QuantumMischief's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Surface Area Config/Rep. Svcs./Error viewing Win Integrated Security

  When attempting to verify that Windows Integrated Security is disabled (see why at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180255.aspx), I receive the following error: Argument value was not passed for the argument Report service URL. (Microsoft.SqlSac.Public) I have been unable to determine if this is related to the fact that I use Mixed Authentication in my SS2K5 instance, and therefor not actually an error, but a notification, or if it is an error in the tool. I suspect the latter. Any info out there Subquestion: Is this the best way to report an incident like this without starting the MS support charge meter Thanks for sending me to connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver/feedback. I found this over there: http://connect.microsoft ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Maximized window frame rate issue

  In my game, if I resize the window to fill the entire screen without actually maximizing the window, it runs at 59 FPS. If I hit the maximize button for the window, which isn't really changing the window size at all, since the window is already filling the screen, my FPS drops to 24 FPS. So with the same size window and the same code, the only difference is that the window is maximized. Any idea why this might be happening Bill Thanks for testing it, and thanks for the tip on SpriteBatch. It didn't change the behavior, so I guess it's a Vista thing. Sorry to trouble everyone. So is it OK to submit XNA bugs on Vista on Connect even though it's not officially supported I'd hate to see this problem in the next release that has V ...Show All

• Windows Forms creating dynamic textbox controls with a click of the button

  I need to create X number of text boxes during runtime. I have a combo box with a list of opperations the user selects an operation from the list then clicks Add step. I need to create a textbox1 then put the selected items text in the textbox. user selects another item clicks enter I need to create textbox(2)..... place the next text box at location 10 below I under stand how to create dynammicly but how do I dynamiclay change the names .... My code (but names are hard coded to create at run time Dim dymTxtStart As TextBox = Nothing dymTxtStart = New TextBox dymTxtStart.Name = "step1" dymTxtStart.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(10, 100) Me .Controls.Add(dymTxtStart) Dim startte ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Count and List<T>.Count is a property but used like a method

    Not sure there is any solution to this but thought i'd raise an issue around the syntax for Count. In the following example, i'd like q3 to work! I understand the compiler might have issues with the name conflict, but there is a valid extension method, and the compiler is getting hung up because there is also a property. It can resolve it if i explicitely supply the generic type as in q4 - Why can't it be smart enough to do it for q3 List < int > nums = new List < int > { 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 }; int q1 = nums.Count; // works - uses the property on List<T> int q2 = nums.Count(); // fails: 'System.Collections.Generic.List<int>.Count' is a 'property' but is used like a 'method' - ...Show All

• .NET Development Get the Webservice from my local machine to the production server (I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 express)

    Hello, I finished a webservice-project with several methods on my local System. Now I want to publish it on the production server. My Development Environment is Visual Web Developer 2005. I have read that simply uploading the files ist not the solution (code-behind model). The file "Service.asmx", which points to the real Code (and is - so far as I have read - only from interest for the development environment) contains code as follows (in brackets and percent symbols): @WebService Language="C#" CodeBehind="~/App_Code/Service.cs" Class="Service" All other files, like service.cs and data classes xxx.cs are to find in the directory "App_Code". Now I want to publish this project on my Windows-pr ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Uploaded mine...

  When you get done with you game and sumbit it, crow about it here. A little over 24 hours left until the deadline and I'm so amazed I'm done, so much better than college Thanks to ZMan for his help, good luck all. I'll post the source code for my submission once the deadline hits. Bill I turned mine in on monday. Its called Space Race: Warp Speed. My wife played the role of "Novice Gamer" quite well too. ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting the domain user running a report

  Hello everyone, I've created a report that will be used by some of my users. I'm trying to get Reporting Services setup so that I can see the user that is running a report. I start a Profiler trace but it's not showing me the login credentials of the user. It shows me the user account that is set for anonymous access (IIS -> Default Web Site -> ReportServer -> Authentication and Access Control). Can someone tell me the settings for RS and IIS so that I can see the domain account of the user who is running a report via Profiler If not, can someone point me in the right direction of where to look for how the settings should be Thanks Jarret I marked your post as helpful, thanks for ...Show All

• SQL Server CLR Procedure error with third party .dll

  I have a CLR procedure with the below code calling a third party .dll in the system32 directory of the SQL server: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlTypes; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server; public class CorrectAddressProcedures { [ DllImport ( @"C:\WINDOWS\system32\CorrectA.dll" , EntryPoint = "FindCityCounty" )] public static extern int FindCityCounty( StringBuilder zip, StringBuilder cityname, StringBuilder state, StringBuilder countyname, StringBuilder countynum); public static String Space( int len) { StringBuilder str = new StringB ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Multiselects objects that are there on your Form at RUNTIME

  Anyone knows how to multiple select the objects that i put on the form at RUNTIME, the objects are mostly of type drawings (circles) etcetc, and may be also controls.... What i want is when i put many objects on the form, i want to multiple select them, bu creating a rectangle arond them, like the same way we do in the .NET IDe's Form designer. and then i want to move the controls / drawing objects that i created after multiple-selecting them, and also apply copy and paste operations on them.... a help of this kind wouldbe really appreciated... How are you storing the 'object' locations, type, etc. When you know where you 'hit' the object, you can 'select' it - you would have to draw some kind of selected mechanism (eg. handles) for ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Looking for a USB Modem driver for Vista

  hi friends, I have imate K JAM and currently on VISTA. Could any one help me with the USB Modem driver. Ganesh This forum is smart device development related. Since your question is not related to smart device development, it's off topic here. If you’re having a hardware issue, please contact hardware manufacturer or reseller. If you having an issue with 3rd party software, please contact respective software manufacturer or reseller. Otherwise please post to relevant forum or news group: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx Closing as off topic. ...Show All

• SQL Server Time Dimension Browsing Very Slow - ProClarity

  Hello, I have a problem when browsing the time dimension (when cube cells have values) I have a standard time dimension with the following levels Year-Quarter-Month-Day. My cube has values for the years 2003 .... until 2006. 2002 Does not have values. When I browse the time dimension for 2002 (the year where cube has no values), I have no problem..but when I browse the dimension for values in the other years.... I wait until 1 minut to make a drill down in the dimension Pane (whitout executing the query). PS: I notice in SQL Server Profiler, that each time I browse the dimension in ProClarity, all my 80 partitions are read in the OLAP Server....without executing the query. Thanks in Advance Joao Campanico ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Humorous but somewhat serious question about XNA

  Microsoft has claimed the Nintendo Wii as a "kids toy;" however, if XNA can produce graphics and push performance up to what the Wii is capable of handling (games like Half-Life, Sims 2 from most XNA performance claims), does that mean that XNA is a kids toy too redshock wrote: Edit: I'm going to go ahead and use XNA. Sure, it may not be the fastest thing in the world for making games such as Oblivion, but if it's any company that can boost performance heavily in later versions, it's Microsoft. It has already been seen with DirectX and DOS, so I'm comfortable enough to say why not. Version 1's are usually "out the door" products. I shouldn't speculate too quickly, but it'll do the jo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Seeing the registered sql server databases in XP

  Hello guys! How can i see what databases are registered in XP, how can i do in VB to get that information on a textbox, for example thks in advance. There is an smo class for this although it's a private class. I played with it brielfy sunday and didn't have much luck with it. BUT somewhere in your system.... is C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR ACCOUNTNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Shell\RegSrvr.xml This is an XML file with a list of the registered servers. Good luck. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How can I Access system ports...(Audio dvice and Record device)...

  Hi all...,, I had designed a media player with Recorder in VB.Net 2003... I have one problem with it.. That is when one going to Record without connecting the Microphone means I need to give an alert to user like "You need to connect the Mic for proceeding Record" for this I need to check the ports get the status of ports... Can anyone give me an idea to resolve this... Regards.., RR. you cant quite do this. There is also no such thing as ports when dealing with soundcards but rather dealing with input devices on the selected "recording" channel in the Windows Mixer. Apart from this, you could detect to see if there is any sound input however even then it ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot start SQL Server Browser

  Hello, I use SQL Server 2005 for multi-user access. In the Surface Area Configuration, I changed the protocol from TCP/IP to Named Pipes and restarted the service. Then I went to SQL Server Browser, stopped it and clicked on Start to restart. I am getting a message "An error occurred while performing this operation". I am not able to get the Browser started. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Most likely it is another SQL Server service, do you see sqlservr.exe in the Task Manager So go to control panel Services and stop all SQL Server services you see, then start SQL Browser. Once SQL Browser loads up it will automatically disable the other SQL Server services from binding to UDP 14 ...Show All