J. Wind's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Technical Problem when transporting Project

  I have built a project on a PC running Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. I also installed this software onto my laptop (from the same CD and registered it fine too). But when i save the project from my PC and close Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition i sometimes get errors about the program (doesn't bother me that much and i just send the error reports via the prompt). I then copy the solution that i have developed in the Projects folder to my memory stick and copy that into my Laptop's Projects folder, but when i goto open Life.sln or Life.vbproj (one folder deeper) i get an error that says this (BTW, it's the same error both ways [so both times it's Life.vbproj]): Unable to read the project file 'Life.vbproj'. C ...Show All

• SQL Server Synchronizing SSIS Packages Calls

  I have several SSIS Packages which are called by few different applications. I need to make packages Mutually Exclusive, so that If one is running; calls to any other Package should be put on wait till the running one has finished its execution. What are the best ways to do this I would sincerely appreciate inputs in this. Phil Brammer wrote: As far as waiting or sleeping, why not have the application select against the control table before even kicking off the SSIS package My packages are scheduled by applications. Although scheduled times don't collide, but we don't know the time one package would take. May be a package execute lasts longer than expected and the scheduled time of another reaches while prior one is amid ...Show All

• Gadgets new XMLHttpRequest() - I'm at a loss

   I have programmed a gadget and it works great. I uploaded it to the Live Gallery and then I tested it and it doesn't work anymore. var xml_request = new XMLHttpRequest();  xml_request.open("GET", url, true);    <----- breaks here! the url variable is valid. It just stopped working all of a sudden with no code change. All the other gadgets in my sidebar can access the internet just fine. I have no idea why it just stopped working. If I replace it with: location.href = url; it opens the url in IE just fine. You should check out this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1283951&SiteID=1 It sounds like you may be having the same proble ...Show All

• SQL Server Aggregate() function not working when a measure is not specified.

  Hi, I am new to Analysis Services, having used it for less than a month. I do apologise if this problem is the result of a stupid newbie mistake, but I could really use some help. I am totally unable to get the Aggregate() function to work unless I specify the optional measure. I have build a cube from the Adventure Works DW database, based on the internet sales fact table and related tables. I used the wizard to design the hierarchy for the time dimension. Both of the following queries fail with the same error message: Query 1: WITH MEMBER [Time Aggregate Test] AS 'Aggregate({[Ship Date].[Calendar Year - Calendar Semester - Calendar Quarter - English Month Name - Day Number Of Month].[Calendar Year].&[2002].&[2 ...Show All

• Visual C++ Using CStringArray in ATL Projects

  I m having a issue in using CStringArray in ATL Projects . When i tried to include the header file [code] #include <afxcoll.h> [/code] the below error message is being generated fatal error C1189: #error : WINDOWS.H already included. MFC apps must not #include however i resolved this by inclduing the header file before any other include statement in stdafx.h. however i now get this linking error. error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in TEST.obj how can i resolve this i noticed that these errors do not occur with MFC projects. You seem to have duplicate main methods. Search where the other one is defined and get rid of it. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry ...Show All

• Visual C++ GetActivePane no longer works in VC++ 2005

  I used the CSplitterWnd::GetActivePane(int&, int&) function and it worked fine with VC++ 6.0. Recently I started the process of moving the code to the new VC++ 2005. Under VC++ 2005, the code compiled OK but it does not run because the GetActivePane function is somehow made obsolete (see afxext.inl). Any idea why So how do I get this function back or any ways to get around of this problem Thanks Ted I think new function requires pointers instead of references: GetActivePane( & x, & y) . So it seems you have to add " & ". ...Show All

• .NET Development XSDObjectGen 1.4.4.1 - Enum values having a "dot" character in them are incorrectly converted

  Hello everyone, I ran a search for this but found no related articles. When an XSD schema contains enum values which have a "dot" in them, XSDObjectGen V1.4.4.1 seems to misbehave by generating code that still contains dots: VB.NET 2003 won't compile enum values with dots in them. However, "space" characters get converted to underscore. Here's an example : Source schema: Source schema: <xs:simpleType name="SomeType"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:enumeration value="some.value1.with.dots.in.it"/> <xs:enumeration value="some.value2.with.dots.in.it"/> <xs:enumeration value="some.value3.with.dots.in.it"/> </xs: ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet or DataReader

  I'm in the process of creating a database consisting of a number of tables in SQL 2005.  The 3 main tables being tblAddress, tblContact, tblTransaction, all 3 contain Primary/foreign keys. The database is designed as the address details at the top of a form and a datagrid at the bottom showing all contacts within that address.  The last row of the datagrid contains a button and when pressed brings up another form that shows all the items that a contact has requested. When i started designing this i was using dataAdapters and datasets and using the binding navigator to navigate through records.  I attended the 2541-Core Data Access workshop and showed the lecturer what i was worki ...Show All

• .NET Development Generic Data Access

  It seems to me that you cannot use completly generic data access code in your applications using the DataFactories. I use stored procedures in my applications (both SQL Server and Oracle), However, the parameters in the stored procedures have to be different to retrieve results back i.e. REF CURSORS in Oracle. I have read a lot recently on Providers (SQLMembershipProvider,SQLRoleProvider etc) and was wondering if there would be any pros/cons to writting a custom provider for my data layer. So if my users are using SQL Server they would use an SQL Data Layer Provider, and if they were using Oracle they would use the Oracle Data Layer Provider. Is this a good/bad idea to plug my data layer in like this. What are peoples thoughts on this. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Print directly to the printer

  Dear all...^^. I have a program needs to print directly to a Zebra TLP 2844-Z barcode printer. I tried the codes in http://support.microsoft.com/ scid=kb;EN-US;322090, but an error occurred when i run it, as follows: A call to PInvoke function 'test!test.RawPrinterHelper::OpenPrinter' has unbalanced the stack. This is likely because the managed PInvoke signature does not match the unmanaged target signature. Check that the calling convention and parameters of the PInvoke signature match the target unmanaged signature. May I ask if any one has any other idea of printing directly to printer in VB2005 Thanks Raymond Hi Richard, Actually, I have removed the DoEvents in my project. I just want to make sure that everyt ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express and Windows Update

  Will SQL Express SP2 automatically come down in the Windows Update Service or will we have to update our users I seem to remember seeing something somewhere that it will. Does anyone have a link to an authority or official notice on this Thanks, Pat ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Text looks blury and hard to read.

  I need to place lots of text in different places in world space. I have tried a few things but they all look rubbish. Worst is using the 3D Text which puts the text on a mesh. I then tried to use 2D text (using LPD3DXFONT) to improve things, which looks great if you place it in screenspace but as soon as I flag the sprite I am drawing it on with D3DXSPRITE_OBJECTSPACE the text goes all blury. I also tried doing something similar to what a previous person in the forum asked how to do (i.e drawing to a texture then placeing the texture on a primative) but that also looks blury. Any ideas guys PS I am working in unmanaged DirectX9 with C++, but if you know in managed/c# its easy to translate (usally if we have the functions in unmanaged) ...Show All

• .NET Development can I install .NET Framework 1.1 alongside 2.0?

  Hi, I have .NET framework 2.0 on my machine. and I just bought a sony ericsson w810i which comes with software to transfer music form the computer to the cellphone. but when I install this software called 'Disc2Phone' it says it needs .NET framework 1.1 and prompts me to install it. I contacted SonyEricsson and they say they don't have a version that uses framework 2.0. they suggested installing 1.1 alongside 2.0 is that ok I am bit wary of sonyericsson's 'suggestions' considering they don't have a newer version of their software even though its more than a year since 2.0 was released! so, I thought i'd ask the MS guys...can I have both 2.0 and 1.1 on the same machine and not have my whole computer come crashing down :) ...Show All

• .NET Development Upload Data To HTTPS via Proxy problems

  ok.. I've seen quite a few questions about this issue but no responses, so let me try again. I'm trying to upload some data via the request headers to a page on a secured site, the page is accessed through the office proxy. Through IE and the appropraite proxy settings I can browse to the page just fine. When I use a webclient to call downloaddata on the page I get the webexception "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server." which has an inner IOexception of "The operation is not allowed on non-connected sockets." from what I could trace out of the headers I can see that IE sets this when requesting the page Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive But when I call it th ...Show All

• Visual C# upload a file to VSS

  Hi, Is there away to create a new project (folder) and upload new files to VSS database, or upload new files to an existing project. Not checkin a file. But upload a new file. Thank you You have to first add that file manually to source safe and then continue with check in and check out. I'm not in the office right now so I can't remember exactly. But I think that when a new file is added to a project which is in source safe, a + sige is shown with that file's Icon in Solution Explorer which means that file is not yet added to the source safe, You can right click that file and select "Add to Source Control". Then that file is uploaded automatically. I'm sorry if i'm wrong but what i rem ...Show All