ChristosK107730's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Abrupt CString behaviour

  I have successfully compiled existing wizard based application VC++ 6.0 project to VC++ 8.0 project [VS 2005]. I am using a custom file dialog by inherting it with CFileDialog and adding an extra checkbox below the text box. The problem arises with all the CString variables getting initialized with "Local disk(D:)" and it does not get depleted even if i use Empty() member function or passing BLANK (_T("")) in the constructor itself. And so ...Show All

• .NET Development Exception: Unable to read data from the transport connection

  Hi, We've written code in C#.Net (Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1) for a Windows service to download the .csv files from different sites over GPRS connections through FTP. The Service runs on mulptiple threads to connect to multiple GPRS modems (as of now we are using 3 GPRS modems/connections) to collect the files from different sites at the same time. It all download files and works fine for some time. But later after some time any one of t ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing Registry on a Remote Computer

  Hi, I am trying to access the registry on a Remote Machine. I am successful as long as the remote machine is in the same domain and the user logged in currently on the Windows machine has enough permissions on the remote machine as well. However, when I try to access the registry on a machine on a different domain, I get UnautorizedAccess Exception. How do I specify the user credentials in my code. Following is the code snippet I am using. ...Show All

• Visual Basic DirectX Effects problems.

  Problem:  When using the effect, there are no errors, but nothing is visible. ************************************************************************************************************************************************ Assume:  gDev is a created direct3d.Device.  ePool() is a effect array.  I will only use ePool(0) in this example.  mPool() is the material array for the mesh.  DxE.Lights is a array of created l ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2 BackColor ???

  MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2 does not have BackColor property. Is it possible to define one (it is of course possible) and actually make it functionable Thanks. DECLARE LONG SendMessage IN User32 LONG nhWnd, INTEGER Msg, LONG wParam, LONG LPARAM SendMessage( THISFORM .TreeView1. HWND , 4381, 0, RGB (255,255,192)) ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Database @ client

  Hi We are trying to develop a smart client application which is occasionaly connected. The issue here is we are unable to decide on the database which needs to be used in the client. We will not able to use MSSQL express or MSDE becuase of the size limitation. The size of the DB is actually a couple of gigs(SQL server backup). The user need not do any transaction which needs to be re recorded in server. The user will connect only to donwload ...Show All

• Windows Forms HELP!! There are no animals!

  Can anyone help i just started working on Terrarium a few days ago. First: I downloaded Terrarium client 1.1 for .net framework 1.1. when the program started running, there are no animals. it says:"The Terrarium server is experencing temporary difficulties. This is pro ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How draw the line of picking?

  hi: I want draw the line of picking. I can draw the line, but when move camera, the line would move too. How can do this What transformation must apply Sorry for my english. Thank at all.- If you mean the line from the mouse to the object that you have selected then since this is a line that is always perpendicular to the screen its always going to be a single point so its kind of hard to draw it. ...Show All

• SQL Server Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server

  I am trying to create an SQLExpress database file (mdf) in VS2005 but I get the following error: "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in making a connection to the user interface. The connection will be closed.” I also get this same error if I try to open an existing database from the VS samples. Any Ideas Thanks, Dave T Ok got this much figured out, still having other problems, b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automatic e-mail reports

  Is there a way I can setup e-mail reports for everyone in project (team) automatically   I know every user has the option to setup their own report subscription using their client , but each day we would like everyone to automatically receive an e-mail report summarizing the bugs assigned to them. Thanks, Anu   You will have to write a tool that queries the server every morning by using the Work Item Object Model.& ...Show All

• SQL Server Log file - failed MSDE SP4 Installation

  Hi, I tried installing MSDE SP4 on a windows 2000 Server. Unable to deploy..getting error "The instance name specified is invalid" Then tried installing with the following; setup /upgradesp sqlrun DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 /L*v C:\MSDELog.log The log files indicates; 1] SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Setup.{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D3605127224A} TempFolder is C:\DOCUME~1\thp-mgb\LOCALS~1\Temp\{E09B48B5-E141-427A-AB0C-D36051272 ...Show All

• SQL Server Documenting SQL 2005 packages

  Hi all I would like to select transforms in a package and paste them as jpeg or similar into word or powerpoint in order to allow me to create a separate set of documentation. However, whenever I copy some transformations and jump to word, the copy buffer is empty. Any suggestions Thanks I am not sure you can do what you are after, but I am intrigued. What do you mean by copy a transform What do you ...Show All

• Smart Device Development adding a Sql server mobile file to a project...

  Hi I've juste started developping with the .NET environment with 2005 (almost never tried the 2003 edition) so i'm not really used to all the controls. Here's my problem : I'm using the PPC emulator and i need to use a SQL server mobile database with it. THe problem is thatI don't really get how things work together... I've created my dataset, it seems to work fine. But it doesn't seem to connect to the database (always returns 0 on rows.count) ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Mining - Scalar Mining Structure Column Data type error...

  Hoping someone will have a solution for this error Errors in the metadata manager. The data type of the '~CaseDetail ~MG-Fact Voic~6' measure must be the same as its source data type. This is because the aggregate function is not set to count or distinct count. Is the problem due to the data type of the column used in the mining structure is Long, and the underlying field in the cube has a type of BigInt,or am I barking up the wrong tree ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2005 Express Setup EXE - Deplyment

  I do have another question. Sorry for being a pest. In VB6, there is a deployment tool that creates a setup.exe program. That utility creates a setup.exe along with a *.cab file. I like to use this system to create a ZIP file so I can distribute my programs from my web site. I cannot seem to locate anything like this in VB2005 Express. I did find something called "Publish To Web", but I use Yahoo! as my web host & VB2005 Expr ...Show All