CraigInCalifornia's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Directory Security

  I need to make a program that will get a list of names from a text file, make a directory in a certian folder and set the permissions for network acces. Is this possible I will need help on setting the security settings. OK, I got it to make the permissions, now I need it to share the folders individually. The sharename will be the name of the folder followed by a $ so it is a hidden share. ...Show All

• SQL Server Why Mining Structure can only use one dimension from a cube?

  Hi, I am working with several tables, but for now I just mention 4 : one is fact table (named Usage), and 3 dimensional tables Periods, Products, and Regions. The fact table contains references to the dimensional tables. Table Periods contain two other columns month and year. I created a cube containing columns from those 4 tables. Deployment was successful. Trouble comes when I want to create a mining structure using Time Series containing these columns : - Period - Amount (of money) - Product name - Region name When I choose to use cube (instead of table) as source for mining structure, I'm forced to choose only one dimension (among the Periods, Products, and Regions). Whatever dimension I choose I end up being unable to use the column p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Upgrading Headaches

  I am a fan of GAT, but today, I finally upgraded to June CTP and am extremely frustrated with the upgrade story. I tried to just install the June CTP, and it tells me I need to uninstall the previous versions first (can we work on an in-place upgrade ). Anyway, I unistall... excuse me... *try* to uninstall the previous versions, but in order to do that I have to uninstall *every* guidance package that was built on top of GAX. I have built 5 or 6 of them, so this is going to be painful... especially since I uninstalled GAT first and overwrote my installer with the june CTP. So, now I can't uninstall the packages built on top of GAX until I reinstall GAT (some of the packages were just registered through the IDE and the installer was n ...Show All

• Visual C# error " key not valid for use in specified state"

  i'm working on a c# win application . i can't open my old datasets either can't add dataAdabtors to my new datasets. tnx Hi, It seems similar problem to post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=199339&SiteID=1 also http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=70894&SiteID=1 Hope these may help u.   Thanx, Ch.T.Gopi Kumar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions procedure return

  am i right in saying that when you call a sub it will execute the instruction then go back to the point form where it was called. Yes, You can verify this by creating a simple example, putting a breakpoint before the call and then debugging the application. When you hit the breakpoint - step though the code one line at a time to watch program execution. Normally Pressing F11 will step through one line at a time. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problems with CBitmap and CDC

  Hello, I am trying to use a CBitmap that is quite a bit larger than the DC on the Windows Mobile device I am using. As a test, I am blitting this CBitmap black and then copying it to the buffer DC using an intermediary DC. However, it is not working. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on! Here is the code (all the calculations are correct going into the BitBlts): RECT screen; GetClientRect(&screen); int bufferWidth = screen.right*Minotour::Constants::BUFFER_SIZEFACTOR; int bufferHeight = screen.bottom*Minotour::Constants::BUFFER_SIZEFACTOR; CDC* tempDC = new CDC(); tempDC->CreateCompatibleDC(readyBuffer); CBitmap* test = new CBitmap(); test->CreateCompatibleBitma ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Can't Uninstall Windows Desktop Search

  I'm having trouble uninstalling Windows Desktop Search 2.06.5000.5373. It probably has to do with my installing and uinstalling Windows Live Toolbar Beta. I've looked through several threads here, but nothing seems to work. In the Add/Remove programs area, I click the remove button and I get the following error message: Windows Desktop Search Setup Error The update could not be removed because newer updates are installed. Please remove the newer updates first. I don't see any newer updates anywhere in the add/remove programs related to the toolbar or desktop search. The Windows programs I see in Add/Remove programs I see are: Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 Hotfix (KB886903) Microsoft .Net ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions registering Visual Studio Express w/o Internet

  I registered my visual studio express edution , but i don't reicive an activation code in help menu is not requered active product just register product more than three time i registered it but its still stay register a not active what dos mean that. If you installed the CD image version of the product, then you do not need a registration key. The product will remind you to register the first 3 times it starts. If you installed from the web downloader, then the registration key is provided on the last page of the online registration wizard. If you see a "Continue" button on the registration wizard, click it, because you are not on the last page. Hope that helps. -Scott ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle: File names

  I need to have references from other documents to the html.files that are created with sandcastle, so the names of the html files needs to be consistent every time i Build a new help file.. I was thinking of using the namespaces as file names.. In the Output/html folder,how do I change the name of the files from using GUIDs to namespaces The filenames with GUIDs are added in AddGuidFilenames, could I simply extract the namespace from the api/@id attribute and use that as file name or is there a better way I've had a couple of similar requests for the help file builder. I'll be adding a project option to allow selection of either GUID filenames or "friendly" names based on the member name. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Joystick support

  Is it just me, or does XNA still not support joysticks "DirectInput devices such as flight sticks, wheels, and older gamepads are not supported by the XNA Framework. Such devices are not compatible with the Xbox 360, and thus make poor candidates for cross-platform game support. For games that require DirectInput device support, the MDX 1.1 DirectInput assembly is still the required means of accessing these controllers. DirectInput does not work across platforms and is not recommended for most XNA Framework projects." - http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/migration/ ...Show All

• Visual C++ RunTime Datatype Determination in C

  we have a variable bps. int bps;               // bps determined during run time - - - how can we make conditional declaration of a variable y we want appropriate declaration depending upon bps.  eg.  short y; // for bps = 16 int y;  // for bps = 32  long y; // for bps = 64 this is similar to Templates in C++.. like ClassX<int>,  ClassX<short int> etc..           This is impossible also in C++ - templates are instantiated at compile time and not at run time. Use long data type and possibly add some restrictions, like minValue and maxValue, w ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums What are the limits?

  Hello everyone, I know there are allowed 10,000 keywords and 20 ads per order. Can anyone let me know how many orders per campaign and how many campaigns per account are allowed (the information might be in .chm file, but I was not able to find it!) Thank you very much, Orest The limits are still being reviewed for optimization and they may change in the future. When we have determined the optimal limits, we will publish the information in the adCenter API documentation. Thank you, Walter Poupore - MSFT ...Show All

• .NET Development tcplistener and winxp service

  i have a windows service that creates a tcplistener socket and waits for incoming connections. this service should allow connections before and after a user logs in and out, but it seems to not be working correctly. i keep getting this message, any ideas No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it after looking at the code does it look overall like good coding practices were used having a senior software engineer look at your code and picking it apart helps me improve my coding style. thanks for taking the time to look it over!!! ...Show All

• Visual C++ Question on FILEDESCRIPTOR Structure

  Hello All, I have been having some problems with the length of "file path + filename" greater than a certain number of characters (242 characters). The problem is occuring in the drag and drop operation. FILEDESCRIPTOR structure is used to describe the properties of a file that is being copied by means of the clipboard. I see that the MAX_PATH defined is 260 characters. I would like to find out if somebody encountered this situation and is there any function or property related to FILEDESCRIPTOR structure which can understand this path without any problems. Thanks, CPPUser7. CPPUSer7 wrote: Hello Peter, Thanks for answer, so if we have paths longer than 260 characters, we have to somehow ...Show All

• SQL Server FTP Task - Delete remote files always fails

  Hello, I have two FTP Tasks configured in my SSIS package. One is for "Receive files" and the other is set for "Delete remote files." Both use variables for the source/destination paths. My remote path variable contains a wild card in the name field such as /usr/this/is/my/path/*.ext and it is working to FTP all the .ext files to my working directory. I then rename the files and want to remove the original files from the FTP server. I use the same variable as the remote path variable in the delete as I do in the receive. Using the same FTP connection manager for both tasks I am always getting a failure on the delete. The FTP connection manger is setup to use the root user. Using a terminal I am able to open an ...Show All