Drew Marsh's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista About Test Case 32 of Certified for windows vista test cases

  Hi all: After testing Test Case 32 of Certified for windows vista test cases, I find something as below: If the user is limit user, there is only "Application Error" in the Windows Event Log. if the user is administrator, there are "Application Error" and "Windows Error Reporting" in the Windows Event Log. Is this a correct behavior Matthew Braun - MSFT wrote: When you say user are you talking about the user that is currently logged in or the user credentials under which the process is running It's worth while noting too that the test case does not specify what user context a process needs to be running under. See page 7 of the CertifiedforWindo ...Show All

• SQL Server The top sales person?

  I am quite newbie, really grateful for some help how to create a sql sentence in Reporting Services that would return the best sales person from each shop.. The following returns all the sales persons from each shop So how to select the top sales person from each shop SELECT TOP (10) shop.name, SUM(Cd.Price) AS Sales, Personal.Name AS Salesperson FROM Purchase INNER JOIN Personal ON Purchase.Salesperson_id = Personal.Personal_id RIGHT OUTER JOIN shop ON Personal.work_id = shop.shop_id FULL OUTER JOIN Cd ON Purchase.Cd_id = Cd.Cd_id GROUP BY Shop.Name, Personal.Name ORDER BY Sales DESC Or something like this But how in Rep.Services ...LEFT OUTER JOIN ( SELECT P.work_id, P.Name, SUM(C.Price) AS TotalSale FROM @Personal P INNER ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions browsing to a input field

  Could i make it so that when i press a button, my webbrowser navigates to whats in an input field. note: ive downloaded c++ from msdn about 10 minutes ago, and im used to vb, please please help!!! Cheers, James. Assuming you've put the WebBrowser control on your form, try something like: webBrowser1->Navigate(textBox1->Text); ...Show All

• Visual C++ Which way should I go? C++ or C#

  I'm about to start developing a windows application which is currently in VB6 using an Access database. Which route should I take language wise, c++ or c# and what's the difference Native choice for database Windows application is one of .NET languages - C# or VB .NET. C++ doesn't have high level database access functions and doesn't give any advantage for deleloping such kind of programs. ...Show All

• Windows Forms dateTimePicker question

  is it possible to prevent changing the date in the DateTimePicker and allow the user to change the time only DTP doesn't offer any options or Windows messages to prevent editing the date part. You can't even control the focus. Frank's suggestion is the best you got. ...Show All

• SQL Server Report from right to left

  Report from right to left Hi. Is there a way to define the report from right to left and I mean all the report and not just the textBox and stuff For example: Right now, When I have a table that spread over the whole page, If I change the visibility of a column from the center to False - The table shrink to the left (and there is a spare room in the right side of the page). I tried changing the lenguage to hebrew but no good. Any ideas Hi patawa, Thanks for the reply. My problem is a little diffrent since I don't care that the table width will change. The problem is thet the table is tied to the left of the screen and not to the right. I don't care if the width will shrink but I want the right border to s ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. WORLDVIEWPROJ semantic

  i read many shader progs and sometimes i saw lines like this: float4x4 matWorldViewProj : WORLDVIEWPROJ; i dont understand meaning of WORLDVIEWPROJ semantic. this is usual global variable and should be set by the application. this is clearly not an input parameter of a function. when i delete this semantic everything also works fine... so, any ideas Depending on the host application, it might look for this semantic to decide what data to feed into this parameter. Of course WORLDVIEWPROJ means that the effect renderer should fill this parameter with a matrix representing the concatenated WorldxViewxProjection matrices... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO 2005 Solution in Word-Template doesn't opens in 2007 Word

  I have a VSTO 2005 Word Template with an attached XML-Schema which is distributed over several files. The template contains tables and nested tables. The table cells contain the data within XML-Nodes. The VSTO-Solution opens in Word 2003. In 2007 Word the template opens but not the VSTO-Solution, an error "This Action is not valid outside of a block--level XML element." occurs, followed by a "Office document customization is not available.". If I remove the XML-Nodes and insert them at the beginning of the document, in front of the tables, the VSTO solution opens in 2007, that means, my security configurations and the solution-entry in the document-properties are correct. On the other hand, if I let the XML-Nod ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Crash reading debug information

  Hi, I use a profiling tool on a native Visual Studio C++/Intel Fortran 9.1 application. However, the instrumentation program crashes and I have been told the following: "The crash occurs in the msdia80.dll library when xxx is trying to read debug information from your application's PDB file. This is a known issue in Visual Studio 2005. A hotfix for this problem is available on the Microsoft web site. You can find more information here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917780 " However, with SP1 installed, this crash still manifests. Can somebody tell me whether this hotfix made it into SP1 (based on the dates it did) or if there is any other hotfixes or patches for this Need ad ...Show All

• SQL Server Access 2003 Project Connecting to SQL 2000 & 2005 Servers

  We have an Access 2003 Project that it's primary server is a SQL 2000 server. When I link a table to the 2000 server and execute the view, I get data with no problem. I link a table to the 2005 server and execute the view...once again, no problem. However, if I try to write a query to pull data from both views......times out. I have changed the timeout value to "0" and never returns the data. So then I created a new Access 2003 Project to use the 2005 as the primary server. Once again I create a linked table and execute the view on the SQL 2000 server and it works just fine. Then create a linked table to the 2005 server and the view works just fine. However, here's the difference. When I try to create a query to pull data from ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help removing menu item.

  I have code that scans a config file and when it finds a certin line it adds a new drop down menu item to File --> Configure --> "New Item Added" For example in the config I have a line that equals: Test = "Sample1" When the program loads and find the line with Test = "Sample1" it will add that item to the drop down menu under File --> Configure --> Sample1 this works perfectly. Now I also have an option to delete this item out of the config file and I am trying to get it to remove from the drop down menu. When you click the delete option you get a dialog box with a drop down that lists the items you can delete from the drop down menu that were loaded from the config file. When you select the item ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums how do i save msn emotions

  like to know how i would save msn emotions...i format all the time then have to get all emotions back on msn from friends which takes a lot of time and youve lost all yor wicked emotions......is there a way to save them to put back on your msn messenger yourself thanks in advance..... I have a strong feeling that your question is not related to the development of Windows Live Messenger. These forums are not for technical support queries such as yours therefore you should ask your question to the correct guys: http://support.live.com ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Combining two effect

  Hi, i am trying to render mesh with two effect: the first - simple texturing effect, and second - simple directional light and always get a result of first shader. And when i am rotate camera i get a strange artifacts. May be someone can show me a working render with two effects and mesh Thanks a lot. And now i see the light shader result, but still have artifacts. Can you tell me what i doing wrong Here are the states of first shader: ZENABLE = true; ZWRITEENABLE = true; And the second: ALPHABLENDENABLE = TRUE; BLENDOP = ADD; DESTBLEND = ONE; SRCBLEND = ONE; ZENABLE = TRUE; ZWRITEENABLE = FALSE; ZFUNC=LESSEQUAL; Thanks for help! ...Show All

• SQL Server Parent Child relationship column hint?

  I've got a dilemma which I hope someone has a solution to. Let's say we're building a data mining model to predict aircraft reliability. In the training table we've got a column (among many others) with a unique aircraft ID, and then a column for the type (737,747) and then a column for the series (100,200,300). I.E. A 737-800 series would be "737" and "800". There is in essence a parent-child relationship between these 2 columns. 737's should share a common set of reliability factors, and then those factors might be further defined by the series number (for instance, the 737 might have very reliable radar except for the 500 series). The series is analogous to what model year a car is. What I want to make sure d ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Access to APIs in C#

  Can I use the Windows Media Player 10 activex control in C# I've researched the documentation and it seems to only be available in C++. Also, does C# support DirectDraw and DirectShow I need to use the camera api functions and allow the user to take a video, replay the video, and draw on the screen using the stylus. I need the drawing to persist on top of the video while the video plays (as with overlays, but I think most handheld devices don't support overlays). Thank you for the information. I should have clarified that I am programming for a pocket pc running Win Mobile 5.0. I've had no difficulty using the WMP control on the desktop, but I can't seem to add the control to my pocket pc device for ...Show All