tall_matt's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Demo IV: Offline Application – Conflict Handling

  Hi all, I just posted the forth demo in the series. This demo extends the previous demos and adds conflict handling logic. Conflicts are fact of life in occasionally connected synchronization scenarios. As a sync developer, you need to find a way to deal with this type of changes that if applied without too much thought will lead to data loss and unhappy customers. Synchronization Services for ADO.NET provides the necessary infrastructure to enable you to detect, surface and resolve conflicts. In this demo, I show you how to register to receive conflict events, dissect the information in SyncConflict object and surface it to the user, and the different options to resolve each conflict. I encourage you to read the full description of ...Show All

• SQL Server How one can genrate objects scripts with DROP and Create in same file in SQl Server 2005 Like in SQl Server 2000?

  Hi seniors, i oftenly genrate scripts of stored procedures and save that code in a txt file,in develpment envoiments its very crucial becuase to overwrite stored procedures any other developemt db. For my this task sql server 2000 was very good it genrated drop and create statmentments implicity.But now in sql server its very difficult and in our development envoirment there are more than 3000 procs so when i try to genrate script in sql server 2005 ,first i need to generate "drop to" and then "create to" and it also take a very long time and oftenly goes to  stuck... How one can genrate objects scripts with DROP and Create in same file in SQl Server 2005 Like in SQl Server 200     ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Effect.FromFile IndexOutOfRange exception

  Hi all, I am trying to load a shader using this code: private Effect LoadShader(string filename, List<string > defines) { Effect effect = null ; if (File .Exists(filename)) { Macro[] macro = new Macro [defines.Count / 2]; for (int i = 0; i < defines.Count; i += 2) { macro[i / 2].Name = defines ; macro[i / 2].Definition = defines[i + 1]; } effect = Effect.FromFile(m_Device, Config.ShaderFilename, macro, null, null, ShaderFlags.None, null ); } return effect; } At line effect = Effect.FromFile(m_Device, Config.ShaderFilename, macro, null, null, ShaderFlags.None, null ); the app throws IndexOutOfRangeException. All parameters are valid and I think i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using DirectX9.0c and Visual C++ express: errors in building a full screen

  Windows XP Home Edition, SP2. Visual C++ express, DirectX SDK (oct. 2006), Visual Studio and platform SDK (SPK1). Updated the different files. Successfully made a window in Win32 application. And now have compiling errors building a full-screen window with DirectX. What I did: - in: Project - MyThirdWindow - Property pages _ Linker - Input: I added d3dx9.lib and d3d9.lib - in : Tools - Options - Project and Solutions - VC++ Directories , I made sure to add : in Executable files: $(DXSK_DIR)Utilities\Bin\x86 in Include Files: $(DXSDK_DIR)include in Library Files: $(DXSDK_DIR)lib\86 I've been working on this since las night (started with 26 errors narrowed down to 9 (+ 1 warning)! Looking for hints ! (new to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista tracking service is slow

  Hello I am using beta 2.2 of the WF Engine. Using the SQLTracking service to extract parameters from the WF I ancounter the problem, that the data is not yet in the database when I show my WFStatus on my web page. Do I have to flush the result when tracking data How can I do this thanks in advance Josef Hi, Are you using the SQLTracking service in transactional mode When the SqlTracking service is in transactional mode , writes to the database are batched. If you would like to see the events as soon as they happen so that you can see it live say in a web page, try setting the isTransactional property to false. This will make sure that the tracking data is written to the database as soon as they happen. Alternately, if you wo ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies no e-mails are indexed

  just installed latest version of windows desktop search on my home computer. I use it at work and think it is great. However at home no e-mails are indexed it does not seem to recognise that I have outlook installed. I have outlook 2003, windows xp, service pack 2 and latest updates. Any help would be appreciated as i would really like to be able to use this at home too. thanks Sorry gra67 - step two is coming in a minute. I've had to restart my computer a few times due to mandatory system updates. I'll be back after a reboot :-) Paul Nystrom - MSFT ...Show All

• SQL Server Errors Deploying an SSIS package

  Hi All, I hope someone can help becuase this problem is issue us several headaches. We are currently trying to deploy an SSIS package to a production server. The deployment goes fine, the package runs ok when executed manually. The issues start when we try and execute it under the SQL agent. Having gone back to the drawing board and spent much of the day reading various articles and applying the various options (especially those within the MS KB article 918760 ), we are still no closer to a resolution. The SSIS package was created under an Administrator, and the SQL agent runs under a different Domain Admin account. When we set up the Schedule to read from SQL Server or the SSIS Store the standard "Executed as user: D ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView color

  Hi, I have a DataGridView and i want to color some of his rows How do i do it Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to download a file using buffers

  hi. im trying to download a file using httpwebrequest and httpwebresponse and i get the response stream into a stream but what im tryiing to do is to buffer the download so it only downloads say 2kb each time it calls the stream.read and then writes to 2kb to a file it appends but i can only do it if i set the offset to 0 otherwise it comes up with the error: system.argumentoutofrangeexception specified argument was out of range of valid values. Parameter name: size at system.net.connectstream.read(byte[] buffer, int32 offset,int32 size) but the size parameter is not a negative value and it is in range of the size of the file can someone please help me i know it will be something simple i am missing :) thanx Public Clas ...Show All

• Visual Basic Invocation Error.

  Ive written a little app in vb.net when i run the app i some times get a invocation error. the error saysTargetInvocationException was unhandled. After this has happened i cant debug my code beacuse my breakpoints dont work. If i tick the "Allow source code to be different from original version" box under the "location" option in the breakpoint menu i get another error saying that the source code cant be found. Last time this happened i published the project and it sorted the problem out. But i since got the Invocation error back and now the project wont publish because it says that the "certificate cant be signed". How do i handle this exception and what casuses this error. My code is a bit messy ...Show All

• SQL Server Convenient offline tables copy ?

  Hi! I'm looking for the most convenient way of copying 4 tables between two databases which cannot connect to each other directly (I have to go through a filesystem and ftp). Most of the time I use the CSV import / export from SSIS, but found out that it can be error-prone (have to carefully pick-up the same culture, text delimiter, and configure the XML source on the other side - I don't have many metadatas here except for the column names, so it leads to truncation errors etc sometimes). Is there a better way to achieve this under SSIS So far I didn't actually invoke bcp, as I was looking for a more 'ssish' way of doing this. Thanks for any pointer Thibaut Barrere Once built your packages should be erro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can anyone help me count letters?

  In VB 2005 express: I am writing a 'word calculator' program that: -Uses the textfile in "textfilecontents" (textbox) -Scans each character, from each line of 'textfilecontents' Here is what I've got so far: -If the character is a letter, then: -convert the unicode value of each char to it's base value. (A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4, ect.) -adds the base value of each letter to 'TALLY' (integer) -display character read to "txttallied" (textbox) -If the character is NOT a letter, then: - display the character to "txttallied" (textbox) - don't add to tally (only letters are counted) -If the character is a carriage return: then: -display TA ...Show All

• SQL Server Expression

  Hi, In RunningValue expression, can we able to put the DataSet name. Thanks Hi, Hammer, Can you look at the following problem.In this case what i have to use in the Runningvalue. Hi, In my report, i have 3 tables joined together.My requirement is the fllowing table Age male Female Total Cumulativetotal 1 40 10 50 50 2 20 5 25 75 .. .. total children 60 15 75 75 20 5 20 25 100 30 10 10 20 120 Total adults 15 30 45 45 Unknown age 5 5 10 130 Total 80 50 130 130 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Issue calling WebService from Windows Form

  Hi all, My WebService is running on same machine. While adding a web reference through VS.NET if i mention URL of service as http://localhost/MyWebService/Service.asmx and then run the application, Everything is ok. Web Methods are called and response properly. But if i change URL as http://mymachinename/MyWebService/Service.asmx or Use IP instead of localhost it gives security exception. and no doubt practically my webservice will not be on same machine so in any case i need to mention IP or machine name where webservice is running. ////////////////////////////Error Message/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// See the end of this messag ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) A Service With zero Security

  Hi dear I am building a service that will be used over internet and there is no security required. As service requires AtomicTransaction so i have to use wsHttpbindings. and has to configure the WS-AT in MSDTC with certificates i dont know how it authenticates the client but have idea that it might be doing authentication that will be a overhead for the service i want to make it simple and fast and want to remove any kind of security. Regards I think there's still a bit of confusion floating around. Let's see if I can clear it up a bit. For the sake of this conversation, transaction security is not related at all to the security your client and your service use to communicate with each other. ...Show All