PaulKotlyar's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Where to get help regarding creating a macromedia flash kind of software

  I want to create a software like macromedia flash. but not with that muchfunctionality. Here is what i want..... i want to create a stage, where people can add objects, and then move them on the stage as they want, apply graphics modifications like changing color, size, rotate, etc etc, I know how to save the entire background of a form, but that will save it as a SINGLE object. and i cant separate the individual controls And the main thing is how to SAVE the file and then load it the next time what format should i use, and how can i know what information to put into the file that will save each and every object in that stage, and also the frames. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Visual Studio 2005 Pro & XNA Game Studio Express {Installation Problem...Need Help}

  I have installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with MS Visual C# 2005 and MS Visual Web Developer but when i try to install XNA Game Studio Express (Beta), a message box pops up saying that setup requires Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, i already have VS 2005 Pro Edition with Visual C# so whats the problem.... The biggest downer for me in regards to the Express flavor of Visual Studio is that you don't have integrated source control support. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Kim's site login

  Hi, Has anyone tryed to login to Kim's site ( www.identityblog.com ) useing a InfoCard I have but get no confomation, should I get some On login to the sandbox I get an error, why is this Thanks Luke ok, that must be it then, only downloaded everything last week, is there any site I can log into Or do I just have to wait ...Show All

• .NET Development suggestion for data manipulation code optimization..

  Hi, I am using Framework 1.1 There are some performance issues in my code... I have a datatable dtOrderSizeData that has following four columns in it. Market_key Customer_key Item_key Order_size I have to extract ordersize for each markets/customers/items. I have lookup tables for market, customer and item. Market look up table has 8 rows Customer look up table has 15 rows Item look up table has 44 rows In order to get ordersize for every market, strategy and item, I run a nested loop. For each(Market in MarketLookup) { Get Market_key For each(customer in customerlookup) { Get customer_key For each(Item in ItemLookupTable) { Get Item_key OrderSize = Filter dtOrderSizeData using market_key and customer_key and item_key to get the orders ...Show All

• SQL Server Is it safe to change SQL 2005 related service accounts' password with script?

  For our new SQL 2005 servers, I plan to create individual domain service accounts for components. For example, Myhdq\SVC-HDQSQL1-AGN for SQL Agent Myhdq\SVC-HDQSQL1-SQL for SQL service Myhdq\SVC-HDQSQL1-FTE for FullText Myhdq\SVC-HDQSQL1-IS for SSIS Myhdq\SVC-HDQSQL1-BRW for BRW However, my company requires password to be 25 char long and with many special characters. Also we have to change password frequently. To make it easy for us to manage these service accounts on many SQL servers, I plan to use script to change the password, instead of using the GUI SSMS. The script below seems to work for me. I can run it agains multiple SQL servers to change password quickly. Then use another script to restart the services. ...Show All

• SQL Server MSSQL 2000 Server vulnerability using SQL Server Management Studio

  When using SQL 2005 Management Studio Express, you can backup your database to anywhere on the local MSSQL 2000 server, which includes possibly overwriting critical system files. Users do not have this privilege when using Enterprise Manager to backup MSSQL 2000 databases. It appears that SQL 2005 Management Studio is allowing users to execute the extended stored procedure 'xp_availablemedia', but on MSSQL 2000 server only This vulnerability appears to allow any user logged into to the MSSQL 2000 server using SQL 2005 Management Studio Express, permission to overwrite any critical system file, when attempting to backup a database. This would be duplicated by logging into the server as a public user, right clicking on database -> task ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista batching : IPendingWork.Commit

  MSDN Says : " The workflow runtime engine calls the Commit method when its semantics dictate that the pending work in the work batch should be committed . When it reaches a commit point, the workflow runtime engine calls the Commit method on each IPendingWork object in its work batch; the workflow runtime engine passes the Commit method the collection of items associated with that IPendingWork object. Either all of the work in a batch succeeds or none of it succeeds. You should throw an exception if any of the work items passed to the Commit method in your implementation cannot be committed. Depending on your implementation, you may want to perform some rollback in your Commit method if it cannot commit its work items. If th ...Show All

• Visual C++ compiler cant find dll

  In vs2005 .net im trying to use 3 unmanaged plain .dlls written in c++ in a plani win32 app. Ok I have a folder at the path c:\folder and inside there i have folder\include and folder\lib. I added c:\folder\lib to the vc++ library references, and the c:\folder\include to the include references. Then in the c++ additional includes I have c:\folder\includes. In linker general additional library directories I have c:\folder\lib. input additional dependencies I have say file1.dll file2.dll file3.dll just like that. Finally I #include the 3 .h files for those. When I compile it everything is ok, but when it runs it says dll not found. Any clue why Linker compiler errors with .dlls suck. Any good tutorials for setting up .dll in .net ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help! Insert Text Into Rich Text Box

  I can't seem to figure out how to take text read from a listbox and insert it into a richtextbox. I thought this would work: Dim insertText As String = ListBox1.SelectedItem.ToString myPos = RichTextBox1.SelectionStart RichTextBox1.Text.Insert(myPos, insertText) What am I doing wrong Help!!!! Thanks! Thanks for the quick response! I should have explained better... My bad... I am populating RichTextBox1 with what amounts to a tab-delimited text file that I am reading from my UNIX server: Dim file As New System.IO.StreamReader(editFile) words = file.ReadToEnd() file.Close() Kill(editFile) Me .Hide() Dim frm15 As New Form15 frm15.RichTextBox1.Text = words frm15 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ArgumentOutOfRangeException in SubmitChanges

  Hi, I receive the following exception when trying to submit changes made in a database backed class. Test method UserManagerTest.MyTest threw exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index. at System.Collections.BitArray.Get(Int32 index) at System.Data.DLinq.SimpleTrackedObject.HasChanged(MetaDataMember mm) in C:\Program Files\LINQ Preview\Bin\Disasm\System.Data.DLinq.il:line 106219 at System.Data.DLinq.SimpleTrackedObject.<GetDataChanges>d__0.MoveNext() in C:\Program Files\LINQ Preview\Bin\Disasm\System.Data.DLinq.il:line 105226 at System.Data.DLinq.SimpleChangeDirector.GetUpdateCommand(TrackedObject tracked) in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Newbie setup problem

  I just installed TFS Workgroup and am attempting to add a group of users to it (...and to Sharepoint...and Reporting services). I began by following the "Walkthrough:Setting up groups and Permissions". I created a Windows group (but this group doesn't seem to appear under Local groups on my computer ) called TFSDevelopers and that seemed to work. Next I wanted to add this group to the list of Sharepoint Administrators.(Following "How To: Set Administrator Permissions for Windows Sharepoint Services"). I made it the "Set Sharepoint Administration Group" webpage. For the Group account name I typed in the same name I created earlier when I was setting up groups and permissions .i.e. <server name>\TFSD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Security on Project/team Server levels...

  I am a little bit confused with security what permissions should I assign to user in order to allow him/her to be a contributor or an administrator to the project I would expect that adding user account to the project contributors whould work but then users are rejected with error ".. not licensed user". It goes away when I add users to the licensed users on the Server level. And even if users are not contributors to the projects - they are allowed full access anyway. I am lost there. Also - why it doesn't allow me to add more thatn 5 licensed users to the Team Server Some kind of trial version or restricted number of licenses See Rob Caron's recent post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/ar ...Show All

• Windows Forms Strange Graphics Error

  I've built a WinForms C# app that implements MDI to allow multiple files to be loaded at once. Each form contains a tab control with 5 pages. All has been working fine until I added a custom user control to the first tab page. Now, if I open a file and leave it on that first tab page and then open a 2nd file, strange things start happening with the graphics of the application. I've taken two screen shots to better illustrate the problem: http://mwtech.com/downloads/personal/Strange_Graphics_Error1.jpg http://mwtech.com/downloads/personal/Strange_Graphics_Error2.jpg I'm thinking that the problem has something to do with the user control because the error does not occur if I first switch to another tab page of the open file. I wish I could ...Show All

• .NET Development Visual Studio Compilation Error - LC.EXE

  I am using Windows XP SP2, and working on MS VS .NET 2005. My application was working fine till I installed few windows updates. Now on compilation I get an error message - ""LC.exe" exited with code -1073741819." Someone told me that this could OS bit problem. I checked in My Computer->properties ->advanced->environment variables ->system variables->Processor_Architecture which states x86 over there. I am not able to compile my applications due to this problem. The application was working normaly. I think the software updates caused this problem, I even uninstalled the updates but then nothing helped. I am stuck on this. Someone please help. Highly urgent. Hi, I got the same ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Data Grid Question

  This is from the help Private Sub ResetSource() DataGrid1.SetDataBinding(adoPubsAuthors, "Authors") End Sub I would like to set my Data Source to be based on the results of two combo boxes in my form. I guess my question is, can it be set on a query vice a table. SELECT * from Ply WHERE LN = '" & cmbL.Text & "' and TN = '" & cmbT.Text & "'" OK. Not doubting you my friend. I will double check all my stuff. Thanks again for your assistance ...Show All