shaggydiggs's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Starting Over?

  Ok. I have had VB express for about 3 weeks now. I have 0 experience with programing. Sorry, all you techy people. But I have learned some cool things. But as I tried to jump into the fire ( and its hot ) i found nothing but frustration. Hence, I have improved on my "google" searching abilites and might add found "never before patience." Says my wife. Any way. Too bad for all of the very nice people that have put up with my & ...Show All

• Visual C# Regular expression to read a record in a text(CSV) file

  Hi while parsing the CSV file i need to validate each row or record that it should not contain any special characters outside the double Quotes and the no of fields should be 13. some of the records that i have corrupted from the CSV file are as follows "0323034055","000","2823484","2005/10/17","S","016184","CAROLE CROW","COLUMBIA","SC","29203 ...Show All

• Visual C# Catching exeptions in a using {} sttatement

  I'm wondering what the prefered method of handling exceptions is in a using statement  would be. For example, last I checked you cant use an object that has already been initialized in a using statement (though some examples in this forum indicate differently, so I could be wrong on this)... So, this Sometype X; try        {          ...get un-reliable object X & ...Show All

• SQL Server How to execute SSIS package from stored procedure

  I have deployed a package on my local sql server. How do i write a stored procedure to execute it. I want an application to call the stored procedure which executes this package which in turn returns some results. I have dont this by deploying package on filesys and using dtexec.exe command to execute it. But now I want to do it from a stored procedure. I have a scenario here. I want the service broker to ...Show All

• SQL Server trigger issues

  I am running a trigger on a table (cusomfields) that is to fire when the table is updated or inserted. The trigger takes the new data and moves it to another table called search_products. Search products is made up of 5 columns (product_id, search_terms, name, vendor and keywords). The search_terms column is a combo of the name, vendor and keywords columns. When the trigger fires, the column in the customfields table that updates the keywords ...Show All

• .NET Development Tips and tools for finding out why serialized files are so big

  [VS.NET 2005 Beta 2] Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of any tools that can help determine why (binary) serialized files are bigger than expected Maybe something that graphs the serialized objects in the file If not, does anyone have any tips for finding out I'm sure I can work it out with tracing but it would be good to hear if anyone knows any shortcuts! Cheers, G.   RayManning wrote: A con ...Show All

• SQL Server Parametrized Report with Analysis Services didn't work

  Y made 2 report with parametrized MDX queries and they only work with the default values. But when I select some values from the combos with legal values the report is empty. The weird thing is when I test the report in visual studio it works really fine. But when I go from http://somemachine/reports it fails. Can anybody try this The MDX querie is ok. I have a lot of experience with MDX in SQL 2000. It says something like this. WITH & ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Rendering video from network

  Hi Can anybody suggest a method to get live video from a network device.(A video server) either by using DirectShow or WMFSDk Is the server running any particular video serving software Or are you planning to write that too ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to use the SampleGrabber filter and the Overly mixer at the same time?

  hello, everybody. i use the graphedit.exe to build a graph using the samplegrabber and the overlay mixer at the same time. these are the filters that i wanna to use: Sample Grabberer filter, Overlay Mixer and the Video Renderer. now, i can connect the preview pin to the input pin of the sample grabberer filter. but, when i connect the output pin of the sample grabberer filter to the input pin of the overlay mixer, it hits me as ...Show All

• Visual Basic skins

  Do you guys know some sites where I can get custom skins for vb.net and how to use them Do you mean skins for VB itself, or for your apps Either way, I don't think they exist. To do skinning, you need to write the code yourself. WPF will allow some skinning through XAML, which will be easier, but you'll still need to do it yourself. ...Show All

• Windows Forms remote server is unreachable or the request has timed out

  I've installed the Client and server applications to two different Windows 2000 machines and get the same error on both when I start the client "The remote server is unreachable or the request has timed out." I have SQL Server 2000 and sa& ...Show All

• Visual C++ build errors in vc++

  Hi,             I am new to vc++. I have one vc++ source code. I am running this on vs2005. for me it is giving the following errors. I saved the source file in the following path. "c:\programfiles". The errors are 1)Error 1 error A2022: instruction operands must be the same size   the lines where i am getting the error is: TIGERROUNDSSE2 5 TIGERKEYSCHEDU ...Show All

• SQL Server problem with varbinary(max) in SQL Server 2005

  Hi, we have stucked with strange problem. Please read comments in the following script. CREATE TABLE ItemsTable1( [ItemId] [int] NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, [ItemNameCode] [varbinary] (max) NULL ) CREATE TABLE ItemsTable2( [ItemId] [int] NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, [ItemNameCode] [varbinary] (20) NULL ) -- insert same values in both tables INSERT INTO ItemsTable1(ItemId, ItemNameCode) VALUES(1, CAST('Item 1' AS varbinary(20))) INSERT INTO ItemsTable2(Item ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. how to save a progressive mesh to a .x file?

  When using ID3DXPMesh to simplify the model, I want to export the data of a progressive mesh to a 3D file. I know D3DXSaveMeshToX can save ID3DXMesh to a .X file, but how to save a progressive mesh to a file Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks a lot:) Lily Optimize can add some vertices to make the object better (=faster) draw able. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Connecting to access mdb file problem.

  I am having some trouble connecting to my Access Database from Visual Studio Express 2005. I can add a connection if it is a sql database, but when i change the Datasource to the access option and hit ok i get a window that allows me to change my Connection string, and thats it. If i cancel it exits the wizard. Also the only data provider i have is .net framework provider for ole db. Should i have a second provider The other softw ...Show All