ArcJeremy's Q&A profile

• SQL Server External columns vs. output columns?

  Can someone please explain the difference between Output and External columns I can't fathom why "Output" columns aren't good enough. In other words, what is there a need or value in having two types of "output" columns TIA, Barkingdong barkingdog wrote: Your answers (including Jamie's too) surprised me. But I need to slow you down a bit (that's the problem with exper ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Changing Colors of Vertex Buffer

  Greetings: I have an issue that I have been unable to resolve by searching google, but that's probably because I do not yet enough enough about DirectX to know what to search for. I have an application that's very simple from a graphics perspective. I have a series of verticies stored in a vertex buffer. Using DrawUserPrimitive and various transformations, I am able to render the contents of my buffer according to my plans. My issue is ...Show All

• SQL Server Keyset does not exist

  I get this error when trying to deploy a report from VS2005, when trying to get to the report manager page, when trying to do anything in SSMS with the report server. Keyset does not exist (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80090016) (rsRPCError) (Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics) Can anyone give me a clue what to do I had the same problem so changed my Windows Service Identity to Network Service. I know th ...Show All

• Visual C# RGB Color Combination

  Hi, How to apply RGB Color combination to any control forecolor or background colour. Is there any direct method is available for this You can use the Color.FromArgb method to create a Color structure from the four 8-bit ARGB components (alpha, red, green, and blue) values. int red = 50; int green = 50; int blue = 50; control.BackColor = Color.FromArgb( red, green, blue ); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Console applications output

  I plan on making a program which uses various console applications. I was wondering whether there was a way to make the console text output show up in a second window or picture box of the GUI I am making. Polling means that you create and start a Thread (with the ThreadProc() mentioned above as the thread routine), which will try to read the standard output as long as the application getting called exist ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Download.com

  Hi, I wrote a program and uploaded it to www.download.com . They copy-protected and configured my .exe file to "try & buy" with their Protexis technology, then they gave it back to me in a zip file with this readme.txt file: What's in this zip file - YourProductName.dat: This is your original application, encrypted and renamed as a .dat file. For example, if your file was called YourProductName.exe, it is now encrypte ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Open a window in front of the current one with the mouse Event

  The window opened in Button Click Method is displayed in the front of the parent Window. void OnButtonClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { MyWindow window=new MyWindow(); window.Show(); } But, when i tryed the mouse, the new window is at the behind. void OnDoubleClick(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e) { MyWindow window=new MyWindow(); window.Show(); } How ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Start page question

  On the start page, there's a list of recent projects. I to remove projects from this list to remove clutter. The only way that I found was to move the directory and then click on the link. VS then asks me if I want to remove it since it cannot find the directory. Is there a better way Thanks, LGuy I think the existing project list in Start Page come from MRU List stored in the registry, but the Start Page scrip ...Show All

• Visual C# Solution files

  How do I create 2 or more than 1 solution files for the same project file in the same folder. I actually need one for 1.1 framework and other for 2.0 framework. Thanks! Well, I should have framed this way. How do I create 2 or more than 1 solution files for the same cs file in the same folder. I actually need one for 1.1 framework and other for 2.0 framework The answer then will be simple...got it!!! ...Show All

• .NET Development Error on adding custom section to roaming users configuration

  Hi, I'm actually trying to write a custom configuration section class and use it to write into a roaming users file. I took the base code on MSDN Help, but the example works only with ConfigurationUserLevel.None. In my application I like to use ConfigurationUserLevel.PerUserRoamingAndLocal. In fact all works well, I can build the section object, and can attach it to the configuration, but if I try to set the SectionInformation.ForceSave to true ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express Edition Release Candidates

  Hello Will there be any Visual Studio Express Edition Release Candidates and when will they be available Also if you could make them available to the general public not just subscribers that would be great. thanks Jason D. well, actually are some issues in beta2 that are fixed in RC which are important for me ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista 5308 refuses to activate. Any way to retrieve files?

  We upgraded a windows XP machine (non-domain) to Vista 5308 recently. Upon trying to activate we kept getting an activation error 0x8007000 "Data is invalid". It only once came up with an option to activate by phone. However when the form came up, the activation codes that normally appear for you to read to the automated system were blank. We had forgotten about the issue for a few weeks as other development issues had taken preceden ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cannot find .exe...

  Hi, I have a program in VC ++ 2005 (Express) and have generated a .exe, and it I paste in my pocket, but when I try to execute it the following message goes out for me: " Cannot find 'Project1.exe' (or one of its components). Make sure the path ... ". I cannot do a debug from the program either. It is necessary to install something additional for the functioning of the programs Thanks I am afraid this is not enough ...Show All

• Windows Forms User session logoff from within Windows form C# app.

  I'm trying to build an app that has a logout button. I just want the user to be able to log out of their Windows session from within the Windows Form. I have; [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] public static extern bool ExitWindowsEx(string tes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I... (A sharing question, yeah I know... I know)

  My (Sharing) needs do not include Source. We have a good sized tree and there are probably 20+ 3rd party vendors whose libs we use. We have many versions of our product that we must support. I currently have a 3rd party libs directory in the main tree of all of our products. I then share the libraries into that directory structure as follows: \prodcuct 3rdPartyLibs VendorA Protected Include Lib Public Win32 ...Show All