NozFx's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Thematic maps?

  Is it possible to build thematic maps using the virtual Earth SDK For example making regions different colours based on their population density. Thanks, Andrew Actually, it's not possible to solve this easily in MapPoint. It is if you want to use known boundaries such as counties or some such, but if you want finer grained control or to create a grid then you quickly find MapPoint falls short. Indeed it may even be easier to solve this problem using the new Polygon objects in Virtual Earth and some manual calculations, but it probably won't be quick. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Function Discovery

  Where can I find a working sample of using Vista Function Discovery The sample in the latest SDK does not build. Thanks, Kevin Kristina, I have those include files, with the same date. I went and pulled the include files and the sample code from another machine that had the RTM SDK installed yesterday. The errors I get now are all unresolved externals. I have set my include and library VC++ directories (in tools/options/projects and solutions/VC++ directories ) to have the SDK directory first. Here are the errors I get: Error 1 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PKEY_DrvPkg_VendorWebSite FunDiscovery.obj Error 2 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _PKEY_WNET_Provider FunDiscovery.obj Error 3 error LNK2001: ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dynamic URL's for invoke webservice activity

  I have a webservice invoke activity that calls a webservice at a particular URL. Now I want my Workflow to invoke a different webservice URL. To change the URL for webservice invoke activity dynamically, I did the following : Select the web reference of the WS and Select properties. Updated the Web Reference URL to the required WS URL Did "Update web reference" to update the proxy. Now the runtime invokes the correct webservice. However, the webservice activity in XOML still shows the URL with old value in design view. Is there a better workaround Thanks Karthik Hi, Use the InvokeWebServiceActivity Invoking event. It has a parameter of type InvokeWebServiceEve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Generate documentation under .Net 2.0?

  I really need to generate some documentation under .Net 2.0. I know that this issue has been raised in a previous post few month ago, but no explicit solution has been provided. Also the NDoc project seems dead (as suggest the broken wiki). Does anyone has a practical (even minimal) solution to generate documentation for .Net 2.0 Thanks in advance, Joannes Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware that Kevin had started posted to the SourceForge mailing list again!  Our beta mailing list was completely dead since early September. Looks like he's already busy finishing up the project but doesn't have the RC/RTM so we'll probably have to wait until some time after VS2005 is publically available before NDoc ...Show All

• Visual C++ Floating-point models in VS2005 vs VS2003

  We have found out that a new floating point model has been introduced in VS2005 where the programmer has the option to choose any of the modes Precise, Strict or Fast. According to the document http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/floapoint.asp : "Microsoft has selected fp:precise as the default floating-point mode because it creates both fast and accurate programs." In VS2003 we were using the VS project setting "Floating-Point Consistency" set to "Default". After the transfer from VS2003 to VS2005, we can now see some differences in results for our floating-point calculations. Would the mode "Strict" be a closer map to what we had in VS2003 I a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions NullReferenceException Help

  I have been writing a hybrid Euchre card game for a school based assignment and I have been coming across multiple NullReferenceExceptions in the code which aren't there in a controlled situation. I can't find what is causing the exceptions so I'm turning to some professionsals. An example of the code which is having trouble is as follows --- For Each Ctrl In pnlTed.Controls '’For every object within Ted’s panel ClubTrump(Trump, Ctrl) '’Call the sub to tally points for club cards Trump = lblCard.Text '’Get the new Trump value Next ---- Public Sub ClubTrump(ByVal Trump As Integer, ByVal Ctrl As Control) ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows media: video capture

  Greeting to everyone. Our program have to capture video from webcam. The best desigion for this is DirectShow, as I suppose. Unfortunately, I have read that implementation of DirectShow for .NET isn't planing. I wouldn't like use third-pary modules (actually it just DirectShow .NET). Might it be in the future project like Windows Media Foundation I'm looking forward to any considerations. Rather! But, I wouldn't like to use it.. because there is a bad-code and incomplete implementation in the libraries. I'm going to write C++ dll (with a plain C interface) to use it in C#. However, I'm interesting if it will be included in .NET framework or another standard library... ...Show All

• .NET Development DateTime interpretation between ADO.Net and SQL Server

  In my application I write to a table in a database a DateTime field (which happens to be a primary key) by executing a SQL command, e.g. INSERT INTO MyTable (MyDateCol) VALUES ('8/22/2006 4:20:21 PM'). Then, I insert the same value into another table (in which that same field is a foreign key) by using ADO.Net's SqlAdapter->Update(), where in a DataTable in a DataSet I had stored that same System::DateTime object. I am getting a failure - foreign key constraint violation - when trying to do that last write. When inspecting the value of that field in the DataSet from within the debugger, the date looks like this: "22/8/2006 16:20:21" (same thing, just different representation). This is all on the same computer so the culture is the same ...Show All

• Visual C# How to create Progress bar

  hi all i have one application that opens a file. i want to show progress bar while application opens that file. Till the progress of opening a file progress bar should be shown please any one can help me use a background worker that REPORTSPROGRESS = true; DO_WORK OPEN THE FILE! int iteration = progressBar1.Maximum / 100; for (int i = 0; i < progressBar1.Maximum; i++) { backgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(i / iteration) } ...Show All

• SQL Server Exporting sp result to flat file using XML schema

  Hi there, To put in context, we are using BizTalk to get the result from a stored proc and export it to a text file using a XML schema (XSD). The XSD includes formatting info such as the justification, padding, etc. We are moving this process to SSIS and we want to reuse the BizTalk schemas. Is it possible Thanks Frantz fleo wrote: Hi Phil, The only appropriate output file is a flat file. There's no need to go through XML. Suppose I create the best BizTalk orchestration possible for exporting a set of data to a text file, would it be as fast as a SSIS package My guess is that SSIS outperforms BizTalk on the benchmark. I would hope BizTalk is comparable. It is designed to move data ...Show All

• SQL Server about update

  when transfering data from text file to sql server using dataflow how can i update a record if it exists.Is it not possible to use or call stored procedure in the dataflow. please let me know sureshv wrote: I havent downloaded any sample package on this article.please let me know where i can get that. in the original article, at the end, where it says: If you want to try this for yourself then download the package from here . It executes against the SQL Server instance called localhost so make sure you have an instance of SQL Server running there - or just change the connection manager. notice that the word 'here' is a link to a zip file. Once you have the package up and runnig, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. InvalidCastException help

  this issue involves two classes in my program. a class for a custom cursor, and a class for a GUI button both classes are of type DrawableGameComponent, the Cursor component is added to the base.Components list via the Main class that extends Game and the Buttons component is added from another component class called XmlMenuComponent and that is a normal GameComponent class. my cursor class invokes an event everytime the left mouse button is clicked and when i subscribed the Main class the one that extends Game using foreach ( MouseCursor mComp in base .Components) mComp.LeftMouseClick += new MouseCursor . LeftMouseButtonClicked (Cursor_LeftMouseClick); it works and the function Cursor_LeftMouseClick() is execu ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development How to make a toolbar visible by programming?

  Hi, I want to make my toolbar visible after the installation(registration) process complete (after restarting IE, of course), but I don't know what is controlling a toolbar's visibility. Is it controlled by a registry key, or other things Thanks for your help. hi, I don't think so that it is posssible to show toolbar by installer if it is created using Toolband. You should use BHO , and believe it you will not need to make any major changes to your toolband project, with minor changes it will become a BHO. Just try it. ...Show All

• SQL Server Basic convert question

  Hi, How can I convert one number to string with option ot choose decimal I mean function ( 1234.45, varchar , 2 ) or function ( 1234.45, varchar , 3 ) function ( 1234.45, varchar , 1 ) function ( 1234.45, varchar , 0) Is there any function cheers Here's one way:   CONVERT(VARCHAR, CONVERT(DECIMAL(9,3), 1234.45))   Change the DECIMAL(9,3) appropriately for whatever scale you need...   -- Adam Machanic Pro SQL Server 2005, available now http://www..apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html bID=457 --     <Alessandro Camargo@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:ba20cb3c-e990-4276-a07e-a22e8e1ed9a7@discussions.mic ...Show All

• SQL Server Same DB, Different Performance on Different Servers

  Hi, We are doing response time testing on our application with SQL Server 2000 SP4. But it is found that a query have different performance on the same DB (restore from the same backup) in different servers. The execution plans are different on the 2 servers. Server A: the execution plan use parallelism with varying response time (from 3 sec to 64 sec). Server B: it is a single thread execution plan with faster response time (about 1 sec). Here is the server configuration: Server A Dell 750, you can access Dell homepage for more detail. CPU – P4 2.8 GHz CPU Memory – 2G Disk – RAID 1 SCSI OS – Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86) May 3 2005 23:18: ...Show All