RoyBoy's Q&A profile

• SQL Server New RDL Spec differences

  Is there somewhere that explains the major differences between the 2003 RDL spec and the new one released in November I will be going through the two specs in detail in January looking at the differences but I was just wondering if there's a quick synopsis out there somewhere. Are there any major differences Darren I guess I'll answer my own post in case anyone else out there is interested.   F ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContext lost in a ModelVisual3D??? Is it a bug?

  Hi all. At the end of this post I added 2 pieces of code. Basically, the second one is the same as the first one but wrapping the _itemContent with a Viewport3D so that 3D animations are possible on the list items. In both cases the _itemsContainer.ItemsSource is set in the code behind in the Loaded event handler of the Window. However, the 2nd code doesnt work and after many experiments I detected that the DataContext is lost. My question is: ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Authentication + SSL

  Hi! I noticed that with SSL authentication (On SQL Server 2005), the SSL handshake is kind of "truncated" : * Certificate is not sent from Server to client; (Which may be OK according to TLS) * The client does not send Client-Key-Exchange message (Which is not conforming to TLS) This is clearly evident from tcpdump output. However with Windows authentication, the client -server handshake is "compatible" with ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) System.InvalidOperationException

  Hello I have created a WPF web application . The same WPF application works fine as a windows application but inside browser it gives the exception. : System.InvalidOperationException: The Storyboard.TargetProperty path '(0).(1).[0]' does not point to a DependencyProperty. This exception is removed if I comment the following code from my file : <!--<EventTrigger.Actions> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> ...Show All

• SQL Server Package crashes without error information

  I am creating an SSIS Package to import some data. The package contains a big for each loop with 3 parallel running nested for each loops. The package crashes within the big loop without returning any error information. It starts up the sqldumper and genreates an dump - but does not report any error to the UI (Visual Studio or dtexec). While I am running only one for each loop and disable the others the package executes successfully. Has anyone ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Requests...

  May be it's too late, but I think this requests could be scheduled at least for a SP1 if it's not possible for the RTM. 1) Execute Task without debugger: it would be very nice to be able to execute a single task without going in debugging mode. Just as you would ask "Start Without Debugging CTRL+F5" but for a single task 2) Customize default properties for task and component: when you drag a task on the package you get a default value for the ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I call a .net COM dll from VBA across network

  Hi all.   We currently have a product which happily runs across a network by having various COM dlls installed on a shared network folder and various client pcs use these dlls via an VB6 exe and also Excel (2000/XP/2003) VBA.  We don't have to install anything on the client pcs apart from having to register the COM dlls (via regsvr32 "/serverpath/MyDll.dll") so that Excel (which runs locally on each client pc) kn ...Show All

• Visual C# preventing serialization of event

  I have an event declared in a class that I am serializing.  I don't want to serialize the class the the event calls.  How do I prevent the Serialization of the event.  I tried the NonSerialized attribute and the compiler says this does not work for non fields.  Here is a short example: class Document {    event SomeLink eventLink=null;    internal void LinkToForm(MyForm linkedForm)   &n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where to start for unix programmer?

  Howdy, I'm a professional analyst working with C/C++ on an UNIX platform (SGI/IRIX).  The apps I work with also submit Oracle and Sybase SQL queries and procedures. Graphics is done with Motif and OpenGL. I'd like to expand my knowlege by entering into the realm of Windows programming.  I'd like to work with C/C++, but am also interested in checking out C# and VB (my BASIC experience is in the days of QBASIC and earlier).  I' ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Binding workflow parameters with activity properties

  Can someone provide a code snippet to show how to bind workflow parameters with (custom) activity properties. Note that the workflow is to be composed dynamically. I am trying to compose a WF dynamically by stringing together certain predefined activities that have some properties defined on them. I would like the WF to take certain parameters such that they are bound to appropriate properties in the activities (.i.e parameterizing the activiti ...Show All

• Visual C# How to pass values to another form?

  Hi , I had a login screen where by I will store the employee id. May I know how to pass the employee id to another form or class Please help. Thanks. Expose it as a property, then you can grab it from the form instance that created it. If you want to expose it elsewhere, you'd have to hook up a delegate ( i.e. set up an event that you can fire from the login screen, which is hooked to a method where-e ...Show All

• .NET Development Distort Image on a 3d plane

  Hi all, I am currently building a site that places a user supplied image (logo) over a number of available products. The problem I have is when I want the image follow the plane of the product ie. make the image wrap around the contour of the product. I need to make the image redraw in the shape of a trapezoid. I was able to find some code that reshaped the image into a Parallelogram but have so far been unable to manipulate it into the requi ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I use the delegate to update the user interface from a thread?

  hi:) I make a thread to do some work, here I want to see how the thread is going on. How can I use the thread to update the label text(used to display the message from the thread). I am a newer in c# , any advance will be helpfull! thanks in advace. coz you are working on another thread you cannot acess directly the label.. if the label wasnt created by that thared.. and howd you guess you need a delegate , and a methofd Be ...Show All

• Visual Basic ListView Problem

  Hi, Iam using ListView Control in VB.NET, i want to do something like this... please help me. 1. I receive data from RS232 Port. 2. I will Save the data into a table.(Call Data) and mark a flag field as NO. 3. I must populate the data into listview control. 4. Sometime later i will receive a data maybe in seconds(Acknowledgement data). 5. I will search for Call data (2) and if found i will save the data into a table and mark a flag field as YES. ...Show All

• Visual Studio shortcut key ALT+INSERT and other newb ?

  hi i am trying to learn how to make add-in's and one thin is how do i make a shortcut key binding to ALT and INSERT have tryed with command.Bindings = "Global::alt+insert" ; that dos not work but it works with command.Bindings = "Global::alt+y" ; is there some special thing with the insert key or another thing is i want to search the active document line for line and do some processing if a creteria is met  but i have diffic ...Show All