Konstantin Frankov's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Removable HD Not detected

  I have a Removable Firewire hard drive which is an 80GB Harddrive enclosure. (Internal HD made into a highspeed removable). Windows XP detected it no problem. Vista doesnt even recognize it or know that it is even plugged in, so I cannot install the drivers for it. Anyone else have this problem I am having the same problem with my Iomega HDD 120. I can use it as a USB but when I plug it in as FireWire it does not show up in my drives. I shows up in device manager but not in the Disk Management or in the local drives list in windows explorer. I has something to do with the driver showing up if it is a FireWire connection. Any knoledge on how to fix this would be GREAT. Rick ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Blue scrren of Death

  Not sure if i should post this on here but ill give it a go,my mums computer keeps getting the blue screen evreytime windows xp starts.she starts in safe mode and also last good config and evreything starts up fine,the desktop comes up but after a couple of secs the blue screen comes up with the usual message and a error code STOP[:0X000000F4,(0X0000003,0X86599448,0X865995BC,0X805C7478 and the only way to exit is to turn the power off at the back as anybody got any ideas please No one seems to have been much help. I've come across a lot of questions about this but no answers. I've been having a similar problem for some time. If there's a list of stop codes anywhere, I can't seem to find it. When it ...Show All

• SQL Server Data source for Time Dimension?

  Hi; I have been trying to create Time Dimension for one of the column in the table i.e. EntryDate and I am unable to connect the time dimension which I create using the Wizard using the 2nd option which is Without using data source. It created a dimension but it is not connected to any data source and when I process it gives me error, data source is not specified. I am very new to Analysis service, I am using SQL Server 2005. I want to create a report where I can show my data by month, by year depending upon the EntryDate column of a table. Thanks Have you tried the adventure works dw data base that is part of the samples that you can install with SQL Server 2005 and SSAS2005 In that database you ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamically Generating SMDL (Report Model Definitions) With C#

    My problem is this: How do I dynamically generate a Report Model Definition with c# Is there some sort of method I could call from the ReportingService2005 web service Or some sort of APIs I could use If I didn't have a dynamic database structure, I would just create a Report Model Definition with BIS and then deploy the same model to each customer. However, our product creates additional tables in the database, depending on what data users wish to collect. There are currently 2 solutions for this problem. First, I can manually create a Report Model Definition through the Buisness Intelligence Studio (BIS). However, I wish to be able to dynamically generate the report model without having to go through BIS. Sec ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 360 Deployment Issues

  Hello   I've downloaded the latest version of XNA: GSE, signed up to Creators Club, downloaded the launcher, created a key and entered it into GSE.  The 360 is sitting there waiting for a PC connection but the deployment just times out.   I've checked the subnet and they're both 255,255,255,0. It doesn't work whether it's wireless or wired. I can't ping it from the PC, it just times out. Got another pal to try pinging their 360 from their PC and they get a similar time out.   I've also made sure all the required ports are open, I think.  I'm not sure, we have a Belkin router and I've added the ports the docs say to add but I can't test whether they are actually open or not.   L ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Fault Handler and Bindable Properties

  I'm using the June CTP of WF. After I promote Bindable Properties on my FaultHandler I'm getting a weird popup in the VS environment. DependencyProperty 'Fault:System.Workflow.ComponentModel.FaultHandlerActivity' does not have an associated CLR property. All non-attached Dependency Properties should have a corresponding CLR property. Any ideas I'm trying to log Exceptions that happen in an EventHandler.  I was trying to put an faulterHandler that caught all generic System.Exception and then write to the EventLog and set the state back to the current state.  I figured that the only way I could see the exception from my EventLogWrite activity was to promote the faulthandler as a ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I use the .NET Framework to find out if an app is installed?

  I have a program that shows a list of files and the user can click on a file and that app opens up. Well if the user trys to open a file that does not have an associated app installed on the system, I'd like to give them more information. Is there any way to determine what applications are installed on a computer by using the .NET Framework. Well in that case you can read the following article on the MSDN that will help you out: File Types ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to add new folder to Team Query Hierarchy?

  Hello, I want to create (hierarchy) some folders inside Team Queries to orange the view in team explorer. How can I do this Thank you Edit did not work for me - it complained about file extension association. Anyway, I normall just do drag and drop on another WI form or query window, it works just fine for me. -Mohammad ...Show All

• Visual Studio Install error VSS 2005 on Vista

  Hii, I want to install VSS 2005 on Vista Business but i got the following error: The installer has encountered an unexpe cted error installing this package. This may in dicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2337. I have already install the same VSS 2005 on Win Xp so the package isn't corrupt ... I use Visual Studio 2005 Prof, dotnetframework 3.0. I'd try running the installer elevated (right click the exe, say Run as Administrator). If that doesn't solve the problem, perhaps someone in Vs Setup forum can provide more support Alin (VSS setup is owned by VS setup team - I've moved the post in the correct forum) ...Show All

• .NET Development newline when serializing textbox

  I'm trying to serialize the contents of a textbox to xml. The serialization works fine, but when i deserialize the contents and try to fill the textbox.text, new lines show up as litte squares instead of a new line. How would i solve this problem I guess one way would be to split the string into an array and filling the textbox this way, but i'm not quite sure how to do this either. Ok, as you said, newlines are serialized as "\n". I tried the <textbox>.Text.Replace("\n",Environment.Newline) but the textbox still shows the same little cute squares. It would be interesting to know why this doesn't work. Breaking the string up into an array and setting textbox.Lines worked fine though. Thanks alot! re ...Show All

• Visual Studio Please help.. adding columns

  Hi, I want to have a report that bind into a dynamically created XML as a datasource, thus the columns on the table must be dynamic. For example, I a table object placed on the report body, the first two columns is fixed, but the next columns and its data is retrieved from an XML data file. Is it possible to accomplish this I have found DynamicTable example from gotreportviewer.com, but it's hard to understand the code, since I'm a novice programmer. Somebody please help, I'm desperate here.. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can anyone help with video and clip path?

  I'm trying to display a video which is clipped by a text path. The effect I'm after is to display the moving video on the 'surface' of the text. Should be simple eh I see the text path but no sign of the video. The events attached to Window.Loaded and MediaElement.Loaded fire as expected, and the video is loaded. Can anyone help me get the video displayed Thanks Dave Arkley XAML and code-behind are: XAML < Window x:Class = " VideoText.Window1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title = " Video in Text " Background = " Black " Name = " my ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista how to restart workflow runtime after IIS restart

  My question is for workflow exposed as web service through webserviceinputactivty/webserviceoutputactivity. My impression is that workflow runtime is only started after the first web service call. My test workflow has 3 activities: webserviceinput, webserviceoutput, delay. SqlPersistence service is enabled. The workflow is activitied through a web call. When executing the delay activity, it's persisted to the database. Then I shut down the web server (ASP .NET development server). When the web server restarted, the timer already expired but the workflow was not resumed. Only after I made another call to the web service, the timer fired. I did an experiment in a winform application. When the application starts next time, the timer fir ...Show All

• Visual Basic Logins

  Can someone point me in a right direction to learn how I can use a login form to login to SQLExpress Server using SQL Authentication I am thinking that I would like to use the login for my app instead of embedding one in my application. Is that wrong to thing like that I am thinking right by using this to gain access to my application and login to the server at the same time Davids Learning As usual, you have several options. You could implement a property on the LoginForm to get the values; but this probably isn't necessary as the controls on the form are already accessible (unless you've changed the modifer from Friend). So you could just say: loggeduser = LoginForm.TextBox1.Text More ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to show dates in forms by the order of time?

  Hello, all, I have a little database which deals with patients paper work. I have two tables. One is patients' basic information like name, race, age, and so on. The other is the patient's paper work including the date when the patient finishes the paper work. So I have two forms. One if for the patients' basic information, the other form is a subform of it to show the paper work information of the patient. My question is, when I try to see one patient's all paper work, say, 2 records, they are shown by the order of number, but not time. e.g. The first record will be paper work on 10/24/2006, while the second record will be paper work on 12/6/2005. I hope the records can be shown by the order of time. I mean, when I check the s ...Show All