haughki's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic escaping quotation mark - passed to vbs (tested on batch)

  Hi, I am trying to pass a quotation mark into a script. For example, the batch file a.bat, is (type a.bat): @echo off echo %1 The command line execution is : a.bat "a b" c" // the argument is: a b" c i would like the program to output: a b" c Can you help Thanks, Fredy Hi, Yes, this works when the argument is defined in the vbs script. But how can i run it in the command line I want to pass it as argument from the command line, e.g.: program.vbs "i quote "Hello world" text" ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums want to make one bot solution for companies,"Activity Process" is too trouble to me

  I want to make a robot in my solution,this solution will be used by many customers(companies),so every company has his own robot and has his own activity,then I need to submit all activities to 'gallery.msn.com' every time. How do I do to simplify this I don't think there is a good way to do that. Microsoft has to check all the activity's to see if you are not doing anything against their rules etc. You can try to contact them to see if you could become a kind of a "trusted partner" but I am not sure if they will do that. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System An overlapping product in SQL Server???

  Hi, I spotted the following job advert: http://members.microsoft.com:80/careers/search/details.aspx JobID=ADA9F7F7-97D2-4B45-B2E1-8919E5525BA0&AllCl=Y&start=1&interval=68&SortCol=DatePosted&SortOrder=DEF Seems to me that the product their talking about has alot of overlap with datadude. What's the deal here -Jamie I cannot comment on any future product plans outside the scope of my team; I can say we are actively working together with the SQL Server team on integration and futures. However our product is not going to be exclusive to SQL Server, we will be supporting different database backends in a future release through a schema provider mechanism. -GertD ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. RenderTarget2D and MipMaps

  How to "enable" automatic mipmap generation in RenderTarget2D i don't know why but it don't work m_DrawBufferColor = new RenderTarget2D(m_GraphicsDevice, 1024, 1024, 4, SurfaceFormat.Color, MultiSampleType.None, 0); m_Game.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(0, m_DrawBufferColor); //here i render m_GraphicsDevice.ResolveRenderTarget(0); m_GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(0, null); //now i use it Texture2D Tex = m_DrawBufferColor.GetTexture(); m_HDREffect.Parameters["DiffuseTexture"].SetValue(Tex); //part of fx file Out = tex2Dbias(DiffuseSampler, float4(In.TexCoord.xy, 0, 3)); and i get some thing that looks like like random (texture on this mip level is some random memory) //------ ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLCE and WPF Examples?

  Hello all, I want to use SQLCE and WPF. Can anyone direct me to some example code. two way binding with a sqlceResultSet would be a great start. (last inquiry was in Aug of 06) Thanks Mike (still trying to get the latest tech to work together) Greenway Hi Mike, Sample code for SqlCeResultSet is at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219486.aspx Are you looking for using SQL CE with WPF Thanks Sachin ...Show All

• SQL Server SP1 and remote distributor ?

  Hi There If i apply Sql Server 2005 SP1 to a remote distributor can i keep all publication and subscriptions intact I am hoping i simply stop all repl jobs on the distributor, apply SP1 and then restart the jobs. Is this correct Thanx ...Show All

• Visual Basic Common Language runtime detected an invalid program

  We have developed a Window Application in VB.NET (Framework 1.1) with Back-End MSDE and with Crystal Reports. We haven’t got any issue as long as we run the application in our development machine. Also we deployed it in many clients and it works fine But in only one client place, we got the following error ‘ Common Language runtime detected an invalid program’. The application contains many forms with many controls (More or less 100) But the issue comes only in one form when it is opening Configuration of the Client Machine Processor : AMD OS : XP professional We will be thankful if any one provides solution for this… Have you tried debugging on that machine t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) The futher of WPF?

  Hi all Is it true that none of the application that ship as part of the windows vista OS use WPF And if so, what is that saying I'm trying to develop our companies first "for Cash" app using WPF. Is MS really committed to making WPF the new programming model If MS can't afford to use WPF, how can I (It is the state of the tools , more then the readiness of WPF, that really make me ask this question.) I would appreciate your thoughts, it is after all the further of my company. A worried Mike Greenway Ashish I can’t remember the words exactly but someone at MS said “MS is successful when the developers that use our products are successful.” and I think that sharing the early bits goes ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can c# perform a CTRL+V

  Hi all How can i get my program to perform a CTRL+V. (paste from clipboard) Thanks. Lars The following code gets the name if the active control is a text box.By comparing the name we can determeine which text box Control cnt = this .ActiveControl; if (cnt is TextBox ) { string name = cnt.Name; } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installer

  Hi, I'm having trouble with all the installers I've tried, so I decided to create my own, but I would like in a single exe file, is it possible to store files (pictures, text) in the file, then place them in a different folder Hi, You could use WinZip self-extractor from the 1st link shown here.>> http://www.google.co.uk/search hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=winzip+self+extractor&meta = It allows you to create a file to store whatever image files etc and install them where you like on extraction. The files it creates don't need WinZip installed. Regards, S_DS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Missed Reference

  Hi. I have a problem with references. I am writing an application to automate an excel spreadsheet. The references were added correctly using "add reference" dialogue box and in the code I added the line "using ..." The project ran perfectly, but today the code does not run, i don't know why, and launch an error message like this: "Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Interop' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.Office' (are you missing an assembly reference ) " The referece were added, in the project and in the code. I've checked the path "...Visual studio 2005/projects/myProyect/myProject/obj/debug/" and the file "interop.Excel" is correctly located. Could anyone help me to fix th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MaskedTextBox.PromptChar Property Problem.

  Hello Every1 I have a Masked textbox and by default its MaskedTextBox.PromptChar Property is set to "_" ( underline Character ), and I want to delete this char and put nothing ( I don`t want any PromptChar in my maskedTextBox). It does`nt allow me to do this, the error message is : Specified character value is not allowed for this property. Can u pls Help me Thnx 4 reply Hi, It is there for a reason otherwise it wouldn't be a masked text box. If you don't like it then use a standard textbox and check your user input on the textChanged event. Regards, S_DS ...Show All

• Visual C# GetFieldType

  Hi, I have this code, but I am happy with it. Can I improve 1) First option while (DtReaderSqlBase.Read()) { if ( typeof ( DateTime ).Equals(DtReaderSqlBase.GetFieldType(nFields) ) { //do stuff } } I want to compare one type column from database "ODBC datareader" and convert. if data set to field data if string to string and so on............ This code above works, but I don't is the best approach maybe this 2) Second option if ( DtReaderSqlBase.GetFieldType(0) == DateTime.GetType() ) Which one is the best option.......... or no one there the right option cheers, The second code sample shouldn't compile. GetType is an instance method and can not be called on a ...Show All

• .NET Development Applying check constraints in sqlserver 2005

  This is because the Visual Database Tools validates the existing data with the constraint when you attempt to add it. But no problem, you can to decide do not to validate the existing data by changing the property Check Existing data On Creating or re-enabling to NO , but these data will be inconsistent with new rule. Or by using the NO CHECK clausule on ADD CONSTRAINT statement. A recomendation is to review the data and change it to accept the changes and the new rule. Regards, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Entity Data Model wizard does not allow SQL Server authentication?

  Hi! I did some search in forum, sorry if this is already handled, but I did'nt found any topics on this. I trying to start the new project. Start the wizard, select the database but there is no way to select Use SQL Authentication Lauri Lauri, The Entity designer prototype only supports Windows integrated authentication at this time. -Lance ...Show All