LLiu's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Lets talk about rendering performance

  Hello. Our company distributes a vertical market accounting app which we've migrated from Crystal Reports to the WinForms ReportViewer. Our installed base is around 6,000 end users. We've found the viewer to be a solid product and we're pleased with the functionality and stability. That said, we may be forced to abandon reporting services for some applications due to performance issues. As an example, we have a report that processes 10,000 rows and perhaps 20 columns. On a 3 GHz machine with 2GB RAM, it takes 40 seconds to render the report (not counting query time). In addition, ReportViewer consumes approx 400MB of memory for this process (after garbage collection). These results won't cut it when a user is waiting for real-time outpu ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Photo Upload Tool

  Photo Upload Tool  - The photo upload tool is designed to allow you to upload pictures in a dedicated storage assigned to your space.  You can rearange these photos into albums and arrange them in the order you want them to be displayed.  You can also choose which pictures you do not wish to be made visible on your MSN Spaces photo album.  Many people are having dificulty with the Photo Upload tool.  If your Photo Upload tool is not working try these few simple steps. 1. Click here  to download a .cab file that is required  DOWNLOAD  and when prompted click OPEN then close the folder it opens. 2. Click here to download another .cab file that is required DOWNLOAD and when prompted clic ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro About using imestatus()

  Hi, I am using imestatus() to change input method between English and Chinese. It worked good in windows 2000. But it doesn't work in window xp. imestatus(0) always change to Chinese input and imestatuss(1) doesn't work. code is as follow: =imestatus(1) && using Chinese input =imestatus(0) && using English input Anybuddy know why Another question, how to switch input method between Chinese and English using VFP code I really don't know very well about my code. But it works good on window 2000. Thanks, ...Show All

• SQL Server Unrecognized Oracle Functions in SMAA for Oracle

  Hi everyone, I'm using SSMA for Oracle v2.0 to migrate an Oracle schema. In some of the procedures and triggers the Assessment Report is showing errors on some of the basic Oracle functions not being recognized. While I can see using %TYPE variables and values from packages outside of the current schema in a function unrecognizable to the converter, some I'm not sure why it's not being recognized. For example, TO_CHAR(date, 'DD-MON-YY HH24MI') is reported as unrecognized, when the documentations seems to say that it is supported. (" Formats currently not supported: E, EE, TZD, TZH, TZR") Is there a way to look further into why such function is not recognized, or do I need to add different SYS packages TIA, Makoto ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Guidance on passing data to VSTO docs / spreadsheets

  I have two vsto apps. One in Outlook, one in Word. I would like to pass some data about the current item selected in Outlook to the word document. If this were two standard .NET apps, I could use args to pass the data, .NET remoting, etc. When faced with VSTO, the standard command line is that of Word, not a .NET assembly. In it's simplest form, I would like to do: Get selected item in Outlook and put in variable foo Do a 'Process.start' on word and pass variable foo In the VSTO startup of the doc, parse variable foo Is this possible or is there some recommended alternative for doing this standard pattern Hello Bart Elia, i have done some similar but not with VSTO, but should work s ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. error when loading 3D model

  Hi, I'm new to XNA. I tried exporting a simple model like a cube using 3Ds max 9 ( fbx format ) yet when I try to debug I get the following error: "Node has more then one bonecontent child. Unable to determine which one is the skeleton root". When I load the P1_wedge model, it compiles just fine so my guess is the problem has to do with the way I export the file. Can anynbode help me thanks I had this once with a model. From what I can gather XNA expects there to be only 1 bone with no parents. A bone with no parents is a root bone, and XNA doesnt seem to like it if there are >1 of those. The model I created was basically 5 nodes (body, 2 arms, 2 legs - think a headless rayman a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can I connect a form to a button?

  Hi, I was wondering how I can make a button connect to a form so when I click on it it takes me to that form. Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Form2.ShowDialog() End Sub ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Architecture - what it is and what it will be

  As an initial discussion which can be helpful to all of us I would like to hear opinions of my colleagues regarding the basic question of just what is Architecture and what we would like it to be in the future. Regards, Behzad Hi there, this is a good question. Architecture to me is like a layered blue print of software. By layered I mean it can have different levels of abstraction. For example the top level could describe how components or services communicate with each other, while another layer might describe how classes in a component relate to each other, while another might describe how the system is deployed on the hardware architecture. It's just like a blue print for a house, one blue print might show the plumbin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Distributed Transaction problem

  Hi, I'm having problems getting transactions to work correctly in a state machine workflow. Within the TransactionScope activity I have a Code activity that does a couple of database writes, another Code activity that sends out a notification email, and a SetState activity, which I want to be executed only if the rest of the code executes correctly. The WF runtime and DB are hosted on different servers. After fixing a "The partner transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network transactions" error by enabling the MSDTC stuff on both machines, I'm now getting a new error: "The transaction has already been implicitly or explicitly committed or aborted (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8004D00E)" A ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Can't deploy a WFP/E page

  I've created a page that uses wfp/e which runs fine on my local system... when I push the page and its resources out to a shared public server on the Internet and try to pull up the page I get a big white box where the control should be but nothing else... is there some type of IIS configuartion or Do I need to load .Net 3.0 on the IIS server as well All the XAML and javascript has been moved to the public server... what am I missing Hi Andrew, The xaml doesnt have to be ended with ".xaml" you can just as easily deploy as ".xml" eg: http://www.geocities.com/sly_i/3d-text.htm I dont believe you need to set a mine type for wpf/e slyi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Submitting XML to ASP.net

  I have a small windows forms app that collections data regarding invoices and stores this info in an xml file. I need to submit this file on the click of a button to an asp.net website that i am also doing and was just wondering what is the best way of doing this Hi Gazeth, You want to use the System.Net.HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects. I'm trying to do the same thing butI haven't got it working yet. Have a read of this article here and it should point you in the right direction. http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dotnetWebRequest/dotnetWebRequest.htm If you need to ask more question I'd ask them in the networking forum. There will be people there who'd help. ...Show All

• Community Chat Zune and the iPod

  I've been following the Zune announcements fairly closely here at work. If you follow my blog, you'll see that I'm pretty passionate about media technologies, and recently went through the pain of migrating away from iPod/iTunes and onto Yahoo Music/Gigabeat S (Portable Media Center). Here the blog category where I talk about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/joemorel/archive/category/13772.aspx Now Zune is in the mix. It looks pretty neat, but I'm not sure if people are really going to go for the whole WiFi thing. I'm just not sure that I want to listen to the same music as the person sitting next to me on the bus. What do you think Not that it answers the question of availability, but there are EB Games and Gamestops in the US.&n ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Live messenger and local live maps (virtual earth)

  Hi Not sure if this is the right place to ask but i have tried searching over the internet for the answer with no joy. How do I share maps in windows live messenger Now i had this funtionality last year but I can no longer find a way to do it. In the share options whilst on a map share with a contact is not listed, nor is it in the share activities in live messenger. Can anyone help Thanks, Neil http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=7e2d5e0b-988d-4719-a461-675e42a8c9b9&l=6 That should be the activity you are looking for. ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with format of xml file created from dataset

  HI I have a connection to excel that retrieves data to a dataset. Its working fine, my problem is organizing the data so that I can record it to the data base. I’m trying to do it by converting the data to xml, so that I can ask the user to relate the column name (in the excel file) with the correct place in the database. And parse to the retrieved data. The code so far is: Dim cn As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection Dim cmd As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter Dim ds As New System.Data.DataSet() cn = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection( "provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "data source=C:\2.XLS;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;" ) ' Select the d ...Show All

• SQL Server Enterprise Mgr Problem in 2000 (Please HELP!)

  Typically when I bring up Enterprise Mgr, I get the options to look at the databases, tables, etc. Now, when I choose EM, it brings up the Microsoft Management Console without anything in it except 'Console', 'Window', and 'Help'. When I open a new window, I can see the databases etc. but the top of the window says 'SQL Server Enterprise Manager [2:Console Root\Microsoft SQL Servers]' and a few of the icons are grayed out like 'New Database', 'New Login', and 'New Job'. I haven't changed anything that I know of. Please Help! thx Kat fyi, the reinstallation worked. Also, working on an older pc without much space probably caused the problem. thx, Kat ...Show All