RenoMike's Q&A profile

• .NET Development meta keywords on content page

  Hello, I'm trying to understand how I can edit seperate keywords for the content pages that use a master page. thanks for the help! ps: page for which i need help with: magazine hi, thanks for the tip, I did post my message in two other forums the other day, but got an msn alert saying the a moderator deleted them (even got a rather nasty email asking me to stop crossing post). It would be great if you could transfert my post to a more appropriate forum. Thank you so much for the help. Andrea magazine ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect to Express Edition

  I have a huge connectivity issue that I can't seem to solve. We're using SQL Express Edition as a local data store that is participating as a subscriber to SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Perfectly valid and supported. Now the issue. I have the Express Edition on one machine connected just fine, but the other one absolutely refuses. Here is what I did for the one that connected correctly: 1. Enable remote connections for the Express Edition instance and restart the instance 2. Added the SQL Agent service account on the server to the SQLServer2005MSSQLUser$machine$SQLEXPRESS group on the local machine (yes, I want it to have that level of authority) 3. Connected to the machine with Express Edition to the network via VPN. 4. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Control the Child window dragging

  Hi, I have a parent whindow on which a click of a button will pop-up a new window. The code i used for that is as follows: ***************************************************** Chart ch = new Chart (); ch.ShowDialog(); ***************************************************** When the user drags the child window it goes outside the boundry of its parent window. But i need to restrict it from being draggable or the user shld not be able to drag it outside a specified boundry which again needs to be derived from the parent window. Thanks, Ram Hi, Thanks a lot Hamid. This is the perfect solution which i am looking for. But some of my windows are not Dialog windows and hence I can move my parent window even ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Power of XBOX360 - raw triangle power

  Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to compare the graphics power of XBOX360 to any of current gfx cards. Say, if it`s capable of rendering same amount of triangles as e.g. GF6800 does. The old XBOX was usually compared to GF3 in terms of graphics performance. The reason I ask is, that I would like to know the general boundaries of the raw gfx power, since I`m planning on converting some of my current games to XNA (and later to XBOX360) as soon as it becomes available. Currently I`m pushing the GF6800 card to its limits, which means I`m rendering a range of 0.5M-1.0M triangles (all unique, non-instanced) per frame and it seems that GF6800 starts to slow down when it crosses 1M barrier. No pixel shaders there, just Vertex Shader ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to load Sub Main?

  I'm using VB.Net 2003. I want to load the splash screen then load Sub Main. How can I do that There was a sample to do an asynch splash screen in the "Solution's Toolkit" book that came out a while back (see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1861007396/sr=8-1/qid=1154438608/ref=sr_1_1/102-2225499-8768147 ie=UTF8 ). It looks like you could pick it up for $2.50 used which might be an option for you. In essence, you don't load the screen and then Sub Main. Instead, start with Sub Main. Have it display the splash screen as you continue processing the rest of your application start-up. Once you have completed the initialization, close the splash screen and show the application. If you don't have en ...Show All

• .NET Development How to transform set of Points and render a image?

  Hi, I have a grid drawn on an image. At run time I am randomly altering the intersection points in the grid. I want to distort the image based on the new grid intersection points. e.g. I have 20px x 20px grid. so I have the original list of points pt1(0,0) pt2(0,10) pt3(0,20) pt4(10,0) pt5(10,10) pt6(10,20) pt7(20,0) pt8(20,10) pt9(20,20) Now I change the points of the grid as below pt1(0,0) pt2(5,10) pt3(10,20) pt4(12,0) pt5(8,11) pt6(10,20) pt7(18,2) pt8(18,10) pt9(20,20) Assuming I have a image of 20px by 20px. I want to create a new distorted image based on the above points transformation. Please note that the grid size is dynamic. I cannot hardcode any points. Can anyone let me know how I should do this Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ Extract text from Word Document on runtime

  hi there, From many days i am trying to extract the text of Word document just like any spy program which watch the word document and if it found then extract the current page's text, for this purpose i have read few articles but they were not that much helpful. If some one has a code to obtain the text of runtim doc then please let me have it, i will be very greatful for it...or any tips , guidence will also help me for it... thanks in advance regards i think you are looking for Word Automation .have alook on the Following Link this Will also help you to get more Info about how to handle a word Document http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183599 http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/misc/article.php/c6091/ thanx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Movement questions

  I Just began designing with Visual Basic, and just completed the tutorial.   I'm creating a game at the present and i have three questions. First, how do you make a single object move around. Secondly, how do you allow an object to be dragged about, and dropped somewhere Finally, What code will make everytime you click abutton, a picturebox will apear, and the object will move to the right a small bit   Thank you for your answers! I don't understand what do you want EXACTLY, but, to change the location of an object, change its Location property or Left and Top properties, for example, to move a picturebox by arrows keys : Private Sub Form1_KeyDown( ByVal sender ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Out of date pictures!!!

  Service is a good concept. However, seeing the 3D image of tall buildings thought I would take a look at the landmarks where I work and how they look. I work in the city of London so was wanting to see how the Swiss Re tower (the gherkin) would look. This is located on St Mary Axe. A search here however reveals the old site which had yet to be built on. This must've been years ago meaning the photos are out of date. It wouldn't be such a problem if the building wasn't such an integral part of the London skyline as we know it now! If anyone doesn't know what i'm talking about go to http://www.30stmaryaxe.com/index2.asp and anyone who's been or seen pictures of what little skyline London has will recognise it and hopefully see my point. SORT ...Show All

• Visual Basic ComboBox - No Border

  I need a ComboBox with No Border Around Text Entry , only the "Drop Down Arrow" everything else is OK. I would appreciate any help you could give me, I'm just a "Newbie" Visual Studio 2005 - Visual Basic Thanks I have tried the "Flat" style and it wasn't what I needed, you can still see the outline of the box around where you have to enter the text. This is on the left side of the arrow where you type in your information to select your data from, not the lower part where you can see the data that you selected. Any help is truly appreciated; Thanks ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista kernel extension?

  I believe this is a kernel extension at least... I am trying to write a program as a UI helper that would sit between the user and a running program. For example, if it detected alt + mousewheel up, it would send a different input to the program than that normally would. is that possible edit: a friend told me that this is no longer possible in x64, only x86 is this true Thanks in advance, amahbod can you point me at a resource edit: i found this article, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318804 but at the bottom it says that " Global hooks are not supported in the .NET Framework" . What I am trying to do is a global hook, right ...Show All

• SQL Server Computed columns and constant

  Hi, I have a small problem with my database. I've got following situation: I have a computed column, which value is base on currency rate: rent * rate. Users have to have possibility to change currency rate easily (maybe another table or constant). Is there any way to create formula, which would compute value properly, via constant or something like this Or the easiest workaround would be load data into dataset (I'm building asp.net application - database will be very small - couple of hundreds of records) and make calculations programmatically Przemek hi, computed columns can only be based on constants, variables, functions and columns of the same table, and the last one exclude your Users hav ...Show All

• SQL Server ForEach Loop and Data Flow

  In my Control Flow, I execute a data flow that opens a flat file and populates the file into a recordset. Back to my Control Flow, I have a ForEach container that uses a ForEach ADO Enumerator. Inside the ForEach, I execute an "Execute SQL Task" that updates a table. This is where I'm confused, while in the ForEach, I also want to call a Data Flow and use the current record (record in my ForEach) and perform several lookup tasks. Unfortunately, I'm now sure how to use the ForEach record as a source in my Data Flow....What am I missing Thanks, Gary We need to get the column values for each record in the "ForEach ADO Enumerator" in some variable. Then for the tasks inside the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions tabcontrol focus

  hi everyone, im working on a new project where I have a tabcontrol and two tab pages. on tabpage1 i have a rich textbox for the user to enter whatever text they want, then on tabpage2 i have a webbrowser. in my menustrip I have code set up so that when the user clicks the homepage menuitem the webpage loads in the webbrowser on tabpage2. my trouble is im trying to get tabpage2 to focus before the site loads but it wont focus. any ideas Thanks! michael ' Button1 or your menu item click, same concept Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click WebBrowser1.Navigate( "http://www.cnn.com" ) TabContro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Excel to DB4 question

  greetings all; I have a excel file that I do some work on everyt month, and in the excel file the Date column is a little short so it shows as #### and when I do some work on it and if I dont make the column bigger by hand and it is converted to db4 it will only show as '########' So I guess my question is can I write a program that makes the D column wider so that the date is shown thank you nhaas, SetColumnWidth is commonly used in many form controls and can add the width of columns shown in the controls. However, I think the properties of this method can only change the size of controls but your problem is related to the capability of data. For example, when you change the font of data shown in your column, there wi ...Show All