Ping Wang's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Availability of Visio for Enterprise Architects 2005

  I have been reading up on the different versions of VS2005, and I can't find where VEA 2005 fits in.  How can I get it in a cost effective manner, when the majority of my work is DB design   Or, is Visio 2005 (not VEA) going to have the same database round-trip features Thanks, Kevin Nechodom Hi Kevin, My understanding is that VEA 2005 is bundled with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects and Visual Studio Team Suite. I hope that helps, Tony. "Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764584367 "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC extension DLL project with /clr option causes link error on _DllMain

  I get link errors mfcs80ud.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: __pRawDllMain already defined in DllMain.obj mfcs80ud.lib(dllmodul.obj) : error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in DllMain.obj The project options are MFC extension DLL /clr option (except the source file with my DllMain implementation) UNICODE character set   I am using VS 2005 Std Ed. and after building a couple of times started getting the following error: Error 2 error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in MSVCRTD.lib(dllmain.obj) mfcs80ud.lib  Which seems related to earlier in this thread as a bug in ...Show All

• .NET Development Common Language RunTime Debugging Service

  Hi,      We have built application in C#. This exe works fine with small Reports. But failed and give following error message whenever we try to run a big reports/processes:                ReportGenerator.exe Common Language Runtime Debugging Services               Application has generated an exception that could not be handled.               Process ID=0x14 (1300) ...Show All

• SQL Server How to add YTD (Calculation) to Time Dimension?

  Is there any you can add YTD to Time Dimension as attribute Or it has to be Calculation Then how do we do this Is this need to base on Dimension or Measure I would prefer this to be base on dimension and show in Time dimension hierarchy. Any inputs on this are highly appreciated.   If you are using Analysis Services 2005 you can open the cube editor and then click on the "Add Business Intelligence" button you will get a wizard that will guide you through the process of adding a "Period Calculations" attribute hierarchy to your time dimension which can be used to support YTD, QTD, MTD and other p ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Microsoft XPS Document Writer for XP

  Is there a version of MXDW available which can be installed on Windows XP Thanks, Adran Adrian, The Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW) is actually only available as part of Windows Vista Beta 2 for now. Previous CTP releases from late 2005 and early 2006 did include an older version of the MXDW in the then codenamed "WinFX" SDK. We are working to make this available as part of .NET Framework 3.0 for the RC1 release for downlevel OS. Thanks. -Daniel (Microsoft) ...Show All

• Visual C++ .NET, VC++ and COM

  I have an API written in C++ that exposes all the interfaces as COM objects. This API is current ly used in a few VB6 Projects. I am migrating some of these VB6 Projects to VB.NET and although I can use the current API with COMInterop, it would be better if I could actually use a NET API. I am also not going to be able to port all my VB6 applications so my questions are: a) Is there any way to expose my API as a NET API instead of a traditional COM objects API b) Is there any way to generate two APIs (COM and NET) with the same code base even if it means making a couple of changes My C++ code is just business logic that does not access a ...Show All

• Visual Studio code model with partial classes and user controls

  i have a few questions that i've been having a hard time with. i'm trying to create a visitor partial class. this partial class will have an add-in maintained part that will mirror the controls present on a user control. to do this, i process the code model on the user control to get at the fields that it has. i also capture the document save event and update the generated part. this all works well when you're dealing with a straight c# project. when you're doign a web project, things start to break problem #1: there is no pretty way to get to the generated codebehind for the ascx. the only way to get to it, is to start with the code model o ...Show All

• .NET Development Developing Software to run on USB Thumb Drive

  Hi, How can we develop software that can run on USB Thumb Drive . There are software that can run on Thumb Drive like bharat   Oren Novotny wrote: It would be a pretty difficult thing to get .NET programs to run from a USB drive as they require OS level support (the .NET Runtime) to be available.  If .NET is already installed on the host, then you should be able to run most apps from a thumb drive (most apps won't care).  The trick is to have something if .NET is not installed already, and for this you have a couple options -- 1) Include the .NET Framework installer on the USB stic ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.NET Database Connection

  hi! I am new here, can someone help me Do you know a tutorial or any article about the database connectivity of vb.net I am using  SQL Server 2000 and I want to create a program that can view, add, update and delete records in the database.. Can someone help me with this one Thanks a lot!   Dirty Steve wrote: This is a learning aid that uses a SQL Express database and the video's show how to make all the necessary connections etc. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx Real good example for starting out. I think it is lesson #'s 6 - 9 or so. Should answer mo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Access Add-In from the OUTSIDE...

  Hi there, I've got a tough question (I think ). I've made a plugin that works quite fine (excluding some deployment problems, but I hope in the future to solve them)...now, I'd like to make an application that can work with plugin from the OUTSIDE...let me explain. What I'd like to do, when running this application is: first, understand if Outlook 2003 and my plugin are installed (but this isn't quite necessary, hoping my users won't be too stupid ;)) second, if Outlook it's not running, make it to run...eventually, I'd like to understand if the plugin was loaded correctly third, I'd like the program to call a function of the Add-in. The la ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Performance problem with Texture.FromBitmap

  I reduced program boot time (when running from within the IDE) from 12 seconds to less than 1 second by re-writing Texture.FromBitmap using unsafe code.  For me it was easy because I'm only using 32 bit textures and 32 bit bitmaps.  It would be nice to see this function optimized in future releases of the SDK.  BTW, Texture.FromStream has the same problem. -Jeremy FYI: I use the above code for Texture.FromBitmap and (and a similar solution for Texture.FromStream), which works as long as your bitmaps are 32BppArgb. -Jeremy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System uniqe calls per data row

  Hi, I am runing a loadtest that containe one web test with 3 calls in it. first call is for login with a user id. second for status refresh and 3rd with one acction to add transaction. the server is doing the transaction B2B to another sever based on the login guid. my problem is , when I start the load test , I think that more then one user is using the same data row from the DB with the user id for the login action. so bascly only that last one with the valid session will be able to make the refresh and transaction, this is resulting with error for teh validaiton text. my Q, how do I make sure that the load test will only use a row per tra ...Show All

• Visual C# i want to compare a date data type with a string

  i want to compare a date type column with a string in an sql query , where i want to convert string to date data type , say string is like this '4/3/2006' , i am new to sql server ,, Look up the CAST and CONVERT functions. CAST ('4-3-2006' AS DATETIME) or CONVERT (DATETIME, '4-3-2006', 101) The first is slightly easier to use, but might cause internationalization issues as you cannot specify how the string was formatted. CONVERT, on the other hand, asks for a code specifying the locale. The 101 represents the U.S. format, with four digits for the year. You will find a full list in the documentation of the CONVERT function. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding a row to a DataGrid and back to an Access DB

  I have a DataGrid that is tied to an Access DB. I have the DB initially loaded with 5 records. When my form loads the DataGrid effectively displays the 5 records and I have used the AddressBindingSource.MoveNext and AddressBindingSource.MovePrevious to move through the table. I would like to add a button that now allows the user to add another row. I have an AddressDataSex.xsd that contains ID (key), FirstName, LastName, Address, City, State fields. I want the user to be able to add an empty row into the DataGrid ... populate the fields ... then have this data saved back into the Access DB. Do you have any advice Thanks, Tom ...Show All

• Visual C++ CTempBuffer ??

  I've enountered an ATL class called CTempBuffer . The code was generating some error due to this class but I managed to compile it. I cannot find any documentation on this class. Could anyone please point out the documentation to CTempBuffer I made search in ATL directory and found this class and examples of using, like this: ATL::CTempBuffer< char > pszBufferA(nLength); UINT nBytesRead = Read(pszBufferA, nLength*sizeof(char)); if (nBytesRead != (nLength*sizeof(char))) AfxThrowArchiveException(CArchiveException::endOfFile); str = ATL::CStringT<BaseType, StringTraits>(pszBufferA, nLengt ...Show All