darknessangel's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Report parameters not empty

  Hi, I have four reports with the same three report parameters. Two of them have defaults. Last is empty and must be selected. I created one main report and added those four reports as sub reports. I also created 3 parameters in the main report and mapped the parameters of the subreports to the main report. I also setup that the first two parameters are filled and that the last one is empty Now if I run the main report in the IDE it gives for the last one an empty parameter which is correct. If I publish it to the reporting server, the last parameter gets filled by the first of the drop downlist. Why is it not empty And how do I clear it With regards, Constantijn Enders Hi, You can ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to run samples?

  I have installed Visual Basic 2005 Express and I want to try some of Microsoft samples as Visual Basic in Office (Excel) -real estate locator. but I can't get work. Sample is here: http://download.microsoft.com/downl...ice%20excel.msi I also tried microsoft 101 Samples for Visual Basic 2005 and I can't get work. What should I do What is the url you downloaded the '101' samples from Perhaps they have VB and C# versions of these and you got the wrong batch (Grasping at straws guess...) Is VB EE opening up and letting you use it by itself ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XBox 360: Detect widescreen vs 4:3?

  Right now it looks like our games pretty much dictate their size and whether they're windows or full-screen. But, obviously, once we get to the 360 the choice of windows vs full-screen will be gone. And I get the impression that if we code for 720p that the 360 will automatically downscale if needed. But I still don't know how we're going to detect whether the output is headed for widescreen or 4:3. If we make the choice to program for widescreen only will the 360 letterbox for us, or will it just get squished or truncated While it might downscale to 480 or upscale to 1080, I don't think it'll do any auto magic to translate aspect ratio. "4:3" isn't a resolution... I can run my widescreen TV at e ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 and desktop icons

  I just installed Internet Explorer 7 today, which I guess is a.k.a. Windows Live . All of my fancy customized shortcuts on the desktop disappeared and each got replaced by the same generic windows icon. Right-clicking & changing the icons in properties no longer works. Also, when I create an internet shortcut while browsing, that creates a shortcut with that same generic icon (not even an explorer logo). Now my desktop is just one forest of identical icons. Anyone know how I can fix this I've wasted all day without success. Dave, I followed your favicon suggestion... revisiting the site does NOT restore the shortcut icon. Also, as others have pointed out, IE7 does not permit a sho ...Show All

• Visual Basic Listbox in Vb.net

  Hi pals, forgive my stupid question, but this issue is taking me much more time that it should: I have a listbox control, and I need to access all the items and obtain both there Value and there Text, for creating my objects, setting attributes and add them to a collection. I managed to access the Text, but not the Value... Ex: Dim mb As MyObject For i = 0 To Me .myListBox.Items.Count - 1 mb = New MyObject mb.description = Me .myListBox.GetItemText( Me .myListBox.Items(i)) mb.code = 'How do I get the value Me .myCollection.Add(mb) Next Thanx for your help ;-) D. The ListBox uses an instance of the ObjectCollection class to store the obj ...Show All

• Windows Forms Possible C# .Net bug

  I am using a rich text box to populate sections of a document from a database.  I am also dynamically building tables with rows and cells with in the rich text box.  Everything seems to be working well except for sentences that are bigger than the cells.  Instead of the cells expanding to fit all of text, it allows the text to run out of the cell.  My question is, is there a way to have the rtf cell expand to fit all of the text   I opened the rtf code in WordPad and it worked fine, but it still doesn't work in my rich text box project.  Any ideas of what I need to do to make it work in my Visual C# project Here is an example of my rtf code: {\rtf1\ansi \par \trowd \trql\trgaph ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Unified Input

  It's my biggest gripe about XNA and directx, there's no unified input...   I don't have a 360 controller hooked to my pc, not even sure if that is possible... is it Anyhow, since i took the whole unified input idea from Lynn T Harrison's book, i'll share it here in hopes that people can email me suggestions and feedback. The enum translations aren't finished yet and the InputManager is a singleton (i'm on a singleton kick lately don't know why), and obviously the gamepad implementation isn't finished.  Hopefully you can sortof see where i was headed with the 360 implementation...   wel here it is, i guess email me at jhered at yahoo com if you have suggestions.   Cool move. If you have ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Visual Studio PaocketPC 2003 SE emulator connection Problem

  I am using Visual Studio PaocketPC 2003 SE emulator .My Machine is in LAN . I want to test my ASP application running on localhost. So I changed Setting->Connections->Advanced TAb->Select Network->My Work network ->Edit->Proxy Settings->Checked Checkbox this network connects to the internet->ok->ok->ok. After this i opened IE in emulator and tried to connect to google.ca . I am getting the following error:- Unable to connect :you have no modem entries created and no network card present. Please HElp Hi after the successfully setting the connection I am able to connect to the internet through Pocket PC emulator. But once I try to connect to webservices running on the ...Show All

• .NET Development TcpClient.BeginAcceptTcpClient / Socket.BeginAccept / all other variations...

  First, I'm sorry for the cross-post...I didn't see the networking forum, so I posted into the vb.net forum. I've been having a problem with the use of any of the async methods of TcpClient, Socket, etc eating >95% cpu after receiving the first connection. I've been working on this for over a week now and I'm unable to find references to this issue anywhere. I've tried every way I can think of to work around this problem. Even if no data is sent or received on the connection....or if I close the received connection -- some unknown thread uses all the available cpu power after the first connection occurs. I created a small project that reproduces the problem -- I've zipped it up and posted it here: http://www.profitfuel.net/T ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB and Excel

  hi all, i'm write a code in vb for export datagrid into excel. for doing this, need somr information like font, size, ... I want setting some information like NumberFormat for each cell. My type is "text" (it's a meta data) in english, the type is "General" but in french, it's "standart", in german it's... is there a #define, #enum, adapter or other (like a "theRange.NumberFormat = LocalOfficeLanguage.General") for setting this correctly Dim theRange As Excel.Range = exl.Cells.Range( "A1" , "A1" ) 'general settings theRange.Font.Bold = True theRange.Font.Size = 14 theRange.Font.FontStyle = "Arial" 'specific cell settings ...Show All

• SQL Server cluster discrimination scores

  Dear all here: I have a question about the cluster mining result. In the discrimination tab shows the different between group 1 and group 2. I just wonder how to calculate the discremination scores. Do any expertise can answer the question Regards! Jerry This is calculated with statistical method. We assume each cluster constitutes a Gaussian/Multinomial distribution on a continuous/discrete attribute. The parameters of these distributions are then calculated for each cluster. For each specific attribute value, we can then evaluate its probability by combining the cluster distributions, the given attribute value (all other attribute are set to unknown). The discrimination sco ...Show All

• SQL Server How do i find all subscriptions

  Hi There I need to get rid of all subscriptions (including cleaning up all associated sql jobs) for RS 2000 and 2005. We have hundreds of reports , going through them 1 by 1 is not an option. When i look at the system tables, i join Subscription to Catalog, but i find reports with subscriptions in the system tables but when i go to Report Manger there is no subscription for the report. In a nutshell , how can i see all valid subscription for all reports in RS, how can i delete all of them and make sur eall sql jobs associated etc are deleted. Thanx Hi Lukasz, thank you for not supporting me! i just want to let you know that accessing the Report Server Database directly is a job ...Show All

• Windows Forms Writing a picturebox to a file using .jpg format

  I have a picturebox with text that was added using the DrawString method. The text can be seen on the display. I now want to: 1. Save the picturebox to a .jpg file. 2. Send the picturebox to a printer (directly, not from the .jpg file created in #1). Can someone show me how to do these two steps Thank you. I tried that and got an unhandled NullReverenceException (on the image object, I believe). I never created an image object in the pictureBox. I just did the following to display the text in the pictureBox. String line; // Read, display lines from file until eof reached Graphics g = pictureBox1.CreateGraphics(); g.Clear( Color .White); Point p = new Point (5, 5) ...Show All

• Visual C# VS2003, How do you turn on XP Theme at design time?

  Thanks That's for runtime rendering. I mean, the form design view itself to render immediately using the XP theme when you set the FlatStyle of a button and etc to System. ...Show All

• Commerce Server Guidance on number of catalogs and number of products

  Hi All, In the CS docs there is the following page Performance Considerations in the Catalog System. In this page it says (underlining added by me)... Number of Catalogs The relationship between the number of catalogs and performance is very complex. However, a basic guideline is that fewer catalogs are bette r, depending on hardware and your specific scenarios. This guideline is valid up to around 500,000 products per catalog . Beyond that, more advanced configurations may be needed, based on your performance requirements. Now, in the Starter Site Performance guide the catalog config was... 15 catalogs with 1,000,000 products each 6 virtual catalogs with 700,000 products each This has me a little confused as I would ...Show All