lastan06's Q&A profile

• SQL Server "SQL Server Management Studio Express" install location

  I just installed the "SQL Server Management Studio Express"  but it didn't tell me where it was installed.  How do I get the application started found it here "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\ssmsee.exe" ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow not connecting to Events?

  I am trying to fire events in my workflow, but the objects I am receiving from the workflow engine do not have their events subscribed by the workflow engine. Any ideas (code below) // obtain a reference to the workflow runtime workflowRuntime = WorkflowWebRequestContext .Current.WorkflowRuntime; // setup communications through the service classes defined in the WorkflowClassLibrary project getTransferRequest = ( HMSWFTransfer ...Show All

• Visual C++ 2 questions: installation of VS, game development advise

  1.) I am having problems installing the software. It gets to the downloading part says 0% and says it couldent load.   2.) I..want to become a game developer...but dont know anything. Anywhere I can go to get started learning   My bad!!! meant to put this in C++ .......nope.....found another place I should have put this.....When a mod gets to this, can they move this What I'm saying is ,these forums are full o ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Wanting to Blend Two textures together

  I am a bit of a noob at this and I have got the latest SDK and spent a fair amount of time looking though it to no avail. What I have is three textures a night time texture (texn), a day time texture (texd) and a difference texture (texdif) based on a lightlevel value from 0-1, I want the resulting texture to be: out=texn+(texdif*lightlevel) I assume.  But not sure if I can Lerp this or if it has to be pixel shading in HSL.  Anyon ...Show All

• Visual Basic Automating Excel - code doesn't execute on 2nd loop iteration

  Hello all. I have written code in VB.NET to automate Excel. This portion will copy a range on 1 sheet, find the last cell in a particular column on a 2nd sheet, paste the range and then sort the data so to remove any empty cells. The problem is that the code executes the first time in the loop (index = 0) but not the 2nd time although while stepping through it, it appears that it should work fine. It works for the 3rd iteration on to 15 or ab ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there an example of how to test web services using https with X.509 certificate

  Any examples out there to test web services that require a client-side certificate using https I created the tests on my local machine without ssl and now am trying to enhance them for our larger test system. Can't record as we are using Smart Client WinForms.  Actually, the problem migh not be the certificate but how to add a FormPostParameter with Username and password. Is this the same in Smart Client forms as in IE Thanks, Burk ...Show All

• .NET Development Webservice: "The ASP.NET process identity does not have read permissions to the global assembly cache."

  I'm uncertain what the best forum is for this - I also posted this in the ASP forum. I am developing a distributed application with a client-side java calling a webservice serving a static binary database. The application works well with the VS2005 Development server on XP Pro SP2. However when I publish it to an IIS v5 environment, it fails with these errors.   3.)    .aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 3988) stopped unexpec ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with MsDtsSrvr.ini.xml config

  All, I have changed the location of the MsDtsSrvr.ini.xml file and the same updated the changed location in registry key SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDTS\ServiceConfigFile. After making the changes I restarted SSIS. When I tried viewing stored packages using SQL Server Management studio, I was not able to see File System folder or MSDB folder When I checked error log, the below message was recorded. "Microsoft SSIS Service configuration ...Show All

• Windows Forms Viewing a word doc within a Windows Forms Application

  I would like to display a word document within my windows form application. Currently I am using the IE activeX control and passing it the word doc location. There must be a more elegant solution. Yes there is a lot of code I left out of the post...  I only posted the code relevent to obtaing the underlyi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Output a linklabel

  I have a form and when the user submits I want the program to output the appropriate information in links so that they just have to click on them to view the file. The files would be local (not on a website). I am flexible with the form layout, I just need the program to output links. ...Show All

• SQL Server Table does not exist in Copy objects task

  I have a SQL2000 database that I need to copy tables from to my SQL2005 database. The table in the 2000 database are owned by a login named tsreader. This login is also in the dbo database role. So, when I access tables I have to prefix tha table name with tsreader. Currently in a SQL2000 database I have DTS packages that pull data over from this database everynight and they work fine. However when I try to do this from SSIS, I get the error &qu ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Picturebox with transparency?

  Hi, I have a picturebox object containing a circle .gif picture. This .gif picture itself has the transparent property set. In VS2005, when I choose the backcolor property to transparent, the portion that is out of the circle turned black. How can I make it real transparent Thanks! Hi Drudkh, You can see the previous post for some help on this issue: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Po ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error "The filename or extension is too long" not displayed on Japanese OS

  Hello, I would appreciate your response on the following: I am using the following format of CreateDirectory() to create a new directory by passing the path(ie, path+filename), the second parameter is NULL, BOOL CreateDirectory( LPCTSTR lpPathName , LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes ); This method returns an error and displays error message "The filename or extension is too long" (error 206) as ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Getting Erroring Column in DataError event

  Is there a way to set the errortext for the erroring column in the DataGridView_DataError event. There is an example at : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridviewdataerroreventargs.aspx that shows setting the error text for a cell, but the code example is wrong. If (TypeOf (e.Exception) Is ConstraintException) Then Dim view As DataGridView = CType(sender, DataGridView) view.Rows(e.R ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How To Monitor TFS Build server activity

  Hello, I would like to now if it is possible to get the same flavor of build activity with Team Foundation Server as with CruiseControl.Net which offer a portal listing all build types and indicating their current state. If it does not come with the product, do I have means to create one Thanks Eric Hi Eric - We don't have such a portal out of the box in Team Build, however it should be fairly straightforward to build a porta ...Show All