Mai Lan's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Dynamically changing Web Service Task parameters at runtime?...

  Okay, this one might stump you guys. I am trying to access a web service that has parameters (three of them, all strings). But I want to access this service repeatedly, and drive the thing from a table. I've got the Foreach Loop correctly getting variables from the recordset I populate from the table. That works and I can run a script with msgbox showing all the correct values being read from the table. My problem is taking these variables an ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Cant get transformations working.

  Hi, I have been going through tutorials trying to simple draw a quad apply a texture and then rotate the quad.  It was bad enough just finding tutorials to draw a quad, the sdk examples jump from drawing a triangle to drawing a cylinder !  Anyway!  I set up my quad and am using index buffering to display my triangle strip.  I managed to get a quad up an apply a texture, eventually.  My problem now is I can't figure out ...Show All

• SQL Server how to include a sql database in a web service

  i am using vs2005 and sql 2005 and i want to include a database in a webservice, how to do that and where are the items in the toolbox Hi, If you are looking to add a database to SqlExpress in a webservice application please have a look at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=276342&SiteID=1 posting which mentions that you can add a database by using "Add New Item...". Another ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Creating a Virtual COM port for an application to connect to.

  Thanks in advance for any help. I am trying to create a virtual com port that a windows application can connect to. Then I can use the SerialPort class to read from the port buffer and manipulate the data as I see fit. Is there any way to create a virtual port in Framework 2.0 for Visual Studio 2005 Or do I need to use Windows CE emulator functions Also if I use Windows CE to create this application that fakes a com port will it work on other ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Projector - I want to display only part of the screen to a projector

  I have a program for displaying the lyrics of the gospel songs. We use the projector. Question: I don't want everything on my screen to be displayed on the projector. I want to hide some buttons and grids on the projector but still I want to see them on my main screen. Please help. Thank you and God bless you. Rolly Militar Sydney, Australia Projectors are really just a fancy mo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problems with deployment at end user

  Why doesnt this code work when the msi.file is installed on the enduser machine. Nothing happens, while when run as 'Debug' in VS development environment everything works. All this code does is displaying a messagebox when Outlook is started. The project is made with VSTO and nothing in the setup project is tampered with, ie keys and such are intact. Help please! in ThisApplication.cs: private void ThisApplication_Startup(object s ...Show All

• .NET Development How To Connect to Database after Deployment

  Can anyone help me as to how I go about setting up my program so that after I make it into an .exe for installing on another machine it will give me the option to connect to a database on a server. Like I said this is useing the Windows Installer. Any sample code or links would be a big help. I have made the program useing the setup and deployment wizard but when I install it on anothe machine it needs to be able to connect to a database which i ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to use SSL&AD in PocketPC application

  Could somebody kindly give me some information about :how to develop PocketPC application using SSL&AD(Active Directory) I have some application based on PocketPC,which using GPRS (Wireless in China),My customer ask me using SSL & AD for security. I have no experience about SSL&AD on PPC development. Help! Any advice will be appreciated,Thanks ! Hi fanzhen, If you're asking about talking to the AD, Pocket PC and Smartphone ...Show All

• .NET Development INSERT records in a table from windows form

  Hi everyone, i'm a newbie with .NET platform - a big neginner..:) well, my question is: I have SqlDatabse and respetively the objects:  SqlDataConnection, SqlDataAdapter and DataSet. With displaying data everithing works perfectly - just changing [SqlDataAdapter.SelectCommad.CommandText], and then just using "FILL" to populate the records in the DataGrid. But what with the "INSERT" I've set my INSERT statement, but how to practicaly e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Generate a Domain Model during Debugging

  Hello, During debugging I have constructed a Model, and I want to use this model as a Domain Model (.dsldm) in another DSL Project... so, is it possible to transform a model designed during debugging wit a Domain Model Is There a XML relation between the two kinds of models If not, is it possible to know the structure of the XML Domain Model files to generate with T4 my Domain Model Thank you a lot! Rafa Cabedo. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Build Wizard

  In the TFS team explorer, I am using the source control to maintain a java application written with Eclipse 3.1.2 and the Teamprise plug-in. Is it possible to create a Build for my java project Or does the build function only support MS solution files What if I wanted to create a build strictly for documentation purposes only; this way I can track which files have been included or changed in different builds, without actually a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Class designer for Documentation purposes...

  Hi, Would there be a Document only purpose of class designer I really love the Interface that's being provided. Im always using VISIO in documenting datalayer and once I saw the class designer I was amazed with the object representation of the class. Would there be a release that would also cater database diagrams, ERD and other software documentation Maybe an upgrade of VISIO or something that doesn't generate codes cheers, Paul June ...Show All

• SQL Server Permissions Hierarchy - GRANT on logins/users/roles

  A question on the permissions hierarchy: Since logins, database users, and database roles are both principals and securables - what does it mean to GRANT permission on a login/user/role to another principal Does it mean that for a login - you can GRANT permission to EXECUTE AS that login or modify it, for example Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual C++ Resize managed array inside a function

  Hi, I'm having a little problem using managed arrays. It seems I can not resize an array with Array::Resize within a function. I wanted to do something like this (pseudocode): void manipulatearray(array<int> ^test) { // in reality this function processes some data (unknown how much elements, taking 10 for the example) and fills the array with it System::Array::Resize (test, 10); for(unsigned int i = 0; i < 10; i++) ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect to SQL Server 2005

  Hello, I have a problem with connecting to SQL Server 2005. I have a small network at home with a WLAN router connected to Internet. My notebook computer and desktop computer are connected to router. My SQL Server 2005 is installed on notebook computer and Microsoft Server Management Studio is installed on desktop computer. I wanted to add login so I could connect to it from desktop pc and a problem came up. When I tryed to add acco ...Show All