Stephen Vanterpool's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Size of PDF reports

  Guys, The same of the reports with charts are really around greater than 1mb. I have one report that is above 7mb. Is it really that high for reports with charts That seems a lot. Is there anyway I can shrink the size of the PDFs Thanks, Enkh. You can not control the rendering extensions but you can install a new one. I think that out there are some third party extensions that render to DOC and diff ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Maximum primitivecount

  Hi all, I’m moving over to DirectX from OpenGL for my CAD program. Just found that there is a maximum primitivecount limit, I can easily have 1,000,000 plus verities (Circles and Arcs use a lot!). I’m using One big Vertex buffer, for every thing, before I start splitting things up I just want to make sure that I have not missed anything obvious and that I have no alternative. I very new to DirectX you see! Cheers Julian ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting Folder Information from another PC

  Hi, I'm relatively new to Visual Basic Express, and I thought, as I'm having experience programming Visual Basic 6.0 applications, I should not be confronted with so many problems. The application I'm developing at the moment needs information of files which are saved on another computer. I have already written a method copying a file to the local computer's "My Documents" folder. My Problem is: I want to copy all files in a specified directory. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error: SourceSafe web service cannot be accessed: Machine name does not match SSL

  Hiya, I get the following error when trying to connect to a newly installed SourceSafe database: The SourceSafe Web Service cannot be accessed because the server name specified in the following address does not match the machine name for which the SSL certificate was issued. http://myURL/sharename/VssService.asmx Now... The funny thing here is that I do not use SSL for this link, and SSL is turned off both in the SourceSafe Administrati ...Show All

• Visual Studio Working with IOleCommandTarget.Exec() parameters

  Hi, I am trying to handle different commands in my VSPackage. I am using C# and have the following function in my package: public int Exec ([ InAttribute ] ref Guid pguidCmdGroup, [ InAttribute ] uint nCmdID,[ InAttribute ] uint nCmdexecopt, [ InAttribute ] IntPtr pvaIn, [ InAttribute ] IntPtr pvaOut ) { } My VSPackage has a toolbar and there is a combo box in this toolbar. I want to put my data (a string list) in ...Show All

• SQL Server Pckg variable not getting set

  I have created a simple package to zip a file. I am determining the file to be zipped dynamically at runtime using the Script task. I have a package variable defined as ReadWrite in the script task; I am attempting to store the dynamically determined file name to this package variable. The code I am using to assign the value to the variable is: Dim LatestBackupName As String Dim ZipName As String Dts.Variables ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Starter Kits not Working

  hi, i have VB Express & VWD Express install via full images, but the PayPal Starter Kit and Shareware Starter Kit does not apperar in the new project dialog. how can i fix this thanks, AB They are telling you to add your own name > YourMovieList Remove the $ - - - $ and the namespace would be called  > safeprojectname, which does not represent much. Name it anything you want. Hope this helps ...Show All

• SQL Server ETL using SSIS

  Hi guys, I have been able to put together a simple SSIS package and familiarize with how it works. Now as I am trying to put together this ETL job I am stuck and am looking for some recos: I need the source system to be able to do a join on my Datawarehouse table and push thru only those rows which I am interested in. Can this be done using one of the Data flow task Presently we do it by using staging area, creating temp tables, doin ...Show All

• Windows Forms use a variable to cycle through textboxes

  I have about 15 textboxes, all of which I want to save in a string array. Right now I just code: array[0] = txtbx1.text array[1] = txtbx2.text.... and so on. Is there a way that I can use a for loop and use x  instead of 1 and 2. so it would look like this:   For( x=0;x<=15;x++) { array[x]=txtbx + x.text; } instead of writing it 15 times Thanks. Use the Controls property of th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Inheriting Form Issue in VB2005

  Hello All, As usual, I think I'm doing something that's not "Kosher" in trying to inherit a form to a new Item. I get a ton of errors including data connection, etc. The solution works and builds, publishes and all that, but there seems to be settins somewhere that are pointing the inherit function somewhere else. Please Help...I don't want to redo all of those controls and buttons again on the new pages. Th ...Show All

• Visual C# OpenFileDialog - Getting the Initial Directory

  When an "OpenFileDialog" is opened, and "OpenFileDialog1.InitialDirectory" is left as the default "", the dialog will open to the folder that was used previously by the application.  How can I "Get" this directory I want to look in the last accessed folder for a particular file and load it on startup, if the file exists.  To do so, I need to know what folder was last used by OpenFileDialog1.  Anyone know how to get that Than ...Show All

• Visual C++ Enabling and disabling Remote desktop, Programetically

  hi all, I am stuck by the problem of enabling and disabling Remote Desktop protocal. anybody has a solution for this, this will be of great help to me. bye and thank you MOINUDDIN Hi there, I believe that Remote Desktop is controlled via a Registry key. Please see this link for details: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/04/serverhacks_remote.html If that's the case then in your program all you need to do ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to create a Custom directshow source filter

  error description: ..\DXSDK\Samples\C++\DirectShow\BaseClasses\ctlutil.h(278) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Is there any new version dxsdk can solution the problem Must Rewrite these codes to solution the problem thinks for answer. Take a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewasson/archive/2005/05/23/421116.aspx . ...Show All

• Windows Forms can I use c# to explore 3D model made by VRML ? or any other better way?

  I wanna to construct a 3D map (just for a very small area, less than 10 buildings), I wonder if I can use c# to explore 3D model made by VRML or any other better way to do this many thanks as always! ...Show All

• Visual C# ConfigurationManager not working ConfigurationSettings obsolete...

  When I use ConfigurationSettings, I get... Warning 1 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' is obsolete: 'This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings' When I use ConfigurationManager I get... Error 1 The type or namespace name 'ConfigurationManager' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Configuration' (are you missing an assembly referenc ...Show All