Antti Nivala's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office 2007 Ribbons & Icons

  Hi all, I am looking for a free .NET control which imitates the look and feel of the Microsoft Office 2007 UI (Ribbon). I know that there is commercial controls, but they are too expensive. Also, I’d like to know if (with the licensing) are allowed to use Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon icons and where I can get them. Thanks for you help ! Martin Thanks ! But I've already looked at this control and it seems to me a little too buggy. Also, I am surprise to see that nobody has improved this control since the time it's out... Any alternative or new version of this control ...Show All

• SQL Server Restrict report builder access to Report Execution Timeout

  I am setting up the SQL2005 reporting service to let users build their own reports on the web. I'll provide them with pre-built report models. We have concern with SQL database performance by allowing users to execute huge reports. The problem that I have is: If I give the users permissions to build report they'll have access to the report's Properties | Execution page, which allows them to disable the report execution timeout. Is there a way for me to allow them build reports while restrict them to access the report execution timeout settings Please advise. Many thanks. I have an *unsupported* solution posted on my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/bobmeyers/archive/2006/10/31/enforcing-timeouts-on-repo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Container Shape

  Hi, I used the Container Shape customization in my DSL. Unfortunately it does not work anymore with V1. Does the customization not work anymore What do I have to change to get it working again. Thanks in advance Alexander Hi Alexander, The method of producing nested shapes has changed a bit in version 1. You can see a full example in the Components sample. Open the Visual Studio SDK samples browser (should be under you Start menu somewhere) and filter on DSL Tools, then open Example.Components. You'll see the code in the Custom folder in the Dsl project. The comments in the code explain what's going on. Let us know if you have any problems. Alan ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies highlighting seach terms

  Hi, How can i highlight the search terms in the results Thanks, Ariel Ariel, You can see highlighted search terms in email results if you install WDS version 3.0 and are using Microsoft Office 2007. Unfortunately, there currently isn't a good way to see highlighted search terms in all results. On the brightside (no pun intended) we are looking at adding the highlighting fucntionality in later versions of our search technology. Paul Nystrom - MSFT ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problems getting XNA working

  I've installed all required files for MSFT Game Studio Express to function. I've installed SP1, released yesterday for Visual C# Express. I've installed the XNA framework, .Net 1.1 framework, .net 2.0 framework, the directX December 2006 SDK, and platform SDK (for other reasons). I've found that there's a problem getting the XNA Transport Server started. In this situation, I cannot deploy anything to my 360, which is sitting next to my computer, on the same network/subnet. When I manually run the XNA Transport server (C:\Program Files\Microsoft XNA\XNA Game Studio Express\v1.0\Bin\XnaTrans.exe), it gets further in deployment, and tells me that the 360 has timed out. While doing a packet capture using WireShark, It appears that my machine s ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to start process in session before user logs on?

  I have a need to start a process in a session before the user logons on. On XP I used a Windows Logon Notification Package to do this. When a new session was created, Winlogon.exe in that new session called my WLNP and it was able to start the process before the user logged on. The process is used to support smart card logons for that session. I'm trying to find out how to do something similar on Vista. I know logon notification packages are no longer supported. I know how to write a service to get session creation notification, but I don't know how to start a process in the new session before the user logs on. Is there a function I can use to start a process in another session If so, I could have my session tracking sevice start th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System BinariesRoot environment variable changes between B3R and RTM

  I'm hoping to find out what changes have been done regarding the BinariesRoot environment variable from B3R to RTM Looks like TFS/MSBuild RTM edition does not define the BinariesRoot env var anymore   NOTE: During the automated build process, a call is made to devenv, specifially for packaging purposes... at this point it seems that the previously populated BinariesRoot env var is no longer available.   Pre-RTM upgrade of TFS/MSBuild, the following command line was working, post RTM upgrade, the reference to BinariesRoot is no longer available:    <Target Name="BeforeDropBuild">        <!-- Run Release Packaging process  -->   & ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to retrive SMS and Email in pocket pc 2005

  hi every body i am using WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook in pocket pc 2005 retrive Appointment,Contact,Task i have no problam but PocketOutlook also retrive email and SMS that time i have problam if any body help me also give code ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When will MDI be supported?

  When will MDI apps be supported without using interop Will it be released with the final version This feature really needs to be available for WPF apps. This version of WPF won't provide built-in MDI support. Michael has more info in a post here , and Nick in a post here . Also, note that WPF does have the TabControl, which can be used as a form of MDI (like the Worksheet tabs in Excel). For example: < Page xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " > < TabControl > < TabItem Header = " Buttons " > < StackPanel > < Button > Click </ Button > < Button > Clack < ...Show All

• Visual Basic Does a method for deleting Bytes exist? (System.IO, FileStream)

  I learned very much thanks to you about FileStream Dim Fs As New FileStream(File, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite) ' Now i move the pointer to Offset &HA (10 in decimal) Fs.Seek(&HA, IO.SeekOrigin.Begin) ' Now i should write a byte Fs.WriteByte(Convert.ToByte(10)) ' Now i close the file stream Fs.Close() But if i want to delete a byte how can i do I think to use a Cicle For and using ReadByte and write all bytes except the Byte that i want to delete, but I think there is a method for deleting byte into file itself without creating another file and use a Cicle For. There isn't a way to do it because of the way the underlying file system works. It's not a case of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Accessing data files in project/solution directory

  In my unit tests I want to access data files in my solution to drive my unit tests. However because VS copies the DLL to another directory in order to run it I can use a relative path. I definitely do not want to use a hard-coded path because that doesn't work with TFS version control branching (you might have that same solution in multiple different directories). Is there an environment variable or something that I could use to access the originating project dir Yes, you can do that in the .testruncofig file, just double click on it from the IDE, and configure in "Deployment" section, which files or directories you want to deploy to the same place as testing DLLs ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. missing triangles with stream render

  hello this is my first post in theese forums, though I am not such a noob. I load a multimaterial mesh from X file and render it with DrawPrimitive() function like this and with DrawSubset() method replacing DrawPrimitve I get correct result I wonder what goes wrong. All I do on my mesh object is that I call Optimize InPlace() method like this Mesh->m_pAdjency =new DWORD[3 * Mesh->m_pMesh->GetNumFaces() ]; Mesh->m_pMesh->GenerateAdjacency(0.00f,Mesh->m_pAdjency); if (FAILED(hr =Mesh->m_pMesh->OptimizeInplace(D3DXMESHOPT_ATTRSORT | D3DXMESHOPT_COMPACT | D3DXMESHOPT_VERTEXCACHE, Mesh->m_pAdjency, NULL, NULL, NULL))); the rendering is done this way: if(FAILED(h ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Calliing *TypeRef.Load() in a for-each loop causes a DataReader already open exception

  I have the following logical model in my database: CategoryTypes (ID, Name) Categories (ID, Name, Description, CategoryTypeID (FK)) Favorites (ID, Title, Description, URL) FavoriteCategories (CategoryID (FK), FavoriteID(FK)) After creating the model project i hand edited the csdl and ssdl files to add assocation and navigation elements. Below is my csdl and ssdl file: csdl < Schema Namespace = " PersonalModel " Alias = " Self " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2006/04/edm " > < EntityType Name = " Categories " Key = " CategoryID " > < Property Name = " CategoryID " Type = " Int32 " Nullable = " false " /&g ...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 Allan, You have the problem exactly right - attaching the db to a different instance can cause the security check ...Show All

• .NET Development Using regex to right pad / justify numbers

  Hi all I have a set of numbers as string input and I want to pad them out with leading zeros. Basically I need them to sort correctly with text sort as well as numerical sort. so I want to convert: 1 10 11 2 to: 01 10 11 02 I am trying to use a regex object to do it but I can't work out how to get the padding. Can anyone help Cheers Jero Thanks for the reply. In fact the search part of RegEx is only part of it. It does have quite a desent amount of replace functionality in it. But I think you are right. I'll have to use String.Format(). That just means that I need to do it in a 2 step process. :-( ...Show All