mattii's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Install SQL Server 2005 Exp with ToolKit

  Hi, I would like to have SQL Server 2005 Express with the most features as possibles. It seems to be correct about 'AdvancedEdition' but, when I installed the "ToolkitEdition", in order to get "Business Intelligence Development Studio", I was not able to open this option. The file 'devenv.exe' is missed. Do you have some procedure and links to get best set up with theses features for SQL Server 2005 Express Thanks. Hi Peter, As you've found, Reporting Services, which is installed as part of SQL Express with Advanced Services, requires that you have IIS installed. Since IIS is not included in Windows XP Home, you will not be able to run Reporting Services on that syste ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions prevent automatic change of the scrollposition of the scroll bars

  i am facing an irritating problem I am using: 1. A tab control 2. A panel with autoscroll set to true, Docked to fill the above mentioned tab control. 3. A tree view and picturebox inside the above mentioned panel. Both have the height more than that of the container panel and hence a vertical scroll bar comes in the panel automatically so far its fine the problem: when i click on the treeview loaded with nodes, the vertical scrollbar automatically changes the scroll position (increment) and the tabs of the tab control move beyond the top of the form and thus go out of vision. again the user has to manually move the scrollbar to gain the full view of the tab control (the tabs) this is very very irritating and please ...Show All

• SQL Server The Cross Join Operator (*) Can be Very Slow

  Has anybody else seen cases where replacing the * operator with the CrossJoin() function will dramatically improves performance In a support case I have open with MS, they asked me to change my syntax in that way and I was very surprised by the improvement. I was also surprised because previously I've heard that CrossJoin() and the * operator " are completely equivalent from the functional and performance standpoint". The kicker is that the time intelligence wizard uses the * operater by default. The part of the sentence that I quoted came from this guy's blog: http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/mosha/archive/2007/02/20/crossjoin_syntax.aspx Also, I'm not sure why a static optimization couldn't be appli ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is there a similar call in XNA to SetTransform in DX?

  Is there a similar call in XNA to SetTransform in DX Or is the fixed function pipeline totally deprecated and you're expected to use a shader for this functionality I couldn't find reference this to anywhere in the docs. Thanks, Stephen Yes, there is no fixed function pipeline support in XNA because Xbox 360 does not even have a fixed function pipeline. So it's all shaders now. This migration guide between Managed DX 1.1 and XNA will get you an idea about what's being removed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/migration/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms textBox Question

  is there a way to allow only ' a-z A-Z 0-9 ][{}()-* ' characters to be typed into a normal textBox the MaskedTextBox wont work in the way that i want it too. Im using VC++ 2005 thanks no still not working, ive seen similar code for doing this somewhere but i cant remember where although it may have been the same code. maybe someone out there has a solution to this mysterious puzle it doesnt seem to recognise the word ' Regex ' either so it could be that ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual C# Associating file types with programs

  I would like to create an application that works similar to microsoft word or the other ms office suite applications. i.e. I would like to create and install my program so it can 1. Associate files i create with a particular extension to my program. 2. when i click on files with my extension they launch my program and open the data similar to a ms word document. Iif anyone may be knowledge of this or knows what the technical name for this time of programming is called i would sincerely be grateful. email: loverboydamion@gmail.com  or reply to this post.   You may use Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey class to modify the registy to do this. string keyName; string keyValue; //This creates a Root entry called "My ...Show All

• Visual C# How to make other controls active while reading data from large text file?

  Hi, All In my application, user will import and read a text file. The file is very large, so it takes about 20 minutes to read out the file. During the reading, other buttons or labels on the same form could not be accessed until the reading is finished. It is quite inconvenient since I could not stop the reading by clicking the "Stop" button on the form...Any idea about this Is it related to cross-thread problems Besides, there is a timer on my form which is used to show the current time. The time will be updated per second with the time interval is 1000. However, the time won't be updated until the reading is completed.... Does that mean, for different controls on a form, one control will not be updated until another one in p ...Show All

• Windows Forms Trigger Validate

  Hi, I'm using a control's Validating-Event. Is it possible to trigger the event externally via a method call Thanks! There's also Form's ValidateChildren method, but that's for group of controls (selected by ValidationConstraints enum) and not for single control, so I guess this does not help you much... Andrej ...Show All

• Visual Studio .net 2003 + Crystal Report

  Hi, We have Purchased MS Visual basic 2003 .net with crystal report single user version. The same has been installed in one PC. Customize program has been developed and same has been working in the installed PC. Customized program setup file has been installed to another PC but while running crystal report is throwing an error (“INVALID KEYCODE”). The screen shot of the same has been attached. Regards, Suresh Kumar K suresh@quadrasystems.net ...Show All

• Visual C# Overriding static methods?

  Consider the following situation: Two classes, B and C, share a lot of properties. They therefore both inherit from a common class, A. Of course we can call B(...) and C(...) to get a single B- and C instance respectively. On both classes I now want a static method, GetAllInstances(), that returns a List of all possible instances of the class. That is: The static method B.GetAllInstances(...) should return a List of all possible B-instances and similar with C. The code to produce all possible instances are very similar for both B and C and only differs on simple parameters, say a string named myDatabaseTableName. Therefore it is obvious to implement GetAllInstances() in the base class A and let it get the myDatabaseTableName property from ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I have a download display a progress bar?

  On my website, I click on the "Download 30 Day Free Trial" button. It downloads the program, but, it is not giving me any indication that it is doing it. How can I have it display a progress bar I found that if my download button links to Setup1.msi instead of Setup.exe then the download does give a progress bar. But, will it install the prerequisites ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Testing Change

  In CTP3 I can create a unit test for a stored procedure by right click on the sproc in the list of Schema Objects. In CTP4 this functionallity is missing (at least on my install). Should I be able to see the 'Create Unit Tests...' menu option on the context menu for a sproc One other thing I've noticed (that may be related) is that in CTP3 the sprocs show as dbo.SprocName while in CTP4 they show as SprocName.sproc.sql (i.e. the file name is shown rather than the name of the stored procedure) This should work, did you do this from the Solution Explorer or the Schema View In CTP4 you can only do this from the Schema View not from the Solution Explorer. -GertD "DataDude" Developement Manager ...Show All

• SQL Server CE upgrade tool?

  Have anyone written a tool to upgrade from CE to Everywhere that is easier to use that the upgrade.exe program Thanks Hi, I have written a free GUI Interface to it - available at http://www.gui-innovations.com/download/SqlUpgrade.zip Pete ...Show All

• .NET Development static constructor

  Dear All, I am first to C# .net. I heared about static constructor. I want to know more about these. Can you explain this to me. It is a sample code I modified. Please use this code to explain the static constructor. public class Bus { static int AAA; static int BBB; static int CCC; static Bus() { System.Console.WriteLine("The static constructor invoked."); AAA=AAA+1; } public static void Drive() { System.Console.WriteLine("The Drive method invoked."); BBB=BBB+1; } public static void Start() { System.Console.WriteLine("The start method invoked."); CCC=CCC+1; } public void Stop() { System.Console.WriteLine("The Stop method invoked."); } ...Show All

• Visual J# how to: simultaneously data transfer between two forms

  hello, i have a problem. i have two forms: Form1 and Form2 in Form1 i have label1 and button1. they both are created as public. in Form2 i have a button2. in buttun1's click event, i wrote: Form2 frm = new Form2(); frm.ShowDialog(); and Form2 opens. in the form 2, theres button2. in button2's click event i wrote: Form1 f = new Form1(); f.label1.set_Visible(true); in here, i dont want to close form2. i want both of them open. but when frm1 is not active, when i compile these codes, label1's visible doesnt change. can anyone help me in this subject please. Hi, I think your problem is that you want to interact with both the forms simultaneously. The reason you are not able to ...Show All