robinjam's Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development Markup Performance

  I wrote a complete menu (including scrolling chapter menu with rotating images) in pure markup. The XMU file has in total about 1500 lines. Unfortunately I notice that it runs quite slow on HDiSim and in Players. Are 1500 lines too much for xmu The markup performance can substantially improve by the reducing the number of Xpath queries or using it in an optimum way. If you are using lot of <par> and <seq> tags in the markup that can also slow down the performance. ...Show All

• SQL Server CustomQueryDesigner Problem: React to "Resize" Event of QueryDesigner Window

  Hello everybody! I am currently developing a CustomQueryDesigner which is based on a Windows.Form that I have already developed. Currently the QueryDesigner Class contains two UserControls: the ToolBar and the class that wrapps my own QueryDesigner. So what I want to do now, is to resize my Windows.Form which is encapsulated in the second UserControl whenever the size of the window, that contains these two UserControls, is modified. I already tried to use the "Parent" property and the "FindForm()" method but both just return "null". --> I do not unterstand how I can access these informations! Please help me out! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF and win98

  bit of a newbie here. According to the minimum Microsoft's requirements for running the WCF service "WCF can also be installed on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows Server 2003 SP1." Does this mean that windows 98 based clients would not be able to utilize the features of WCF - would this limit the people who could use the program I make only to the users that have Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows Server 2003 SP1 Hi, That restriction is only valid for the service side. The service expects a valid Soap Message (XML) that can be created on any client platform. You only need some support on that client platform to create a valid soap message. For instanc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Putting ReportViewer on Hosting Site- How-to-do

  I am running a VS 2k5 with SQL 2005 standard on a hosting site. I wanted to run ReportViewer local, to me its OK to work slow with reporting then not at all and from how I read the web site: http://www.gotreportviewer.com/ they seem to say that local is free. Please verify this 1st point then I ask a 2nd question. Are there references that I can add to a VS 2k5 project so a hosting service does not have to run " C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\ReportViewer.exe" THanks for any help. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using MXDW

  I would like to use MXDW to create XPS documents from any application. But I would like to automate the creation by automating the printing process. But when I try to do this it always comes up with the "save as" dialog box. I had the same problem using the MODI driver as well. Does anyone know how to get rid of that Any samples will be helpful. Hej Charlee, _______ > Why not writing your own XPSDrv filter driver connected to NULL port, and in your filter(Stream-In and Stream-out) you take over the job and write it into where ever you want to be. _______ do you have written such a filter on your own already and have tried out if that will work though I guess myself ...Show All

• Visual Basic Registration

  Help me find site where i can register my standard visual basic. net program Isnt there and option on the tools menu to register the product. Help -> Register Product which will then take you to the appropriate location. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Use clickonce to deploy unreferenced assemblies?

  In my projects, the main application will invoke other dlls through reflection. That seems to be a plug-in structure. When I try to publish the application, I can not see these unreferenced dlls in Application files List. What should I do to deal with these dlls use mageui.exe to make manifest file manually . see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc3tc5xx(VS.80).aspx ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista USB Communication Device Class (CDC) working with VISTA

  For the USB CDC devices, they work in Windows XP with usbser.sys. However, VISTA seems no longer support USB CDC, it does not take the XP's usbser.sys and .inf files. Is there any way to install the USB CDC driver in VISTA got it working! check out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837637/en-us all I did was add include=mdmcpq.inf to each [Driver.NT] in the .ini ...Show All

• .NET Development BindingList<T>

  Hello All. This one is a little bit gripe, but mostly WTF. I'm using a few BindingLists in a client database app and I've had to derive from BindingList<T> to be able to access the .Items collection. No big deal, but I'm wondering why in the world MS chose not to make this a public property, instead of protected. Granted, I'm pretty new to .NET, but I would think that access to that member ought to be part of the basic package. Again, taking care of it is so basic that I wouldn't even call it a work-around, but my WTF bug is yapping in my ear, so I thought I would put it out there and see what you folks thought. It's protected for a couple of reasons. Mainly it's for notification. A binding list exists so that you c ...Show All

• SQL Server Extremely long lines

  Hi, When i open a project in ssis show the message: "Document contains one or more extremely long lines of text. These lines will cause the editor to respond slowly when you open the file. Do you still want to open the file." I click Yes and my project open normally. Someone know why this happen My project is small, have one package with any imports excel files to Sql Server 2005. Thanks Andre Rentes Hi Have a look at this link from the forum. Hope it helps: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=313598&SiteID=1 Cheers, Grant ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute a package on a remote server

  I want to execute a package that's found on a remote server as MSDB. The execute package task locally is not allowing me because i don't have a login permission i guess because i'm not on the same domain and my user account doesn't have the neccessary privelages to access the server. However i can execute sql statements and data flow tasks on the same server. Isn't it possible to use the login and password of the sql server in away or another to execute the package Thanks ok u're right i thought it will execute on the remote server. then how to do that if i only gave them permission to access the sql server is there a stored procedure that can execute a package or should it be a dtexec ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there by any chance an unmanaged version of Light Weight Code Generation API?

  This would be exceedingly useful since the byte code generation I am doing I would like to continue to do in an unmanaged envrionment with the framework I already have in place. Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide. Thanks, Mike, for the quick response. I suspected this would be the answer. I'm quite new to this area, so I'm hoping you can help me validate that my general thinking is correct. I'm going to be generating byte code sequences in different combinations on a regular basis to create a variety of CLR methods. It seems I can do this dynamically with Dynamic Methods and then store a pointer to the resulting function in a delegate. Actually in one of Haibo Luo's posts where he compares ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to limit decimal places after a double?

  Hi, everyone E.g. double op, Q = 0.112233445566778899, H = 100.0, k = 20000.0; op = Q * H * k; Can the decimal places of "op" be limited to ..... let say 6 decimal places OMG. Tried your code and it didn't work. Thanks for the tip. Maybe because its a console application This works: double d1 = 0.10999300000001; d1 = Math .Round(d1, 6); Console .WriteLine( "{0:N20} rounds to {0}" , d1); Anyway, my line of code above works fine in my application. I would not need to assign d2 to a rounded off d1. I only need to control the decimal place after my calculation. Furthermore, I could even store it into my database. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Report - CRLF

  How do you make the report continue to the next line when you load fields during runtime The following is my code in Visual Basic using Studio 2005 Pro and the CrystalReports that came included (the newest version): Private Sub FeedHistory() Dim rpt As New FeedHistory Dim root As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.TextObject Dim feedings As DataTable Dim recordcount As Integer Dim x As Integer Dim rationdesc As String feedings = Me.FeedTableAdapter.DayFeedings(Date.Today) recordcount = feedings.Rows.Count rpt.Load() root = rpt.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects("txtDateOfReport") root.Text = Date.Today For x = 0 To (recordcount - 1) root = rpt.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects(& ...Show All

• SQL Server An attempt to attach an auto-named database ....\aspnetdb.mdf failed

  I've installed VWD 2005(Beta 2) and MS SQL Express and also followed the aspnet tour at http://beta.asp.net/guidedtour2 . After trying new webcontrol (login control) and trying to execute the page, I've got an error such as below: An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Demo\App_Data\aspnetdb.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An attempt to attach an auto-named database fo ...Show All