hrubesh's Q&A profile

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Z-Index

  From what I've seen there's not currently support for Z-Index on UIElements. Am I missing something though Is there a way to set the Z-Index of an element I dont know if it planned in v1 wpf/e, but you can layer UI currently using TranslateTransform eg: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742305.aspx Or it can be done currently by doing via css http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2006/12/15/9035.aspx ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Creating users without adding them in the AD

  Hello: Maybe this coul be a silly question but is it possible to create users accounts without using the Active Directory Regards. Yes, SharePoint supports the .NET 2.0 Membership Provider Model. You can store the user accounts in SQL Server, Active Directory, ADAM or any other LDAP store by configuring one of the providers supplied with SharePoint (It uses Active Directory by Default but others can be configured) It is extensible as well. If one of the MS supplied providers doesn' tmeet your needs, you can extend or replace it by writing your own provider. Hope that helps ...Show All

• Visual C# Link a file type to my application?

  Is there a way to link a file type to my application. I'm not going to interfere with the Windows Shell, I was thinking of creating my own file type. Do you mean creating a file association so that when ever someone opens up a .xyz file that your application is loaded to handle it If so... you’ll need to do a bit of registry editing to set that up. See this MSDN article for more info. As yet there is no really good C#/.NET for doing this other than manual registry editing or a mini class here or there. As yet my ‘ultimate’ class for it is not yet done, so in the mean time you might try this code found here . ...Show All

• SQL Server SSB BizTalk Scenarios

  What are the specific types of scenarios where we could use SSB and BizTalk in tandem I have come across a gotdotnet sample of an SSB adapter for BizTalk. As i understand a Biztalk orchestration could be an end point for the SSB conversation. But what advantages can be obtained using this as compared to a typical SQL adapter for BizTalk which does CRUD operations on DB. any pointers in this directions would be helpful TIA Paritosh The SQL Adapter for BizTalk provides CRUD-styled data access to a SQL Server database. It can be used for storing and retrieving data from a database. An SSB Adapter for BizTalk (although I haven't used Jesus' adapter myself), would provide messaging over S ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 Language/Search Filters

  Can anyone tell me if there is a way to <select all> or <de-select all> filters In this ever-mouse oriented world it's a real PITA having to click each checkbox to select/unselect a bunch of different options. Yes, I know I can use the keyboard arrows and spacebar once the list is presented but it's still a pain. Why is there no toggle all or un-toggle all option Am I missing something --Greg ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Collation setting

  I have a SQL Server 2005 database which is set for SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CI_AS collation (Actually when the instance was created it was set to this collation).....I have lot og objects --- tables,views, fks, col constraints , triggers, default etc defined.... I need to change the collation of the database and subsequently affecting the collation of every single column to SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CS_AS Now when I run the following command i gives me lot of errors saying that ALTER DATABASE <dbName> COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_Cp1_CS_AS The column constranint <xx> is dependent on collation ..... The funny part is that this col constraint is defined on a float column instead of varchar column.....why is it giving e ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ps -- found something...

  Anti aliasing small text tends to make the letters look blurry and indistinct. I cannot find a way to disable the anti-aliasing of text in WPF and as a result label or button text looks really bad. Ideally I'd like to disable anti aliasing globally for font sizes below a certain size. How can I accomplish this -Ryan rfuller987@hotmail.com Just to add a comment, when I look at your image on my computer, it looks much better with the antialiasing turned on. I think it's a general issue with ClearType -- it looks different to different people on different hardware. Since it sounds like you can't disable antialiasing within WPF itself, perhaps you can turn off ClearType completely or use the ClearTyp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Sound on button click

  hi does anyone know how to get the Asterisk sound to play when clicking a button in VC++ ive created the Event handler but not sure of what code to use. thanks ah its ok i managed to get it to work by using the following code: System::Media::SystemSounds::Asterisk->Play(); just needed to replace the . with :: and all works fine now i didnt need to add any extra namespace's, i just added that line and it worked. thanks for your help ...Show All

• SQL Server More than one parameter in Execute SQL task

  I am trying to create an Execute SQL task that sets a variable. This is my SQL DECLARE @Period AS DATETIME SET @Period =Parameter0 + '/01/' + Parameter1 SET @Period = DATEADD(m, -1, @Period) SELECT DATEADD(s, -1, @Period) This statement parses okay. I mapped two variables called "User::PeriodMonth" and "User::PeriodYear" in the Parameter Mapping tab to the parameters. In the Result Set tabl I have mapped a variable "User::PeriodStartDate" to Result Name "PeriodStartDate". The error I get is the following: [Execute SQL Task] Error: Executing the query "DECLARE @Period AS DATETIME SET @Period =Parameter0 + '/01/' + Parameter1 SET @Period = DATEADD(m, -1, @Period) SELECT ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't disable a button

  I am programming in c#. I have a button on my form that when clicked, it plays a wav file using the PlaySound method from winmm.dll. The wav is about 3 seconds long. The problem is that if I keep clicking the button during the 3 seconds the sound is playing, it queues all of the clicks, and plays the wav over and over. My Button is named btn. So I tried: this.btn.Enabled = false; PlaySound(...); this.btn.Enabled = true; Doing this successfully greyed out the button while the sound is playing, but it still accepts clicks, so it didn't fix my original problem. Is there some way to clear the event queue Or is there something else I'm doing wrong. I just want the button to not work while the sound is playing. I have also tried ...Show All

• SQL Server Stored Procs in Master

  I had a user (don't ask how) get access to Master and ran a script that deleted all the stored procedures in Master. Some how the server was still working but the database dropdown lists in the GUI would not populate, but the default DB was Master. I was able to make the connection to the server, copy the code for all the SPs and recreate them. Now the GUI reports that my SQL2000 server is a SQL6.5. There are also some errors relating to sysconstraints when I try to view properties of a table. Any hints other than reinstall Pete Good afternoon Hema, If you do a complete rebuild of the Master db, you are correct, you will lose all logins: *From Technet --------------------------- ...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

• SharePoint Products and Technologies i can't find Excel Calculation Services

  I want to start "Excel Calculation Services",But i can't it in "Services on Server" page. My moss 2007 version was "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version" and i have install the Office 2007.... The services on my server were : Document Conversions Lancher service Document Conversion Load Balancer Service Windows SharePoint Services incoming e-mail windows sharePoint services web application Is there any suggestion That's right Mike, you also need to ensure you have a Shared Service created and that Excel Services has been configured in the Services on Server page. Hope that helps Nick ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview scrolling issues...

  I am having trouble with the datagridview control and scrolling. I have a datagridview control on a form. The scrollbars property is set to both. I add some rows to the grid, but not enough so the vertical scroll bar is displayed. Then I set rowcount = 0, disable the grid, add more records and enable the grid. The vertical scroll bar appears but is much to large. It only allows me to scroll down a few rows. When I try to go thru the grid by using the down arrow an out of range exception is thrown. Interestingly when I don't disable the grid things work fine. Here is some code. Try it... Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Dim i ...Show All

• Smart Device Development debug zone and debugmsg

  i have some doubts on debugmsg in wince i have read somewhere that i can direct the debugmsg to some serial port....is it possible actually what is the requirement we do not want to use platform builder. and devloped an application in evc++ and sent some debugmsg in the code. but not getting any data on serial port.. is there any other way to do this or what is the process to read string from port Thanks vishal ...Show All