KevinBurton's Q&A profile

• Gadgets Does gadget support Netscape and Opera now?

  I heard Live.com have supported Opera and Firefox. But there some problems happen when I add gadget by Opera and Netscape without signing in Live.com. Why the gadget could not be added correctly without signing in Live.com Thanks I think that your browser (opera or netscape ) do not identify your Microsoft PASSPORT NET or WINDOWS LIVE ID and the security is not good for live com ; Use IE 6 or 7 and it is runing ! Good day to you ...Show All

• .NET Development Sleep() api in MainThread...?

  New to C#...coming from C++ and MFC.... Is there a Sleep() api/method to put the main thread to sleep for so many milliseconds Thank you As has been pointed out, there is the Thread.Sleep() method; but, it's generally misused. If you're looking for thread synchronization this isn't the method to use. If you're looking to put a thread into a wait state, this also isn't the method to use. Only if you want your thread to block and not be able to do anything else for a minimum amount of time (generally in 10-15ms increments, the system doesn't have a millisecond granularity; despite Sleep() taking an integer for the number of milliseconds to sleep for). There are many drawbacks to using Sleep() that generally aren't considere ...Show All

• Visual C# C# authentication from an RSS reader

  Hello. I have an article reader that authenticates using forms and a database. I need to use those same users and articles to send custom RSS feeds. I can't figure out how to get authentication to work from an RSS reader to my rss .aspx page. Any ideas Thanks Such questions are outside the scope of this forum - for the scope of the C# General forum please look at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=107545&SiteID=1   Otherwise, you may deliver it to   asp.net forum   Thank you ...Show All

• SQL Server toggle all

  I have seen other places where this question is asked, but I am still not seeing the answer clearly. If I have many groups that are collapsed and I want to expand them all at the same time, it there a way to accomplish this Many talk about a param that can be passed in, but even if you have the parameter set, this is only for the initail state, is it not Woyler, you are correct. the image icons seem to be reversed. i have written a code for changin the image state based on the paramter passed. but it does not behave normally. howvever, if i write a code without applying the visibility setting as pointed out by Chris, it does work. is it some kind of bug in Reporting Services. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Distributed Processing with Windows Workflow

  I have been banging my head against this all week so I thought I would check here for some more ideas. I want my fellow developers to be able to put together a parent SequentialWorkflowActivity using my custom synchronous workflow activity to invoke other "child" workflows. It's like chaining together a bunch of InvokeWorkflows except the workflows are invoked synchronously. I've got that part figured out, but what I need now is to get the distributed part down: I want any of a set of identical servers in my environment to be able to execute the next child workflow in the parent workflow until all child workflows have been executed. My plan is to make the runtime stop the parent SequentialWorkflowActivity after it completes o ...Show All

• SQL Server Excel OLAP Report losing layout after migration

  I have big numbers of OLAP Excel (Pivot tables) report and very complex. Finally I am able to move my olap database from AS 2000 to AS 2005 after fixing some know issues some specific to my database. Now the big challenge is all Excel 2002 reports should work un touched. I am using Excel Macro to update connection string in all Excel file but I can not afford to redesign all of them. Redesigning Excel report will almost kill my AS 2005 migration project. After changing pivot table connection from 2000 database to 2005 database, when I refresh pivot table I am losing my reports layout. In my "Field List" all shared dimensions and measures has exact same names after refresh. Looks it's ok for most of the dimensions b ...Show All

• SQL Server SaveAs/Export

  Is there away with the reports to code to have them export into a excel template (a specific one) and have each report go into a different tab When I run the reports manually I can save to excel put not a pre-existing template. Each report has 3 to 12 stored procedures it needs to run so I am just not sure how to accomplish this task. Thanks in advance! Stokh WIth the subreports I have a perpolicy totals report and a location report I out both of these on my master report. I need to itterate through a list of policy_types so for each policy_type list the records associated with that policy_type in those reports and then for a different policy_type for that client give me a new table with a line break so b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project/TFS Integration issue - please help

  Ok, this is my last effort before opening a ticket with Microsoft and spending the rest of my life on the phone with them. I have Project Server setup, and I have it receiving its data from TFS. The data is replicating between the 2, etc. Here is the problem. When I click "Refresh" on the Team plugin for project a couple times, the data will change. Here is an example: I have a work item with Actual (Completed) Work set to 8 hours. This shows in TFS. Refreshing it in project shows the 8 hours fine. However, if I refresh again it changes it bakc to 0. Clicking refresh 2 more times sets it back to 8, hitting it again makes it go back. This happens with most of the work items, and I cant for the life of me figure out what it is. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.net connection to SQL server and inserting data

  SqlConnection = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("workstation id=VANPC62757;packet size=4096;integrated security=SSPI;data source=MTLASR74;persist security info=False;initial catalog=vanLMS") SqlAdapter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter( ) i m trying to connect to a table in the Sql server lets say the table is called SQLTABLE do i need a dataset in order to insert stuff into sql server can someone show me a few sample line of how to insert data(or datatable) into the table in SQL server thx in advance First create an app.config file, then once you do that drop this in right after the <configuration> open tag <appSettings> < a ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to validate the data from textbox compare to DB (Window application)

  Using VB2005 Dear users, Could anyone help me with this How to validate a user's identity to the database details For example if a user type username and password in the textbox and to login. Must verify the user's name and password. Could anyone reply sample code/links asap there are a couple of ways of doing this but for the sake of simplicity.... you would execute a query on SQL, something like: SELECT [ID] FROM tablename WHERE username = ' username ' AND [password] = 'password' now if there is a record which returns, you will have "HasRows" property of the SqlDataReader to true, which means that yes they exist in the database. Example: D ...Show All

• Visual C++ hangman project

  Hello, I'm somewhat new to C++. I am taking a class on it in college, but the teacher doesnt like to explain things very well. Basically her idea of helping us learn C++ is this: "this is how you start all your programs in this class: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { } " She never explainted even what "#include <iostream>" or "using namespace std;" ment. So, this brings us to my question. I'm trying to write a c++ program *for a project in class* that is a hang man game. The hangman is stored in a character array. The user is able to input a word into a 25 character array "char word[25];". There are a couple of things I need to do. the first thing is, I need to know h ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Configure the 3d plugin

  when i installed the 3d plugin, i got a dialog with detail-settings once, i chose 'high' and closed it, now i want to reconfigure it, but cant find a way to display the dialog again. helphelphelp Go to http://maps.live.com and choose Options . It's in there, under 3D view options. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Login.Live.Com --> How to create a login dialog box?

  I need to create a web browser that shows a login box for login.live.com, and submits the user's e-mail and password to login. Is there a way to do this in C# Thanks, I am not sure if I got your doubt. Would you like to authenticate an user into the live.com server Maybe you can achieve this by logging into the MSN server. A tutorial in how to do this can be found at http://www.codeproject.com/cs/internet/connectingtomsn.asp ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. ode.xna

  By the way, I had ported ODE.NET to MDX 2.0 in the past. Today, I recompiled it with references to XNA with VS2005. The compiler didn't complain. I'm in the process of getting a demo working with references to ode.xna it but it's still in the early stages so I can't be 100% sure it will work. So far so good :/ www.pepperboy.net Yes it is wrapping native stuff. I creating a very a basic demo so far. Added a reference to ode and created a world object to set gravity. No errors or warnings. That's actually pretty promising! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Insert / Update database using CurrencyManager and BindingContext

  Hi, I just implemented the CurrencyManager and BindingContext using this link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.currencymanager.aspx , but now I can't update the Data Base. Here is the code I use. this .myCurrencyManager.EndCurrentEdit(); this .produtosTableAdapter.Update(DataSet ); The update method should go and store the information into the database, but it's not happening that, I guess that's because the data in CurrencyManager is not going to my DataSet, maybe I'm passing the wrong parameter in my TableAdapter, but I have no clue what parameter I should use instead of my DataSet. It does not throw an exception, the method goes without problem, but the update goes with the old information. ...Show All