Furrukh Baig's Q&A profile

• Visual C# How to convert an Excel file into XML and XSD files

  Hi, I have an excel file which has several columns similar to database table, which we like to convert into XML and XSD files. How can we achieve this using C#. Thanking you, Regards, Prashant take a look at these threads they provide ideas and code samples: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=460026&SiteID=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=509957&SiteID=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=546589&SiteID=1 hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Basic using send keys to send the "^" character to a window

  I have created an multiple encryption step program for text and I am trying to add diffrent options for it. One button sends the encrypted text directly to a chat window. When a "^" is present, it just skips over it and even delets the letter the the right of it. I tryed this to fix it in my code, but to no avail, but it no longer skips the character to the right. according to the documentation, the ^ character is a special character, used for the CTRL key: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.aspx so to use them, try to enclose them in braces: "{^}" hope it helps! ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Active Directory Role example

  someone help to find an example based on active directory role thanks Check our samples>Technologies\Roles for the Activedirectory role samples. also check: http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/communications/entry7716.aspx _Vignesh ...Show All

• Visual C# Logging vs stack trace

  We are starting to use Log4Net in our projects and then I came up with a doubt: If Stack trace shows us all methods calls when executing a certain piece of code, why would one use Log4Net (or any other tool for logging), taking some risk to degrade performance and such... Actually I found log4Net a cool tool for logging our queries result. But then, that makes sense only for our methods that return a SELECT result or for those that call an ExecuteNonQuery (CRUDs). Am I right Well let's say that inside a function you open a file dialog, get a filename from the user, open the file, read it, and then close it. A stack trace would only tell you that you entered and then exited the function. In a log you could write... [time]: ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Transitions effects ...

  Hello, I'm searching the way to make transitions in 2D like the Windows Movie Maker in Vista or Premiere transitions. Is there any way to make a flash or wpf mask and aply to object to animate a transition For example I have two grid and I want to make the transitions between them using visual or something like that. Thanks a lot !!!! Hi Euclidez, There is a way to make "transitions" within WPF. Though I am not certain what specific type of transitions you are looking for, there is a great deal of flexibility to create transitions within WPF. In general, I would recommend using the "Microsoft Expression Blend" tool (available here: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Coded webtest datasource problem

  Hey all, I've generated a coded webtest from a webtest that works just fine. When trying to run the unmodified newly generated coded test, I'm getting this error: Error WebTest1Coded WebTests Could not run web test 'WebTest1Coded' on agent 'MachineName': Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I've found that the culprit has something to do with this attribute: [ DataSource ( "TestData1" , "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=ServerName;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName" , Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting. DataBindingAccessMethod .Sequential, "TableName" )] If I commit out this line, the test runs fine...but I can't access my test data. Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Interop causing memory leak

  I'm having a very strange issue with an inter-op between my C# application and an unmanaged DLL written in C++. The problem is that I have a memory leak on the C# application. I'm mostly a C++ programmer so I'm having great difficulty debugging it. Commenting out all calls to my unmanaged DLL will remove the memory leak error however, so I'm sure it has something to do with the inter-op. I tried to create a separate unmanaged C++ application that loads the exact same DLL, and to my surprise the new unmanaged C++ application does NOT have a memory leak. I repeat, this is verified to be using the exact same DLL. So my real dilemma is that I have a memory leak in C# that I can't reproduce in C++. I know, funny isn't it There are a few techni ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.Net, Excel and multiple workbooks

  Hello all, VB.Net 2003 and Office 2000 running on Windows 2000 Sp4. I have written an application that opens two Excel workbooks, copies data from one to the other, formats it and saves it. Nice and simple and has worked perfectly with just one workbook in another part of the application. Problem comes when I quit Excel and run the garbage collector, to tidy up the excel.exe that is still running in the background, and then Excel throws an unhandled exception which is revealed to be the following in the debugger, Unhandled exception at 0x300341b6 in EXCEL.EXE: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x650eeed8. Is there anything I am missing with the two open workbooks that I have to do differently when using one workbook ...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

• Internet Explorer Development IE and WinForms Application architecture question

  Hi Forum, I'm developing a system composed of the following layers Client Apps (more than likely using AJAX) Interactive Client (interactive access to read-only data (searches) and message posting, will run in kiosk mode) Alert Client (read-only access to data through RSS) Admin Client (full-access) Server (WebService WSDL) Business Objects Database My question is this: Of the following designs, what would be the best implementation for the Interactive Client If you can think of a better one, can you please explain the basic concepts of your arch Consider that the application should have similar form and function as Windows Media Player, Google Desktop and McAfee Security products--to name a couple. P ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 Trial

  I am considering visual studio 2005 (standard...) and want to download the trial but the website keeps forcing me to enter an order DVD page. Links that tell me I can either order the trial DVD or download the trial inevitably lead to an order page. Could someone tell me how to download the trial Thanks! -Thomas There are three VS trials: Pro 180 day trial Pro 90 day trial VS Team Sutie 180 day trial There is not a trial for VS Standard. Trials are only available for download if you have an MSDN subscription. If you do not have an MSDN subscription, you will need to order a DVD or attend a VS event where the product is being given away. As an alternative, you can al ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. help please Rendertarget on xbox360

  i have look at this sample by Manders vs. Machine i use 2 rendertarget and it work in winxp but not on xbox360 when you graphicsDevice.ResolveRenderTarget(0); ( you get a copy of what you just have render) so you can say this Texture2d mytex = Myrendertarget.gettexture(); now i shood have a copy of the rendertarget copy from xbox fast mem to local mem stored in my mytex now shwicth rendertarget and do the same and render to a screenquad on both textures this dos not work xbox so thery u can onlye have one rendertarget on xbox one for shadow and the mesh but i what to postprocess the mesh example bluer it a bit so i need a rendertarget more we can do this on windows but not on xbox i have converted ab ...Show All

• SQL Server Transaction log filling up in "Simple" recovery model, catch 22

  I need to do the quaterly cleanup of our database involving moving historical data to our history db and delete-ing records in a our operational datastore. I've set the recovery model to "simple" as advertised in numerous fora and KB articles. Still the the transaction log goes through the roof evertime I do a delete * from myTable where datetime < '2006-10-01' Where eventually it fails becouse transaction log is full....(Msg 9002) If I do a BACKUP LOG myDatabase TO myBackup sql claims that I cannot perform a transaction log backup (Msg 4208). So I 'm stuck with a large log file in the "simple" recovery model that can not be shrunk... SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Editio ...Show All

• SQL Server Clustering Options

  What options do I have to cluster SQL server 2005 Currently we have three servers that can be used for the cluster. We currently don't have any shared storage, but plan on getting a SAN down the road. What do you guys recommend I would like to have some redundancy in the database server. I'm not sure what's is what you want to do. A Cluster solution involves a cross wire between two server at minimun or a SAN array. On the other hand, we have the next High Aviability options in SQL 2005: Database Mirroring Log Shipping Database Mirroring and Log Shipping require at least two server and more depending on the configuration you want to select: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms19020 ...Show All

• Windows Forms form.show terminate application

  hi i am obseving a strange behaviour in my mdi project i have a MDI container with a toolbar . Using this toolbar button i instantiate a new form name filemanager and this filemanager form again has a button name status on clicking this button it instantiate a new form curstatus .Upto this things are fine but when the code to show the instance of curstatus execute form appear for fraction of sec and application terminates . mdiform form ->filemanager form->curstatus form when i remove all the controls from curstatus form things work fine but even with a single control in this form application terminates in above scenario. please help thanx try with following settings and see if you could able to find that your app ...Show All