Ian Mellors's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms FindControl.

  Hi everyone, Does anyone know what would be the similar of FindControl method from Web library to from Windows.Forms library I need to get what controls do I have inside a panel, like TextBox, etc. Thanks in advancing. Doria Hi Doria, I see that you want change the value of a property. I use the following code to do this: PropertyDescriptorCollection props; PropertyDescriptor propParent; QPictureBackGro ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sparse Matrix-vector multiplication on GPU using DirectX 9

  I want to implement Sparse Matrix-vector multiplication on GPU. I have a matrix where each component is of the form struct cell {     int value;     int row;     int col; } I store the row and column with the value because I rearrange the matrix into the Compressed Row (CRS) sparse matrix storage format. Can I pass the matrix to the GPU as a texture that stores the above values. Can I pass the vec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System web accessible test results

  Once test results are published against a build, how can i make the results viewable over the web to someone that does not have VS2005 Are you using Team Foundation Server   Test Results can be published to TFS, and are viable from the corresponding build's web page report. Cheers, Dave ...Show All

• SQL Server Time Intelligence Wizard script shortcomings

  This is a question very much like one posed at http://spaces.msn.com/members/cwebbbi/   Basically, the script generated by the Time Intelligence Wizard only works for one level of a hierarchy.   I would like to know the best way to correct this. In my case several time dimensions are present - this means a short and simple answer is preferable as many scripts must be updated.   I will list a couple scenarios using A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Create Installation Files

  Hi, Can I create installation files using .NET Framework without VS2003/2005   I failed to find any tools for package and deployment.  Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks, Ning There are no tools included in the .NET Framework to build installation files (MSI).  There are however Setup Projects in visual studio you also should be able to find some other tools by searching the internet. ...Show All

• SQL Server Hardware considerations for Report Server?

  Hi all, we use SSRS based on SSAS Cubes. We thought about installing SSAS on one server, the relational data on an other SQL Server and put the Report Server with the IIS 6.0 on a third machine. As we haven't any experiences with load and performance for BI-Applications I'm wondering how many memory we should buy for each server. The idea of our system service is the following: 32 GB for the analysis server 16 GB for the rela ...Show All

• Windows Forms ListView Item can't show Icon

  I have programatically and set the ListView item using Visual Effect, but it cannot shown the icon after visual effect being applied. ListView1.View = View.LargeIcon ListView1.LargeImageList = imgIcons ListView1.Items.Add("Item 1", 0) ListView1.Items.Add("Item 2", 1) If I didn't using Application.EnableVisualEffects() routine, everything workout normally. But if I code it at Routine, it will not shown out the icons being display. Ple ...Show All

• Visual C# C# .NET Naming Conventions

  Does anyone know where I can find a list of naming conventions for UI elements.  I found a bunch of places where they have variable, property, method, event handler, formatting style, etc. conventions.  But I am having a hard time finding naming conventions other than the Visual Basic 6.0 Naming Conventions on Microsoft's website. Check out the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I programmatically Fail a WebTest?

  I am trying to validate a header value exist in a response. Since ExtractHttpHeader only supports checking for the existence of header names and not values,  I am traversing the test Context values looking for a specified key/value pair. I want to fail the web test if the values do not match. Great response!  Your recommendation was dead on.  Here is the code snippet used in Validate() fo ...Show All

• SQL Server replication system stored procedures parameter defaults ?

  Hi there This is a pretty straight forward question. When using sp_droparticle or sp_changepublication etc, basically any replication system stored procedure. There are many parameters for these sp's basically all i want to know is if i provide the relavant paramaters,that is publication name, subscriber name , specific parameter i wish to change etc, are all the other paramters defaulted to the current publication/subscriber properties. In othe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Office - Sharepoint Integration

  Hello, I need the url of the sharepoint document library where a smart document is stored, to use the sharepoint web services within it. Okay, after the document is saved I can use the FullName property to get the url, but therefore I would need an after update event. The before update event isn't very helpful because I don't want to implement any custom save logic. Is there any chance to get the shareopoint url without to reopen the docum ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to open an MSAccess Object using .NET ????

  Hello there.. This is tony.. I'm an access developer and i'm learning .NET to migrate my appz.. I've got a question.. how can i open a MSAccess Form using VB.NET.. I mean i have an application in MSAccess, my idea is open the MSAccess (hidden) and thru vb.Net call its forms and reports to be opened... i think that i need to open the MSaccess Data base in a hidden way, and after that send a command to open a form. I'll really apre ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I format a richtextbox?

  Hello, I am wondering how it's possible to format a richtextbox control. How can I, for instance, center something, make bold, change color and so on. Your help would be greatly appreciated. You have to change the Font to achieve this. Since font is immutable for controls, this means you have to create a new font and assign it to the desired property. There is an example of this at: http://msdn2.microsoft. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Embedded designer with ifElseActivity does not compile.

  hey all, I've been building an application, based on lab10 for a while now, and i've mannaged to do some realy nice things, thanks to allot of great posts here. the thing is, somehow i cant seem to get the embedded designer to run (or compile), when there is an ifElseActivity placed inside it. i get no problems composing different kind of rules, but when i press the "Compile" / "Run" buttons, i get the following exce ...Show All

• SQL Server Strange behavior with Calculated Members

  After creating a Calculated Member like this: CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Product].[Family Line Product].[Line].&[PCs].[XPC] AS AGGREGATE({ [Product].[Family Line Product].[Family].&[Business PCs], [Product].[Family Line Product].[Family].&[Home PCs] }), FORMAT_STRING = "#,#.0", VISIBLE = 1; I would expect to find this Member only in the [Product].[Family Line Product].[Line].&[PCs] Member Identifier. But this C ...Show All