Mike Marusin's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Cannot install VPC Network Driver!

  I installed VS 8 and WM PPC 2005 SDK to run PPC2005 emulator. But it would not allow me to do File->Configure->Network->Enable NE2000 PCMCIA network adapter and bind to: which led to an error dialog window "Failed to open the VPC Network Driver. Verify that the driver is installed, or install the driver from the Web download location at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=46859" When I followed the link and tried to install the driver, the installer just quit without any furthur message. Nothing changed afterward. I need this connection because ActiveSync does not support UDP. I am running Windows XP X64 version on a DELL Optiplex GX 620. I'm not suggesting using ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trying to Do an inplace Update of Rectangle Objects stored in generic List

  This is a strange one for me. What I have is a List(Of Rectangle) that are each 200 by 200. I want to be able to go through the list iteratively, change each ones location to being 10 pixels to the right and 10 pixels down and then shrink their size by 20 on each dimension. Initially, I planned on something like this: Private Sub prepareMenuSquares( ByRef squares As List( Of Rectangle)) For Each thing As Rectangle In squares thing.X += 10 thing.Y += 10 thing.Width -= 20 thing.Height -= 20 Next End Sub I assumed I would be passing the List by reference and then would have access directly to the Rectangle objects themselves and could do an inplace modifcation, no problem. Well that didn't work a ...Show All

• .NET Development Design Issue: Multiple definitions of db in separate prjcts. Aggregating prjcts in 1 sln. Help eliminating redundancy

  Hi. ...As you probably noticed by my thread title, I am having a design issue and would like it if you could help. ...What I am making is a meal planner (in C#.NET) The relevant modules that cause the problem are my "RecipeManager" and my "IngredientManager." A little background on why this arose: I encapsulate my db connectivity objects and my dataset into 2 classes, clsDatabase and clsQueryResults(It's how we learned in college.) The flow of logic from the UI to the db goes something like this UI->Application->clsDatabase->ADO.NET->...->database ...I didn't wanna take the time to fill in the "..." ;) ...you get the idea. But now, I have 2 projects running in the same solution t ...Show All

• .NET Development Connect 2 clients

  Hi, Is it possible to connect 2 clientapplication to each other, without connecting to their ip's, so the server connects the 2 clients and then shuts down the connection with them. Example: Client 1 <-------------> Server <--------------> Client 2 now the server breaks up the connection, but the 2 clients keep connected to each other. Client 1 <--------------> Client 2 I don't want to connect on ip because of problems with routers. The serverprogram works on a .net Socket And the Client works with the MSWinsockLib dll. Thanks To make this work, the two clients need to be able to address each other through IP, through a gateway if necessary if they are not on the ...Show All

• .NET Development Embed author with code files

  I created a tool that creates the Business and Data layer based on the database design. And a few co-workers want to use it. I don't mind it, but I want my name in the code files so that if anyone else sees the code they will see my name as the creator. Kinda like a self-gratification thing and advertisement for job offers.   I'm using CodeDOM to create these files. Is there a way I can set my name to appear somehow, that they cannot delete it Or maybe some pattern I should employ on the creation. Maybe requiring a DLL instantiation by the IDE or something Anyone have any ideas, suggestions, thoughts, etc...   Thanks, Nick Well I kinda wanted my name embedded in the code ...Show All

• SQL Server Compare csv file layout to SQL Server table

  I am creating a facility whereby you can select a source file (.csv), and a target (SQL table). Then I call a DTS to copy the csv file to the SQL table. How can I validate that the two files have the same number of columns In order to check the number of rows you need to work on DTS with workflow, refer to books online for more information and you can schedule the DTS package a SQLagent job by right-click on selected package. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Numeric performance on 360

  A question for the framework/VM guys... I have ported one of my simpler benchmarks to the 360, and find that the numeric performance is running 5x slower than my 2.8GHz P4 desktop. Now I was expecting a drop in performance on the 360, allowing for the difference in CPU implementation (in order execution / branch prediction etc), but nothing like this magnitude! The benchmark simply transforms a source array of Vector4s to a destination array of Vector4s, using a 4x4 matrix. Have you guys done any benchmarking of pure numeric perf, and if so is this in line with what you get Andy. Okay, some hard numbers from my game. Basically, I'm decoding some data, creating meshes from some previously-loade ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CTP4 Import Problem

  I attempted to import a SQL 2005 database into a SQL 2005 project. The database contains roughly 4000 schema objects and VS crashed every time I tried (4). No error message was given. It was one of the errors Windows detects and then offers to send the info on to Mircrosoft. I then tried to import the AdventureWorks database. This worked fine. Is there known issues with attempting to import larger sized databases Amos. During development of the project system that is in CTP4 I believe we tried at least 30K objects. Regardless of the complexity or number of objects, we should not crash when trying to import. VS 2005 added in support that any unhandled exception would crash VS and enable you to submit ...Show All

• SQL Server question on tasks

  hi, if a package fails on error, would i be able to know code wise which particular task failed also, if the task is using a connection manager, how will i be able to access that particular connection object if a task fails, i want to be able to do this PROGRAMMATICALLY on error event: 1. know which task failed and get the connection object used by the task, if any. 2. so that i will try to establish connection to the connection object and 3. reexecute the task if #2 is successful. please let me know how to do this. thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Solution Explorer peculiarity

  Hello, Certain Team Foundation Server Source Control commands do not show up in the left-mouse-click menu list in the Solution Explorer window. As far as I could see, he has "View History", "Unshelve Pending Changes" but not "Checkout for Edit..". It appears to be a setup issue but I cannot find anything different in his setup but it could also be the solution file's format. Also, some of the items in the Solution Explorer window have a little lock icon beside it, others have a members (or a little person) icon and still others have no icon. Can you tell me what they mean. In fact, is there anywhere one can go to get help with solution explorer The context help does not help much. Thanks, Maggie ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista New in Windows workflow:) please help me :):)

  i have installed visual studio 2005 team suite,where windows foundation workflow is included. i have download some example from msdn which is "SimpleSequentialWorkflow: i have opened the project in the visual studio. but i dont know how to run this.or how to deploy this in any server.i am new in workflow. plz help me , how i deploy or run workflow application. download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5DF74E3B-FB51-4A94-A11D-DFF70288A8BB&displaylang=en and try to run execute these alternativly learn more about WF on online virtual labs ...Show All

• .NET Development GUI freezes while using TCPclient in VB.net

  Hello everyone, My programm supposed to send commands to an external device(by textbox1) and receive responses from the deivce through textbox2.If I send the command once by clicking button1,I receive the responce once,although the external device should send continuously responses so I added a loop now it responds and refreshes Textbox2 continuously but GUI freezes,I can't exit the programm by clicking button2(Quit)...I am not a programmer I am using VB.net since 70-75 days so I am too confused...I hope someone can show me the right way to follow... Kindest regards, Can my code: Imports System.NET Imports System.NET.Sockets Imports System.Text Public Class Form1 Dim tagid As String Dim tc ...Show All

• .NET Development Column Names

  Hi, I have an Excel data sheet that I need to read and select the pertinent rows to load into a dataset. The data will then be checked against a database and the new data will be added. I have several questions/problems, the first of which has to do with Column names: My Excel sheets have column headers, BUT the header names are not located in the first row, rather they are located in the 5th row of the sheet, always. I would ignore this issue altogether and simply use column position as a locator for the data, but the sheets do not always have the same number of columns (ie sometimes columns are missing). Therefore I need to know which columns contain which data. How can I specify the columns such that the correct data get inserted into ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How can I send the RAND to the SIM card and get the SRES?

  How can I send the RAND to the SIM card and get the SRES. The RIL's function maybe can send a command to the SIM card, but there were something wrong when I call the RIL_SendSimCmd(). Is there any other functions in Smartphone SDK 5.0 to get the SRES by passing it with a random number   I mean that how can I call the "RUN GSM ALGORITHM" which is descript in the GSM11.11. The follow are the description in GSM11.11 8.16 RUN GSM ALGORITHM This function is used during the procedure for authenticating the SIM to a GSM network and to calculate a cipher key. The card runs the specified algorithms A3 and A8 using a 16 byte random number and the subscriber authentication key Ki, which is stored in the SIM. Th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Loading Image (Visual C# 2005)

  Hey, I after these lines of code what should I put to make it load the image into a PictureBox openFileDialog1.DefaultExt = "*.gif" ; openFileDialog1.Filter = "Gif Images (*.gif)|*.gif|JPG Images (*.jpg)|*.jpg|TIF Images (*.tif), (*.tiff)|*.tif|PNG Images (*.png)|*.png|BMP Images (*.bmp)|*.bmp" ; openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "MyDocuments" ; openFileDialog1.CheckFileExists = true ; openFileDialog1.CheckPathExists = true ; Thanks :) oh, ok, I see, but is there a way I can make it so that the form has 2 sets of radio buttons so one set does the size and another set does another thing...so in one form 2 radio buttons would be able to be checked...but only one can be checked per set...   &nbs ...Show All