José.Alvarez's Q&A profile

• SQL Server PDF files with images get unexpectedly large in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

  When using quite small JPEGS (~ 800 KB) in a report the exported PDF is a few megabytes of size. Am I missing something (e.g. some kind of compression) Can anyone give me a hint on this one Thanks, Neno There is a known bug in 2000 (which I know wasn't fixed in the SP2 beta -- don't know about SP2 RTM, though) in the PDF renderer -- It causes images of any type to be converted to bitmaps, then rendered. I bet this is what you're running into. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Run workflow from a specify activity,how can i do?

  A sequential workflow have five activity.(such as code1,code2,code3,code4,code5) How do i run the workflow directly from code3.(not run code1,code2) please help me! Thanks! If it is a sequential workflow, then you'll need to use a condition based activity such as the If/else activity or the conditioned activity group. These will allow you to use rules or conditions to only run those activities that you want. However, you'll need to be passing some data that can be used to evaluate if the code should run. Otherwise, you may want to consider whether a state machine workflow is a better fit for your scenario. Matt ...Show All

• Visual C# Not executing some event

  I have listbox and I use "ItemIndexChange" event to do some action, but i do something else when i click on the list ("MouseDown" event). Events order: "ItemIndexChange", "MouseDown". How can I prevent executing "ItemIndexChange" when I clicked on the list and execute this event when I use keyboard to navigate throught list items. Just be creative and use a boolean flag or something: public class MyClass { private bool _itemChanged = false ; private void listBox1_ItemIndexChanged( object sender, EventArgs e ) { _itemChanged = tr ...Show All

• SQL Server ByPassPrepare in SSIS Property Value not Changing

  Everytime when I set this value to true; it saves but when I close the package and reopen it. It returns to false, I am using OLE DB connection... Help Please ...Show All

• Architecture Solution Architecture and VSTS

  Hi ,In my company one of my role is to modeling the right Architecture for the application (Web, Windows...) and decide what Patterns to use.I work with a lot of JAVA Architects and we discuss and implement a lot of gang of four and bouth languages. In Websphere, Eclipse and other the implement the patterns in design mode.Do you know if VSTS or the next versions will implement this type of Design mode Where I can put the class library (and windows, web and webservices) projects and respectives namespace, apply the patterns and the Helper like Enterprise Applications or implemented Helpers Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# VS not responding to keyboard keys (arrows ,enter ..)

  the issue may seem stupid enough, but not mystical. The behavior started to show self after I set "Visual Source Safe" as "Source Control" tool. As you check out the item you're not able to use any of the above typed keys, but others and mouse. You can achieve NORMAL_EXPECTED_BEHAVIOR of the keyboard as you close and start the Visual Studio again. And here is the mistical point that should explain. Where is that magical option box that I should set false/true that to get back the NORMAL_EXPECTED_BEHAVIOR of the keyboard and environment And which edition is that in the future that the environment will not assume developer as a stupid pi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can you do algibra in Visual Basic?

  I'm writing a program that trianglulates the loction of a point based on the distance from 3 other points.  The program's code is fine except I get a stupid "end of statement expected" error message.  Could you please help me fix the error   Here's the code: Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim out_put As Double Dim x As Double Dim y As Double Dim A As Double = TextBox1.Text Dim B As Double = TextBox5.Text Dim C As Double = TextBox2.Text Dim D As Double = TextBox6.Tex ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Dropping Desktop Shortcuts into Treeview using Drag & Drop

  Hello, I have read tons of MSDN documentation, but I do not fully understand the process of creating drag and drop. Since there is no shortcut class in .NET, I have to use the COM library. I need to develop a process where I can drag an existing desktop shortcut onto a treeview and the data/properties such as filename, target, etc from the shortcut is transferred and created as a new node in the treeview. Please help! Do you mean the library It is found under Project->Add References->COM->Windows Script Host Object Model the Imports statement is: Imports IWshRuntimeLibrary 'Creates a new variable ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Visual C++ express error when trying to compile DirectX9 SDK tutorial.

  I get the error, "c:\program files\microsoft directx sdk (april 2006)\include\d3d9.h(40) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'objbase.h': No such file or directory" when trying to compile the DirectX9 SDK's tutorials. For some reason the compiler can't open objbase.h in the d3d9.h... Can anyone help me figure this out have you installed the platform SDK, you need this for the express products and directx. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C# Focus() problem

  I want to open a windows form and set focus to the first field. There are many panels, group boxes, controls and event handlers in this form and they are apparently interfering with setting focus, which leads to three questions. 1) Is there a sure fire way to set focus to a particular control on load. This particular control is a form being loaded as a showdialog from another control. I've tried calling [control].focus() as the last item in the form_Load event and it does not work. 2) The tab order appears to want to cycle through all controls in a container, like a panel before going to the next panel. I do not want this order. Is ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Unable to Debug on SmartPhone Emulator

  I am successfully able to deploy an app to the Smartphone 2003 SE emulator, but when I try to debug, I get a message box..."The operation could not be completed". The status bar in VS says "Deploy succeeded". I have been forced to use the Loopback Adapter if that matters. Thanks for any assistance. John Walker Is this a Win2003 Server box My guess is that your setup of Visual Studio didn't successfully install NetCF on your desktop (possibly due to a conflict with Beta 1 or VS.NET). When the debugger is trying to start it has to CoCreate an interface which is registered by NetCF. That registration is probab ...Show All

• SQL Server Display first record occurance in textbox in RB

  Dear Anyone, I would like to display the first occurance of a record as a text box outside that of the report. I would like to do this in Report Builder. Is this possible Thanks, Joseph If you just want the dataset scope, leave out the second parameter: = First(Fields!FieldName.Value ) RB doesn't expose the RDL field names directly, so you'll have to guess that part. It's usually equal to or a predictable variant of the text in the column header. ...Show All

• .NET Development installing .net 1.0a AFTER 1.1 and 2.0 ??

  for certain reasons i needed to install the .net framework 1.0a and the sdk on a winxp system that already has 1.1 runtime and sdk and 2.0 runtime and sdk. i checked the option to register environmental variables during the 1.0a sdk install. do i now need to go back and do a repair install or all the 1.1 and 2.0 runtime and sdk installs or is it ok to leave it like this You will be able to leave everything as is. If you like, you can go to the Control Panel and edit the system environment variables. This would have the same effect as never having registered to the 1.0 SDK environment variables. Annie Wang Program Manager ...Show All

• Visual C# JIT optimization

  This isn't specific to C#, but the issue probably is most relevant to C#.  I'm helping someone do a scientific project using CodeDOM, and he's measuring the speedup. It's super impressive.  It lead me to ask whether the JIT is detecting a lot of dead code and optimizing it out (turns out it wasn't.) But for future reference, is there a document on the kind of optimizations that JIT employs I've done some experiments, and it looks like dead code elimination occurs, but no flow analysis is made (leading to further dead code elimination). e.g. in C#, Release build of for(int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++ ) for( int j=0;j <1000000; ...Show All

• SQL Server Visual Studio 2003 & SQL Server 2005

  Is it posible application writen with Visual Studio 2003 to establish connection to SQL server 2005 I to have a similar problem.  while configuring the sqldataadapter using the wizard, the wizard generates the select and insert sqlcommands. but the update, delete command are not generated. an error is thrown.  this wizard works completely fine with msde.  this problem surfaced immediately after i upgraded msde to sqlexpress2005.  is this a compatiblity problem will it be useful if i install the .net2 sdk ...Show All