Katarn's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Ways of Rendering mouse cursor in directx9

  I'm trying to build a GUI using directx 9. I find that rendering mouse cursor is something different from the main rendering process. It needs to have higher priority to make cursor looks "smooth" even when main rendering process's frame rate is low. Others give me some advice, but I'm not sure which is better. The following are the ways I figure out. 1. Using windows mouse cursor.  It's fast but in full screen mode it failed. 2. Draw ...Show All

• Visual Basic not displaying msgbox message and combo box items in vb.net 2003

  Hi! I have a problem with the message box and combo box items in vb.net 2003... the problem with msgbox is: i want to flat a msgbox when the user saves the document.. it perfectly displays when the user clicks save button but some times the msgbox will displays a blank msg.. ex... btnSave_Click(........).... msgbox("Record Updated Successfully!") end sub when the user clicks save button "Record Updated Successfully!" ...Show All

• SQL Server Does offline database come back online when server is restarted?

  If you take a database offline to prevent users from accessing it, and then restart the server, will the database be back online when the server starts up If so, is there an option to prevent this from happening so that a database taken offline will remain offline until it is manually put online again by an administrator The database state is kept in the master database, and is persistent across shutdowns as ...Show All

• Smart Device Development a problem when using 'Bitmapdata' in cf2.0

  hi, I just updated to vs 2005 as I wanna to develop a application in a pocket pc 2003 in cf 2.0 (because I want to use Bitmapdata to manipulate image), however, I still got this error when I try to use bitmapdata: Error 7 The type or namespace name 'BitmapData' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference ) C:\Documents and Settings\Ray\Desktop\1\ImageProcessing.cs 18 13  and I alre ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting the Connection String Just Once

  I have Midi application that requires just two different connection strings, one for my dev environment and one for production.  The main form is frmMain. The main form has a function that detects whidh connection is sucessful.  This is called in&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to connect to Developer Edition

  I am having difficulties connecting to a named-instance of SQL2K5 Developer Edition running along side a default instance of SQL2K, from another machine. - workgroup member, non-domain - running on XP - domain clients trying to connect: Win2003 Server/SQL2005Ent machine, XP with SQL2K and SQK2K5 client utilities I haven't been able to find documentation on limitations of Dev Edition that could cause this problem. Any ideas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Encode email as HTML

  Hi, I’m trying to send an email using MAPI32.dll. I’ve succeeded to send a simple plain text using P/Invoke and MAPISendMail function. Do you have any idea how can I send an email with HTML format Thank you in advance You need t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Windows Service with UI

  I want to create a Windows Service WITH a UI and a NotifyIcon in the system tray. I have installed the service to interact with the desktop and the service starts OK. In the OnStart of the service I have added code to show the notify icon with a context menu in the system tray. This displays OK. I also added code to to instantiate and show a form. The form shows OK. But then the form and the system tray icon become unresponsive. When I hover ove ...Show All

• SQL Server best approach

  I've been banging my head for a while now, and it is sore! :-P I'm a best practice/Microsoft approach type of person and want to make sure I do things correctly. I have a database, kind of like a forum. Obviously executing multiple queries in one "batch" (stored proc) would have an impact on the performance. Now, I would like to give a more detailed/specific error back to the caller (either by aid of error code or w ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista MSDTC Warning, started showing up after a DC demotion with DCPROMO, now I have only 1 DC, and a member server, and the roles OK

  Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSDTC Event Category: SVC Event ID: 53258 Date: 5/22/2006 Time: 4:02:41 AM User: N/A Computer: EPC Description: MS DTC could not correctly process a DC Promotion/Demotion event. MS DTC will continue to function and will use the existing security settings. Error Specifics: %1 For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp . Thi ...Show All

• SQL Server URGENT: PARAMETER ISSUES WITH SQL TASK

  I have read all the post about passing parameters from sql task in and out and have tried them all with no anvile. Frist of, they are too many types to deal with now, db types, SSIS types. Why the hausl. Can we make data type flow a bit more easy. Well, enough about the complain. I have been trying to dynamically set my sql query statement for my datasouce component using a variable set by a sql task. The tried a couple of methods. Method 1 Usin ...Show All

• Visual C# C# TO Excel HEADER ROW

  I have a project that requires the user to be able to download a dataset from a Web application. I have all that seems to be operating properly except I seem to be missing the Header row from the downloaded file. When I populate objSheet the first row is not the Header row but the first row of data. How can I get the Header row from the DataTable //Convert Dataset DataTable dtExcelExport = dsBPMExcelExportIn.Tables[s1]; //Populate t ...Show All

• Visual Studio My news channel on start page gone

  My news channel on the VS2005 start page now can not be displayed. It says the news channel is unavailable or no internet connection, but the fact is I connnected to internet and I checked the link of the news channel is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=45332&clcid=409 and I can open this link in internet explorer. Anyone know what's wrong BTW: I have opened the windows  XP (SP2) and Norton 2005 internet firewall for devenv.exe & ...Show All

• SQL Server DataStage Vs SSIS

  Hi, We are in a process of migrating a process running in Ascential Data Stage to SSIS. The database server is ORACLE 9i. We need samples/guide on the following datastage equivalent features. 1. Calling a function/script/routine from task's Data Flow transformer as Before/After Stage event. 2. Complex XML parsing and loading into sequential files. 3. Creating a batch & based on the condition calling the tasks. For example, if condit ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to prevent an Workflowinstance from terminating

  Hi there I'm currently working on a (runtime-)service that should start a workflow for errorhandling if an instance faults. The service works fine as long as I trigger it by the instance's terminate event (Runtime -> WorkflowTerminated), but I want to prevent  the instance from terminating and instead suspend it so it could be resumed and starts at the State that caused an error previously. Is anyone there who could give me a ...Show All