pisiiki's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Relationship from CompartmentItem and port shapes

  Hi all! I want to be able to create RelationShip from a CompartmentItem to a ModelElement. Since this is (as I understand it) not supported "out.of-the-box". I have hope that Port Shapes can help me in this task. I do however have some difficulty in finding information on the port shapes concept. So I would appreciate if someone could shed some light over this concept or maybe guide on where to read about it Kind regards, Diego Hi Alan! You understood my question/problem perfectly and your alternative suggestion was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. Diego ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting an Image from a WebDocument

  I've been experimenting with web page manipulation and I've come across a small problem. I want to be able to copy the contents on an Image that is on the web page into my own picturebox control. I can locate the image, using the documents Images collection, but the collection only contains HTMLElements, not the actual image contained in the element. Has anyone managed to grab the individual image from the document Any ideas you have would be appreciated, thanks. If you are working offline, the image will be stored in the temp internet files but this one would be harder to get, since files stored in the temp internet files are uniquely renamed etc.... Interesting one..... ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContract issues - output doesnt match schema

  My idea was to create a Web service operation that returned an instance of a published XML type. I figured this would be a good demonstration of the benefits of a DataContract. So I got hold of an opml schema and simplified it (see OPML.xml for sample of desired output) Ideally, I thought there should be a way to convert the schema into a .NET class, and I believe this can be done via svcutil, but it's not obviously available from the VS GUI. So I wrote the class by hand (see DataContract.cs). I then added ServiceContract.cs and Service.cs. It seems there's no way to test the service without a client in WCF (this seems a step backwards to me, as a built-in test page is provided with all other Web service environments) so I built a ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is IsNetworkAlive reliable?

  The following code fails on about 50% of the Vista systems (32 or 64) I have tested in with. IsNetworAlive often returns true after detaching the network cable. Oddly I noticed on one system it returned false about 5 minutes after removing the cable. Can it be that slow Any thoughts Code Follows........................................ DWORD dwConnectionFlags(0); BOOL bIsNetworkAlive = IsNetworkAlive(&dwConnectionFlags); if(bIsNetworkAlive ) { callReadinessElement.callReadinessObjectStatus = CRS_Ok; callReadinessElement.callReadinessStatusDetails = CRD_Okd; } else { callReadinessElement.callReadinessObjectStatus = CRS_Stop_Error; callReadinessElement.callReadinessStatusDetails = CRD_NoNetwork; } ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) IE7 Issues with WPF/E but only local

  This is a strange one... I've been working on WPF/E for a bit at home, and no problems running or building anything... well... no technical issues anyway :) Last night I downloaded Michael Schwarz' Animated Gear code , and it would NOT run on my workstation... XP SP2, IE7... it DOES, however, run from the site on the same IE7 box. I tried all of my code locally, including the one I was just working on the nght before to see if something happened, and everything was fine EXCEPT that code. I pretty much shotgunned his html and replaced everything from current code in another .html file and it still didn't work. I replaced the top two lines of the xaml with code from mine even though they appeared to be the same and it didn't work ...Show All

• Smart Device Development 0x8007000E (E_OUTOFMEMORY)

  Hi, I am getting 0x8007000E (E_OUTOFMEMORY) when iam working with com components in .NetCF.I am using netcf v1.0.So how to solve it Regards, Senthil. Hmm… try using less memory Yes, this is not very precise but that as good as it gets considering you've provided no information at all on what are you doing. Consider reading this and posing more information, e.g. which COM is that (COM objects vs. COM port) and how exactly you’re using them as nether are supported natively by NETCF V1. ...Show All

• .NET Development Could not find installable ISAM.

  I got the "Could Not find installable ISAM error" while uploading an Excel file in my application. The connection string uses the Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider with following parameters Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Excel 8.0; Extended Properties=HDR=No; IMEX=1. I checked the registry entries as mentioned in the "Retrieving Data from Excell 2003-Could Not Find installable ISAM" post and even registered the "Msexcl40.dll" again. Even then I got the "Could Not find installable ISAM error". So I restarted the IIS Server. Even then the problem persists. What else could be the problem Thanks and Regards, Little I see some problems with the syntax. Tr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Comparing 2 images

  hi all, I want to check whether the 2 images are same or not. Wht can b done Should i read the content of the image, coz, i have to compare if the user have rotated the image left or right. Any help would b greatful. Thanx in advance.   Ilya Tumanov wrote: You need to compare image sizes. If not the same, images are different. Then compare all pixels one by one. If they are not the same, images are different. Of course it works only for identical images, won't work for similar images. If you figure out how to compare two similar images reliably, I would suggest filing for a patent immediately as current methods (probably also patented) are not that good.  could ...Show All

• SQL Server Parameter area in RS2000

  Hi, Is there any way to have some kind of control over the controls in the reporting services htmlviewer parameter area. What i really wan't to do is set a minimum width to the combobox's in that area, or a fixed width,it would be good too. Thanks. Oh sure yes there is a css file, I was not aware that you can influence the display behaviour of the controls by these files. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Comparing and filtering data in Excel?

  I’ve been given the task of comparing two sets of employee data, both of which are in the same layout/format, and am required to filter out those which are duplicates i.e. should leave only new starts. I have been told that a Vlookup function can be used to achieve this but don’t know how it can Would this be easier to accomplish using VBA If yes, could I have a brief structure of the code required To elaborate, the spreadsheet contains a unique employee ID and other details such as department, manger, email, etc. One set of data is from the previous months upload and the other is the latest data pull. I need to compare this months data with last months and see who is present that wasn’t before. Any help is much appr ...Show All

• SQL Server Silent install new SQL Express instance via MSI

  I'm currently building an MSI to install SQL Express and want to install as a new instance, not the default instance, and not into the SQLEXPRESS instance either. I saw the package.xml for Express in my VS Studio install. How would I go about using this Or would I have to modify the MSI via Orca or something I hope not. Wouldn't have a clue where to start. In short, regardless if there is already an SQL Express instance on the machine or not, I need to silently install a fresh new instance of the server engine only, no client tools except sqlcmd.exe I have seen that MS would advise that everyone use the SQLEXPRESS instance but I don't agree with it. I don't want other application installs trampling over my server settings and I do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Removed Project But, source Control Still exists

  I had a TFS project that was deleted using the tfsdeleteproject command. the project was removed from TFS but, the source control root node is still there. I have verified that in the DB the project is flagged as "isDeleted". When i try to delete the root node from Source Control I get TF10169 error. How can I remove this from source control Thanks, Chris We do not support permanent deletion. Additionally, there are some bugs in the Source Control Explorer client around the display of deleted projects. Please continue discussion in this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1001787&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Standalone VC++ Build Box

  Hey All, We're trying to setup a standalone build machine. Our application is made up of a mix of C# and VC++ projects (all VS2005). We have a bunch of MSBuild files that, on our dev workstations, build everything with no problems. However on our new build box, with just the framework, SDK, and platform SDK installed (no Visual Studio), the VC++ projects fail. The failure seems to be a pathing issue with the C++ includes and libraries. I'm using the .Net SDK command prompt to execute MSBuild; on our workstations we use the VS2005 command prompt. Is there some piece we're still missing that needs to be installed On our last build box, we just gave up and installed VS2005, on our new one we'd like to figure this out. Any ideas ...Show All

• SQL Server Importing Data from Oracle 8i/9i to SQL Server 2005 using SQL Server Import and Export Wizard (AKA DTS Wizard)

  Hi All, I have become frustrated and I am not finding the answers I expect. Here's the gist, we support both Oracle and SQL for our product and we would like to migrate our Clients who are willing/requesting to go from Oracle to SQL. Seems easy enough. So, I create a Database in SQL 2005, right click and select "Import Data", Source is Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle and I setup my connection. so far so good. I create my Destination for SQL Native Client to the Database that I plan on importing into. Still good Next, I select "Copy data from one or more tables or views". I move on to the next screen and select all of the Objects from a Schema. These are Tables that only relate to our application or ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My game textures are being overwritten

  I made a simple game Menu class, as well as a MenuItem class, which allows me to build simple menus by providing 2 images for on and off state, x and y position, and an event handler.  I got this working perfectly Later, when  I began drawing game pieces, I find that the game peices showing up are images from my menu!  The widths and heights of the REAL images are being used, but the menu images are being resized, and drawn where the game pieces should be located.      I believe I have posted enough code below. Here's the code for the menu   class Menu     {         ContentManager content;         Ha ...Show All