Frank Uray's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Installing VB6

  Hi all Please help me. I have tried to install VB6 onto and XP running pc. The software has not loaded properly and now when I have tried again I get a different screen to the installation screen and a message pops up when I try to custom install saying that the 32 bit system does not run msdos or windows. I have installed this software onto a laptop with XP without any trouble. I would be very grateful for any ideas on how to get this software installed , it is genuine and cosha. Thanks Chris This is the wrong forums to ask this question. This is the Visual Studio Source Control integration and Visual SourceSafe forums. Please redirect your questions to the Visual Basics forums. ...Show All

• Visual C# C# or J#?

  Hi all, I'm a Java developer (Sun) and I work for a software company that developes stock trading systems. Recently, we (at my work place) got a request to develop a specific application that is only possible to do in C# or VB.NET, due to an external api that supports only those 2 languages. Therefore, we've decided to go in to the .net developement world. The way we're going to work is to have a .net tier doing the C# stuff, and pure Java clients (a constraint, clients can't be written in .net) communicating with the .net tier. My question is regarding the communications between the .net tier and the java clients. while the external vendor requires C#, there is no limitation on the communications with the Java clients. W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Documenting public nested classes/types produces incorrect namespace

  In the namespace overview the parent class of a nested-class is not shown. Also in the class-overview this parent class is not shown. It appears as if the nested class is a 'root'-class in the namespace displayed. However, this nested-class isn't located there, but its parent class is. T his is very irritating when a user tries to instantiate a public nested-class based upon the documentation (the documentation doesn't display the right namespace the class is located in). I've fixed this in my sandcastleGUI program ( http://www.inchl.nl/SandcastleGUI ) by parsing the outputted html, but I believe it should be fixed in the Sandcastle builder-program. Your post was little confusing. I believe you mean “ ...Show All

• SQL Server What/where are the SQL Server 2005 BulkLoader components?

  Hi, I am assisting with a package install and we are getting an error saying something like "Unable to find the bulkloader in the database home folder". SQL instance is 2005 Std edition. When installed we initially did not select some Client Components i.e. Software Development Kit and SQLXML Client Features. These have both been installed now. Business Intelligence Development Studio is not installed. It's also been suggested we need something called DotNetEtc. I have come up with a complete blank on this. I would really appreciate any help with this. Regards, Simon ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 3.0 Installation Crashes on vanilla W2003 SP1

  from the log files, the crash seems to happen when installing some kind of XML patch / fix (MSXML 6.0 Parser (KB925673) ). No idea what to do now. Thanks. [dd_WIC.txt] 0.157: ================================================================================ 0.157: 2007/02/20 20:06:17.671 (local) 0.157: c:\db46667afd0678a871c75ef8\update\update.exe (version 6.3.4.0) 0.172: Hotfix started with following command line: /quiet /norestart /log:c:\temp\dd_WIC.txt 0.172: In Function GetBuildType, line 1170, RegQueryValueEx failed with error 0x2 0.188: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsCodecs.dll is Present 0.188: Unexpected Error While Executing Line 1 ( Test.WindowsCodecsVer.Section ) of PreRequisite 0.188: WIC Setup canceled. 0.188: Update.exe extende ...Show All

• Visual Basic Want Label on Form to Show Application Version Number

  I used the following code to add the current application version number (for the application I'm creating) to a label on the form during execution: lblLabel.Text = My.Application.Info.Version.ToString Everytime I execute the application it shows the 1.0.0.1 version number instead of the current published version number (currently 1.0.0.9). Can anyone help me understand how to automate adding the current version number to a form at execution Is there a better line of code than I'm using above Thanks! Doug Hi all, I use the following code to display the version details. This also allows me to know if I am running the published code of debug code. If My .Application.IsNetworkDeploye ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio 2005, SP2 - CTP: problem deleting old backup files in Maintenance Plan

  I have a maintenance plan created on SQL Server 2005 SP2 CTP being run using windows XP account with Administrative privileges. One of the steps.. Maintenance Cleanup Task.. has been setup to delete Backup files older than 2 days. But this step fails with the following error: Executing the query "EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'',N'bak',N'2007-01-28T01:00:02',1 " failed with the following error: "Error executing extended stored procedure: Invalid Parameter". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly. The maintenance plan has become such a huge hurdle in SQL Se ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB .Net Express ? (not VB 2005)

  Is there or was there an express version of VB .Net (2003) available for download. My work PC is stuck at XP SP1 and VB 2005 requires SP2. I'm "stuck" because it's a work PC and the MIS department has not OK'd upgrades to SP2. I was able to install .Net framework 2.0. I'm not really interested in building applications so much as how the forms editor works. An application that I do use at work has changed over to a (very) poorly documented "VB .Net similar" forms editor. Not being familiar with VB and it's editor I wanted to install VB in order to familiarize myself with it as well as VB's accompanying documentation. I've since found a command line option for the setup command that appar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. HLSL and target shader model

  When I write a shader in High-Level Shader Language, how can I specify the target shader model - shader version 2, 3 etc... Also, how do I know which syntax/keywords etc... work in which version For example, there might be some HLSL statements that work for shader model 3 but not version 2. How will I know that Are there any resources/documentation that specify this Thanks When using HLSL without effects, shader versions specified as an argument of D3DXCompileShader. When using effects, the version is specified in the technique semantic like in the exemple below that I took in D3D documentation: technique RenderSceneWithTexture1Light { pass P0 { VertexShader = compile vs_1_1 RenderSceneVS( 1, true, true ); Pixe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a 3rd party time entry addon to TFS?

  I need a way for developers to add time against work items. Thanks for the link. But, I need something to enter daily time of all functions (Analysis, coding, testing, review, ...) by individuals. Not just the development associated with a check in. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS Subscription Problem

  I have created a subscription to dump my output file into a network share, however; when it runs I'm getting the following error in my log file: ReportingServicesService!library!13a4!12/15/2006-10:25:09:: e ERROR: Throwing Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.ServerConfigurationErrorException: The Report Server has encountered a configuration error; more details in the log files, AuthzInitializeContextFromSid: Win32 error: 5; possible reason - service account doesn't have rights to check domain user SIDs. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to correct this. I'm assuming I have a permissions issue some where. Thanks for your reply. I read this KB article and tried the sugge ...Show All

• Visual C# How to add SQL ConnectionString editor form.

  I have created little C Sharp TOOLKIT application utilizing SQL ConnectionString. I use standard windows installer. It compiles nicely creating TOOLKIT.exe.config file with default ConnectionString settings. Sure my customer could go to TOOLKIT.exe.config XML file and edit string to connect to their SQL database. It is simple for us, but for customer it can be little harder. I would like to make their lives easier. My question – Is there any simple way to add a form that would edit ConnectionString after software is installed. Something like we have by name “Add Connection” http://www.windowsitpro.com/Files/09/9002/Figure_05.gif Thank you a lot! I started to write a class lik ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB 2005 - Compositing Operations (C.O.)

  Hello Community! I'm quite new in VB (just since November06 ) and I'm looking for a fast way to overlap greyscale bitmaps in VB2005 (i.e. for every pixel R=G=B). I tryed to use the alpha-blending tchnique but it doesn't fit my porpouses (after I perform the C. O. the overlapping region is darkned). I would like the overlapping process to be a lightening process (the resultant color is always at least as light as either of the two costituent colors). In particular overlapping any color with white should produce white. Overlapping any color with black should leave the original color unchanged. I found an interesting program in VB6 that seems to to that http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/vbMedia/Image_Processing/Compositing/arti ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista break out of a parrallel Activity.

  I made a custom Activity that is wired to one interface event. Using correlation I can call one event and it will be directed to the correct instance even if they are in parrallel. It's useful but I have a case where I need to use a listen activity but the listen activity won't accept my custom acivity because its not an HandleExternalEvent Acitvity. The point. I would like to use a parrallel activity with several branches but if one particular branch is taken I want to shortcircuit the parrallel activity and continue with the next activity after the parrallel(regardless if the other branches have not all been completed). If there is a better way of approaching this please let me know. Thanks! List ...Show All

• Visual Studio crystal report - data and authentication

  Hi, I have created a report for a windows form and it run correctly but when i lunch it, i always recive a request to insert a database user's password. If i see a report's connection property i saw userid=sa but not a password. How can i set a report connection property so that never call me to insert password ! ! Thank's!!! Dear Carlo You said that you have created a Report. So you can get Report Document reference from the code. Every Crystal Report Viewer component takes a reference of ReportDocument. and Every ReportDocument is binded with a report file. So you need to look at your code. Regards, ...Show All