Jakein2006's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Best Practice for Ranking

  Looking for advise or best practice for ranking of top 10 companies (out of 100s) for aggregates on a shipping comparitive value (tonnage). Would like to make each of the top 10 companies a column with values broken down by region (rows). I also need a column for a single chosen company (not necessarily top 10), and another column for that company's percentage of market share. I'd like to utilize our data cube in a matrix, but can't solve how to add the last two columns above. We have the option of using the cube or the transactional db. Any advice is helpful, thanks. One option would be to use the sort number 1-10 as your grouping key and have your report dataset based on a union of the 1-10 dataset, the 11 extra column dataset, ...Show All

• Visual C# Custom class convertor problems

  Hy, I am trying to design a custom control. Some properties of this control are from a self made object I call "Voltage" witch consist of a float 'volts' and a enum 'soort'. to use this object in my custom control as a property I need to make a VoltageConverter to be able to set the propertys in design time. The problem is that I can not debug the VoltageConverter class since the Visual C# 2005 IDE Stops imidiately if I try to test the control in the Disign view. Is there some trick I can do to be able to debug this class, or is it yust a matter of trying and starting the IDE everytime again To be complete I will paste some code of the voltage class and the voltage converter. may be sombody can see where it go's wrong ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiple Panels on a form

  I have a form that I need to place multiple panels on. These panels will overlap each other and only one is visible at a time. I would like a way to easily switch between these panels in the designer. I have tried the following: TabControl: I wrote code to hide the tabs but it behaves odd on resize with the browser control. I also don't want the border around the panels. PanelManager: http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/custom.html This one seemed the most promising but it has some bugs in VS2005 (and .NET 2.0) that make using the control in designer impossible. I will continue to tweak the above to see if I can make one work for me but, are there any other possible ways to do this. Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. SkyBox Effect using a BasicEffect

  HI Guys, I am currently creating a skybox for my game and I need help with the BasicEffect settings . Right now my skybox looks like a cube with a texture on each internal face. I would like the inside of the cube to appear like it is one continual texture, not showing the corners and edges. I will be creating a skybox with a custom effect later, but right now I would like to use a basiceffect. Can you tell me what basiceffect settings I should configure to create this effect. thanks in advance. Alan You need to disable lighting, zbuffer, zwrite, etc LIGHTING = FALSE; ZENABLE = FALSE; ZWRITEENABLE = FALSE; ALPHATESTENABLE = FALSE; ALPHABLENDENABLE = FALSE; and ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Custom Domains SDK php script

  Hey would you guys like another example php script for those the don't have PEAR It is using NuSOAP so it does have requirments such as CURL but NuSOAP is so much easer! Let me know! Evictsquatter is useful if you post a GetUserState and the return code is "4" (existing EASI acct). That tells you someone reserved this address before you registered your domain. At this point, since you own the domain, you can evict this address from your domain using EvictSquatter and then use AddUser to register a new account with this name. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sharepoint Webpart

  Hi All... How can I develop a webpart for Sharepoint using Dev Studio 2005 I see there's an addon for 2003 - when installed it lets us use a new template for a web part library. But when we try to install that addon under 2005, it says the Dev Studio's not installed... Perhaps 2005's is all set to do this - if so, where does one start Thanks, Stitch. It certainly does help. Man, talk about a change of direction... I can only imagine the fun those SP2003 users will have upgrading to SP2007. Thanks again! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Minimizing Some Other Softwares To Tray

  Hi! I have this software which does not have a feature which is minimize to tray. I wish to ask if it is possible to write a software which minimizes other .exe files to tray. I wish to minimize the software to tray during startup of my computer. Thanks! Sam Hi Ahmed I was trying to hide this software, lets call it ddd.exe into the notification icons area. The ddd.exe doesnt come with minimize to notification area function, so I hope that I can somehow write a program which will make ddd.exe minimize to the notification area (icons next to system clock). Thanks! Sam ...Show All

• Visual C# Get MAC address of client machine using C#

  How to get MAC address of client machine using C# Not looking for remote machine MAC Address. Hi Padam, The following hyperlink possesses a c # code snippet that reveals all details pertaining to your network interfaces on the local machine only along with it's description. Ideally if you have installed a single nic on your machine, you should get only one mac address as an output for this function, since mac addresses are associated only with nics & other hardware devices that communicate on a network. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinformation.physicaladdress.aspx If you are going to use this code snippet in your program, then you need to put an if -- else condition checking for the length ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Saving Excel to SqlServer Image field

  I have a document module function running a my website that displays txt, pdf, xls, ppt, doc files that are stored in a Sql Server 2000/2005 database table (image field). I would like to write a function triggered from a button event that saves the spreadsheet directly to the database table. I have 2 scenarios: 1) This routine writes the file disk and using VB.Net ADODB.Stream, saves to the database. I would like to remove the save to disk code and convert "This.Application" to an internal in-memory/in-process object which can be written to the database. ======= Code Sample 1 ============================== ** VSTO Button Event Invokes SaveAs method and save to disk. Dim AttachFileStream As New ADODB.Stream ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Please help !!! - Javascript OnChange events are not fired

  Hi All, have one strange problem. Scenario: 1) Server with MS CRM 3.0 and some custom client-side scripts applied to CRM elements (OnChange, OnLoad handl;ers etc.) 2) PC A with IE7 installed 3) PC B with IE6 installed 4) PC C with IE7 installed Problem is, that some (not all!) JavaScript events are just not fired on PC A and PC B. At the same time, same code form same server are running perfectly well on PC C! OnLoad events are working everywhere. OnChange - almost never on PC A and PC B. I tried to make every change I could think of in IE security settings - it didn't help. During making chaotic changes to IE settings on PC A I managed to make events fire normally - but when I closed IE window and re-opened it - every problem returned bac ...Show All

• Visual C++ CEdit doesn't receive arrow keys - ActiveX Control

  Hello, I have a problem with an ActiveX Control for IE. I have an CEdit control and it doesn't trap the WM_KEYDOWN message for the arrow keys. I've researched this a little bit and found KB168777 that is supposed to remove this problem but it only works for COleControl-derived classes and my class is not COleControl-derived. Any help would be appreciated! Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q187/9/88.ASP (I've had to do this for a number of controls and dialogs). ...Show All

• .NET Development Can VB6 Library use in VB.net

  I have a VB6 library for an device(with one with .DLL, another is .Lib) Now I want to write a VB.net or C#.net program Can I use that VB6 Library in my .net program If cannot, if there nay tools that can convert the library and make it support .net Thank you ...Show All

• .NET Development RFID Reader Project

  Hello, I'm currently working on a project which involves a serial port RFID Reader. I have connected the Reader to COM2 of my PC and i'm trying to get the signals from the RFID Tags. I'm using Visual C# and SerialPort class. The problem is that i can't read or write to the port. I even tried to write something to the port using port.Writeline("string") and then read it with Readline() but it seems that nothing is written and nothing can be read. When i set the RtsEnable to TRUE the BytesToRead property changed from 0 to 9 no matter what i did and still i couldn't read anything. I also wanted to ask you if you have any code samples to send me or if any of you has written a similar program that works. I need to fix t ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 SP2 Installation And Overview Video

  For those that are interested, this video may be useful for you about some of the new features coming up in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 and how to install it: http://www.jumpstarttv.com/Media.aspx vid=70 ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Can you change Pin icon dynamically

  Hi, I am writing an application to display images on a map using Virtual Earth, and would like to change the colour of an associated pin when the user rolls the mouse over an image on a web page. The VEPushPin class doesn't have an icon property, only allowing you to set the icon in the constructor. As far as I can tell there are two options: 1. Add a new pin with a different icon in the same spot, and delete the old pin. 2. Inspect the HTML using javascript to obtain a reference to the img object used in the pin, and change the icon using the .src property. Neither strike me as being particularly nice or robust. Does anyone have a more elegant solution Thanks your help! Hi nickstreet, Can you plea ...Show All