SOTY_Programmer's Q&A profile
Visual Basic Code Simplification
OK, first, i'm sorry if the thread name isn't as clear as it should be. The question is this: I have a code that uses up to 10 labels, depending on what the user would input at the beggining. (If the user says 7 labels, only 7 labels are shown, etc) I tried using this code at first since i didn't know how to use FOR, i had to repeat this 10 times, wich of course is huge since the only things that would be different are the "Dado1.Text" and the "Dado1.Visible" lines. (They would be changed for, Dado2, Dado3, and so on.) Dado1, Dado2,..., Dado10 are LABEL names. If i <= j Then temp = Int(Rnd() * 10) Dado1.Text = CStr (temp) If temp >= Int(Dificultad.Text) Then exito = exito + 1 End If ...Show All
SQL Server AS2005. SubSelect vs. WHERE. What can WHERE that Subselect can't?
Hi AS gurus and fathers, By way of too many problems with WHERE in AS 2005 SP1 with Hofix i have rewritten all my queries for using of subselect. Can anybody give here an example what MDX using WHERE can, that SubSelect (SubCube) can't (exclisive [Measures] dimension under WHERE clausel). If you use subselect extensively, I would highly recommend the recently released SP2 CPT1 which is available to the public. There had been some very significant work done in the area of subselect in SP2. ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Moving States and Transitions to new Work Item Types - what gets left behind?
We are encountering a number of situations at our client sites that involve modifying Process Templates to 'correct' the client's attempts at designing new workflows. That is, clients have used template modification tools such as PTE to add work item types and global lists and work item type fields and work item type states and transitions and reasons. Then they have used witimport to upload the changes to specific TFS projects. Of course, they need to modify each TFS project to make the changes apply consistently to each new project. By the time we arrive on the scene, they have realized they now understand their process more better and they want to make a more organized modification. So the problem that is arising centers on ...Show All
.NET Development Implementing a Clustered NT Service
Hi, I'm developing a NT Service using .NET 2.0, its a multithreaded TCP server, this service will handle connections from many enterprise applications. The challenge is to avoid a single-point-of-failure. My first idea was create a service instance capable of just redirect incoming calls to service instances which implement the concrete service. This solution decrease service unavailability risk, but AFAIK real cluster services like App Center uses another approach, it creates a virtual server that can redirect incoming calls to an available server, this approach really solve the single-point-of-failure problem. I'd like to use the same solution, how it can be done Thanks for any help ! ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XN- What?
Ok so I have no idea what to do with XNA, I've tried tutorials but they just make it more confusing. I'm just a high school student who's very interested in game development, but has no idea what a 'loop' is or how to read any line of code. Is there an easy way to learn this stuff or is XNA only for C# experts Yes, it can be a bit confusing, but the last part's A :P. That aside, you will need to be familiar, not 100% brilliant (that sound like me), at writing C# code. With that out of the way, welcome to XNA it's safer here. t_p ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Web Browser Help
Hi, I'm trying to add alot of stuff to my web browser. I searched in google, but I didn't find anything. I tryed writting codes to see if I can get it, but I can't get it :( 1. Favorites 2. View Text Size 3. Web Browser site Name something like this (Visual Basic General - MSDN Forums - Mozilla Firefox) 4. History 5. Enter button when you type in the URL 6. Show the URl in the URL bar for every link. And I'll try to figure out the rest, because I have alot of stuff that I want to learn, but I think it's rude to ask for too much. Thanks. I don't know about rude but when in learning mode it's best to do one thing at a time. I recommend favorites. Go into your favorites directory... Open a link wit ...Show All
Smart Device Development New version V4 of C# IDE Mobile (former C# Scripter)
New version V4 of C# IDE Mobile (former C# Scripter) C# IDE Mobile is an application (totally free) that I've developed to be able to develop with C#/.NET2CF directly on the Pocket PC/Windows Mobile 5 (it doesn't require the .NET SDK, you don't need a computer). You can download the new version at: http://www.geocities.com/hrowson/wm5_software/index.htm or from my personal page: http://www.geocities.com/hrowson/index.htm This new version mainly adds the following improvements: - Handling of "try/catch" error control with "throw" exception rising - Added management of "using" directive - Function exit with "return" is now possible - Implementation of loop control flow keywords "break" and "continue" - Reorganised the me ...Show All
Smart Device Development Can WMP 10 on WM 5.0 really do streaming?
I am needing to create a streaming application on Windows Mobile 5.0. My first tests have been to even see if WMP10 can really do streaming audio. I've tried an ASX, mp3, wmv file all from a remote server, as well as a streaming mp3 feed and get the same dialog saying "Cannot play this file. The file is either corrupted or the player...blah blah blah". So can WMP really do streaming at all They work fine on the standard WMP on my PC. we're not concerned about asx streams. I did discover that WMP on the Treo is issuing a "connection: close" command. Whereas IE and WMP on the PC sets the socket to "keep-alive". And there seems to be no way to get its internal socket, ...Show All
SQL Server SSAS & SSRS - getting Date parameters into your query
Reporting services has (some) support for issuing MDX queries from reports. By default, the report designer creates report parameters that yield member unique names chosen from a drop-down list. That's not a bad UI for choosing members from a small, fixed hierarchy, but it's truly awful for choosing members of a date/time dimension. In such cases, I want the report parameter to be a DateTime, chosen from the nice .NET Date picker that RS uses. How have other people dealt with this problem I've cooked up the ugly solution shown below, but I'm still hoping that there's a better way. select { // ... } on columns from [Cube] where ( StrToMember( "[Dimension].[Hierarchy].&[" + Format(CDate(@Date),"yyyyMMdd") ...Show All
Windows Forms Put a glass panel over form while processing?
Dear all What i would like to achieve is placing something like a glass panel over the form while is doing some processing and show a proress bar. Little something like that , which would informa the user that something is happening:) Any ideas or advice Is there any code examples Cheers Oh, I know that it's not meant as an interactive control. What I meant was, the first time I make it visible, I clearly redraws itself about 5 or 6 times before it settles down. After that, subsequent Visible = true calls are fine. It seems to have alot to do with the alpha blending. The lower the alpha, the greater its apparent need to redraw. ...Show All
SQL Server Errors Copying Data Base
I'm trying to copy a data base from one server to another. Both servers are running 2005 MSDE, on Win 2k3, the target server is 64 bit. I'm using the Copy Database function, and ultimately it fails with the error in the event viewer in the targe machine: Faulting application dtexec.exe, version 2005.90.1399.0, stamp 43500d1a, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.2.3790.1830, stamp 42438b79, debug 0, fault address 0x0000000000027d0d. I have tried both the Attach/Detach & the SMO method, and they both give me the same error. I have 'Repaired' the .NET framework on the target machine, with the same result. Does anyone have any Suggestions I really only need at this time to make one copy of the database. Thanks ...Show All
Visual C# Independent slide
I made a custom button, i implemented some "slide function" and it works very good,when the user has the mouse on the control it slides to the right,and reset the default size when the MouseLeave event ocurrs, however, when i put several of the same buttons in a windows form, i put the cursor on top of each one, and they slide right, but they have to wait until the previous button resets it's size, so the slide function is not independent...how can i solve this , is neccesary to use different threads , and if i use threads, they should be declared in the Custom button class or in the windows app that use them All user interface code executes on the thread used to create the control handle. You ca ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Problems installing VB 2005 Express
Hi, I downloaded the ISO file for VB 2005 Express. The first thing that happened was that the download was not the size indicated on the web page. I abandoned that and later that night when nothing else was happening, I downloaded it again. Same thing. The downloaded file was only 388,460,250 bytes. As I have WinRAR, I noticed that the ISO file was associated with WinRAR so I opened it up with the program. All the files were there, and extracting them saw no problems so I burned the files to a CD (maintaining folders) and tried to install the program. I also tried to burn the ISO image to a CD using Nero, but when I tried to start it it reported that the file size was incorrect and asked if I should correct it. I aborted the burn ope ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Any new info on MDX for 64-bit?
I am in desperate need of MDX 9 for 64-bit development. Any word on the progress Someone mentioned that they were looking into it a while back. I asked at the MVP summit about 64 bit... since MDX 1.1 is not changing you won't see anything there. For XNA and any 'other' MDx type things - "nothing is yet announced but tis always considered as a potential feature - put your request in connect.microsoft.com for XNA" (take that as you will - it means nothing of course!) ...Show All
Smart Device Development Reg:instaling wince 5.0 trial
Hi, I would like to install WINCE 5.0 in my system that is why i downloaded this wince5.0 120 days trial edition from the following site http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=486E8250-D311-4F67-9FB3-23E8B8944F3E&displaylang=en in that url they provided one exe file i downloaded that and i started instalation but its taking more than 1 hour for instaling that is also not a problem but before finishing the instalation it is giving the folowing error message and it is terminating i dont know why its hapening i tried many times, same problem iam getting can any body tell me why it's hapening like this i am giving that error message setup wizard interrupted the wizard was interrupted before ...Show All