Vladimir Radovic's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Implementing Security in Databases (to reduce loss due to theft, etc.)

  What is the best way to implement security in a SQL database to reduce the loss in the situation when a database is stolen In my tests for disaster recovery while catering for security I am using create master key with password, create certificate and then symmetric key using certificate. This does require the master database password to be known if restoring on a second machine before anything can be recovered. But is there anyway to s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Numeric Up Downer

  Say I have 10 NUD controls, each which can increment plus or minus max 20 in either direction at .5 increments. How could I get the total of each value to add up in a text box below I've been trying a lot of different things... But it seems that the value of the NUD is .5 more than what shows up in the text box for one. And secondly, I couldn't figure out how to add the values of each when the up down arrows aren't separatable in function from t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Floating point strikes back

  I'm starting to realy hate this floating point hell. I have another problem with floats, and this time I can't see the solution. I have a simple mesh (just a square with two faces with size 100). The vertice list in the x file is as follows: -50.000000;0.000000;-50.000000; 50.000000;0.000000;-50.000000; -50.000000;0.000000;50.000000; 50.000000;0.000000;50.000000; Now, when I access the vertice buffer after loading the mesh, the values are not t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem setting IVsTextLines buffer language GUID

  I'm following the code described in D.Ex Weblog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/dr._ex/archive/2004/08/29/222425.aspx ) to create a code window. I set de language service using the Guid referred {E34ACDC0-BAAE-11D0-88BF-00A0C9110049} for the VB language but I had no success. What is even strange is that if I run the following code Guid vbGuid = new Guid ( "{E34ACDC0-BAAE-11D0-88BF-00A0C9110049}" ); buffer.SetLanguageServiceID( ref vbGuid ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Merging and Branching at MSFT

  Hi, I've read a few blogs on Merging and Branching so I know enough to be dangerous! Whilst reading these blogs I thought; how do MSFT do their branching Let me explain a little and I'll simplify things here. Say VS 2k5 used TF. When MS started they created the project in TF. Files were added to a main branch. Then it came round to Beta 1 time. There must have been some cut off point where they said; right, lets create a branch and call it Beta ...Show All

• Windows Forms Z order with MDI

  Ive got a MDI parent with numerous MDI children, wondering if I can modify the Z order programmatically of the MDI children. I have 2 or 3 different MDI child windows. The user can Tile/Cascade/Maximize these but whenever I open or close a window, or return to Tiled mode from another state, I automatically re-order the windows to ensure that a specific one is at the top, and (if it exists) a specific on ...Show All

• Visual Studio warn if no user code on launch

  I also hav ethis problem and am very irritated.  I don't have this problem in 2003.  I can't use 2005 if I can't get rid of this message. Hi, If you hit F1 when you are on the Tools->Options->Debugging->General page then the context sensitive help that comes up talks about common reasons for getting this error message and how to disable it. For your convenience , here is that online help link: ...Show All

• Visual Basic Updating underlying table

  I have a form based on a BindingSource. The text controls' Data Source Update Mode are set to OnPropertyChanged. The FormClosing method (I almost said "event") has the line Me.nameBindingSource.EndEdit() Changes to the data in the fields on the form are not saved when the form is closed. How can I do this The BindingSource object allows binding and navigation of the underlying data.  Th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do I display Frames Per Second?

  The subject says it all; how do I see what FPS my app is getting DirectX must be stashing that info somewhere! Every example I've seen requires working it out by using a timer and counting how many times a second the screen gets refreshed. But it's possible that it's sitting in there also, it's been a while since I did DX. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Textures flickering

  Hi, I have a scene with some sprites in it. I am using alpha blending on the sprites for transparency and everything is working pretty well however whenever the sprites are more than a certain distance from the camera the textures start to flicker (different pixels vary in intensity). I have tried using two different forms of texture loading: myTexture = ResourceCache.GetGlobalInstance().CreateTextureFromFile(dev, "..\\..\\Textures\\myTex ...Show All

• .NET Development Can a dll built in vs2005 .NET 2.0 be used within vs2003 .NET 1.1

  will vs2003 .NET 1.1 be able to use a dll built in vs2005 .NET 2.0 Cheers, Craig I've tried once to create a 2.0 assembly which I tried to use from a 1.1 project. I tried to use the configuration settings described in the document you mention James. Finally, there was no way I could add a reference of the 2.0 assembly to the 1.1 project. VS2003 kept throwing an exception. ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Tutorials and books

  Hi, As I am confused by searching the net for books and tutorials about C# I ask it here Can somebody give me advice about the following subjects. C# Database Programming C# GDI+ Programming C# Custom Controls C# Generel books are also welcome Greetz I have had the best luck with the C# books from wrox. www.wrox.com They really have some good material and I have learned quite a bit from their books. They are very easy to follow an ...Show All

• SQL Server Deleting Databases in SMO for C#

  Hey all, I was trying to write a C# function that would delete everything in the old database before doing anything new. The following is the code I tried to use for the deleting part. I tried "Killdatabase" but it doesn't seem to be working. Anyway, is there a way to reference the database in the server and send commands to it The compiler gives me a error message saying that srv.Databases("Name") is wrong because I ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista 3 layered architecture - Where to house rules?

  In my business layer I have a business components (BC) assembly and a business workflows (BW) assembly. I plan to have validation rules such as mandoatory field, range validation etc. in the (BC) and business rules/poilicies such as 'calculate order discount' in the BW assembly. All CRUD operations are also implemented in the BC assembly. All services in both assemblies are exposed to the presentation layer through a Services Interface. (To h ...Show All

• .NET Development .manifest file for multiple processor.

  Hi,          I need a single .manifest file for multiple processors(X86 and AMD64). I have given the * to processorArchitecture in manifest file and it is working fine with both the processors. Is there any other way to do for X86 and AMD64 Thanks, Kishore Wani Kishore: I believe that using the * in place of a particular architecture is the recommended way to have an agnostic manifest. Jeff ...Show All