Scott Boyd's Q&A profile

• Connected Services Framework Message Routing doesn't work

  Hi, all. I defined a very simple ASP.NET Web service as follows (namespace omitted): [WebService(Namespace = " http://tempuri.org/ ")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] public class Service : WebService { [WebMethod] public void Log(string log) { using (StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText(@"C:\log.txt")) { write.WriteLine(log); } } } The session manifest is as follows: <Session timestamp="0001-01-01T00:00:00.0000000-08:00" timeout="30" serialize="None" routeAnyAction="true" ackOnRouteMsgToParticipants="false" xmlns:xsd=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema " xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Native Exception

  Hi! I am using c#.NET as language for creating an PDA application, however my application is working fine but if I leave this application in stand by mode for few min. and after then a native exception is throwing like this ExceptionCode: 0xc0000005 ExceptionAddress: 0x00631c18 Reading: 0x73736170 If anyone knows this then please send me the solution for the same. See this . ...Show All

• SQL Server OLAP VS Reporting DB.

  Hi Experts (MVPs & MS): What are the list of things that one should take into consideration when designing a OLTP database VS reporting database. I am looking in terms of: 1). Physical DB Design. 2). Logical DB Design (Indexes, Partitioned Tables, Normalization etc). Any white papers, guidelines, KB Articles or documents or your valuable suggestions welcome. Thanks AK Thanks Oj. Actually I am looking for differences and what design considerations one should have in mind.The above web sites talk of DB designs and other OLAP material. I need a list of things in other words a side by side comparision. If a document such does not exist, thats no problem. I will have to come up wit ...Show All

• Visual C# System.IndexOutOfRangeException was unhandled

    why I am getting this eeror for this line txtArea.Text = sql_reader["address_area"].ToString();   and when I remark it, it shows the same error for the next line: txtBox.Text = sql_reader[ "address_po_box" ].ToString();   but all lines above these two lines are ok also when I move one of the lines to the top of the code I get no errors!!   here is the error details:   System.IndexOutOfRangeException was unhandled   Message="address_area"   Source="System.Data"   StackTrace:        at System.Data.ProviderBase.FieldNameLookup.GetOrdinal(String fieldName)        at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.GetOrd ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro vfpencryption.fll

  hi all, i came across a library file to encrypt and decrypt from tis website.http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/PermaLink,guid,23a74c5d-5173-420e-af23-22494d95a54c.aspx after i download the fll files i try encrypt but vfp prompt me invalid library file. set library to c:\windows\desktop\vfpencryption.fll. where is my error Thanks in advance. Some additional information regarding the file would be helpful in figuring out what is going wrong for you. You could also consider sending me a file and code that will repo the problem so that I might look at it... my email address is available on my website. ...Show All

• Visual Basic embedded DOS window

  Hi, I was wondering how can I embed a dos window in vb.net What I am trying to do is to have a dos window embedded into a form so that I can have someone fill in a textbox and then I can take what is in the textbox and run it as if I had typed it in from the command line. What I did was I ran it through the shell command and displayed its output on the screen. That works but there is one issue; It returns the whole output when the command has ended but what I need is it to display its output as the command is run, as it does when its ran in the dos prompt. is this possible thanks Hi Dave, the code to load the DOS in a form was great! thanks Can you explain the code with the textbox I'm not sure what ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView: Stopping enter key from moving focus to next row

  So if you press Enter / return key (when not in edit mode) the focus moves to the cell immediately below the current one. (assuming that DataGridView.EditMode != DataGridViewEditMode.EditOnEnter) Does anyone know how to stop the DataGridView from doing this I have narrowed down that it actually happens in the OnKeyDown() function so none of the functions such as IsInputKey() and ProcessDataGridViewKey() will help. In fact the only way I have been able to stop it from happening is to do this: void net_DataGridView::OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs ^ e) { if(e->KeyCode == Keys::Enter) { return; } DataGridView::OnKeyDown(e); } obviously that solution is pretty sub par since it won't execute any event handlers that do special stuf ...Show All

• SQL Server Realtime record count for table...

  Here's a little sql 2005 script I wrote: 1. Start by running this script.... declare @x int select @x = 1 while ( @x < 75000) begin insert into myTesttable values (@x) Select @x = @x + 1 end 2. While the script is still running, I want to know how many records are in the table. From the same query window as the script, I have run both of the following statements. select count(*) from mytesttable witn (nolock) select count(*) from mytesttable witn (tablock) Instead of getting the answer immediately, they run only after the original script has completed. They seem to be "blocked". How can I get a near realtime count of the number of records in this table while the script populates the table ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Grand Theft Auto style game with XNA?

  How easy it to make GTA-style game with XNA Game Studio Express.. I haven't downloaded it yet so I'm thinking of doing it.. :) Is it possible to make that kind of game Thanks, Timo exal wrote: Are we talking about creating a game like GTA It takes a whole studio to get a thing like that together. If you are refering to a top down view camera that is pretty simple. But making a whole game is a huge effort. You are not at all writing at what level you are in programming. But without programming knowledge you have a while to get used to the whole idea. If you already are an expert programmer please disregard this comment :) I'm not a newbie anymore.. :D And I'm not going to make any big game. Just a little so I th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Click once with reading files

  Hi All, I wanted to deploy the click once published application programmatically.I have done that successfully. Now I have a requirement, I need to read one of the downloaded file and do some actions depending up on the entry in th file. Suppose if I have the batch file I should run the batch file before I run the application which is deployed. I could able to get the manifest information. How will I get the downloaded file Info I know that when you install using click once the application is installed in the local cache..... Is there any way I will get the downloaded file Regards, Santha Hi, if I understand correctly, your file is already deployed (downloaded) with the applicati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How would I?

  I have created 2 forms on menu click the original form hides and the other appears I can make the original form hide, but how can I make the other appear Thanks replace the variable and instance names appropriatly. So if you have a form named: "Lucy" change Form2 to "Lucy" I am just giving you examples to which you have to replace the names and so on to fit your code ...Show All

• SQL Server How to use a dialog retry timer for doing a web service call

  Hi Remus, I just started looking into SB about a week ago, so my question is likely to be pretty lame. However, that's not going to stop me from asking it :-) We're trying to do something similar to what you're describing here. How do you "reset" a dialog timer Why would you need to deal with resetting timers (or with timers at all for that matter) in the event of a success Couldn't you rewrite the logic to be as follows begin transaction receive message if message is web request save state of request (http address, caller etc) else if message is retry timer message load state of request endif commit do the web request (no transaction open) if success begin transaction send back response end conversation commit else set a r ...Show All

• SQL Server PERSISTED Column In View

  I have a view that calls a User Defined Function. I want to index this calculated column if possible, but trying to do so gives me an error saying that I have to mark the column PERSISTED. I see how it's possible to do this when creating tables with calculated columns, but is it possible to do this from within the view itself Thanks for the reply, Adam. Yes. I do have a clusterred index on the view already. Adding a non-clustered index on the calculated non-key column isn't working, though. It gives a message about the column: "Cannot create index or statistics '[Index Name]' on view '[View Name]' because key column '[Column Name I Want To Index]' is imprecise, computed and not persist ...Show All

• SQL Server run SSIS package with ODBC connection via SQL agent

  It seems there a lot of problems running SSIS packages under the sql agent. I have read the knowledgebase articles regarding permission issues etc but I still can't get my job to run. I can run any package as a job apart from a package that connects to an external database via an odbc connection. Has anyone had any luck with this and can let me in on the secret. I had the same issue: A package using a 32-bit ODBC driver, it ran fine in my laptop but not in my 64-bit server. The work arround was to schedule it through an SQL Agent that used a command line to invoked the 32-bit version of dtsexec. The bottom line: the package runs in a 32-bit mode instead of 64-bit mode Rafael ...Show All

• Windows Forms MSI Package Question

  I have developed an VS2005/VB application that I have installed on a couple of end-users PC. The application works great with one exception. After I install the package and run the application the first time, either as a local administrator or standard user, the application looks for the MSI package to complete the install. What can I do to get this to stop. Hi, By the sounds of it you have created a MSI installer package that is only for a single user; so when you installed the application using a users account everything works fine, but when you login on a different admin account the application has not been installed for this user, so it will attempt to find the MSI package to setup for the admin user. Y ...Show All