j2associates's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Help me set up .NET 3.0 development on virgin PC

  Oh, the combinations I've tried...! I've got a new PC, fresh install of XP Pro SP2. I ran through the recommended steps with the goal of running the WCF Getting Started sample project, but have failed to get it to run without error. I suspect an IIS configuration problem, but will start all over again from the beginning. Here's the steps I'm going to take (using the June CTP) in yet another attempt. Can anyone make corrections 1. Install IIS 5.1 (from Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components) 2. Install .NET Framework 2.0 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en 3. Install Visual Studio 2005 (120 day trial version) from the CD I sent ...Show All

• Commerce Server How many categories did they use?

  The performance document mentions that the catalog had 1 million products, but how many categories did it have And were products assigned to multiple categories Were the categories hierarchically organized and how much so Thanks in advance! -Tom Tom, CS2002 limits are posted in the documentation . You can assume that CS2007 has gone further. In addition the performance guide has been posted which will help you test your scenario. As Joe points out I would highly recommend testing your scenario with some prototypes because much of it depends on the hardware. Cheers, Colin ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DreamBuildPlay is up!!!

  Now go register!!   Actual contest details to come the week of Feb 5th I'm not speaking for Microsoft, but if you want to enter you can always enter a US State and Zip code and phone number for now until they get that addressed. I'm assuming that you can edit your information later once that's been corrected. Again, I don't speak for Microsoft on that, that's just what I would do in your shoes. ...Show All

• SQL Server compatibility issue between Reporting Services and IE7 !!!

  Is there any compatibility issue between Reporting Services and IE7. We need to test compatibility with both SQL Server 2005/200 versions. Mr. Sullins, I, too, am having the same problem. It appears to be something in the rdl, what it is I haven't pinned down. Interestingly, I can get the report to render without being cutoff by deleting this line in my master page: <! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Thanks for your help, Brian Morgan ...Show All

• .NET Development where to locate dlls when using LoadLibrary in C#

  Well, I thought this was odd: Okay, I've just established that LoadLibrary worked this way in "the old days" too, I just never noticed it until I started using C#. This morning I wrote a little test program (TestProgram.exe) that uses DllImport to bring LoadLibrary in from kernel32.dll so I can use it in a C# program. Just to make sure that I had the signature right, I started by doing LoadLibrary() on some Windows APIs (net32api, etc.), and it worked fine. Great. Then I tried doing LoadLibrary("C:\\NoWhereSpecial\\MyDll.dll"); and I kept getting a NULL handle back.(well IntPtr.Zero, really, but basically a NULL). Weird. I made sure that all the dlls that MyDll.dll is dependent on were in the same directory w ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS Package Migration Error

  I've been migrating SQL 2000 DTS packages into SQL 2005 using the Migrate DTS 2000 Package wizard in Visual Studio 2005. All packages migrate fine except one which throws out the following error: exception of type 'Microsoft.SQLServer.DTS.MigrationWizard.HelperUtility.DTSMWException was thrown No other supporting information is given to help diagnose the problem. Has anyone else come across this error before Looking at past threads, I've checked the DTS package for leading or trailing spaces which might cause an issue and there are none. Thanks. Hey i found the problem. if you are package is Incompleted take an example "doing the bulk insert from SQL Server Conn to Excel sheet but with ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installing my program on other computers

  Hi all, Soon I'm going to be at the point where I'm ready to install my program onto other computers. Could someone please explain to me about publishing, what files I'll need, how to include extra .DLL files, and whether I'll need to copy the database over seperately I'm going to want to be able to install it from CD as opposed to over the internet or anything like that. Thanks Bort Click once is the publishing mechanism included withthe express sku's - its really very simple and allows publishing of applications to Files shares, Web servers, CD etc. so this would support what you want to achieve. It allows the inclusion of requisities such as .NET Framework, SQL Express etc. which allows you to deploy these with you ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Data pickup Issue

  Hello Every body, I face a problem about data pickup from datasource. ok i try to explain it first. Some my ui have different combo box. comboboxes contain data like Panel, Reader, Badge etc devices. each combobox contain single object data. in left side of every combo, one check box item is there. if combo box will checked then combo box will be enabled and show its data other wise not. In that senario user may check all checkbox or not any singel check box. It totally depends on the user. In that senario what i did, I pickup all data from database and bind it to the combo box when form first time loaded. that means loading time of form i request to my business layer to give me all data. Is it correct approach. Thanks for advance help. ...Show All

• SQL Server Adding custom property to custom component

  What I want to accomplish is that at design time the designer can enter a value for some custom property on my custom task and that this value is accessed at executing time. I thought this would involve adding a IDTSCustomProperty to the ComponentMetaData.CustomPropertyCollection and the right place to do this to mee seemed be in the ProvideComponentProperties() method: IDTSCustomProperty90  property = ComponentMetaData.CustomPropertyCollection.New(); property.Name = "MyLittleProperty" ; However, after compiling and redeploying the custom component and adding it to a package, the property does not show up in the editor. Would anyone have suggestions on how what I want to do should be done right Thnx in advance, Henk ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need help on call fx in a do loop

  I am trying to call 4 functions together in a loop With a 2s delay in between each fx However only the last fx is called What is goin on Timer2.Start() Do While Timer2.Enabled = True Call RLeg_Up() If Timer2.Enabled = False Then Call RLeg_Down() Timer2.Start() If Timer2.Enabled = False Then Call LLeg_Up() Timer2.Start() If Timer2.Enabled = False Then Call LLeg_Down() 'Only LLeg_Down is called Timer2.Start() End If End If End If Application.DoEvents() Loop Still a noob btw This is how i think the code should be if the code looks a bit weird i'm sorry but i'm juz not very gd @ this :P the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Flash Movie in C# Direct3D game

  In VS2005, i need to embed a SWF flash movie in a fullscreen Direct3D 9.0 based game. I have successfully added my swf(which was painful) and played the movie without problem. But, when I tried to switch the display from SWF flash move to Direct3D device. It failed! The followings illustrate the general flow of my problem: 1. load and display the SWF 2. user press space to start game (SWF get focused and read space bar), set SWF invisible by AxShockWaveFlash1.visible = false 3. start game, render Direct3D 4. game ended, stop rendering Direct3D 5. show the SWF movie again, set SWF visible by AxShockWaveFlash1.visible = true, focus SWF Problem raised from Step 4 to Step 5. This problem do not exist when I am not using the f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Automatically enter Text from one Text box to another as you type.

  I would like to setup a Text Box that pulls the Textbox.text from 2 separte text boxes and then displays them in this textbox. For Example... TextBox1.Text = "Jimmy" TextBox2.Text = "Taylor" TextBox3.Text = "Jimmy Taylor" But the kicker is I want it to add the "J" in TextBox3 as I type it in TextBox1 ect. I tried a number of places but I am not sure how to describe this and I am not coming up with very good examples. Thanks in advance for any help. This seems a little over my head... I guess I am confused on where to create the function If I create an external Function ( not sure how to do that!) then how do I call it on my dynamically created form. If I need to create ...Show All

• Visual Studio the Crystal report which comes with Visual Studio - Features

  Hello, Is the Crystal report, which comes with Visual Studio 2005 professional, complete in features as it is if purchased separately Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Maryam It has most features that if you purchase it separately, but there are some things that are not. There tends to be more database connection dlls in the full version to use more database types, as well as some extra abilities in designing the report. One feature is when you add an Image to the report, there is a formula field in which you can pass the filepath to make it a dynamic image. When it comes to licensing the two versions are identical unless you purchase an Enterprise product. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Does Content Manager use Caching?

  I'm wondering if the content manager uses caching... I have noticed quite a few people build objects like texture caches and so forth. Is this really necessary Previous to XNA I would create a texture 1 time and share it across multiple sprite classes... rendering the same texture at many different locations (1 for each sprite) during a single pass. Is it safe to just use the ContentManager inside of the sprite class with XNA Example //constructor public Sprite( string asset ) { this .texture = game.ContentManager.Load< Texture2D >(asset);} I've built my classes like this because I made the assumption that the content manager would only load a particular asset in memory once. But since it's an assumption I'm now ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to get modified default filename when saving, based on the first line

  hello, i would like to create a system for a rather large amount of univ books, that i would name based on the section name and number them (eg: 0001_physical-clock.doc). this section name is usually the first line after the header. how can i create a form ( at the beginning of the word document ), so the contents of it would be added to the filename when saving ( saving me from typing it, much less finding it ) thank you hello again, thank you for your replies, i now know what i'm looking for. @spotty: yes, i am looking for a solution that would be entirely contained within word and hopefully, again entirely, automated. since i'm totally new to this kind of scripting, could you please point me to the f ...Show All