Steve Sartain's Q&A profile

• SQL Server datetime HOUR function format

  I am using reporting services to make a matrix. The row value is the date portion of DateIn. The value is a count of transactions. The column type is the problem. It is the hour part of the timein value. I got it from the database like this: {fn HOUR(dbo.[Transaction].[TimeIn])} AS Hour This works, but gives 24 hour time (and only the hour part, so it looks like 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, etc.) I want it to look like 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 12: ...Show All

• Visual C++ Ideas

  I am starting a projec that takes the color and locations of pixels of a certian color on the screen, and turns it into data. The data will be written in the form of a calculated arc that can be drawn from one spot to another. Oh yah, by the way, the whole thing must run behind another program and must stuff the video buffer to over ride all graphical output to the screen. Anyone wanna help me get started in the right direction/ Hi Kyle, Th ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista State Machine Design Question

  I am trying to build a state machine workflow that contains a state called the "ReviewState". The purpose of the review state is to wait until N users perform a review on a target document. Also, if a review by a particular user is not performed within a specific time I would like to take some alternate action. My question is as follows: How do I design a State such that it stays in the state until N users perform some discrete action ( like fir ...Show All

• .NET Development WebClient.UploadFile (or WebRequest) with larger files

  I have a utility to upload files to my web site. I actually have two chunks of code I'm testing with, one which calls WebClient.UploadFile and the other which uses one of the WebRequest approaches to upload the file bytes. With a smaller file (say, 50k'ish) either approach works just fine. With a somewhat larger file (say, 400k'ish) I'll get timeout errors. I'm unlikely to be uploading anything larger than half a Meg. The WebRequest code is ve ...Show All

• Visual Basic Change Connection String At Run Time

  Is this even possible I want the user to be able to select a database file from a open file dialog box. From there I know how to create the string however by using: My.Settings.connectionString is read only. Any ideas on how to be able to change the connection string based on what the user selects Thanks, chris you may wish to look at this suggestion: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Pos ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mouse Hit Testing when primatives used not meshes

  I did search the existing threads and have read them - those that I can understand - but they do not seem to apply - at least with my limited understanding. I have a "2D" card game started in DirectX3D using managed C#. I read Tom Miller's book as the basis and starting point. I have several "playing" cards rendered as CustomVertex.PositionedNormalTextured that I add to a VertexBuffer. I draw them with the DrawPrimative ...Show All

• Visual Basic DatagridTextBoxColumn WORDWRAP

  Hi everyone. I have a datagrid working just fine. I added a tablestyle to it and now I want to make my textboxcolumns to use wordwrap. I added the next lines to my columns mytablestyle.gridcolumnstyles(i).wordwrap=True but Its not working at all! Ive read some articles and seen some codes extending the datagridtextboxcolumn but non seem to work. Anyone got a working code How can I make it work You need to make your column style for t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is it Possible for the "end-user" to install and use this program even if the client didn't have .NET

  Hello, You kinda got my question on the title: Is it Possible for the "end-user" to install and use this program even if the client didn't have .NET but what I REALLY want to ask is that even if the client didn't have .NET framework installed, is it possible to make the software "user-workable" even without having .NET installed... you know how if I were to install Word 2003, and I didn't have .NET framework, it still installs Word 2003 and work ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activities Menu Unavailable

  I've noticed a number of instances with users not being able to access our P4 application because the Activities menu is consistently unavailable.  I have witnessed this situation myself over several  home broadband connections and the Activity list comes up with the following message: "List of games or activities is temporarily unavailable. Please close and try again later." I initially thought this was due to a restriction on the c ...Show All

• Visual Basic A few questions

  Hi, I'm making a video game for the latest visual basic software.  So far I made a character creation thing with race/class/etc.  I had a few questions - how would you get one variable (for example strength) and have one for the user, but also use that individually for other monsters.  How do you modify the code on your program ( I had some errors because i had two forms have the same name on accident...) yeah im a noob but im sta ...Show All

• Visual Studio can't attach to aspnet_wp.exe in vs 2005--could in vs 2003

  After installing vs 2005 I can no longer attach to aspnet_wp.exe for managed code. It will attach for t-sql. I get the following error box: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Unable to attach to the process. Check for one of the following. 1. The application you are trying to debug uses a version of the Microsoft .NET Framework that is not supported by the debugger. 2. The debugger ...Show All

• .NET Development VB.Net and Access - running a stored query, putting it in a dataset then updating it!

  Hi there. i am very new to vb.net and am using a simple MS Access Database. i have a table with user names in Access and a stored Query in there which will pick out the username and password if correct. In vb i have a simple logon form which should get the user's input in the username and password text boxes, then it calls the stored query in Access and checks the information for a correct user. Once it has done this it then should upd ...Show All

• Visual C# Please help, need help with AJAX...

  Hi All,     I have a requirement in which i need to run a script(Javascript probably) in the background(might be windows.setimeout) which sends req to process an aspx page to see whether there is any new tasks assigned to the logged in person. If so I need to refersh the particular grid which shows the details and also need to pop up a small window(like a new mail popup window in outlook, or in yahoo or msn messenger) saying that ...Show All

• SQL Server where to place articles

  I have a design that includes articles that will be searched. Obviously its too slow to put them into fields, and impossible because some have photos or are otherwise html documents. So I want to put pointers to their location. Two questions. For each deployment, both desktop and web, where is the best place to put the articles. In any folder, or only in an iis virtual folder dennist685 What is the format of the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Coping from a render target to a lockable texture

  I've built a GPU based particle system under Windows which works with the exception of one important part. I need to be able to build a bounding sphere off the particle positions. To do this I wrote a shader that samples nearby texels and finds the min/max and writes to a lower resolution texture (right now, the texture gets 4x smaller each pass) until the final size is < 2x2 texels. The idea would then be to copy that render target to ...Show All