Dovikel's Q&A profile

• SQL Server SQL Server Express - Version and SP1

  Sorry if this is going over old ground. I am trying to establish which version of SQL Express I have (Sounds daft I know!) From Server Management app it tells me the following: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 9.00.2047.00 Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2000.085.1117.00 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) Microsoft MSXML 2.6 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.50727.42 Operating System 5.1.2600 Is SP! appropriate, or am I there already Best regards (ever so 'umble!) John Hi John, You have SP1 (Build 2047), so you're there. Another way to tell without looking for version numbers on all your files is to just ask S ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System During a merge, the "Building Change Summary" goes into infinite loop

  My machine hangs while resolving conflicts during a merge. Here's what is happening: I initiate a merge between 2 branches It correctly identifies the conflicting files. I select one of the conflicting files and click on "Resolve" button. The "Resolving Conflicts" window comes up saying that its building a change summary. This process of building change summary keeps spinning.....and my machine hangs. The resolving conflict operation never ends. Note: This only happens for some files and not others. I tried doing this from multiple machines and got the same result. Is this a known problem, bug Thanks. It cannot happen during a "tree" merge, i.e. whe ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Keyboard input

  I am a newbie for HD DVD world and very glad to find this fourm. As you know HD provides many new features for interactivity. So how about keyboard input and mouse operation I think many educational titles need them. Hi Skycore, Welcome to the forum! HD DVD allows both keyboard-like and cursor-like input. The main drawback is that for set-top box players, there is no easy way for a consumer to input text or move a cursor with the remote control. On a PC playback system, this will of course be easier. Are there any specific questions you have Like how to get input from the user in a title ...Show All

• Architecture DLL expertise

  Is there a book or consolidated web resource that provides advanced details of DLLs Some of the things I want to study in depth: 1) binding an executable to a specific version of DLL (that is, to resolve the addresses of imported functions at compile-time). 2) pre-mapping of DLLs to different fixed addresses. 3) relocating DLL code, as it is loaded from disk, can make it potentially non-shareable between processes. What exactly causes this 4) Can a DLL referenced in C++ code with #import be either explicitly or implicitly linked, or does it only permit implicit 5) In C++, when is it appropriate to use "#import" My own guess, regarding question 5, is that #import has two purposes: 1) To allow the registry to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions vs2005 express

  will not install hangs on setup.exe. No pop up to tell u its hung up just sit's there. tried the download don't work burn'dt to cd same thing whats up Maybe this blog entry is helpful for you http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/12/19/505724.aspx One solution mentioned, disable the network adapters when it is installing. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding ListView to infinite lists

  Out of pure curiosity I decided to try the following on a ListView since I heard it uses the VirtualizingStackPanel. I bound the ListView's ItemsSource property to a getter property defined as public IEnumerable<int> InfiniteList { get { int n = 0; yield return n++; } } It only displayed the first item. How does the ListView populate itself from a databound collection I thought any collection implementing IEnumerable would be fine. Cool question. The problem is in your iterator. It is only returning one value and then it's done. I changed it to: public IEnumerable<int> InfiniteList { get { int n = 0; while (true) { ++n; yield return n; } } } However, my CPU just s ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA Excel - Using The "For each" function with a string

  Hi, I have a sentence and I need to separate each word of the string. Thanks in advance for any help. Function UsingForEach() Dim myWord, mySentence As Variant Dim Found As Boolean mySentence = "Have a nice day" For Each myWord In mySentence MsgBox myWord Next End Function Use the Split function: sub test dim myWordsArray dim mySentence as string mySentence="Hello have a nice day" myWordsArray=split(mySentence," ") End Sub and then have alook at the elements of array myWordsArray Chas ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Rehosting Designer and name change through properties grid

  I have rehosted the designer and attached a property grid to it. I use the Name of the root activity as the name of the assembly when I compile. However, when changing the name of the root activity through the properties grid, the Metadata value for Name does not get updated. So when I compile, it compiles under the old name. The workflow does however get serialized with the correct name Is there something I missing with this or is this just a bug in WWF Original Name - CustomWorkflow New Name - SampleWorkflow Compile - Assembly Name = CustomWorkflow.dll Serialize to xoml. Deserialize xoml and Compile - Assembly Name = SampleWorkflow.dll Hi Nate, Are you still having this issue on t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Visual Basic 2005 Support in the future?

  Will there be support for Visual Basic 2005 (and future versions) added to XNA at some point in the future I'm in the process of learning Visual Basic, but might change my plans if there is no future support planned. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Question on XNA performance

  Before I begin, I'd like to say I enjoy the work Microsoft has put into XNA. As I develop for DirectX I find XNA a great tool for possible projects down the road. As I was reading more into the docs, a random question popped up in my head and I thought it was worth asking about here.   Before I get to my question though, I'd like to share how it related to OpenGL's early stage on Vista's platform. The intention for Vista was to have OpenGL 1.4 on there but layered with Direct3D underneath still making calls to the hardware. Esentially, making an OpenGL call would actually call a Direct3D call. Now, we're informed that if an ICD is installed, it will work without Direct3D making calls underneath. The response from developers ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to close an XBAP window?

  Hi, I'm opening an XBAP application in a new window. When the end user hits the Close button, I'd like to close that containing browser window. I can't seem to find a way to do this. Is it possible No, we do not expose any method to do that in an XBAP. I'm curious, why wouldn't the user just hit the close button the window Also, I suppose you could pull something off by have your Close button event navigate to an HTML page with no body but with Javascript that closes the window. This leverages the fact that WPF does allow top-level navigation away from the XBAP on user initiation. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Usercontrol inheritance stopped working in designer (VS 2005)

  Hi all.. I am creating an application that uses UserControl inheritance. I declared the base UserControl as abstract and derived from it 5 forms exist. When I used the designer, I could see visually all of the inherited controls. Until now. I don't know what happened but when I try to see any inherited control in the designer, the following error is shown : The designer must create an instance of type 'Gama.Tablas.Maestras' but it cannot because the type is declared as abstract. I haven't done any code change to the inherited forms. I tried by exiting VS and running it again, and the same happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think it is unuseful to post the code, because it is the same code VS creates when a new ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Report Server subscription e-mail format as MS Word

  I am wanting to set-up a subscription to e-mail my reports in MS Word format (either .doc or .rtf) and I do not have the option on my company's report server version. I have read that it is possible, though I don't have the option. Is this a change to report server, or maybe is our version not updated I can e-mail the report out in the following formats: XML File with report data CSV (comma delimited) TIFF File Acrobat (PDF) file Web Archive (default) Excel Let me know if I am just expecting too much, or if there is something that needs to be updated on our report server. Thank you, T.J. Bernard I have a SQL Report published to the report server, and set-up to e-mail t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Creating Account on Windows Mail

  Hi, What is the way to create the windows mail account using pop3 and smtp server name. I knew that I think IImnAccountManager could do this,but this interface has been deprecated now for vista and also login of creating account been changed in vista. Vista is creating one .oeaccount file for each account into "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Mail". folder. but here I am facing issue of setting binary password and setting as a default account. Please help me if anybody knows anything about this,that would be great for me to know something more about windows mail. Thanks, Prakash. ...Show All

• Visual Basic sorting the files in a folder

  how to sort the files in the folder according to the date modified/written i am getting the file (code snips) Dim dDir As New DirectoryInfo(pathIssueFile) Dim fInfo As FileInfo() fInfo = dDir.GetFiles("*.txt") is there any methods to sort the files [according to the file modified ] while Getfiles.. or any other methods.. avilable.. thanks in advance..... and potentially you'll want an output to verify that the array is now sorted. In this case displaying in a listbox for you to test out. Complete code - create a form with a button and a listbox and use the following code. Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim dD ...Show All