m4yster's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Dim desktop - stuck in a transistion ?

  Has anybody else exeperienced their whole desktop (windows, everything but the cursor) going dim, it can go completely black. All of our team who've installed have had it, some have been able to get back to full brightness, but I'm stuck, no matter what I do. Everything was fine, until the first time I switched user, and some have had it on logout. I've tried Nvidia (fx1100) and ATI (X2-256t) and both exhibit the behaviour, mine is currently so dim that I can't really use it. Capturing the screen doesn't sow the problem. -- Dan I am having the same issue every time I install Vista it work ...Show All

• SQL Server configuring smtp connection on dts in VS2005

    I'm trying to send mail through DTS Send Mail Task in the final release of VS 2005 however i'm getting this error "Mailbox unavailable.The server response was:5.7.1 Unable to relay for <email adress>. I do not have exchange server installed. The smtp adress is correct. So what could be the problem I appreciate your help Thanks Network issues Incorrect address DNS failure Authentication failure etc...   The list of things that it COULD be are endless. Presumably you think that the problem exists somewhere in SSIS. Have you removed SSIS from the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problems making ODBC connection

  Trying to create a System DNS Connection in SQL 2005 Express but I am not able to connect. I want to use Access 2003 to enter the data. Could anyone please point me in the right direction. I am not sure if I need to enable anything. I am using Windows authentication. SQL Native Client does not work for me. SQL is installed local Please help. Many thanks, Sten Issue resolved. It had to do with my firewall. Port 1433. Sten ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Survival Tournament

         Hi Everybody!!!      I just submitted my game for the contest. Let's see how it goes!!! Feedback is welcome. I recommend high internet speed, for the graphics it uses.      Enjoy!!!        Tarh ik PS: If player 2 gets disconnected, the game switches to single user mode.         Hi Juzzi!!!     Thanks for asking!!!     Well, it is a 2-D fighting game where the player's character is activated by clicking in certain areas of the screen. It is not a direct figh ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CreateWorkflow and WorkflowMarkupSerializer do not accept the same xoml file?

  I have an xoml file from which I create workflow instances by WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow. It looks like this: <ns0:WFHelloWorld x:Name="HelloWorldWorkflow" xmlns:ns0="clr-namespace:CSCL;Assembly=CSCL, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/workflow ">     <CodeActivity x:Name="SayHelloWorld" ExecuteCode="SayHelloWorld_ExecuteCode" /> </ns0:WFHelloWorld> However, it is not acceptable to the sample "DesignerHostingApplication" from Workflow Hands-on Lab 10. It seems that Workfl ...Show All

• SQL Server Empty Source So there is no data in the pipleline

  Hi, I am trying to do a lookup for a value in a codes table and if that code is not there; add it to the table, my problem is if the lookup table is blank no records to begin with it will not add any data, that means the data source is empty so there no data going thru the data pipeline. So how do I get data in the table if we start with an empty table If I am not clear I can explain it more. Thank If you have no data in the source I'm lost as to why you're even building a data-flow let alone tying to decide what to put in it. SSIS moves data about. If you don't have any data to move - why us ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance Vs length of the data

  Using varchar we can define upto 8000 bytes as a length. Suppose i am defining one column upto the maximum size of varchar type and i am not storing not more than 100 charaters per row. what is the performance and storage differences Books Online might have an answer to your question (storage): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176089(SQL.90).aspx There are also general topics about using variable length datatypes: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175055.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178158(SQL.90).aspx If you have a more specific question after readin ...Show All

• SQL Server Trimming characters

  I have a field called sku in a table... many of the sku fields have data as ep12345678. I need a sql statement that will update all data in that field from ep12345678 to 12345678. So I need to trim off the 'ep' Any one know how to do that update table set column =replace(column,'ep','') where column like 'ep%' or update table set column =right(column,8) where column like 'ep%' Denis the SQL Menace http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/ ...Show All

• .NET Development How do i use WIAVIDEOLibs

  Hi i am currently tryin got make a webcam application. base on this currently http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/wiascriptingdotnet.asp forumid=3908&exp=0&select=1486895&df=100#xx1486895xx in there there is a line of code wiaVideo.CreateVideoByWiaDevID( cameraID, panelVideo.Handle, 0, 1 ); // overlay into video panel //can be compiled fine but when i make my own project and wrote this line, it can be compiled wiaVideoClass.CreateVideoByWiaDevID(device.DeviceID, panel1.Handle, 0, 1) i get these error Error 1 The best overloaded method match for 'WIAVIDEOLib.WiaVideoClass.CreateVideoByWiaDevID(string, ref WIAVIDEOLib. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2000 AWE Performance Counters - How to Interpret them?

  We have a 2003 Enterprise Server box running with SQL 2000 Enterprise. The box has 16 GB of memory, PAE enabled, AWE enabled, 3GB NOT enabled. I'm tracking the 4 performance counters for SQL AWE usage, but I don't really know what are "good" or "bad" number for them. I've looked around the web and found plenty of stuff describing what the counters are reporting on, but no direction as to what they should be telling me about the health of my system. The counters, with actual values from my system are: "SQLServer:Buffer Manager"-"AWE lookup maps/sec : 702.175 "SQLServer:Buffer Manager"-&qu ...Show All

• SQL Server Cant upload report (rdl-file) in Reporting Services 2005

  When uploading a report definition file in Report Manager I get following error: An unexpected error occurred while compiling expressions. Native compiler return value: ‘[BC2000] compiler initialization failed unexpectedly: Project already has a reference to assembly System. A second reference to 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.dll' cannot be added.’. (rsUnexpectedCompilerError)    Any suggestions   It looks like you added an explicit reference to the System.dll in the custom code section of the RDL. This is not necessary because we will automatically include references to the followi ...Show All

• SQL Server Max value

  Hi, I have a question on how to write this code in a better way (the @result should get the highest value of the @variable1 and @variable2). DECLARE @result int DECLARE @variable1 int DECLARE @variable2 int SET @variable1 = 5 SET @variable2 = 3 IF (@variable1 > @variable2) BEGIN SET @result = @variable1 END ELSE BEGIN SET @result = @variable2 END I had planned on using the max function but that only takes one argument (the variables get their values from different select statements). If somebody knows hows how I could optimize this code, please tell me. Thank you in advance BR Mikael ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can I load data into a 2-dimensional array?

  I have some data in a text file in the format: X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,I,O,O,S,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X and I want to load it to an array (e.g. myArray) which is declared as: Public myA ...Show All

• Architecture SOA and supporting products

  Hello I am a naive in implementing SOA using MS products, and forgive me, I mean SOA not just WebServices. I was wondering if there are products that supports WSE, Contemporary WebServices, I mean, other SW vendors provide Servers SW for managing orchestration, deploying BPEL, and so on. Does MS provide such software 'SW that I install directly to implement my enterprise's processes and services' I hope you can answer me. -- Thank you Most non-MS 3rd party software has roots in the Java world. E.g. for an ESB you can considers EMS from Tibco, SoniqMQ from Sonic Software, MantaRay (open source) from Coridan etc. the ...Show All

• Visual C# tabcontrol

  hi, how can i hide a tabpage2 in a tabcontrol when the form is loaded , and how can i show it again when the user click a button in the first tabpage if that is possible See the methods on my Tabcontrol tips page: http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html ...Show All