Abdul Abu's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Reporting services website

  Hi all, Quick Question- Is it possible to have two websites on the same report server for reporting services Example: I have one website, lets say for internal reports (employee time, job info etc.) and another one for customer info (how a customer product is coming along, how many product support cases we have out there). http://cmbsssmsrs/personaltime/reports and http://cmbsssmsrs/vantive/reports I hope someone can help or point me in the righ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Possible to make an online RPG with DirectPlay?

  I've been working on an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) for awhile. I'm getting up to where I have to wonder, "Now what do I do to make it an online game " Is it possible to use DirectPlay for the networking.. Thanks in advance. Have a look at the source code for Game Coding Complete for some help. http://www.mcshaffry.com/GameCode/ The book's a very good read as well. ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB at the movies - great for Newbies (good anyway)

  If you haven't seen these online tutorial videos they are pretty useful (even if you've been using .NET for a while there are some useful snippets) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/ Cheers, Chiz ...Show All

• .NET Development How to decrease Form startup time?

  Hello, I have a .NET Form that displays the contents of a directory.  It works fine, but it can take 5 to 10 seconds to start and display.  If I close it and start it again, it starts faster.  How can the Form start time be decreased so the Form displays faster Thanks Mister T Another possibility is this simply has to do with caching... When you do a cold start, everything needs to be looked up o ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Test game: MessengerQuest

  Hurrah! Finally I got Messenger-Quest done... Four days of terrible hard work has resulted in a really cool game :) Unfortunately the <s>lazy bastar...</s> people checking the apps have holiday too, and they can't check it till after newyears :( So, Because I don't want those 4 days of work to go to waste, I've put the Msgrp2p file needed online :) http://www.stuffplug.com/MessengerQuest/msgrp2p.xml I'm sure you know how it works ;) ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView doesn't refresh when calling refresh multiple times

  Hi everyone, I have a big problem with the datagrid, in an optionsdialog I change the grid.RowTemplate.RowHeight property. After changing I call the grid.Refresh() method. This works normal, the grid get's invalidated and refreshes it's layout. Now the problem occurs when the user opens the optionsdialog again, when he changes the RowHeight property again. the grid doesn't refresh anymore, you see it flickering but it stays the same. When I chec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF31001: Error when connecting from RC client to B3R server.

  When I attempt to connect to a Beta 3 Refresh server with the RC Explorer client, I get the following error: TF31001: Team Foundation cannot retrieve the list of team projects from Team Foundation Server vmtf-pilot. The Team Foundation Server returned the following error: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/TeamFoundation/2005/06/Services/ServerStatus/03/CheckAuthentication.. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) An existing PeerNode exists for this Uri with a conflicting configuration

  I get this error whenever I try to have more than one PeerChannel node in the same App Domain. I am able to have multiple PeerChannel nodes running on the same machine if they are in separate EXEs, each with own PeerChannel node (each specifies the same mesh but a different binding port). That works fine. But as soon as I try to have 2 PeerChannel nodes running in the same EXE, or in the same ASP.NET-hosted container, I get this error (s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to debug: The binding handle is invalid

  When i try to debug a C# application I get this error: Error while trying to run project: unable to start debugging the binding handle is invalid What can i do Thanks for your answers ZAiNT, Thank you so much for your help. To test native debugging: 1) File->New->Project... 2) Visual C++->Win32 Console Application 3) F10 Thanks, Gregg ...Show All

• SQL Server "The statement did not return a result set" error on SPs with exec

  I'm trying to modify our application to use the SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver. After making the appropriate changes most stuff seems to work OK, except for any stored procedures that contain an exec statement and return a result set. When the stored procedure is called with executeQuery it throws a SQLServerException with the error "The statement did not return a result set". Other query SPs that don't have an exec work just fine. It doe ...Show All

• Visual C# native struct --> C#

  Hello. I have a C# application and a native dll written in C++. I have a function called ReadHash() in native dll. I need this function to return an array of bytes. I made a struct called HashRecord in C# and C++. it looks like this typedef struct tag_Hash_Record { BYTE HashCode[]; } HashRecord, *PHashRecord; and public struct HashRecord { public byte [] HashCodes; } the ReadHash() function returns Hash ...Show All

• Windows Forms Load a user control using command pattern and back ground processing

  I would like to know how I can load a user controls using command pattern and background processing.   I also want to keep a list of all loaded controls to call them on the fly when I use a back and forward button on my menu bar.   Please I appreciate if you send some samples. No. There hasn't been a lot of work on the Windows Forms team around the command pattern, so no samples. Sorry. -mark Progr ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Animations in Messenger 8.0 BETA

  Hi everyone! 1. Thanks BETA team for adding me onto (once again) another great BETA. This and the other 9 BETA's that I'm on will certainly keep me busy testing... 2. I wanted to ask tho... Is it possible to have a animated picture in the Display Pictures area (The 96x96 pixel area) and how would I do this... I would want to accomplish this thru Messenger API's calling on the picture to display and NOT thru an external program, i ...Show All

• Visual Basic how i can use stored procedure in access.

  in order to run a complex query in visual basic 6.0 i need stored procedure and my back end is ms access i want to know how i can use stored procedure in this case i am using adodc connection......... Hi there, Are you asking how to create stored procedures in MS Access Well, first you have to create the stored procedure. Stored procs do exist in Access but you need to create them using a CREATE PROCEDURE state ...Show All

• SQL Server I don't understand why is nothing is always evaluated to false

  The following in one textbox of my report is always evaluated to false when the field package_pack_value and give an error in the str conversion function that follow saying the 'number' is nothing. = iif ( Fields!Package_Pack_Value is Nothing , "<Null>", Str ( Fields!Package_Pack_Value.Value ) & " " & Fields!Package_Pack_Unit.Value )   I have read all the forum and search a whole day but nothing... Maybe is the a ...Show All