jwize's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do you pronounce XNA?

  Is it X-N-A or is it Xee-na Just as it seems to fit somehow, the forum name should be "Game Technol o gies: XNA Build" ;) ...Show All

• SQL Server AS2005 MDX-Question (Grouping while ignoring intermediate level)

  Hi, I'm quite new to MDX and try to solve the following problem: given is a dimension having the following hierarchy: Business Unit A Sales Area 1 Customer X Customer Y Customer Z Sales Area 2 Customer V Customer W Customer X Business Unit B Sales Area 3 ... ... Now I need the sum of each business units' revenues grouped by customers. In the above example the result should look like: Business Unit A Customer V Customer W Customer X (sum of Sales Area 1 and Sales Area 2) Customer Y Customer Z Sales Area 2 Business Unit B Customer ... ... Is this possible with MDX Thanx for any help and kind regards, Gerald Gerald, Can you explain the meaning of revenue(X1) and revenue(X2) in relatio ...Show All

• SQL Server Rendering problem.

  When the report is rendering with report manager (web) it loose same layout's options for example the border color and style. Thank in advance ...Show All

• Visual Basic ActiveX Exe projects again

  I also have an ActiveX EXE which I want to migrate--I mean upgrade--from VB 6.0 to 7.1 (.NET 203). It is basically a Windows Forms app with a GUI but it needs to be able to communicate (send and receive) with another app which creates it. At one point it was an ActiveX DLL but years of graphics memory problems which could not be resolved any other way just simply disappeared when it was converted to an EXE running in its own memory space. Having thus just recently resolved the longstanding DLL problems, I doubt whether I could sell my client on going back to another DLL version because they never found a reliable QC test for it even thought it was constantly occurring (about 10% of the time) when it was deployed to their field l ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deployment and setup how too.

  Hello, I have programmed in vb 6 and use the setup wizzard. I am new to vb.net 2005, and I want to make a an setup(EXE) to install on different pc. I do not see the setup wizard, like vb6 has, so can any one give am a step by step article on how to deploy/setup my application I have made in vb.net 2005. You say you are using VB 2005... are you using the Express Edition or the full fledged Visual Studio (Standard/Professional/etc) If you are using the Express Edition you've only got one out of the box option, ClickOnce that makes it pretty easy to build an installer that can be used from just about everywhere and have it be able to auto update installed clients. For more information on ClickOnce or other installer optio ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Upcoming Starter Kits

  From yesterday's webcast (where was everyone ), it was mentioned that a puzzle starter kit would be included in the RTM version and that the XNA Racer starter kit would come with the Creator's Club membership. I didn't get a chance to confirm this. Is this the case Also, are there any plans for other starter kits down the road that's great news ... Frank Savage seemed pretty sure that it wouldn't work in that c9 video. I get a pretty good signal so I think I'll give it a go. I have been meaning on running some wire over to my entertainment center anyways just to get that extra bandwidth on XBL :-P I'll probably do that sometime next year. Edit: sorry for hijacking your thread Jim ... bring on the starter kits!! :-P ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ListBoxItems and Multiple Children.

  I have a custom style applied to my ListBox so that each ListBoxItem has several child controls attached to it. Once an ListBoxItem is selected, I need to access the data contained within each of the child controls. I remember reading somewhere a way to cycle through controls in situations like this, but I cannot find where the documentation was. Additionally, one of these controls is an PasswordBox. I would like the PasswordBox to get keyboard focus once its ListBoxItem has been selected. Is there away to set the focus via XAML Triggers, or can this only be done in code Thanks It might be a timing issue. Try using the PasswordBox's Dispatcher to post a call to a method which then calls Focus (or whatever works) on the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista BUG: Why does the name of a StateMachineWorkflowActivity property appear as "State Machine Worflow"?

  I have a custom activity defined like the following (see below). BUG: When this custom activity is used in a workflow, why, in the VS2005 Property window, the name of the ForkStateMachineWorkflow property appear as "State Machine Workflow" (with the spaces and without the quotes) - instead of ForkStateMachineWorkflow REPRO: You can test this using the CustomActivityBinding .NET 3.0 RC1 SDK sample. Michael. using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Workflow.ComponentModel; using System.Workflow.Activities; namespace Microsoft.Samples.Workflow.CustomActivityBinding { public partial class CustomActivity : Activity { public CustomActivity() { Initialize ...Show All

• .NET Development Where to place the connection string

  Hi, I'm creating a Windows app and was wondering where to put the connection string for all five of my methods In my web apps I've always put the connection string in the web.config file but am not sure where to put it on a Windows app, and also how to reference it from its location. Can anyone please help Many thanks, I've actually never used the App Settings so I'm also learning and trying to see what I can do to help you to the beset of my ability :-) did you read the links provided It explains how to create the App settings and how to read the settings back after Just looked, there seems to be a special secure way to store the connection strings: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/syst ...Show All

• SQL Server Has anyone seen a Licensing screen during the install process?

  Hi again. I have been deploying the first few test SQL 2005 machines recently, from what I was told is the full-feature edition DVD received from the https://licensing.microsoft.com  website. We have purchased a mixture of per-processor and per-user licenses to use for this software. However, I am never asked what licensing mode to use during the install. Can anyone confirm or deny that a setup screen appears asking what licensing version you want to use (per-user or per-processor) I cannot confirm what was downloaded from the licensing-website because I don't have access through the company. I have the same symptoms as seen on this postings: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=360181& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Yes Thank you, do you also know tabspace \t for VB code I need a newline statement for textbox

  I need a newline statement for this block of code: txtPhonetic.Text = _ " Sound Written Examples " , _ " |a| a, …, banane, l…, ch teau " , _ " |i| i, Mimi, Philippe, N mes " , _ " y(Sylvie) "} the message is suppost to have 3 different lines of code. What I am looking for is something similar to the C/C++'s cout<<"Sound Written Examples"<<endl; or "\n" endl; or "\n" except with visual basic. Use the "vbCrLf" constant. For example: TextBox1.Text = "Hello" + vbCrLf + "World" ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to fill a A4 page when printing a form?

  How can I fill a entiry A4 page, when using Pintform I have a picturebox docked in the form, with a model of a report, and some textbox, that fill some questions of the report. But I can't get the picturebox to completely fill the printed page. Is there any tool that could help me Thanks, Lucas 1. Add a PrintDocument control to your form. 2. Add this code: Private Sub PrintDocument1_PrintPage(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles PrintDocument1.PrintPage e.Graphics.DrawImage(Me.PictureBox1.Image, 0, 0, e.PageBounds.Width, e.PageBounds.Height) End Sub 3. Add A PrintDialog control 4. Set to the Document property of con ...Show All

• .NET Development SourceTable and SourceField

  Hi I'm upgrading my code based on DAO to ADO.NET in VB2005 and got stuck looking for SourceTable and SourceField properties of DataTable fields. DAO.Recordset.Fields have .SourceTable and .SourceField properties which tell you the original table/field which provides the data in that particular field of the recordset. This is useful in my application where I am filtering users' queries to the database to see whether I want to allow them access to that particular bit of data.  Although I can imagine that there are maybe other solutions to security issues, I've already built a whole system around this method, and would like for simplicity's sake just upgrade it without changing the methodology. Can anyone advise where to g ...Show All

• .NET Development Can't debug Native x64 Dll - invoked from Managed x64 Exe (URGENT)

  My whole team is impacted (severely slowed) by this one. Currently we are debugging via trace output, which is obviously sub-optimal. We are developing some Native x64 DLLs that are plugged into an x64 Managed application. We really need to be able to debug the Native DLL in Visual Studio 2005. However, when specifying the managed Exe as the Debug Command for the project, I encounter the following error message.    Unhandled exception at 0x78d4dd30 in Managed.exe: 0xC06D007E: Module not found. It appears the managed application is no being launched properly. Please advise as to what is going wrong here. Thanks NIK  Note: I understand that full Mixed Mode x64 debugging isn't yet suppor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Always getting "The internal state of the database project..yada yada..."

  That quite annoying as I don’t want to always kill the project from source source and get the latest correct build from the deployment database and build everything on top what was done in the meanwhile. Any suggestion or solution for that in the meantime -Jens. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- Hi Jens/Bryant, I guess part of the error says to Unload/Reload the project. Does that help How often do you get this message - Manoj ...Show All