redneon's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Generating xml documentation for a web service

  HI I was hoping someone knows how to implement xml documentation for my web service. We use the VS 2005 generated xml documentation for our assembly and create a NDOC help file from it. I however have no such option for web-services, at least I did not find it. My work around is to reference the web service and generate the documentation on this. however that would not be very useful as it only documents my published web-service functions, and I would have to re-write it every time the service changes. Any one knows how to get the ///<xml docu> out of my assembly Walter A Web Service deoesn't really expose a .NET library and, as such, really doesn't have a n ...Show All

• SQL Server Left Outer Join versus Subquery

  Hello Chaps, I have got question about the performance of subquery and left outer join My scenario is that  I have two tables Customer Mater and address book. Customer Mater and address book  tables hold the record for both carrier and customer. and i want retrieve the record for customer and related carrier as well i have two options 1.  either use left outer join (i.e. Join Customer master to Address Book 2 times, 1 for customer and 1 for carrier) by:        Address book (as customer) Left outer Join Customer Master (on related Key)       AddressBook (as carrier) Left Outer Join Customer master (on related Key) 2.or use 1 join for customer ...Show All

• Smart Device Development NDIS Intermediate Driver Development for Windows Mobile 2002+

  Hello, I'm trying to develop an IM Driver for Windows Mobile 2002+, but I find less information about that. So i have some Questions: 1. Are there any differences in the supported NDIS Version for windows mobile 2002,2003, and higher (All Version 4 ) 2. Can I use IM- Drivers which are not certified 3. Is an IM- Driver the best solution to intercept TCP/IP packets on windows mobile Or is there a better one 4. Is it true, that all drivers on Windows CE run in a protected user mode. So an IM Driver has access to Winsocks Sorry, if my English is not so good. Thanks for all replys and tips , winterb Hi , This forum is primarily monitored by Visual Studio for devices group. Please check this link fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Layout Bug?

  I have 2 Textboxes which I think should center their text horizontally but one of them does not unless specific width is assigned to it or HorizontalAlignment is set to Center.. am I missing something or is this a bug It seems like the second TextBox is not being sized properly to the grid.... This does not work: <Grid xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " Background="sc#1, 0, 0, 0" Width="320" Height="240"> <TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Top" Text="1234" TextAlignment="Center" Height="25"/> <Grid Width="40" HorizontalAlignment="Center"> &l ...Show All

• SQL Server Parent-child variable issues that may impact deployment

  We are using SSIS for the first time. My team is working on a project that involves putting a date time stamp into a series of tables. These tables are being assembled in a series of child packages being executed by the parent. When the parent runs, we evaluate our timestamp variable as a GETDATE() expression and pass it to the children to be included as a derived column. We don't want the actual runtime of each step to be the timestamp, just the start of the batch (parent). In order to get the variable to pass over to the child, we needed to set the package location to "file system"instead of "SQL Server". It seems unusual that this would be so. Are we doing something wrong What implications does this have for d ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tiling

  Hi to all, I bought a book about DirectX9 Game Programming, but the code it provides is really bad and I'm a little confused on how to use tiles in game!! Any tutorials or examples would be appreciated!!! Thanks in advance!!! The book: " Strategy Game Programming With Directx 9.0 2003 - Todd Barron " seems to have an extensive chapter on tiles... Could that be by any means the same book you have :) ...Show All

• SQL Server count(*) and GUID primary key

  I was testing some performance and have a table with a GUID primary key and about 1 000 000 rows. If I run the following it takes about 4 minutes to execute (after one run it is cached and the query is fast 0.3 second): DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS select count(*) from person I tested the same with int as a primary key an this was very fast so it seams like it is the GUID primary key that is the problem. Have anyone experienced the same and can give an explanation to this behaviour (if I do a search for a firstname and lastname it also takes about 4 minutes) I do not see much of the difference. set nocount on go select top 1000000 pkid=newid() into i from master..sysobjects,master..syscolumns go alter ta ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error with user fields after Active Directory User Display Format changed

  My company recently changed our user display format from "Noland, Mac (Company 1 )" to "Noland, Mac (Company 2 )" 1) When we open any request we get the error "Assigned To" has invalid options. This is easy to fix when you're in the request. 2) After fixing the "Assigned To" we get the error saying "Activated By' has invalid options. Since this field is hidden, this is a bigger deal. I'm guessing to fix the issue, we need to display the "Activated By" field and change them all. That is fine because we're in prototype mode, but what if we were in Production and had thousands or millions of of items to update Is there a way to avoid this issue in the future Mac Yes, i ...Show All

• .NET Development Connect to many servers quickly (C#)

  Hi everyone, I'm making a program that will run in the background on many computers in a LAN and will listen for a signal from one master client program. My problem is that I don't know how to get the master program to quickly compile a list of all the computers that are online on the subnet, and then open multiple connections to all of the online computers. Thus, in one sentence form, the two questions are: 1. How can I compile a list, quickly, of all the computers online on the same subnet the computer doing the searching is on 2. How do I open and maintain connections to multiple "servers" at once, so that they are ready and waiting to receive data Thanks in advance. 1. How can I compile a ...Show All

• SQL Server No Indexes - Linking to MS Access

  Hello, I am using MS Access 2000 as a front end to a SQL Server 2000 db. When I link to the SQL Server db using a DSN, the SQL Server table pk's and indexes are not coming over with the link. The pk's and indexes do exist in SQL Server. I haven't had to link to these tables in over a year, but they used to link just fine. Do you have a suggestion as to where to look at this problem Thanks you - Darryle Your question is entirely related to Access and not to SQL Server. Unfortunately I don’t see a thread dedicated to Access programming. You may want to try http://asp.net . Consider “pass through” queries. They send a native SQL statement to the linked store, and receive the final resu ...Show All

• Visual C++ Compile error within code in #ifndef

  This is probably just me missing something obvious, but .... I've got a VS C++ program with a section of code patched out via an #ifndef NAME.... #endif section. The NAME is defined by a /D option on the command line (which appears correctly looking on the Properties page). Within the editor, the correct section of code is grayed out, so the editor at least is handling the #ifndef NAME correctly. However, when the application is built I get a compile error on one of the lines inside the #ifndef section -- it looks like the compiler is either ignoring the #ifndef or somehow the NAME has become un-defined. (I did do a search for NAME within the entire solution, and it is never #undef'd.) Changing it to an #if 0 compiles as expected. Any thou ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Call VB external function from a DLL

  Hi, I've developed a C++ DLL that process incoming SMS messages and an EXE VB application that run as a standard program. How can I call a specific function of EXE VB program from the DLL I'm trying to develop an SMS filter that receive only messages that come from a specific phone numbers. DLL (MAPIRule) intercept SMS message, call VB program function that check if the phone number is good and return a value to DLL. Thanks a lot http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/843s5s5x.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Web Browser Help

  Hi, I'm trying to add alot of stuff to my web browser. I searched in google, but I didn't find anything. I tryed writting codes to see if I can get it, but I can't get it :( 1. Favorites 2. View Text Size 3. Web Browser site Name something like this (Visual Basic General - MSDN Forums - Mozilla Firefox) 4. History 5. Enter button when you type in the URL 6. Show the URl in the URL bar for every link. And I'll try to figure out the rest, because I have alot of stuff that I want to learn, but I think it's rude to ask for too much. Thanks. I don't know about rude but when in learning mode it's best to do one thing at a time. I recommend favorites. Go into your favorites directory... Open a link wit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Convert .OST to .PST

  Im trying to create an app that converts an .ost file to .pst. An .ost file is a Microsoft Exchange email file and in order to read an .ost file offline you need it to be converted to .pst. I know theres tools available for office 2000 for free but this does not work with Office 2003 only ones available need to be paid for......if you need more info on this please see http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/exchange-ost-recovery.html So this leaves me to ask i know how to convert files but what encryption do i need to lets say decrypt the ost file then pack it back in a pst form so its readable in Office 2003 as a .pst file Thanks Thanks for your reply. If this is proprietary to MS how do other manufac ...Show All

• Visual C++ Setting the cursor

  I am trying to set a cursor that I have created in my MFC application. I have managed to set the icon with this line: m_pMainWnd->SetIcon(::LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_QUESTION), true); However, mainWnd does not have a setCursor function. So I thought I'd have to go to my view class, but, that doesn't have a setCursor (or a load Cursor) function. I found this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=162844&SiteID=1 I tried to do what he said in the view class, but it didn't work. It would not load the cursor. BOOL CLab2View::OnSetCursor(CWnd* pWnd, UINT nHitTest, UINT message) { SetCursor(AfxGetApp()->LoadCursor(IDC_CURSOR1)); return CView::OnSetCursor(pWnd, nHitTest, me ...Show All