Mehmet Atlihan's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Flat File created but with too many spaces

  My Flat File connection manager is creating a flat file that has way too many spaces between my fields.  I am exporting columns from a table which in the end should only produce a fixed length flat file of 100 bytes but there are a ton of spaces between the columns for some reason. http://www.photopizzaz.biz/junk/4.jpg http://www.photopizzaz.biz/junk/7.jpg You're using fixed width and likely the default width, which is 50 characters. You might want to switch to delimited or use a smaller fixed width. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 SP1 issues

  I upgraded x64 bit server to SP1. Then processed my cube with the new release. I have stopped seeing some of the data for prior periods. I was partitioning the data by Fiscal Year (~50million rows per year) due to a problem earlier with backup/restore (see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=339278&SiteID=1 ). I also tried dropping the partitions and used table binding in the partition, to create one partition only. This gave the same results. I only see data for two years and only the current year was correct. The cube uses an Account dimension and that is used in the query to access the data. Is anyone seeing th ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to pass value from web form to Visual basic

  How to pass value from a web browser to Visual Basic form. Your helps are appreciated. Depends on what you are doing, and what environment you are doing it in. 1) If you want to get some value from any given web page, you can implement "screen scraping". http://authors.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/netscrape.asp 2) If your web page needs to share values with many windows programs, then use a Web Service to provide the value. http://www.asp.net/quickstart/webservices/ 3) If the web server and the windows program are local and just need to share data "quick and dirty", then just save the va ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS .Net 2005, how to disable intellisense...

  Hi I am really frustrated with the performance of VS .Net 2005. This is because I always see at the bottom "updating intellisense..." and it uses 60% to 70% of CPU. How to disable this updating of intellisense... Please this is making Visual studio unusable. Thanks Chandra Try going to Tools menu -> Options ->Text Editor -> C# -> Intellisense and uncheck the option "Intellisense pre-selects most recently used members". Then click OK. Does this help It does not disable Intellisense, but it should turn off background upates to the recent list. If you are fcing more problems please mention what's ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can I test Media Player Application On a Smartphone Device Emulator

  Dear All, I installed visual studio team suit 2005 beta 2 on my XP machine.I have created Media Player Sample on smartphone magneto using wmp.dll and wmp.ocx. I am unable to test it on my emulator. Is it possible to test Media player samples on Emulators Please help me,   Amarender. Yes. The device emulator that ships with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is quite capable of playing media back using Windows Media Player. You might want to use the folder sharing feature of the emulator to get media into the emulator, by the way. Under File > Options you can select a folder on your PC to share out to the emulator. The emulator will see ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I use the standard library without exception handling? (was _HAS_EXCEPTIONS)

  I have #defined _HAS_EXCEPTIONS to 0 early in my code (at the top of the pch in fact), disabled stack unwinding semantics and tried to build my project. Unfortunately, I am told by the linker that std::exception::~exception(void) and char const* std::exception::what(void) const are already defined when linking LIBCMT.lib. This seems to occur when I use a container from the standard library such as std::vector. I can solve the problem by commenting out the functions' definitions from the exception header (lines 251 and 255), but this seems sub-optimal to say the least. I'm runninng VS2005. Any ideas Cheers, Guy ...Show All

• SQL Server ISNULL ( ) support in SQL Server mobile?

  Is ISNULL ( check_expression , replacement_value ) supported in SQL Server 2005 Mobile edition. If not, then why the following statement executes without any error: -  " select ISNULL(a,12) as test from tableA " Where 'a' is int column. However, even though i do not get an error, it doesn't behaves as expected. I mean the result which i get is : - a. If the column is not null, the value in 'Test' (resultset) is False. b. If the column is null, the value in 'Test' (resultset) is true. The expected result was that the Null values would get replaced with the specified replacement value. The Questions are: -  1. Is ISNULL( )  su ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions stupid newbie needs help with serial port communication

  Hi, I hope someone can help me... I'm trying to use visual basic 2005 to recieve data from an ooPic device which is transmitting an incremental value via the serial port... the code used to do this is described here: *********** Do variable = variable + 1 serial.string = str$(variable) Loop *********** I'm using this so i can try see if i can recieve this data using visual basic 2005 to display the value in a window when a button is clicked. I have no clue where to begin. I managed to be able to send data to the ooPic using the code below: ****************** Private Sub Send_string_Click( ByVal sender As ...Show All

• Windows Forms Questions, questions, questions.

  Is there a way to make a control lose focus (other than giving another control focus) Also, in a checked listbox, is there a way to have the item I am checking not be highlighted Another thing I noticed about checked listboxes, if an item is highlighted and you click in empty space in the listbox, the item will check (or uncheck). Is there a way to stop this from happening Maybe it could be fixed if the item is not highlighted. Another thing, I have a byte array that gets filled with all the bytes of a file when I open it. Is there a way to track the progress of this with a progress bar I am only asking because if the file is quite large the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Question about BinaryReader

  I have a couple questions about using BinaryReader on a NetworkStream. 1.  With BinaryReader, am I correct in assuming that all read methods that read in a specific data type (such as ReadBytes(), ReadByte(), ReadInt32(), etc.) will block until there are enough bytes available in the stream to return one of those types   Or does it throw some exception  ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums WLM Suggestion

  First of all, HI EVERYBODY.This is my first day in msdn  and sorry if my english isn't perfect but I'm italian. Today,finally, I got an invitatin for windows live messenger beta.The first thing I've noticed is the "zooming" on every nick when the mouse passes over each.It's not a critique but a suggestion: wouldn't it be better if that "zooming" comes out only when there's a clic on the nickname Hoping my thread will be useful someway, I'd wish some opinions from other WLM users. Yes I found that option but the "zooming" will then never appear.So what I'm suggesting is that when the cursor passes over a contact, i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual basic deplyment bootsrapper

  i am using vb 2005 express, i have published my app using the on cd or dvd rom. But i really want it to be 1 setup file not setup.exe mapp.application, myapp1_0_0_0.application and the folder myapp with the actuall appliation and files. To temporarly do this, i created a self extracting zip file and it extracts the contents, to the temp directory and launches setup.exe. It works fine on xp, but i have had a report on a win98 machine comming up with a illegal operation. Is it the bootrapper or my zip file, now, my application does work on win 98 but i had to send the acutal application in a zip archive. So i am guessing it is either the setup ...Show All

• Visual C# Is it acceptable to have code in get or set?

  Absolutely every example I find on the net with regard to C# properties go like this: private string label; public string Label { get { return label; } set { label = value; } } My question is: is it acceptable to put code in the getter Where do you draw the line > is it acceptable to put code in the getter Yes, definitely. > Where do you draw the line Code in a getter should not modify the state of the object. It should also be "reasonably" fast - if it potentially contains long running code (such as a database access) then you should normally - either retrieve the data on the first ...Show All

• Windows Forms Making a textbox invisible makes contents inaccessible

  I have a textbox that hold the value of the identity field for the current record being displayed on a windows form. When it is invisible, I cannot access its content -- for example; intID = CInt(tbID.Text) tbID.Text = "" when the textbox is invisible. What am I missing Bill That is not correct.  If you set the Text property of any&n ...Show All

• Visual C# PInvoke: C-function returns struct containing pointers to void

  I have an unmanaged .dll which I want to call using PInvoke. The .dll is written in C and I want to call a function in that .dll. This function returns a pointer to a struct. No part of this solution has previously been written in C#, so I'm introducing a new C# project. Before I've solved this type of problem by declaring the struct in C# translating all of the members to managed code equivalents. I've been told to avoid unsafe code as much as possible. The struct which the returned parameter points to contains pointers to other struct and also pointers to void. One of the members of the struct has the implementation "typedef struct name_of ...Show All