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• SQL Server Schedule Subscription without recurrence

  Something is missing me... What if i want to schedule a subscription, let's say, tomorrow Not for tomorrow and next days... just once (tomorrow). Is this possible Thanks in advance Luis Neves Hi Luis - SSNS doesn't have the concept of a one-off type of subscription. To accomplish this, you can: 1) Create a customer delivery channel that disables a subscription or subscriber after sending, or 2) Create a scheduled job that disables a subscription or subscriber on a periodic basis. My preference would be #2. HTH... Joe ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums OL2007 and Live

  I installed the Live Extension for Outlook (LEO) on OL 2007 under Vista Ultimate RTM. I get the new location tab and directions for appointments. What isn't working is the stuff that adds a travel time appointment to an item that exists. If I create a new item, the travel time gets added. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Bullet Fires Only Once--Never again

  Hi there, Like everyone else here, I have a problem. Basically, whenever I fire a bullet, it will fire only once. It fires just fine, only, when I hit space to fire a second bullet, a second never fires. Or any other number. So, I think this is all the relevent code for the bullet: void FireBullet() { for ( int x = 0; x < bulletnumber; x++) { if (BulletVisible[x] == false ) { BulletVisible[x] = true ; BulletPos[x].X = PlayerPos.X + 40; BulletPos[x].Y = PlayerPos.Y + 32; } } } Another section where there could be issues, this time in Draw(): for ( int x = 0; x < bulletnumber; x++) { if (BulletVisible[x] == true ) { SpriteBatch.Dr ...Show All

• SQL Server Converting negative integer from string to int

  I'm having an issue using the data conversion task and trying to convert from a negative integer that is bounded by brackets e.g, (1) for -1. I keep getting an error that the value cannot be converted although I've tried all signed integer types. Thanks Darren, I'm going to give that a try. It's bizarre because I have a DTS in SQL 2000 and it handles this issue without any problem or conversion issues. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic 2005 IDE Performance Hotfix Released

  We've received feedback, both directly from developers and in the forums, regarding slow performance of the Visual Basic 2005 IDE in certain situations (larger projects, projects with many errors, etc.). I’m sorry that these issues made it to production and degraded the performance of the IDE. The Visual Basic Performance team is working hard to address these issues via hotfixes and the upcoming Visual Basic 2005 SP1 while we work on engineering changes to make sure that issues such as these never make it into a shipping product in the future. Based on this feedback and forum posts, we've been working with customers to address these performance issues. We recently released a performance hotfix to address the follo ...Show All

• Visual C# foreach where

  Is there anyway to specify the types of items to get when you iterate through a collection with foreach. Right now you have to do like this foreach ( UIElement b in maincanvas.Children) { if (b is Bomb ) (b as Bomb ).Move(); } Another way is this: foreach ( Bomb b in maincanvas.Children) { if (b ! = null ) b .Move(); } I think both ways are very inconvenient, I want to do something like this. Just like when you specify generic objects: foreach ( Bomb b in maincanvas.Children where b : Bomb ) b .Move(); Is there any similar syntax that does what the above snippet do I know the snippe ...Show All

• Visual C++ DLLMain defined in .obj file?

  Does anyone know if when you use the wizard to create a dll in visual c++, it puts the definition of DLL_Main in the Project_Name.obj file I get an error when I add in a definition of it in the cpp file, saying its already defined in the obj file. It's not in the cpp file when I first create the workspace. Ah, the return of the summer function This is a MFC DLL. It does not need DllMain, DllMain is provided by MFC. And you say that you can call summer from VB !! I have no idea how come that it works. summer function here is a member of a class and for various reasons (calling convention is thiscall and not stdcall or cdecl and the name of the function is decorated) you cannot call this (easily) from any other language than C++ ...Show All

• Visual C# a question regarding c# current situation

  I am a newbie and was wondering, where does C# currently stands in I thought its popularity was on the rise specially in games, but I just saw the article in the front page saying that it has fallen down one slot in the popularity rankings compared to last year. do you guys think that it will be more popular in the future Also, as someone who is just entering this world, is there anything that you can do with c++ that you cant do with c# and vice versa I would like to know a little comparison. Thanks in advanced !! C# is always strong and will be. C# is an industry standard language and majority of employers on the MS Development platform look for C# developers. It's worth learning of course. C# is a "higher&quo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) drag problem

  I put an button on a canvas,and write some code to drag it. Everything was fine until i replace the button with rectangle. The drag action would stop if i drag fast,and the cursor was out of the rectangle. my code : xaml: <Window x:Class="WindowsApplication1.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="x" Height="500" Width="500" > <Canvas Name="canvas1"> <Button Name="myElement"></Button> <!--if i drag rectangle fast,it will stop--> <!--<Rectangle Width="100" Height="20" F ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Trouble after B2tr

  Hey! (Sorry if i've picked the wrong forum). I got sharepoint along with pro plus about 2 months ago and was informed about a month ago that I would need Beta 2 Tech refresh to carry on using Office after the launch. I haven't tried to use sharepoint since until last week. It installed something before trying to open, then didn't open at all. When I tried again to open it, it displays, in a small box in the centre: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. (line about losing work) Please tell microsoft about this problem. (more lines) Debug.....Send Error Report.....Don't send I have tried pretty much everything and don't know what to do. Y ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem creating a render target.

  I'm just having issues because I'm trying to create a render target with a surface format of RGBA5551 is it unsupported With SurfaceFormat.Color it doesn't raise an exception, so I'm guessing it has to do with that. Surface renderTarget = this.graphics.GraphicsDevice.CreateRenderTarget( 1024, 512, SurfaceFormat.Bgra5551, MultiSampleType.FourSamples, 0, true); Am I doing something wrong here do I need to prepare the device first I don't think it's that my vidcard doesn't support it since it's a Geforce 7800GT... Well, any answer would be greatly appreciated. I forgot to mention that I'm using XNA. BRGA is the only one with a 5551 config. Either ...Show All

• SQL Server Attach database loses CLR

  Hi When I deploy a database (mdf and ldf) and attch the database I get errors when my stored procedures attempt to call CLR stored procs. Error regards database trust and assembly safety etc. This works on my development system/database so it's setup correclty there. Clearly I'm missing some additional setup when attaching the database to another server instance. Can't figure it out though. I'm marking the assembly UNSAFE (it requires network access) and the database as trustworthy when attaching but the error persists. Also making sure the server instance has CLR enabled. What am I missing Any ideas hi, AFAIK, you only need to enable CLR integration (SQL Server Area Configuration for features) and obviously enable sec ...Show All

• Smart Device Development login screen acting as a spash screen

  I am having some issues with my login form. Its acting like a spash screen where it stays on only for a few seconds until my program loads and then closes. I have made sure that I created the login form with the template and checked my code, but it shouldnt be that difficult! Help! nope. But what I ended up doing was just scrapping the whole thing and sort of starting from scratch! I couldnt figure out where the problem was, even when commenting out everything, the problem still occured. so I partially started over and now everything is working...strange. Anyway, Thanks to everyone for taking the time to help me out. Appreciate it! ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Virtual Serial Port on Windows CE

  I'm looking for a way to create virtual serial ports in windows CE. Does anyone have a suggestion You'd need to write a virtual serial port driver and install it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wceddk40/html/cxhowHowToCreateDeviceDriver.asp I'll move your post to native C++ forum since that's what you would have to use. ...Show All

• Architecture Application design challenge

  Hi.. This is my first post on here, so I hope I hit the sweet spot by posting it here. I've been given an interesting challenge and I can't seem to come up with a grand solution, so I could do with some help. The idea is that I am to design an application for a language center. So far the center consists of two physical locations, out of which one would be considered both learning center as well as "HQ". What they want is a fairly simple application that enables them to enter student registration, classes (no planning involved) and payments made/due. Each location has their own administration; HQ is to be able to look into the data of every location. I came up with several approaches (in terms of which language to develo ...Show All