Ofer Kalisky's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Virtual Earth javascript seems override some page style

  When I include virtual earth javascript, all images which style is "border: 1px solid" becomes invalid. When I remove virtual earth script, all work fine. Is it a bug Any solution to make "border: 1px solid" work Regards, Bill Ng If you use the same image style on many images, could you just put it in a style sheet, which gets included after your VE includes. Then just set the class of your images instead of the style property. CSS I'm sretty sure would take use the properties of the class over any generic CSS settings that are set up in the VE includes. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Simple security validation

  I am curious if there is a simple way to identify a system that a VS2005 VB application is connecting to. Using "windows login validation" types of things is not an option. I notice there is a registry key in the local machine, software, microsoft, mslicensing called "HardwareID". Would there be any security concerns accessing this value from within a program and would it be unique to a machine Does it change If thats not the right place to be doing this (and I am trying to avoid making a new entry someplace if possible) then is there an alternate or better approach Thanks in advance! :) Thanks for the fast response. I've looked at the link, and some of the information th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Server Setup Failu - ENU -- Error 28002.Error unknown.

  This is the third time I am trying to install TFS singler server setup. Everytime setup aborts with Retry or Cancel button. I have followed TFS install guide properly and have all the prerequisites installed. Please find the event log as well as excerpts from MSI log and Install log Event Log ---------------------- Event Type: Error Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 10005 Date: 9/1/2006 Time: 2:02:05 PM User: VSTS\TFSSETUP Computer: SERVER2003 Description: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU -- Error 28002.Error unknown. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp . Data: 0000: 7b 35 30 45 35 44 34 34 {50E5D44 0008: 43 2d ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Space Dust And Particles

  So one thing I wanted in my game was a way to fill the space up with dust and particles. Just little things here and there to give a sense of motion when there aren't any larger objects around. Any ideas how to go about this My one idea was simply to use billboarded textures for various sized particles but I'm not sure I could create the number I wanted. So before I went ahead with this slightly more tedious approach (which also requires I create all the objects), I figured I'd see if anyone had any ideas. Whatever you do, just make sure that you pull our dust sprites/billboards/whatever from a pool of existing ones. that way, as you move along ... particles that move offscreen can simply be repositioned a ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot use datasource column twice in ssas - IBMDB2

  We develop ontop of IBMDB2 and cannot use a column twice in the model. To work arround we have to add for every usage of the column and additional column with new name to an DB2 view and use the new column in the olap model - thats really annoying. Does someone know a solution to solve this because ontop of sql server you could use a column N times (for example for: name, key and some other attributes - in with DB2 we have to add 3 columns.) The Error Message we got is "Error in Backend Relational Model - OLEDB Reported unknown Status ' ' for column.". Our System: Analysis Services 2005 SP1 ENTERPRISE 64 Bit on Windows 2003 64 Bit connection with the IBMDADB2.1 64Bit OLEDB Provider from the IBM Client Version 8.2.4 to ...Show All

• SQL Server Scheduled Subscriptions, ScheduleRecurrence and the ICalender Recurrence Rule

  I am working on getting a subscription management interface put together for my product's implimentation of Notification Services. I have a question about the capabilities of the Scheduled Subscriptions, specificaly about the flexibility of the ScheduleRecurrence property. below is a copy of recurrence options from books online... ICalendar Recurrence Options FREQ=DAILY; FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY= DaysOfWeekList ;[BYMONTH= MonthsOfYearList ;] FREQ=MONTHLY;BYMONTHDAY= DaysOfMonthList ;[BYMONTH= MonthsOfYearList ;] FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTHDAY= DayOfMonth ;BYMONTH= MonthOfYear ; It would apear that Daily is the smallest unit of recurrence supported, but we would like to have a recurrence option in a period o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how some help fix my code?

  'Create a new MailMessage object and specify the"From" and "To" addresses Dim Email As New System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(" From@abc.com ", " To@abc.com ") Email.Subject = "test subject" Email.Body = "this is a test" Dim mailClient As New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient() 'This object stores the authentication values Dim basicAuthenticationInfo As _ New System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password") 'Put your own, or your ISPs, mail server name onthis next line mailClient.Host = "Mail.RemoteMailServer.com" mailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = False mailClient.Credentials = basicAuthenticationInfo ...Show All

• Community Chat JimmyWidgets

  --- Original Post --- Hi everyone! My current project is JimmyWidgets, a widget program like Apple Dashboard, but for PC! You can even make new widgets in DLL format and post em on the online database! When I've made more widgets (I've only got 2 at the moment), I'll post it at www.jimmyware.co.uk  . It's going to be open-source, so you can download the source from there too. Here's a screenshot: http://www.freewebs.com/robinjam/JimmyWidgets%5FScreenshot.jpg I await any comments/suggestions! (But please don't be too harsh about my efforts, it took me HOURS)   P.S. A list of problems I need to fix: The online database currently lets you download the same widget twice, making startup time longer (because ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Setup failed to modify security permissions

  Last night at home on my 64 bit Vista machine, I encountered the same error 29506 that said that the management studio express could not be installed.  I looked up the error message and below is what I received.  I also installed the 64 bit .net framework which installed just fine before trying to install the SSSME. I followed the instructions below but this did not seem to make a difference.  However, I did not reboot after applying new permissions.  I have installed this software a few times now on 32 bit machines for both XP and RC1 Vista, and have not had a problem.  Last night, I did use the 64 bit version.  Also, there is no data file yet because after the install it rolls back, so I gave myself ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can I Add a Printer?

  I would like to make a program that would, from a text list of network printers, add printers for use in Windows XP (primarily) . I work for a school district in northern BC, and we are having trouble with users needing to re-add printers every time they log on. In other words their printer info is not being saved on there profile properly. I figured I could write a program to do that, but can’t seam to find out how to do that. I was hoping it would be something like My.Computer.Printer.AddPrinter( \\server\queue ), but I’m not that lucky. almost! See if this helps a bit: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=674181&SiteID=1 once you got the p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to ensure team build exists for every solution for a TFS Project.

  Hi can anyone suggest me the way to check whether teambuild exists for a solution for a TFS project or not In addition to that i need to check whether Teambuild has run successfully for every solution in last 24 hours.I need to check all of the above programmatically using any TFS API As I mentioned in my previous post, you can use the VersionControl API to download files. Call the DownloadFile() method on the Item object. Here's list of code sample links: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/08/12/tfs-api-links.aspx Buck ...Show All

• Windows Forms Issues with DataSource of ComboBox

  I have a combo box's DisplayMember = "CustomerName" and the value member is the CustomerID, On this comboBox1 SelectedIndex change event I want combox box2 to take the value of combobox1 and take the text of comboBox1...but its not working do i need to set the dataSource of combobox2 to the text of combobox1 Try comboBox2.Items.Add and add a new item to it, using the SelectedIndex of the first combo box's display memeber and value member as its arguments. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Timers - Reminder.

  Hi! First of all I'm just a newbie! Ok, so here is the problem! I'm making a program reminder program. For example. Like Prayer times.... I don't want the users to select the prayer time but I want want to assign it. eg. Morning Prayer : 7: 00 AM Afternoon Prayer : 3:00 PM Then for each prayer time the program should remind the user with a sound. Can someone please help me out Sorry there was a little mistake in the soundPlayer code. One semi-colon too much.. :) There is the right code (I don't know why but I wasn't able to edit my first post.. :/): string soundPath = "C:\\sound.wav"; System.Media.SoundPlayer player = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(); // New instance of SoundPlayer pla ...Show All

• Visual Basic Text File Search Duplicate Lines

  Hi, I'm looking to search through a fixed width Text file line by line and return lines that have duplicate values in at a certain location(position 10-19). For example: 990500024001385713 990500024001388061 990500024001388061 990500024001388694 The first 9 characters are always the same, but the next 9 characters can contain the duplicate values. In this example I want to write the middle 2 lines to another file called "C:\duplicates.txt". The file to be searched called "C:\MainFile.txt" is about 95,000 lines. Any sugguestion would be great!!! YES, YES YES, Nog. I often use dictionaries for dup detection. Using DDD (Dictionary Dup Detection) you could for the above routine in about seven lines of code ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem in Mail Sending through Windows Application

  Hi, I have made one SP(A) for mail sending which called within another SP(B). If i am executing that SP(B) in query analyzer then SP(A) ia also executed , while i am executing SP(B) through some WIndows Application although SP(A) is geeting allthe parameter but not executing. SP(B) is being used for inserting some values in a table.And i want to mail few of those inserted value to be mailed by SP(A). I have tried it by making "insert trigger " . But same thing when i executing SP(B) in Query analyzer the mail is going means SP(A) is running. But when i am inserting values through windows applicaton.Values are inserting but mail is not going. Thanks in advance. Sanjay Tiwari ...Show All