Felipe Heidrich's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Can't load Report Builder

  I am having a problem where a standard user cannot load Report Builder. It works as an Administrator but not as a standard user. When the user clicks on the Report builder button the message "Application download did not succeed, please contact your system administrator" How do I provide the ability for a standard user to run this tool Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated.!! Thanks I have given the user system adminstrator rights to report builder but it still won't load. I have found that it loads when i turn the proxy off. I have even made an exception for the SQL Server IP Address bt still nothing. I need to leave the proxy on - but still let the user access the Report Buil ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET remoting.....Multiserver........

  Can anyone help me out with this --- I've got a two server remoting app on the same machine....but i get the error Unhandled exception "Requested Service not found" Any ideas Thanks sample code from the client namespace CLIENT { public class CLIENT { public static void Main(string[] args) { TcpClientChannel chan = new TcpClientChannel(); ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(chan); //create an instance of Scan object IScanShared ScanObj = (IScanShared)Activator.GetObject(typeof(IScanShared), "tcp://10.181.54.231:5000/ScanServer"); //create an instance of TestControl object ITestControlShared TestControlObj = (ITestControlShared)Activator.GetObject( typeof(IT ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Developer Toolbar broken in IE7

  The DOM Explorer in the Developer Toolbar is broken when you try to run it in IE7. It lets you see the nodes, but you can't modify properties. This was a killer feature in debugging, but now it seems to be broken. I tried reinstalling both the browser and the toolbar, but no luck... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to use vertex normal

  I am a beginner.I can't understand the concept of vertex normal.I have refered to MSDN library.But I still can't understand it.If you can help me,I will appreciate you very much! The normal is a direction in x,y,z that is perpendicular to a surface If you have a lamp post near a road the lamp post extend perpendicular to the road So in the direction x,y,z upward in that case Those normal are part of the FVF that can be include so you have Vertex Postition x,y,z and you can define FVF to use a Normal for each vertex x,y,z that is a vector of the direction perpendicular to the surface In a mesh you have surface represented by triangle of 3 vertex... The mesh function include a CalculateMesh so those v ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is there any way to make VB programs run w/o the .net framework?

  I try to develop professional applications. When I give my software to somebody, it is almost embarasing to say that they will need to download other software that I did not make in order to run my programs. Is there any way that I can force the .net framework away from my applications If you write something in a .NET-based language your users will need the .NET framework installed to run it. If your users are keeping their system up-to-date with Microsoft Update (or they are running Vista) .NET should already be installed. ...Show All

• Architecture Re-creating Hibernate Functionality

  As I was using my PC today, I came across the idea that I wanted to close a running application, and be able to re-open it later in exactly the same state. I noted that this was exactly the same sort of behaviour as you get when you Hibernate your PC, so I started digging around for a way to accomplish a "Hibernate" of an application, without actually turning off the PC. I haven't been able to find anything relevant so far, so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas A method/api call/something that will save the state of a program to disk (just as Hibernate does), and can recall it from disk at a later date There's got to be a way of doing this, maybe I'm just using the wrong search term Any help would be fantastic! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Loading project reference assembly

  Hi all, I've seen serveral post on how to load an assembly referenced by the project, but I can't find an answer. My situation: I have obtained a VsLangProj2.Reference2 object which refers to the assembly I referenced in my project. The next thing is, I want to load the assembly do my thing and unload. I think I have to use an AppDomain en dispose the AppDomain when I'm ready.  The last step (I hope) to take is actually loading the assembly. Calling AppDomain.Load throws an exception that the file could not be found. How can I best load the referenced assembly (some strongnamed and/or GAC'ed while other aren't but might have CopyLocal set to true or false) Kind regards, Ronald ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Chart Control

  Is there a Chart Control to enable me to produce charts from my Access database Check this thread for a way to obtain the Microsoft Chart ActiveX control... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VS SP1 Beta & VSTO 2005

  I installed Visual Studio SP1 Beta on one PC that already had VSTO 2005 installed. When I open an existing VSTO project and double-click the document.cs file in solution explorer VS exits completely without any error message whatsoever. Is this a known problem It is good you fixed the problem. We've not seen this behavior but we will keep an eye on it. Thanks -Qiong Ou (MS) ...Show All

• Connected Services Framework Evaluating CSF

  I have a heterogeneous environment: Windows and Linux. My web services on Windows use .asmx, and I'm currently upgrading those to WCF. The other web services are just XML-RPC services on Linux systems. Some in my organization want to port all those to web services on J2EE. My question is, with which J2EE systems is CSF competitive, and how can the Linux side of the house create well-enabled services that are CSF-compatible WCF messages are wire level compatible with WSE3.0. And CSF3.0 is built on WSE3.0. WCF supports vast range of bindings. By using appropriate bindings on WCF we should able to get WCF services integrated with CSF. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development .NETCF2 SP1 serial port memory leak

  I use .NETCF2 SP1 serial port class, my application leaks a lot. Basically, I have a GPS device on an IPAQ 2210 connected via a serial cable into com1. I use the Receive event to start a new thread. Once in it, I loop round checking for data. While not the most elegant of ways to do it, it stops new threads being created / exited every second. The port.ReadExisting seems to leak a few KB every 10 seconds or so. Any ideas SP1 applied to VS2005 and handheld. Thanks Code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Diagnostics; using System.IO.Ports; using System.Threading; namespa ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert FLOAT to INT?

  Is it possible to convert float to int If so, how Thanks, Everyting is possible :). Use Math.Round, Math.Floor and Math.Ceiling methods. Maybe Math.Round will do the job for you, but read about these methods how they round the values, and maybe you will need to create your function that use these functions to round in your way. For example Math.Round works this way: Math.Round(1.1) = 1 Math.Round(1.5) = 2 Math.Round(1.9) = 2 Math.Round(2.5) = 2 Math.Round(2.6) = 3 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Optimizations for rendering ROAM

  I am implementing ROAM for a planetary procedural terrain. I am getting decent framerates for the actual rendering, but would like to check if someone has some directx specific info, since most roam implementations are done with OpenGL. The mesh consitsts of currently 64000 triangles which I render with with 30FPS when they are all in view. This is a wildly triangulated ball which fills the entire 500x500 pixel window in wireframe. The gfx card is an nvidia gf6800 mx or something in thet neighbourhood.. I forget. What I do is to allocate an array of the needed vertices, which is roughly 160000 and then I alter the triangles, and create new ones, by changing the vertices in the array. When it is time to render, I lock a vertexbuffer and the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. "SPRITE TEXTURE MAP" I need some directions/suggestions

  Hi to everyone! and an Amazing 2007! STATUS: I'm working with an effect to damage the armors, itens and etc from my game characters I did notice that the "easy" way to do this was have 2 textures, one to the default difuse channel and another with the holes and scratches overlayed above the Difuse one with alpha channels to "damage" just some areas from the equipment model surface. Since the .X exporters collapse the material maps inside 3ds MAX, I can't use the Composite MAP, and the export to .fx function in Material Editor don't accept any map than not a simple bitmap to this, what lead me to write a HLSL shader to do the texture overlay. I already got one texture above another with different map channels. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unknown Deployment Server During Bootstrapper Construction

  I have an application that is going to be sent out to multiple companies. I plan on having the dev team at those companies adjust the deployment manifest to fit their servers (via mageui). I'm trying to construct a bootstrapper that knows where it came from (it will be packaged w/ the application) and looks there for the deployment manifest. I do not know the server name and port at the time I'm building the bootstrapper. I already feel bad about making them use mageui, and I don't want them to have to adjust settings on the bootstrapper's setup.exe via the command line. Forgive me if there is an obvious answer, I'm a hardware guy trying to make it in a software world. ...Show All