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• Visual Studio IE7 causes script error in MSDN Library Oct 2001

  After installing IE7 my local MSDN Library (October 2001) nows gets a script error when accessing a help page.  The error is "Invalid character". I uninstalled IE7 to confirm that this was the problem. Without IE7, the MSDN Library behaved correctly. This only seems to happen for the htm files that I access over a UNC path.  If I try the same path within IE7, I do not get any errors.  I have tried applying the settings that tell it to ignore & prevent display of script errors, but it does not make any difference.  The error messages pop up as if I had not set any settings. I appreciate any and all help to resolve this. Thank you Mark Seradex, Inc Mark: Sorry for t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mapping a texture on a sphere, all usable by XNA - which format

  Hello all, I'd like to map a JPG file to a very simple sphere to create a planet that can be seen in XNA. I've tried using Blender to make this very simple sphere and I was successful when I exported it to a .x file format (btw, must I use the saving option that says Left-handed system I know that it won't change anything for a sphere, but I'd like to know for more complex model that might not have that symmetry). I've tried mapping an image of the Earth's surface to the sphere and was successful in Blender (it renders correctly, using a spherical mapping). When I export it to .x, it seems that the linking information between model and texture is lost and I can't reproduce it in a XNA program. I could have access to MilkShape or Wings3D al ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I limit the no of lines in an EditBox

  Hello, How can I limit the no of lines allowed in a multiline CEditBox Thanks and Regards Shibu Perhaps there is a solution to your problem, but in my opinion you should not limit the user’s relish to edit a text in a multi-line editor. She/He probably should be able to have an intermediate text longer then required, to freely copy and paste fragments etc. I would just check the number of lines later when the user finishes editing and presses OK. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can I edit localy and upload changed version when doing check in

  I don't know if SourceSafe can do this, but how can I create a SourceSafe project that targets a project (web or win forms) stored on a server, so when the developer will be working on this project, he will get the latest version (download files to his computer), check out some files to block update on the server files that he is making changes, compile and run locally, and after testing he will check in and automatically upload files back to the server. Can SourceSafe or any source control software do this If no, what is the best way to work on a team environment where a project is stored on a server and everybody needs to have the working builds and debug from its own machine without compiling code that is still in development by othe ...Show All

• Windows Forms View Data Grid (for xml database)

  Since upgrading to VS 2005, when I right click on an xml database document that contains the schema, I no longer get a listing of the tables and cannot view the data contained in the tables. If I open the document created with VS2005 in VS2003, the grid populates fine. Thanks in advance for any replies. The tables are created and added to the dataset like this. DataTable dt = new DataTable ( "Table1" ); DataColumn dc0 = new DataColumn ( "Field0" , Type .GetType( "System.Int64" )); dc0.AutoIncrement = true ; dc0.AutoIncrementSeed = 0; dc0.AutoIncrementStep = 1; dc0.Unique = true ; DataColumn dc1 = new DataColumn ( "Field1" , Type .GetTy ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Enabling Phone in POCKET PC 2003

  Hi everyone, I am using Visual Studio 2005 for C++ and I wrote a program which uses tapi and sms functions. But to use them, I have to open the phone manually on my pocket pc. Is there a way to enable the phone by a function I mean, when I run my program, it should enables the phone feature of the pocket pc. I tried phoneOpen but it does not help. Thanks. ...Show All

• SQL Server Communication Link Failure Error

  Hi, I am using ADO in my application to connect and retrieve data from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4. When I start my application, it establishes connection to the server successfully and I am able to retrieve data from the server. here is my test scenario: 1. unplug the network cable from the client machine and put the cable back in after some time. I disconnect from the database in my code when the client machine disconnects from the network 2. Once the client machine comes back on the network, I try to reconnect and retrieve data from the sql server but I get the following error message when I try to execute a sql command: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Communication Link failure This problem occurs only with Window X ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Create a Console Window from a VB form?

  Hi, How can I make a windows form create a console window I can create a console application and add windows forms. This worked well. However I had to change the application type to a "Windows application" in order to get the splashscreen functionality. Now I havnt got a console window... Thanks John Hi, Thanks for your reply. Sorry about the delay. THe main reason for wanting to setup output to a console window is that I already have a lot of debugging output using console.writeline. If I could easily setup another console window then I can get this debugging output without having to write anything extra. Many thanks John ...Show All

• SQL Server Member Properties

  Hi How to create a member properties in AS 2005 Regards Actually member properties are not synonimous to the attribute hierarchies. To model member property for particlar attribute in your dimension, you create a new attribute and than relate it to the original one. Then you should disable attribute hierarchy, this way it wouldnt clutter your nice multidimensional model. Once you've processed you should be able to get information from the new attribute by referring to it as memeber property from the original attribute member. As you think of it, in many cases you have many attributes in dimension related to the key attribute. That means key attribute of the dimension. Or better say, members of the dimension key attribute ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Performance issues

  We are having serious issues after our migration to SQL 2005. A little history before getting into the problems. We moved all our OLTP databases to a new installation of 2005. This was a migration to a new server and not an upgrade. The server itself is an active\active cluster with OLTP on Node 1 and Reporting Services on Node 2. The server is an X64 with 64-Bit Windows 2003, 64-Bit SQL Server Standard Edition, 16 GB Memory running on a SAN. Our Data files are spanned across three raid fives with Non Clustered indexed on one and the other two are the filegroup default. Our log and temp files are on a seperate drive. Issue #1 - Query performance for some not all is horrible. Queries were returning in minutes on 2000 are not return ...Show All

• Visual C# USB read write

  Hello, I am looking for a sample code ( C# , C++ , VB ) to read and write to usb port. data can be binary or ascii , any help is greatly appreciated thanks Michael Even that kind of task is driver dependant because USB devices only work in a host/device sort of interface where the host runs the show and the device responds... in the case of a connecting two PC’s USB ports directly things would fail (aside from the major electrical issues) because both PC’s would try to exert control and expect the other to submit... to get around this problem PC to PC USB cables have a controller within that allows each PC to think that they are in charge... but even this doesn’t get you where you want to be because there ...Show All

• SQL Server Editing data in MSDE data file from outside editor

  Hi All, Is it possible for someone to open a msde data file in an editor (text or hex) and modify the data, then save the file back to the filesystem I would think this would not be allowed but I want to confirm or see if anyone has had any experiences of someone doing something like this Thanks. Chris Hi, as said if editing done in file header information it will definately going to be corrupted, but why do you need to edit datafile outside editor if you wants to edit / fix corrupted datafiles refer a product from http://www.officerecovery.com/mssql/index.htm and refer LOG RESCUE from red-gate for analyzing T-Log files. Hemantgiri S. Goswami ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Performing a merge using the API

  Hi, I'm writing an app which needs to perform a merge operation between two branches using the API. I could not find the way to do it. How would this be done is there a code snippet demonstarting this Thank You, shay Hello, you can perform merging using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Workspace class. It contains 2 Merge methods: public GetStatus Merge(String sourcePath, String targetPath, VersionSpec versionFrom, VersionSpec versionTo) public GetStatus Merge(String sourcePath, String targetPath, VersionSpec versionFrom, VersionSpec versionTo, LockLevel lockLevel, RecursionType recursion, MergeOptions mergeOptions) You probably want to use the second one t ...Show All

• Visual Studio error report while trying to add reference in visual studio.net 2005

  Hello, I already have VS.NET 2003 in my laptop and i also have installed VS.NET 2005 . when i am trying to add a reference, and when i press the "Add reference" link, the visual studio, hangs for a second and then it exits and asks me whether i should send the error report or not and then exits. I am so unable to add any references. Any help or clue please Thanks, Praveen Please find the error information in the event logs.. It just gives me this information. there is no error number or any thing.. when i clicked on the links available in the message box in the event log also it is taking me nowhere... please find the messsages Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, stamp 4333e69 ...Show All

• SQL Server Benefits of using SQL over XML

  Hi, I have a question relating to XML and SQL. My company currently runs a website which allows its clients to log in, view their accounts and transaction history online. The website is totally read only with the exception of changing passwords. The data is taken from our back office system overnight which runs an oracle 8i database (we cannot like our website to the database due to the agreement we have in place with our software supplier). The data is written to a CSV file which is then converted into XML. The XML file is saved to the webserver and is referenced by the website. The structure of the website has a relationship where the Client has a Manager who can see their clients accounts, a Branch level that can see all of th ...Show All