Tdah's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Cubes Migration problem

  Hello, I have 3 cubes with 3 shared dimensions (dates, ids, factors) in SQL Server 2000 environment. After the cubes migration to SSAS 2005 using Analysis Services Migration Wizard I got individual dimensions for each cube : dates, dates1, dates2, ids,ids1, ids2, factors, factors1, factors2. This makes the problem for my cubes MDX queries and based on it applications. The question is how to preserve shared dimensions during cubes migration And another qustion: is it possible to have in the database dimensions with the same name (like dates and dates) Thanks, GB Migration is not going to create a best possible stucture for your cube. It operates in generic manner trying to cover all possible cube desig ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Mouse buttons states, anytime, anywhere ?

  Hi, I'd simply like to check the mouse buttons state ( not in the case of an event ). my scenario involve specific mouse manipulation in a designer app. i use System.Windows.Forms.Cursor ( this make me sad ) and a DispaterTimer to get a mouseMove that can still perform outside the main window. the timer start on a UIelement mouseDown but when in the timer loop i check for Mouse.LeftButton, i get a MouseButtonState.Released when the mouse go outside the window even if it is still pressed. is there a very simple answer to this very simple question Ok, as always , 2mn after posting i found the answer ( System.Windows.Forms. Control .MouseButtons ). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Online presence and instant messenger integration with TFS

  Hi, when working on documents that are stored in the WSS I always see the “online presence” sidebar but there’s never anybody displayed as online. Are there any configs or settings I have to use to turn on this feature or is it not supported with TFS The "Troubleshoot Windows SharePoint Services" only says the following under Online presence and instant messenger integration: Online presence information doesn't appear · Does your account have an e-mail address specified The presence information appears only when the email address for a person is specified. A user with a blank e-mail address that has only the DOMAIN and username specified will not appear as online. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Converting from Google Maps

  I have a map here - www.ukmartin.com/googlemaps/uk.html It features a set of pins in the map which have their latitides and longitudes listed in an XML document. Is there an easy way to use the same design of map pin and the XML data in a Live Map (see http://www.ukmartin.com/googlemaps/stadia.xml ) Thanks in advance for your assistance Martin I'd recommend you write a separate application that converts the file to GeoRSS format.  You already have what it needs (lat/longs) so your pretty much set.  More information on GeoRSS here: http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ref/HTML/WorkingWithLayers.htm Don't forget to provide the image link in the file as well ...Show All

• Visual Basic Print graphics that are on the form into PDF

  I have placed many objects into the form ,like circle, square, images, etc etc directly on the forms background. Now i want to know how to take printout of them directly into printer or PDF in particular When I say, 'how', I mean how are you coding it Specifically, you are doing all your drawing in the paint event, aren't you ...Show All

• Visual C++ Linker Error 1117

  Hi When I build the VC++ project on Visual Studio .net 2005 in release mode, i am getting the linker error LINK: fatal error LNK1117: syntax error in option '' Please note, the 2 single quotes is a part of the error displayed by Visual Studio. I donot know as to what is causing this error. Please help. A linker option was not correctly specified. Make sure you are not using a linker option that is no longer valid in the current version of Visual C++. May be you added some incorect option in Project Properties>Configuration Properties>Linker>Command Line>Additional Options ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting+Serialize Bitmap Object

  How to serailize Bitmap Object through remoting , So that I can read a *.bmp file into Bitmap object and retrun it back to the client through wire(Using .NET Remoting). Ajai, Bitmap is MBR and so you cannot directly pass it as an argument. You need to convert it to a byte array and then reconstruct the bitmap on the other side. Maheshwar Jayaraman[MSFT] ...Show All

• Visual C++ PrintTo command in the ShellExecute

  Hello, I'm trying to use the ShellExecute API to print an HTML file to a specified printer passing the "printto" as the command verb. My default Internet Explorer is IE 7.0 Beta (I tried this also on IE 6), the problem that also I use the PrintTo verb and I pass the printer name to the ShellExecute, the Print Dialog of the IE. Is this a bug in IE Please give me a hand. Yes, it seems like that. But I noticed something: Create an MFC exe project and just replace these lines of the InitInstance() /* CCommandLineInfo cmdInfo; ParseCommandLine( cmdInfo ); if (!ProcessShellCommand(cmdInfo)) return FALSE; */ Instead use these lines: //////////////////////////////////// CCommandLineInfo cmdInfo; ParseCommandLine( cmdInfo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. No news about XNA 2?

  It has been a long time (feeling instead of real time) since XNA 1 released. I've been waiting for news about the next big thing. But it seems it's rather quite; no early info is out. What will be the next exciting things I can only guess... 1) Maybe it's an XNA Game Studio Professional which works with VS Pro version. But I'd rather like an XNA SDK to work with any IDE. 2) Maybe it's great enhancement to the framework. Many more D3DX stuff come into XNA, lifting XNA to the same level as MDX/native DX in functionality. Hmm...I hope the functionalities are not dropped just because they're not supported on XBox.   JLarkin wrote: XNA GSE has only been out since 1/3 into December in 06. Version 1 is ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Package Hangs in Data Flow, magically works after opening and closing components

  We're experiencing a problem where intermittently our SSIS packages will hang. There are no log errors or events in the event viewer. It will happen whether the package is executed from the SQL Job Agent or run from BIDs. When running from BIDs it appears to hang inside one of the data flows (several parallel pipes with sorts, merge joins etc...). It appears to hang in multiple pipes within the data flow component. The problem is reproducable, we just kill it and re-run, and it appears to hang in the same places. Now here's the odd thing: as we simply open and close some of the components in the pipe line after the place it hangs, a subsequent run will go further in the pipeline before hanging. If we open and close all the components af ...Show All

• Visual C# InstallShiled

  i have installshield 12 and create an installation for a c # project. but this install can not import .net framework and in distribution is not listed to select it. how can import .net framework is there a better way to create an installation ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Discover and Pair with Bluetooth devices

  Hello. I am trying to develop a Pocket PC app that uses a bluetooth GPS unit. I would like to be able to simplify the process of pairing with a GPS device by writing code to discover the GPS unit and pair with it. I understand (I think) that this is not possible at this time in the .NET CF 2.0 without using P/Invoke. My Question is where can I find some info and possibly some examples of how to implement something like this. I've tried Google, but perhaps I am not thinking of the right keywords. I would appreciate any help. The http://32feet.net library supports the Microsoft stack on Windows CE or XP and does Pairing (BluetoothSecurity class). There are samples for most of the functionality though not specifically the pairing stuff. ...Show All

• Visual C# Looking for info on filehandling

  I am looking for some good info on file IO with visual C#, i'm a log-file maniac and among other things i want to dump all the textboxes into a plain textfile. I'm also looking for info on how to interact with a printer. Any info will be helpful, thanks, .NET has a printer class which you can use and print to the printer. Many examples here on the forums on how to do this. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.printdocument.print.aspx   in regards to textfiles, take a look at how to write to a file: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamwriter.aspx (also scroll down right to the bottom and there are links there on how to write to a file) alternatively if y ...Show All

• Visual C# VS2005 Command Line Builds with nANT

  I have set up an automated build process using CruiseControl.NET, nANT, nUnit, VS 2005, VSS 2005. I have every piece working except for one issue I have been having. Currently before I call the command line for building my solution, I update the AssemblyInfo.cs file for all my projects to reflect the version number that CruiseControl.NET is labeling, which in the current case is 1.0.0.104 when I call the command line to the devenv.exe it compiles my solution error free. When I look at the file version in Windows Explorer it shows 1.0.0.0 instead of 1.0.0.104. Any Ideas Sumit, Yes I did get this working in my environment using a non recommended way. The non recommended way is to use the VS comman ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Problem with 'content ID' while creating directory in 'persistent storage'.

  Hello Everybody.... In the java script for creating a directory (FileIO_createDirectory), do we have to specify the content id also If we don't specify, whether the directory will be created or some exception will be thrown I am giving two examples below, please tell in each case what will happen. 1. FileIO.createDirectory("file:///required/app1",callback_createDirectory); 2. FileIO.createDirectory("file:///required/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111/app1",callback_createDirectory); You can only create files in the "root" of //required, not directories. The directories are created by the player and have the GUID names. This is outlined on 10.3.1 in the spec. ...Show All