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• Visual Basic Inheriting from Scrollable Control

  I'm working on a custom control where I'm going to handle drawing the entire UI with GDI+. The control class is inheriting from ScrollableControl, and I'm setting the AutoScroll property to True and setting the AutoScrollMinSize to 300x300 pixels, but this does nothing. What I want is for scrolling to happen based on the size of the drawing surface and not on the position of any other controls contained on the drawing surface (since I won't have any). I'm fairly new to custom control concepts, so I'm not sure how to go about this. Any tips you guys could offer would be much appreciated. The only idea I've had so far is to derive the control from the Control class, and then write a ScrollableControl derived control to house that control and ...Show All

• SQL Server Transfer database from SQL Server 2000 / 7.0 to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

  I want to transfer a database located on a older SQL server version mentioned above to an SQL 2005 Express Edition. On a SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, I did this with the Copy database wizard. But when I try to specify an Express Edition as the destination server I get message telling me that no sql agent is running on the destination server and here I stand What can I do in in this case Thanks for any help Armin Satya SKJ wrote: If not you can either perform a BACKUP & RESTORE statement to get that backup, also make sure to transfer the logins from that server as the logins will be mismatched once you have the copy on destination server. Is it possible to transfer a databa ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) confused of creating an instance c#/xaml

  Hi, I have a good grasp of OOP from my Actionscript 2.0 background although I am very new to c# and xaml. I am somewhat confused that I have to create an instance of an object in c# when it already exists in xaml. For example; I create a Storyboard in xaml and call it myStoryboard. If I want to access and manipulate myStoryboard in c# I have to create a new instance of Storyboard before I can set it = to myStoryboard. Why do I have to do this if the instance already exists as it seems to me that I now have an instance of an instance Sorry for the nub question but I just can't seem to fully appreciate the 'why' of this process thank you I dont think you need to create instance again if that storyboard is in resou ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Installation Problems

  I've just installed the DirectX SDK and am getting results not listed by other forums and people.  Previously, I used to program with DX8 and had no problems in setting up dependencies and references.  However, with the DX9 installation, it doesn't recognize any dependencies or references.  I've downloaded the latest update (June 2005 ed. of DX9SDK), and still have problems.  I'm running the .NET framework 1.1 and using C#, C++, and Visual Basic to no avail.  The references in the .NET tab (right-click references then click add reference) should have Microsoft.DirectX, but it isn't there.  Without these dependencies and references, I cannot program in DX.  I'll type: using Microsoft.DirectX; using Micros ...Show All

• Windows Forms How To => Open Form / Set Up A Skin ?

  How To Open The Form And Set A Skin For Window Thank You For Best Answer . Another thing that would help is what he means by "skin". He can either be referring to a custom made form (removing the forms border, setting a background image, and coding to close, minimiz, maximize, and move the form). Or by meaning selecting a Windows XP visual style. ...Show All

• Visual Basic nested collections and for each iteration

  Hello, Below is a small snipet using multi-dimensional Collections. First I have tried to create a multi-dimensional associative array. This way I can reference items in my table by string keys, such as colTestSheet.Item("animals").Item("fast") has the value "tiger" . I would like to be able to retrieve the key value . In the For Each loop in the testSimple example the key value that I would like to be able to print is "animals" and "birds". Is there a way to access the key values in the for each loop Sub testSimple() Dim colTestSheet As New Collection colTestSheet.Add New Collection, "animals" colTestSheet.Add New Collection, "birds" colTestSheet.Item ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista human workflow and tasklist

  hi,im quite new to windows WF i have experience of developing human workflows with wfmc standards,but windows WF concepts seems to be diffrent. i should develop a human workflow which is role based.for example each step of the flow(activity) is assigned to a role(an individual person or a group of persons who meets a certain criteria eg. all employer of department X). i want to know how should i get the task list of a certain user who logs into the system.any methode any example any idea i should mention that i DONT want to involve sharepoint in my system and i want to develop all the system as a web application without incvolving sharepoint. any help on this is welcomed. thank you Maur ...Show All

• Visual Basic Me.Suspendlayout

  Hello Everybody! I very new in this forum! my english isn't very well. I hope you understand me. ok, i want to increase the width of my form, but slowly, and, to left side. i tried this: (t.Interval = 10) private Sub t_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles t.Tick Static i As Short If i < 50 Then Me.Left -= 10 Me.Width += 10 Else i = 0 t.Enabled = False End If i += 1 End Sub but it look very bad. if you try you will understand why. it is not has to be like this. if you resize the form manually it's not happend. hope you understand me (: about the function me.suspendlayout: How do i use the function me.suspendlayout I tried this co ...Show All

• Visual C++ Class derived from abstract class with static members

  hi, i derive my class from the abstract Stream class. my class contains static members. one of them makes use of a static variable member, where an error is generated at compile time (C2259: cannot instantiate abstract class). of course this is due to the fact, that the static instance of the class is created at the first time, a static member is accessed. why is the restriction, that no objects can be created from abstract classes, also true for the static instance is there a way of get around this thanks! hi, thanks for your reply! the compiler stops at the red marked line ("error C2259: 'D2XX': cannot instantiate abstract class"): public ref class D2XX : public Stream { protected: ...Show All

• SQL Server retrieve AM or PM

  HI Chaps very simple question this time Is there any method availabe to retrieve AM or PM value from date, IN TSQL hoping will get answer shortly regards, Anas you want quick and dirty (filthy dirty)- well here you go SELECT substring(convert(varchar(26),@dtVal,109),25,2) AS AmPm obviously you can use any date format that contains Am Pm and substring appropriately ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. To Shade or not to Shade...

  I've been wondering, does XNA still support fixed-function pipeline I've noticed you can no longer specify the World, View, and Projection matrices using GraphicsDevice. You can set these transforms if you use BasicEffect or a custom Effect. The GraphicsDevice supports the traditional RenderStates, SamplerStates, TextureStates, and Texture setting, but one can always override this in an Effect file. Another one I noticed, there is EffectParameterType.Sampler (1D, 2D, 3D, Cube), but I haven't found a Sampler class, so how can I set a sampler parameter in an Effect object if I used something like: VertexProgram (uniform sampler2d s2d, float4 position: POSITION, float2 texUV: TEXCOORDS0) : POSITION { ... } in my effect file (myEf ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server is waiting for an internal operation to complete

  When saving a database diagram, SQL Server 2005 frequently "hangs" for an indeteminate amount of time and displays the message "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is waiting for an internal operation to complete. If you regularly encounter this delay during normal usage, pelase report this problem to Microsoft." For one thing, this is an extremely lame and unhelpful message, as it gives no clue as to specifically *who* to report the problem to (Microsoft is pretty big, after all), and an "internal operation" is sufficiently ambiguous to mean anything. I cannot find any references to this problem, and it happens frequently enough that I'm finding it very difficult to use Management Studio for editing ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Custom Layer Questions

  hi all 1) will GetTilePath ever be supported in 3D mode 2) will the Map Navigation controls be updated to reflect custom layers that have been added right now, you need to code up your own support for turning your custom layers on/off. This is ok, but if you wanted to reuse the (very) functional build-in layer controller, it would be confusing to users. In Google Maps, they have the GMapTypeControl that changes it's appearance based on all layers (build-in and custom) cheers brian hi all ok, i switched our export and publishing code to use the VE tile schema. I adapted our GMaps and OpenLayers code to load this spec as well, so this is cool for me. tiles load great in both 2D and 3D. however, the weird 2D transp ...Show All

• SQL Server Import data from SQL Server 2000 incredibly slow

  I have a problem with bad perfomance with my import of data from a SQL Server 2000 database. I use an OLEDB datasource in my SSIS package to connect to the sql server 2000 database. My 2005 server runs 64bits but i dont think this is an issue. With this configuration the import is VERY slow, we are talking about 40+ minutes to get 3.5 million rows with about 20 columns. When i create a test DTS package on the SQL Server 2000 server itself and run it, its blazingly fast. Has anyone run into something similar I had a look at the webcast. While it contains a lot of good stuff on optimization it doesnt really help me in this particular case. I tested the SSIS package against a mirror of the production server o ...Show All

• SQL Server Visual Studio VS ReportBuilder problem

  Hi ! We have made a lot of reports using Visual Studio. Now some of our client would like to customize those reports. We have install ReportBuilder on their server to allow them to create their own reports. Everything is working fine when they are trying to create new reports. The problem is when they are trying to customize reports that we have made using Visual Studio. When they are trying to open those reports in ReportBuilder they get this Error: One or more unexpected Report Definition Language (RDL) elements of the following type have been removed: DataSet Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportBuilder.ReportModel.Report: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The operation you are attempting on item "/Data Sources/DataSou ...Show All