Martinp23's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to get latitude and longitude from a postal address

  hey, Can you tell me how do we convert an postal address into latitude and longitude Thanks Cheers, What I have in place at the moment is a ws which returns all the points, for each of the point it works it out in code (based on hardcoded lat long). Then I add all the push pins to the map, then I add the ID to a array, then I have a onclick event of the checkbox control to delete all the map points in that array, resulting in a layer effect. Seems to be working ok with the amount of data I have at the moment. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable To Load Symbols

  This has happened 3 times already. Each time I had to completely uninstall VS 2005 Pro and the 2.0 framework from my computer to correct this issue. I am not able to hit any breakpoints. The tool tip on the breakpoint states "Unable to Load Symbols". It worked 5 minutes before, now it wont work at all. I deleted the temp files in the framework 2.0 folder, checked the IIS settings, killed the aspnet_wp.exe process, rebooted, checked my debug configuration to make sure I wasn't running in Release mode. I have tried everything I can think of (I even tried things I found online) and nothing seems to help. I have lost days of productivity because of this constantly happening. I cannot reinstall again and lose even more time. I h ...Show All

• SQL Server How to cosolidate databases of SQL Express from multiple installations?

  1. install a SQL Express instance such as myexpress; 2. create some databases with tables such as db1 and db2; 3. Reinstall SQL Express with the same instance name "myexpress". I assume we need reinstall SQL Express myexpress again becuase of bad operations. 4. Open the myexpress by management tool but I can not see db1 and db2 databases but the datafiles and logfiles are in the data directory. The question is what I need to do so I can consolidate exited databases so they can be seen in "myexpress" instance by management tool hi, WhyHere wrote: 1. install a SQL Express instance such as myexpress; 2. create some databases with tables such as db1 and db ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Delete team project and remove from SCE?

  I deleted two team projects one got removed from SCE and one didn't How do I get rid of the one that didn't and why did one get removed and not the other I understand there is some sort of bug related to this but why one and not the other and there must be a way to get rid of that one that is left right If not do we now know if this is fixed in SP1 I am an admin in TFS but so are other people that can't see it. I don't think I created that particular team project that is stuck (but not sure). There is no x over the icon in SCE. I can't checkin, checkout, undo any pending changes for there it seems (I tried but says nothing to checkout, checkin or undo). Anything else we can try Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# use of volatile to synchronise object access in multi-threaded environment

  Hi, In my application I have one worker thread. Main and worker thread accesses same object. The worker thread populates and updates the object continouosly (every milli second or so) and main thread reads the object every minute or so. I have a volatile boolean flag private volatile bool MyFlag; that I use in worker thread method like this private void WrokerThreadMethod() { while (MyFlag) Updates MySharedObject; } Now in main thread, I set MyFlag to false when I intened to use the MySharedObject. private void MainThreadFunction { MyFlag = false; Access MySharedObject MyFlag = True; } Is this a thread safe way of accessing a shareds resource by multiple threads Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic Publish question

  I think I asked this question in the wrong forum.....Maybe this is the right place... I created an application and published it. and it comes up on my Windows 'start'-'All Progams. Problem is, when look in Windows Explorer under "C:\Program Files" I can't see it. I right clicked on MyApplication under "All Programs" and it shows its under: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\MyApplicaton. When I navigate to that location all I see is a SHORTCUT. Where is my application... And I will (as usual, and strictly out of curiosity) ask the question "why do you want/need to see where the application was installed ". Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• Visual Basic Colour Combo Box

  Hi, How do i get a combo box to display system colours As i am using it so the user can select the background colour for a graph. I have tried colourcb.text = color() but this produces an error any ideas Andy HI, Is there a colour box which displays the list you get in visual sudio when you type color. Aqua blue Brick red etc Thanks, ANdy ...Show All

• Visual C++ Need ddraw.h in VS2005

  I have been given an old codebase for upgrades and maintenance which in two places says: #include <ddraw.h> I understand that this is an old header that is no longer distributed. (If that's not true please let me know.) Can anyone point me to a download of the most recent version of DirectX that still contains DirectDraw Thank you, Richard ...Show All

• SQL Server Dreaded TEXT column

  I need to setup repliaction between A and B. I have high transaction /min count. Some tables have TEXT columns. This is what i am planning to do: Example: table name is CREDITS vertical partition the table into two. First table (will be called CREDITS_PRI) holds PK column and non TEXT columns, second table (will be called CREDITS_SEC) holds PK column and TEXT columns. Create a view called CREDITS with INSTEAD OF triggers for inserts, updates and deletes. So far so good. Then setup replication with immediate updating subscription between A and B for tables called ..._PRI and merge replication between A and B for tables called ..._SEC. Would this work How do other companies handle this thank you in advance for pointing me into th ...Show All

• Visual Basic String comparsome

  I ran into a little issue with comparing 2 strings against each other. The data is NY in the datatable I can enter whatever in textbox1 and my code will accept it (example; x5v45) the table is setup with the field being nvarchar(50) What I was wanting to do is select a name from the combobox and compare a different field from the same table with a textbox . I did try one other thing, that was to take the selected text and populate a different textbox to see what it was comparing, and it was NY Test code: If Me .TextBox1.Text = Me .ENameComboBox.SelectedText Then MsgBox( "Nope" ) Else Me .Close() End If Where did I mess up at Davids Learning ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MS Project 2003 Dates not retrieved from TFS

  When retrieving work items using MS Project, dates are not retrieved correctly. The dates can be viewed using Excel or Team Explorer. Any ideas Smitha, One more thing: I modified other fields in the XML file to be PublishOnly="true" and uploaded the mapping file successfully to the correct project (according to the command-line tool), yet those fields in Project continue to Refresh. Looks like the mapping xml file is not read properly by the system. Any pointers Also, is there logic built in to MS Project to override any hard date values with automatic calculations of the Start and Finish dates based on Remaining Work The only time the dates seem to change is when I modify the Remaining Work field and refresh th ...Show All

• .NET Development Gateway filter

  I have app that is runned on gateway, filtering traffic from clients to Internet(I used Windows filtering API). When packet from client is not allowed to navigate web-server, I need to send some html to this client. Using low level socket control I can intercept all packets and look where client wants to connect, but how can I send html to him instead of server If I trying to connect port on which client is waiting answer from server, exeption occurs(remote system actively refused ...) It's clear cause client is trying to communicate with another machine, not me. The trick as it seems to me is to investigate which port on gateway is used to pass client and somehow redirect this port to port opened by app. D ...Show All

• .NET Development Determine the version of MSXML

  I am developing a product installer and at the beginning of the setup I want to check if MSXML \ XML Parser is installed on the computer on which the setup is running and if yes which version(s). I have to do all this programmatically. Which could be checking registry settings or may be some API's etc.... But don't know where and what to look for. Any ideas Any help will be greatly appreciated. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278674 http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread553198.html Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Retrieve Outlook calendar

  Can anybody tell me how does one retrieve an Outlook calendar and store it in a database I would like my app. to detect appointements from outlook, display them in a datagridview in my app., and store the info in a DB. I looked at this: ms-help://MS.MSDN.vAug06.en/enu_kbvbnetkb/vbnetkb/313801.htm#2  and it doesn't seem to be working. Just as I get to the line below, I get an error saying: 'type outlook.application not defined'. Dim olApp As New outlook.application Which namespace(s) should I use to accomplish this. I've already added a reference to the outlook object and am using MS Outlook 2003. Any help appreciatd, thanks in advance. As I mentioned at the beginning of my po ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Accessing NTDS.DIT database with VBA or Visual Basic pro - Global Address List reconstruction

  Hello, We try to recover information from the hard drive of our server Windows 2K. We have a copy of the NTDS.DIT database (and of all the files of the system) which we think contain the users, distribution groups, and whatever is in the active directory. We made a mistake when we upgraded our server from windows 2K server to SBS2003 when we exported the Global Address List (GAL) from our previous installation in a pst file. We can recover all the contacts from the exportation of the GAL (name, email address, ...) but we cannot find back the distribution lists from the GAL. In those lists we have only the name of the distribution list, but the content is not in, except an X400 format reference to previous GAL installation. So our ...Show All