DrHerbie's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums New Birdseye-view functionality and Minimap

  Well, i just noticed, the local.live site got some nice new features, the Birdseye-view without scrolling restrictions, and the new minimap. for the new birdseye-view, i think its a feature that must be implemented by the api, is it available somehow Would be nice to have the minimap implemented in the v4 dashboard, but i think i can do it myself. hmm, ok, you can see the minimap on http://www.hameln.touristika.info ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Loading Thumbnails in Picture Box

  I've been working on something where, as part of the interface, I need to have a thumbnail displayed in a picturebox. Ideally, the thumb would update to correspond when an item, file name to be exact, is clicked on in a file list box. I'm not there yet. But I used the below language to display a thumbnail of an image in the box and got it working, but the CPU useage went up to 50%+ and the main form wouldn't even fully render. So, could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong Thanks in advance for any pointers.   Private Sub PictureBox1_Paint( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.Paint 'Read the image from a file Dim Img As Image = Image.FromFile( "C: ...Show All

• SQL Server Required .Net error during installation....

  Hello friends, I have been trying to install SQL Server2005 but I can't. I have .Net framwork 2.0 on my computer. At the end of installation at Reporting Services the following error occurs. Error: The required version of .Net framwork is not installed. So first I installed .Net framwork SDK, the problem was same. After that I install .Net framwork 3.0 direct from microsoft but all in vain. Now I need help about which of the .Net framwork must be installed on computer before installing SQL Server2005. Thaks a lot.. if you want to setup a RS Server you seem to not have the ASP.NET component registered on the server. Change to the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 directory ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Opening a Slideshow from a C# application

  I am creating a math application to drill students on particular arithmetic skills. The application is fine and working well but I want the student to be able to view a powerpoint slide show that I had created previously if they want more help. How do I create a button in a c# windows form that will open a .pps file on the machine setup file clickonce/publish if so, the best place to ask this question would be here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=6&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services Instance could not be found

  Hi I am receiving an error message when I connect to Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005, the error is: Cannot connect to <SERVER> Reporting Services Instance could not be found (Microsoft.Sqlserver.Management.UI.RSClient) Can anyone help with this please Thanks Hi David, thanks for the solution. In this case I have found a solution by my self. The Problem is, I used a developer version of the SQL server installation. There are no information about a incompatibility with development SQL installations. So I tried to install a standard SQL server edition and now it works. ...Show All

• Visual Basic DateTimePicker exception ArgumentOutOfRangeException Need help urgent!

  Hi, I have an unbound DateTimePicker Control on a form. When the form loads the control shows 2005 - 01 as expected. I can use the arrow keys left and right to switch between highliting the year or the month. Pressing the up and down keys to change the month doesn't work an exception is raised. I don't understand why. I started a new project. Just added a DateTimePicker and the following code. Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load Me .DateTimePicker1.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Custom Me .DateTimePicker1.CustomFormat = "yyyy - MM" Me .DateTimePicker1.MaxDate = New Date (2005, 12, 31) Me .DateTime ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do pc users playtest?

  forgive me I am clueless. Do you mean play the XNA games to test I'd bet most just plug in a controller, but I'm not sure if that's what you're asking. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Numeric performance on 360

  A question for the framework/VM guys... I have ported one of my simpler benchmarks to the 360, and find that the numeric performance is running 5x slower than my 2.8GHz P4 desktop. Now I was expecting a drop in performance on the 360, allowing for the difference in CPU implementation (in order execution / branch prediction etc), but nothing like this magnitude! The benchmark simply transforms a source array of Vector4s to a destination array of Vector4s, using a 4x4 matrix. Have you guys done any benchmarking of pure numeric perf, and if so is this in line with what you get Andy. andreww wrote: You might want to read this in order to get some ideas about why numeric performance is lower ...Show All

• SQL Server Rowversion as a history mechanism

  Hello, I have a requirement to maintain a 'history' table beside a products table. Any time a row is changed (added/removed/updated) in product table I need to add a new record to the history table. I would be using a rowversion column in the products table. And would want that rowversion to be preserved in the data on the history table ... So I'm thinking I'd use a trigger etc..thats no a problem, I can manage that... What I'm wondering about is what datatype the column to hold the rowversion in the history table should be I'm thinkin that it shouldn't be a rowversion because I don't want it to change value in any automatic way... or even get mod'ed by the action of actually inserting the record into the history table.... So, may ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using TAPI in Visual Basic 2005 Express

  I am brand new to TAPI and am not sure whether it is even supported in Visual Basic 2005 or not. I need to develope a program that will call a phone number from a textbox and play a recorded sound file to the number/line. Am I investigating in the right technology or is there something better or more recently developed that will work for this problem Thanks in advance If I recall correctly TAPI is based upon COM. VB 2005 allows the use of almost all COM components without any problems. SO you would simply need to add the reference to appropriate COM Components and then use them. I think most of the samples I'd seen seem to relate to VB6 samples but these should be able to be used with little or ...Show All

• SQL Server cluster install 2nd node unavailable

  Hi all, Try to install sql 2005 x64 on a Win2003r2 x64 two node cluster. All looks fine as far I get to the "cluster node configuration" dialog. My second node is always displayed as "unavailable node" reason "unknown". - I checked the logfiles but could not find any error. - Installation user & cluster user are both local admins. - Tried with sql 2005 x32 version -> same result. What do I miss out here Any help is highly appreciated. TIA acki Satya, I know the mentioned kb article. I'm not a newbe in installing sql server clusters, have done it a dozent times (x32) but never had troubles like this. At the beginning setupjob checks BOTH nodes for pos ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions copy and paste into immediate window

  Hi, Is there a way in VB2005/Express that allows user to copy a block of code and put it to a place for further usage similar to how it works in VB6's immediate window, where the immediate window can act as a viewable clipboard somehow it is not working the same way in VB2005/express, for example the code is showing in one line instead of retaining its original structure. I prefer the old way of copy and paste works :) is there any tool i am not aware about in VS Thanks Toolbox not toolbar, Slightly different meanings for these two. Toolbox normally contains components being used, toolbar are the items at the top with the little items to New Project, Open Project , Save ..... ...Show All

• SQL Server Changing SSIS property defaults

  To make certain SSIS features work there are many properties that need to be set over and over for most containers in the package. For example with Checkpoint\Restart, you need to set (in most cases) all of the tasks' FailPackageOnFailure to True. If you miss one, the package may not restart properly and you might never know. There are other situations where as a development team we want certain properties to be usually set the same but differently from the SSIS default. Is there a way to control the defaults that the SSIS IDE uses I remember back in classic VB that if you wanted to change the defaults of a bare form you could create a template form adjusted the way you like and put it in a templates folder. Then new forms added t ...Show All

• .NET Development problem in client/server application

  Hi every one, I developed a client/server application . client connect to server correctly if both are under the same router (in the same Lan) , but the problem arised when the client and the server arenot in the same Lan they cant connect together. I checked the router configration ,it was correctly setup. please if you have expirense in this problem help me. Thanks for reading my message------------ Hi, Here is your problem, bola shokry wrote: the code in server side : listener=new TcpListener(5000); Whenever you start TcpListener passing ONLY a port then it will start listening on the "local-ip" that is why it may work in LAN but not when some ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems installing vista

  No doubt this is the wrong place for this, but I am going mad! I recently got invited to the vista beta party and have downloaded it a couple of times, burnt it and still get the same issue when installing it. After the first reboot, the installer starts up again faithfully and then the screen goes black (to a dos like prompt) and the cursor just flashes in the top-right corner. Nothing happens! What am I missing here as I am going mad trying to install this stuff !! Thanks Gee I found this: 2006-02-24 20:02:39, Info [0x090009] PANTHR CBlackboard::Close: d:\$windows.~bt\sources\panther\setupinfo in the setupact.log file if that helps Gee ...Show All