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• Visual Studio Express Editions Hello!

    The concerted work that goes on here in really impressive. I'm also thinking about a mass mailed note I received from S. Somesegar, corporate VP of Microsoft development. He said that MS Engineers were not alone in building VS2005. Customers had a lot  to do with it to make it as neat as it is. Continuing in that vein, I though it may be a contribution to see if we can't put together an FAQ that will take care of a large number of the routine questions. If you'd like to contribute to this let's try the following: In a post to this thread, add: 1.) A Title 2.) A fully stated question in FAQ form ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. User following line

  Hi,   I’m looking for help on finding an algorithm that will do the following. I want to draw a set of consecutive lines and I want to user to duplicate the ‘movement’ with his mouse. If I draw a ‘U’ I want to user to do the same ‘U’ with his mouse (this could be a spiral, etc). But a ‘T’ or an ‘E’ could not be made because it can not be done on a consecutive movement (you have to come back). I want it to support an error of maybe 10 pixels.   Thank!   Chris B. Behrens wrote: There was a similar effect in my son's Harry Potter game a while back, as a test for whether you were spellcasting correctly. It wa ...Show All

• Windows Forms error in ms access parameterized query

  Hi all, I am getting one problem with parameterized queries in Ms access I built one parameterized query in Ms access as follows PARAMETERS Proj Text ( 30 ); SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(PROJ_ID,13), PROJ_NAME FROM Multiplier WHERE PROJ_ID Like [Proj] & "*"; When I run this query it returns the correct result I am giving name this query to Query1 In my frontend application I& ...Show All

• .NET Development Open a new connection inside a Transaction Scope....

  This is a simple question regarding Transaction. I have a transaction Scope that I open with: using ( TransactionScope objectTransactionScope = new TransactionScope ()) Inside the scope I have some operation that I don't want to be in the transaction scope, like log activities that I don't want to rollback. How can I implement this Now I have an ArrayList when I sign all the operations, and after closing the scope I run all the operations in the database. Theres is any way to do this inside the scope Another problem that I have is that my application use some external objects. This objects have their own database and their o ...Show All

• SQL Server What Data Mining tasks can be automated and scheduled via Integration Services Packages?

  Hi, all here, Would please any expert here give me any guidance about what Data Mining tasks can be automated and scheduled via Integration Services Packages Also, If we automated the tasks, can we also automatically save the results of the tasks somewhere Like if we automate assessing the accuracy of a mining model, then we wanna know the mining model accuracy later, therefore, we need to save all these results from the automated actions. Is it possible to realize this Thanks a lot in advance for any guidance and help for this. With best regards, Yours sincerely, Hello, Helen An Integration Services package may contain va ...Show All

• SQL Server Using SMO to backup / restore a SqlExpress database

  Hi all, I have seen several threads on using SMOto backup & restore sqlexpress databases but am having trouble getting my code working. Does anyone have a snippet available Current problem is connecting to the sqlexpress database file Thanks, Nick I am having the same problem with regards to the initial connection throwing an error.... Did you resolve this If so can you post the solution ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro n-tier design

  I am designing an application and I want to start using n-tier design. I have no problem with the user interface but have some questions about the business and data tiers. My application will probably be all in one vfp exe so I don't particularly have to get into ADO or XML. Am I correct in assuming the actual data reading and writing statements (eg Replace, Insert etc) go into the data tier I am thinking that I would need some sort of data handling class at this tier and a class for each table/entity (customer, transaction etc). Each entity would have a property with the name of the table's fields and the data handling class would then use ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I reset a form

  I'm real new at this so bear with me.   I set up an application similar to a calculator with two text boxes for input and then it does a calculation.  After it runs, I want to click a button to reset it (i.e., restart the application over again with blank text boxes and reseting the variables).   Problem is I can't seem to find anything that does that.  Any help would be appreciated.   Casgo.     casgo wrote: I'm real new at this so bear with me.   I set up an application similar to a calculator with two text boxes for input and the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to retrieve month name in VB2005?

  I'm trying to use this code but it generates an error: Dim thisDate1 As Date Dim thisMonth1 As String thisDate1 = DateString thisMonth1 = month(thisDate1) It generates an Error: value of type 'date' cannot be converted to 'integer' I use similar code retreive current year and it works: Dim thisDate As Date Dim thisYear As Integer thisDate = DateString thisYear = Year(thisDate) I want to retrieve current month name and assign it to string variable. How can I do that Using a Custom DateTime Format Strings try: thisMonth1 = thisDate1.ToString ...Show All

• Visual C# Exception Handling Application Block

  Hi All, Can any body tell me how do I incorporate the Exception Handling Application Block to my application to handle exceptions. Thanks in Advance, Kan Have you read everything on that link and followed the instructions There's loads of documentation. In particular, note this section which I've cut and paste from that link: Test Drive The Exception Handling Application Block has been developed as a result of analyzing common enterprise development challenges and successful solutions to these challenges. However, because each application is unique, you will not find this application block suitable for every application. To evaluate t ...Show All

• SQL Server NT Login Authentication

  Hello My sql server 2000 is installed on Win2k3 Server and it is located on one of my corporate domains say DomainX. Now i want to add NT user login to the users who are located in a different domain say DomainY. But the SQL Server Enterprise manager lists only DomainX as the domain from where the user logins can be added. The quesion is how do i add nt login users who are not associated with the same domain as my SQL Server. Thanks & Regards Clement Did you find these helpful Opening up trust relationships is of course not necessarily recommended either (depending on your scnerario) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VC++ 2005 Express - for each loop

  Hi everyone! I'm kinda newcomer, thus I've quickly encountered a problem which I can't solve in the 'elegant' way. The problem is how to iterate the collection of various types of controls (controls conteiner) and operate only on a specific controls type. I'm not sure if I've made myself clear, so here's a code which doesn't work: for each( Windows::Forms::NumericUpDown^ ctrl in this->tableLayoutPanel->Controls ) xmlwriter->WriteElementString(ctrl->Name, ctrl->Value.ToString() ); tableLayoutPanel contains NumericUpDown and Labels (which couses all the problem here) type controls. I want to ...Show All

• Windows Forms How difficult would this be? Drag/Drop with DB update?

  Here's the basics.  I have an asp.net aspx page that for the most part does what I need it to do, but it's clunky and since asp.net is not frame aware, a pain inn the ass with mixed scripts etc. The application is a utility to move a server in a rack to another rack while keeping the same info, image etc. Each rack has 42 units ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions If IsNothing(command.Parameters("@UserId")) thrown an exception why?

  command is a sqlcommand and i need to test the parameters collection before to add the @userid parameter so i use: If IsNothing(command.Parameters("@UserId")) and i get this exception: + ex {"An SqlParameter with ParameterName '@UserId' is not contained by this SqlParameterCollection."} System.Exception Avoid this exception by using SqlParameterCollection.Contains() . ...Show All

• SQL Server Programming SQL Express to SQL 2005 replication

  Hi Everyone I have a huge problem after I noticed that SQL Server Agent has been removed and need your advice about how to program replication between SQL Server Express and SQL Server 2005 So far I have encountered the following problems SNAPSHOT 1. When I created my snapshot Irealized it wasnt running. I then read from the documentation that i had to resort to the Windows Synchronization Manager as there was no SQL Server AGENT within SQL Server Express to accomplish this function I did this and it worked but wouldlike to control this programmatically as well REPLICATION 2. Now I have a standalone SQL Server ...Show All