Doug DeBug's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SSAS Client - OWC ? Anything else ?

  Hi, I've setup SSAS 2005 environment and Cubes etc..I want to develop OLAP client in ASP.Net (to view cube based reports) over web. Will OWC is the right choice We don't want to use any third party controls or packages and want to go with microsoft suite. If OWC is the right choice where I should start with Any guidance / help on this is much appreciated. Thanks ! You can create reports in Reporting Services 2005 with SSAS2005 as a data source. If clients have Excel installed locally they can export the SSRS2005 report to Excel. It will save you some development time. Regards Thomas Ivarsson ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Outputting to a Listbox

  Hi; I have a list of data, and need for values outside a lower and upper bound to be flagged up to the user. I was thinking of outputting to a listbox, but cant get the code to work. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for possible code, or a better way of outputting to the user. Ryan My list is in H2:H" & FinalRow & " where FinalRow is defined as FinalRow = Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Row The only problem, my list has empty slots. As in i only want cells with values in to be outputted to the listbox. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Creating a DLL - Translation between 2 DLL's

  Hi, I'm not particularly experienced with C/C++ but I have a problem: I currently have an application, which uses lame_enc.dll to encode audio into MP3 files. There is another encoder available as gogo.dll which uses ASM hand-optimised routines, and is therefore much faster. Without modifying my application, I want to create a new lame_enc.dll file which will simply pass data onto gogo.dll, and translate any settings required. Therefore giving the option to add a much faster encoding engine into my application. The manual for gogo.dll is here http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/soft/gogo2/man/ (no source code is provided) lame_enc.dll manual is available here: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~qruzicka/Smid/man.htm Source for lame ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Video with SideShow

  Is it possible (or realistic) to run full speed streaming video of any kind with a sideshow gadget on an aux display What you are describing is possible, but there are a few considerations to take into account: The most taxing gadget that has been released to date is the Windows Media Player gadget. The now playing page in the WMP gadget is updated once a second to reflect the current track progress of the currently playing track. We have found that all of the Windows SideShow devices we have now can handle this scenario. With that being said, the way you would write a gadget to do what you describe would be by sending all of the images of the tachometer to the device (say 10 or so images), each wit ...Show All

• Windows Forms running windows app in solution...

  Hi, I have a solution and there are many different projects in it. Some of them are windows forms application. How can I run a specific windows application from the solution rite now when I open the solution in VS.net and hit F5, there is always one particular project that runs. Do I have to "set as startup project" to run a particular windows application in that solution Thanks, Hey, You do need to Set that project as the startup project in order to get it to run with F5. The startup options are set in the solution properties. So, if you right click the solution and select properties you will see the different startup options you have. You can run multiple projects at startup if you' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can I link a webtest with an another webtest in the same ordered test?

  Hello, I have got  a problem when I use approach which is in the question. I have captured some webtests. These webtests include some steps of the whole test process. For example: - First webtest: "Show Site" (It shows the login page) - Second webtest: "LogIn" (It handles the login process. I get user name and password from a DB, but it does not matter now.) - Third webtest: "Check my profile" (Wherein I check some inner functionality after log in the site.) - N. webtest: "...." (....) - N+1. webtest: LogOut. I have used this approach because there are many of steps that I have to test. Thus,  I am able to create numerous ordered tests wherein I can set the order of captured webtest. My p ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Breakout

  Hello, I have about a year of experence with C# and I have tried a simple game using XNA, I made breakout with some crappy homemade graphics Would anyone mind to look at my code and tell me what I could do better with Note: The game is not completely done yet but for the most part, it works. Code is at http://joshmackey.net/programming/XNA/XNA%20Breakout/ Working nicely! One thing that I found that made the game dull is that the X-axis speed is always the same, just being mirrored when hitting the side walls. This makes the game just a matter of waiting for the ball to come up and down, and doesn't let the player have the ability to "redirect" slightly the movement of the ball to their liking, trying to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Reading Lines in a Text File

  Hi I currently have a text file (textfile1) which contains 40 lines. Each of these lines contain data stored in the following way: nameofthis = value nameofthis2 = value nameofthis3 = value What I would like to accomplish, is to read these values, with a variable assigned to each "nameofthis" variable. I thereby mean that the program should read each line, check what the name before the "=" is, and then check if the variable for this value exists. If it does, it should read the value after the "=", to the specified variable. For instance: TEXTFILE CONTENTS (textfile1): name = Johannes surname = MySurname email = me@myself.com PROGRAM: ' Variables Dim name as String Dim email as String ' Read the ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development How to transfer binary data from the server to a client?

  May be a wrong area for the question, but... How can I send a binary data from server to a client in IE6 via XMLHTTPRequest (is there any other way ) I did that partly in IE7, using the new property 'responseBody', but was unable to get size in bytes of the received data. How can I get this size in IE7 and perform this task in IE6 Thanks Base 64 is an old time-tested encoding scheme that was originally designed to support systems that did not properly exchange non-ASCII textual data. Binary files, like .exe files, .zip files, .wav files, etc., obviously fall into this category of non-textual data, so this encoding scheme is useful for these kinds of files if needed. One particular application whi ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with File.Copy() - Skipping files?

  I have an application that I want to use for copying files. My goal is to copy a files, if a file is in use or not accessible because of security reasons I want to make note of that file then continue with the file copy process. For some reason when my app is copying the C:\Windows\System32\Config folder it will fail on the first non-accessible file then ends the copy process. It only seems to happen on this folder (folder contains registry and eventvwr files, thus they are in use). Can someone give me some help here, I am at a lost. This chuck of code runs in a BackgroundWorker thread. [code] private void FileCopy( string srcdir, string destdir, bool recursive, ref DoWorkEventArgs e) { Directo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions problem installing visual basic express edition

  here is the error message i recieved while installing visual basic express edition "Suite integration toolkit executable has encountered a problem and needs to close" Win xp professional sp2 please suggest me a solution for this issue Be sure your system is up to date with the latest patches. Make sure you have latest windows installer http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c&DisplayLang=en Alternativly install .NET separatly. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en ...Show All

• SQL Server bug report: Agent JOb Step forgot it's option

  In Agent Job steps, chose to run a SSIS package in file system. In the CommandLine Tab, chose Edit CommandLine by Manual,and add the /DECRYPT to it. Because the SSIS package has a password. Then save it, run the job, everything is OK. But, when you enter the step again, the CommandLine option is return to it's original opion. Save and run, the /DECRYPT will not be sent, and fail. So everytime when you just enter the step, you must remember to modify the opiton again. That's stupid. Thanks. Anyone meet this problem Please have a try, and you will find it. This is not an obviously Bug, but it hurts to our project to a great degree. In fact, it makes the Package with password could hardly be used by Job Agent. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development pda and datagrid

  Developing a simple pda app using a datagrid(MsFlexGrid would have been better but not supported by vb 2005 correct ). I need to populate the grid with a simple table the user selects a number from. 1. it appears i need to create a database to do that correct 2 will Excel work for the data base if so how please and what format do i save it in 3. how do i import it 4. how do i get the numnber the user double clicked on Thanks Mitch thanks for your best!!! Just found out that what I erally needed is datagridview as in a regular app.... PDA does not support that does it IOf it does how do I get it and use it Datagridview is simple to edit columns and rows but the only option I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System problem when i re-bind a solution to source control

  hi, I have the problem when i rebind a project to source control. The server name and Server binding are highligted with the read line, and the status is invalid. I have chosen Team Foundtion Server as source control plug-in . thank you Usually, the invalid status indicates that the IDE compared the files in your solution against their mapped source control location and found less that half of them present on the server. If your project has a bunch of files in it that were never added to source control and you unbind and rebind, you could see the status "invalid". In this case it is perfectly acceptable to click "Ok" and say that you want to "continue with these bindings". If you find after you rebind ...Show All

• Visual Basic Inernet

  Using Vb, is it possible to download zipped files from a website, unzip them, and then use the files inside Steve it is. you can use either the ftp or httpwebrequest classes to take in the request, save the file then do whatever you want with the file. to extract the zip file, you can either "shell" it out using a 3rd party software or maybe use the Gzip classes/stream in .NET 2.0. here is a small example achieving the downloading of a file: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/FileDownloadManager.asp gzip class: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.gzipstream.aspx hope it helps! ...Show All