RAYMOND KNIGHT's Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development HD-DVD DONE!

  32 Hours and Im ready to burn!!! Thanx a million Jeff you were the primer! Do I just burn my 2 folders to a DVD-9 as Data or is there a trick to get the Toshiba HD-XA1 to play that way I haven't fully tested this, but you should be able to use Nero to make a DVD-ROM with UDF 2.50 and place the ADV_OBJ and HVDVD_TS folders in it. In theory, it might work. I hope to have time tomorrow to try it out. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CTP5 - Writing updates to a DB project

  I have downloaded the CTP5 and used it to a certain extent. I am happy to see some of the improvements as compared to CTP4. The 'Import Script' feature is very useful. As we all know that we can compare two databases by selecting one as the 'source' and another one as the 'target' . Once the comparison is done and the differences are selected, we can 'Write Updates' to the target to make it same as the source. However, I would like to suggest the development team to provide 'Write Updates' feature for the database project also. The most common scenario is when a developer creates new tables, strored procs, triggers or other objects on his local database, the developer should be able to compare his local database with the database projec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Printing questions, crystal view PrintReport method

  I am using Visual Studio .net 2003 to create a web application for a set of crystal reports. I am trying to print the whole report, rather than just the current page. I have another thread going on this forum to try and help me figure out why PrintToPrinter doesn't work the way I want it to, but in my research I have discovered that there is supposed to be a PrintReport method in the CrystalReportViewer control. However, I can't see it. The articles I read seem to say that I should have that functionality in 2003...are they wrong And if so, why is it so difficult in 2003 to print a crystal report in it's entirety, or choose a subset of pages Isn't that the whole point Please help...I hate to have a whole application held up by somet ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Platform Builder for the hobbyist?

  Does anyone know of a way (or has anyone been able) to get a copy of Platform Builder from Microsoft free or cheep with the understanding that you will not sell any products built with it. This would be for a hobbyist, or a guy with little discretionary funds and a few great ideas. It's not the right place to start a flaming discussions on marketing decisions (which I won’t even pretend are always clear to me) so I'll close that as off topic which it clearly is. You have your answer though: for better or worse you can’t get PB for free. There are several free or low cost offerings from Microsoft like Express products but PB is not one of them. ...Show All

• SQL Server AS 2005 - errors after password change

  Hello all I changed the password that I use in AS 2005 to connect to my SQL Server database. I changed it in the data source, so when I go into the connection there, I can connect properly (when I click the Edit button for the Connection String, and then hit Test Connection). However, when I go to a dimension, and try to process it, I get the error: OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user '[MyUserName]'.; 42000. Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of '[MyDatabaseName]', Name of '[MyDatabaseName]'. I've tried all the ImpersonationInfo options - use specific name and password, use service account, credentials of the current use ...Show All

• .NET Development hashtable.values.CopyTo() function

  Hi Guys, I am trying to convert the values in my hashtable to an array. I am using the hashtable.values.CopyTo() function but it always breaks, it doesn't seem to matter if I change my array type. The data in the hashtable is a [,] and i would prefer to keep it that way, however I know that I may have to change it to a double[ ] (conincendentaly I have done that) but I still get a error on the lines it doesnt fit. Can someone please help. I have pasted my code below. double []meanR = new double [7]; theMeanReturn = mean.getMeanCcyReturns(TheReturns); // theMeanReturn returned as a [,] double [] TheMeanReaturn = new double []; //parse theMeanReturns to a [ ] for ( int p = 0; p < theMeanReturn.Lengt ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies reference to a listitem into a list folder

  Hi all, I'm looking into WSS 3.0 lists. I'd like to know if I can create a "link" list item, that represents a reference to an existing list item into another list folder. I'm going to explain myself with an example. I'd like to create a structure like this: List1 Folder1 ListItem1 Folder2 ListItem1 (this is a "link" list item) In this way, I can create a ListItem, and then put a reference to it into other folders in my list folders structure. When I edit ListItem1, changes should be immediately applied to ListItem1 links in the folders structure (because links are simply references to the same list item). And... if I enumerates items of Folder2 (or through SPQuery or SPView), I should be able to ...Show All

• .NET Development TransactedInstaller to remove an old service and install a new one

  I currently am designing a service that will need to upgrade itself without rebooting. The design I have been basing all of my work off of is when an update to said service is available I will download it and install it as a new service with a different version # appended to the end. I will then start remove the exiting service and start the new one.. I am using the TransactedInstaller class to install the new service and remove the old service however these steps cannot be done as one transaction. I have tried overriding the ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller class and redirecting the call from install to uninstall and visa versa. This does not works as it corrupts the install state for some reason. Does anyone have an idea abou ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI windows.

  Using Visual C++ EE, I constructed Form1 and Form2. In Form1 declared three objects A, B, C of Form2 as MDI windows of the parent Form1 window. In Form1 there are also three threads that manipulate files displayed by the relevant Form2 MDI window. I do invoke from Form2 a method of Form1. What could I pass to the invoked method to know which (A, B or C) window is the invoker (I do not want to deal with which window has the focus.) Thank you for any guidance. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Smartbridge Alerts

  I too am receiving the "entry point not found" message. I have very little technical knowledge and would appreciate assistance in any fashion. thanks. Helen McLaughlin Jonathan....thank you for your interest.  The error message is: The procedure entry point GetProcessImageFileNameW could not be located in the dynamic link library.   I have absolutely no idea what it means. Helen ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Replace text in XPS documents

  I'm trying to replace text in XPS documents and I've got nowhere. What we're trying to do is replace our old word templates that have bookmarks as placeholders; we use vb6 to replace the text where the bookmarks are. This is so users can create generic documents and merge them with our data from our database. We want to replace this as honestly the current solution isn't that good, but does work, so it's not all bad. I've created an XPS document with bookmarks, can't seem to figure out what makes a bookmark a bookmark in XPS. But really all we would need would be a placeholder like <Address> or <Name> or something and then replace that text with data. Can anyone help or at least point me in the right directi ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I define a class to be accessible from other classes.

  Hello I have a class called CHardware. I would like to define this class once as: CHardware hardware = new Hardware(); Then be able to access hardware from any where in my program. Such as from within other classes. How do I do that. David Hello No that is not what I mean. If I declare my hardware class as above CHardware hardware = new Hardware(); in FormMain public partial class FormMain : Form { CHardware HardWare1 = new CHardware (); CHardware HardWare2 = new CHardware (); public FormMain() { InitializeComponent(); } So I can call Hardware1.AnyMethod() from within FormMain. But what I want to do is call Hardware1 from w ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Changes to WMI on Vista that would prevent custom WMI Provider DLL from loading?

  I have a WMI Provider DLL that I devloped a couple of years ago that is used to gather some extra system info and put it in the CIMV2 namespace. It has worked fine on 2000 and XP, but when I try and use it on Vista it doesn't appear to even be loading. MOFCOMP on my MOF file runs OK, as well as regsvr32 with the DLL. I can see the class in the WMI Browser, but no istances of my WMI object. The DLL is based on the C++ framework code generated by the "Microsoft WMI Code Generation Engine" from the WMI SDK released a few years ago. I have tried turning off UAC in Vista but that doesn't seem to make any difference. I haven't been able to find any specific info about why the WMI Provider DLL woudn't work on Vista. Are there any specif ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS2005 crashes several times a day

  Hi, Visual Sourcesafe 2005 is crashing repeatedly for me at these places: Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x000122ba. Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x000111de. Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0003426d. Faulting application ssexp.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x00043345. All of these seem to happen if I scroll/click the mouse immediately after performing DIFFs. I think all of the crashes are caused by the same bug so I'm ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI or SDI

  I am creating a VB front end for a SQL Server Express database. My application will need to do the following: 1. Populate comboxes on form load from the database whislt displaying a splash screen 2. Navigate through forms on a sequential basis (e.g. Enter some data then move to form 2 and enter more data, miove to form 3 and do some other stuff), but i want to navigate backwards and forwards through the forms. 3. Be idiot proof e.g. only one form can be accessed at a time e.g. modal forms. 4. A menu bar would be useful, but i could use command buttons of a form. 5. Some data will be required to be passed between the forms. 6. All the forms will be the same size. My question is what is the best format to use SDI or MDI A MDI app will conta ...Show All