rioja's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Business Intelligence Project

  Hello Where can I download the project type for reporting services I need this for Visual Studios 2003. thanks You can get the trial version from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=ba517c01-2e2f-4bc7-84af-149b7637f807&DisplayLang=en This is the same as the full version.  The designer components are not trial versions and will not expire after 180 days. -Daniel ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Having a cpu usage issue...

  My app is direct3d9 using a small oop framework i made. When the application is running (windowed) my computer has ~15% cpu usage. When i focus another window on top of that one or i minimize the window, cpu usage goes all the way up to 100%... very annoying i really dont know wat the prob is. I think it has smthing to do with the main loop: while (msg.message!=WM_QUIT) { if (PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) { Translat ...Show All

• .NET Development List files on ftp server

  Hello all, i have created an ftp client in C# using Wininet and i am able to download upload files from and to my ftp server, what i would like is to have the list of files and directories on the ftp server using wininet. any help would be great. With WinInet you'll have to PInvoke FtpFindFirstFile and InternetFindNextFile . Just FYI: there is an FtpWebRequest class in 2.0 that can make some operations easier, but doesn't actually ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions If, If Not, Else, End If Expressions

  I am rebuilding a commercial application project that I built in VB6.0. The code is as follows: Private Sub imgPrevious _Click() datMusic.Recordset.MovePrevious If Not (datMusic.Recordset.BOF) Then lblRecordNumber.Caption = Str(datMusic.Recordset. _ AbsolutePosition + 1 Else MsgBox "Already at beginning of table", vbInformation datMusic.Recordset.MoveFirst End If End Sub New Code for 2005 VBExpressEd ...Show All

• SQL Server Can SSIS work in a Cluster

  We have just installed a new SQL 2005 Clustered server and loaded integration services. However it appears that integrations services may not work properly in a clustered environment. So can integration services be setup on a clustered SQL 2005 server Funny, someone asked the same question earlier today. Is it clustering day :) Go here anyway: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=3663 ...Show All

• .NET Development Stepping through a unit test generates MDA FatalExecutionEngineError

  While debugging (stepping through) a Visual basic unit test in VS2005 (RTM) I intermittantly recieve a message box indicating a FatalExecutionEngineError was detected.  Iniside the messagebox it says: The runtime has encountered a fatal error.  The address of the error was at 0x79e74b77, on thread 0xb48.  It continues on with error coe 0xc0000005. "this error may be a bug in the CLR....."  Once this error occurs, i can no lon ...Show All

• Visual Basic Progress bar

  Hey, I have 14 textboxes and a progress bar , and i want it to go up 7% everytime one of the textboxes is filled in. So i have this: Hi, Have you tried changing + and = like this: If text2 > "" Then ProgressBar1.Value += 7 :) Max ...Show All

• Visual Studio DDEX for Compact Framework

  This is something I can't find any documentation for ... I know this can be done, since SqlServerCe does it... Its designer uses SqlServerCe.Client, but when you do databinding and so forth it actually adds a reference to SqlServerCe to your project instead. Does this happen through the FactoryService for the SqlServerCe designer, or somewhere else deeper into the implementation I basically need to let the user design away with the full f ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) extension properties

  When the first Linq preview was released, there was talk of allowing extension properties along with extension methods. At the time, I couldnt see a good reason for having them, but having read "First-class relationships in an object-oriented language" I can now absolutely see a use for them. At least, a very nice syntactic sugar type of use. I know the details on the next Linq release have been short on the ground, but would some Linq ...Show All

• Visual Basic Comparing 2 strings at character level

  I am looking for a way to compare 2 strings and calculate the number of differences between them using visual basic Example compare "THE NETHERLANDS" WITH "THA NOTTHERLENDS" should give back an value of 4 based on 1) "E" in first string position 3 does not match with "A" in second string position 3 2) "E" in first string position 6 does not match with "O" in second string po ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista sidebar gadgets using flash?

  Hello, will the future sidebar gadgets be able to show flash-content like the widgets in Mac OS X Thanks Phunkie I haven't tried it, but you should be able to include the flash ActiveX control in your sidebar gadget. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Mobile Installation Problem on Device

  I have been unable to properly install SQL Mobile 2005 on my armv4i windows CE 5 device. Below is a summary of what I have found and done. Any help in resolving my issue will be appreaciated. Thanks in advance for your help. Symptoms: No errors occur during installation of SQL Mobile on the device via cab files (either deployed through VS2005 or manually copied and installed on the device) SQL Mobile 2005 appears to be instal ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Service won't start

  I've been completely unsuccessful so far in getting the SSIS service to start under normal circumstances. I've got the SQL 2005 RTM DVD and a clean, brand-new installation of Windows 2000 Server (Service Pack 4). All system requirements have been met according to the SQL installer. I choose to install just the Database Engine, SSIS and the Workstation components, all other installation options are defaults except Services, which are set ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Installing help file link

  I have a smart device setup project that is working correctly except for one small item. I created a help file link file "MyApp.lnk" that needs to go in the \windows\Help directory of the pda. When I try to add the file to the file system panel of the setup project I get the following error "Cannot resolve this link. This file may not be a shortcut" Any ideas on how I can fix this thanks,     Solution: Select t ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Standard error on Windows XP Pro SP2

  When I run the SQLSTD.EXE for the September CTP of SQL 2005 Std I get the following error message: "There is not enough space on drive C:\ to extract this package." I have over 13 GBs on C:\ and I've also uninstalled .NET 2 Beta 2. Anything else I need to do to successfully install this TIA The 7zip extraction utility solved my problem--my congrats to them. They should license their product to Microsoft, since i ...Show All