PN247's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Who's the idiot that designed the file destination?

  It's funny: Everyone thinks that CSVs are awesome to transport data. I mean after all, SSIS defaults to Comma Delimited files. Even Excel defaults to it. Microsoft is supposed to be our leader! They should get this right. And get the terminology correct too. How many people describe the file as comma separated It's delimited! Even SQL server calls it delimited by the "delimited" drop down. CSVs suck and i will tell you why: When you transport any text field (especially Address) it has the possibility of containing a comma. This causes data to be parsed into the wrong fields. Why in God's grace would you EVER get in the habit of choosing a delimiter that SOMETIMES doesn't work I'll tell you a little short story: I hav ...Show All

• .NET Development Login to a secure site

  hello, i want to build a win form application that will log to a secure site. my problem is that the log in of the site require 3 diffrent parameters to connect (2 Diffrent id's and a password)all of them should be sent in POST (i guess). the login URL also uses SSL. what type of classes can be used to be able to login to this kind of site and after that use an HTTP request in it I hope i my question was clear enough Thanks. I understand that's why I had "something=a_value" in the data string below for your ID Number... NetworkCredential credentials = new NetworkCredential("my_username","my_password"); CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer(); ...Show All

• Windows Forms an item with the same key has already been added

  I am trying to change the BackgroundImage property of a UserControl but when I try to do that from properties window VS throws "an item with the same key has already been added" exception. I did that several times in the same project. But it started to complain now. how can I solve that... The problem is straight forward, that your resource file has already a file with the same name which you are tryng to add again. For example: fish.jpg is added to the project's resource and now you are trying to add that file again. Make sure there is nothing like that, Clear your resouce etc. I hope this will solve your problem. Best Regards, Rizwan aka RizwanSharp ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 and Vista x64

  Hi guys! This is sort of an SQL Server question... I have an opportunity to install Vista on my machine and I'm wondering which version I should install if I plan on doing development on SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005. Should I install Vista x64 or x86 Is there a significant performance increase when running x64 (I have an Intel E6400 and 2 GB RAM). Thanks in advance guys!!! Running on x64 does not mean better performance and in some cases could be slower. Since your goal is doing development either will be a fine choice. Here is some information on x64: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/64bit/overview.mspx Thanks, Peter Saddow ...Show All

• .NET Development CreateSubKey and SetValue raise no error but fail

  After a login dialog, this executes ... ... using System.Security; using System.Security.Permissions; using System.Security.Policy; ... [assembly: RegistryPermissionAttribute( SecurityAction.RequestMinimum, ViewAndModify = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" )] [assembly: KeyContainerPermissionAttribute( SecurityAction.RequestRefuse,Flags = KeyContainerPermissionFlags.Import )] // snips ... RegistryKey rkSW, rkCMP; try {   rkSW = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey( "Software", true );   rkCMP = rkSW.CreateSubKey( "aCompanyName" );   using ( RegistryKey rkConn = rkCMP.CreateSubKey( "mssql_connect" ) ) {      rkConn.SetValue( textBoxServer.Text + "_" + textBoxUser.Text, sConn );   } } catch( Exception ex ) { MessageBox.S ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development W3 Schools free XML tutorials for beginners

  Hi all, For all those who are just beginning (like me) with XML and other scripting, maybe this can be a good start : http://www.w3schools.com/ Hope it is of any use ...Show All

• Windows Forms Stopping a Taskbar Button from changing its Text

  Does anyone know how to stop a taskbar button from changing its text when the text property of the form is changed ...Show All

• .NET Development get system restore status on drives

  hai i am doing system restore for lan..... i have to do schedule system restore .. the problem is how to get the status of logical drives ...... i tried in win32_logical disk status property .... but it dont work ...... any one can help me out ..... This forum is dedicated to software development questions using the .Net Framework and the System.Net namespace. Please repost this on a more appropriate forum. http://www.microsoft.com/community ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Production Method for Released HD-DVDs

  I'm curious, have all the currently released HD-DVDs been produced using SACA (Sonic) If not then what are the other tools Accelerated decode of H.264 is definitely on the horizon...as well as VC-1. It is not uncommon for VC-1 to achieve high-quality encodes for HD distribution in the 12mbps range. There have been major HD DVD movie releases at this bitrate...and I think you would be surprised if I told you which ones (which I can't...so don't ask :->). These movies were encoded using Microsoft's VC-1 Deployment Kit which is the best encoding solution available for VC-1 today. If that encoder isn't used as the reference for any kind of quality comparisons between codecs then your efforts are fruitless. This means that it i ...Show All

• SQL Server Now() function in MDX not returning correct time. GMT vs System Time.

  The time on my machine reads: 9:43 am and I am in Mountain Time (GMT -7) But when I run this MDX script: WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Date] as 'now()' select [Date] on columns from [Sales] I get: 2/1/2007 4:43:12 PM So, it looks like the now() function is returning the GMT time when I'm expecting the system time. Is there a way to convince now() to tell me what the system time is ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL-NS 2005 (SSNS 3.0) DB objects on SQL 2000 DB- not possible?

  I read that in SQL-NS 2005 you can create the DB objects on an existing DB (e.g. http://sqlns.blogspot.com/2006/01/using-existing-database-for-our-sqlns.html .) But this cannot be a SQL 2000 DB, must be 2005. Is that correct Why - what is the technical limitation Otherwise we would be focred to do joins between the NS data (e.g. events) on the SQL 2005 DB and application data on the SQL 2000 DB, and performance could be problematic. At this point we do not want to upgrade our application DB to 2005. Any suggestions -- Shaul ( shauld@medcon.com ) Hi Shaul - I delayed replying to the thread, hoping someone else would jump in. Since I am the author of the blog you mentioned, I, of course, beli ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom syntax coloring for C++

  Are there any built-in options in Visual Studio 2005 enabling custom coloring (function names, custom types, etc.) If not, are there any add-ins with such functionality CK Visual Assist at http://www.wholetomato.com is an addin that will let you specify different colors for classes, functions and variables. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Scrolling panel

  I want to build a control that is a panel that scrolls when certain events occur. I thought on deriving from ItemsControl and, in the default control style, create a control template that has a ScrollViewer with a StackPanel inside, inside the StackPanel I inserted a ItemsPresenter to insert the panel's items. The problem is that I want to access the ScrollViewer from my control and I can't seem to get a reference to it (to do some scrolling when some events occur). The questions are: - How do I get a reference to the ScrollViewer inside the style - Is this the proper way to create a scrolling panel control Thanks a lot. :) Hi Duque Question1: I had the same problem and the following solution worked for me: - Se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Weird warning

  Hi everyone, I get weird warning when I try to take the length of the string in below: for(signed int a = exp.length()-1; a >= 0; a--) the warning is: c:\documents and settings\xxx\belgelerim\visual studio 2005\projects\hw4\hw4\algebraicexpression.cpp(21) : warning C4267: 'initializing' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data How can fix this Would you please help me Thanks iccle wrote: Use: for(size_t a = exp.length()-1; a >= 0; a--) I like this solution most of all, but I was a little concerned that size_t might not be assured to allow negative values (since the for statement doesn't quit unless a can become -1 ). I see from my copy of Harbison & Steele that Standard C requires si ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. N XNA Framework wish list

  XNA Framework wish list. - System.Net.Sockets o Socket (Tcp & UDP transport) o Do not really need support for TcpClient, TcpListener and UdpClient - System.Security.Cryptography o Rijndael o MD5 - System.IO o FileStream o StreamWriter / Reader - System.Text o StringBuilder o Full UniCode support - System.Threading - System.Diagnostic Thanks, Roger Larsen You already have access to these for Windows games and for 360 games some pose a security risk so could not be accessed as they exist in the regular Framework. It's been said that there will be support fo ...Show All