Ken Fleming's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Simple. How many copies to I have to buy?

  I am a single developer using VS2005.  Do I have to buy both a copy of Visual Source safe for my server and my workstation, or do I just buy one copy and the server and client application are together     One More question so I don't have to create another topic.  Can I use VSS to store versions of other files like .dwg (Auto CAD) for example You'll need a VSS license for every machine where you install VSS. Note that you don't need a dedicated "server" for VSS if you don't use functionality like VSS over Internet. Since you are a single developer, you can probably buy only one VSS license, install VSS on the workstation machine (so VS can use the scc integ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do you check what object you are doing something in?

  I am trying to figure out how to know if I am using objects correctly in my program. I was thinking that if there was someway for me to use the WriteLine statement to print out what object I am currently in with a certain method or whatever I am doing at a certain point to let me know which object I was inside of. I created a couple of objects and I want to know when a certain method is running that it is running in the right object at that moment. Thanks in advance for any tips/info/explanation. Ok, I will look at that more closely but I don't think I will know that the output is coming from a particular object. I was hoping there was something I could do like: Console.WriteLine("The obj ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Collision detection - Howto

  Hi all, I'm trying to make two objects collide in GSE, actually in a Pong game - between the bat and the ball. I have motion for both, but no collision, the ball just leaves the stage so to speak. Any help would be appreciated. I have looked in the Help, but to no avail. Okay, I've been trying out Bounding Box collision, and I got it to work for one of the bats, but not the other. Here's my situation: | <- bat1 - the ball goes right through this one. no problem with bat2 ->| I have bat1 and bat2 as separate objects, separate bounding boxes, same texture, different X,Y values. I mean, What am I doing wrong. I don't know what else to tell you so if you have questions ask! ...Show All

• Visual C# Spell Checker using word.

  I came across this code on the net and was wondering if anyone could help me tweak this to search more than just one textbox. Thanks protected void Button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { Word. Application app = new Word. Application (); app.Visible = false ; object template = Missing .Value; object newTemplate = Missing .Value; object documentType = Missing .Value; object visible = true ; object optional = Missing .Value; object saveChanges = false ; object originalFormat = Missing .Value; object routeDocument = Missing .Value; Word. _Document doc1 = app.Documents.Add( ref template, ref newTemplate, ref documentType, ref visible); doc1.Words.Firs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Importing Work Items and Links

  I am currently importing many work items from a spreadsheet. However, we also require that work item tasks are linked to the appropriate requirements. In the spreadsheet there can be anywhere from 5 to 50 work item tasks which will need to be linked to a single work item requirement. Is there a way to do this linking in bulk either in the spreadsheet before I publish the items or in TFS after the items are published. Currently, it seems that I can only select one item at a time to create the link. Any assistance here would be appreciated.... I'm sorry to say, this is not possible with the V1 version of the product. This is being considered for a future version. Your only option would be do this ...Show All

• SQL Server T-SQL Question--right place?

  Hello, all. I couldn't find a forum for T-SQL questions so I hope I am in the right place. I am creating a very simple UDF to calculate a percentage difference: Create Function [dbo] . [AmtDiffPercentPY] ( @CY decimal ( 15 ), @PY decimal ( 15 )) Returns decimal ( 15 ) as begin Declare @difference decimal select @difference = ( @CY - @PY )/ @CY return @difference End My problem is that when I use float, numeric, or decimal types I get an integer result of zero, when I use money I get a decimal result of 0.00, as if the division is using integer division and not returning the fractional value during division. Any advice Thanks, Lisa Morgan Hi, unless yo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need some information from all you smart follks... :)

  Let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Dave Scott Anderson, I am 16 years old and have been programming in C++ for 2 years, C# for a couple months, and HTML for over 5 years. I have become quite addicted to C# programming with Windows Forms. I have finally decided that I want to purchase the full version of Visual Studio...But heres the problem... Where are Windows Forms technology headed Would it be a waste to purchase VS2005 since Microsoft is going to come out with Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 I need advice on this.... Programming is what I love to do. And I prefer to be up to date with technology... Sorry if this is in the wrong forum... but it is related to Windows Forms, so I posted it here. Yes, everybodies ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Want the webforms alternative for the winforms code.

  Can i get the webform alternative for the below winform code for calling WWF. namespace WWFConsume { public partial class Form1 : Form { WorkflowRuntime wr; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { if (wr == null ) { wr = new WorkflowRuntime (); wr.StartRuntime(); } //AutoResetEvent waitHandle = new AutoResetEvent(false); Dictionary < string , object > parameters = new Dictionary < string , object >(); parameters.Add( "UserName" , "User1" ); wr.WorkflowCompleted += delegate ( object sender1, WorkflowCompletedEventArgs ex1) { Messag ...Show All

• Windows Forms lookup data in a row of database

  I am very familiar with excel and am expirmenting in Visual Basic so I apogiligze if I use the wrong terminology. What I am trying to do is have a TextBox where the user enters a stock symbol, hits enter, and receives data in the from of a visual basic label. For example user would typs msft, enter, and below would display two numbers. "MSFT" is column one of the access database and the data I would like to look up is column 4 and 5 in the same row. databse is already atteched and called, currentstock.mdb -Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Database Template

  Hi.  I'm running VS2005 and trying to use the SQL Database installed template (right-click my project in Solution Explorer / Add / New Item / SQL Database template ("An empty SQL database for local data") to create an MDF file per the "AbsoluteBeginner-Lesson08" video available on MSDN.  When I click "Add", I get an error stating that "Connections to SQL Server files require SQL Server Express to function properly.  Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkID=49251".  I'm running SQL 2000, SQL 2005 and SQL Express 2005 (all work and can be hit from Management Studio) on 2003 Server.  I'm assuming that it's because the Express instance is a named i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Works with Vista logo requirement question

  Your "Works with Windows Vista Software Logo Spec.doc" states " The application must be tested on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista. " Our application is a 32-bit Windows application which works just fine on Windows Vista 32-bit OS. So if our application doesn't work "nicely" with 64-bit Vista does it mean that we will not qualify for the Works with Windows Vista Software Logo certification Thanks in advance, Bobby. Thanks Niklas and Microsoft Global Partner Support. However, I have to say something here. As mentioned before our application uses third party components (dlls and drivers) as well. These third party components work perfectly fine in Vista-32 bit. But they c ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Form - Set form size

  Hi , I am using VB 2005 Is there any way to set the size of the windows beyond the screen resolution. e.g 3000 x 3000 . I have tried to set it but it keeps changing back to the maximum size of the screen resolution. Thanks Hi, It is not possible via the designer. It is only possible from within your code. Greetz, Geert Geert Verhoeven Consultant @ Ausy Belgium My Personal Blog ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Configuring WIFI with Pocket PC 2003

  I am trying to configure an ad-hoc WIFI connection programmatically for a kiosk type application that needs to download pictures from a WI-FI camera. The Pocket PC is 2003 and the application is C++ based. So far the best option I can find is to implement this using the WZC Api since the call to DMProcessConfigXML does not seem to have SSID, etc. Are there any other options that I have overlooked The end users will not have access to the WEP key so we cannot use any automatic UI in this case and would pair the ad-hoc devices remotely. I would be grateful for any suggestions, and confirmation that I am on the right track. One more question - I have so far used the WZC API dynamically since we don't have Platform Builder. Is ...Show All

• SQL Server Custom Error Page

  Is there a way to display a custom error page instead of the default error page The disired effect is similar to ASP.NET's customError section of the web.config file that will display a specific page instead of the default ASP.NET error page. In other words, I want to display error.htm if an error occurs during the processing of a report. Is this possible For reference, I am using SQL Reporting Services 2005 on a server running Windows 2003 Server (if that matters). ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with PAGE HEADER

  Dear All I am Sundaraguru from India. I have problem with Reporting services header showing time.. I designed the one report. That report Size is 8inch x 41 inches.. What are problems i having in this reports: 1. Report header is not coming in second pages. ( For report header i am not using the report header area, Because the header informations will varying based on the data's. That's Why I placed in the detail sections) 2. While Seeing the preview time it is showing only 11 page ( for 2 record) after exporting to PDF format it showing 32 pages. How i can solve the above problem.. I have to get is all the page's i have to show report header in all the pages. I am using SQL Server 2005 , & VS.Net 2005 With November 2006 CTP And ...Show All