Vashi's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Direct3D render to desktop

  hi all! How render 3d scene to desktop lol, why u wanna render your desktop :s Maybe u can use the platform SDK to find some API's to get the desktop hWnd. Once u got that, u should be able to render on the desktop ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Derived Control Size

  Hey everyone I am developing a control for a app I am writing. It is a class derived from type Control. The problem that I am having is that in the derived classes constructor I set the default size of the control, however the settings dont stick. When you drag the control from the toolbox it sizes to "Control"'s default size, not what I set it to. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how I can fix it Thanks Kenzie You should override the DefaultSize property of the Control class. ...Show All

• .NET Development What this lines do?

  [System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute( http://tempuri.org/WS_STARTWORK , RequestNamespace=http://tempuri.org/, ResponseNamespace=http://tempuri.org/, Use=System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle=System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)] why doing such thing what those mean Take a look at the MSDN documentation for this attribute: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.services.protocols.soapdocumentmethodattribute.aspx This attribute specifies in some detail how the SOAP message are encoded on the wire. Let me know if you still ahve questions.  ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Builder filter values - Help!

  Does anyone know how to do the following I have posted here twice on these issues before with no help and am getting desperate here. If I cannot solve these issues then we will not be able to use Report Builder since all of our data is date-based. 1. How do I get a dropdown list of month names to sort in the correct chronological order (i.e. January, February, etc.) for a Report Builder filter More generally, how does one sort dropdown list filter values in a Report Builder report 2. How do I get Report Builder to display (in the report) which values were selected from the dropdown list Currently I get: Filter: Transactions with: All ...Show All

• SQL Server re-establishing mirror

  When witness and mirror were down, mirroring was removed at primary. Now when I try to re-establish mirroring I get the following error Msg 1456, Level 16, State 3, Line 1 The ALTER DATABASE command could not be sent to the remote server instance 'TCP://witness:5022'. The database mirroring configuration was not changed. Verify that the server is connected, and try again. On the witness server the following sql select * from sys.database_mirroring_witnesses returns 1 row with the previous mirroring information. How do I remove old information from witness server Thanks. If the witnes ...Show All

• .NET Development Dr. Watson catching crashes 1.1 vs. 2.0

  I am trying to find documentation to prove/disprove the hypothesis that Dr. Watson will catch and report crash dumps when apps running on 2.0 have unhandled exceptions but will not do so for an app running on 1.1. I am not experiencing crashes now, nor trying to debug anything. Nor am I looking for how to set Dr. Watson or another tool to capture data on 1.1 framework. Just looking for default behavior that we can expect to find in the field. In reading various newsgroups it seems like in 1.1 1) unhandled exception might get eaten by CLR and not cause a crash, and thus no dump and/or 2) the only dump produced is a mini-dump that is not ...Show All

• SQL Server Loading a column by name (via Variable, etc.)

  This is kind of a tricky behavior, but in my current SSIS package I have a situation I am unsure of how to fix. I have a column joined in my set of working rows that has a value which is the name of another column. For example, if I have the Columns ID, Name, City, State, and CopyFrom, the CopyFrom column will be any one of the values "Name", "City" or "State." What I want is to create a new Derived Column (call it in this case CopiedValue) that equals the value of the Column for that row as specified by CopyFrom. I can't for the life of me figure out a way to build an expression which uses a column value or a variable value to dereferen ...Show All

• SQL Server Doesn't like a particular namespace

  Hi, Can someone try and replicate an error for me. Follow these steps: 1) Create a new package 2) Place a Sequence container in it 3) Create a variable called User::ContainerStartTime scoped to the package 4) Create a variable called User::ContainerStartTime scoped to the sequence container 5) Change the namespaces of the 2 variables from "User" to "Metadata" You get an error on step 5 saying another object in the collection already has that name yet it doesn't mind them when they're both called User::ContainerStartTime Why -Jamie Ok, I also got an error following those steps... Weird. Could it be that the scopes only exists in ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) extension properties

  When the first Linq preview was released, there was talk of allowing extension properties along with extension methods. At the time, I couldnt see a good reason for having them, but having read "First-class relationships in an object-oriented language" I can now absolutely see a use for them. At least, a very nice syntactic sugar type of use. I know the details on the next Linq release have been short on the ground, but would some Linq team member be prepared to comment on possibility of extension properties. Is this something we might see in the next release Hi Damien, Do you have any particular property in mind I mean ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compile fails on network drive

  I installed VCX (VC++ Express) on my local drive, but my project files are on a network drive mounted as S:  I created a simple HelloWorld Win32 Console App and the compile fails due to: 1>cl : Command line error D8022 : cannot open 's:\project\TestExpress\TestExpress\Debug\RSP0000024283524.rsp' However, it works fine on a local drive.  I read about this problem with other products but I can no longer find the reference. Anyone know how to fix this Thanks From your log, it looks like for some reason the CL.exe process doesn't have permission to access the file on the remote machine, b ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smart Device Application

  Hello, I am developing a smart device application for Pocket PC. In that I want to connect to server using HTTP protocol. I want to know that using WinInet.lib file i.e this Visual C++ edition support winInet MFC classes. Bhagvat Hi, There are quite a few HTML related MFC classes that aren't there on devices. ( see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/80a966hh.aspx for the list of classes that are supported and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228785(VS.80).aspx for the list of unsupported classes on the devices) , but ATL does have Web service consumption classes available on devices ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Bind a TreeView control to a SqlCeResultSet

  Is there a way to bind a Bind a TreeView control to a SqlCeResultSet I cannot seem to find any examples of this. TreeView does not support complex data binding. You can bind to one of TV properties, but that makes little sense. By the way, data in result set is flat 2D table, why are you trying to use TreeView in a first place Please consider using DataGrid instead, that's the only control which benefits from ResultSet usage as it only fetched visible rows. Other list controls would fetch everything eliminating RS advantages. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF Scalabilty

  Hi, I wish to host Windows Workflows in my ASP.NET application. now my question is if each request to the application creates a workflow runtime i am worried about the performance hit its gonna have. loading and intitializing the workflow runtime everytime for each request will have any latency impact on each request Thanks Raja Hi Raja, When you host you're WF in ASP.NET (e.g. through creating a WS using the Wizard), check out the Web.Config file and you'll notice there is a httpHandler added specifically for workflow. This looks after the loading and initialising the WorkflowRuntime. (ju ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing shared app.config

  I would like to share one app.config file between several applications. Only one of those applications needs to be able to update the app.config file. The other applications need only to read the information. The application that "owns" the app.config file has defined under Settings: Name: DataLoc Type: String Scope: User Value: C:\Shared Database Location app.config file contains: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <configuration> <configSections> <sectionGroup name="userSettings" type="System.Configuration.UserSettingsGroup, System, Vers ...Show All

• SQL Server Multi Value Parameters

  Hi, Can anyone tell me how to pass a data for a multivalue parameter through the URL. Thanks In Advance Regards Raja Annamalai S To set a parameter named "Name1" to value1 and value 2, use this format: http://localhost/reportserver /MyReport&Name1=value1&Name1=value2 ...Show All