fblair's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ C++/CLI confusion about % vs. ^

  Just a little confusion I am hoping someone can help clear up... I have a method passing in a handle to a Point structure to which I make changes to X and Y values. On return to the caller I find that the Point values are no different. The declareation is Point ^pPt Now if I instead use Point% pPt for passing a reference then any change to pPt.X or pPt.Y works. I thought I could treat Point ^pPt similar to a pointer where changes to pPt->X, p ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums MS Office document and image writer print driver

  Besides removing this feature from Office during setup, is there a process to remove this virtual printer from 300 users with roaming profiles on an active directory network We are having an issue with this printer assuming the "default printer" selection for our users. As a work around we have changed their default printer, but after they reboot or log off / on it has defaulted back to the MS Ofc doc and image writer printer. ...Show All

• SQL Server Full-Text Population Fails for Specific Table

  I have a SQL Server 2000 database with the latest service pack (3 ). For some time, I've had full-text indexing working. Eventually, one of my full-text catalogs failed to populate. After a rebuild, I still couldn't populate it. I dropped it and recreated several catalogs. Eventually, I was able to get all of the original tables into a full-text catalog that populates except one. The offending table has less than 4000 rows in it. It is now in it ...Show All

• SQL Server How xml could help us with our ETL processes on daily-basis?

  Hi all of you, I'm just a newbie with XML. Now we're moving all our DTS to SSIS packages. Most of them are simply processes that takes a plain file and loading these data into Sql table or in inverse way. So that I wonder what role will play XML here. I mean, are there big differences between store data as XML format and nvarchar That sort of stuff. Thanks in advance for any input, Oh, there's a whole religous debate to be ...Show All

• Visual Studio set credentials for ReportViewer?

  This can't be rocket science. In RS 2000, I could set a credential like this: rs.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(repSvcUserID, repSvcPwd, repSvcDomain) What is the equivalent to this in RS 2005, when calling a report via a webform reportViewer control I've found some very complicated examples of creating your own class with IReportServerCredentials, but I can't seem to get it to work. Is there some simple example avai ...Show All

• Visual Basic ASP.NET Web Pages and CSS

  Hello! When placing Divs, ASP.NET controls or any other page elements, their position and size (and other CSS atributes) are placed in style atributes in the web page, by default. Since I like to separate presentation and formating (namely the positioning of elements) from the HTML code, i always use external style sheets, identifying elements with the id or class atribute. I was wandering if it is possible to configure VS 2005 to write ...Show All

• .NET Development How to use System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient via SSL and Authentication?

    Below is my code, and is just blocked there. There is no any error message. '=============================================>         Dim msg As String = "---"         Try             Dim strAddress As String = " xxx@xxxx.com "             Dim s ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Cannot bind to child list" exception with IListSource

  Hi, I implemented an IListSource with one read/write property which is a collectionBase. When I bind it to a datagrid, i get the said the "cannot bind to child list" exception. The codes look like this CarsCollection col = new CarsCollection(); // ... populate with Car objects here CarListSource list = new CarListSource(col); dataGrid1.DataSource = list.Cars;   This one works! the property Cars return a stongly typed CarsCollection&n ...Show All

• Visual C++ Mixing Managed and Unmanaged C++

  Hi All, I'm a beginner in this managed C++. Currently, all of our existing system is coded in unmanaged C++ w/ OpenGL. Then, at the moment, there is a need to produce a binary file that is readable both in current C++ and C# (using BinaryReader). With this requirement, I ASSUME that I need to code that file function in managed C++ inside the current system. However, there are a lot of errors coming out as soon as I switch the /clr switch o ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Oleboundcontrol

  Hi Everyone, This is my first time to post a question about VFP 6.0.  I want to display a .JPG pict on the oleboundcontrol but everytime i try to retrieve a .JPG it displays only the icon and not the actual picture.  It seems that it only supports the .BMP pictures, how can I get the .JPG and displays it. Thank you in advance. VFP avid fan Thanks for the response. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you meant but it works. I tri ...Show All

• Visual Basic Newbie with User Control Problem

  Hi I recently built my first user control, a few weeks ago, and all of a sudden today I started having the following problem... When i make changes to the user control, and hit F5 on my test project, the changes are not appearing (it's as if an old version of my code keeps running). If i publish and run the executable, the changes are there, but if i go back to the designer, my F5 still seems to be latched onto an old control. I wasn't hav ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Speed of XAML

  Is it possible for you guys to give us a realistic timeline on when XAML wil be ready to be a actual viable option to develop applications for E.g when will the whole framework standardize and when will we be able to develop apps that won't run at snail speed Thank you very much, Jaco There are many applications in development today, and some are even available for evaluation. The February CTP ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance Problem

  We have a web server and a database application on the backhand. the use case is we wanna use minumum CPU resources. So to achieve that we are considering two options 1.to put all the data into one 500 GB disk 2.to put data into 10 harddisk size of 50 GB which one more performant ...Show All

• Windows Forms when right click at the text box,...

  when right click at the text box, there are "copy", "paste",..., "Right to left reading order" , "Show unicode control characters" and "Insert unicode control character" Is there anyone know how to remove the lowest three i.e. Right to left reading order", "Show unicode control characters", and "Insert unicode control character" thanks in advance ...Show All

• .NET Development Retain the State of Page if Session Expires

  Hiii, I am developing web application in .NET. If some how while filling any page the users session expires i am redirecting him to the login page..but that means he has to fill the complete details again for that particular page. I want when he clicks on Submit button of that page I will check the particular condition in header and if Session expires-a login page pop up should come where i will again ask for user name and password. Aft ...Show All