MarkD84's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Is it necessary for me to learn .NET Framework?

  I am studying vb.net now,and i am eager to be an excellent vb.net programmer. So i want to know that is it necessary to learn .net framework. Thanks! In the .NET World, the language less important as compared the Framework since language just exposes the capabilites of the framework. Knowing the framework is extremely important and the language is just a means to use the framework. Omce you have a good understanding of the framework, ...Show All

• SQL Server Help with UDB and SRS

  Hi All We are going to develop reports using SRS and DB2. We have created an ODBC connection. Connected to the server successfully. Now I have created a dataset using commandType as TEXT which works fine. But when I select commandType as Stored Procedures / TableDirect, I do not see list of stored procedures / tables in the dropdown list. Any ideas Thanks, ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting the value of a Report Parameter Programmatically

  Is there any way to set the value of a parameter from custom code I am working with a simple string parameter called @City (the name of a city, used in the WHERE clause of a query). I have tried a number of approaches that all wind up doing something like this, Report.Parameters!City.Value = "Fairhope" Visual Studio Report Writer returns this error when the report is previewed, "Property 'Value' is 'ReadOnly'." T ...Show All

• Windows Forms How-to Start .Net executable with parameters?

  I have not been able to find some documentation on how to pass parameters to a .Net windows forms executable. I am not sure what changes I need to make to the application to accept parameters I want to be able to issue something like System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\myfolder\myapp.exe 1 T") where in myapp.exe I am able to read the two parameters on startup and implement some logic accordingly. Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Calling a web service from Xaml document

  Hi I want to call a web service from xaml document. Do you have any information about how I can do Do you know any document that can help me is there any example related to this Thank you You mean in pure XAML There's no way to do it in pure XAML, you need some code behind. HTH, Drew ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System msbuild

  is there a possibility to checkout out files from the team foundation server for doing an msbuild task which modifies these checked-out files I am not sure I understand this q. If you mean, is there an MSBuild task I can use to check out files from TFS, the answer is yes. You can either use the Exec task calling tf.exe as Buck mentioned or you can write your own custom task using the VC OM to checkout files ...Show All

• Windows Forms graphics flicker problem (double buffer not working)

  I am trying to create a simple Breakout type game. I have a game panel on my form that holds my game (the paddle, ball, and board of blocks). I use a timer with an interval of 10 to move the ball a set distance every tick. The problem is that I also draw the board everytime this timer ticks and it flickers. I tried setting the doublebuffered attribute of my form to true but it didnt help. Anyone have any ideas either a different/ebtter way t ...Show All

• Visual C++ ap libraries

  Is there a download for getting ap libraries for Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 This was helpful in as much as I now have the apstring files needed. However, I am running into another problem when attempting to use them. The apstring references the old iostream.h file in the code. How can I get this to work, any ideas  Let me rephrase this, and perhaps explain a bit better. I am using Visual S ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Parameters for this alpha blend

  I was asking about this at the end of another thread and I think it is not read any more, so I will try in a thread which is about this subject and not something else. I want to get a blended alpha value which works like this if two surfaces are drawn on the same pixel and one has alpha=0.75 and the other has alpha=0.5 then i need the result to be 0.875. If the two alphas were 1 and 0.5, i would need it to be 1. I can see how this is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where to find starter kits

  Does anyone have any web sites to get starter kits from. hi, you can try to search msdn for starter kits http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/starterkit/default.aspx also you can use google hope this helps ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView - Programatically select/highlight cell substrings

  I want to implement a Search/Replace function for searching the contents of a DataGridView.  I've got a basic search to work but it is simply highlighting the whole cell that contains the search string. I now want to improve this to highlight&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista warning C4312

  Hi, i am getting warning C4312 for following line: pFrame=(PDWORD)pContext->Ebp; where pFrame is declared as follows: PDWORD pFrame; and pContext as: PCONTEXT pContext; i am building 32-bit binaries with /WP64 flag on. i read msdn page for warning C4312. it suggests changing datatype but how cam i change types for DWORD and PDWORD i guess they are from system. Thanks, Chanakya OK I see! AFAIK t ...Show All

• SQL Server Date field

  Ho do you set the date field in an SQL SERVER table. I only want to show just the date without time in my col. Isnt there a DATE type for SQL table. I have a big problem with dates as I have imported all my datas from Access MDB. Tnx Hi there, There isn't a data type in SQL Server that stores only the date. The only date/time data types in SQL Server are datetime and smalldatetime and these will clea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Access to Version Control

  Is there web access to Team Foundation's Version Control Forgot what I said befgore, I was just forgetting TeamPlain is a tool for accessing TFS from the web, and also gives access to SourceControl http://www.devbiz.com/teamplain/default.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server How to include SSIS into install file?

  I've already read many topics that was asked about SSIS runtime, but for my purposes I didn't find satisfied answer Our clients don't use SQL Server for their data. But we anyway used DTS packages for transfering data between client DBes. Only thing that we needed to install was DTS dlls. What will I need to do now to use old DTS and new SSIS packages on these clients   Jamie Thomson wrote: ...Show All