ImranBaig's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XAML Futures

  Is that possible to produce something like a main logo at: http://www.relate-software.com/uk/ using XAML I mean the shape itself and 3D effects as well Thanks. You could model a 3D shape like that shown. The rendering in WPF would be true 3D not the mock 3D shown. So the lighting would be more accurate in WPF, but require more hardware to perform well. For a single logo on a page it may not matter m ...Show All

• Visual Studio PLK

  I requested a PLK and got one using an old package guid. I really need to have the PLK regenerated for my new package, but I cannot do that on the VSIP site. I tried copying the original guid over into the new package, but the Load key fails with "invalid key authentication" . What do I need to do to get this working The docs, at ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.VSIPCC.v80/MS.VSSDK.v80/dv_vsintegratio ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Release: unresolved token IID_IDirectInput8A

  I am trying to build a release version of my application but I can't seem to link it properly as explained in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/archive/en-us/directx9_c_Oct_2004/directx/input/ref/functs/directinput8create.asp I'm trying to create a DirectX 8.x interface with the DirectX 9.0c software development kit (SDK) without using CoCreateInstance : Set "#define DIRECTINPUT_VERSION 0x0800" before the include stat ...Show All

• SQL Server Allowing Remote Connections

  When I attempt to connect to our new SQLServer 2005 from my workstation running the latest XP Pro and SQL Server Mgmt Studio 2005, I get the following error. I checked the setup on the server, and TCP/IP connections are allowed. I connect to all our older SQL Server 2000 servers/databases just fine. TITLE: Connect to Server ------------------------------ Cannot connect to <server>\<instance> (deleted). ---------------------- ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express Security?

  We are releasing an application built on SQL Server Express in the next few months.  Our clients are mostly small companies with little technical knowledge, and they will be using our application on desktop computers where everyone likely logs in as the same user.  As such, my thinking is that we setup SQL Server Express as in SQL Server Authentication mode.  This way they could select an Administrator password upon first installa ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Set Connection String For Bulk Insert Source Connection

  I came across something strange today. I was wondering I was doing something wrong. I want to go through a directory and get files and assign the Fully Qualified File Name to a User Variable. I want to use that variable as a connection string within Expression in Bulk Insert Task Source Connection,  Data Flow Task and File System Task. It is working fine within Data Flow Task and File System task. It is NOT working for Bulk Insert . ...Show All

• SQL Server Do you regularly rebooting your server?

  I would like to know if you reboot your SQL Server on a regular basis and why...   I do not regularly reboot our SQL Servers. They do get reboots when patches adn service packs are applied, but past that, I have found no need to reboot the servers. ...Show All

• Visual Basic IP/DNS resolver

  hey people out there :-) i've just started a new project i VB xpress. however i have encountered som problems: 1. none of the my.computer "info" things have anything about how to find the computers IP adress. how do i make the program show that 2: is it possible to make the computer convert a raw IP adress to a domain name/url adress sa that 999.999.999.999 can be converted to, google.com for instance and how about r ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLSTATE=08501 - or - Communication Link Failure

  Hello, Was just trying to solve an issue that keeps coming up periodically. We are using PowerBuilder v9.0 as our front end and MS SQL Server as our back end. We are using ODBC as opposed to using the Native SQL Server Database driver that comes with PowerBuilder. We have a process that runs hourly throughout the day, everyday, and about every two weeks we start to get strange errors coming from this process. Most notably, the following error me ...Show All

• Windows Forms FlexGrid / Datagrid question

  Hi, I know that there is no Flexgrid in VB.NET 2003, and most posts I have seen are directing people to the datagrid. My problem is that I don't think the datagrid is an option in my case. I have recently upgraded my VB6 app to VB.NET 2003, which uses a FlexGrid. I populate the grid at runtime...and NOT from a database table The grid uses column AND row headings, which I need to be fixed in place...ie when the user scrolls horizontal ...Show All

• .NET Development n-tier application (typed Dataset)

  I have created an n-tier application. The client side (win forms) calls the business layer. Business layer calls the webservice and the webservice calls the data layer. The datalayer gets the data using typed datasets. In the datalayer I have created a .xsd file In this layer I can use this typed dataset to work with the dataset. For example refer to the column of the table using the typed dataset. The problem is that How can i be able to refer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Proxy objects -- What were they thinking?

  Either I am doing something completely wrong, or the VSTO team took a big step backwards with the RTM Release. I have a project that I created in VSTO Beta2.  Like everyone else I grumbled about all the COM objects and how it would have been so much better if VSTO was truly mananged. But now, instead of COM objects we have to deal with proxies to remote objects This makes it damn near impossible to debug anything. Again, maybe its just me, ...Show All

• Visual C# Why string needs to be passed as ref, even though it is reference type?

  Hi, I want to pass the string value to a function and the changes should refelect in the called function. What I thought was if I pass the string normally (without using ref keyword) this will work since string is a reference type. If we are passing any userdefined class reference it is working. Why it is not working for string even though it is a reference type Example: public void fun() { Strin ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) VisualTreeHelper.GetChild bug?

  I've come across an odd glitch with VisualTreeHelper.GetChild:   <TabControl>     <TabItem/>     <TabItem>       <FlowDocumentScrollViewer Name="viewer">               </FlowDocumentScrollViewer>     </TabItem>   </TabControl>   void OnLoaded(object s ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to hide main form

  I have a main form that while loading, if necessary, opens another form (form2). if form2_needed = true then form2.show me.hide end if However, the main form refuses to hide. Thanks. It worked with the form minimized (windowstate). Thanks. ...Show All