mamo's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic adding files to the publish

  I would like to add some extra files to the publish, but have been unable to find where to do so. I have some text files that my program will read, and need to know how to include those in the published application so they will be installed with everything else. thanks, Dan aha! this is great, thank you very much. it took me a few minutes to determine you could add more than strings, but this will work great. ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 issue with Integrated Windows Authentication in IIS

  Hi, I've a web application developed in ASP.NET which is hosted in a Windows 2000 server with only Integrated Windows Authentication enabled. This is to make use of Active Directory Services. Now, everything works fine with IE6. But in IE7, I get the Page Not found message. When I checked the headers, I saw the status as 401.1 which, if I am correct, basically is because of some Permission issues. Why do I get this if I use IE7 This above issue is with my Production server. Now, having said that, I've a test server which is also Windows 2000 on which everything works well. I just dont have a clue as to where the problem is with my Production server. Please help me on this ASAP as I am getting a lot of calls from my clients regar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xbox 360 Official Dev Kit vs. "the XNA thing"

  Here goes, The official dev kits intergrate within Visual Studio and compile on PC and send the executable to the machine and launch it via remote debugging. This also allows for breakpoints, steping thru code, etc. Will this new XNA subscription and Game Studio Express be similar to this idea I'm dreading things like relying on Windows support and burning it to a CD to play it on the 360. (For example)   Windsword wrote: Um.... let me get this thing clear, since i'm still confused:    To run/debug our game under xbox 360, i must hook up my PC to xbox 360 with some kinda lan or wireless lan, then connect to the internet to enter xbox live Stop after "wireless lan" and ...Show All

• SQL Server Using SQLExpress on a network

  Hi, I have a VS2005 application that I run with a SQL server 2003 database. In order to make the application distributable, I'm trying to get it to run with SQLExpress. I've installed SQLExpress on a spare machine and changed the connection string in my application to use SQLExpress c:\databases\mydatabase.mdf (and the database is obviously in that location!). This works fine on the spare machine. However the problem is getting the application to run on another machine but using the same database. I note that SQLExpress won't let me put the database on a networked drive. On another machine I've also installed SQLExpress, I've enabled the tcpip stuff and the browser but to be honest don't really know what I'm doing! How do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can't edit text in RichTextBox (VSTO 2005)

  Hi, When I add a RichTextBox to my Word document at Runtime, my textbox displays correctly my formated text. But if I try to change the format ot some text in the RichTextBox once Word is launched, nothing happens! How can I enable the formating of text in the RichTextBox Thanks, Claudia Hi Claudia ClaudiaHelpOnVSTO wrote: I already use the Clipboard to display some formated text (which is originally in html form) correctly in Word. And this works fine! My final goal is to display a sort of a form in the Word document. So I load some content (text) into each corresponding textbox in the form and I wanted to let the final user not only to change and add new text (which is displayed within the te ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System % CPU usage

  Hi. Hopefully, this is a very quick to answer question. I have a load test and want to measure % CPU used. I can't find which performance counter I can use to do that. I've read in the help files that you can do that, so I think I'm just not looking in the right places. Thank you. In addition... the Processor,%Processor Time,_Total counter is included in almost every predefined counter set in the load test. When the load test is running look under the "Machines" node in the performance counter pane (upper left pane) to find Processors category. Thanks, Rick ...Show All

• SQL Server what errors normally should i log for my SSIS package?

  I got an SSIS package that first "truncate the product table" then populate the table with new rows....if there is an error then i will invoke the send email task. However in the "truncate the product table" task, the sql i put "truncate dbo.product" instead of "truncate table dbo.product" but this error is not captured in the text file that I m going to send an email to the appropriate personnel. Under logging, and when i go into "truncate product table" tasks , "Details", i saw "OnError", "OnWarning" and other error handlers...which should i tick in order for the text file to ONLY show errors I encounteered during the running of the SSIS packa ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Platform Builder vs VS 2005

  Hi, Does anyone know why the Platform Builder default smartphone build takes 15 minutes to load and provide a responsive gui versus the VS 2005 builds (which take a few seconds) Reid That's pretty close. In Platform Builder scenarios, the emulator is launched with a bootloader ROM (eboot.nb0). This boots in a split-second, then downloads the OS ROM image over ethernet at around 1mbit/second. Once the download is finished, the OS must cold-boot. If you have a debug image or KITL-enabled retail image, the boot sequence is slowed down considerably as it communicates back to Platform Builder's debugger, for module-load messages, kernel debug output, etc. In VS 2005 scenarios, the emulator usua ...Show All

• Windows Forms Keep control form uppermost

  I call form2 from form1. I would like form1 (control form) to always be uppermost. form2 should always appear under form1 in terms of order. Although I have set form1's toplevel = true and topmost = true, when I call form2 it still appears above form1. How can I resolve this Thanks in advance If you make form1 a child of form2, form1 will always be "on top" of form 2. You can do this by sending a reference to form 2 to form 1's Show method. E.g.: form1.Show(form2); ...Show All

• Windows Forms How find function or class of DLL and exe

  hi everyone, I have a little question that how can we find the functions of dll. like advpack.dll , user32.dll or many other I have read this anywhere. eg. rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec used to shutdown the system. waiting for response... You can use a tool like Dependency Walker or Dumpbin.exe (included with Visual Studio). Note that you can't use any function with Rundll, they have to conform to a special signature for that. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Deployment and Removal issues

  I created a setup package and installed it on my SQL2005 server. I cant seem to find anywhere on the server where they are installed, but I can access them from the Job schedule tool, which work for me. However, now I have to upgrade the deployed SSIS and I cant seem to install on top of an existing one (gave me no errors but after testing it i realized it is still running the old version.) My questions are: 1) How can I find and delete these SSIS packages from the server 2) How can I just upgrade for a new version of a SSIS package I need to be able to do both things as at some point I may want to just remove some packages. I didn't made the installation, if the name of the instance is the one in paren ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I separate the UI from UI handling code? ( .net 1.1 )

  I have a rather complex form. I don't want the code to handle UI stuff in the form. I could get away with the with simpler programs, but this thing is turning into one monolithic beast. I want to have the UI event handler in the actual form code simply call a differnet object that has the logic of the code behind it. For instance: private void buttonClick( object sender, eventargs e ) { ui_handler.DoSomething() ; } That code is in the main form. So, in a different class, I have the ui_handler object. public void DoSomething() { // lot of code that messes with the original form } That's what I'd like to be able to do. But I don't know how to pass a reference to the UI I want changed, so the various components and such ...Show All

• SQL Server parameters

  Hello, i am new to ssrs and am trying to generate a report with 4 parameters. 2 of which are dates. The other 2 are drop downlists. Now the report works fine when i enter all 4 parameters. But in some cases i want to leave one of the parameters unentered . It doesnt all me to do that. Gives a error saying i need to enter the parameter. How do u get aroud this issue I have seperate dataset for this parameters list and am using a where clause in my main query. Can anyone please help me out with this Thx Ashish The only thing you should have to do is define a valid Default value in the parameter setup in Design view of the report. If you still have the problem after saving and redeploying the report, you may want t ...Show All

• .NET Development Drawing Graphs in .Net

  Hi, I have a log table with me and also I have a database table containing the same log entries.For this I have already made windowsservicelog and also webservicelog applications. I need to create a simple Graph(in C#.Net) in which X-axis will show the time and the Y-axis will show the success or failure.....success will be on positive Y-axisand in green colour and Failure should be on negative Y-axis and in Red colour. Kindly help me with this. Here are a few GDI+ resources: Bob's GDI+ FAQ: http://www.bobpowell.net/gdiplus_faq.htm This is a pretty good one for beginners. http://www.dotnetonweb.com/8_SubCat_Graphics_and_GDIplus.html Some decent articles here as well. Scroll down for chart&graph exampl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cant seem to find a more efficient way of doing this...

  I have this code, and it is extremely inefficient, and I have searched, a read for hours and cant seem to find a better function for getting song lengths [code] inline ULONG GetSongLength(LPCTSTR szFile) { TCHAR szCommandString[1000]; TCHAR szResult[100]; wsprintf(szCommandString, TEXT("open \"%s\" type mpegvideo alias TempFile"), szFile); if (ERROR_SUCCESS == mciSendString(szCommandString, NULL, 0, NULL) && ERROR_SUCCESS == mciSendString(TEXT("set TempFile time format milliseconds"), NULL, 0, NULL) && ERROR_SUCCESS == mciSendString(TEXT("status TempFile length"), szResult, 100, NULL) && ERROR_SUCCESS == mciSendString(TEXT("close TempFile"), ...Show All