PerBylund's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Interactive Sort in Matrix

  I have a Matrix in a report - created like below. Each row has a different dataset and I need to make each Column to be sortable so they can click on the column header say "Summary of Accounts" and sort them and do that for each column header. So far I havent seen anything that looks promising that can do this. Is there away this can be done 6 Columns and 14 Rows --headers Summary of Accounts No debts origBal AccrInter PaidDate CurrBal Activity count() Sum() Sum() First() Sum() phase count() Sum() Sum() First() Sum() attorney etc etc collection not inititated resolved interrupted cancel closed revised ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Office Assistant (Clipit) in VB?

  Merry Christman Experts, I was wondering if the Office Assistant, a.k.a Clipit and the other characters could be included in a Visual Basic program I'd like to add some form of animated help for young users. I'd also like to use computer generated speech for the chatacter. What can you suggest Thanks. Hello Experts, I'm back again; I found a website that has great beginner's kick start on how to use the MS-Agent in a VB.Net application. It is at Eric Moreau's website, http://emoreau.s2i.com/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Detecting keypress outside the program windows?

  Hello, I am trying to make a keybind program, but in order for it to work, I have to check if a certain key is pressed while another window has the focus, and then simulate what the users has entered. I am successfully able to simulate keypress, but I cant manage to detect it outside the main window. Its a keybind program for the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, so I could check if the name of the window contains "San Andreas", then check if a certain key is pressed while that last windows has the focus, it would be helpfull. Ive searched for ages on Google and MSDN, and I am not able to find anything. Help would be apreciated. Thanks. Actually im trying to read key input in another window, and this window isnt mine... I ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista DVD Maker

  Having trouble using the DVD maker software, as soon as I select burn get a 'run out of memory' message. Anyone come across this and know how to fix. The machine has 2GB ram and no other applications are running. im afraid these are the incorrect forums to post your technical query. Best place to ask would be the appropriate communities: www.microsoft.com/communities Thanks! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException was unhandled

  Is there anyway around the exception below It comes from the statement "this.GameComponents.Add(this.graphics);" In Spacewar.InitializeComponent. Anthony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException was unhandled Message="The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid." Source="Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game" StackTrace: at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsComponent.CreateDevice(GraphicsDeviceInformation newInfo) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsComponent.ChangeDevice(Boolean forceCreate) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsCom ...Show All

• .NET Development Config File

  I want to make a config file but i dont know how to look at the file and lets say look at a setting like backup=1 and then if it is 1 then do an action i know how to make it do the action i just dont know how to tell it to look at the config file and a certain setting in the config file. A snipit would be really helpfull. I like working with config files because they let me encrypt information like connection strings. Also, I have three environments - Dev, QA, and Production. I can create a config for each environment so that each can have its own set of connection strings. Here's a code snippet for reading from a config file: //get login info from the config file Configuration cm = ConfigurationManager .OpenExeConfiguration( Co ...Show All

• .NET Development Referencing unmanaged DLL from ASP.NET Web Service

  I am having some trouble referencing an unmanaged C++ DLL from one of my web services. I cannot add it as a reference, and when I put it into the bin file it doesn't get moved to the temp ASP.NET files directory on build. At the moment I have to manually copy it to the directory where the files for that web service are copied. Any ideas as for a better way to do this Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA 2D Collision Detection using Quadtrees

  I've seen a few posts on collision detection, and though I'd post an article on how to write a collision detection engine for your game. Take a look at: http://mbebenita.blogspot.com/ I'll follow it up with some source code as soon as I get a chance. Michael B.   MilliBong wrote: Hi, I read through your article, I liked the idea im just wondering how it would deal with having more than two objects that occupy exactly the same space Thanks! Jon In fact, the simpler case is just having several objects that overlap in any way.  You'd need to have some bailout logic to handle this sort of situation.  More than likely, if you try to subdivide a sect ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Redist Question

  If I make a game that uses the XNA Framework, what redists are necessary on the client machine Do they need both the DX redist as well as the XNA Framework redist, or is just the XNA redist adequate Um, what I meant was that if you install the XNA runtimes then pretty much all it does is install the right DLLs, nothing more. Anyway, from your error I'd guess that you don't have the latest DirectX bits installed on that machine. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums VE seems to have incorrect latitude and longitude references

  Hi, Every single latllong that I go to on VE seems to be out by about 15km. I have used several different handheld GPS units to get latlong's of my local area and these match up exactly with google earth but are out by about 15km with VE. I have also downloaded WinformsEarthV2 and this seems to be having the same problem. Further to that I have taken an exact copy of sample code from the sdk and tried setting the center to one of my local latlongs and once again it was out by approximately 15km which gives me the impression that it's a VE problem not one with my code, but I don't think this is very likely. Therefore I must be doing something wrong! Can anyone please point out what I am doing wrong Cheers, Scott. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trying to set up a database connection to Access Database

  Hello all; I've been trying to create a connection to an access database, however, as I've been going through alot of the questions on this site, as well as the various MSDN documentation, I am very confused as to which way I should go with this. Here's my situation: I have an Access Database with one table and 5 fields that I am needing to have data entered into it. I have one form with the five textboxes bound to the particular access table fields. My dilemna is that I'm not sure whether to use the dataset or tableadapter to connect to the database, or if I should use the OleDB connection and if so, what kind of sample code can I use to Insert the data into the database All the examples I've seen use the Data reader to export the d ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Speech Application in PocketPc

  Hi, i am trying to develop a speech application in a Compact Frame work device. for that i use pocket pc 2002 sdk and sapi 5.1. the program is compiling, and executing and the executable is loaded into the emulator also, but if i enable sapi initialization function,then am getting System not support Exception.to overcome this problem suggest me, if any other advanced sapi version is available to develop a pocketpc and smartphone speech application. With regards , Prashanth Kumar H V Hi Prasanth, Can you explain more about your application What functionality you are trying to implement ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Saving excel as an image file

  Anyone knows how can I save an Excel file to a image file (.gif or .jpg ) using VSTO Note that, I want to export the entire worksheet (there are no charts in it). Thanks. Douglas, I want to use a VSTO solution and of course this is a VSTO forum. Any other tecnology should be posted in other forum. I’m sorry.. So, could you help me to find out a VSTO solution to my problem Thanks again. ...Show All

• SQL Server Update Error

  Hello, I have a prject I am working on that uses a database connection to SQL Express 2005 to look up info of a person. The question I have is that I downloaded some code from a tutorial and it works fine but has some extra info that I dont want to use for example it saves FirstName, LastName, Title, Adress, Phone # in a table but I only want to use the Firstname, LastName and Phone# in the table but when I take these out of the Table with the wizard the Update Button I have has a error saying it is not parameterized and is missing Adress, Title am I missing something here I can leave the Adress and Title in the table and just not have them on my Form and it works fine but I would like to get rid of the unwanted parameters from the tab ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Cell Equal To EXACT Value

  Hi all, prob a very simple question for you guys. How do you check if a cell equals an exact value of "Product" I am currently using: Cells(i, 1).Text = "PRODUCT" though this is also picking up any cell which contains the word Product, such as cells which contain the word Production. So how do you check for an exact value Your problem statement is inconsistent. I put these values into A1:A3 of a new sheet: product Product Production I ran the following from the Immediate Window: For i=1 to 3 : Debug.Print Cells(i, 1).Address, Cells(i,1).Text, Cells(i,1).Text = "Product" : Next with the following result: $A$1 product False $A$2 Product True $A ...Show All