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• Windows Forms Fancy list components?

  Its been a while since Ive had to do anything with visual studio (I think the version was 5.0 last time). Anyhow, Id need some suggestions regarding windows list components. Im trying to find a way to have a neat list of items displayed. One (selectable) item of the list would have something like the following structure: #21023 - Joe Brown tel. 00442030403 21.06.2006 Name1 Details1 10.07.2006 Name2 Details2 15.07.2006 Name3 Details3 Ive created something like the above with ListView (bold bit being a new group). But it seems to be impossible to have all four lines of above selectable as a whole (it only selects the three detail informations separately). Had a look at DataGridView. Might consider just splashing a browser in there ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. PIX and "An error occured while preparing to debug the shader"

  Hi, I am trying to debug my project using shader debugging in PIX ( yes I compiled the HLSL effect file with debugging support ), and getting this error message. Sometimes it can debug, sometimes it cant, I couldn't find what is wrong. VS2003 uses the DXDebuggingService, when I try to debug the project, PIX can stop the service (I can do it by hand also) so the problem is not related to this service. I have tried both the VS2003 and VS2005 compiled projects. No luck Any idea Regards, Ahmet Bilgili Hi, > Do you have a shader model 2.0 capable graphics card I have a Nvidia 6600GT with Shader3.0 support, but I have tried with both REF and HAL devices. > Are you running the debug version of the Direc ...Show All

• SQL Server Hotfix for Bug # 473675 (SQL Server could not spawn process_loginread thread)

  Hi, I get " SQL Server could not spawn process_loginread thread." errors. This is related to a bug in SQL 2000 and there is a hotfix for SP3a. I am running SQL2000 with SP4. I checked the fix list of SP4 & this bug is not fixed in this SP4. Can I apply the hotfix to resolve this problem on my server tia. The most common cause of this message is a lack of free virtual address space. The most common cause of virtual address starvation on SQL 2000 are misbehaving com components from the use of sp_oacreate, misbehaving extended stored procedures, or poorly written OLEDB providers that are loaded by the use of linked servers. Start by reviewing your use of these items and remove t ...Show All

• SQL Server Hanging Indent

  This one is probably very simple, but I'm not sure. I am using SSRS 2005, and I already have a custom assembly being used in the report, but I'm hoping I won't have to use it for this. In a table, a list of company names is being returned in a single column. Some of them are pretty long, so they wrap to the next line. If this happens I would to indent the next line. So, it should look like the following: Company Name Company A Company B with a really long name Company C Anybody know an easy way to do this The only I can think of to meet this requirement is handling this programmatically, e.g. by checking the field value length and breaking the text if exceeds the required width with vbCrLf concatenated with some padding and the r ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Unable to open the c:\ using create file in vista

  Hi, I am unable to open the c:\ drive by using createFile in vista. The program that i wrote is file working on the WinXP and it is not working on Vista. I am using VC++.NET 2003 for my application development. Ignore my previous mark, I thought you were trying to make a file under C:\. Your app will need to run as administrator if you want write access to the phyiscal drive. See the 'manifest files for vista' thread in the 'security for applications' forum. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Security Validation with Operation Attributes

  Say I want to place attributes on the interface for a services operation or on the concrete implementation of the services operation. [OperationContract()] [MyAttribute("This is the sample attribute on an operation")] void MyOperation(); Now, during the authorization process, I want to be able to get the attribute off that operation for the current operation. I can't find the OperationDescription nor can I find how to get the type that will be instantiated and the method it would call so I can find the attributes that are applied to that method. Should I be using an IOperationBehavior instead and where should I put the info I'll need to extract so that the ServiceAuthorizationManager can get access to it to do a retrieva ...Show All

• SQL Server Migrate SQL Server from 64Bit platform to 32Bit

  Hi, All: We have to migrate several 64Bit SQL Servers to 32Bit platform. Due to the 64Bit source systems are all production system, the downtime is too limited. So we can only get the DB files via Detach way. Among the source systems, both SQL2000 and SQL2005 exist. My question are: Is it possible to migrate the DB from 64Bit to 32Bit via Detach/Attach If ok, how to do that Any info will be highly appreciated! Thanks! Best Regards, Kevin Hi Kevin. The on-disk layout of database files is the same for 64bit and 32bit databases, there's no difference...you can freely attach/detach, backup/restore, etc. to/from 32bit/64bit systems and vice-versa at will with no issues. Of course, th ...Show All

• SQL Server Filtering data

  Current Code SELECT [Patient Identifier], Date, [Operator Index], Time FROM (SELECT ISNULL(t9.[Patient Identifier], t8.[Patient Identifier]) AS [Patient Identifier], ISNULL(t9.Date, t8.Date) AS Date, ISNULL(t9.Rows, t8.Rows) AS Rows, c.[Operator Index], c.Time, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ISNULL(t9.[Patient Identifier], t8.[Patient Identifier]), ISNULL(t9.Date, t8.Date) ORDER BY c.Time) AS RowNum FROM (SELECT [Patient Identifier], Date, 2 AS [Rows] FROM [First Step] WHERE [Operator Index] >= 90 GROUP BY [Patient Identifier], Date HAVING COUNT(*) >= 2) AS t9 FULL JOIN (SELECT [Patient Identifier], Date, 4 AS [Rows] FROM [First Step] ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Question about Forms

  Dear All i have developed an application which has mainForm, form1, form2 and form3, in mainForm.cs i created a button and created form1 using the following code form1 frm = new form1() frm.show() now in form1.cs i created a button and created another form as following form2 frm2 = new form2() frm2.show() now in form2.cs i created a button and created another form as following form3 frm3 = new form3() frm3.show() when i am pressing "Alt + Tab", i watch Four forms. My Question is 1) How to see one application form 2) Is there any way that old form be placeholder of newly created form 3) Or any trick An efficent solution will be appretiated Thanks With one main form ...Show All

• .NET Development Download file with webclient through http

  I use webclient down a file from a http location. The method I use is webclient.downloadfile(....). The problem is it seems always download an older version file even the file on http location is already updated. It seems the program does run a few seconds to download the file. However, it's not the latest version. Anybody know what happened I'd like the file be download everytime no matter if it was changed or not. Any suggestion If the request is going on the wire and the server is sending some old version - there is nothing you can do from the client side To determine this capture a netmon/ethereal trace and see what is being sent on the wire or capture a systemnet trace http://blogs.msdn.co ...Show All

• SQL Server how to create a sql database in the server?

  Hi, I want to create a new database in the server using SQL express,not in the local machine. so what can I do Thank you Hi when I open the SQL express and browser the network servers, there are some server instances. That means the SQL can connect to the remote machine, right However, I cannot find the server instance I want. And I try to connect to the server by typing the command in the command promt. The following message shown. HResult 0x3, Level 16, State 1 Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [3]. Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Native Client : An error has occurred w shing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005 re may be caused by th ...Show All

• SQL Server Partition Slice Property

  I'm having trouble processing a partition that has a slice property selected. My data is partitioned on a montly basis, hence the slice is along the lines of [Date].[Date Hierarchy].[Month].&[200607]. When I do process index or process full, it fails. Iget the following error: Error: The script threw an exception: Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The slice specified for the Half Year attribute is incorrect. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while processing the indexes for the Viewers 200607 partition of the Viewers measure group of the Viewing cube from the BDW database. I didn't type the mdx myself, just click and drag from metadata pane. Anyone know why this might be happening Thank. Rahil ...Show All

• Visual Basic Lines in the body of an email

  I am trying to do what I thought would be simple (especialloy since it worked like a charm in VB 6 with the mapi control: The program populates a multi-line text box with information based on user selections The user hits a button and it pulls up his email client with the subject and body filled in so that he can select a recepient and send off the information. The problem. The text always comes out as a single line run together How can I get line breaks back into the body The code that doesn't work is: Dim sendthis As String = "" sendthis = sendthis & "mailto:" sendthis = sendthis & "&subject=New Loss for client " & frmMain.Clt & " Number: " & ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista data execution prevention, please help

  hi, data excution prevention is not allowing me to use windows live messenger, i have tried to disable it for windows messenger but it wont allow me to, anyone know how i can disable data excution prevention on windows vista thanks for any help. Hmmm.... I have an Acer desktop (surely a coincidence) and same problem. Some people have success by uninstall and then get latest Adobe Flash player (v9) installed first and re-install Messenger. Can't see how that would help myself. You can always use the client via the Internet http://webmessenger.msn.com/ Failing that try installing Messenger 7.5 - so it is not the latest version but at least it seems to be more stable than version 8.1! Nothing o ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ 2003 EXE running under SP2 receiving error "Toolbar MFC Application has encountered a problem".

  I can run the application in dev mode but I can't run the newly compiled EXE. I can also run the EXE with SPYwatch on. I am a little rusted with MFC ... but for bugs like this, I would recommend you to set a messagebox or use OutpuDebugString(...) (dont remember if it works on release build or not) in your VLCApplication::InitInstance() and see if all of the code in the function passes. If it passes, try your dialog code. I know this is hectic... but might point out where the bug is. Hope it helps. ...Show All