Jamie Thomson's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Were do i find information on the "boot.ini"

  i am trying to find information on understanding the codeing that is used in the boot.ini file i tried at this page: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/289022/ but its still very confuseing the line that i am having trouble with is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect i have also checked the windows help and support, it just says about how to configure it. i have searched the forums here. for any related FAQs etc. and any topics which other users might have posted, but i can't any. so i made a new topic. if there is a topic already converying this subject, i like to apologize, and ask that you point me to the right topic... Thank you everyone.. From Darkdaz The link y ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Run Time Error 1004 On Long Running Stored Procedure

  I am encountering a "Run Time Error 1004" when I attempt to execute a stored procedure from within Excel VBA. The stored procedure takes about a minute to return results. I have tested with shorter running procedures successfully, so it must have something to do with the amount of time it takes to return results. The For loop is never executed because no results return. The error occurs on the last command where I attempt to set the column names in the spreadsheet equal to the column names from the recordset. Obviously errors because no recordset exists. As you can see I have set the timeout for the command to indefinite. I have also unsuccessfully tried a DoEvents after the command has been executed. Suggestions If ...Show All

• Visual C# Subtracting Times with Date

  I thought this might have been a simple task...I need to subtract 4 hours from the current datetime that is input.  The datetime format is mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm and the hours are a 24 hour clock.  After it's input, I then take and parse this string into a strDate array and strTime array by doing args[0].split('/') and args[1].split(':').  After this is where I try to subtract the 4 hours, but there's a whole lot to account for as in if the hour is 1, you'd have to go to the previous day and if the day is the first day of the month, going back one day would take you back another month, etc.  Is there an easier way to do this   The month is really what's throwing me.  Thanks in advance for the help! ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTimePicker sends null value to a data table

  Hi, i've got a problem with DateTimePicker control. When i try to save a new file in my data table, it shows me an error saying that null values are not allowed, that's right, my table has that definition; so it seems DTP is sending a null value to the table. I have to add several files every day in my data table and the date is almost always the same for each file. Changing manually the date in the DTP solves the problem, however that's not practical to do. Help please. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums disabling the disaapearing of the ero popup when mouse moves away from it

  Does anyone know how to disable the vanishing of the ero popup when the mouse pointer moves AWAY from the ero popup Does anyone know how to OVERRIDE the popup over e pin in such a manner that when the mouse moves out it still DOES NOT HIDE. I think the implementation does ero.hide() on it. I need to make sure that once the baloon pops up it NEVER HIDEa again until the pushpin is destroyed. I have window.ero.setContent( "<div id='" + DivID + "'>" +tempTitle+popupEdit+ "</div>" ); window.ero.dockToElement(e); Now I already tried: VEPushpin.OnMouseOut=f; where f is a function also I tried window.ero.attachEvent("onmouseout",f); but all to n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Showing the summary data only on last page?

  I have a summary field in my Invoice report. It is the Total of the Amount (currency) field. I would like to show it only on the last page, so I use the formula: If PageNumber = TotalPageCount Then Formula = Sum ({GetOrder;1.Amount}) However, suppose my report is 2-page long, the first page will show $0.00 for this Total field . I like to hide this $0.00 and show nothing. In other words, I would like to hide the field object. Is this possible Thanks for replying. Hi, Modify the Suppress Formula in your Format Editor (Common Tab) create a statement that would return true (to suppress it) if your field value is 0. cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Visual C# Is instanciating to null BAD??

  is instanciating a variable to null is a bad practice Yes, because its not needed when you create some object of a class it has already holding a null: for example: FileStream fs; if(fs == null) // Yes, True FileStream fs = null; // Makes Nulll again the same thing and should not be used. I hope you understand! Best Regards, ...Show All

• Commerce Server Feedback: reorder CatalogCreate.sql

  Just a bit of feedback here. When i execute \Program Files\Microsoft Commerce Server 2007\CatalogCreate.sql it throws a bunch of warnings along the lines of "Cannot add rows to sysdepends for the current object becuase it depends on the missing object 'dbo.ctlg_GrantPermissionIfExists'. The object will still be created." When I check the db after the script has completed, the missing object is there, it just needs to be moved to an early position in the script so these warnings aren't thrown. Michael. Are you saying that you created a blank database then executed the catalogcreate.sql If so then you shoud not have any issues. I just tried it and I see no errors. -Max ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System easily compare stored procedures in different servers/instances?

  Hi, Is there a way to compare different versions of the same stored procedure on different instances/servers e.g. I have a prod and a dev of the same DB, and I want to see if proc GetAllItems is the identical on both instances/servers. I know I can do a schema compare, but can I single out just one proc for comparison Thanks. And unfortunately, at this time, you cannot specify just a single object to be compared. If this is an important feature to you, please feel free to submit a suggestion for our next release on the http://connect.microsoft.com site. You can link to it in this thread, and allow other customers to vote on the suggestion (which in turn, helps us prioritize requests). thanks, ...Show All

• SQL Server Conversation Groups

  I am thinking of updating my SQL monitoring application to use Service Broker. Right now I loop through my list of servers performing various checks on each server. Things like 'check last database backup', 'check for new databases', 'check for server restart'. I loop through, one server at a time, doing one check at a time. The more servers I have the longer it is taking. So, I want to multi-thread the servers, but single-thread the checks on each individual server. This way I can check say, 5 servers at a time, but on each server I will only do one check at a time. This way I won't flood an individual server with multiple checks. Is this possible It looks like Conversation groups might be the way to go but I'm not sure. Co ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Plain ContentTypeReader

  Hi I have been reading through the forum for hours now and there is something I do not quite understand: Any class that is required for readers comes from Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline. This library is not available for the Xbox 360, thus leading me to the conclusion that it is currently not possible to write a custom ContentTypeReader for the Xbox 360. Is that correct My other problem is that I do not want to write an importer as I use an application to compile my models. I only want to write a ContentTypeReader to load it into XNA at runtime. Is that possible without utilising the ContentTypeWriter.GetRuntimeReader function cheers Daniel Here's an idea: if you already have an importer, writ ...Show All

• SQL Server Assigning values based on InitialToggleState of a control in SSRS

  Hi, I need to assign the value for a field in a report based on Expand/Collapse state of another field. Eg. If Collapsed, the value should be "AA" else if Expanded "BB". Is there any way to get the value of InitialToggleState for any field in SSRS. Thanks in advance. Sathya Use True for Collapsed and False for Expanded. As explained at the following link http://www.manning-sandbox.com/thread.jspa threadID=14881&tstart=60 ...Show All

• SQL Server How to insert an image or logo on the report manager?

  Is there anybody who knows how to set up the report manager so that it will display an image on the home page of the report manager Thanks! Adam, Thx for your response. I want to confirm one thing with you. In order to use my own image, do I have to delete the 48folderopen.jpg file and paste my own image Please tell me the proper procedure. Sincerely, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System visual basic 6 project on Team Foundation Server

  I have a lot of vb6 projects on Visual Source Safe that I want to binding on Team Foundation Source Control. I used this steps for the migration of one project: 1. Delete .scc file on project folder 2. Check-in (add) of the files on TFS folders (.vbp, .cls and .bas) with Source Control Explorer of VS2005 3. Open the project with vb6 IDE and add the project (binding) on TFS with selection of the correct TFS folder When I open this project on my workspace everything work well (check-in\check-out), when another developer open the project on his TFS workspace the vb6 IDE ask him to ri-binding the project even if he get latest version of the files from VS2005. What is the correct way to bind vb6 project on TFS ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 FTP Security Issue

  I have run into a security hole in my ftp site that has only now become a problem with IE7. The structure of my ftp directory involes several streaming media folders and a Client folder in the root directory. The contents of the client folder and its children are all password protected. Inside these folders I upload content for my clients to view approvals and allow them to upload files for my own use. The root directory has read-only permissions for everybody because of the streaming content I am hosting. In the past when a client logs into their ftp folder, the password protected nature of the client folder prevents them from moving up in the hierarchy outside of their folder. In IE7 however, I have found that a client can now leave he ...Show All