Arindam Biswas's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can't find GetShaderInputSemantics equivalent in Managed October/December update

  EDIT: I forgot to mention this is all Managed DX. The subject really says it all. I've looked and I've looked and I just can't find any equivalent of GetShaderInputSemantics, originally found in ShaderLoader. Sadly most of the examples are for the older CLR, and the documentation, well, it says August. I'm one step from creating external DLL that will get this done for me in CPP using unmanaged data, I would appreciate some help. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activation Vista 5342

  hi this mornig i have recieve the follow message: Activate Windows Now! just yesterday the version was functionaly normaly. everything have the same problem i need help regards claudio ...Show All

• SQL Server How to change the value of a variable within data flow

  Hi, I would like to know is there any way we can assign/change the value of variable within data flow without using script component Thx. Row Count does that - but you are probably not looking for that specific case. Beside the script component you can only do it if you develop a sample data flow component. Why do you think the Script component is not a good option for you ...Show All

• .NET Development Does XPath work correctly on date values i.e. <=, >=, etc.

  Lets say I have the following xml: <root> <processes> <process polled="true"> <starttime>3/1/2006 11:00:00 PM</starttime> </process> <process polled="true" > <starttime>4/1/2006 11:00:00 PM</starttime> </process> <process polled="true" > <starttime>5/1/2006 11:00:00 PM</starttime> </process> </processes> </root> I'm trying to write an XPath statement that will return all nodes where polled is equal to true and starttime is less than/equal to any given date. My failed ...Show All

• Visual Basic Beforeclose event problem

  Hello, I am new to visual Basic 2005. I am facing problem that in Beforeclose event after setting cancel=True workbook closes.Please help me to overcome this problem. Code is given bellow: Dim WithEvents xlApp As Excel.Application Dim WithEvents xlbook As Excel.Workbook Dim WithEvents xlsheet As Excel.Worksheet Private Sub xlbook_BeforeClose( ByRef Cancel As Boolean ) Handles xlbook.BeforeClose If MessageBox.Show( "DO YOU WANT TO CLOSE EXCEL FILE " , "EXCEL" , MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question) = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.No Then Cancel = True E ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Background Thread Causing Flicker and Grabbing Focus

  I have a VSTO 2.0 Microsoft Word Template using VS.NET 2005 RC1. Everytime that my background thread that's parsing part of the document looks at the style information on a range, the document grabs focus from where ever has focus (my action pane, the Styles and Formatting Task Pane and so on). This is also causing a severe flicker in my Styles and Formatting Task Pane. Does anyone know how to run a background thread in VSTO so that it doesn't grab focus and cause that type of flicker when it talks to the Microsoft Word object model This is very frustrating we have a lot of code areas that ScreenUpdating doesn't do anything to fix, S ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView Item Keys

  What is the appropriate way to give each item in a ListView a key such that each item can be identified by something other than an index    For example, I need to populate a ListView with employees from my database and need to attach the primary key to each item, however, I don't want the user to see the primary key.   I realize&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB express and references to Excel

  I have written a program that creates a new excel worksheet and writes data to it. However if I try to run the application on a computer with a different version of Office installed it will not run. I realize that I can recompile the software on a computer with that version of Office and have it run but is there a way to configure the program so that it will run on any computer regardless of the version of Office that is installed Thanks Rich Mach Rich, Are you using the Office Primary Interop Assemblies Unfortunately, I'm not an expert at Office development, but this should get you starte ...Show All

• Visual Studio Parameters / credentials?

  Hi,    I'm getting an "A parameter or data source credential is missing a value. Prompting for this value has been disabled. Supply a value or enable prompting." error when I try to show a report in a Windows Form with Local Processing.    The "ShowParametersPrompt" and "ShowCredentialsPrompt" are turned on, but maybe the problem is I don't have a way to "link" the datasource parameters (its a stored procedure tableadapter) with Report Parameters in the report designer, as there is no DataSource pane in the .rdlc designer    Also, I had to change to a filesystem path for the LocalReport property ...Show All

• Visual Basic "Object variable or with block variable not set"

  Hi, I am using DNA architecture (vb6, asp and sql server 2000) I'm getting this message "Object variable or with block variable not set" everytime I'm running my application. The components are installed on the component services on the server. The application succeed to create the object type of the component, but cannot access its functions. I've never incountered this problem before, and I would appriciate your assistance. Thank you, Yael. Hi Paul.. i also have sampe problem as you.. but i already solve that prob... my function likes this : ----> this is coding to open the DB Sub m1openrs4()  &n ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to apply an accelerator key to a button in VBNet 3.0

  I want a quickie control key to kick off the same code as a button, e.g. Control S will function the same as the Save button. Was easy in VB 6.0 but can not see how to do it on VB Net3.0 have you tried events like this Sub Save ( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) handles Savebutton.click,Control_s.click 'put save code here end sub Remco Edit:  o wait...... i didn't read your post properly I missed the acelerator part. a thought control s as a control named s (duh) When you change the text like this "&Save" then you got a acelerator of <Alt S> Remco ...Show All

• Visual C++ build solution every time

  Hi! I have a unknown problem here: every time I want to run my project, VC says that my solution are out of date, even I have cleaned and build or rubuild soluction... Why this happens Furthermore, my project is never actually build, that is, i have done a lot of modifications, but when i run and build the project, my application is like a old version. Why "But... what can i do with VS' bugs " You can now contribute in improving VS and log the bugs directly at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx . Of course, MS folks will need a complete repro case to be able to reproduce the issue. Thanks,   Ayman Sho ...Show All

• SQL Server Upgrade SQl 2005 Beta {9.00.0852} to {9.00.1399.06}

  Hi, What are the step to upgrade SQl 2005 Beta version {9.00.0852} to SQl 2005 ver {9.00.1399.06} also let me know where I can download .it Thanks in advance You'll need to first uninstall the beta and then the Dotnetfx beta, and then install the RTM version. You don't mention which edition (STD, DEV, ENT, Express...) you're using, or which components, so more detailed instructions aren't possible. Express editions are available out on Microsoft.com; you'll need to buy other editions from ... well, from wherever you usually buy Microsoft software, I guess. Paul ...Show All

• .NET Development Failed to access IIS metabase, VS2005 RC

  I am developing a webservice in Visual Studio RC. I have just got a new pc and my problem is that I am not able to access this webservice. I have created a virtual directory in IIS, but if I try to browse there, I get a "Failed to acces IIS metabase" error message. Does anybody know how I can resolve this problem Where exactly is the "Operators" set up in IIS   I see no dialog to do so in IIS. ...Show All

• Visual C++ CDockBar::Insert

  There has been a huge bug in this MFC function for the last decade.  It shows up in applications that have many toolbars when you have some toolbars hidden and multiple rows of toolbars.  It mis-calculates the number of toolbars rows and drops you toolbar in some row below where you specify.  It's hugely annoying to the point of be unusable. It would be soooo easy to fix and it's very difficult to work around. What is it going to take for Ms to fix it    Pleeeeaaase, I'm begging here.  This is exactly where the bug is: CDockBar::Insert ... for (nPos = 0; nPos < m_arrBars.GetSize(); nPos++)  &nb ...Show All