Robin E Davies's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions OBFUSCATE

  Does VB.NET Express 2005 support code obfuscation (renaming methods, objects, etc. to make them hard to read if the program is reverse compiled) VBExpress does not include such features but you could download some obfuscating tools for .NET applications. It's not a Visual Studio thing really, its a seperate application that will obfuscate your code. If you had the full version of VS.NET then includes a dotfuscator tool obfuscation is not really a question of if it supports it, its just another tool to make your app a bit more "encrypted" in that as you have stated, renames methods/variables etc... and makes it harder for the attacker to follow the code ...Show All

• Commerce Server Using Commerce Server Profiles and Marketing engine to server geo targeted house ads.

  We would like to accomplish geo-targeted house ads. We are ready to subscribe to a data feed that would provide us with geographic information by IP Address and save that to a sql table. What we are thinking of doing is if a profile doesn’t exist, take the ip address off the request header and xref it with that table returning all geographic relevant information and then creating a profile with extended properties to include the geographic information. We would then determine a targeting expression based upon the geographic information on the profile to get the marketing engine to serve an ad specific to their location. The problem with this is we have a majority of our profiles as anonymous and this sounds quite expensive to do a read, t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Im a noob !HELP! plz

  So anyway it has been a while since i have fooled around with VB. Just wondering if anyone would be willing to help me a little. So my idea is basic im sure. I want to make a simple program that has two buttons, two text boxes, a calander, and a print button. It will keep track of the time i work. a clock in and out button and two textboxes for them. heres the problem i dont know how to save the date and the time in the txtboxes to notepad or how to print that document. I also thought maybe i could eliminate the text boxes and just when i press clock in save the date and time to notpad. Any suggestions. Any help please. Thanks. Nevermind I figured it out. Lol. simple mistake Thanks this is exactly what i w ...Show All

• Commerce Server Possible CS Bug? - "Buy items cannot be included as the award" not set as specified

  Hi CS Team, When testing discounts on the starter site, I noticed what *appears* to be a bug. In summary, I think the bug is this... The discount check box "Buy items cannot be included as the award" is not set correctly when you select Yes in the message box at the end of the Create New Discount Wizard. The message box says "The buy condition and the specified award in this discount refer to the same products. Do you want to apply the offer on both the buy and get products ". I think answering yes should result in an unchecked check box. Is this a correct assumption If it is then in my case it does not work as expected. If my assumption is not correct, can anyone clear up my confusion :) The type of discount I am att ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error: fatal error LNK1113: invalid machine type

  Hi all, Has anyone ever seen this error, because this one is above me ..... . I have no idea what wrong is, could someone please help. Thanx in advance Regards Programm3r The thing is i am building the complete project, but how can a piece of code be meant for just one / or a couple of processors , I mean thats like building a car that must take only a certain stereo system. But thanx for the relpy Regards Programm3r ...Show All

• SQL Server output parameter in CLR stored procedure written in C++

  How can I declare output parameter in stored procedure, written in C++/CLR In C# it is proc_name( out SqlInt32 value ). In VB.NET it is proc_name( <Out()> ByRef value As SqlInt32 ). And in C++ Thanks a lot for support. I don't know C++ so much, so this is just a thought: out params should be the same as ref parameters without the need to marshal data when the function is invoked, they are marshalled back on return only... so... have you tried a ref parameter ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS vs ClearCase UCM

  I realize this is a fairly broad topic but I would apreciate a brief point by point comparison between Clearcase UCM (Unified Change Management) and Team Foundation Server. As a guide I would be interested in how TFS handles the following UCM scenarios. CC UCM has the following entities for managing change (in top down order): - Baseline, a type of label checkpoint/stamp across a project (actually UCM component). - Delivery, allows one or more activities to be moved from one stream to another. Often from developer to integration. - Activity, contains a link to ClearQuest (change control) and a change set of files. - Checkin/checkout, allows a file/directory to be changed in a CC view of a stream. CC UCM has the following repositories ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) "Office 2007"-like window frame

  Hey! I'm trying to do a gui looking like the new office 2007 beta 2 as an WPF-experiment. I would like a big circular button in the uppmost left corner of the screen. If you have seen the beta you know what I mean. I have made the button, but I just can't figure out how to get it to be in the titlebar. How can I do this I also would like to put a similar small shortcut-icon as they have in office aswell that is just to the right of the cicular button in the window title bar. I guess that if I solve my last question this shouldn'tbe so difficult. Any ideas Mr Olle Gustafsson Stockholm, Sweden Thanks for your answer! Is there any particular reason for using the AllowsTransparancy-property Shouldn't WindowStyle=None be enough Reaso ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do you draw text?

  Since the XNA documentation is lousy, I'm gonna ask here. How do you create text in XNA I want to use it for debugging purposes :( Thanks a lot, fellas. I already uses BitmapFont the first time one of you fellas posted a link. It works great. I use Comic :) ...Show All

• SQL Server How to delete or drop a cursor?

  Could anybody please tell me how to detete or drop a cursor Thanks, -RL Also, be sure to declare the cursor as LOCAL, or use a cursor variable declare @cursor cursor set @cursor = cursor for... These are much safer to use, and will deallocate themselves if you don't. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Delete warning with bindingnavigator

  I have used the following code in my VB.NET program to delete a current record on the screen. Private Sub BindingNavigatorDeleteItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BindingNavigatorDeleteItem.Click If MessageBox.Show( "Are you sure " , "" , MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Yes Then Player_InfoBindingSource.RemoveCurrent() End If End Sub Now whenever I exit my program and then re-enter the program, the data is back. It's like it never deletes it. What am I doing wrong I believe you need to Update the database using the DataAdapter used to fill the dataset with records, but I coul ...Show All

• SQL Server Default Report Server Web Page

  I've only just started working on Sql Server Reporting Services 2005, My role is mainly that of administrator (some other unfortunate sole will be doing the development) However, I'm having some problems configuring the "Welcome" screen on the server. Currently it looks like a default web directory, I can click through to Data Sources and a directory containing the current test reports: Looks like: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:14 PM <dir> Data Sources Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:14 PM <dir> Test Reports Clicking on Test Reports gives: [To Parent Directory] Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:14 PM 15193 Basic Test Report Question is: Is there an XML (Or XSL) file somewhere where I can define how the websit ...Show All

• .NET Development File search

  Is there anything in the .net library that would allow me to search for a file on a pc, ie. sql2005 installer I need a method that allows me to search specific locations for specified files rather than just checking a predefined path ie File.Exists(filename) as the user may have moved those files to a different location. ta Mark Yes, that's correct. You just need to code something like this: string[] files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\", "*.txt", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories); Greetz, Geert   Geert Verhoeven Consultant @ Ausy Belgium My Personal Blog ...Show All

• SQL Server VISTA RTM and SQL 2005 Dev Edition - Problems installing

  I am having issues installing SQL 2005 DEV ED. on Vista RTM. During the install of the Native Client I recieve the following error which seems to mees up the rest of the intall package. An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server Native client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package 'sqlncli.msi'. I downloaded vista and sql 2005 developer edition and both are burned to a DVD. Did this machine previously have any SQL Server 2005 SP1 components installed If so, the workaround is to uninstall Microsoft SQL Server Native Client before attempting to install another RTM instance. There are scenarios after installing SP1 components ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS Package

  I have created a DTS package that connects to the database fills a temp table with data based on my sql statement, generates a text file with the data in the temp table, and after the file is generated the temp table to truncated. The package has been added as a job to run daily, but the problem is sometimes the job will not generate data in the text file. I get an email with the file attached as soon as the job ends, and if i see that no data is in the file I run the package manually, and for what ever reason the file will then have data. Can someone tell me why the job will sometimes pull data, and sometimes not. But manualy running it will always pull data. Thanks in adavance for helping!! ...Show All