smilemax's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What does Nullable facet mean for multivalued properties?

  Hello. I read Entity Data Model overview and found that Nullable facet is type-agnostic and applicable for multivalued properties. Quot: 2.7.1.1 of "ADO.NET Tech Preview - Entity Data Model (June 2006).doc" "Note also that Nullable is allowed on complex-typed and multivalued properties" A question is: what does "Null" concept mean for multivalued properties What does it mean for generated CLR object What does it mean for inderlying database schema Hi Sergei; A couple of points: Complex types weren't supported in the May CTP (or any of released ADO.Net CTP releases). We are introducing support for Complex Types in the Beta2 timeframe. When we do formally support Complex Types ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Garbage Collection

  Hi. I'm not a game programmer yet but I'm a programmer. I have been learning computer graphics (opengl) at school and while I was talking to one of the professor was referring to Java as the main problem is that the garbage collection does not permit it to be real time. I know that the .net framework which I use quite often has garbage collection as well. The problem with garbage collection is that you (the programmer) does not know when it will happen. My question are 1) Is Xna going to have garbage collection and 2) if it will have garbage collection, wouldn't this make a video game slow thanks Francisco Garbage collection isn't really the kind of thing you can disable: it's very much core to how the who ...Show All

• SQL Server Distributed query from SS 2000 to access catalog views on SS 2005 via linked server

  I am trying to write some admin only procedures which will collect information to one of my development server from other production and development servers.   I have created linked servers to access these other servers on the development server. This development server is SQL Server 2000 EE. Other servers which I want to access are 2000 and 2005 (vaious editions)   E.g I have another development server called PRODTEST which is SQL Server 2005 and on the development server I have created a linked server pointing to PRODTEST called TESTLINKSRV. I want to access new object catalog view (as I do not want to use sysobjects)   When I run the following query   SELECT * FROM [TESTLINKSRV] ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to see the actual compiler output?

  In writing a VS2005 program, the IDE put contains MSIL pseudo code. When the program is started, the JIT compiler creates the actual X86 code to be executed in pieces. If you are interested in looking at the actual product of the JIT compiler say for optimization puposes is there a way to look at this code With the Vs2005 Disassember I just wanted to clear up misstatements made by nobugz. There is no disassebly option in the debug menu. Insertion of a breakpoint in an assembly built in release mode, will generate a display in the callstack window. Selection of the top item on the displayed callstack, and subsquent right clicking will show a context menu and the fifth item down is Disassembly. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Graying out CustomUI

  Hi, When an Excel sheet is in Edit mode Some RibbonUI's are grayed out. I want the same behavior for my CustomUI. How can I detect that the sheet is in Edit Mode . Hi, Does this refer to a VSTO project or is it just a specific Ribbon X question If the later then I suggest that You post here: http://pschmid.net/office2007/forums/index.php ...Show All

• Smart Device Development can windows mobile 5 connect to sel server 2005 express ?

  can wm5 connect to sql server 2005 express is it need to install other software on pocpet pc , free or not thank you i test my web services by create Win Application and connect to ws (using add web reference, localhost) i work! but on ppc and emulator error at this line object [] results = this .Invoke( "testR" , new object [] { testMsg }); $exception {"Could not establish connection to network."} System.Exception {System.Net.WebException} how to reslove this thank you!! thank you ...Show All

• Visual Basic Console question

  I have created a console application that will create a file and fill the file with certain information. Here is the code to explain it: Imports System.IO Imports System.Console Module Module1 Dim ProgPath As String = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Planit\Solid_4_0\Settings", "ProgramPath", "") Dim CustCodeFind() As String = {My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Planit\Solid_4_0\Settings", "Code1", ""), My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Planit\Solid_4_0\Settings", "Code2", ""), My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Planit\Solid_4_0\Settings", &quo ...Show All

• Visual Basic Form show unrequested

  To get some experience using VBE, I converted a simple program I once made for myself(VB5). It's a birthday calendar, using a VB5 commandbutton for each day of the year, i found that VBE has great problems handling this many controls, it is slow, very slow and realy unworkable. Some where else in this forum I found that others with a lot of controls experience the same problems and there is no neat solution for it. In the mid 80's the basicinterpreter was quicker than this VBE with a machine that is 2000 times faster. Another problem I have is that the main(start) form of the program shows up unrequested. In the load section of the (start)form I show another form from which I normally select whether I show the (start)form or not. The se ...Show All

• Gadgets Gadget behavior on spaces vs live.com?

  I am still working on my first gadget and noticed things work really different on live.com compared to spaces. If you want to load what I have so far and see what I mean, the manifest can be found at http://www.incendy.com/MyRSS/rssgadget3.xml Basically the css is very different and also the function that rebuilds the list does not really work on Spaces and you have to manually refresh the page to get the new feed. Just curious if others have experienced this and have advice on what I should be doing differently. The function getfeed gets called but the content seems to be cached on Spaces where it works fine on live.com! Hi! Thanks for your example code ToddOs! It helped me a lot. But still I have ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Textbox Values

  I am new to programming and I wanted to try a basic Windows Application. I have two textboxes (textBox1 and textBox2) and a button, my question is, how do I program it so that the user enters a number in textBox1(ex: 2), then clicks the button, and the number from textBox1 appears in textBox2 but multiplied by 3 for example. Thanks I have not found the answer, but I think this could be done with adding a code to the button, such as, int value = 1 + 2; this ->textBox2->Text = String::Format( "{0}" , value); but what this does, is that when I click the button, the number 3 appears in textBox2, I was thinking about a code such as, int value = textBox1->Text + 2; this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cant download got: "Sorry, we were unable to service your request."

  Sorry, we were unable to service your request. Please use the navigation menu on the left or choose from one of links below. For the latest headlines and to see what's new, visit the MSDN home page. From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/500/default.aspx aspxerrorpath=/vstudio/express/downloads/Default.aspx This morning everything seems to work fine. But the web pages have a new look and feel, so maybe I tried during a massive update of the site. I’ll try again this evening at home. Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Copy tables on remote servers

  Hi all, I'm trying to create a script / stored proc that copies one table from a remote server to another table on a different remote server. The approach I wanted to take was... create a stored proc that can be called remotely the stored proc tests to see if the table exists, if it does it is dropped, if not it is created new table structure and data copied from remote server A to remote server B ...I feel that this should be quite easy, but I must admit I'm struggling. Any help would be really appreciated. Cheers, Jon Hi, maybe very late, but I ran into the same problem and solved this by doing this: Ex: SELECT t . Bilagnr FROM [172.18.165.25\ASNV] . [AS_14830] . [dbo] ...Show All

• Visual C# RE : XML to C# class file

  hi every one, iam using .net 1.1 asp.net and C# i got a xml file which contains the configuration details in it. user may added any details or delete any details in it. i need to convert the xml file in to a class file. it does not contains any standard structure user may add what ever he like. Is there any way to convert the xml file to a class file .. thanks for your valuable information hi taylor michaell, iam not fully aware of the xaml. can you provide some links which will help me to go further. thanks for your valuable informtion ...Show All

• .NET Development More on Multithreading and Sychronization

  Since Threads of a higher priority will normally preempt lower priority threads, Is there a means of guaranteeing that a section of code executes from beginning to end without preemption What if the higher priority thread wants to access the section of code which it preempted. You will have a deadlock situation. No, it is not guaranteed, as I know. you should use normal critical sections or locks if you want to work with threads. I can try to explain. When you start a thread with a higher proprity, of course, it will have much more processor time then others. But if you have a thread with, let's say, normal priority it will wait some time. Then, if this thread is not able to have a processor time ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to connect to the remote server

  Greetings: We have a copy of SQL2k Report Services running on a Windows 2003 Server. But the database used by the Reports is actually on another box in our network. (This is a option you can use during install.) This setup worked fine for about a year but now neither the reports and ReportManager no longer run. The Reporting services Log error is: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server. In a browser we get the error: --- " Directory Listing Denied " "This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed." --- Turning on the option to list directory contents in IIS does not resolve the issue. Anyone seen this creep up before I ...Show All