msksurfer's Q&A profile

• Community Chat JimmyWidgets

  --- Original Post --- Hi everyone! My current project is JimmyWidgets, a widget program like Apple Dashboard, but for PC! You can even make new widgets in DLL format and post em on the online database! When I've made more widgets (I've only got 2 at the moment), I'll post it at www.jimmyware.co.uk  . It's going to be open-source, so you can download the source from there too. Here's a screenshot: http://www.freewebs.com/robinjam/JimmyWidgets%5FScreenshot.jpg I await any comments/suggestions! (But please don't be too harsh about my efforts, it took me HOURS)   P.S. A list of problems I need to fix: The online database currently lets you download the same widget twice, making startup time longer (because ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Service to get polygon coordinates for boundary of a state/city by zip/geocode

  Greetings. I need to get latitude/longtitude for the points of a polygon which describes state/city border. These coordinates will be used to mark an area on the map retrieved with VE service and for some other internal logic of our project. I guess this is out of scope for the VE. But maybe it's possible with some another service I've made a small research around MapPoint, but haven't found something that could help me. Thank you. Are you looking for a database of polygons for each state and city border Or are you looking for a way to draw these polygons on a map For the former, I'm pretty sure that data is available from various government agencies. It might be available in the MapPoint CD product, ...Show All

• SQL Server Embedded text qualifiers

  We have text files that are comma delimited, use double quotes as text qualifiers and sometimes have embedded double quotes. The embedded double quotes are escaped with an additional double quote like: below. "123","product q" "124","product ""a""" DTS 2000 had no problem with this- it correctly parsed the files. The 2005 SSIS file connection manager correctly parses this in preview mode. But when the task is executed the task fails with the message "The column delimiter for column X was not found". What is the recommended approach for this - we have alot of files in this format. thanks Another workaround that I used successfully was to simpl ...Show All

• SQL Server Jump to URL, Not the same WebInterface anymore

  Instead of jumping to a subreport i had to jump to an url because the desired subreport resides in another folder. So far i couldn't find a solution to the problem that reports within 1 project finally are deployed in different folders. I also can't jump to subreports that are in another project. So my solution was to generate the desired url as a link and jump to that url. But, when using this option the new report comes into the same window (as desired) but i'm losing the 'headers/banners' that are typical for RS. Is there a way to call the report by an url that keeps the headers/bands. With the header/bans i mean the Home, Report/Properties, My Subscriptions ... Kind Regards ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Texture creation fails on XBox 360

  Can someone tell me why the following piece of code won't work on the XBox 360 I don't have an XBox 360 myself (and it will be at least 6 more months before I plan to afford one), so I can't test this at home. If anyone could tell me what's needed to make this snippet working, I'd be very happy :) // Look up the maximum texture size supported by the device Point textureResolution = new Point ( graphicsDevice.GraphicsDeviceCapabilities.MaxTextureWidth, graphicsDevice.GraphicsDeviceCapabilities.MaxTextureHeight ); // No larger than 1024 to avoid becoming a memory hog on systems // supporting insanely large textures :) textureResolution.X = Math .Min(textureResolution.X, 1024); textureResolution.Y = Math .Min(textureResolution.Y, 102 ...Show All

• SQL Server still error in service listing manager....

  Hi Remus: I am using latest ServiceListingManager v1.1.3 and still getting this error.... Msg 6522, Level 16, State 1, Procedure ssb_create_certificate_from_blob, Line 0 A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user defined routine or aggregate 'ssb_create_certificate_from_blob': System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: A certificate with name 'CMA_sbuser' already exists or this certificate already has been added to the database.System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionSmi.EventSink.ProcessM ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I create an empty XmlElementString with XmlWriter

  I am trying to dump out a collection of values from an editor I am writing. There are some elements that I need to write out, even though they are empty. Whenever I try something like... writer.WriteElementString( "variable" , "" ); or writer.WriteElementString( "variable" , string .Empty); I get <variable /> instead of <variable></variable> I tried a WriteStartElement("variable") followed by a WriteEndElement but that gave me... <variable> </variable> Does the line separation make any difference to having it all on one line i can see you already have that in the code and it should work tw.WriteStartElement( "variable", String.EMpty ); ...Show All

• Visual C++ EVC++ unicode problem

  hi, im building an application with evc++ and i want to get rid of unicode because it causes me problems. i ve read the first sticky post but says only how to disable unicode support in MVS2005.. how can i do that in evc++ 4.0 thanx in advance Casting to char* does not convert between character types. As a rule, never do it. You start with buf that is type TCHAR*. (LPTSTR is the same thing). Stick with TCHAR the entire way, and look for functions that work with TCHAR, and in the absence of one, convert as I said earlier. atof does not have a TCHAR counterpart (i.e. does not have a macro counterpart that maps to the wchar variant that you need). So convert. Notes about my implementation: I use ...Show All

• Windows Forms help

  Please can some one help After using ad aware-Lava soft to check for Trojans on me computer (running on xp pro) i quarantined the files found including temp files MRU lists-HKEY that it found this disabled my dial in so i restored the computer back a few days,, all was well until i found word docs, two folders of important docs to me were all corrupt (all asked for what type of encoding it needed i.e. us, eurore, japan) lava soft quarantined MRU lists-HKEY files as low risk Question = have I managed to bin a file that word needs or have i been hit by viruses at some point if any one has had this prob or understands my prob please respond as there my stories written over a year and al throw i have cd backup i need to know what i have don ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA1062 Warnings when using a Guard class

  I have created a Guard class, as I have seen in many of P&P deliverables, that for example have a method called ArgumentNotNull. I use this class to validate the parameters passed to my methods. When I turn on code analysis in VS 2005 I get CA1062 warning me that I haven't validate the parameter. What is the recommended solution for this problem Is there any way to set an attribute on my ArgumentNotNull method or Guard class to indicate that they are doing the validation or do I have to use SupressMessage Is it recommended to set the SupressMessage for the assembly or for each method in that case Thanks in advance, Eric Unfortunately, this rule does not do inter-method analysis, so it does not understand that your ArgumentN ...Show All

• Visual C# Outlining auto expands while editing code

  fellow developers, outlining has been expanding on it's own for some time now and i think it is related syntax errors. for instance, if i have a collapsed code block and i toss in an extra closing brace after a moment or two all collapsed code below will expand (unless it is in a #region directive). it *seems* to have something to do with that squigly line syntax error feature. does anyone have an idea on how to either turn off that squigly line featue (not sure what to call it) or the auto expanding feature on a syntax error it is highly annoying. thanks, scott Tools/Options, Text Editor/C#/Formatting.  You can try turning off the automatic formatting stuff. I see that alot too.  If I collap ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System ASP Unit Test with Forms Authentication

  I have a page that I'm trying to run unit tests on, this page is on a web site that is protected by Forms Authentication. When I run the test the TestContext.RequestPage property is the Login page for the site. Is there any way to get past this either by calling FormsAuthentication.Authenticate somewhere, or by supplying the username and password to the test before it calls into the web app If your test is running against cassini, one of my suggestions would be to write some commands or method to update web.config file before your test starts by allowing access to everyone and restore the web.config after the run. I don't have a good solution if your test runs against IIS server web site. Thanks, Bata Chadraa VSTT ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums change my email address

  i want to change my msn address sorry, this is unclear really - change your email address for what for using this website if its not for this website but you wish to change your email address in general, you can't really. you would have to create a new email account. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Displaying numbers in a label box.

  I'm trying to create a dice rolling program for 6 sided dice. It has a textbox, a button, and a label. what I would like to do with it is put a number in the textbox, click the button, and have the label display that many results. For example, I put 3 into the text box. The program runs the randomizer and comes up with 3, 1, & 6. I would like the label to display 3, 1, 6. Here is my code. Using it, I get one number displaying in my label, but I'm not too sure how to get the others to show. Can anyone help please Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase .Load ' Initialize the random-number generator. Randomize() End S ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CreateResultImage call failed

  I have tested the C++ sample code for Imapi2 in SDK. When I write DVD data under 2GB, It works, but if the data file >2GB, the error message showes: __vfptr CXX0030: Error: expression cannot be evaluated . Program failed at hr = image->CreateResultImage(&fsiresult); Any way to fix this issue Thanks, Harry 2Gb per file is the limit of the ISO9660 filesystem at level1 interchange level. You should use only UDF for DVDs with files larger than 2 Gb. You can do this either manually, by setting the file system to UDF with a call to put_FileSystemsToCreate with FsiFileSystemUDF as parameter (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa365689.aspx ). Or you can do this automagi ...Show All