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• .NET Development XSLT output incompatible with standard

  Hi Folks, I am trying to convert XML to CSV format output. I was able to convert it by using the following option: output method ="text" But, the output doesn't seem to adhere to the standard. I was referrring to the following link to refer to the CSV format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values Please correct me if i am wrong. TIA Sek Anton, that was quite self-explanatory i was spending time understanding every bit of your work! kudos for taking time to post. -Sek ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dwm thumbnails / Milcore / WPF

  Is there a way to retrieve thumbnails provided by Dwm in a WPF Brush From what I know, Dwm uses milcore to compose the desktop, as does WPF... Could there be some sort of interoperability using milcore.dll to obtain a Brush for window thumbnails If it does not exist, is there a way to implement it I think I would have some time to loose doing this sort of things. I couldn't wait either. I put together my own WPF Thumbnail Element (using PInvoke) and a sample application here: http://11011.net/archives/000653.html ...Show All

• Visual C++ [OTP] Error message PSAPI.DLL

  I am getting a error pop up saying Get Process Image file name w. could not be located in the dynamic link library psapi.dll What should I do to fix this. April Hi to all at this blog. Thanks to your recommendations, I have been able to resolve the ASPI.DLL issue, which appeared upon installing IE7 Release Candidate 2. I am also on Verizon DSL, and simply changed the file extensions in Verizon... Help Support\Smartbridge, and Verizon... Help Support\bin, from .dll to .old. Worked like a charm. Thanks to all!! Gary ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot find aspnet_wp.exe in debug process in VS2003..in Virtual Image

  Hi there, Am having a virtual image, with vs 2003. The web application is running fine, I wanted to attach aspnet_wp.exe..but it is not listed in Debug process list :( I tried aspnet_Regiis.exe..and al other stuffs..still in vain. The account that am running has admin rights. Any help would be really appreciated..! Regards Nithi yes for 2003 it is w3wp. but am running e app in win xp and iis5.1. I've tried show processes from all session too..still can't find. localhost is running fine, and i even tied to re register iis, but still e same problem. ...Show All

• Visual C++ ASCII string to UNICODE string

  Hi, I need to convert a simple word from ASCII to UNICODE. I am using VC++ 6.0 and was wondering if i can make it so that when I type "hello" the compiler will automatically change it into UNICODE, instead of having to use the MultibyteToWideChar() function. Also i am unsure how to use this function(how should i declare the buffer the converted string is stored in) Could someone please show me an example. Thanks   daniboy120 wrote: Hi, [...] if i can make it so that when I type "hello" the compiler will automatically change it into UNICODE, instead of having to use the MultibyteToWideChar() function. [...] If you want to type "hello" into your program and ask the compiler t ...Show All

• SQL Server .NET FW SDK QuickStart SQL-Express Error: Msg 102 ... Incorrect syntax.

  Hi, I have followed the steps from the .NET FW SDK QuickStart Configuration (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Samples\Setup\html\ConfigDetails.htm), and have got an error message trying to grant the ASP.NET User account access to the databases by the command sqlcmd -E -S (local)\SQLExpress -Q "sp_grantlogin LEONEW\ASPNET" where LEONEW is my local machine name, and the ASPNET account exists in the Users group. I am getting the error message: Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Server LEONEW\SQLEXPRESS, Line 1 Incorrect syntax near '\'. Please help if you know how to resolve this. Thanks in advance. Alex. I have tried with no success sqlcmd -E -S (local)\SQLExpress -Q "sp_grantl ...Show All

• Windows Forms get index of the last row of a datagridview!

  Hallo! I am trying to get the index of the last row of my datagridview. The number of rows is a variable and it is important for me to know the index of the last row (with or without data in it).Can anyone tell me how i can do it Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Simple Menus (Download)

  As our first sample we have created a simple menu system that loads from xml. The menus can resize, move, and write text to the titlebar. Check back for the variable width font sample coming soon. Please let us know what you think Submit@XNASpot.com Download: http://www.xnaspot.com/Sample_SimpleMenu.aspx lushdog: We are compiling tutorials on our site. Send something to submit@xnaspot.com , and if it is useful we will post it up. Please send em in!     ...Show All

• .NET Development String and Like

  Is there a Like operator that can be used with the String class Ok, this is a study in itself. I am converting some old C code to .NET. They had written their own regular expression parser and im wondering if this can simply be mapped onto RegEx within .NET or if i will need to re-write the parser. Here is the code masks currently used Can this easily be mapped onto a RegEx object, or not @ any single character at current position will match % any string at current position will match & strip spaces at current position () encloses case-sensitive parts of string [] enclose optional parts of string # matches a digit ^ matches a numeric string (may include decimal point ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xbox Live Arcade

  Do any of you reckon that it's possible to make a game using the XNA express framework, and then get it published (by MS or otherwise). I think, looking at the standard of games on Xbox Live Arcade, that I can make a much better game than anything there. I got the impression from Major Nelson's podcast on Sunday that Microsoft's thinking is that you'll show your game to a publisher, they'll go "Wow!", then the publisher will send it to Microsoft for consideration on XBox Live. I don't think Microsoft has the resources to consider everyone's games, so they want to deal with game publishers. ...Show All

• Visual C# Learning how to call form components

  I want to read up on how to do things like.. CheckBox chk = panel1.Controls[ i ] as CheckBox; anyone has any tutorials for this Like were did you learn how to declare codes like this Also is there another way to select certain childs from a certain parents Yes a panel can hold any types of controls. In c# to test the type of the control you can use the is keyword. if (ctrl is TextBox) {...} if (ctrl is CheckBox) ... Generally more complex controls are made of other controls. for example the datagridview is made of dozens of them. Charles ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Flow inside For Each loop - error handling

  Hopefully this is an easy question: Inside of a for each loop (looping through an ADO record set of objects to import) I have a data flow task (along with many other processes).... if the dataflow task suceeds I log success in a table. If it errors I want it to fail the dataflow task (which will fire off my Event Handler for that data flow and log the failure, email etc) BUT I want it to continue the loop - I can't seem to figure out how to get the data flow object not to fail the whole loop. If any other objects inside the foreach, other than the data flow, fail I would like the whole loop to fail. Also if possible (but not a requirement) I would like it to have a threshold where if the data flow fails X variable times it will fail the ...Show All

• Visual Studio clearexport_ssafe ?

  Does anyone have any experience exporting files from VSS to ClearCase . When I run the clearexport_ssafe command, I get an error saying 'Date and time are not in a recognized format' - 'Please go to the control panel and alter your Regional Settings....' - 'CM driver initialization falied' I run VSS 6.0 and is a bit puzzled why this date / time issue surfaces. Anyone Datetime is usually needed because a client wants to convert the times stored in the database to local times. The VSS client takes this information from its INI files. Unfortunately I can't speak to how clearexport_ssafe works -- that's not one of our tools. You should probably ask on an IBM support forum. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DropDownStyle Problem

  I am using C# and I want to allow the user to type in the combo box instead on scrolling withing a very long list so I change the DropDownStyle to DropDown but it's allowing the user to type anything!! Yes, I want him to type in the combo box bu I don't want him to save any value he types if it's dosn't exist in the items Thanks for this suggestion. Yes, it is very disappointing that this isn't catered for. Even VB6 catered for this. (Well almost. If you added items to a combo box and set the "sorted" property to true, it allows the user to type into the field and it would auto-complete based on the available items. Where .NET uses the last character you entered and tries to find an item starting with this character ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Extending DataContext?

  Is it or will it be possible to override the internals of the DataContext I want to alter the object creation implementation in the datacontext to create subclass proxies instead of just instancing the entity types directly. However DataContext seems very black boxish. Im well aware of the claims that non virtuals execute faster than virtual methods etc.. but in this kind of scenario where big chunks of data is fetched from some sort of datasource , those few nano seconds will be impossible to notice.. so that will hardly be a valid argument. Ive seen that there is a "services" collection inside the datacontext , but that also seems impossible to access from the outside. it would be really really lovely if such things were expo ...Show All