mattdawg's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Allow end-user to modify rdlc file with wysiwyg tool

  How can i give to my end-users the ability to modify rdlc report definitions created by me, using a wysiwyg tool Of course they are not developers, so they don't own Visual Studio. Thanks. Currently this is not possible; however we are aware of this requirement and plan to address it in a future release. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Simple BreakOut Demo (Source included)

  Well there it is, my first ever C# and XNA program I hope it'll help some of you. Download BreakOutDemo.zip v0.31 Thank you MS for that wonderful gift that is the XNA. I got impatient and re-installed 7zip (all your fault!). Nice game, and thanks for including the source - it'll be good to see how you did things :) ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do VC++ set the Size and 'Topmost' of a console window?

  I looked up MSDN and found the API function ' SetConsoleWindowInfo ' ,which can resize,according to MSDN, the size and position of a console window, however,I tried it and found it doesn't work at all.I don't understand why the API doesn't work on my PC(IDE: VC++ 6.0 OS:WinXP SP2). Some books says the API function, SetWindowPos ,can changes Z order of a child, pop-up, or top-level window.I want to set the console window as the topmost window,so I use the API function ,but I don't know how to get the handle of a console window,I tried to get a console handle by the sentence, consoleHnd = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); Unfortunately,I got the following error message: error: argument of type "HANDLE" is incompatible ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Waiting for completion of more than one activity in a state machine workflow

  Dear all, I have a state machine workflow which needs to trigger a number of activities in parallel, wait for them all to complete, then move to the next state. The most relevant post concerning this was on a thread entitled "How can a "fork" (parallel split) pattern be implemented in a WF state machine workflow " back in September this year. Steve Danielson of Microsoft said: In order to get the sample working with multiple sub-workflows being invoked at the same time I would suggest updating the sub-workflow so that it takes a little time to complete. One option would be to add an interim state that has an event driven with a delay followed by a set state pointing to the completed state. Another woul ...Show All

• Visual C++ "Go to definition" is freezing the IDE!

  I rely heavily on the "Go to definition" context menu command to speed navigation through my code. However, on one of the development systems, using that command consistently freezes the IDE. When I open the Task Manager, devenv.exe is consuming 50% of my CPU, but isn't doing anything. It just sits there with the waitcursor endlessly. I've let it sit for up to an hour before... I've already uninstalled and reinstalled VS 2005, but I am still seeing this annoying behavior. I figured that I'd apply for the SP1 beta, but that form is no longer working. Can anyone on the MS team send me a hotfix for this, if it exists Thanks, Dave You can download "Debugging Tool Kit for Windows" from htt ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to record from 'Wave' or 'Stereo Mix' in Vista?

  Hi all, I wrote the following question in other forum space but some MSFT guy told me to try this forum for my question. I hope I could get right answer as soon as possible here. On Windows XP or earlier, I could capture the audio stream to the speacker not from the external device (maybe endpoint device in Vista) like the microphone. In other words, D irectSoundCapture was able to capture from the selected recording device/source line in the Windows record control utility or mixerXXX APIs. And if "Wave Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix" or something similar was selected as recording source line, D irectSoundCapture was able to record the audio stream to the speacker. However, I could not find the way to do tha ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ resource editor problem

  I have a rather big .rc file and when I open it with the resource editor of Visual C++ (both with Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio .net 2003) MSDEV.EXE crashes (GPF). The strange think is that if I change the path name of the .rc file, some time it works..... The same think happens with other computers, all with the last SP6 of Visual studio 6. I cannot find any info about this kind of problem in the web, can you help me I can supply to you the .rc and resource file, if you like test it thank you for your time Stefano Stefano, please report the issue at http://connect.microsoft.com/Main/content/content.aspx ContentID=2220 Also, reply to this thread with a link to your bug entry fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) http://localhost:8080/service1/mex not working

  Hi I am trying to access the metadata by the link:http://localhost:8080/service1/mex but it is not working. The error it gives is that cannot download mex from the specified location. my Config file is as follows: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " > < configuration > < system.serviceModel > < services > < service name = " Example.service1 " behaviorConfiguration = " metadataSupport " > < endpoint contract = " Example.IService1 " binding = " wsHttpBinding " /> < endpoint address = " mex " binding = " mexHttpBinding " contract = " IMetadataExchange " /> ...Show All

• SQL Server How to truncate complete database?

  Hello, I want to truncate all tables present in the particular database, Is there any simple way to do it or do I have to do it on individula basis (table by table) regards When you say truncate, do you just want to remove all records from all tables The easiest way would be to script out the tables with drop and create statements. To actually truncate the tables, you could write a cursor to loop through the table names and to run dynamic sql to truncate each table. I hope this helps. ...Show All

• .NET Development Get AbsoluteRange of a NamedRange Using OLedb, Excel

  I am currently using OLEDB to read the data from excel using C#. I have a scenario in which i will pass a NamedRange and I need to get the data from the NamedRange and also I need to read the data from the cell adjacent to the NamedRange. What I was planning to do is to get all the data in a dataset and then if I have the absolute range information of a NamedRange, i can filter the dataset based on that and i can read the cell adjacent to it from the dataset. But now am not able to find any way to get the absolute range of a named range. I have tried using " GetOleDbSchemaTable", but it will provide the absolute range information only if there are header information in Excel.Else it will return default values F1, F2..etc. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem move my Add-in from VS 2003 to VS 2005

  Hello, I have a Add-in it was built in VS 2003. Now I am moving it to VS 2005.  It is written in C#. I use the the following article to guild me to move it to VS 2005. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165634.aspx I got the the following error message when I click it from Add-in Manager: The Add-in "MyAddin" failed to load or caused an exception. Error Message: Unspecified error. Error number: 80004005 Does any body knows what couse this problem Thanks for any help, Haiping       You should not change the Visible property of a command bar which is a context menu ("Code Window"). To enable/disable your buttons, implement IDTCommandTarget.QueryStatus. See: ...Show All

• Visual C# _/ Enable Application Framework, where'd it go?

  Why is enable application framework under project properties available in VB, but not C# or am I missing something Actually, I was hoping to disable it.  I don't want my application to have that WinXP look for my menu strip.  I don't like how it has all that open space for a picture because it doesn't look professional and I don't want to draw any images for the menu strip either. ...Show All

• SQL Server Beginner's questions

  Hello, I have two database servers that I am interested in sending messeges between them. I am not interested in security or encryption at this point, only a simple message sending and recieving. Can someone please provide simple scripts for object setup (certificates, queues etc) and message send and recieve a link to such a script will be great as well. I am just a bit lost understanding all the new concepts (certificates, service, service binding.....) Thank you I. I'd recommend to use certificate based authentication for the endpoints, is easier to get it right. The error you see is because the NTLM/Kerberos authentication ends up with the anonymous login. The best document to s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Halting another installation with C#

  Lets say I have my program running in the background and I execute a setup.exe file and then the program halts the "install setup" showing information about what I'm about to install How can I see the difference between a setup install and lets say a normal application like winamp when it is executed Basicly I just want my program to take control whenever I try to install something new to my computer. Is it possible Appreciate all the help I can get! / David Sorry, you'll never get this to work reliably. There's nothing special about an install program that makes it stand-out from a normal program. Other than maybe its name, which is not guaranteed to be "setup" or "instal ...Show All

• Architecture what is the matter in using guids in a smart client against server scenario?

  I am developing an application which consists in a smart client against a Server -with oracle db-. We use typed datasets to manage data between them. Our first aproach is using autonumeric, but we have found lot of issues: what happends when the pk comes back changed to the client and a few more. I think guids were invented for this scenario, but i would want to know your opinion about them. Specially performance issues. Thanks in advance. This kind of boils down to the age old question concerning what strategy you should adopt when generating primary keys. There are essentially two approaches you can take. You can let the RDBMS manage the generation of the primary key, using autonumeric in Oracle PL/SQL or identity in T-SQL. ...Show All