Cal Zant's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Database maintenance

  What are the methods and recommendations re maintenance of the database Mario Since nobody answered I guess the question is too general. What I'm looking for is What are the methods provided to get rid of old tracking data in a production enviornment ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Single Frame Animation

  I need to create avi files one frame at a time, preferably by passing bitmap structures or DirectX drawing surfaces into a function that will do this, then create the audio by attaching a wav file stored on disk This was very easy to do using the old windows media video functions, but these old functions only support AVI1.0, with it's troublesome 4GB file size limit. So I'm looking for a solution that allows me to create AVI2.0 files in order to ditch the file size limit, but DirectShow seems to be the only thing I can find that will do this. Unlike the rest of the DirectX9 managed code, DirectShow does not seem to be very .net frie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Custum defined functions in Excel

  All, Do you know if it is possible to use dotnet reflection to add functions on the fly This is what the managedxll ( http://www.managedxll.com ) product already can do... I want to program my own add-in manager that can automatic populate functions from a managed C++ dll. Regards Lars Schouw Hi Lars, Metadata returned by the reflection APIs is not extensible in that it cannot be modified after compilation of the target type. Metadata extension is possible by using type descriptors to add properties and events. TypeDescriptors do not inspect or allow extension for method though. The o ...Show All

• SQL Server Subscription with no schedule

  I am firing off some report server 2005 schedules from my VB.NET in order to run some reports that email to my users.  The problem is that the very purpose of a subscription in Rerport manager is to schedule it.  I don't want it to run again which is what is happening other than my VB.NET code firing it off. The sole goal here is to be able to generate a report from VB.NET by calling the subscription which works beautifully.  The problem I am trying to resolve now is to tell it not to schedule itself which fires off a report prematurely later on..due to the nature of a subscription in that it requires a schedule. Can I p ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums download a file via internet and save it locally

  Hi, I would like to have a script that download a file (a word document) from internet (http/https) and save it on local PC. I've already found how to download a file: ************************************************************ Dim WinHttpReq Set WinHttpReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1") WinHttpReq.Open "GET", "http://", False ************************************************************ but then, I don't know how to save this file on my PC :( Anyone has an ideea Thank you, (Paul) Per one of our support engineers: This is the vba code to download a file from an URL, then save it to ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Express + User Instances

  Greetings All, It was with great excitement and interest that I installed SQL Server 2005 Express along with all the other "Express" editions of Visual Studio onto my computer.  What a great way to learn a variety of modern programming languages/techniques with no investment other than time.  I had visions of a wonderful personal website that my family could enjoy visiting.  I had visions of finally being able to work on a custom book database that my wife has frequently talked about.  I'm not sure those visions are ever going to come to fruition. The core of my problem seems to be SQL Server.  I can't even get the w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSVCP80D.dll cannot be found when in Debug mode

  I have downloaded both the MS VC++ 2005 Express Edition and the Microsoft Platform SDK. I have also carried out the changes given in the article by Brian Johnson. I have constructed a Windows project as outlined in the penultimate paragraph of that article. There are generally no problems with this project except that from time to time (and it seems to be random) in Debug mode the project faults because it cannot load MSVCP80D.dll. This dll is in place (C:\WINDOWS|WinSxS\x86........etc). Why does this error occur and how can I remedy the fault The fault does not occur in Release mode (but then I think this file is not loaded in Release mode) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't Install TFS RC on a Domain Controller???

  We can no longer install TFS (RC) on a domain controller This worked in earlier betas and CTP versions. But now I'm told with the installer that this is not a supported configuration, yet the installation guide talks about installing on a DC. I wasted all this time setting up the DC system and get to the point of running TFS install and am told I can no longer do this I've seen Microsoft respondents in the past indicate that you can install on a DC in these forums. What is going on here This is annoying. another server\workstation for Builds (since this can't run on the server any more), Is th ...Show All

• Smart Device Development need a sample application

  hi there, its my 2nd post, plz help me. i need a sample application to start with, for windows mobile 5.0 for pocket pc. any small application will do, even an hello world application, or plz tell me from where can i get one. also plz suggest me sum good books for development. thanx alot in advance regards harry Please read from here about the Smart Device Development with Visual Studio 2005 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/sa69he4t.aspx You will need to install Windows Mobile 5.0 SDKs from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=83a52af2-f524-4ec5-9155-717cbe5d25ed&DisplayLang=en to do ...Show All

• Visual Studio "Start Debugging" vs "Start without Debugging" speed in VS2005

  I experienced extremely slow performance in VS2005, when I "Start Debugging" an application which uses System.Drawing.Bitmap (might be anything that uses interop, but that's just my wild guess). Everything is fast if I "Start withoug Debugging" and it does not matter if I compile a release or a debug version. Please check this little piece of code: namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { System.Drawing.Bitmap b = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(1000, 1000); int bla = 0; for ( int x = 0; x < 1000000; ++x) bla = bla + b.Width; } } }   It demonstrates the difference in speed nicely and ...Show All

• SQL Server A Problems after the install of the Hotfix

  After installing SP1 and then the hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx id=918222 We now get the following error when trying to work with date parameters in Report Builder: Query (6, 117) The '[VBA].[DateSerial]' function does not exist. ---------------------------- Semantic query execution failed. ---------------------------- Query execution failed for data set 'dataSet'. ---------------------------- An error has occurred during report processing. Is this a known problem or is there some sort of something that I can reinstall Thanks! Sure thing. The problem comes with the prompted Transaction Date MDY. Without ...Show All

• Visual Basic The Easy Way

  I'm making a program where when you click on something in a list box and pictures and descriptions change according to what subject in the list you click in the list box. The only way I know how to do this is with If-Then statements and they take SO LONG to do. Anyone else know a much easier way Hi, here's one possible way of doing it: You could create a structure or class for storing the data, for example a structure with subject, picture and descirption properties, create an array of them from your data source(plain text file, xml, whatever), then bind the ListBox to it. Then in the ListBox's SelectedIndexChanged event handler cre ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ReflectionTypeLoadException occured while calling Assembly.GetTypes()

  I'm writing some tool for analysing of Compact Framework.NET libraries and for comparing CF with desktop .NET Framework. But i've got this exception while trying to load types from "mscorlib.dll" of CF. I have searched throuth similar questions (about ReflectionTypeLoadException), but all links bring me to answers like "assembly you're trying to reflect to get types references types defined in the another assembly". But "mscorlib" does not references other assemblies! Loader exceptions contained in ReflectionTypeLoadException include 57 (!) exceptions of 3 types: "Bad use of Runtime Impl attribute.&qu ...Show All

• SQL Server Page Header Image

   I'm running into an problem where I have an image in the page header of my report and I added sorting options to my column headers. When I sort the column when viewing the report, the image in the page header does not appear anymore (the little red box appears instead of the image.) Has anyone run into this same problem and figured out to fix it Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding still dosen't see changes

  In september ctp I was talking that binding dosen't see changes if elements it binds to dosen't exist yet.Bind ListView. ItemsSource = " {Binding XPath=something/*}" not working(ListView is still empty),if "something" does not contains a single element and you add it thereafter-XmlDataProvider.DeferRefresh()/ListView.Items.Refresh() dosen't help here too.The only solution now is explicit rebinding(not user friendly IMHO): lw.SetBinding( ListView .ItemsSourceProperty, lw.GetBindingExpression( ListView .ItemsSourceProperty).ParentBinding); where lw is the ListView. Do you have any plans to solve this issue Thanks a lot. ...Show All