DMAR330's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What the H&^^ is going on here?

  I try clicking on the installer package and it says "This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package." ANSWERS PLEASE! ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Control Sheet Name of Exported Excel Report?

  Is there a way to control the sheet name when a report is exported to Excel I have four matrices where a page break is made between each of them. Once exported to Excel, the resulting file has "Sheet1", "Sheet2", "Sheet3" and "Sheet4" as the names of its worksheets. Would it be possible to change it to a more user-friendly name Here is something that is "almost as good"...... you can make Excel create a Document Map for each of your reports - whether they are tables or matrices. This example uses a table and 2 matrices, with both matrices on one sheet. Put your table in a rectangle; in the rectangle properties enter text for the Label property. Put the matrices in a second rectangle and also ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. am i digging a hole for myself?

  Hi everyone. I have a simple question-am i making life difficult for myself by choosing xna to develop a game for my final year project the context-i have spent the last few years learing 3d, 2d and digital sound design so would have the ability to create all the media quite easily for a game. my doubts lie with the programming. the only game i have created so far is space invaders. am i being silly to go for developing a 3d game (maybe FPS or platformer-maybe one level) in 8 months It really depends how comfortable you are with the programming end. I spent my final 2 years of college building an RTS game which unfortunately never got finished. The game featured an 2D isometric tile engine writ ...Show All

• SQL Server Fulltext query fails with "The content index is corrupt." on sql server 2005

  What are my options here, does a repair exist or do I have to delete and rebuild the entire index I am afraid you will need to rebuild your entire index. There is no such option as 'repair'. Please, feel free to contact me letting me know which operations toke place in order to have this corrupted status, as it is not common indeed. Thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server DW partitioning advice needed by lost soul

  We are putting our first DW together. One of the consultants, not familiar with the MS SQL database, suggested we consider "parititioning" our data for ease or reloading, distaster recovery etc. His idea was that we could parition the data based on, say, year, and that way, in case of a disaster, we would only need to reload that year's worth of data from our backups. (So I guess he is talking about software partitioning, not hardware partitioning ) I can't imagine how this approach wll work with our nightly backup strategy or the changes the need to be made to the DW import code to to handle these partitons. Furthermore, in case of a disaster how is one to even know what parititon(s) to reload. (I'd be incliined to reload the ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't copy the .mdf file in an app because it's being used by another process

  Hi guys, I'm trying to copy database files along with a c# app to a backup store, & I get the error in the subject line even when I've detached it from sql server. Now, even in the application, if I try to detach it or delete it, it gives the same error. I'm really new at this, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Kimmy Hi OJ, I tried that, but still got the error. The particuliar db that I'm getting this error for is used for a web service...would that be an issue here Thanks, Kimmy ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005Express trying to enable Full text indexing.

  We have an installation of SQL2005 Express that was loaded via the "SQL2005Express with advanced services" download .exe. Full text indexing wasn't enabled during installation. It says to go to add/remove programs. Going that route when it goes to install FTI it says that it can't find the installation files in what looks to be the origonal "TEMP" folder created and removed during installation. If I run the program installer from the download again it states that SQL is already installed and to use "add/remove programs". We are stuck at this point. Is there an ISO available that could be burned to disk Thanks in advance. Sorry, I'm new here and didn't realize you can't post ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Apply a format to a datagrid in the load form event

  I am loading a form that has a datagrid in it. In the load event for the form I have several datagrid formatting lines of code. Several work just fine but a few (dealing with row height and row header for example) do not update to the changes made in the code. I have realized that I can attach these lines of code to a button after the form loads and press the button and the formatting will take place. The formatting is taking place when the form loads too but then somewhere the formatting gets reset (like in the initializeComponent). I need some help understanding how to fix this problem. The wierd thing is if I load the form as a child form this problem happens but if I just "form.show()" all the formatting steps occur. Is th ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Security Permission exception while using Bitmap Effect

  Hi, I have a browser application (XBAP) in which I want to use BitmapEffects. Since BitmapEffects are not allowed in partial trust applications, I have moved the BitmapEffect code to a different assembly (having strong name, present in GAC and having full rights). In this assembly, I have written code to override the default security settings (using Assert - UIPermission). But still when my browser application calls this assembly and it uses BitmapEffect, I get the same security exception. The assembly method code is given below: public BitmapEffect GetEffectForButton() { System.Security.PermissionSet permset = new System.Security.PermissionSet(System.Security.Permissions.PermissionState.Unrestricted); permset.AddP ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Source: string types lose length attributes in XML Schema?

  I'm having a problem with the XML Source data flow component not transferring the length attributes from an XML Schema to the column attributes of the output table. An example schema that I have is: < xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' > <data xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'> <xsd:schema> <xsd:simpleType name='NameType'> <xsd:restriction base='xsd:string'> <xsd:minLength value='0'/> <xsd:maxLength value='50'/> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> <xsd:element name='Name' type='NameType' nillable='true'/> <xsd:simpleType name='FamilyType'> <xsd:restriction base='xsd:string'> <xs ...Show All

• SQL Server harnessing Reportviewer toolbar buttons

  Hello everyone, Well ive never used Reportviewer before and ive been trying all this week to harness the events in the buttons of the reportviewer toolbar... the thing is that i need to hide the toolbar for UI reasons but i dont know how to make my own buttons to have the functionality of those included in the reportviewers toolbar. i know this is possible.. but can someone pleeeease give me a hand! P.S: and by the way is it possible in both rdl and rdlc or just rdlc Thanks Egli ...Show All

• Visual Studio ReportViewer incompatiblity with IE6

  I cant seem to get ReportViewer to render the actual report in IE6. It works fine on IE7 and FireFox. Did anybody else have any trouble with this ...Show All

• Visual Studio "The specified share path cannot be accessed by the SourceSafe Web Service."

  I'm having a heck of a time with the internet connectivity for SourceSafe Right now, I'm getting the error below: "The specified share path cannot be accessed by the SourceSafe Web Service." I have turned off Windows impersonation, as I was having trouble with that as well, but now I can't seem to do anything on the share where i normally connect to. I've enabled access for Everyone with full control to try and get through the problem, but i'm still stumped. Anyway i can tell what user the service is trying to use to access the share and where it's failing To be honest I think you're just digging a deeper hole for yourself. Even if you get this working, what do you have A SourceSafe da ...Show All

• .NET Development bytecode verification in a single forward-pass

  ECMA for CLR claims that "It shall be possible, with a single forward-pass through the CIL instruction stream for any method, to infer the exact state of the evaluation stack at every instruction" In other words, it shall be possible to perform bytecode verification in a single forward-pass. To make that possible , ECMA requires that "if that single-pass analysis arrives at an instruction, call it location X, that immediately follows an unconditional branch, and where X is not the target of an earlier branch instruction, then the state of the evaluation stack at X shall be empty." On the other hand, ECMA claims that it "simulates all control flow paths". I don't get how this simulation of all paths i ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 drops header

  My website www.apnaonline.ca looks fine in IE6, it shows the header fine, but in IE7 the header title is gone. Can anyone tell me why Thanks, Geoserv. I was able to fix this issue. In my CSS below: #header{ clear:both; margin:5px 0 0 0; padding:0; height:5px; } I removed : height:5px; and now it renders properly in IE7/FF/IE6. Why won't IE7 render height like all other browsers I hope we aren't headed to another range of CSS hacks. Geoserv. ...Show All