Jeff-B's Q&A profile

• SharePoint Products and Technologies users can t open documents that re more than 400 k byte in wss3

  do u know what might be the cause pls Hi, It could be that your web server stops responding after a certain point. Have a look at the event viewer and see if there is anything there that might clue you in. Is this problem occuring across all of your sites in WSS or just one site in particular If you only have one site collection I would suggest creating a new one and try to reproduce this issue. Post back here your findings so we can help you solve this issue Thanks, Jason Medero WSS MVP www.sharepointblogs.com/jasonmedero ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Bullet Fires Only Once--Never again

  Hi there, Like everyone else here, I have a problem. Basically, whenever I fire a bullet, it will fire only once. It fires just fine, only, when I hit space to fire a second bullet, a second never fires. Or any other number. So, I think this is all the relevent code for the bullet: void FireBullet() { for ( int x = 0; x < bulletnumber; x++) { if (BulletVisible[x] == false ) { BulletVisible[x] = true ; BulletPos[x].X = PlayerPos.X + 40; BulletPos[x].Y = PlayerPos.Y + 32; } } } Another section where there could be issues, this time in Draw(): for ( int x = 0; x < bulletnumber; x++) { if (BulletVisible[x] == true ) { SpriteBatch.Dr ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Welcome!

     Welcome to this new forum, which is part of the SharePoint forums group that contains a comprehensive set of forums designed to cover all aspects of SharePoint Products and Technologies. I’ve held off on having these forums created for over a year because we already had a handful of newsgroups in place, but the benefits (search, moderation, filtering, stats, flexibility, planned enhancements, etc.) and the recent surge in usage have convinced me that it’s finally the right time to embrace forums as the de facto channel for community Q&A and discussion .      This particular forum is for topics about Excel Services capabilities in Office SharePoint Server. Before posting a question, please review ...Show All

• .NET Development How to decide if a .Net object can be finalized?

  Currently I am writting an application, it is something like a framework. I t integrates .Net framework to it. It has its own memory management policies for native objects. For .Net object, the framework just holds the reference to it. When to finalize the .Net object is still the responsiblity of .Net framework. But this will cause problems. When the framework release the reference to the .Net object, the object could be still in the memroy for a while. If the .Net object holds resources, it is not good. So I just want to dispose that .Net object when the framework releases the refrence. But I do not know how to decide that if a .Net object can be finalized at that time May it be used in the future by .Net framework I only got the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Need RAM

  I have just excuted some data flow packages, which requires more RAM, virtual memory. I will continue building the DW etc etc... Today I have altogether 256kb + 256 kB. What if I change one to 512kb. Would that be enough or should I by 1 GB How much RAM you need depends on several factors. 512MB is a minimum and I have experienced that 2GB of RAM is ideal. Nevertheless the increased productivity that you gain by adding extra RAM by far outweighs the cost. But for now, try to increase the paging file to the recommended settings and shutdown services and applications that you are not using (Eg SQL Server Developer Edition) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using C Dll on vb.net and memory

  Hi all! I've made an app in vb.net that needs a dll to execute some crypt/decrypt routines with openssl library that I also coded in VC++, to get some speed. The functions on this dll need to be accessed thousand of times during the program execution and work well. The problem is the memory it uses, after about 100000 access to a specific routine on the dll that returns a string, the program memory used by the app, shown on task manager is HUGE about 200Mb and more if I let it running longer. So I tried to find out if the problem was on memory release on dll or on vb.net app, and coded a simple app which follows: The code on the dll: Code: extern "C" __declspec(dllexport)char *Do_Nothing(char *data1) { return data1; } The code o ...Show All

• SQL Server Proclarity and SQL Server 2005

  Hi All, We are starting on a tool called Proclarity, which is used on top of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. Having this as the basic idea, I’m not clear on some information as listed below: Any clarification would be very helpful. 1 Having SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service) available to perform reports, what is Proclarity for Reporting Services. What it does by integrating with SSRS and its advantages. How is it different from Proclarity Web/Desktop professional. 2 Having Business Scorecard manager from Microsoft, what is the purpose of Proclarity KPI Designer, its advantages/disadvantages over BSM Still proclarity has one more add-on Proclarity for BSM (not sure why we need this) 3 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error while using Workflows within Sharepoint Site

  Hi, I tried using the sample workflows from the ECM release (ECM sample started kit). Now this is what happens: I can install the workflows and the forms correctly. Once I go into my Sharepoint site, I can connect it to the workflow that I want. But once say I add a new document, open it in thr word client, from there say I click on "Start Workflow" this seems to fail for EVERY WORKFLOW - even those built in default (Approve etc). The initialization and association forms come up and I fill these (workflow has not started yet), once I click on "submit" (or any other button which is supposed to start a workflow) on the document library, I can see "Failed to Start" under the name of the Workflow. On f ...Show All

• .NET Development timer vs thread performance

  which implementation is better in terms of performance/efficiency/etc. [code] System.Threading.Timer t = new System.Threading.Timer( delegate { DoSomething(); }, someState, 0, 50 ); [/code] or [code] System.Threading.Thread t = new System.Threading.Thread( delegate() { while (_running) { DoSomething(); Thread.Sleep(50); } } ); t.Start(); [/code] _running is some private bool variable that would be set to false when Stop() is called or something similar. whereas, the Timer implementation would need a call to Change, respectively. thanks in advance. you are correct. calling Read does block the thread. anywho, i ended up implementing it anyways, and of the 3 ways to read from the serial po ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is it a good Idea to Access Database in the Constructor

  Hi All Is it a good Idea to access DB in the Constructor of object itself and populate the Fields of a object. Or Should I have a seperate method which will do this once I initaialize the object. Please let me know the Good practice and pros and Cons of each of the above method Thanks in advance Amol Wankhede I think it depends on what you are trying to do. As always there are trade-offs to consider and risks to evaluate. Of course, whenever you do database operations you must take care to trap potential database errors, whether it's in an object constructor or not, even whether it's in C# or some other language. I routinely initialize objects based on information stored in a database, for example, loading a particular ...Show All

• Visual Studio Progammatically reload document from disk

  Hi Is there a way to reload a file from disk I'm looking for something similar to what the IDE does when it detects that a file has changed on disk and asks you if you want to reload it. Currently I'm looking for a way to do this from a macro. We haven't tried to do this as a proper add-in yet. Thanks Riko Assuming that you have the EnvDTE.Document, you call the Close(vsSaveChanges.vsSaveChangesNo) method. Then, you call DTE.ItemOperations.OpenFile(documentFullName, viewKind) where the view kind is in the constants EnvDTE.Constants.vsext_vk_XXX (Designer, Code, etc.) ...Show All

• .NET Development 'One-way' serialization with XmlSerializer

  Hey, I would like to dump my object hierarchy to an XML file but I don't know how I could get XmlSerializer not care about required parametersless constructors, or ICollection<T>'s implementing an Add(T) method. Because I don't want to deserialize back my objects, these conditions are not required to just dump it into XML. Any ideas (Not sure why this question that has nothing to do with Web Services makes more sense here, but oh well.) This isn't possible with the default behaviour of the XmlSerializer. Potentially you could implement the IXmlSerializable interface on the objects and just throw NotImplementedException or similar on the ReadXml method, but I suspect this is more work than yo ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums worksheet_change and data validation

  Hi there I have an Excel spreadsheet in which one column has data validation set. So the cells in this column have drop-down lists with the pre-set allowed values. Now I want the cell in the neighboring column to be set to some default value when the user selects an item from the drop-down list. This seemed like it would be easy, using the Worksheet_Change event handler. When a cell in the first column is changed, it initiates a function which sets the value in the neighboring column to some default value: Target.Offset(0,1).Value = "default". The problem is that it doesn't work when using the drop-down list. If the user types in the value manually, or if a cell in the first column is deleted, it DOES fil ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unknown ThreadCallbackMessage message from vb.net app as logged by Spy++

  Where does the 'Registered:"WindowsForms12_ThreadCallbackMessage' message come from as listed below in in this extract from Spy++ The MOUSEWHEEL is system generated and the WM_USER's are generated from a C++ dll's PostMessage function. But the last message, teh ThreadCallbackMessage is puzzling me. Thanks for any ideas. -greg S WM_MOUSEWHEEL fwKeys:0000 zDelta:120 xPos:646 yPos:577 0005072A R WM_MOUSEWHEEL 0005072A P message:0x0409 [User-defined :WM_USER +9] wParam:00000003 lParam:00000000 0005072A P message:0x040A [User-defined :WM_USER +10] wParam:00000003 lParam:00000000 0005072A P message:0xC239 [Registered:"WindowsForms12_ThreadCallbackMessage"] wParam:00000000 lParam:00000000 By ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions form.controlcollection?

  Hi.. I would like to know if it is possible to pass the value of the textbox created from form.controlcollection.add method to another form i mean... in main form textboxes are created accordingly in response with the user selection by using addcontrol() function. and i want to use those textboxes to use as reference value in next form. Is it possible or I just have to create textboxes manually Thank you. I don't know if this is what you want or not ..... but to add controls of one form to another would be something like this: Dim ctrl1 As Control Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click For Each ctrl A ...Show All