rad9k's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Huge disk usage during aggregation processing

  Having a decentsized AS2005 MOLAP cube I want to do preaggregations for but during processing this leads to aggregations eating all available disk space (35+ GB) despite having limited the size of the resulting aggregations to 20 MB or so in the storage wizard. Pushing it down to five mb finished size it barely gets by and then once it's done it frees up all those GB:s and ends up with the the promised 5 MB result but anything more and I run out ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid with excel functions

  Hi, I need the freeware library of datagrid that have excel functions like move cell, merge cells and so on... Can somebody tell me where can I get it Thank's Alexei Hi, I have checked this link 10 times before you put it. And I didn't find the solution. I need also free library. I am using VS2003. Thank's Alexei ...Show All

• SQL Server About Login Account

  Hi everyone, I have a simple question for you which is too important for me. My question is about logins in my own(local) server. I know that my local server(my computer's server) has to default login account which are called sa and BUILTIN/ADMINISTRATOR. While I am using my own server, I do not know which default login account is used by my Server since I use windows authentication while connecting to the Server. Another question is that while ...Show All

• Visual C++ _bstr_t constructor

  The following lines of code worked in VS 2003: BYTE Barray[10]; // call here to decrypt with the array, then want to make string out of result, which is unicode string: _bstr_t b(( unsigned short *) Barray); Now with VS 2005, I get the following warning: warning C4800: 'unsigned short *' : forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning) There is a _bstr_t constructor with wchar_t * parameter, and wchar_t is a ...Show All

• Visual C# XML error while retrieving data

  I am retrieving documents over HTTP channel using winHttp and XML objects. I came across this error recently. Any idea what could be wrong Description: This is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'WHITESPACE'. Line 1, position 50. System.Xml Stack Trace: at System.Xml.Schema.DtdParser.SkipWhitespace(Boolean fRequired)at System.Xml.Schema.DtdParser.ParseExternalID() at System.Xml.Schema.DtdParser.ParseDocTypeDecl() at System.Xml.Schema.D ...Show All

• Windows Forms transflash card

  Dell 4600C, 512 ram, 80G, IE 7 beta. I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers several times. When I double click on E I am getting the error: E:\ is not accessible incorrect function. I have gone into device manager and uninstalled all USB drivers and reinstalled. I have gone into computer management, disk management and there is no E drive showing. I know the Flash card is formatted because it was formatted in my nextel phone ok. I have tried ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) C# 3.0 uninstall

  Hello everybody, I installed LinQ on my computer a played with it a little bit. Then I uninstalled it using the Add/Remove software. But after uninstalling it I still get the messagebox in VS2005 beta2 informing me about C# 3.0 being an "unsupported version and that many features may not work as expected" whenever I open some project. Since VS started crashing more often after installing LinQ I think I need to get rid of c# 3.0 to get it back to ...Show All

• .NET Development Is network load balancing improved for TCP remoting in .Net 2.0 ?

  Hi The MSDN TV broadcast for improvements in .Net remoting 2.0 says that the Socket Cache for TCP has been improved to allow for better load balancing. I cant find any other information about this. Does this mean that Network Load Balancing is now viable for .Net Remoting 2.0 using the TCP channel ( some previous posts say that NLB does not work ideally with older .Net remoting TCP connections ) Thanks Hi, Yes - thats correct. The earlier ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005 Query help

  Please help. On sql 2000 i have a query like this where the columns are primary keys. Select count(*) from db.dbo.table1 where convert(varchar(3), col1) + convert(varchar(10), col2) not in (select convert(varchar(3), col1) + convert(varchar(10), col2) from db.dbo.table2) It completes in 1 second with sql 2000. I have restored the db to sql 2005 and run the same query. The processors peg and it goes to la la land. I have updat ...Show All

• Windows Forms Migrating from Beta2 to RC1

  This was posted in Winform forum, but I think it might be more fitting here. Surprisingly, there are quite some changes between Beta 2 and RC1, which caused my Beta2 project failed to compile in RC1. Here is one that puzzled me, "Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store".  I didn't sign my project in Beta2, and it didn't give me an error.  So now in RC1, I have to sign my project   It seems even if ...Show All

• Windows Forms Special Characters

  Where can I find a composite list of special characters that I can use when printing out info on a windows form  For instance, if I wanted to tab over, what would I use  What about a carriage return/single-line break >but ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems serializing a collection out of Windows form Collection Editor

  Hello All, A. I have a class named Plural2SingularItem B. I have a class named Plural2SingularItemCollection which inherits CollectionBase. C. In a custom control, I have a property of Type Plural2SingularItemCollection I set everything up the way I did so that I would be able to use the default ObjectEditor in design view. Everything works as I would expect EXCEPT that nothing is Persisted when I click the OK button in the Editor. ...Show All

• SQL Server Incorrect syntax near comparison on parameter value

  Error: Incorrect syntax near '@today'.   DECLARE @today CHAR ( 8 )   SET @today = CONVERT ( CHAR ( 8 ), GETDATE (), 112 )   SELECT   c . name ,                c . cust ,                 m . num ,     &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error deleting work item field

  We created a field incorrectly and we would like to remove the field this way we can recreate it correctly.  We tried to delete the field using the command line tool witfields:  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies>witfields delete /s:mtlapplication4 Incycle.Common.BugPriority Result---> Incycle.Common.BugPriority cannot be deleted - it is used by the following project(s): Test ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Bonus Challenge

  I have read the e-mail about Bonus Challenge at 18:00. Decided to participate - and to make small, but useful (I hope ) app. At 24:00 I have completed the work. During this 6 hours I had time to drive from work to home, to have dinner, to read the last news, and of course to write code and test it. As a result: 15575 characters of code and 5 images. Extreme programming At 00:30 I have submitted it. BTW, question to admin - I hope it was submit ...Show All