erikj's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Slicer and axes interaction in MDX Part 1 - coordinate overwrites

  A question regarding this Blog post by Mosha. I have tried the MDX examples with SP2 CTP 1 (November) and still get the wrong results. Is this fixed in a later release of SP2 Regards Thomas Ivarsson Thank you Mosha. I should be able to see this in CTP1 What version of the Adventure Works cube are you using(Standard or Enterprise) Have there been any changes in this cube since the RTM of SSAS2005 one year ago I will check again with a never version of Adventure Works. Regards Thomas Ivarsson ...Show All

• Gadgets How to submit a gadget questions?

  It says that all the files need to be zipped together and that the manifest needs to reference the relative value of the js and css files. Does there have to be a folder structure or could I just zip the gadget.xml, gadget.css and gadget.rs files and have the manifest as so "in bold below" < xml version="1.0" > <rss version="2.0" xmlns:binding=" http://www.live.com "> <channel> <!-- Specifies the name of your Gadget --> <title>My Interesting Photos</title> <!-- Gives a short description of your Gadget --> <description>A gadget to display your six most popular flickr photos.</description> <!-- Specifies the default locale for y ...Show All

• SQL Server Web Service Task - Passing Variable as input

  Microsoft says it is possible but I just do not see how. Here is the link to the help file where it said that variables could be pass as input to web methods...I do not see the check box they mention on my IDE. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Catherine thank for your quick answer. Following your steps, I notice there are only three columns on the service window you mentioned which the 4th column does not exist. So is there anything wrong about the SSIS I installed Thanks in advance. Catherine ...Show All

• Visual C# Reading words from other windows

  Hi, I came across a dictionary program that runs in the system tray. When you press ctrl+right click on a word in any other window, it displays the definition. I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to do that. It's just out of curiosity as it may be helpful in future programs I build. I know how to capture mouse/keyboard events from other screens and use the system tray, but I haven't figured how to recognize a word/string from the mouse pointer position. Thank you, Wing. Thank you very much. I was hoping for something more innate to C# and .NET but I guess using pinvoke should work just fine. ...Show All

• Visual C# Class names not being highlighted.

  This is probably a fairly easy question, and it might belong in a VS forum somewhere but I couldn't find a VS - General forum here. So since I'm coding in C#, I'll try here. I opened VS today and one of my files no longer has the class names highlighted in light blue. It still builds, the site works and everything, but VS doesn't seem to recognize any of the classes or references on that one page. It was fine yesterday, and other files in the web project work. Other files in the same folder work. It's just this one file. Any ideas I can specify in more detail if you need, but I didn't know if this was an easy fix or not. No. No add-ins or wierd stuff going on. I did install the AJAX.NET RC a ...Show All

• .NET Development Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.Hi Jeff I get this error for each variable

  ms visual studio 2005 sql erver 2005 I originally posted this question at experts-exchange without resolution http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/Microsoft_SQL_Server/Q_22069012.html http: / / www. experts- exchange. com/ Programming/ Programming_ Languages/ Dot_ Net/ VB_ DOT_ NET/ Q_ 22068922. html I get the following error when trying to insert into db from web app have tried.... txtrequireddate.Text.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy ") reqrddate = Convert.ToDateTime(txtrequireddate.Text) reqrddate= CDate(txtrequireddate.Text) Server Error in '/' Application. ---------------------------------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string. Description: An unhan ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Jabber WCF channel

  Is there an implementation of Jabber as a WCF channel, or would that just be ludicrous ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. So... What is XNA then?

  So XNA then is the next step of the DirectX API for .NET languages (previously called Managed DirectX), is just a new technology completely different that will be shiped in a separate way of DirectX or is the real way in which DirectX 10 will move, adding an "unmanaged" API for the past contents using Directx 8 and 9 Better to say this: So, just to summarize, we could say that DirectX is still a machine-built API for games and will continue like that and that XNA is the new managed wrapper for DirectX 9 > So, can we expect that in Windows Vista we will have the XNA layer for DirectX 10 so that XNA games work well on it We can hope, nothing has been announced..... >Is XNA a layer to install separately fr ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro how to check for your prg running?

  heres my prob. when you launch my application and minimize it and then try and launch it in a second screen you get alot of errors. how can i check if the program is already running so i know to cancel the prg right away if it is alrdy running Yes I mean pre2K (and we have many customers using win9x,winNT it's frustrating for me to always seek a method that would work on those machines too - meaning even with winAPI I have to choose carefully:( ). ...Show All

• Visual C++ Read access violation when buffer bigger than 2048

  Hello, I'm an old mainframe assembler programmer and I'm trying to teach myself C++. I've bungled through writing a program to copy a file (just to get familiar with I/O. The program works fine when variable BuffSiz is 2048 or smaller. If it's bigger, I can't even start debugging. The error is: Unhandled exception at 0x004012af in Compression.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00371000. I am using VS2005 on XP SP2 with the latest SDK. This is a Win32 Console App. This is my first program so please ignore (and advise of) the many shortcomings. Also - how do I get the code to post here as it is formatted. Also - I see a couple of light bulbs. They should be replaced with brackets containing the value of "i ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Events not called for Browser Helper Object

  I have a Browser Helper Object (BHO) that subscribes to the BeforeNavigate2 event. For debugging purposes, the BHOs class writes to a temporary file so I know when it's being instantiated and when BeforeNavigate2 is being called. In one scenario (Win2K3 Server R2 SP1, IE 6 SP1, logged in as Administrator), the BHO works fine and BeforeNavigate2 is called by IE. In a 2nd scenario (Win2K3 Server, IE 6, logged in as Administrator), I can see that the BHO's class is instantiated; but BeforeNavigate2 is never called. In both cases, the BHO's DLL is installed in the directory c:\bho and registered as follows: regasm /codebase bho.dll Does anyone have ideas as to why scenario #2 is not working, what else I can look at t ...Show All

• .NET Development Strongly-typed dataset, primary key generated from tableAdapter.Update(ds) not passed to FK of related table

  I have created a strongly typed dataset (CustomerDataset) with, for this scenario, 4 tables: Customer (CustomerID is PK) Account (AccountID is PK, CustomerID is FK) Invoice (InvoiceID is PK, AccountID is FK) AccountTransaction (AccountTransactionID is PK, InvoiceID is FK) Given that I am going to create a new Invoice row, consisting of all AccountTransaction rows that up until now had a null InvoiceID (i.e. transactions not yet invoiced). To create a new Invoice row, I write the following code: <code> CustomerDataset.InvoicesRow invoice = null; foreach (CustomerDataset.AccountsRow account in customer.GetAccountsRows()) { // create a new invoice invoice = CustomerDataset.Invoices.NewInvoicesRow(); invoice.Account ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable event autogenerate on control double click?

  Anyone know how to disable the functionality that automatically generates an event handler when a control is double clicked in windows form designer VS05 Pro I prefer to deliberately double click in the event properties when i want an event generated. Thanks. it's a property of the Control with the DefaultEvent attribute. You can try subclassing the control without reimplementing anything, it might work since the DefaultEvent attribute is not inheritable ...Show All

• .NET Development Close_Wait

  Hi.. when i run netstat and see that a socket is in a Wait_Close state.. how long does it wait! and can u modify that time thnx CLOSE WAIT state is defined as: The device has received a close request ( FIN ) from the other device. It must now wait for the application on the local device to acknowledge this request and generate a matching request. Therefore, it is up to the local application on your machine to send a reciprocal FIN (ie. close its side of the TCP connection) in order for the connection to trasition past the CLOSEWAIT state in the TCP state machine. ...Show All

• .NET Development CustomSoapExtension Not working.

  Hello, I am just trying to create a simple custom soap extension and I put breakpoints on the ProcessMessage overriden method but it never stops there. This is the web service. [ SoapDocumentMethod (ParameterStyle= SoapParameterStyle .Wrapped, Use= SoapBindingUse .Literal)] [ WebMethod (Description= "Suma dos putos numeros" )] [ TestSoapExtensionAttribute ()] public int suma( int x, int y) { return x + y; } This is the custom soap extension namespace CustomSoapExtension { public class CustomSoapExtensionClass : SoapExtension { Stream newStream; Stream oldStream; public override object GetInitializer( Type serviceType) { return null ; ...Show All