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• Windows Live Developer Forums Switch from Live ID to .NET Passport

  Is it possible to switch it from Live ID back to .NET passport I was in the Windows Live Account Service page, I try to change my email to another one, but I only given one choice, which is to create a new Hotmail account. I remember last time, when I login to .NET Passport credential page, it do let me change the email to whatever email I want (not limited to Hotmail). Is this possible Peter Chan They are killing themselves with this in classic Microsoft style. Forcing their existing client base to adopt hotmail.com or live.com email addresses will only send us away to google and yahoo. At the very least they should have an account migration tool to bring your contacts and settings over from an exi ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ converting hex value to int

  Hi I'm kinda of new C++ and I have a question in regards to conversion of a hex value stored in a string to it's decimal equivalent. where each char element is stored in memory with a hex value. I know that the actual char representation of each element may be a non printable char otherwise I could use function: strol for valid hex values (1-f). my question is the following if I have a char array with the following values... char mystring[10]; mystring[0] = 0x15; mystring[1] = 0xbc; mystring[3] = 0x7d; mystring[4] = 0xea; is there a way to convert mystring to it's decimal equivalent int value of 364674538 I've been banging my head on this one and I'm lost.. any input is thanked in advance! ...Show All

• Windows Forms BackgroundWorker.ReportProgress: Thread Safe?

  Does ProgressChanged event fire on the thread the backgroundworker was started, similar to RunWorkerCompleted Is it safe for modifying properties in controls I have a class with a sub Start, and an event called ShowInfo for example. I want to use a backgroundworker to process stuff inside Start, and when it needs to show info it calls ReportProgress. Is this safe Yes, the ProgressChanged event fires on the thread that created the BackgroundWorker instance. If that was the GUI thread, unusually it is, it is safe to access the form's controls. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D VERY slow on the XBOX

  Im having a hard problem getting good FPS rates on the XBOX, everything turns around and gets alot slower. Does anyone have a solution, or reason for this see this thread, maybe you made the same mistake. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1081909&SiteID=1 if not, post some code, so we can help you ...Show All

• SQL Server Summarizing members with the same name across dimensions

  Hi. I have a cube in MSAS 2000 and I would like to create a calculated member which sums two members - each from a different dimension. Both members have the same name in both dimensions. Here is the MDX I tried and following it is the error: SUM({ [External Unit General Ledger].&[All].&[Cost of CPE],[Resource General Ledger].&[All].&[Cost of CPE] }) Error: Calculation error - unknown error Cost of CPE (Please note that member names are correct) Any ideas Thanks. Hello. Seems like you are trying to build a set from two dimension members. Can this help SUM({ ( [External Unit General Ledger].&[All].&[Cost of CPE],[Resource General Ledger].&[All].& ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 RTM merge replication issues

  We are trying to implement merge replication between 2 servers. Database size is around 11GB. When I tried to create publication, snaphot agent is failing with following errror. Error: 14151, Severity: 18, State: 1. Replication-Replication Snapshot Subsystem: agent NBTENTSQL1X-PayDirectWeb-PayDirectPub-2 failed. The replication agent had encountered an exception. Source: Replication Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.ReplicationAgentSqlException Exception Message: String or binary data would be truncated. Cannot find the object 'MSmerge_sel_4D388 The table where the snapshot is breaking contains around 169 columns. Can someone please help me get through this error Are you using vertical partitioning ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL server version needed for an internet application

  Hi All, I am a new comer to the internet e-commerce and ebusiness service. I have limited budget for my startup. I would like to know whether the SQL Server 2005 standard x32 edition (5 client), as this verion is still relative affordable, could be good enough to support an ebusiness intertnet site. When an internet broswer access to my site, would that access be counted as one client Also, I would like to know whether anyone there have experience of using SQL express edition to support an internet site, that potentially need roburst data transaction. Thanks a lot. SPA ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dont show form until form_load has finished executing

  All, I have a menu and want to open the form so that the form_load event fires, but the user cannot see the form until the form_load event has finished executing I tried opening the form using frmTest.Hide but the Load event of frmTest does not execute and if I open the form normally i.e. frmTest.Show and then hide the form withing the forms oen load menu I get an unprofessional flicker. Basically I dont want the user to see the form until the code in its form_load event has finished Can anyone help Cheers Remember that forms in .Net are classes and have a New constructor method. You should be able to move your initialization code to that routine. Load should be reserved for activity that affects how the ...Show All

• Visual C# anyway to improve IDE performance

  When i type anything in C# IDE (VS.NET 2005), it always stuck for 0.5 second - kind of pain and stop my thinking. Anyway to improve IDE performance My machine is PIV 3.19GHZ, 2.00G RAM - do i need to upgrade to 20G :) You can find a discussion of various settings changes you can make to potentially improve performance in this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=144370&SiteID=1 Also, could you provide additional details about your environment and solution How many projects do you have in your solution Are they all C#, or do you have a mix of C#, VB, and/or C++ projects How many lines are your source files Are your files stored in Visual SourceSafe or some other source c ...Show All

• .NET Development Custom formatters and enumerated types

  Using .NET 2.0, is it possible to apply a custom formatter to an enumerated type For example, if I had the following enumeration: Public Enum Holiday None = 0 NewYearsDay StPatricksDay AprilFoolsDay End Enum Is it possible to create a custom formatter that would allow me to print the names of the members with spaces between the words For example, Holiday.NewYearsDay.ToString("s") 'The 's' is a custom format specifier... 'Ideally, the line above should cause a custom formatter to be used that returns the string "New Year's Day" (note the spaces between the words and the apostrophe between the r and s). I have successfully created custom formatters for objects, but never enums. Can anyone offer any advice on ...Show All

• Gadgets can't "build" a valid gadget file!!! UGH!

  I have created a zip file. I have all the proper files in it. I rename it to x.gadget and the icon changed to a sidebar gadget icon. I double-click it and it prompts to install the gadget. I hit "Install" It pops up an error message saying this is not a valid gadget file. In the directory it puts a folder with my gadgets name with ".~0019" appended to the end of the foldername. The number increments with each attempt. MyfolderName.gadget.~0019 What is going on by the way, I've used the native Vista ZIP ('compressed folder') support all the time to create gadgets, without problem. Unless your OS configuration is somehow different than mine, I would not expect that to be ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to get system uptime?

  So I have been using this to be getting my system uptime and it has been working fine ever since my pc went over 25 days uptime. It starts counting down like -25 days then the next day its -24 and so on. This what im using. Dim nTicks As Double Dim nDays As Integer Dim nHours As Integer Dim nMin As Integer Dim nSec As Integer nTicks = Environment.TickCount nTicks = nTicks / 1000 nDays = Int(nTicks / (3600 * 24)) nTicks = nTicks - (Int(nTicks / (3600 * 24)) * (3600 * 24)) nHours = Int(nTicks / 3600) nTicks = nTicks - (Int(nTicks / 3600) * 3600) nMin = Int(nTicks / 60) nTicks = nTicks - (Int(nTicks / 60) * 60) nSec = nTicks me.text = "System Uptime: " & Str(nDays) & ...Show All

• Windows Forms GridView not displaying joined table

  Hi, I have an ObjectSource (datasource) whose data source is a SQL statement that joins two tables. While testing the object source, the query designer correctly displays data, but when I use a GridView and bind it to ObjectSource, it is showing data only from primary table! Is GridView designed for showing data only from one table and if not, what is the way out Thanks & regards, Sathya Hi, sathyank Are you deving asp.net What is your SQL statement then And how you bind the objectsource to your gridview Why not use SqlDataSource instead Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Questions on Visual Studio 2003/2005

  Hello, I'd like to know which version is included of Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 I know in the 2002 (and 2003 ) it's version 9 (or equivalence) Also I would like to know which full Crystal Reports versions we can use with the .NET studios I've tested CR10 with 2003 and it fits but could XI work with 2003 for instance A list of compatibilities would be advantageous Thanks Sperin, I was having the same problem. I don't remember BO sending out an email on this update. And i didn't see it on there service packs / hotfixes page. I know there are quite a few developers that will run into this issue. Thanks Rick ...Show All

• SQL Server How to create an event driven shared schedule

  We have a number of jobs that run nightly. Typically these complete long before the shared schedule runs. However, when they do not complete in time, we need to stop the shared schedule from running. How is this accomplished I have seen that it is possible to create event driven subscriptions but am not sure this accomplishes the same thing. Basically, I need to pause the shared schedule if a particular job has not completed successfully. Then, I need to run the shared schedule once the job has completed. None of the reports we are running are snapshot based. Would moving to this method resolve the issue Any help is greatly appreciated. I had the same issue. What I did was kick off the subscription SQ ...Show All