TaylorMichaelL's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums why adcenter is not available internationally ?

  why microsoft adcenter is not internationally available like Google Adsense. At least adcenter will get more publishers like adsense and advertisers too.. do microsoft have plans to limit it only to US or to international availability This is not really an adCenter API question... Anyway adCenter is currently available in the US, UK, France and Singapore and we definitely plan to expand it to many more locations over time. Shai ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTime picker

  This control is starting to give me fits.  I am finding more and more reasons not to use it except in the most simplistic ways.  The first problem is the control doesn't allow nulls.  I know the checkbox work-around, but that requires more code and more user interaction. The second issue I am having is when writing the date value to the database, even though I end edit on the bindingsource and validate the form, the date retains the previous value until you tab out of the control.  For instance, if you use the arrow keys to change the date, and then click a save button (on my toolbar), it writes the previous value. Anyone know why this occurs.  I would use a textbox and validate a user-entered date but havin ...Show All

• .NET Development manipulating PDF file

  i am developing an application, which will store PDF files in the database in binary format.. the problem is that the links within the file must be preserved and once the PDF is retrieve from the database the link should still works properly and shows the page the link is pointing to.. is there any way you can get all the links the PDF have You have to extract the PDF from the database before it can be viewed. But yes, once you extract it from the database all the content is there, including any links. The links would function once the PDF was displayed in Acrobat Reader or any other application capable of rendering a PDF file. ...Show All

• .NET Development problem with XmlWriter

  Hi everyone, When I use XmlWriter to write XML file, I've encountered a problem: what I need to write is something like: <MyNS:MyControl>bluabluablua</MyNS:MyControl> I've tried to use XmlWriter.WriteStartElement method to accomplish this, but I'll get a runtime exception said: "Invalid name character in 'MyNS:MyControl'. The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A, cannot be included in a name." So I could use the overloaded with namespace one WriteStartElement("MyControl", "MyNS"), but only got: <MyControl xmlns="MyControl">bluabluablua</MyControl> this is definitely not what I want! If I can't do this with XmlWriter, does anyone know another way ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro New problem about imgscan.ocx

  I use imgscan.ocx to scan a picture in vfp form. The problem is that the picture in *.bmp I got from scaner can't be opened in VFP. But I can open it using paintbrush or imageedit. And the picture size is much different if using scanwise to scan (2MB using imgscan.ocx, 156kb using scanwise). I can open the picture that scan using scanwise by vfp. The vfp code in scan button of vfp form is: thisform.olecontrol1.openscanner thisform.olecontrol1.image=thisform.picturename thisform.olecontrol1.startscan thisform.olecontrol1.closescanner thisform.release Can anyone help me Thanks a lot! Take a look at this link. It seems to imply that you need more than just ImgScan.ocx http://www.ilixis.com/developer/kodak_requirements.html ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Routes -> "all" coordinates between 2 points

  Hi, Is possible find all the coordinates of a  route returned by getRoute My goal it is store the maximum coordinates of a determinated route. Please tell if it possible.. Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server multi-valued parameter

  folks..have a multivalued param question I have a param called itemP which can have multiple values selected..i noticed that Parameters!itemP.Count gives the number of items available for selection for that parameter but is there a way to find how many values are in fact checked(or selected)..i would like to get the count of total selections if possible..anyone have ideas thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Restoring a Database to a New Server Installation.

  Hello Everyone, I am fairly new to SQL server and its functions so please bear with me. Recently we have suffered a failed raid configuration, wiping out our entire database server. Fortunately we have both Database and Log file backups that we would like to restore to a different install that runs on a different domain, obviously containing a different login and permissions setup. Currently what is occurring when I make an attempt to restore from the .bak file is the following, error: Cannot open backup device 'c:\(backup directory to file here)' Operating System Error 5(Access is Denied.). RESTORE FILELIST is terminating abnormally.(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3201) Would anyone know of a way to possibly work around th ...Show All

• .NET Development R

  Does anyone know how can I access the %ProgramFiles% environment variable on a remote machine without using the registry I tried to use WMI win32_environment but it doesn't show that variable . AFAIK there is no other way. The scripting guys from TechNet ran into the same problem. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/dec05/hey1222.mspx Michael Taylor - 11/27/06 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combo box

  hi, I hav a combo box..........wen the users types in dat.....i will compare the data typed by the user to a list i hav...............but wen the chars matched in the list the whole string is getting displayed.....and the cursor goes to the last char in the combobox..........but i want the cursor......after the char typed by the user, even if the string matches to list i hav and gets diaplyed. THNX in ADVANCE Sudhakar you have get the current cursor postion in the combo box. and then use it SendKeys.Send("{left " & combobox1 .Text.Length - Buffer & "}+{End}") //// here buffer is the position of the cusor in the combo box. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Modifying Commandtext for workbookconnection runtime Excel 2007

  I'm trying to modify a SQL string runtime in Excel 2007. I keep getting a runtime 1004 "Application defined or object-defined error". I have one pivotcache in my workbook which is being used in 4 different pivottables. I connect to a DB2 database. First I tried set pvc = Activeworkbook.Pivotcaches(1).WorkbookConnection pvc.OdbcConnection.Commandtext = vba.Replace(pvc.OdbcConnection.Commandtext , " 'THA' ", "'TH'") Then I tried to split the commandtext in to array of strings with 127 charachters - didn't work :-( Then I tried to record a macro and can then see that the recorder also splits the long SQL string (884 char) into a array. When I try to run the recorded macro - I get th ...Show All

• Visual C++ Multi-dimension arrays in VC++ 2005 for n00bs

  Okay, a little background: I'm an aerospace engineer, not a programmer, but I'm experienced in C, and I'm using VS2005 to make some simple-ish tools for our group. I'm trying to declare a multi-dimensional array in VC++ through the 'standard' method... double test[5][5]; ...and then access it in the 'standard' way... test[0] = something I'm putting in there.; ...but it's not working. When I debug, the Watch says that test is a double[][] of length 5. So far, so good, but when I expand it, instead of the 'standard' syntax, it comes up like this.... test[0,1] Length 0 double[] test[0,2] Length 0 double[] ...and so on. I've dug through our copy of MSDN, and online and there ...Show All

• Windows Forms on-screen keyboard

  i plan to build a program like "On-Screen Keyboard", that set... what do i need to know to handel controls in the run time Hello, Can u tell me why u need this, "handel controls in the run time", and tell me one thing that onscreen keyboard changes its layout according to your keyboard is it tru or not if this true then u need to "handel controls in the run time" else i think no need of that, Bye and TC ...Show All

• SQL Server duplicating db data structures

  I'm pretty new to SQL Server 2000. I have a DB already out there on another SQL Server (2000). How do I copy that database to another SQL server. I only want to copy over the structure (tables, views, stored procedures) of the database, not the data that is in it (I will extract that using SQL). Also I would like to copy over data such as the users, roles, rules, user defined functions, data types, and other stuff. Any feedback would be appreciated. Hi, in SQL Enterprise Manager, right click on the database, you should find a Tasks or All Tasks submenu, with a Generate SQL command. I only have SQL 2005 at hand, so the menu names might vary a bit. Generate SQL gives you a wizard, where you can sel ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help to select the lexer/parser generators

  Hi there, I'm working on my custom package which integrates a new project type and a new language into Visual Studio. I'm using ANTLR as a parser/lexer generation framework. But as I can see MPF uses line-by-line parsing mechanism. I'm trying to interconnect ANTLR way (one-step parsing) and MPF one to each other for now. Does anybody try to use ANTLR already Is it possible in principle or not For now I’m at the very beginning so maybe it’s better to use other generators Maybe lex/yacc What tools can you recommend to write grammars for them Any suggestions/ideas related to lexer/parser generation are very welcomed. Please, drop your minds here. Hi Dmitry, I have never attempted this with A ...Show All