Schnoogs's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Display results to the end user as it appears in the 'Autos' window of debugging

  Hi, Can I display the resulted objects to the program user in a 'tree view' as that appears in the debugging window 'Autos' Thanks, Aya. Ok, I have tried that, it displays the properties of the form or a specific button , but when I try to set the SelectedObject to my own object , it displays nothing!! Am I do something wrong Aya. ...Show All

• SQL Server dml without generating log transactions ?

  Hi There I know the answer to this is probably no, but had to ask anyway. Is there a way to perform a dml statement without generating anything in the transaction log The reason i ask is that i have a database that uses simply recovery model, however i need to move a 1 billion row table to this DB, i know that even though it is in simple recovery it is one transaction, it will be written to the log until committed then the space will be released in the log file. I am using a simple: insert into DW_DB..table select * from DB..other_table. I have dropped all indexes before the operation. However this is a big problem, the log for the db in simple recovery that i am moving the data to grew to 128 Gig and the disk ran out of ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Experience?

  Well, I have done a little C++ but no C# and I'm wondering if it would help having a certain amount of experience. So can you guys tell me how much experience you had programming and if I would need to learn some C# first. If you have a good book or site that can help that would be great too. Hopefully I'll be able to start programming an XNA game right away with what I already know. I had not used C# at all prior to using XNA.  And my only C experience had been back in my BBS days when I wrote a few mods for the WWIV BBS software :)  I have done loads of Pascal, Delphi, and even some Assembly programming on both 6502 and x86 back in the day. In the past, I've mostly used Visual Basic (I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help With USB Port Programming

  I need some guidance on working with USB ports in VB2005 express. I have just started looking at it and don't seem to find much info. Specifically I am looking for someone to point me in the right direction rather then supply code, but an example would be nice. I have a driver supplied by Garmin and I guess I have to assign the GUID to an “object” to work with the device. But What “object” am I looking for and where is it located... System.IO.something Next Would I build an Interface to the “Object” and then build a class to handle the interaction with the “object” From What Little I have been able to find out It looks like I will be able to use the serial class to do a lot of the work. But at This point I don't know if I am even in the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. how to fill D3DFMT_R32F texture's data

  I create a floating point texture ,and I will use it to store Z value in pixel shader. LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9 g_pFristMap ; DXUTGetD3DDevice()->CreateTexture( Frist_MAP_SIZE, Frist_MAP_SIZE, 1, D3DUSAGE_RENDERTARGET, D3DFMT_R32F, D3DPOOL_DEFAULT, &g_pFristMap, NULL ); Now I want to initial texture's every texel data as 1.0f ,for my pixel shader to compare the Z value form ttexture and current pixel Z value ,keep the small Z value,how should I initial this texture LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 g_pFristSurf; g_pFristMap->GetSurfaceLevel( 0, &g_pFristSurf ); D3DCOLOR color = 0x0010000f; DXUTGetD3DDevice()->ColorFill( g_pFristSurf, NULL, color); is it right thx all ;) The hex value to use is 0x00FF000. Actu ...Show All

• SQL Server SP2 Copy Database Wizard better, but still problems

  I installed SP2 today and started transfer databases from our old production server with SQL 2000. The Wizard is much better now when using SMO Online transfer and I succeefully transferred several databases. But I now have three databases with a strange error: Here is one error when I try to copy the database OEWRegister. It seems like all objects are transferred and it fails in the end with: OnError,JABBA,VD-ISP-NET\SQLServer,QUI-GON_JABBA_Transfer Objects Task,{FD7EE38E-70E0-4D01-8E4E-9CC1D44BA7B4},{19F9A272-F90C-446D-BF0E-EA333D06ACD3},2/21/2007 9:06:15 PM,2/21/2007 9:06:15 PM,0,0x,ERROR : errorCode=-1073548784 description=Executing the query "IF EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sys.databases WHERE name = N'OEWRegister') DROP DATABASE ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deployment From SD Card autorun.exe & restart

  Hi, Ive been testing different ways to instal compact framework 2 and SQL components then my app , using mobile 5. My problem is .. I use autorun.exe and once inserting the SD card, it fires the autorun event as expected , i then copy CF2 to the startup dir on the PDA then restart the PDA with code. The problem is here.. once the system comes back up ,the system does not detect the autorun.exe on my SD card (sometimes does trigger the event but sometimes doesnt!!) i use this to copy SQL .Bat's and a exe to install them as well as my app ,all on the next load up. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this Or even a better way in doing this process Many Thanks in advance... Jason ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Svcutil generating "Partial Public Class Exception"

  Hi, I'm having kind of a problem here. When I generate a client proxy class from my wcf service, this proxy class contains a partial class with the name 'Exception'. This causes every 'Catch ex As Exception' to be wrong because now 'Exception' is ambigious. One solution could be to go and change every catch to 'Catch ex As System.Exception', but I prefer not to do it like that. Is there anyone who encountered this same problem A little background info about my wcf service: I have created an exception that i use in a faultcontract: <Serializable()> _ Public Class MyServiceException Inherits Exception Public Sub New () MyBase .New() End Sub Public Sub New ( ByVal message As String ) MyBase .N ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to stop the emulator screen from popping up?

  Im using VS2005 for the PPC. Every time i try to debug on the device, it pops up an emulator screen for no reason. Is there a way to stop this Thanks What if you set the actual device as the default for Device Tools Bring up the Tools | Options dialog, and expand the device tools. Pick Devices and then on the bottom right select your device as the default ...Show All

• .NET Development Using Internet From C#

  Is it possible to use some .NET library to download a file from the internet automatically to a specified directory Let's say I have an excel chart on my website, and I want to download it to C:// Also, I want to be able to do the same with a web page, i.e., I want to go to www.mywebpage.com/index.html and download index.html to a certain folder by using .NET. Will this take a lot of complicated code Can I just use a .NET library, or must I use Win32 API or something like that No I'm using the System.Net.WebClient Class.. All the event handlers etc. are in there, but I dunno how to even get the bytes and all that..if i did, it would be somewhat easy to get the percentage and update a progress bar.. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista What is the rationale behind not having a static method to retrieve the current workflowruntime instance?

  After doing quite some work with windows workflow I am starting to feel that there is one thing that is coming back every time you work with the WF runtime and that is getting the current running instance of the WFruntime. What I just can’t grasp is why there is no static method on the workflowruntime class to retrieve the running instance. (or by name if you have multiple instances running) In every sample you look you see that not having this method makes the developers suffer and you need to make assumptions that are not always true. e.g. take a look, at the WebServiceInput activity and try to use it without the generated configuration when you publish the service. (name the configuration something else then “workflowRuntime”!) ...Show All

• SQL Server Win2K Users Cannot Connect to SQL2005 Database

  Hi, I recently migrated our database from Access to SQL Server 2005. All the WinXP users can connect to the new SQL2005 database. But all the Win2K machines fail to log on. To diagnose the problem, I tried to connect from a Wind2K machine using an .udl file. The connection failed because "a provider failed to initialize". The SQL2005 server is residing on a WinXP machine. Users log on via SQL Server authentication layer using a dedicated login that only has read/write privileges to one specific database. Does anyone know a solution Thanks in adance. Regards, Vladislav Hi, could it be that they are using an older MDAC version than the WinXP machines Did you try using the SQL native ...Show All

• Visual C++ Handling Ctrl-Break quickly and efficiently in a Windows GUI app

  I have a Windows GUI application written with Visual C++. When my program is busy, I display the hourglass cursor and want to allow the user to hit Ctrl-Break to signal my program to stop processing. To do this today, I use PeekMessage to watch for a WM_KEYDOWN message, check if it's VK_CANCEL, and if so, terminate my operation. The problem is that PeekMessage will return the first WM_KEYDOWN message that it finds in my message queue. So if I do not specify PM_REMOVE in the call to PeekMessage, then the WM_KEYDOWN for the Ctrl-Break could get hidden behind the WM_KEYDOWN for any other key that the user happens to hit. But, if I do specify PM_REMOVE, I'm not in a position to handle the keystrokes at that moment (because my program is bu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need help for reading seiral port

  Hi every one, I need help on hoe to makeCOM port for Visual C++ Express works. I am a beginner for Visual C++ Express. I have trouble for reading data from serial port. I would like to ask if any one could show me the way or give me some examples for reading data from in_buff. I have no probleme with sending out, the only problem is reading. Thanks mman06 I wrote a little thing on how to open a COM port in c++ here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=300214&SiteID=1 Maybe you will find it useful. ...Show All

• Visual Basic excel with vb.net

  i found 2 ways to read excel file in vb.net- one with OleDb and the other one using com (Excel Library Com). what is the different between them what should i use in order to read excel file and also csv file thanks in advanced. One thing to keep in mind...If you use the Interop (com Excel Library) you and your application users must have Excel installed on thier machine. Using the oledb method you and your users only need access to the xl file ...Show All