Douwe's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Converting windows application to web service

  hi, MIcrosoft states in their web site " Visual Studio .NET automatically creates the necessary XML and SOAP interface needed to turn an application into a web service." I want to know whether the windows application can be converted into a web service using .NET. thanks sankar definitely it is not possible. I mean, a windows forms application is something very different from a web service. Visual Studio provides you with the tools to easily create and/or expose functionalities as web services but it does not mean that you can "convert" between different purposes applications to web services. Hope it helps Rgds Rodrigo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Grouping data based on a range of values

  Greetings, I have a large result set of data and am trying to group the data based on a range of values stored in the database. For example: Group 1 - must contain all records whose field N has a value of less than 100 Group 2 - must contain all records whose field N has a value between 100 and 200 Group 3 - must contain all records whose field N has a value greater than 200 Group 2 may need to be supressed in the case of an exception report. I have been struggling with this all day and am having no luck. Please can you help me. Thanks, Robert Lancaster Thanks for the response. Doing this at design time is easy. It is the at run/print time that is the problem :( I get passed a date range as an input parame ...Show All

• SQL Server Full Text Search slow, then fast for 30 minutes, then slow again

  We've just upgraded a database to SQL 2005 Standard sp1 on a Windows 2003 sp1 server and we are experiencing a problem with Full Text Search. We recreated a Full Text Catalogue in the new SQL 2005 db and it seemed to populate fine. However, now when we run a query on that FTI for the first time it takes about 30-45 seconds to return a result. After that first query, subsequent queries return the result immediately. Then if there is an approximate 30 minute gap until the next query is run then it goes back to taking 30-45 seconds to return the result. It seems as though the results of the query are cached and remain in the chache as long as queries continue to be submitted at <30 minute intervals. If a query is not submitted in 30 minute ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Speech SDK is a recommended XNA download? :D

  Speech SDK works with XNA :P Why is this marked as answered No one has answered this! UNANSWERED ...Show All

• Windows Forms Get datagridview to respond to hotkeys

  How can I get my datagridview to scroll vertically according to hotkeys pressed If I press R2 then scroll down to row2, row3, etc. I'd like to be able to set the hotkeys and get the datagridview to respond. Thanks for any help. Hi, Try to handle the KeyDown event.                 private void dataGridView1_KeyDown( object sender, KeyEventArgs e)         {             if (e.KeyCode == Keys .F2)             {          & ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET C++ Dynamic Compiling

  Hi all, Although CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider and VisualBasic.VBCodeProvider work well for compiling source code "on the fly", it seems that the C++ version doesn't. Actually, I'm looking for a library that would allow me to compile (unmanaged) C++ source code the same way the CSharpCodeProvider and VBCodeProvider do. It would be better if it was a .NET library but a C++ one would make it. Does anyone know a free C++ compiler library Is it possible to use the one used in VC++ Thanks for your time, Sincerely, Quentin Bereau I'm sure there are lots of reasons why C++ will never see a functional CodeDomProvider implementation. The long and large investment in c1.exe, c2.exe and li ...Show All

• Visual Studio September CTP?

  Anyone have any idea as to when the Sept CTP will be released Thanks John End of this month. Cheers. Anand.. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. PC project -> 360 (including Game Library)

  Hello, I just wrote a little puzzle game (Windos Game Project) and now I want to build the 360 version of it, but I have a little problem (probably PEBKAC *g*) I wrote a content-processor for instanced rendering (overriding ModelProcessor) and implemented a new ContentItem called 'Font'. It reads the *.fnt files from AngelCode Bitmapfont Converter. Because I want to reuse this, I put it into a "Windows Game Library" and everything works fine.. Now, if I try to put my custom content stuff into a XBox 360 Game Lib, the build process told me, that there exists no "TargetPlatform" enum - which is needed for the serialization methods. After thinking about it, I realize, that I wouldn't make sense that th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Partition Keyword

  I have a database with sprocs with some reasonably complex queries containing nested queries. I've tried to import the database schema into DBPro but I get errors on some of the nested queries, in particular on the PARTITION keyword. I have several queries that look like this: (SELECT DISTINCT PlayerId, Runs, Wickets FROM (SELECT B.*, MAX(Wickets) OVER (PARTITION BY B.PlayerId) AS MaxW, MIN(Runs) OVER (PARTITION BY B.Wickets, B.PlayerId) As MinRuns etc... And I get an error "Unexpected token was encountered" on the line with 'PARTITION BY', this happens for a number of the sprocs. I created a SQL Server 2005 db project. Is this a bug ...Show All

• SQL Server Backing up database file groups with SMO

  Hi, I am trying to backup file groups with Backup class: Server svr = new Server(); Backup bkp = new Backup(); bkp.Database = "AdventureWorks"; bkp.Action = BackupActionType.Files; bkp. DatabaseFileGroups .Add("WorkOrderGroup"); bkp.DeviceType = DeviceType.File; bkp.Devices.Add(@"c:\SMOTest_FG.bak"); bkp.SqlBackup(svr); Unfortunately, BackupRestoreBase.DatabaseFileGroups property does not have set method (i.e. it is read-only). How can I perform a database file group backup Thanks in advance, Mark Hi Mark, BackupRestoreBase.DatabaseFileGroups does not have a set method, but you can add DatabaseFileGroups using the Add met ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Sum of hours using select statement & VBA

  Hi - ok here is my question: I have an activity recording form that records hours logged against a company. I have added a field called 'sumactivityhours' to the table and the form.  what i would like to do is when a user selects a company from the drop down list (thanks derek and duck thing for your fantastic help with that problem) it automatically populates the 'sumactivityhours' field with the total number of hours worked thus far with that company  so that the user can see the total hours and then writes that information into the 'sumactivityhours' field in the table. as i gradually begin to learn a little more about VBA im guessing that i should create an on exit event on the companyname combo box that re ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Good Free Unit Test Add-in but not support Team System

  http://www.jetbrains.com/unitrun/ This is a very good unit test add-in.  When team system will support it in future.  This feature I already suggested to Microsoft at 2005 ( https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=119393 ) I am very disappointed in Team System.  I think should I go back to NUnit.  I have not any strong reason to support Unit Test of Team System when I still using Team Edition For Software Developer.   Hi, I think that it is up to the folks at JetBrains to include support for MS Test - and I suspect that they probably are. If you want to use a unit test add-in that works with MS Test in addition to the test runner inc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista InstallLocation in registry uninstall information is not being written when using VS2005 Deployment Project

  Per Vista test case 19 of Vista Logo Certifications, HKLM\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{ProductCode}\InstallLocation can not be null. I am using a simple Setup and Deployment project in VS 2005, and I dont see any option to make that happen. I would have suspected that it would do it by itself. Hmm. I can't seem to find a way to apply a transform using the command line. Orca seems to have options to batch merge modules, but I can't find any info on batching transforms. Could you shed some light please   ...Show All

• SQL Server mapping

  hi! i have two different databases (SQL 2005 and Oracle) and i need to map their tables with one another. how will i do this thanks Actually there is no need to use the brackets unless you have special characters in the names. ...Show All

• Visual C# RETRIEVE IMAGE FROM FOLDER USING SQL QUERY AND CREATING THUMBNAIL

  I am a beginner, but very dedicated student. I have been struggling with a problem for 2 weeks and this is the first time I post to a forum. So, pls bear with me if I am not doing it right. My 1st real Project: Create a picture contest site. Users upload image and visitors vote. Storing images: I read in different places it is better to store the image in a folder instead of SQL 2005, the reason is simple: the Database would become huge. The img would be referenced in the DB and could be retrieved later along with other user info. No problem with storing image and using username to rename it and refer it to the db (error handling not posted): string fileExt; if (FileUpload1.PostedFile.ContentType == "image/ ...Show All