pblecha's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Need help to make a strategic decision.

  Hi, We are going to start a large SmartClient project. The project is due to Q2 2007. We love to adopt WPF and .NET3.0; however, we cannot afford to develop the whole UI by typing XAML code. We need to trust and rely on CIDER. We have three options: Option 1) WPF: Drop the classic VS2005 WinForms designer and use CIDER to develop the complete UI layer. That means CIDER has all features that WinForms designer provides for us. Option 2) Hybrid: Consider WinForms designer as the base UI designer. Then Use CIDER + Manual XAML code where WPF brings some new values Option 3) NO WPF: Do not use WPF for this project. Wait until WPF has a mature IDE support. Since this is a very st ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista "internet explorer cannot download / from help"

  this is what I get when I open help: (on vista RC2) "Internet explorer cannot download /from help..." Internet working well and is enabled. How to fix it Thanks for that file, i also use dreamweaver, and this messed me about for hours. all happy now, i can access my Speech Refference Card ...Show All

• SQL Server What does AverageOfChildren aggregate function in SSAS 2005 actually do?

  Folks, Have any of you been playing around with SSAS 2005 to have worked out what the AverageOfChildren aggregate function actually does I was expecting it to do the equivalent of a simple AVG() with a GROUP BY in SQL, but it seems to be doing something additional to that. No-one in the team I work in has been able to work out what exactly it is doing. Any info would be appreciated! Cheers, Kenneth Hi Kenneth, As the above discussion suggests, the AverageOfChildren is semi-additive, ie. it acts like a "sum" across all dimensions except time. For example, in Adventure Works if you add an AverageOfChildren measure on the OrderQuantity field of FactSalesSummary, its value matc ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. what comes with XNA

  Is XNA a complete set of tools physics enigine, graphics eningine, coding software, all put together or just a compiller The Documentation is made to help people get started with XNA and Game Development easily. It will help however if you understand programming concepts or even more if you understand how to program in C#, I left you some references in your other thread to help get you started. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic VBA or .NET?

  Hi, I'm planning on making an add-in for Powerpoint 2003, a customized toolbar that would extend the functionality of Powerpoint (custom color palette, dynamically creating slides, etc.). Would you recommend using VBA or .NET (VSTO and Visual Studio 2005) Thanks, Pete Could you guys tell me if I wrote this add-in using .NET would that work for Office for Mac and/or OpenOffice I can't imagine it would. Thanks. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Word: Normal.dot template menu bar

  I have programmatically modified the Normal.dot menubar (adding more dummy options), and I want to get rid of all of them, permanently, to return to the original state and appearance of Normal. dot.... How can I achieve that, please thanks Hi I am using MS Office 2003 Professional and the version of word is 11.00 I don't know if this is important, prior to installing MS Office 2003 there was, on the computer, a trial version of MS Office 2003 Standard Edition. I used Add/Remove to uninstall this programme. Thanks Tony ...Show All

• SQL Server Restart package automatically

  Hi there, I would like to be able to automatically restart a package if it fails with a certain error. This is due to a job that fails every now and then due to a loss in connectivity to the database (when run again no issues). I know how to catch the message, but is there i way that i can in a script task or some other task restart the whole package when moving into the OnError event for the whole package. I know this isn't a great way to do it, but its just temporary until we can isolate the network issue that is causing the loss in connectivity. Thanks You would have to restart the packge host, not from within the package itself. A quick way of doing this would be to use a SQL Agent Job ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Save project as

  Is there any way to save a whole project as a new name (new project) - not just Form1 I miss a file menu point like "Save project as". A VB project consist of an awful lot of files in nested libraries so if you want to test a modification it would be very nice to be able to save the entire project under a new name. Ya Know.... I don't feel the options are all that bleak. When I rename a project, I rename it at the top of the solution explorer, then I go to Project | Properties and rename the name space and assembly name and if I want I can then rename the directory that it's in. That doesn't seem so hard to me. ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with Windows service and C#.Net code

  Hi, I am facing one critical problem.I have created one Windows service. I am calling a function of C#.Net class file by using remoting , say ProcessRequest(); from that windows service. Now, while executing the function ProcessRequest() if exception occurs, it is handled in the function. After this I do not want to proceed further and control is returned back to the calling component, i.e. Windows service code. After returning back to windows service, control is going in to the catch block of windows service . To remove this problem, I used ‘Delegate’ to call function of C#.Net class file i.e.ProcessRequest(). When I tested this modified code on Windows XP, it is working fine, i.e. control is not going in to the catch block ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ActiveX installation

  We have an application that periodically downloads and installs new updates and plug-ins that can be implemented as ActiveX controls. Once ActiveX control is downloaded it is registered and plugged into application's components. Does the application need to elevate to administrator privileges to perform this operation or there are some settings where admin can allow standard user to install and register ActiveX controls coming from specific place ActiveX Installer Service provides mechanism that lets administrators define the Host URLs from which standard users can install ActiveX controls. Can we use this service programmatically (without IE7) Thanks for any help you can provide. Dmitry. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Why /Mt & /Mtd options differences cause my release version to crash?

  Hello The Debug version of my software works fine. when i compile it into a release version. Some of my objects seems to be destroyed where it's not meant to be, creating memory access error. The objects themself seem to be existing but some of their variables seem to have been deallocated for some reasons unknown to me. I found out that compiling my project with the option of multi threaded 'debug' runtime library instead of a normal multi threaded runtime library solves the problem. Could you tell me what are the difference between these two type of library It would help me to find if there is any fixable error in my code. Thanks a lot. // Get current flag i nt tmpFlag = _CrtSetDbgFlag( _CRTDBG_REPORT_FLAG ...Show All

• Visual C++ What of "CLR via C++/CLI" Book?

  I was really looking forward to CLR via C++/CLI by Jeffrey Richter and Julian Templeman, which ( according to amazon.com ) was due for release on November 29, 2006. My Amazon order was cancelled, and the Microsoft Press link no longer exists. https://www.microsoft.com/library/errorpages/smarterror.aspx/404 aspxerrorpath=/mspress/books/9147.aspx Does anyone know if the book release was cancelled or postponed This is what I was looking forward to: Book Description Master the common language runtime (CLR), and reap the benefits of more efficiency and reusability, better resource management, better administration and deployment, and more robust security. Targeted to advanced developers and software designers, this book takes you ...Show All

• Visual C++ CAtlHttpClient Navigate Failing in SOAP Call

  Hello, I'm running VC 8 and building an MFC application that is statically linked to MFC. I've created a SOAP proxy class using DISCO.EXE and SPROXY.EXE.  When using the generated class to access the remote Web Service functions, the function CAtlHttpClient::Navigate function is called.  This function is failing repeatedly on the call to CAtlHttpClient::ParseStatusLine due to an erroneous report of ERANGE after calling the strtol() CRT function.  I've examined the returned HTTP packet data and the HTTP status code is "200", which is small enough to fit into a long. When I actually step into the CRT library function for strtol, the error code is never being set (the conversion is successful).  However, in the CA ...Show All

• Windows Forms Duplicate Entries in Start Menu

  We have created a ClickOnce app that runs online/offline. When we republish a new version, and users download, the Start Menu just keeps appending new versions of the app. Each time, the only thing that changes with respect to the publishing is the version number. Is there any way around this Why does this happen I've looked all over the place, but have not been able to find any info about this... For example, after a bunch of updates my Start Menu may look like this: Start --> Programs --> Program Name --> Program Name Program Name - 1 Program Name - 2 Program Name - 3 Program Name - 4 etc... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MC2 Editor

  I can not see the MC2 Editor being part of the XNA project. When I build/rebuild MC2 the editor files are not updated. What do I do wrong or How can I make changes and updates to the MC2 editor I'm sorry if it seems like I'm hijacking this thread. I just thought it more appropriate to keep the number of MC2-specific threads as low as possible. It seems I've stumbled across yet another MC2 Editor bug. When starting the editor and selecting a New Map 60x60, I was more than a bit surprised to see "newmap.tga" ending up at ~9MB while"newmap.burnin.tga" was at the more appropriate size just over 2MB. Set a breakpoint at CreateScaledColorMap() in EditorData.cpp, and it will all become ...Show All