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• SQL Server Currency Conversions

  Hi! I am having trouble wrapping my brain around currency conversions. Here is my situation: My fact table contains values in local currency with a reference to the currency dimension. These local currencies need to be converted to two reporting currencies: Actual Rates and Budget Rates. I have rates on a daily basis for both reporting currencies. How should my table structure look, and how do i set it up in AS so this ...Show All

• SQL Server How to: Query Time only?

  Hi, I would just like to know if there's a simple way of querying a time disregarding the date. I mean, I want to query all employees that spends time on the office after 5pm. I don't care about the date, I just want the time... Im currently achieving this by using DATEPART function and concatenating it to resemble a time. Is there a shorter way of doing this     cheers, Paul June A. Domag FWIW, here's another variation on t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Login Controls - Could DB2 be used?

  I have a problem, I want to develop in .NET 2.0 but I have no access to any type of MS-SQL based server. I'm forced to use a DB2 database. So I'm wondering, how could use the Login Controls in .NET 2.0 and have it talk back to the already existing DB2 database for Username and Password. How can I force it to check an already existing columns and associate them to the username/password in a table in a DB2 database So I can use all t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectDraw Overlay Surfaces Problems

  Hi everyone,     I got problems when using DirectDraw overlay surfaces, in my case, I program with ATI Radeon Serie Cards. when create DDOverlay Surface over certain screen value (960x720) , the graphic data filling to the surface will be displayed in distrotion. every thing showing in blur, however the data itself if ok, so long you got them displayed within (960x720). I also checked the DDCAP data, showing t ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Program to make Development Quicker

  I've made this app that will make your development quicker. It will close msn messenger, copy the 'msgrp2p.xml' to the MSN Messenger directory (which is specified in 'msndir.txt'), then start msn messenger up again. Its made so you dont need to do it manually. You can download it from here: http://msn.balupton.nghosting.org/msnmsngr_quickdev_net2.zip - .NET Framework v2.0 BETA 2 Version http://msn.balupton.nghosting.org/msnmsngr_quickdev_net1.zi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Beginner Question - SQL Server and Crystal Reports

  I have Visual Studio 2003 Standard and have done a lot of programming with VB.NET but haven't used any of the other features of Visual Studio.  I downloaded and installed the MSDE SQL server for Visual Studio 2003 and I would like to  ...Show All

• .NET Development http upload

  hi I am looking for the best solution on uploading files over http. I tried the webclient and the httpwebrequest but without success. whatever help you can give me would be appreciated thanx thanks for the reply Malar. Perhaps 3rd party ftp server is the only way for dev right now. implementing socket server means implementing all the functionallity that i have right now. i'll try to find one. again thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server closing pipelinebuffer

  Is there a way to signal to the PipelineBuffer during ProcessInput that no more rows are necessary Say I have a component's output connected to a custom destination component... in the destination component's properties, I can set the number of rows I want to consume.  (The first 50 rows for example.)  If I do it this way, the source component continues delivering rows - I can set my destination to ignore all rows after 50, but would ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can't install Visio 2005 after installing VS2005 Beta 2

  Hi, Can't install Visio 2005 after installing VS2005 Beta 2. The Visio 2005 Beta 2 Installation program will popup with a message " You must first install Visual Studio 2005 Beta ." Visual Studio 2005 Beta Which is already installed. Regards, Abdoessalam This also works if you install VS 2005 RTM as downloaded from MSDN, and then try to install Visio EA 2005. Used Orca to edit the VisVea.msi file, di ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Should we re-install the Team Foundation Client for TFS RC?

  We are about to migrate from TFS Beta 3 Refresh to RC. Has the Team Foundation Client changed Do developers need to uninstall the Team Foundation Client included with TFS Beta 3 Refresh and install the Team Foundation Client included with TFS RC Yes, you should uninstall Team Explorer from Beta 3 Refresh and install Team Explorer from the RC. Otherwise, you won't be able to access Team Foundation Server RC. ...Show All

• .NET Development Terminating Processes from a Windows Service Cleanly (c#).

  Hi, Recently, I have created a Windows Service in C#; that calls a process (writen previously in c). It starts fine, however im unable to terminate the process cleanly, when the Onstop() is called.   Process.Kill() works, but prevents my process from shutting down cleanly (loses data - that I need). Ideally I need to use the CloseMainWindow() method... but this does not seem to work within a service (as a service does n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Copy a graphic to memory and viceversa

  I've a picturebox with a bitmap and two text printed on it with the .drawstring .drawimage functions Now I need to save this info into memory and plot it again later, how could I do I explain why I need this: I've a form that have some childs  ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC vs C# Winforms (was Can C++ develop web-based applications?)

  I'm in a convo with someone who's continuing to use MFC when he has the opportunity to use C#. Could someone point me to the literature that talks about MFC's originator having second thoughts about it Brian ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista LoadLibrary (regsvr32) fails without Visual Studio 2005

  I've just upgraded from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio 2005. I've got the latest DirectShow stuff (in the platform SDK) and am using it. Everything builds and runs fine on my development machine (which has Visual Studio 2005 installed) but when I try: "regsvr32 "myfilter.ax" on a different machine (without Visual Studio 2005, both machines are WinXP Pro and up to date AFAIK), I get the error: LoadLibrary ("myfilter.ax") failed - ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET Control to be used from MFC

  Hello, I am trying to get a .NET control running in a standard MFC dialog. However, I don't get the events from it. The ActiveX control container seems to have no problem as it displays the event from the .NET control. Also, in Studio 6, I can& ...Show All