ElMagico's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Issuing Managed Cards Via A Microsoft Certificate Authority

  I have a Windows 2003 Server with Certificate Authority (CA) setup for my organization and with the release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 I am trying to find out how I can issue/create certificates for use in CardSpace that have the logos, etc. Is there any documentation/walk-throughs on how to create certificates with logos using Microsoft CA that can be used by managed card providers Any guidance would be appreciated. Currently, Server 2003 can't create EV Certificates yet. (and EV is needed to see the Logos) I know that the process is a reaaaaaaal pain to make logo certs with 2k3 Server, but I'll see if there is a document I can refer you to. g Garrett Serack | Pr ...Show All

• Windows Forms set data connection on application installation

  Hi I'm quite new to creating applications though have been getting on ok so far but I have now come to publish my application but I want to install it onto a pc that is not on the network it was created. I have connected to the SQL server on my PC which contains a copy of the live database I want to use. The trouble Im having is that once installed it trys to connect to the database on my pc, how can I set it up so that I can select the server to connect to when I install it sorry if it's long winded cheers Thanks I can see now where the connection string is set but what is the best way to go about it being set on deployment Sorry if I'm being dumb!! ...Show All

• SQL Server Bulk Insert -- Access denied issues

  Problem: Insert a network file in the DB using BULK Insert Works for a local sqlcmd connection. Does not work for a remote sqlcmd connection. SQL Server is running on Machine 'WalRepTest'. User account for SQL Server Service: 'Domain\vivek_uppal'. This has admin privilieges on SQL Server machine and the machine hosting the file. I have 2 scenarios. Scenario 1 behaves as expected, Scenario 2 causes error. Scenario 1. Connect using sqlcmd from local machine Machine:                      WalRepTest Windows user:              Domain\vivek_uppal Sql login using the cmd ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IMILBitmapEffectFactory

  Hi, I'm trying to create and example program that will blur an image and save it to file using the IMILBitmapEffectFactory and IMILBitmapEffect interfaces. In order to create the blur effect using CLSID_MILBitmapEffectBlur, I have to create an instance of IMILBitmapEffectFactory. In the header files there is an MILCreateBitmapEffectFactory call, but this fails during linking and I don't know what library to link to. I can't use CoCreateInstance to create an IMILBitmapEffectFactory because there doesn't seem to be an appropriate guid. Any ideas ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Unable to send custom properties (of appointment item) between pocket outlook and outlook 11

    Scenario -  in my program i want to sync appointments between my pocket pc and laptop. Issue - AppointmentItem object model of Outlook 11 (reference -Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.AppointmentItem)  has different object model than the one Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK (reference -Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.Appointment) Some key properties such as creationtime, modificationtime, etc are missing. When we create the custom properties for the missing fields (using Properties collection of Appointment class) and do the activesync, the custom properties (ItemProperties or UserProperties collection) are not reflected/synced on the PC (outlook 11). Question - Can someone guide us ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problems with more then 5 CE devices connecting to a webservice

  we made a program in .net 2005 for a windows CE device. It uses a webservice to read and write information in a database. Everything works well, till the moment we start working with more then 4 devices. With 4 it works sometimes but with 5 or more after some minutes all devices stop working. They can't connect to the webservice anymore. Does anyone has an idea what could be the reason. Because we need to be able to work with 10 devices. thanks, Bart flandersit wrote: to make the problem a little bit more clear, i send you the code used in the program Dim dt As wsHaweka.dsKlant.KlantDataTable dt = clsAlg.ws.GetKlantInfo(f.txtTva.Text, f.txtTel.Text, f.TxtName.Text, f.txtNr.Text, f.txtZ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do you set structure parameters in effects?

  I'm trying to get SAS set up, and there is a struct: struct SasDirectionalLight { float3 Color; float3 Direction; }; ..which I can't set from a EffectParameter. It tells me the ParameterClass is 'Struct', the ParameterType is 'Void' (this says it's a "void pointer" in the help), and StructureMemberCount is 2, which is right. But there doesn't seem to be a way to set the structs values. Has anyone else been able to do this, or is it missing functionality in the effect parameter class Edit the .fx file and separate the SasDirectionalLight inputs into two separate float3 parameters.  Then it should be trivial to set them. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Install fails on Vista

  During the install, I get the following message: Setup has detected a problem with Microsoft .Net Framework installation and cannot proceed. Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 is either not installed on this system or is corrupt. I cannot uninstall 2.0, as its part of the Vista. I have tried repairing it. I tried downloading 2.0 and installing it, but it says that its allready installed. I was able to install Visual Studio with Sql Server 2005 express. I am stuck. Is the case that Sql install dosent know about the latest version of 2.0 that came with vista It looks like this machine has the SP2 version of SqlSupport installed. Are there any instances already installed If not, I would uninstall SqlSupport and try again. ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid

  hi everybody, i have another difficult i have a datagrid (framework 1.1, not datagridview) i try to select a row. his index is passed in argument and is valide (the row exist) but when i write that, nothing is doing. in debug modee, after the first line, deebugger return to the application, the second line is never reached. my method to select a row is right is it an error in my grid is there another method to select a defined row DAG_Layer is my datagrid Public Sub SelectRow(ByVal IDObj As Integer) Me.DAG_Layer.CurrentRowIndex = IDObj Me.DAG_Layer.Select(IDObj) Me.DAG_Layer.Refresh() End Sub thank's for your response i have find another solution this morning, i have deeclared my form ...Show All

• .NET Development Calling Winform with UserControls from VB6 via Com

  We have some businessclasses and usercontrols (written in C#)in a dll, which are used from a .Net Winformclient. Our old VB6 client should be able to invoke also these usercontrols and so we implemented a comwrapperclass, which starts a Winform (same dll as comwrapperclass) and our usercontrols (other dll). All works fine, but sometimes we receive this errormessage " Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation "! Our usercontrols are localized and I suspect the ressourcemanager can't find the right ressource. Has anyone an idee to resolve this problem No idea, something to do with satellite resource only assemblies We Americans tend to skip that kinda stuff (I'm Dutch actually, j ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to know the IP@ the emulator gets via DHCP

  Hello On the emulator, i run a server application waiting for some requests sent via a client program located on the host PC. The application is launched at startup and get an IP address from the DHCP server. For some reasons, this IP is not always de same, and i need to know it in order to be able to send request from the client application. The emulator has no host name, and for some other reasons, i don't want to give it a name. FROM the pc, is there a way to get the IP address assigned to the emulator i used all the standard network tools like nslookup/arp/tracert/route/netdiag, etc... no way to find it. For some technical reasons, i cannot use activeSync. Maybe via Virtual Machine Network Services, but i cannot find anything connecte ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums More efficient way to draw a circle then this...?

  I got this code form the VIAEarth website... it works great but it pretty slow to use. Does anyone know or have code that can produce the same effect but more efficiently this.circle = function(id, latin, lonin, radius, polygon) { // ref: http://viavirtualearth.com/Wiki/Draw+a+filled+Circle.ashx // returns polygon (if polygon != null) and polyline if not var locs = new Array(); var lat1 = latin * Math.PI/180.0; var lon1 = lonin * Math.PI/180.0; var d = radius/3956; var x; for (x = 0; x <= 360; x++) { var tc = (x / 90)* Math.PI / 2; var lat = Math.asin(Math.sin(lat1)*Math.cos(d)+Math.cos(lat1)*Math.sin(d)*Math.cos(tc)); lat = 180.0 * lat / Math.PI; var lon; if (Math.cos(lat1)==0) { lon=lonin; // endpoint a pole ...Show All

• Visual C++ MSI package fails on Vista, okay on XP

  I have a problem installing one of our applications on Vista. It installs fine on XP. The installer package is an .msi created by Visual Studio .NET 2005 running on XP Pro SP2. The package includes a variety of files including 3 ActiveX components. Each component is flagged to self-register during installation. This works fine on XP. On Vista, two of them do not self-register, creating an error. If I ignore the errors and force the installation to complete, then I can manually register them using regsvr32.exe. The only difference I can think of between the ActiveX control that does install and the two that don't is the following: The successful one was originally created using the ATL Wizard in Visual Studio .NET 2003 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WSS (Windows sharepoint service) with SP2

  1. How can we make sure that we have WSS (Windows sharepoint service) installed correctly or configured correctly 2. Which port WSS generally use 3. When I tried to create web-site (vs 2005 .net), using HTTP system, it gives me following error. Error: "Unable to create the web 'http://localhost/chintan/TrialWebPages2'. Visual Web Developer does not support creating Web sites on a SharePoint Web server." Ur help is needed to understand what's going on and how can i resolve this problem. TFS does not "use" the Sharepoint port, but it does store the location of the Sharepoint and Sharepoint administration sites (including the port numbers if they differ from the default port 80). TFS has it's ow ...Show All

• SQL Server Inserting image file into Image column in DB

  I have inherited a VS 2005 database with a table that has a column of type IMAGE. I need to change the image for one of the rows in the table. I have the new image in a *.PNG file on my C: drive. What is the correct method for inserting this file into the IMAGE column. Many thanks! Hi Andrea, have a look here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=622943&SiteID=1 HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All