E-Shy's Q&A profile

• Architecture Safely access file from a Web server

  Hello, I work on a project where clients access to a database and a files storage system (NTFS). On a LAN, all works fine but we would like to allow user to access those data from Internet. My question is: how our Web server can safely access to the file storage Is it acceptable to access directly to the files Must we develop a kind of application server In this case, which kind of technology could be used Lastly, if my web serve ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiple Monitors as Independent Displays

  Is there a way to use DirectX to write to a monitor on a second display adapter when the monitor is detached from the Windows (XP Pro) desktop The MSDN library contains a topic "Using Multiple Monitors as Independent Displays" which suggests that one can use the GDI function CreateCD or the DirectX function DirectDrawCreate (now a deprecated function). What currently supported DX9 function will let me open the device and use it for ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie - File copying confusion

  Hi I am severely struggling with even the basics of this part of my project. I have a destination path in a variable, selected via the FolderBrowserDialog function, and this works fine. I have a ArrayList of source paths, mixed folders and files. eg a file as C:\My Documents\TextFile.txt eg Folder as C:\My Documents\Folder1 I am trying to copy each item as follows: if it is a file, copy to destination folder, if it exists, ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ polygon class

  Hello , is there a nice C++ (or java) class with FREE source code dealing with irregular 2D polygons out there on the Internet Thanks in advance                                                 Jean- ...Show All

• .NET Development Waiting for multiple events

  Hi! Is it possible to wait for multiple ManualResetEvents in .NET cf If not, is it possible to interrupt a thread that is blocking on an event Thanks in advance, Nille nope man, i can see there is no waitall method on waithandle on the cf, sorry i can't help you further, try posting the question on the Smart Devices---> .NET Compact Framework Forum, i'm sure you'll have better luck in there ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS or Replication?

  I need help deciding whether to use DTS or Replication: We have four SQL Server databases on four separate servers with the same data schema, one for the north east, south west, mid atlantic, and mid west. We also have one "global" database on a separate server. First, and only this one time, we need to copy data from the four regional databases to the global database. Then, at least once a day we will need to copy changed and new ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Reuse functions in script tasks ?

  Hello I have some common functions that i use in several script tasks. How du i store a function globaly so that i can use it from different projects and still only have to edit it one place You don't have to import in each of your script... once u do changes copy to the <root>\microsoft.net\.... folder again and just gac it... It should work ...Show All

• Visual C++ Setting a Program Icon

  I am trying to set a program's icon though the use of the this->icon statement. However, this only sets the program's icon in the title bar of the program, and doesn't set the icon for the executable itself. Is there a way to set the icon for the executable as well as the title bar Thanks. ps, I am using c++ 2005 express, and I am programming a managed app, but not using a windows forms application project. ...Show All

• Visual Studio DLL version mismatch?

  Could I just extract the DLLs from the DVD and overwrite those in system32 folder I am looking for them on DVD, but don't know which cab file contains them.   ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Requests...

  May be it's too late, but I think this requests could be scheduled at least for a SP1 if it's not possible for the RTM. 1) Execute Task without debugger: it would be very nice to be able to execute a single task without going in debugging mode. Just as you would ask "Start Without Debugging CTRL+F5" but for a single task 2) Customize default properties for task and component: when you drag a task on the package you get a default value for the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista starting questions...

  I am just starting to look at the possibilities of using WWF in our next iteration of a product, I attended an MS event about WWF last night and I want to know the following: I know a workflow can start another workflow e.g. workflow W1 can start workflow W2.. But what is the relationship between the running instances Can W1 complete before W2 has completed or will it wait until W2 has completed Do I have to ...Show All

• Visual C# what is DataBindings?

  some classes have a databining property, but i still  dont know what is it Databinding is the ability to link together a value in an object - could be a DataSet, custom business object, etc. - to a visual element such as a TextBox. If the visual element is modified, the underlying value is modified and vice versa. You can find a roadmap to Windows Forms databinding here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;Q313482 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Username credential without windows account

  Hi, I'm looking at the SupportingToken sample. The sample uses client and server certificates and then add a username password "on top" of this. The username and password must be those of a user on the client machine. My "users" will not be the a windows user on their machines.I s it possible to use an arbitrary username/pass Thanks If you want a username/password pair that' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio .net 2003 Help does not work

  Hi!  I have found yet another problem.  I am trying to read through the tutorials that came with this progam and sadly, it does not work either.  I get a server not found error in what looks like a browser incorporated in the software.  Another thing that was interesting, the registration for this software does not appear to work either.  Is this why I am seein visual studio .net 2005   There is so many bugs in 2003 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Binary/ASCII recognition and Binary_Masks option with SS 2005 does not work

  Hi !   We have switched to VS2005 and VSS 2005 and have now some problems with the file type recognition .   We have a filetype that contains a lot of ascii line (Defines) and after that there is a CTRL-Z and binary data. Because the recognition is very hard we set the BINARY_MASKS-option in the ss.ini to that extension. That worked fine with VS6, but VS2005 doesn`t care about the option and sets the filetype to ...Show All