Evan Mulawski's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting data from a web site.

  Hi I'm just wondering how you can get data from a web page. This might be a little hard to explain what I want, but Ill try. Okai, I want to make a program access a .txt file or any other type of file, and get the content of the file, and then paste it into a text box in the program. Anyone have any ideas for that its because you are declaring the variables within the try block so its only within that scope. you need to either declare the variables outside or in this case close the reader within the try block... Try Dim theRequest As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://stigern.net/Version.txt") Dim theResponse As WebResponse = CType(theRequest.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse) Dim theReader As New StreamReader(theRespo ...Show All

• SQL Server Any one help me out!

  Hi I have a requirement in SSRS where in i need to generate a report in which initially there will be one record (say, a manager of a department and some values corresponding to him ) now i need to provide a drill-down on this employee(mamager) such that the next level of employees reporting to him should be displayed with all the parameters and this has to continue till the leaf level employee. Thanks in advance. will the number of levels be known in advance or is it parent-child RS is not very good at dealing with an arbitary number of grouping levels. One way to do it would be define a report with a manager parameter that renders a table of subordiantes. Then in a master report, nest t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 28940.TFServerStatusValidator: Calling the Team Foundation Server ServerStatus Web service failed with 503 HTTP

  I'm having the same error as others. This is my 4th time reinstalling EVERYTHING, and I did follow the directions carefully. I did notice the following oddities: In my IIS Manager, under web Sites, Default Web Site and Sharepoint Central Administration are both stopped. TFSWSS Is also stopped with an Unspecified Error. If I go to http://localhost I get Service Unavailable. (I do have a proxy server, but I removed it to double check that it wasn't the problem-and set up the localhost as a local address to not use the proxy) Any help would be greatly appreciated, Joey Here is part of the error log: 12/28/06 16:51:34 DDSet_Status: Process returned 0 12/28/06 16:51:34 DDSet_Status: Commandline '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Stud ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 automatically checks out all c++ projects (but not C# projects), when working offline

  Hi all, I use VS2005 and clearcase on my notebook. I have a snapshot view so that I am able to work when I'm not in the office. When I open a solution in this snapshot view, when I'm not connected to the company network, VS2006 tells me that it can't connect to Source Control and asks me if I want to 1. Work temporarily offline 2. Remove all Source Control information 3. Manually change Source Control   I choose "work temporarily offline". I have a solution that contains several c++ projects and several c# projects (all converted from VS2003) and when I choose to work temporarily offline, VS2005 automatically checks out all the c++ project files, although there is no change for these files. I always have to undo t ...Show All

• Architecture Microsoft Architect Insight Conference - UK EVENT

  I'm going to this one: ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista "The owner SID on a per-user subscription doesn't exist"

  I'm trying to convert this one AVI (XVID) to DVD using Windows DVD Maker. Every single time (tried it 4 times), I get this error at 99.0%: The owner SID on a per-user subscription doesn't exist What is this error I tried with multiple DVD, and still get this. I'm using an NEC DVD-/+R burner (don't know the exact model). I'm having the same problem. Is there not a solution I am trying to burn MPEG-2 files to DVD using Windows DVD Maker. Please help! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rants on XNA 1.0

  This is my first reaction when I installed and tried the 1.0 of XNA. To summarize my feeling: it's still 95% for XBox and no nearer to replace the old MDX 1.0. So I decided not to migrate from MDX to XNA though I want to do that very much. I feel like MDX 2 more; amen to MDX 2. The hardest issue for me is the content pipeline, which is very necessary, but the workflow is fixed and it assumes the contents are only built before the program runs. The helper functions wrapping D3DX can only be used with types in the content pipeline. I have to utilize the full content pipeline just for generating something dynamically, of course with significant performance cost. Or I have to write those D3DX utilities my self. Currently I don't have a good id ...Show All

• Windows Forms Newbie - Using Panels

  Thanks in advance I have built an application that has a treeview menu down the left and a variety of panels on the right. When a menu item is selected the panel is shown and can be used. However once I have completed a panel (combination of combobox and textboxes) and submitted the results (ie. generated an INSERT and updated Database), the form freezes. I don't seem to be able to change the values in the comboboxes. Do I need to reset the control to enter the next record and if so how PS - I get the impression from other posts that I need to change focus back to the TreeView Panel. Clear the panel and then re-add. Can someone give me an example of code to move the focus to another panel and then clear the current panel ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to GetLastInputInfo from pocket pc

  I use Visual Studio 2005. I need to capture the time of the last user input. Or user32.dll is not in windows system. Someone can help me ...Show All

• Visual Studio deployment ON OS win98

  wen i try to deploy my application on win 98 it works perfectly but non of the crystal reports works ,,,, don't know y !!! does any buddy know no i m using the version tht came in packege with visual studio.net 2003... i don't know the version. actually i m the beginer , don't know many things. i have solved the above written prob. but now itz giving a new error .........." Invalid keycode " now wat is this the situation is same..... whole application is working perfectly but none of the crystal reports are running. no i m not using any merge modules...... i hv just placed a report viewer on a form and on form load event . . . . crystalreportviewer1.reportsource ...Show All

• Visual C++ class designer for Visual c++

  Will there be a class designer for visual C++ hope microsoft will provide one in their next version. why do microsoft push more on .net languages more business and market I guess !!! saju wrote: Will there be a class designer for visual C++ hope microsoft will provide one in their next version. why do microsoft push more on .net languages more business and market I guess !!! Unfortunatelly it won't be in Visual Studio 'Orcas' (or it's very unlikely), as explained here . ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista The new kid on the n-tier layer block?

  Hi, Is WF the new kid on the block when it comes to designing data-driven n-tiered application I'm not sure but I'm testing the water a bit this week and besides a few teething problems this looks a great foundation to address one of that last bastions of application development - creating re-usable "business processes". However, I'm still a little foggy as to how I should actually go about designing when it comes to which layer should do what. I have a UI, Business, DAL and Server structure - very typical For example the UI populates business entities and the business entities do the Save() and so on ... Now how does WF fit in here Should WF become involved in persistence or should it ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Excluisve access

  I have a VFP 6.0 application that is used simoultaniously on many computers over a network. Sometimes, when a certain form is opened, it returns a error that says that some component can't be loaded for it is used in exclusive mode by another user. Problem is, I can't figure out what it is that's beeing opened as exclusive. Anyone knows what I should be looking for   CFutino wrote: The problem is my system (and therefore the error) is in protuguese. It translates to something like 'Impossible to perform because other user is using some component exclusivelly'. It does not say which component.   Isso e um problema, ne What seems to be happening is that not everything in your pro ...Show All

• SQL Server Something like a SQL Union in MDX?

  I'm slowly getting my head wrapped around MDX, but I haven't absorbed enough yet to even speculate whether this is possible: I'm looking for something like a SQL Union, but in an MDX query. Basically, I've got a whole family of queries that each produce similar-shaped results (same number of dimensions, same data types, but different underlying cube dimensions). I'd like to combine those results together (i.e. project all of the coordinate spaces into a single unified space via a mapping of dimensions - just like a SQL union does). The reason for combining them together: I need to sort the whole composite list and choose the Top few. Is there a general approach to getting UNION like behavior in MDX I can post more details about t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Touch panel in Manged DirectX

  Hi! I almost finished game for our company. It is based on FlatRedBall library and it using now MDX 1.1. Currently I have 2 big problems with this game: 1) Game will use touch panel as for user inputs, but its behavior is strange. Looks like mouse pointer on steroids (100x) more sensible. 2) Graphic card – I described this problem in separate thread. I need help (and ASAP) – if I will not resolve current problems I need to switch to Flash … Kind regards from Poland Mateusz Kierepka Well, the screenshot in the page linked to above has widely different positions (motions actually) reported. It's hard to say what the problem is, it could be a problem with the sample, DirectInput or the drive ...Show All