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• SQL Server Question: Can i synchronize the mobile device which has a SQL Server CE database with the Access database on the desktop?

  Dear All, i have a question abt winCE 4.2 and SQL server CE. i am using VB.net of Visual Studio 2005 My platform is using a PDA with winCE 4.2 and SQL server CE. The Host program is using dbf files on desktop side. I got a problem of how to sync / read the sql CE data from a windows application. so, i wanna ask, 1. any method to access the data from winCE data by windows application or can i convert the sdf file to windows readable files or any others 2. Can i use a MDB to sync with SQL server CE can i synchronize the mobile device which has a SQL Server CE database with the Access database on the desktop last question, 3. is that windows CE .net 4.2 not support pocket access (cdb) anymore please help me out ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Trying to pass a cubemap.dds to a fx shader

  I have been playing with these shaders: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/Goal_3___Environment_Mapping.asp and I have got these shaders up and working in my engine, with the exception of 3 and 4, they light my model correctly, but they don't seem to be rendering the cube map I am giving them. The shader manages the cubemap like this: texture EnvironmentMap < string type = "CUBE"; string name = "lobbycube.dds"; >; samplerCUBE EnvironmentSampler = sampler_state { Texture = (EnvironmentMap); MipFilter = LINEAR; MinFilter = LINEAR; MagFilter = LINEAR; }; I load the cube map like this: private TextureCube myCube; myCube = myLoa ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance problems with SQL commands in data flow task

  SQL statement within an OLE DB Command component is extremely slow (hours, days). Same SQL statement executed within a query window of SQL Server Management Studio takes only a few seconds. Using a fairly simple SQL UPDATE statement against a table with only 21,000 rows. Query: UPDATE Pearson_Load SET Process_Flag = 'E', Error_Msg = 'Error: Missing address elements Address_Line_1, City, and/or State' WHERE (Address_Line_1 = ' ' OR City = ' ' OR State = ' ') AND Process_Flag = ' ' Any suggestions on how to improve the performance of this task or an alternate solution are appreciated. Thank you. Jeff-B wrote: Thank you for your latest response and your help with this problem. ...Show All

• SQL Server Images in Reporting Services from database

  I have a data table which contains a bmp image saved as a byte array. I am trying to have this image presented in a report, however, I get a red X after I follow the wizard. I also tried it with the SQL Northwind database and I have the same issue. I am running SQL Reporting services 2005. Any suggestions on what could be going wrong Joe I have tried with both image/bmp and image/png on northwind DB as recommended. I still get red cross. Any ideal what's wrong ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) EDM Serialized Form

  Again from the Next Gen paper, within "Build the Conceptual Model" we have some very strange "Schema" definition that uses some of the concepts of Xml Schema (Schema root elements and ComplexTypes) but seems to be some loose variation of it. If this just an "example" or is this the way things are intended to work What about SQXML mapping techniques Particularly for Bulk Upload etc you already had to do something much like this, with some metadata added. I can only imagine if you are not using Xml Schema there must be a good reason behind it, albeit things may have progressed since that paper. steven http://stevenR2.com OK, thanks guys. It was very difficult under ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Please explain the difference between Orcas and VS 2005 beta 1

  I am completely confused about what is going on with Visual Studio or even with .net 2.0.  Is Orcas VS 2005 sp 1   When are we finally going to see fixes for the bugs in .net 2.0 (some of which I've personally reported on)   Why are we seeing such a huge lag in between the release of .net 2.0 and a service pack   Why is orcas released only as a virtual image   Personally I find this to be useless in that I can not test anything in a real world scenario.   Could someone please post a single point for information on the future of Visual Studio… i.e. what is coming out next, what is Orcas, what is in Orcas, what does the beta service pack 1 mean etc etc.   The link below says that this is service pack ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error when publish

  Hi Hope this is the right forum after some problem with my server, i have a problem with my old projects When i try to publish my old project's i get this error: Signtool reported an error "Keys dosn't exsits" I a new project i don't get this error Hope some one can help Alvin ...Show All

• Visual Basic link vb to fortran

  I have several subroutines which are written in FORTRAN. Can anyone tell me in a step-by-step manner ... 1) how I need to compile the FORTRAN subroutines 2) what I need to do within VB 2005 to call these FORTRAN subroutines within the VB 2005 code The dll you are building in fortran in not a COM or .NET dll, but instead is a "regular" dll that mimicks the Win32 API. To access it you need to use the VB declare statement. You can find documentation for the VB side of things here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vblr7/html/vastmDeclare.asp Also, the link to the fortran information I sent you (click the "next" button a couple of times) should provide you with help on w ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to program to print this?

  I opened a text file which contained a greek character β (beta). I found that the hex value of this character is CEB2 but however, unicode value of this character in Character map is 03B2. Not sure why it is so but, I would like to know how to program in C# so that I can construct and print the beta character (CEB2) and write to file. Please kindly advice. Thanks and urgent If you need to print Symbol fonts abg etc., then one and maybe the only posibility is using Graphics.DrawString Method (System.Drawing) Hope, this is what you need! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer Integration

  Hello! I have a German Team Suite installed and the installation of the German Team Explorer went fine. Since I want to work with LINQ May 2006 CTP I installed the English version of VS Express (else LINQ install is not possible ...). How can I get Team Explorer integrated in VS Express And is it possible to use the LINQ May 2006 CTP in my German TeamSuite That would be best :) Regards CSharpNewbie22 Hello! I did read that the January CTP of Orcas doesn't have all the functionality of the May 2006 CTP, but the March CTP of Orcas should have it. Will there be a LINQ version soon that doesn't require to install Orcas A LINQ version that installs along VS 2005 TeamSuite And has all the functio ...Show All

• Windows Forms shrinking menu width when rendermode = system

  If you set the rendermode for a menu to anything but system you get the blue vertical strip on the left side running from the top to the bottom. If you set the rendermode to system, it disappears but you still have the entire width where the strip was on the menu. How do you get rid of this margin I don't want the strip but without it it makes the menu too wide and ugly. I see no obvious way to remove this. Go with the flow and try to find some images to fill up this space. You can find a bunch of pre-made ones in a .zip archive in the Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary subfolder of the installation directory. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Delete team project and remove from SCE?

  I deleted two team projects one got removed from SCE and one didn't How do I get rid of the one that didn't and why did one get removed and not the other I understand there is some sort of bug related to this but why one and not the other and there must be a way to get rid of that one that is left right If not do we now know if this is fixed in SP1 Is there a way to undelete the team project I was thinking about undeleting it removing all read permissions then deleting it again ...Show All

• Visual Basic IO.Compression

  I looked through the help file on how to decompress a gzip file and the code that was provided was bloated and used functions I do not need, such as how to compress also. I simply need to know how to decompress a gzip file. take a look at this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=891101&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting last Identity value inserted in a table

  Suppose we have a table with an identity field. Someone adds a record and wants to retrieve the value of the identity field from the just added record. I have seen code like this: BEGIN TRAN .... INSERT data select newlyAddedID from table END TRANS In other words, they think that surrounding the INSERT and SELECT in a transaction insures they will get the correct value (even when other apps are updating this table). Is this approach sound TIA, barkingdog Immediately after your insert, do: SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Controls Resize When Form Resizes

  Hi Could any one help me to sort out resizing form controls issue. I am doing windows forms and in a form i have controls which will be created in runtime. It is like a panel containg 9 lables. I tried anchoring and docking which is not fruitful as they are hiding the other controls means if you enlarge the form it actually submerges one control with the other. If any could forward me the working code to resolve this is appreciable. Thanks in advance. There are 2 layout managers that come with Visual Studio 2005: FlowLayoutPanel and TableLayoutPanel . Perhaps one of these might address your needs. ...Show All