SW_skeets's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Timestamping at record create

  is there a way that when a record is entered into a table, that I can get it to timestamp itself Davids Learning No offense taken or given! I am using Visual Basic Express and SQL Express. I put the code into the table instead of the application. Which was wrong I guess, I got it to work just fine in the application. Should it work in the table If so where should I try Sorry if I sounded a little aggressive on the other post, changing platforms(throwing away all that was learned before)has got me just a little. If I can just remember not to associate what I know with what I am about to learn - I'll be alot better! Davids Learning ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Development using IDE and custom code

  Hey All, This is a very simple question and i was hoping with someone with a bit more development experience via an IDE might be able to help. I'm using Visual C# Express to develop an app and am loving it, i'm confused though as to how I can use both the IDE and write snippets of my own code. Take a very simple example. I have just embedded a TreeView component in my app and want all the nodes to be expanded by default. I can't seem to find the property in the Properties toolbox so i've gone in and written the line of code myself to expand all the nodes. Whenever I click back on the design view however, it kindly removes my code for me. Am I to expect that it's a case of using either the visual development tools or developing the code al ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't download

  I can't seem to download the file from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5677DDC4-5035-401F-95C3-CC6F46F6D8F7&displaylang=en&hash=9T3JM2%2bFHKDyVXbaT88d7Cz33EtkhxA4t6WyXP3cBx4pq3yOgl8PG6C3bjFR4TmGRCFprOV38A9cYKKSvO4r8w%3d%3d I keep getting "100%" done, but with 0 bytes downloaded. Can someone please fix the link Our offices are interested in this product. SvenC wrote: Try to clean your temporary internet file cache. Maybe the download failed once and now you are served from your local cache. -- SvenC No that doesn't work. All my co-workers have the same issue. Does the download work for anyone else ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Custom HTML Sandbox Powertoy

  Custom HTML Sandbox - Powertoy Module The Custom HTML Power Toy is designed to allow you to add a sandbox module to your Space in which you can enter text, link to images, and use other HTML features. The Custom HTML Power Toy supports all of the same HTML that you can enter into a Blog entry and can be moved around your Space as a separate module, just like a list or any other Spaces module. Additionally you can control the Title of this module and whether the borders for this module are displayed or not. Follow these steps to add this Power Toy to your Space: Log into Passport and Edit your Space. In the Address bar of your web browser add the text “&powertoy=sandbox” to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to get(set) cursor position in my service before logon?

  Hello, I noticed that an interactive service cannot run in vista any more. This issue is good to security, but bad news for me using an interactive service. My service is simple and needs only 2 functions - one is getting cursor position and the other is setting cursor position. These 2 functions can be implemented through one other user application after user logon. But before user logon, how can I do this job Thank you in advance. Sweating Egg;; Hello SucceedEgg, Actually I think I misread your question, you are wanting to get the cursor position before the user has even logged in. Which means there is no user session. Let me look into this a bit further, this might ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Co-ordinate Problems

  I've been building a toolbar styled program, but i'm a little lost as to how i can make the window disapear (it slides to the right). what i'd like to do is, when the mouse hits a certain co-ordinate on the scree the window withdraws...but i can only make it mesure the pixels within the program...not the desktop.....so i decided to ask for help from my peers. Good luck guys, and thanks for anything...even a concept helps! -Stalin    Everyone here is not a guy............. You need an API routine called "GetCuror" Public Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32.dll" ( ByRef lpPoint As PointApi) As Integer This is the datastructure for it: Public Structure PointApi    Public ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Windows XNA default template will not run (any suggestions?)

  Hey Everyone, I have installed all the required goodies on two computers; on the first, everything works as expected. On the second, I am running into an error when I attempt to run the compiled build of the default XNA game template. The error signature reads: EventType: clr20r3 P1: xnatest.exe P2: 1.0.0.0 P3: 44fa3432 P4: microsoft.xna.framework.game ... etc. The second machine had VC# Express on it since June, DX Aug 2006 SDK was installed prior to installing XNA GSE; the latest DX run-time is also installed. Also, I do have the .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable installed. The error appears to be related to the CLR, but any advice/suggestions would be super-appreciated. Thanks :) ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Missing Documents using SharePoint Designer backup/restore

  I'm using SPD to move sites from a server with WSS 3.0 installed (an inplace upgrade from WSS 2.0) to a different server running MOSS 2007. I use the backup/restore method detailled here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA100699391033.aspx But find that after migration some documents and folders are missing from document libraries. I can't see a pattern (in terms of date, author, document location or permissions) and it appears (obviously it isn't) random. This is causing me a headache as I have dozens of sites I need to move and want to be confident that I haven't lost documents. Any ideas You're help is appreciated. Andy. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Discrepancy in reports

  Hello, I created a report and added a suppression formula for 1 of the pageheader. The formula works well in the designer but not when i fire it of the asp page. On further investigation i found out that this was because the totalpagecount field(being used in the formula) was not being populated when the report was first rendered but when i went to the last record and then if i browsed again from the first record the formula starts working. The formula i used uses the totalpagecount variable which i think is causing the problem. I am not able to devise another formula replacing it. Basically this is what i have: PHa-Company Logo PHb-Header for Details sections fields GH1a-Order Num and associated records GH1b-Header for Details sections fi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I want to know all that I can about Visual Studio Express.

  1. What is visual studio express 2. Can I create Desktop Applications with it If not, Is there anything that Microsoft offers that will compile code into a Desktop Application 3. What codes does visual studio support I have no clue what visual studio is, so can someone tell me 1) Visual studio express is a FREE cut down NON TIME CONSTRAINT version of Visual Studio.NET 2005 Visual Studio express has these seperate IDE languages: VB.NET Express C# Express Visual Web Developer Express SQL Express VC++.NET Express   there is only so much you can do in the express versions, of course this is where the catch is. Things like Windows Mobile development cannot be done in the express editions as well a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to copy owc's chart to Excel?

  Thanks! owc = Office Web Component. This has nothing to do with VSTO, so it's unlikely you'll find an answer here. Try asking in the following group. And it would help others help you if you give more background for your question. For example: Are you asking about how the end-user can do this, or how it can be done programmatically http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.office.developer.web.components&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• SQL Server Quest for advanced queries

  I am pretty good at T-SQL as a .NET Application Developer, but now I need to take my skills of writing queries to the next level: the level required for Database Developers. I am sick and tired of writing simple inner join' s with a couple of where 's. I have a few books ("SQL Server 2000 Bible" and "The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL"), and Books Online are always available, so I have no problems with finding the answers. The problem is not with looking for answers, but with finding questions... Could someone please recommend me some source of good SQL-related questions, which would require writing complex queries (not just a few inner joins) A book (perhaps, some university's textbook with lots of advanced exer ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with enabling/disabling Services in Microsoft Management Console!

  I'm getting the following error message: WBEM error features not available. Upgrade WMI to a newer build. How do I do this This is not related to managed networking APIs. Please refer to other forums/usegroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities ...Show All

• Visual Studio SP1 for VS2005 doesn't update VSS2005, although it should.

  According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918526/ several fixes for Visual Source Safe 2005 should be included in Sp1 for VS 2005. But after installing the Sp1 I still have the RTM files of VSS 2005. What went wrong while installing SP1 >... > I have open the msp file... > Did i get it rigth that you have opend the msp file How did ypu do this, i am desperatly looking for a tool that ist able to extract the contents of an *.msp! Stefan ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Change World Matrix

  Is there any way to change the world matrix of an effect while rendering without another call to DrawIndexedPrimitive. I have a large VertexBuffer and don't want to stop drawing, change Matrix and start rendering again if not necessary. Thanks Look up the hardware instancing methods (SetFrequency, SetFrequencyOfIndexData and SetFrequenceOfInstanceData). They allow you to avoid repeatedly setting effect parameters by setting the data into a second vertex buffer and rewriting your effect code in such a way that the world matrix, or whatever else you decide to pack into the data, is pulled from that input vertex data. Ironically enough, the way it's implemented in the current release is (according to the docum ...Show All