Bala Sekhar's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to create a multihead device?

  hi, i would likt to know how to create a multihead device. an short example would be nice as i dont get it! i tryed this, but its throwing an error: Dim PresentParams(1) As PresentParameters 'set presentation parameters PresentParams(0) = New PresentParameters PresentParams(0).Windowed = False PresentParams(0).SwapEffect = SwapEffect.Discard PresentParams(1) = New PresentParameters PresentParams(1).Windowed = False PresentParams(1).SwapEffect = SwapEffect.Discard 'create device Device = New Device(0, DeviceType.Hardware, Me, CreateFlags.AdapterGroupDevice, PresentParams) thx & greets matthias I am sor ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot save Maintenance plan

  I use sa to login to sql 2005. I can save Maintenance plan using wizard. However, when I try to save maintenance plan using the maintenance plan design screen, I received error message "Apply to target server failed for job ...". When I check the job, there is no step in the job. In the Maintenance wizard, there is no maintenance clean up task. I want to create a task to delete my backup file if it is older than certain days. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance. Although Maintenance Plans are built on the SSIS infrastrcucture, they do have some aspects that we do not cover. Best to start in the SQL Server ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 standards

  Can anyone point me to a good set of standards for a SQL Server 2005 environment... As an answer for general questions like yours I recommend Books Online (part of server installation or online at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms313868.aspx ). If you cannot find answer there, be more specific. If you are interested in what part of ANSI standard we have implemented in T-SQL, there is a dedicated forum (Transact-SQL). Regards, Boris. ...Show All

• Windows Forms sub columns into column

  Hi All. I am in big trouble here. I want following structure should be generated from the database. Means I have to generate sub columns within column and then place data according that. How can we make it possible with VS.Net to generate columns structure like that . I am sure that it'll be only possible with either DataSet or DataTable but how Any idea for this. If possible please provide some sample code. Column1 Column2 Column1a Column1b Column2a Column2b Column2c ...Show All

• Windows Forms Navigating to a parent in a databinding expression

  A full description of the problem is here: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx id=273879 ...Show All

• SQL Server XML export on SQL Server 2000

  Hi, I need to export data to a xml file from 3 tables on sql server 2000 - Department (DepartmentId, Department) Employee(EmployeeId, Name, Title, Gender, DepartmentId) Ticket(TicketId, Subject, EmployeeId) -- Each employee may be assigned with multiple tickets I need the export xml like this - < xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" > <MyReport CreationDate = "2006-06-20 15:30:00"> <Employee> <Name>aaa</Name> <Title>DBA</Title> <Gender>Male</Gender> </Employee> <Ticket> <Su ...Show All

• SQL Server Naming convention in RS project

  Hello guys, I want to follow some naming standard for the report project that I am currently working on. I appreciate if anybody provide me a resource regarding naming standards that are available in reporting service project For instance, in C# you have like txtFirstName for a text box which contain a FirstName value, lstEmployees for a list control which contains a list of Employees and so on. So, just like this, what naming standard is available in reporting service project Sincerely, Amde ...Show All

• SQL Server Instert found records into DB

  here, this query produces 21 days for @TotalPostingDays  ...the days left after pulling out weekend days (sat and sun) and holidays. What I want to do is instead of pulling the total amount for @TotalPostingDays I want to insert the actual dates that are contained within the @TotalPostingDays into a table DECLARE @TotalDaysInMonth int ,             @today datetime ,             @TotalWeekendDays int ,             @TotalHolidaysThisMonth int , ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Glass effects in WPF

  I was playing with Glass effects in WPF and found following strange effect. If I make a Window complete transparent (Glass) elements such as Label, TextBox, CheckBox show black text on black background (see picture in archive). Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug in WPF or maybe it's a grafik card I have nVidia GeForce FX 5600 265Mb. I use drivers from NVIDIA: Date 19.05.2006, Version 8.8.6.1 In archive is sample project and picture with strange effects taken on my computer. http://rapidshare.de/files/22269698/GlassWPF.zip.html couldnt access the zip. So i am just guessing here. Looks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Howto determine the startup form of a project?

  I'm trying to figure out which form is the startup form for a WinForms project. Ive looked for some property in the project or the VB file itself and neither one seems to know the answer. More specifically, I'm looking at the Properties collection of the project and the projectitems objects using the DTE. Obviously I'm missing it here. Where can I look to find this information Thanks Bill This is a little outside areas with which I'm familiar, but WindowsFormsApplicationBase.MainForm Property looks promising. It's in the Midrosoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices namespace of the .NET Framework. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Process HTML

  Hello, I want to display some HTML content of a file in a windows form; is there a way not to display the HTML directly, but rather the rendered HTML as you see in the browser   I'm guessing the webbrowser control will be needed Thanks. Hey, Other than the webbrowser, is there another approach   Just looking at all the options. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development how to check the internet connectivity

  My computer in connected to a LAN which inturn is connected to the internet through the gateway router. so the IP address i use is the private IP address. I want to check the internet connectivity from c#. How can i know whether or not the internet connectivity is working although my LAN connection is working very well Please help me with this problem. While mechanisms exist for determining if there is a network connection in the 2.0 Framework, the same methods aren’t very useful when it comes to seeing if you have an actual internet connection and not just a local area connection. One of the easiest ...Show All

• .NET Development Where o' where has my "HasChanges() gone"?

  Hiya, I have a windows form displaying a dataset from a select query and I am trying to find a way to determine when my datset has changed so I can pop a message box when the naviagte to a different record or close the form asking the user if he/she would like to save. I came across the HasChanges() method which seemed like a grand idea but when I try it like: if (myDataset.HasChanges()) { pop me a MessageBox() to save or discard; } else { ....just keep on rolling; } ......my app will not build explaining that I am missing an object reference and as expected, when I press the . to the right of the dataset there is no hasc ...Show All

• SQL Server Error saving package to msdb (IA64 - April CTP)

  When attempting to save a copy of my .dtsx package (from BI Dev Studio), I get the following error. Any one have any ideas - note: This is an IA64 machine running W2k3 Server (SP1). If I select * from msdb.dbo.sysdtspackages90 I get no rows. Thanks! ============================================= The ExistsOnSQLServer method has encountered OLE DB error code 0x80004005 ([DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (SECDoClientHandshake()).]SSL Security error.). The SQL statement issued has failed.  (Microsoft Visual Studio) ---------------------------------------- Program Location:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Application.ExistsOnSqlS ...Show All

• Visual C++ Unresolved symbols linking dll

  I get the following errors trying to link my dll project (non MFC in this case). What am I missing nafxcwd.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in testdll.obj nafxcwd.lib(dllmodul.obj) : warning LNK4006: _DllMain@12 already defined in testdll.obj; second definition ignored    Creating library Debug/test.lib and object Debug/test.exp nafxcwd.lib(thrdcore.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __CrtSetDbgFlag nafxcwd.lib(afxmem.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __CrtSetDbgFlag nafxcwd.lib(dumpinit.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __CrtSetDbgFlag nafxcwd.lib ...Show All