F.Costa'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

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) data must comes from texbox control to datagrid and datgrid to again texbox control for update

  hello everybody, my problem is that- 1)i enter data in textbox control and this data must comes in datagridview view automatically in window form . 2)and again from datagrid to control box for update and save data in main data source. any one please help me. regards, anc007 ...Show All

• SQL Server Using NOT LIKE in a CASE statement

  Help, Trying to sum the quantity of a number of groups using case. however I need to exclude certain criteria. I need to change Res to exclude CPD,CPP and CPT to give the balance How can I rewrite my expresion to not include this criteria SELECT dbo.tblAscTransactions.ItemCode, SUM(CASE PlantLocation WHEN 'CPD' THEN (Qty) ELSE 0 END) AS DF, SUM(CASE PlantLocation WHEN 'CPP' THEN (Qty) ELSE 0 END) AS CPP, SUM(CASE PlantLocation WHEN 'CPT' THEN (Qty) ELSE 0 END) AS Trade, SUM(CASE PlantLocation WHEN 'AMP' THEN (Qty) ELSE 0 END) AS Res, FROM dbo.tblAscTransactions INNER JOIN dbo.qryGetDaysInMonth ON dbo.tblAscTransactions.[Date] = dbo.qryGetDaysInMonth.[Date] GROUP BY dbo.tblAscTransactions.ItemCode, d ...Show All

• Windows Forms COM Registration: RegistrationServices in Custom Action works, "Registration" option with TLB does not

  I've inherited an installation project that is an installer for a derivative of the 2.0 rendition of Pavel Zolinkov's Band Object library ( http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/BandObjects20.asp ). Previously, we used a custom action for our installer that first leveraged the Fusion API to call ComReg.FusionInstall.AddAssemblyToCache(path + "BandObjectsLib.dll"); and so on for our various libraries. My understanding was that this was simply to place our assemblies into the GAC, although I'm not sure why we didn't just simply use the "Global Assembly Cache" as the destination for the file in the setup project. Secondly, we are calling RegistrationServices.RegisterAssembly() to register our DLL as a COM object. We ran into problems with ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Handling Command in Page vs Window

  Hi all, I am having a problem with handling command in Page. In the example below, I just have a page with a button assigned with ApplicationCommands.Open command that would allow me to execute it by pressing Ctrl-O. However the command is only invoked when the Button is being focused. I've tried to use Window instead of Page, it works properly. Following is the code: XAML: < Page x:Class = " WPFBriefCode.Core.Command " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title = " Command " > < StackPanel > < Button Content = " Open " Command = &qu ...Show All

• SQL Server T-SQL function to determine length of Image/Text data?

  Is it possible in t-sql to determine the length of the data contained within a text, ntext, or image column (realizing it would be different in each row) good point. Unfortunately the "len" function doesn't work for text, ntext, and binary datatypes. So in my particular case I am forced to use datalength. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How VS 2005 connect to smart device through wireless connection

  I want to deploy an application to a smart device running Pocket PC 2003 through wireless connection. Is there any utilities in Visual Studio .NET 2005 p.s. I use the "Windows CE Utilities for Visual Studio .NET 2003" to connect the devices when I using VS 2003 before. Hi Gary, I think you don't need any utilities, not now, or before. you just need to set the ActiveSync to make synchronization through the Wi-Fi and once you set it on the PC and Device, you can deploy the application normally as if it is connected with USB cable. Regards, If this post was helpfull, please press "Yes". Ahmed H. Waly ...Show All

• SQL Server Can I have multiple tables to gather event data

  Hi Guys, Wondering if I could have two tables with parent child relationship to gather event data. Does NS support such scenario while defining schema in ADF.xml. Please advice. Thanks, Shamir Ahhh...gotcha. A couple of options come to mind. First you can flatten out the rows into multiple events. In this scenario, you'd have one event row per transaction detail and that row would include information from table 1 and table 2. You'd want to then use the digest delivery to pull it all together into one notification. However, under certain circumstances, I could see how this may lead to an occassional mishap where a user would receive more than one notification, each being somewhat incomplete. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Winsock Where is it?

  Where do I find the Microsoft Winsock Control 6.0 A website told me to load that component but I dont know how help please thanks. Hi Why not to use the System.Net.Socekt Namespace it has all the implemenation of Sockets. You can use High level and as well as low level socket programing through the managed name space. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Proprietary FBX format

  Good day! According to an Autodesk engineer I communicated with today, "The ascii version of the FBX file format isn't publicly documented and subject to change." I think that begs the following question: why would we want to use a format that isn't open-spec, subject to change, and proprietary to a single company (Autodesk) What attraction does FBX have given its highly proprietary format To preempt a conversation about the merits of the build content pipeline, I might add that there are some companies that have no intention of using the content pipeline to avoid the embrace, extend, destroy philosophy which manifests as vendor lock-in. So to return to the prior question-- what is the sell for FBX if it is proprietary, cl ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Taking Screen Snapshots

  Is anyone aware of a way to take screen captures of the video and save those to the player storage for later viewing The p-stor directory is automatically created when you write to the content directory. When using the simulator, I believe these directories will be created in your C:\Archivos de programa\HD DVD Interactivity Jumpstart\HD_DVD folder (if not, do a search for the HD_DVD folder on your hard drive). Xavier - sounds like you are new enough to HDi that you would benefit from playing around with the sample applications from Microsoft more: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=E19C869B-EF37-4E5E-91ED-32D059E3775B&displaylang=en You will find examples of how to listen for key press events and t ...Show All

• Windows Forms overlaying a docked panel?

  Hi, I've got the following problem. I am working on an application that has a main form with on the left side a tree view and on the right hand a panel. Both objects (treeview and panel) are docked, so they stick on the sides of the screen. i thought that might be usefull when the application is used on different screen sizes. However, when the user clicks on some nodes, some dialog forms open. Is there any way i can make sure that the dialog forms that are opened perfectly overlay the (docked) panel on the right hand side. That would make my application a bit more easy to handle on different screen sizes. I hope this is clear. Thanks so much for a reply PS I'm using VS 2005 Quote: " Is there a way to open forms as ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Hosting WCF service in IIS

  I'm having difficulty hosting a service in IIS where the service is implemented in a seperate assembly. It appears the latest release of .NET 3.0 has changed the syntax for doing this, dropping the @Service directive entirely. I have no problem hosting the service is inline or if the service implementation is included in the Web project. It's only when using an assembly from the bin directory where it won't work. TIA Peter - you need to have the script mappings in IIS for aspnet_isapi.dll to .svc files. You can add this manual or run servicemodelreg.exe in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Using Microsoft AJAX with VE will throw exceptions

  I am using the Asp.Net 2.0 Ajax Futures November CTP to expose some data as a web service using the DataService object. Unfortunately, if I try to map the data using the VE api, and a ServiceReference in the script manager, I get an exception stating that: "Microsoft JScript runtime error: Sys.InvalidOperationException: Object Web already exists and is not a namespace." It breaks on this line, in the javascript generated by the service: Type.registerNamespace('Microsoft.Web.Preview.Services'); Your not alone Scott: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=897625&SiteID=1 No word on this unfortunatly. John. ...Show All

• .NET Development XSLT: default namespace problem

  Hello, I am having trouble with the default namespace that is coded in the XML that I have downloaded from an Internet site. When I edit the XML with Notepad and delete the default namespace everything works fine. Here’s the beginning of the XML file: < xml version="1.0" > <xtvd xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" from="2006-12-22T14:55:06Z" to="2006-12-29T14:55:06Z" xmlns="urn:TMSWebServices"> and here’s the top part of my XSLT file: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " UTF-8 " > < xsl:stylesheet version = " 1 ...Show All