c_shah's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Virtual Earth 3d install

  This may not be the place, but I can not find help anywhere for my problem. The Live.Mail group referred me here. My problem is that when I open and select the 3d map, the 3d objects are represented by a blue silhouette and never fill in the object. I went through the acceleration settings, FAQs, etc. to no avail. I am running XP Pro, IE7, 3.2 GHz P4 CPU, 1 mb ram. When I originally installed VE, I had my default browser set to Firefox 2.0. I reset my browser to IE7, uninstalled and reinstalled VE. I saved it to disk, also ran it from the site all to no avail. During the original installation, I also installed Live Local for Outlook. This seems to be OK so I left it as is. I noticed the map was taking a minute to load ( I have 768 kbps DS ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tell us about your website or game!

  As part of our effort to reach out to the XNA community, we would like to create a special community page on the XNA Developer Center that links to YOUR site or game. Here's what you need to do, send me (David Weller) an email (click on my name link to the left of this post for the email address) telling me: 1) Your name 2) Your contact email 3) Your website or game 4) (Optionally) If you send me a link to your game, please let us know if you give Microsoft permission to use your game as part of any press-related activities we might do (i.e., incorporate a screenshot/video of your game, etc.). Please don't reply to this post with links to your site/game, I need the information emailed to me. Thanks! I can totally ...Show All

• SQL Server Analysis Services on SQL2000 SP4

  "unable to browse the dimension [dimension name]. Provider cannot be found. or Unknown Error. Everything else looks good, like processsing, looking at the tables,fields, datasource is connected. Thanks again, but no cigar. To install pivot tables I had to de-install Analysis Services, Install the pivot tables and re-install the Analysis. However I can't browse the results and/or the cube. I went a step further installing SQL Server 2000 and Analysis Services on a different PC, using Windows XP with the same negative results. Unable to browse the Cube [cube name] or Unable to browse the dimension [dimension name] Unspecified error. It will help how to find and read the OLAP server error logs or dump for a be ...Show All

• .NET Development Programmatically change UpdateMethod of ObjectDataSource

  I want to change the UpdateMethod of an ODS. I've tried changing it but it keeps going to the method initially defined. The parameters are the same between the two methods. The docs indicate that you can Set the property and you don't get a compile error. Any thoughts Sorry, my bad. ObjectDataSource2 and CustomerDS are the same thing. I just forgot to change it when I cut and paste from the example. I did place a breakpoint on the line and it fires fine. Set a breakpoint for when it changed. It catches my programmatic change but never catches it reverting back. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) certmgr.exe makecert.exe in Windows xp2

  I develop in Windows xp2 . i understand that makecert.exe and certmgr.exe built to run only on windows vista http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=340297&SiteID=1 if i should to use certmgr.exe what i can to do i think we have some known issue in FEB CTP,you can implement following workaround http://blogs.msdn.com/edpinto/archive/2006/03/03/543061.aspx i installed June CTP on my machine,we don't have this problem in june CTP -Thank you Madhu ...Show All

• Windows Forms changing text in the forms titlebar

  I have selection box on a form and when the selection changes I want to change the text in the title bar. New Item for: (name selected from combobox) e.g. from 'New Item for Fred' to 'New Item for Sue' Using C# I had expected to be able to do frmNewItem.Text= but I cannot find the .Text property. Any Ideas Hi Graham If you're inside the code of the form it's this.Text -- (in VB Me.Text) -- which refers to the current instance of the form as opposed to the class. HTH ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rocket Commander XNA

  In Rocket Commander XNA, I get a NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException from the Run method. The message is "Unable to create the graphics device" My laptop has NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 and the other XNA programs work fine. Any suggestions Laptop GPUs are quite complicated to work with, I'd recommend trying it on a Desktop first. The Go versions of NVIDIA GeForce cards are not the same as their desktop brothers. I guess you could check if it does have pixel shader 2.0 support and make sure that you have the latest drivers, and all the requirements for XNA --> .NET Framework 2.0, DirectX 9 runtime(latest is Febuary 2007) and the framework. ...Show All

• Visual Studio WORD format problem

  Using VisualStudio 2003, .Net Framework 1.1, Access database, one of our customers is having issues with fonts and formats when the Crystal reports are exported. This occurs in the Adobe and WORD exports. Most customers are not having this issue, and we've tried several different options and none work. We are thinking this might be a print driver issue. I am unable to recreate the problem. The customer does not have the correct Font loaded, (MS Mincho), but since they are not a developer seat, that is not easily done. I've run tests after deleting the font from my machine, and it looks a little funny but nothing like what the customer has faxed me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Combo Box Question

  hi I'm making my first 'simple' application to get me started. its the basic windows Form with just a combo box containg just 3 options ' a or b or c ' ok it works fine but how can i make it remember my last selection i mean when i run the application again it shows nothing and you have to select the option all over again. registry is unneeded for this scenario and far too advanced. you can serialize the collection - so when adding items into a combo box, go through each item and add them into an array. you can then serialize the array/collection and next time deserialize the xml file to restore the objects back to the array collection. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.aspx Take ...Show All

• SQL Server determin name of primary column

  given the name of any table how can i programmatically get the name of the primary key column You can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS view like: SELECT tc.CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS as tc WHERE tc.TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo' and tc.TABLE_NAME = '<your_table>' and tc.CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY'; ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can a class run a function within the class it was initiated from?

  I am reasonably new to C#, but have a reasonable understanding of programming in general though I only began to understand the use of OOP a few months back. Basically I have two classed, Schedule and TrayIcon; the TrayIcon class is initiated from within the Schedule class. Obviously it is easy to set the properties and run the methods of TrayIcon from within Schedule. However I need to run a method defined in Schedule from within Tray Icon. At the moment, when I initialize TrayIcon I write "trayIcon TrayIcon = new TrayIcon(this);" and in the TrayIcon constructor I grab the Schedule object. This allows me to run all public methods of Schedule. Although this method works, I feel there must be a better way of doing it; is there ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Internet Explorer 7

  my computer recently upgraded to internet explorer 7 but i liked the old version better is there any way that i can get the old version back ...Show All

• Visual Basic cut and paste a control

  when i cut and paste a button in vb.net the name of the button changes and i need to write the code for it again If you cut a control and paste onto another form and the control already exists it will rename the control. If the control name doesnt exist on the form then it should stay the same. Demonstration Example Create a form with 4 buttons called Button1 - 4 and a second form with Button2 on it. If you cut / paste buttons1,3 or 4 from the first form to the second then they will retain there names. If you try cut/paste Button2 onto the second form then as the button already exists when the pate action occurs it will rename the button to whatever the next free number is for the control default name. So it would a ...Show All

• SQL Server import database

  I need to import a database from MS SQL 2000. I created the database. Then I create the database scripts and run them in sql express but I get this error. "The specified schema name "username" either does not exist or you do not have permission to use it." I have also tried to use DTS on MS SQL 2000 to export the data into text file. I do not have the ability to copy the mdf files and attach them in SQL express or make a backup. SQL Server introduced the schema whcih did not exist in SQL Server 200. YOu would either have to rename the object owner in the script to a existing schema (like dbo) or create the appropiate schemas in SQL Server 2005 which were fromer the owners of an object ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorkflowRuntime events are missing when using an indexer! Bug or Feature?

  Hello, we are getting some strange behavior from the WorkflowRuntime when using an C# indexer within a SequentialWorklfowActivity, the events like WorkflowCompleted are not being fired anymore. Here is the scenario/code: namespace WorkflowConsoleApplication3 { public sealed partial class Workflow1 : SequentialWorkflowActivity { public Workflow1() { InitializeComponent(); Console . WriteLine ( "MySequentialWorkflow ctor" ); Variables = new Variable2 [] { new Variable2 ( "WorkplaceName" , "" , false , "" ), new Variable2 ( "UserName" , "" , false , "" ), }; } [ Description ( " ...Show All