue

  Hi I am using Reporting Services 2005. I have deployed my reports on mutiple servers. It works fine. But on a specific server, when I deployed my reports, its formatting disturbed for a specific font. Wherever I have used Font: Name: "Arial Narrow" Size: 8pt Style: Normal Weight: Bold Decoration: None its size changed and disturbed the whole formatting. It is something related to server settings, but I dont know where to change the formatting to solve the issue. I have tried to change the system display resolution, but it didn't worked. I cant re install server as it is client's machine. It has "Microsoft Windows 2003 Server" installed on it. Please help me to solve the problem. Looking for a q ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Retrieving Color Values

  Although color values can happily be assigned by name or hexadecimal notation they appear to be stored in a less friendly numeric format that is not consistent between browsers. For example, obj.fill="red" easily assigns a color value to obj, but then referencing obj.fill.color returns a numeric value of 4294901760 in Internet Explorer and a numeric value of -65536 in Firefox. The numeric value returned by IE can be reverted to a useful hexadecimal value with ("#" + obj.fill.color.toString(16)) but that returned by Firefox is not so straightforward. For instance, an assigned Yellow value returns 4294967040 in IE but -256 in FF. Is there a better way to retrieve a useful color value ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. GameComponent designer

  Would it be possible to add support for a GameComponentCollection in the designer for GameComponent Perhaps it would make sense to do this by creating a new class analogous to UserControl in windows forms, or even creating an IGameComponent so that a collection isn't required. It would be pretty easy to implement myself, but I think it would be best done as part of the framework. I think it would be handy for things like a state machines, so you could aggregate components in a state component and still have access to the designer. When you say, "...they never seem to have a site," what are you doing that relies on this Our components behave a bit differently than winform components at des ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Incorrect BoundingSphere Info On Mesh

  Can I just ask anyone out there who has used the .x import and then rendered the mesh to check the boundingsphere information for me please. I have looked at the information for my mesh and it just doesnt look right. I have a quad that is 100x1x100 and the information for the bounding sphere says - d.Center {X:-16.51774 Y:0 Z:8.666386} d.Radius 88.6924744 Can someone confirm if their mesh has the correct boundingsphere info. Thanks guys, Dave. Most algorithms that calculate a bounding sphere don't calculate the smallest bounding sphere since that is much more computation intensive. The bounding sphere you get looks like a reasonable result from such an algorithm. If this calculation is taki ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Removing '~0' from resultant file names

  Hi there, I am using a MSBuild project file to build some XNA content files. The files generated work perfectly fine. However, every single resultant .xnb file gets appended with '~0'. For example 'spark.bmp' generates a 'spark~0.xnb' file. How can I either: prevent the MSBuild task from appending the file name, or to remove the '~0' after the file has been created. By the way, is everyone else having this same thing happen Thank you for your time I'm not sure why you feel you need to "fix" this. Once the files are converted, you don't need to reference them by filename. Also, consider what happens if you have "spark.bmp" and "spark.x" in the same directory. Since ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problem: run c# program on Dell Axim

  Hi, I am quite newbies about C#. Well, I wrote a sample application (following MSDN tutorial). It works fine when using the Pocket PC emulator, but it cannot be run on the real pocket pc ( I use Dell Axim with OS: Window Mobile 2003 SE.); I mean it was completely installed there but did show up any result when running. Does anyone have suggestions Thanks a lot for your advance help :) Onion Hi, try this : http://wiki.opennetcf.org/ow.asp CompactFrameworkFAQ%2FDeterminingVersion and install the right NETCF version if this is necessary ...Show All