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• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA Powerpoint - identifying textboxes by type

  Hi everyone, I'm writing an add-in for Powerpoint 2003. I'd like to know how I can identify textboxes by type if such a thing exists. For example, when reading a TextFrame, how do I know if I'm reading the title textbox, the subtitle, or a the big textbox with bulleted points depending on the slide model I've found the Shapes.Title property, but that only gives me the title if it exists, not the value of the subtitle or the default big textbox with bulleted points that you find on a default slide. Is there some property somewhere that I'm missing Thanks a lot, Pete I might not have explained myself very clearly with my first post. What I want is a way to know for sure that I'm reading the big, default tex ...Show All

• SQL Server Stored Procedures Not Converted or copied to SQL Server 2005

  I am converting  about 50 databases from Windows 2000 and from SQL Server 2000  to a totally new 4 processor Server 2003 with SQL SErver 2005.  I used the Database Copy Wizard in SS2005 to do the transfer.  After making sure the databases were big enough to hold the new Masterdatabase everything went well... except none of the stored procedures from any of the 50 databases copied from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005.  What did I do wrong   And how do i fix it.  Also, even though I changed the default database, the wizard did not reflect the new SAN location for the Data and Log files.  I had to do each one manually. When you specified the location names, I'm assuming that the SAN was on-line. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to use the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2.

  I follow the steps: 1.In configure OLE DB Connection Manager dialog, I click New. 2.In Connection Manager dialog ,I choose Native OLE DB\Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2. 3.In Connection Manager dialog I click the "Data Links" button. Now I am on "Data link property" dialog.  4.On connection tab, I enter fmdb for data source, which is my remote database name. On Network section I choose TCP/IP Connection and set the right IP/Port. Uncheck Single sign-on and enter the user and password. Then comes the Database section. Database name fmdb for Initial catalog,"fmdbrun" for Default Schema,  then what is Package Collection (My db2 database is in a AIX/RS 6000 box). 5.On advanced tab, I choose DB2/6000 fo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Scaling a mesh or primitives object

  Hello, I have a cylinder (standard Primitives) made in 3dmax exported as a *.fbx file. My question is that I would like to scale or resize the height or radius of the *.fbx (mesh) in realtime later. Sometimes i would only want to adjust the radius and sometimes only the height. For every update a variable that is holding the value for the height would be read and feed into the height of the mesh. Is there any simple ways of doing this Regards BJ Sure. Just take a matrix that scales your mesh when applying the transformations to it just before drawing. Assuming your cylinder's base is placed on the XZ plane and its height follows the Y axis, the scale matrix may be build as such: fl ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Error with duplicate IDs of copied packages

  Hi, I recently encountered an error when I created several copies of one package. It's always nearly the same package with small modifications. I call this packages from a parent package which is part of our datawarehouseing-framework. The problem is, when copying a packages or using a packages as template the packages' IDs and Task's-IDs are the same. And this isn't only an issue concerning logging!! : When the parent package calls one of the copied packages the first task is executed in every package parallely. Furthermore ... when I for example set a breakpoint on a data transformation task in one of the packages, the breakpoint is set in all packages on the same task! This is resulting in strange errors because the tasks-st ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 6.0 - No. of Controls in the Container

  Hi Is there any restriction in the number of controls that a Form Container should hold How to trace the Form Container capacity depending upon the VB version, Control Type and Other criteria. Is such information stored in any system files that is shipped during VB application install I Know the restriction is there. But how to get the Upper limit whether it is based on the memory or any other parameter..... Or on what parameter this restriction get used ...Show All

• .NET Development Get list of referenced assemblies at runtime

  Hi all, I have (hopefully) a simple question. I want to be able to get a list of assemblies (either as text or as Assembly objects) that my application references. I have seen AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() used but this only lists loaded assemblies (and is missing the yet to be referenced/used assemblies). Basically I'm trying to load a Type object using the text name of the type, if the assembly that this type belongs to is not referenced by the application I have to load that assembly from a dll. Given that loading a assembly from it's dll and reading the type information is slower than just simply trying to load the type information knowing that the assembly is referenced by the application, I really need to know about a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Avalon databinding/threading problem

  I'm building an app that has to show a network graph (you know, vertices and edges). The graph is constructed in a separate thread from the UI thread based on sent and received network packets. Now, I want to update the UI showing the graph changes. I have already read a lot about Avalon threading, but I just don't seem to get it working. Is there anyone who can give me a tip on how to solve this issue The Graph object has two collection properties that I want to deal with in the UI, like this: public class Graph<T> { public Collection<T> Vertices; public Collection<T> Edges; ... (a bunch of add/remove stuff) } First I have a graph control that I want to bind to Graph.Vertices and Graph.Edge ...Show All

• .NET Development Data insertion from webpart in share point portal

  im working on Sharepoint portal server these days ..its my final yera project actually. Well recently i've come across the problem of inserting data in sql server through a webpart. Though i've been successful in retrieving data from the database thru the webpart , but im unable to insert data . I hope someone can solve this problem . ...Show All

• Visual C# Save a string into a file

  Hi, Through my web application I generate a string and I need to save it into a file to send by mail. How can I save the file and send it as attchment by mail Thanks in that case to save a file, import the System.IO namespace then... StreamWriter theWriter = new StreamWriter("filename.ext"); theWriter.WriteLine("my line"); theWriter.Close(); then add "filename.ext" in the attachment collection as shown in the link above when sending the email. Alternatively you can use a stream of data and send that instead of the filename.ext file itself. This will still attach the content to the email as an attachment. does this help ...Show All

• Visual Studio List of updates included in the SP1 for VS 2005

  Where can I find a list of included updates The KB-Entry doesn't exists and the only known list is for the Beta of the SP1. Andre hmm, this list can't be the collection of all Updates. What about KB925674 This is the security update for VS2005. This is not mentioned, but the filesversion says, it's a newer build. Does this mean, even if the files has a newer version it is older than the version from the patch. This is so confusing. So I thought, that was the Beta1 update list. Hmm, another confusing thing is, that my VSS 2005 are till have the RTM files, no update was installed. But thanks for the link to the right topic. Happy new Year :) ...Show All

• SQL Server implement manual replication between two SQL Server 2005 Express?

  Hi, I need to synchronize the data between two SQL Server 2005 Express. The database is really simple, just few tables (but data are inserted very often) without any triggers. Since Express edition could not behave as a Publisher I was thinking about implementing manually a sort of Replication mechanism... It should be a sort of Transactional Replication with queueud updating. Does it sound a good idea Has anyone done this before o there are better solution Thanks in advance, Stefano Hi Andrea, Thank you for your kind response... I know that the Express edition doesn't have the SQL Server Agent nor it does support Replication (as a Publisher). In fact I was wondering how to achive a similar behaviour con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I entering credentials for the various servers I want to monitor?

  Hi Ed and Bill, Been doing lots of Web service testing against multiple servers in different domains i.e. exchange, sharepoint, and IIS web servers in both Integration and Production environments. I assume that VS2005 uses whatever credentials I log in as. Following this approach I set my user name to be the same in INT and PROD. Well when it comes to counter set mappings and getting perfmon results I get "Access is denied". It appears to be prepending my production domain name to the username. Anyhow, The question is how do I set credentials for the various servers I am trying to monitor, especially if they are in a different domain from the test machine Henry Hi Henry, there ...Show All

• Visual C# Writting a rolling file !

  I need to write to a rolling file - i will setup a limit for the file - let's say 10 MB. When the file reaches the limit - i will delete the first line and add one to the end. Can anyone give me a hint on this - is there any way to avoid String/StringBuilder on this 10x Why would you want to do this if the file is 10MB, you will have to check the size of the file using one of the File/FileInfo classes, which lives in the System.IO namespace. if its 10MB, you can open the file, Seek to the last line and delete it and save it. Then you can Seek to the beginning and write there and save it however you will have some perf issues due to the file size. To "Seek" - you can use a FileStream which ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem in changing Account Name, Password

  Hi I installed SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. When I try changing the account name, password in the SQL Server Configuration Manager, i.e. by clicking on Apply, the SQLEXPRESS restarts and the password gets replaced by a longer password. Also the user name gets prefixed with "./". Any help on this will be highly appreciated. Another query: Do we have the query analyser (gui or command line) kind of thing in Express Edition Also where can I get a proper documentation of doing elementary things in setting up a database, like creating a database, adding a user, etc) Thanks and Regards Roopesh A few additional notes, if you've only downloaded Express Edition (not Advanced Services) you can get Management Studio Express separately from ...Show All