Curtis Bridges's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic resizing application

  im trying to resize my application when the screen is rotated. when the screen is flipped to portrait mode i do: datStart = Now Me .MaximumSize = New Point(768, 1024) Me .Size = New Point(768, 1024) datEnd = Now MsgBox(datEnd.Subtract(datStart).TotalMilliseconds.ToString() & "milliseconds(Subtract)" ) when its flipped back to landscape i do: Me .MaximumSize = New Size(768, 700) Me .Size = New Size(768, 700) going portrait takes 8 seconds vs nearly instant with going landscape. i inserted the timer until i found what was taking the most time... setting Me .MaximumSize = New Point(768, 1024) Me .Size = New Point(768, 1024) took over 5 seconds... but se ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how to bind enumeration to radiobuttons

  I'd like to bind an enumeration to a list of radiobuttons. I remember from somewhere that I should use a ListBox to achieve this, but I can't find no working sample how this would be done. Can anyone point me to a example Thanks, Sam try this < ObjectDataProvider MethodName = " GetValues " ObjectType = " {x:Type sys:Enum} " x:Key = " odp " > < ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters > < x:Type TypeName = " l:Kontoart " /> </ ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters > </ ObjectDataProvider > < ListBox ItemsSource = " {Binding Source={StaticResource odp}} " Name = " q1 " > ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development How to control a explorer bar in extension?

  I wrote a IE extension include a toolbar and a explorer bar, how to control the explorer bar from toolbar show or hide it, set URL, etc ... Hi, Send us your explorer bar dll and I will package it for you with a toolbar button to toggle its view. I have written the utilities to generate inno setup scripts for this purpose, but these are still in a beta phase. See my examples at http://www.iecustomizer.com/ url=iepanels Regards. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

  I have a service hosted on a machine in NT servcie, a client running on a separate machine also in NT service. They communicate only via the internet. Previously, I was testing with security mode of "message" and clientCredentialType of "windows", everything was working perfectly. Then I decided to implement message encryption. After reading http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731058.aspx , I decited to try "Message Security with a Username Client". I changed my service configuration according to the document : I added the follow to binding of the end point: <security mode="Message"> <message clientCredentialType="UserName" /> </security> I ...Show All

• Architecture Enterprise Service Bus

  Hello all, our goal is to start building a service oriented architecture. So we are going to provide functionality of our existing applications as web services. We don't want point to point relationships betweend consumer and provider. So that is the point where something like a entprise service bus comes up. What is the enterprise service bus product of microsoft Is it the UDDI server Thanks in advance Hennesey Hennesey, Although MS doesn't have a product falling strictly in the category of ESB (Biztalk is actually a supraset of that) there are ways of implementing an ESB using MS platform components There was, one month ago, a SOA conference at MS Corp, Redmond where one of ...Show All

• SQL Server Always showing the parameter input area.

  Greetings, Is there a way to force the parameter input area to always show even when default values are specified I want to always display the parameter area even when I set initial parameters. Thanks The strange thing is in one report I have a date parameter set to a default value of =Today() and in that report the parameter input area is always visible. For a test I added a kludge parameter to the other report as a date and the input area is still in a collapsed state. It must be the way the other parameters are processed. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Intellisense not working -> a solution

  After having installed the linq preview on a clean installation of vs2005 intellisense was not working. This was due to some registry keys pointing to the wrong paths in the filesystem: HLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\LINQ Preview\VCSIDEDIR and HLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\LINQ Preview\VCSPKGDIR where both pointing to C:\Program Files\LINQ Preview\" which doesn't seem right. After having changed them to point to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ and C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC#\VCSPackages\ intellisense works fine for me. Michael hi michael. i have run the install script, and it didn't seem to change anything. intellisense works at a basic level, but it isn't nearly as good as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office AppCheck.cpp...PIACheck.cpp

  I cannot, for the life of me, get these files (see title) to compile to .exe. I have been following the steps listed in the article below: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerOverview.asp I tried the command line compilation...both styles because, at first, I had the VSTO .net 2005 install. After it didn't work, I installed team edition. Neither one worked. I am able to compile the files in .net 2005 design environment, but the output is not a .exe...Either I have forgotten something basic, or my plight is totally helpless. Could someone either help me get the project compiled in .Net, or could they point me to a downloadable, pre-compiled version ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to clean up windows CardSpace

  After testing a lot different usages of CardSpace (self-card, managed card etc.) I've noticed that launching the selector from IE7 was becoming very slow, as well as the opening of the authentication UI, or the retrieval of the MEX policy and even the sending of the RSTR. Even worse, the selector seems bugged i.e. I can't use the managed card included in the selector to connect to a remote STS any more. When the selector contacts the STS, it crashes without errors in Application log from Event Viewer except a message in System Log "Application has generated an exception that could not be handled" and I've got a pop-up saying that Windows CardSpace encounters an error… If I remove and re-install the .NET 3 Framework from the co ...Show All

• SQL Server Is ProcessAdd done within a transaction mode?

  Is ProcessAdd done within a transaction mode This question is very basic. When you do a ProcessAdd, is it within a transaciton mode I mean, if the ProcessAdd fault and stop when it meets a mistake, the records before the midstake will still be in the cube or not. Thanks. You will need to wrap everything into transaction. I am not sure whether standard SSIS processing task can reuse existing transaction, but if not - it will be very easy to write custom transform using AMO, and keep session ID at the pipeline level. Your first task will be to begin transaction, and last task to commit it. Mosha ...Show All

• SQL Server Binary Data on Multiple Servers

  I'm using EncryptByKey to encrypt data in my SS2005 database. Since our server is really slow to access from home to work on, I used the Database Publishing Wizard and installed the db to work on at home. Then I created the certificate and symmetric key in my home db. When I pull info using the DecryptByKey on our database at work on Windows 2003 Server, no problem, the data is decrypted. However, the same data does not decrypt at home on my Windows XP computer. I'm using TripleDes on both machines for the symmetric key (AES won't work on XP). --To create my cert and key: USE My_DB; CREATE CERTIFICATE MyCert ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'some password' WITH SUBJECT = My Data', START_DATE = '01/01/2007', EXPIRY_DATE = '01/01/2099' ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Selecting a different device

  Hi all, I have tried to compile the first sample program from the Help file, where your supposed to get a sprite bouncing around the room. It worked in Beta 1, but not Beta 2, I get the InvalidOperationException on spriteBatch. Now I have looked at other posts and haven't found a work around, and my graphics card is a Intel Integrated Graphics 2. Now I ran the DirectX Device Caps program, Oct 2006 and found that in HAL mode it doesn't support pixel shaders, actually is says 0.0 after PixelShader, but under the REF folder is says next to PixelShader: 3.0 I am assuming that if I can change the Device to use software emulation instead of hardware, the program should run, is this a correct assumption Maybe my wording isn't right but you shou ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MessageSecurityException problem

  I have a problem that's got me stumped I have a "self-hosted" server over wsHttpBinding, with message security and secured with a home-made certificate (for now at least), the clients are validated using a CustomUserNameValidator. This is in an intranet setting, but not in a domain, firewalls switched off.. From one particular machine I've got problems connecting to the service - I have the cert installed on the client in TrustedPeople (and using PeerOrChainTrust), the client finds the cert. - Before i switched off negotiateServiceCredential in the client I got either "the local security authority cannot be contacted" or another one that I cannot remember right now that stated something about something that does not ex ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to set debug options for new project, so Debug configuration will actually debug?

  I am using VC++ Express, with the R2 SDK, to develop (well, learn to develop ) Windows Win32 apps, learning from e.g. Petzold. This is going fine i.e. I can successfully compile, build etc. For new projects, I am selecting General - Empty Project (the Win32 option only offers a template for Win32 console application). The IDE does of course show me Debug and Release options - and depending on which I choose, the exe does end up in the appropriate sub-folder within my project folder tree. BUT, the debug option does NOT compile/link for debug. So if I do F5, then I get the error message box telling me that this project was not built for debug etc. And the appropriate folder contains none of the extra files that are associated with i ...Show All

• SQL Server Migrating a db from SSE 2005 December CTP to SSE 2005 Release Version

  I have a developer who built an application using the SSE 2005 December CTP and I would like to bring the db's into the official SSE 2005 released version. I have attempted the following: 1. Create the db's in the released version, detach and re-attach the CTP db's. I got an error telling me they were incompatible. 2. Installed CTP version on one server, backed up the db's and then attempted to restore the db's on another server running the official released version of SSE 2005. Got an error attempting that too. 3. Installed the Management Studio for SS 2005 Developer edition thinking that I could connect to the two seperate instances of each server and like I could in EM 2000 run the transfer wizard to move the db's and data from ...Show All