Steve Wash's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration is somewhat confusing

  I think I registered successfully but I haven't received a key, only a thank-you email. Does anyone understand exactly what is supposed to happen when registering Thanks. i'm having the same problem and i need to sort the key out as using the package for my studies just received 5 thank you emails and no product keys at all can anyone from microsoft shed any light on this issue ...Show All

• Windows Forms foreach statement

  This foreach statement don't loop to the next item in the arraylist(resluts) Can somebody tell me what is wrong with it Thanks public void IAVAs() { UpdateStatus1("Installing COTS Upgrades: HotFixes Updates", null); lib.InstallCommand(); foreach (string Item in resluts) { string selectionCriteria = "//iavaInstallCmd[..//SubKey = '" + Item + "'] | //iavaInstallParams [..//SubKey = '" + Item + "']"; find(selectionCriteria, "d:\\Tier1\\SptTools\\iava.xml"); strCmd = hotFixDes ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Distorted texture after lost/reset device

  Hi, I'm drawing a textured mesh using DrawIndexedPrimitive, using an effect interface. After a windowed/full screen toggle the texture appears distorted. Interestingly when I draw another mesh in wireframe mode in the same render call the problem doesn't occur. Can somebody help Nico Depending on where you load the textures to, you need to release them and recreate them. Make sure that you are properly handling them. Look at the Samples in the DirectX SDK install directory and also under lost devices in the documentation. It explains clearly how you must handle a lost device and how to reset it. I hope thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Caching SAML tokens

  Hello, I have implemented a web service in WCF that bases its authorization on claims provided in SAML tokens. I am using SecureCommunication in order to keep the channel between the client and the service for several interactions. The SAML token that is used for authorization is passed with the RST/SCT issue request from the client to the service. Now I would like to get the SAML token from this request and cache it together with the identifier of the SCT so next time the service gets a request with same security context it could retrieve the SAML token and verify in regard to the new request. I have gotten mixed up with <ServiceAuthr ...Show All

• .NET Development API for deleting Certificate Revocation List (CRL) from certificate store

  Hi, Is there any API in .NET which can be used to delete CRL from certificate stores Thanks in advance ~Shriram Hi Shriram, There is currently no way of deleting a CRL from the certificate stores through the .NET APIs. My best suggestion would be to PInvoke to CertDeleteCRLFromStore(). Brian Stern [MSFT] ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ; after every line in int main() {}

  I read in a tutorial that at the end of every line in the int main() {} . But then I had a bunch of problems coming up with this code and one of the main problems was the fact that I put semicolons at the end of every line in the int main function. Here is the code: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int choice; cout << "Enter the number 1 if you want the color blue \n"; cout << "Enter the number 2 if you want the color red \n"; cout << "Enter the number 3 if you want the color green \n"; cout << "Enter the number 4 if you want the color orange \n&qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio BindingList<T>

  I have a class with a property of type BindingList<T>, and when I try to select "Show as Collection Association" in the class designer, I get a message, "Cannot show as collection association when the member is a weakly typed collection." Is this a bug Or do I not understand the BindingList class correctly - I thought it was a strongly-typed collection of objects of type T. If I change the type of the property to an IList<T>, class designer does draw a line to the associated type T on the diagram. Thanks. Hi, This looks like a bug in the implementation of collection heuris ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Subscription sends wrong version

  I have a report that's scheduled to run once a month on a timed subscription (using a shared schedule).  The Report Delivery Options are set to include the report as a PDF embedded within the email notification.  The report has also been set to record a snapshot each time it is run. The first month, the report was embedded as planned. The second month, the wrong report was sent.  The PDF that was generated in the prior month was resent, not a new instance of a PDF based on the current data.  The emailed link to the report on the server worked fine, and the history shows that the snapshot was recorded at the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions formating Numbers in Text Box

    If I format ("##.0") or use VB express formating "f1" then when I type number like 45, text box willl show 54.  How do I change that.  Without formating function, textbox input works fine. Any help is appreciated! KCtin   I just did something like this the other day. I had to display and HTML RGB color number and wanted to display leadin zeros, but in HEX. Format didn't seem to do that so I did this:   HexStr = Hex(temp) Protected sZeroStr As String = "000000" Protected Const cStrlen As Byte = 6 TbHex.Text = sZeroStr.Substring(0, ...Show All

• Visual Basic Connecting .VB Local App to SQL 2005 across internet.

  Is the connection I am creating in my vb local application to the SQL database secure Does this connection get encrypted by default I'm using the Dataset Designer but I don't see anything concerning the Transport level of the connection itself. I did find the DSACryptoServiceProvider RSACryptoServiceProvider but I'm wondering if this is what I need to do to create a secure connection to the datbase over a public network. Maybe this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189067(SQL.90).aspx is what you are looking for Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2005 debug CRT does not report file/line info for heap corruption

  Hi hyslopc! I just ran a test of the VS 2005 beta 2 debug CRT library _CrtSetDbgFlag(_CRTDBG_ALLOC_MEM_DF | _CRTDBG_DELAY_FREE_MEM_DF | _CRTDBG_CHECK_EVERY_1024_DF | _CRTDBG_CHECK_CRT_DF); char * Test = new char [3]; Test[3] = '\0' ; // Cause memory corruption delete Test; This results in a dialog box being shown which says that a heap overwrite occured with allocation X at location Y.  No really useful information such as the filename/line number where the allocation occurred, or the number of bytes allocated. If I jump into the debugger at that point, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity naming conventions and ActivityToolboxItem

  What's the convention for naming activities in WWF supposed to be In earlier betas, there was not a clear convention, but I did noticed that all WWF built-in activities are named XxxActivity (i.e. CodeActivity), which sounds like a good naming convention to me. I only have one minor issue with this: How activities are then represented in the Workflow Designer toolbox: For the WWF built-in activities, the "Activity" suffix is removed. However, if you create a custom activity and use the Activity suffix as well, it is not removed and the item always appears as XxxActivity in the toolbox. AFAICT, this is actually done by the Activity ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Integration with Jbuilder

  Hi, Is there integration or VSTS plug in which can be installed in Jbuilder 2005/2006 This feature is needed for source control and work items tracking abilities. Thanks, Michael According to http://info.borland.com/techpubs/jbuilder/jbuilder9/teamdev/vss0intro.html , JBuilder supports integration with SourceSafe.  Thus, it may work with the new, pre-beta release of the MSSCCI client for TFS.  You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-88BDF15F551C&displaylang=en . Let us know if that works. Buck ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Additional Cash and Prizes at IMProvCenter.Com

  Use the Akonix L7 Builder SDK and host your bot for free at the IMProv Center during the contest period and you can win additional prizes. See: http://www.improvcenter.com/MSN_Bot_Contest.aspx WARNING: Before using Akonix L7 Builder to build your bot, and definitely before using the IMProv trial hosting, I would like everyone to consider this: If you sign up to the hosting, you are agreeing to their trial hosting agreement . Most people would probably not read this, but Steve pointed me to this specific clause: 1.3 (iii) You covenant and agree that you will not attempt to patent, or otherwis ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance Hit after upgrading to SQL 2005

  I am hit with bad performance after upgrading my sql 2000 to sql 2005 version. All the infrastructure remains expect the performance :( Please provide any pointers /guidelines so that I will check the same. Thanks in Advance Varun I had the same problem -- we got a new server to run sql server 2005. It was a major upgrade over the old server. When we started testing our code on the new machine, we found that a significant amount of our code ran a lot slower on the new machine with sql 2005. Eventually we were able to change our code, mostly through trial and error, to get the performance we expe ...Show All