Chrisine's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions grrrr - registering

  For some reason the registration page says my email address is invalid so i can't get the key, but its the same one i logged on with. Help Thanks!! I am not at all familiar with this error and this is the first occurance of it that I see. I have no ideas how to help you other than try to get in contact with microsoft. At the bottom of most pages and possible the error message pages there usually is a link "Contact us" that will give you options to get in contact with microsoft. It might take a few days to get an response. If you get help or manage to find out what the problem is and how to fix it, please post it here. It will help others with similar problems. ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem Making Requests to a non-.NET Web Service

  I'm attempting to utilize a web service written in something other than .NET. (Not sure what it is... probably J2EE.) I grabbed the WSDL via VS.NET (I'm using .NET 2.0, btw) and it created the proxy classes. When I make the request the remote server just returns an empty request body. After poking around a bit I discovered that their example SOAP request and my actual SOAP request differed quite a bit. First, their namespace prefix differed from mine. Their's is SOAP-ENV and mine is of course just SOAP. I assume that's fine. But then it gets more strange. The particular method I'm calling is called makePurchase. My SOAP request, however, looks like: <soap:Envelope ...> <soap:Body> <Purchase> Their example SOAP req ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 70 Balls colliding, physics sample

  Have fun going through my code but maybe you can get something out of it useful. Does pixel perfect collision and 'as good as I can make it' physics ball engine. 70 balls is about the max with the current setup, if you want to see the collisions better change the number of balls at the top. Let me know what you think. http://www.dxxd.net/keith/SpriteTesst.rar Great job, Made it the XNA Program of the day at www.learnxna.com and the physics code should help alot of people out. Gregory Wurm ...Show All

• .NET Development safer method to read DateTime from database?

  hey all, when i read DateTime data from database, currently what i'm doing is: //System.Data.DataRow row; //System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader reader; try { System. DateTime t; t=( DateTime )row[ "DateColumn" ]; //or t= DateTime .Parse(row[ "DateColumn" ].ToString()); //or t= DateTime .ParseExact(row[ "DateColumn" ].ToString(), "formateString" , cultureInfo); //or t=reader.GetDateTime(0); } catch { //... } but the above mehtods will have format mismatch problem when the region/culture setting of sql server is different from the setting of the environment that application is running on. (eg. when date formatted as "MM-dd-yyyy" with "dd-MM-yyyy") therefo ...Show All

• Windows Forms 3-tier architecture code sample for c#.net

  send me code sample for 3-tier architectrue in c#.net using sql server for insert,delete,update,find,select commands 2.what is meant for pooling If you are still looking for the n-tier architecture tutorial with source code and downloadable demo project, Please go through this article http://dotnetfunda.com/articles/article18.aspx Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error creating team project with RTM

  I am having trouble creating a team project with the RTM of TFS from a client machine.  I can create a team project from the server itself (logged in as myself), just not from my machine (also logged in as myself).  My machine is XP Pro and I have Windows Firewall disabled. I have tried deleting my cache directory several times as well as uninstalling/reinstalling Team Explorer on my machine. I can also navigate to the following link successfully.  I'm not sure it is related but I have seen a couple of posts suggesting to try out the url. :8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ClientService.asmx wsdl" href="http:// :8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ClientService.asmx wsdl">http://<server>:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ClientService ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't create VB code to test keystroke input with readkey.

  In all versions of basic I've used over the years, I've been able to use one of the following statements/functions; inkey$, inkey, key$, key or some such. In assembly I was able to choose from a number of keyboard interrupt functions and cmp the value in ah, al, or ax (dependent on int and func called) to either an integer or "string" value. I've spent hours trying to figure out how to use readkey in a conditional test, looking through the vast amount of help to no avail. So I tried multiple times to search msdn for "keyboard" (for example), but some unknown error is preventing my online search from the text box. Anyway, I was hoping someone might be able to tell me how to get input from the keyboard in such a way to en ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why can I not obfuscate a WPF app

  For some reason I cannot run any WPF app once it's been obfuscated (I'm using the latest version of Dotfuscator Pro). It can be run if renaming is disabled in Dotfuscator. Does anyone know of a list of items to exclude from renaming (rather than disabling it completely) in order to use obfuscation on WPF applications Thanks for any ideas. Many thanks, I'll try that. Problem is I'm calling a lot of other (non visual) code via WPF event handlers and my other libs are obfuscated. Wrapping my DLL's into an open (non obfuscated) API is a lot of work and also exposes it. With Windows Forms I could simply link all DLL's into a single assembly which could then be obfuscated. Is there not a way to do this with ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Video/Animation Playback

  Hi, I'm currently writing a library (for XNA/DirectX) for animation/soundless video playback, and I have a few design questions for the pros out there if you don't mind answering them : I'm having my animation class inherit from game component, and update the frame depending on game time in the overriden Update method, and render it in the overidden Draw method, but even when I preload my textures to render, playback is choppy. Not sure exactly why, but I notice this only when I have significant number of frames (I noticed it with 100 frames, but *not* with 10/15). This problem may be linked and solved by the 2nd point, so please read on. When I preload all the textures for the frames in the animation (and the no. of frames ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Portfolio Server 2006

  Hi, I recently downloaded the Project Portfolio Server 2006 application from MSDN and followed the installation instructions. However, when I tried to run the application, I get the following error message pointing to an obvious syntax error. Also, when I tried to access the login.aspx page rather than the default.aspx page, it does not let me go past the login page and I am pretty sure its not processing my request. Here is the error message and the Compiler output...Any help would be greatly appreciated. Line 1: <% Response.Redirect("~/"+((Microsoft.Office.Project.PortfolioServer.BusinessLayer.ApplicationSecurity.StratFramesIdentity).Context.User.Identity).AccountID+"/Project.aspx"); %> c:\windows\sy ...Show All

• SQL Server There's just no escaping it... data containing quotes ruining CSV files

  Much to my surprise and dismay, after burning hours and hours developing various SSIS packages to extract data from my SQL 2005 DB to CSV flat files, I found out the hard way that SSIS doesn't properly escape quotes (") in the data (my output file is required to have quotes as text qualifiers). It seems like I'm pretty much forced to create derived columns to test for the existence of quotes in my data, then either escape them or replace them with another character. This is really NOT COOL. Not only will this significantly hinder performance, it makes my packages a heck of a lot more complicated (especially when I'm exporting lots of text columns). Am I doing something wrong, or does SSIS really not escape the text qualifier ...Show All

• Visual C++ Link Error

  Hi all. Im having a link error when i compile 3 source files together. error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__SendMessageA@16 Thats just one out of 4 errors. I've googled the error msg and found that other have had the same problem, but neither of their problems were ever resolved( at least not on the article/forum) So since i have this issue and i'd like to know what i need to update/change to fix this error. Im using VC++ 6 platform SDK 2003 Everything is in order to compile in the settings etc. From what i've read its some sort of out-dated problem. But how can it be out dated if i can compile the source by itself It would'nt compile if it was so out-dated right Any suggestions on what i should do is appreciated as always. ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting width of parameter text box?

  Is there a way to set the width of the parameter text boxes in the Report Server UI As luck would have it, I need it to be just a few characters wider. Thank you, Dick Campbell if you click on the textbox in visual studio and then view the properties of the textbox you will find a property called Size, this has 2 options, width and height, it is definately there, try deleting your textbox and readding from the toolbox, what version of VS are you running, Business intelligence or the full blown Visual Studio Its in both of my copies..... ...Show All

• SQL Server Simple update query problem....

  Hi, I have a table called " Cust_Vehicle_Specialisation" consisting columns named "Vehicle_Specialisation_Id", "Motortrade_Id" and Effectdate(datetime). My data in the table consists like this.. Vehicle_Specialisation_Id Motortrade_Id Effectdate A94ACDEE 007094C1 2006-05-16 13:01:00.000 2EC8B2BF 007094C1 2006-06-05 12:19:00.000 A1C617D2 007094C1 2006-06-12 17:37:00.000 458C5F70 007094C1 2006-07-25 09:44:00.000 139954DE 007094C1 2006-08-01 12:05:00.000 1F3D7BDB E1A50F16 2006-05-22 12:00:00.000 F85EA44A E1A50F16 ...Show All

• SQL Server Report exported to Excel is unreadable

  I am working with RS 2000, SP2. I am having a problem with some users not being able to read some of the exported Excel reports when they are opened, (they refer to the report as "gobbledygook"), but they are able to read other exported Excel reports. In both cases the reports are emailed through Reports Manager. These are very simple reports that do not contain formulas or large amounts of text. I can email the same report to two different people, and one person cannot read the report, and the other person has no problem. In another situation, I created the report in Visual Studio.net, saved it in Excel on my local disk, attached it to an email, and the recipient could not read it. I deployed the same report to Reporting Se ...Show All