Noorul Ahmed's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Database Connection Inquiries

  Dear peeps, Please shine some lights on my inquiries, I am just a newbie to database programming and I need your expert advice. I have started a database program through VBExpress and I wish to know how can I transfer Database connections using OpenFileDialog box, and from there all the connections would be referrenced. I am using MS Access on one of my project and the other one is SQL Express. Also, during the packaging of the software, is there any options that I can install the program on any directory that I would want to choose and from there, the database connections would be updated Thanks a lot in advance. Hi DMan1, I mean I want a functionality that I can choose which directory location of my database during runtime. I am ha ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Loss with Merge Replication?

  We had merge replication setup between 2 tables, Table A and Table B using SQL 2000. This was working 100%. The users asked to disable updated/deletes to both these tables if data existed on 2 other tables. Table AA and Table BB. We implemented it as follows: 1) Created Insert/Update/Delete triggers for Table A & B. It basically check for Table A is there a record in Table AA, if it exists, raise an error and don’t commit. 2) Removed all foreign constraints from Table AA and BB 3) Added Table AA and BB to the current replication. Then all hell broke loose, we got conflicts all other the place saying that Table AA cannot be updated because records does not exist in Table X. To our surprise we found trig ...Show All

• Visual Basic Custom control aligning

  How do i make a Custom control with alignment to some parts with reference to Text Boxes in my control. What i want to achieve is to have the same "Text Alignment" features that a normal Text Box will have. like if i want to have a controls align to the text bottom, i get a pink line to show it is aligned rather than a blue one. IceAngel89, Actually there is an article in knowledge base titled Overview of user controls vs. customer controls. I believe this article will help you with your problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893667 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trouble running a program

  I just made a small program. I tried to send it to a friend. Apparently my friend can't run it, needs the .Net framework to execute the program. Can someone please show me how to build a program in Visual Basic 2005 express edition so that anyone using windows can execute it Thanks ok I'm not sure exactly what the framework is but are you saying that for a computer to run a program made using Visual Basic, the person must install Visual Basic or another program that comes with the framework ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting "Report Server WMI Provider error: Not Found" while configuring Reporting Sevices Integration WSS 3.0 and Sql 2005

  I'm Getting "Report Server WMI Provider error: Not Found" when trying to Grant Database Access while configuring the Reporting Sevices Integration. Logging in fine to the DB. Tried all the WMI troublshooting and can't find any issues there. Any tips Many Thanks!! Looks like you have Report Server running in Native mode. You need to switch it to SharePoint integrated mode before using "Grant Database Access" and other RS pages in the Central Admin. Refer to the following in SQL SP2 CTP BOL for more details: " How to: Create a Report Server Database for SharePoint Integrated Mode (Reporting Services Configuration) " In any case, if you simply need to run the Report Explorer web part that worke ...Show All

• Visual Basic Most efficient way to insert text into a file

  I'm writing an app that creates a status text file. Any time there was a change I'd write to the file by: Status_Message_Text = DateString + " " + TimeString + " " + Status_Message + vbCrLf My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(File_Path, Status_Message_Text, True Elsewhere I display it in a Text Box: txtStatusLog.Text = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(File_Path) It works fabulous except that the write appends the text at the end. I'd like either a way to insert the text at the beginning of the file or somehow sort the display in the Text Box because I want to display the most recent status message first. For now I changed the write so that the Status_Message_Text reads in the file and the write ov ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Some Halo-like video clip I found...

  I was a heavy critic of managed games and performance but I'm finding less to argue about these days and finally made the switch. This is not mine but it's a video clip of one of Halo's multiplayer maps that I found on YouTube. The textures are a bit blurry but I doubt the art is the concern right now. It just proves Halo is within reach with C# :) I think that is quite awesome and worth sharing. Enjoy... http://youtube.com/watch v=PjAyMZkMckA That's my video : ) I'm working on adding collision with the level right now. EDIT: Oh yeah, and if you're wondering, the game runs at ~60 FPS, but my video recorder slowed it to less than 15 (sometimes 8-9) EDIT (again): I just uploaded the collision test vi ...Show All

• Visual C++ CreateProcessAsUser and x64 OS

  Hi! I have a problem when I call "CreateProcessAsUser" with 64bits O.S. I get the 233 error = ERROR_PIPE_NOT_CONNECTED. The same code works fine with any other 32bits OS. My app is a service that is running, and it runs other programs as logged user. Do you know why am I getting that error only with 64bits O.S. Thank you a lot!!! Best regards, Gonzalo For such issues, the windows dev newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups is a more proper location. OTP Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• SQL Server MSSQLSERVER is MIA

  To start a named instance of SQL Server On the Start menu, point to All Programs , point to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 , point to Configuration Tools , and then click SQL Server Configuration Manager . In SQL Server Configuration Manager, expand Services , and then click SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) . There is no MSSQLSERVER to click!!!!!!!! If you open services.msc (services page), is MSSQLSERVER listed there Do you have the appropriate WMI permissions Try this article to see if it applies: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188690.aspx Thanks, Sam Lester (MSFT) ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) RadioButton binding

  How do you get a RadioButton Group to bind to XML I don't want the LIST to bind, I want the value to bind. This is an example of the grouping. I want to store a number between 1-4 in the XML file. < GroupBox Margin = " 148.994,8,186,0 " Header = " Subnet Mask " d:LayoutOverrides = " Margin " VerticalAlignment = " Top " Height = " 82.492 " > < StackPanel HorizontalAlignment = " Stretch " VerticalAlignment = " Stretch " Margin = " 0,7,0,0 " > < RadioButton GroupName = " subnetgrp " > 255.255.255.255 </ RadioButton > < RadioButton GroupName = " subnetgrp " > 255.255.255.0 < ...Show All

• .NET Development Warning: There are updated custom wrappers available for the following referenved components: Office.

    Hello everyone, I converted a vb.net 2002 project to vb.net 2005 and I continue to get the warning message: There are updated custom wrappers available for the following referenced components: Office . If I dbl-click on the message I get: One or more custom wrappers for COM components have been installed on your machine after you added references to those COM components.  These wrappers may provide additional capabilities not offered by the auto-generated wrappers currently in use. Do you want to replace the auto-generated wrappers with the custom wrappers   If I click YES then I get 102 ERRORS++. If I click NO then the project runs just fine but the warning shows in the IDE. Without turning ...Show All

• SQL Server Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Failure does not stop package

  Hello, I created an ActiveX Script task in SQL Server 2005 checking the record count of a table. I want the package stop to run and not to continue next task(s) if the record count is not 1. The related part of the code is as the following: ..... If mySourceRecordset.RecordCount <> 1 Then MsgBox " Model dates are different, stop here.. " Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Failure Else Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Success End If ...... However, although the record count is not zero, and it gives the error message in the MsgBox statement above, It gives a green color for this task and continues to run the following tasks in the package. What can be the problem causing it not to stop the package Could an ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup Transform

  Hi! I am a newbie, grateful for some help. I have a Source Ole DB w sql-command selecting the customer.salary and customer.occupation, which I want to match with demo_id in Ole DB destination. salary, occupation also in dim_demographic. But in Lookup editor I find no column demo_id... how do I do this The lookup must select against your table with demo_id in it... We need more information here... If you can't find demo_id in your lookup table, and you need it to be there, well then you probably have the wrong table defined in your lookup. ...Show All

• Gadgets Using System.Gadget.Settings

  Hi, In my gadget I save a value in my VBScript, how do I re-load this saved value I have: System.Gadget.Settings.Write "Record" , dtmSystemUptimeSecs s = System.Gadget.Settings.Read("Record") But this doesn't seem to work If my uptime is big interger should I use the writeString & readString methods I see the value in settings.ini System.Gadget.Settings.Write "Record" , dtmSystemUptimeSecs time = System.Gadget.Settings.Read(Record) Record.innerText = "Record: " & time If I put this then the "Record: " text dissapears, if I comment out the time = line & the time variable then I see the text. Do I have to l ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Really, REALLY strange "bug" with Vector3

  For my ray tracer, I created my own Vector struct that pretty much wraps a Vector3. The thing is, I used to have just three floats; X, Y, and Z. Now I just unioned them with the Vector3. For some reason, rendering time cut down by about 15% (i.e. from 10 seconds to 8.5). I removed the Vector3 and it went back to being 10 seconds. ...Wtf Is there a hidden type constructor with Vector3 that makes it much more efficient I'm not even using any of the Vector3 methods for my transforms and such. Could anyone tell me what the hell did I stumble into Hello again Reading the above verbatim, you seem to have wrapped a struct in a class If this is so, the class will be allocated in the heap, whereas ...Show All