Rame's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Is Virtual Earth Free?

  I Would like to use Virtual Earth in my real estate portal. Is it free or I have po pay I stand corrected Jared. My comment comes after talking with Jay from the VE team who was alarmed by such rumors. Clearly it turns out the rumors steam from MS own publication! I think the key here is that restriction is for estimating usage to determine if your application will require you to contact MS and arrange a commerical license not for how the service will actually be billed. The funny thing with the whole licensing is my server never makes a transaction with VE. The user's browser does. I actually have no way of tracking usage, on charging for it or limiting its use. So currently if this model was used for bi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Get Current Screen Name?

  Can Any one please tell how to get the Current Active Screen Name in C#. Hope you can help Thanks Hi Ilya Tumanov, Say, I have opened another application like Internet explorer or Today screen. Then I want to get that that screen name. In my project I have to put a notification ballon when message arrives. It has to be happened when I am not in my application and operating other than my application. I am able to retrieve active Form name but only with in my application. Even though I am with another application like Today screen or with another, I am getting Form name which is belongs to my application. Can you please tell me is there any method to retrieve the current scree ...Show All

• SQL Server peer to peer - pending change stuck in queue

  In a peer to peer setup, Ann modifies a row on instance A while Bill deletes it on instance B. Bill's delete passes Ann's modify in the replication message queues; the delete succeeds on instance A, but the pending modify fails and blocks further changes from instance A. How do I get the modify out of the queue Thanks, Liston PS: Yes, I know you're not supposed to do this. Why doesn't peer to peer replication come under the perview of the distributed transaction coordinator Please - put this on my wish list. Hi, P2P on SQL 2005 does not support conflict detection and resolution. To skip a certain transaction, you can use sp_setsubscriptionxactseqno . For more information, take a look at http: ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Little help plz

  Hi i have the following code taken from a tutorial. Now i wish to return a string called returnString but it won't compile because the string is being accessed from another class. So how do i return the string Basically i wish my service to access objects from the application hosting the service. Thanks. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.ServiceModel; namespace Messenger { public class ClientService { ServiceHost serviceHost; String returnString = "String I want to return"; public ClientService() { } public void startService() { Uri baseUri = new Uri(" http://localhost:1234/hello "); serviceHost = new ServiceH ...Show All

• .NET Development LAN Search

  Hi, I am making a application, that enable LAN Chat for this I have one Server that can run on any PC within LAN and other that act as client. Now, I want client Application to search the server in LAN without User entering Server IP. I don't want my user to do that efforts. Can any one guide me how to do that Thanks Ofcourse as suggested by Nobugs, loop through all the IPAddresses available on the LAN and try to connect to each computer, if an exception is raised then go to the next otherwise you have already found the server . Note: To optimize the process and get ala computer avaialble on LAN, you can P/Invoke NetApi32.dll and build a list of all computers currently up then you can try connecting only those Comput ...Show All

• .NET Development Create class instance similar to "CreateObject"

  I want to create objects by their name like its done in vbscript with "CreateObject". I'll get the Type by GetTypeFromProgID(name), then get the location of the corresponding Typelibrary by querying the Registry fot the "InprocServer32" hive of the Type's GUID. Now i can load the TypeLib via LoadTypeLibEx and build a .net Assembly using TypeLibConverter. Thats it so far, here comes the difficult part: With Activator.CreateInstance i get System.__ComObject, so i need the "original" Type to be able to invoke methods of my instance. To get the "original" Type i need the fully qualified class name to pass it to Assembly.GetType(). The other way around, i can pass the fully qualified class name to Assembl ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Regarding the DropShadowBitmapEffect

  Hi, Is there any way we can use DropShadowBitmapEffect with .NET 2.0 objects like Graphics and GraphicsPath Regards, Nishant If you can render to an Image ( Graphics.FromImage ) and convert the result to a BitmapSource then you should be able to use the GetOutput method to apply the bitmap effect yourself. ...Show All

• SQL Server Member Properties

  Hi How to create a member properties in AS 2005 Regards In AS 2005 (SSAS2005) it is the same as attribute hierarchies. All attributes in a dimension table no longer have to be included in a user hierarchy. If you run the dimension wizard and turn off the autocreate hierarchies you will get a dimension without hierarchies which is the same as member properties in AS2000. Or , if you use this feature(autocreate) you will get user hierarchies(the same as dimensions in AS2000) and attribute hierarchies(the same as member properties). Still the word member properties is sometimes used for attribute relations. But this is not the same as in AS2000. HTH Thomas Ivarsson ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. UI Development with XNA?

  I'm interested in building a "windows" user interface into my XNA game, however, I'm not finding a whole lot of tutorials or code samples on how best to do this. I want to draw a sprite on the screen, say one that mimics a window, and allow the user to drag it around the screen and resize it when they are on the borders. I've got the dragging feature working by simply polling the mouse coordinates inside the Update method and checking if it's within the bounds of my sprite's rectangle, but I'm not sure if this is a good method or not I figure this is something that has been done many times before so there is probably a "best practice", but I can't seem to find anything on it for XNA. I'm really just looking for confirm ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA/GSE and Vista RTM

  Is the final version of XNA/GSE slated to be supported on Vista when its released I found it in the official XNA FAQ on the main MSDN-hosted site Q: Which versions of Windows does XNA Game Studio Express support A: XNA Game Studio Express is currently limited to Windows XP SP2 only. Once Windows Vista is released, XNA Game Studio Express will be fully supported on that version of Windows. So I assume the Dec 11 release *should* have real support for the Vista RTM released to business/technet customers today, or at least the general-public release on Jan 30. ...Show All

• .NET Development AccessViolationException with C# Ping class

  I have a "watchdog" program, c# console application, coded with VS 2005. Program runs every 3 minutes. And one part of program checks pings to ~20 ip's. I'll give that function code: static private bool ping ( ref String ip) { bool success = false ; Ping pingSender = new Ping (); if (pingSender.Send(ip).Status.Equals( IPStatus .Success)) { success = true ; } else { success = false ; } return success; } Usually this works.. but sometimes (once a day on the average) it throws an exception and program crashes: Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. I checke ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Need useful documentation/sample for using RecoveryInformation() in a .NET durable RM

  It's really dissappointing to see how poor the .NET documentation is for using IEnlistmentNotification to create a durable RM that also uses RecoveryInformation(). My goal is incredibly simple: recreate the CompensatingResourceManager MSDN sample ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8xkdw05k.aspx ) using .NET 2.0. 1. How can I set RecoveryInformation() in advance of my Prepare() being called 2. If I am supposed to set RecoveryInformation in Prepare(), what sort of design pattern should I use to pass my worker component parameters to Prepare() ...that is, how do I perform the equivalent of my Clerk.WriteLog() calls Michael. I appreciate the work that went into the sample Florin. Questions: 1. If DoWork() ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums SSL setup with MSN Adcenter Sandbox

  Let me share my experience with the security set up I struggled with initially. Platform: Linux environment: J2EE I kept getting the error javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target in the initial stage. The first time I encountered this error was during the WSDL to JAVA source creation. The WSDL's are hosted on a secure site (https://beta6.api.id ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce update to deployment manifest

  Hi all, I have a Smart Client app that uses the Composite UI block. There are multiple "modules" that the application uses that are not directly referenced by the main .exe project. As a result, the publishing process does not recognize these as dependencies. Since I cannot directly manage (i.e. add) the dependencies in the project properties, it appears that I have to create a post build event or work through the "AfterBuild" and "AfterPublish" targets to update the manifests once accurate dependency list is present in the publishing directory -- they will be copied after they are built. I have tried a couple of permutations of the following code by either calling targets out of Microsoft.Common.Targets or ...Show All

• SQL Server Access project connecting to SQL 2005

  Most of our users are using MS Access project to work with our data in SQL Server 2005. The problem we have is that in order for them to access the tables they need to be given db_datareader and db_datawriter permission on the database. Our goal is not to give access to the tables themselves but to views. Therefore, we've created several views and placed them into a particular schema. Now we want to give access to that schema, but when we assign select, delete, insert, and update to that schema user in ms access project aren't able to view these tables. When we give them db_datareader permission they are able to see the views but in parentencies does not show the correct schema; therefore, when you try to open that view it errors out sayin ...Show All