Christian Kaelin's Q&A profile

• .NET Development additional space character corrupts mail format

  Hello World, I want to update a template file 'mail1.html', have a web form replace some text, and send the mail when the user submits a form. This works fine most of the time, but sometimes I get extra space characters in the output that can break the html format. For example: <TD> gets changed into < TD>. The template contains html code for the layout (a table) and the strings '#App#' and '#Req#' which must be replaced by the variables as shown. If I send the template directly without updates it works fine, if I update it it works most of the time, but sometimes there ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Setting papersize in Crystal Report from Foxpro

  Hi Friends, i am using Crystal Report 9 + SP5 & Visual Foxpro 9 + SP1 All reports are created on "TVS MSP 355/XL Classic Printer", and the paper size used is 8" X 6", 210mm X 12" & 15" X 12". When i deploy my reports & software to client's machine, the paper size turns into default printer's paper size. how i code so that the software will automatically set the papersize i required. "crxreport.papersize = " doen't work. and please tell me what is the value of for above mentioned paper sizes Thanks in advance and how many pixels in one inch please tell me what value ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Binary data in XML-Registry Configuration Service Provider

  Hi, I got the same problem of: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer/browse_thread/thread/52de158231fd6225/65711ced96f5522e lnk=st&q=%22datatype%3Dbinary%22&rnum=10 When I look at the sample: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/devguidesp/html/sp_wce51samaddingkeyvaluesmodifyingvalueozup.asp I see this: <parm name="TestValueInteger" value="5iAGkAbgBhAHIAeQAgAGIAbABvAGIA" datatype="binary" /> What is 5iAGkAbgBhAHIAeQAgAGIAbABvAGIA It is not HEX, is it base64 or anything else If I want to input 0x01, what value s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Looking for a solution using SMTPMail

  Hi all, I was hoping someone might be able to help. I am generating different lists of people using varying different criteria and with this list I need to email all those in it. So I am looking for the best practice. I will take a stab and what I have so far is to... 1) Generate the list 2) Create the MailMessage object and SMTP object 3) Se ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there a planned delivery date for .NET Framework 1.1 SP2

  Hi We are experiencing a serious issue that results in our application not operating correctly if SP1 of Windows 2003 is installed on the server. We have a WinForms client/server application using .NET remoting This is due to incompatibilities between .NET Framework 1.1 (installed on the clients) and the version of .NET framework installed on the Windows 2003/SP1. There is a hotfix available, but we have been asked to pay a substantial amount of money for us to bundle this into our application. Our customers would not be able to absorb these costs. So please can Microsoft advise us when this is planned to be released. The hotfix t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Why can't I install .net framework2.0???

  when i try to install visual basic express 2005, it says "fial to install framework2.0, and ingnor to install vb express 2005" But why thank you very much to answer!! We are going to need more informationm then that... What is the exact error message. Have you checked to make sure that you hardware and Operating system meet the requirments. Also I would perform a windows update and make sure that your OS is up to date. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hide the first Column

  Is there a way to hide a Column in a DataGrid I wish to hide the first column of a DataGrid but I don't just simply want to remove the Column as I'm using the value of that Column to execute a stored procedure. Hope this makes sense. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to scale down database diagram to fit into a page for SQL 2005?

  In sql 2000 enterprise manager, diagram, I can right click and get page setup where I can shrink the size of the diagram to fit page. In the SQL 2005 diagram, How can I adjust the size of the image printed on paper Did Microsoft take this useful feature away I figured it out and wrote this doc for my development team. How To Use Diagram In SQL 2005 Stephan Loh The Database Designer is a visual tool that allows you to design and visualize a database to which you are connected. When designing a database, you can use Database Designer to create, edit, or delete tables, columns ...Show All

• Visual C++ Version problem MSVCR80.dll

  Hello, I just downloaded VS C++ Express Edition, and tried to build a console application using command-line. When I start the app it does not find MSVCR80.DLL. I digged into the problem, and found out that my installation of VS is version 8.0.50727.42, but the header file crtassem.h says it is version 8.0.50608.0. The latter version number is entered into the manifest file when it is generated, and I actually don't have this version of the DLL. I cannot explain that. After VS I only installed the Platform SDK, and don't believe the file was overwritten. What is going on Gerd You have done too much digg ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Why so many big structures in managed directx?

  I was told to ask this question here to get an answer: struct Caps 304 bytes struct Material 68 bytes ... These big structures are used as properties and passed here and there. Isn't this a big performance penalty I checked the generated asm code, and it seems these's no optimization to remove the overhead. So anyone knows why There is no difference between a struct and a class except for the fact that a struct has public members and a class has private. The old C style structs were different and needed typedef. But with C++ and now C# the struct and class are the same creature. ...Show All

• Visual C# ComboBox and dynamic DataSource !!

  Hello everyone ! Thats probably a pretty basic question that relates to every control that can use collections as datasources. I set ComboBox's DataSource property to a List<String> collection. It works fine when the collection already contains something but each time i add a new string to it (to the collection), the ComboBox doesn't show the new value. In other words, it seams to be working in somesort of "disconected mode" !! Thanks ! P.S. I am still waiting for my .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 books to be delivered so please do excuse me if i am asking questions i should already have the answers for ! ...Show All

• SQL Server Full Text Index for AdventureWorks Document Table

  I am working the Books Online documentation for the full-text search feature of SQL Server 2005 Express Advanced and having a problem following the instructions. I made sure to choose the "Full Text Search" option during installation of VB 2005 Express Advanced. I downloaded, installed, and attached the AdventureWorks database successfully. I checked to ensure that the database was enabled for full-text search, but could not follow the instructions for indexing a table within the database. Here are the instructions from Books Online: To enable a table for full-text indexing Expand the server group, expand ...Show All

• Visual C# Generic class instances in a strongly typed collection

  Hello everyone, I would like to know how I can store instances of a generic class in a strongly typed collection, where none of the instances have to be instantiated with the same type parameter(s). To illustrate my question: I want to store MyGenericClass<int> a , MyGenericClass<string> b and MyGenericClass<Guid> c (instances of MyGenericClass<T> ) in a strongly typed collection. But a List<MyGenericClass<object>> instance did not work for me, since the compiler says that MyGenericClass<string> (or whatever) cannot be cast to MyGenericClass<object> . Maybe semi-strongly-typed-collection w ...Show All

• SQL Server Insert or Update null if the value is zero using Trigger on table

  Hi , I have 2 tables (Dept and Emp) The columns in table Dept are Deptno and Deptname. Deptno is bigint and it is primary key. In Emp table, columns are Empno(PK) ,EmpName and Deptno(foreign key referring to Dept) To Insert or Update record in Emp through application, value of Deptno is coming as 0(Zero). I want the value of Deptno to be inserted or updated as null if the value is Zero (0). How to do this in sql server 2005 by using trigger on table Emp Thanks in advance regards, Srinivas Govada I have a solution on sql server 2000, but I think there isn't many difference between 2000 and 2005. CREATE ...Show All

• Visual C++ mfc and directx

  hey guys, i have a static library that implement some direct3d functionality. and i come to do the exe. i mase an mfc with shared dll project dialog based. i includes my static library in the exe ran it. some parts of direct3d functionality worked, and others did. one that didnt work was very basic, which was creating an array of materials like follows: NMaterial* m_pMaterial = new NMaterial[m_dwNumOfMaterials]; LPNTexture* m_pTextures = new LPNTexture[m_dwNumOfMaterials]; when i initialize those arrays in that exe i get an exeption, telling me "Out Of Memory". now, i used that same static library ina empty win32 exe with just an ...Show All