dobauer's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums WLM goes unresponsive apon sign in

  I've been using WLM for months and months now with no problem at all. But lately everytime I sign in, the program locks up most of the time, and if not it spends a very long period being unresponsive before suddenly showing all online contacts as having just signed in and then giving me control of the program as normal. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and the same thing also happens with MSN 7.5. Any ideas why The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, please check the following resources... Messenger Technical Support is avail ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Any "easy" way to implement real-time networking into an XNA PC-based game?

  I know that XNA doesn't support networking, but I'm wondering if there is some easy way to implement real-time networking alongside the XNA framework. I doubt anything like this exists, but maybe something does and somebody could point me in the right direction You can look to Lidgren Network Library if you want to use UDP: http://www.lidgren.net/wiki/doku.php id=lidgren.library.network ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Saving Contacts Category Views in WM5

  Previously in Windoes PPC 2003SE I noticed that when you are viewing the contacts list you can filter the contacts you would like to see by selecting a particular category. Then if you exit out of the contacts list and go back in, it saves the filter view you last set it to. I'm having a problem now with WM5. This does not happen. If I go to my contact list view, select to filter only say Business contacts, it will sort my Business contacts just fine. The problem is, when I exit out of the contacts list and go back in, it defaults back to ALL CONTACTS...This is quite frustrating as I want to maintain the Business contacts filter despite whether I have the contacts list open or not. Is there a fix for this or is this just another bug! ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista No users listed in User Accounts

  Just installed windows vista ultimite, under user accounts it doesn't list all or any of my accounts therefore I cant change one to administrator. On my other Machine it lists all user accounts. Any answers on how to get this back ...Show All

• SQL Server Configuration File not always used

  I have a simple SSIS package (stored in the file system) that gets a file path from a configuration file. The configuration type is an indirect XML configuration file that uses an environment variable to store the location of the configuration file. When I run the package using dtexecui, or just dtexec from a command line, the package successfully picks up the file path from the configuration file (for verification I am writing out the variable containing the path to the log file). However when I run the package from a SQL Agent job it appears that the configuration file is not being used (the path is set to the same dummy path that I used during development). I have tried running the job as both a CmdExec and an Integrati ...Show All

• Community Chat multiple interactive I/O system

  its difficult to explain why any new ineraction technology has been unable to penetrate the PC world after mouse was invented. Although there has been lots of talk about voice commands, movement recognition etc but none has been able to leave its mark at large. I think the next level could be to use maybe more than one mouse to better interact with system when playing games etc. Obviously there are many ways this could be done. But the keyboard/mouse combination has been the most practical. I don't know when you would need to point at two things, and even if you could, no one has the hand-eye coordination to use two mice at once. Voice recognition is still in the works, and its usefulness has been question ...Show All

• SQL Server ViewReport event

  Hello, I have in an aspx page a reportViewer. I wander if there's any option to catch the user's pressing on the 'ViewReport' button. this is because i have two forms, the report is in the left one, in the beginning this frame is big - to anable the user to see all the parameters, and after he choose the 'ViewReport' I want to reduce the width of the whole frame before the report will be shown. thanks, Talia. ...Show All

• .NET Development Enumeration Column

  Hello, I have a data table I build on runtime, using Columns.Add. I wanted to know if there is a way to set values contraints on a spefict column. For exmpale I want a column with the three string choices: "RED", "GREEN", "BLUE" Is there a type of data column I can use Thanks. Hi, In addition to that, to make your life easy when handling enumerations. You can just call the myEnum.ToString() function to get the literal (string) value of the enum. Or you can use the Enum.Parse() to get the underlying value of the enumeration. You can visit my blog for some tricks regarding enumerations. .Net Enumerations cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Visual C# retrieving the type of a generic Type argument

  Hello, I have a question considering generics.If we take the next code snippet: public abstract class TypedResourceRetriever<T>{ public Type ResourceType{ get { return T; } } } This code does not work. I wonder why microsoft did not make this work. It would be really handy for me to have this feature in the C# language. I solved the problem with the code below: public abstract class TypedResourceRetriever<T>{ public Type ResourceType{ get { Type t = this.GetType(); while (! t.Name.StartsWith("TypedResourceRetriever")){ t = t.BaseType; } return t.GetGenericArguments()[0]; } } } Obviously this is not the way to do it. (if someone o ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Base workflow problem

  public object OrderSender = new System.Object(); public OrderLocalServices.OrderEventArgs OrderEvtArgs = default (OrderLocalServices.OrderEventArgs); how can i change it to vb.net Public OrderSender As System.Object = New System.Object Public OrderEvtArgs As OrderLocalServices.OrderEventArgs = Nothing ...Show All

• Community Chat Windows Code Named Vienna

  Can Anyone tell me how compatible it is going to be with previous versions of Windows. I think you mean "successor". Windows Vista's predecessor would be Windows XP. I am not on the Windows team, but I can tell you it is VERY early in the planning stages for Vienna and any rumors you here are probably just that. It's probably not even worth speculation at this time. Just enjoy Windows Vista. ...Show All

• SQL Server Apriori algorithm [SQL Server 2005 and ASP.NET]

  Hi I am working on academic project using SQL Server 2005 & Visual studio 2005.  Using Apriori algorithm to find the association between Patient City and likely diseases. I have created PATIENT table with Patient_Id, Patient_name, Age, City attributes and Diseases table with Disease_Id , Disease_name . Connected these two tables, MANY - MANY [M:N]. Got a third relation with Patient_Id and Disease_Id attributes. I am just inputting some dummy  data into patient table and disease tables to make Apriori algorithm work. When a new Patient City is entered into patient table, System checks Patient table for same City previously stored and using Third relation, pulls Disease that associated with the ...Show All

• SQL Server Search Values with special characters

  In my database, I have records stored as "Scooter, gears, hard hat" When the user enters in the textbox "Scooter gears hat" it does not return any records. How can I tell the DB to ignore the characters in the column and search for the full text only and return all values Thanks You can simply use a replace function(); such as Replace(@parameter,',',''). But what if the user enters Hard Hat,Scooter, Gears then you still wouldn't have a match I would simply would use a function that would take the values seperated by the commas into a temp table, then do a search from the temp table from the values given from the user.   Example:   CREATE    FUNCTIO ...Show All

• .NET Development I fixed by OutOfMemory Exceptions. Can somebody tell me why???

  I have written/deployed a C# Windows Service using VS.NET 2003. This service, over a period of several days, would grow in size to over 700 meg and start getting OutOfMemory exceptions. Also, the Page Faults would number in the millions. The problem turned out to be in class level 2 XmlDocument objects. (Note: The class that used these 2 XmlDocument objects was a very busy class). The class would use these 2 XmlDocument objects to manipulate XML strings. The LoadXml() method was used to load the XML and then manipulate the XML as needed. There were 3 methods in this class that used these class level XmlDocument objects. So, I deleted these class level XmlDocument objects and used local XmlDocument objects within each method that requ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Wrapping a model with a repeated texture

  I have a large, nearly flat cube which represents the ground in my 3d world. I'm trying to apply a grass texture to this cube. Because of the size of the cube any applied texture stretches. Is there an easy way to repeat the texture being applied to eliminate the stretching problem I have it looking really nice in Maya, but when I export it to .x it continues to stretch a single copy of the texture across the surface. Does an operation like this require the use of HLSL I could just create a bunch of smaller cubes that are closer to the texture size and piece the ground together, but that seems like a messy way to go about it. I'm new to this, so anything to point me in the right direction would be helpful. ...Show All