James Boden's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Mining Access 2003

  I created a  AS 2005 data source to an Access 2003 database on my PC. The connection tests fine, I can browse the data from AS 2005. But when I try to process the mining model, I get a userid & password error. There is no password on the Access database. When I set up the data source, the wizard wanted a userid and password - the default was Admin - and I left the password blank. The connection tested ok. I tried changing the Impersonation settings, but that gives me a deployment error. Any ideas why the model process can't find a connection If your server's not on the same system, the reason you a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Animating a leg

  hi all, I'm trying to create a simple animation of a leg. The leg would be made out of two parts and each part would be a mesh (could be just Mesh.Cylinder). I know how this should work in principle but when I have to calculate the matrices all goes wrong... Here's my idea: Given the angles of rotation for both parts rotate and position the upper part (which will maybe be someday connected to a torso) then rotate the lower part and connect it to the first one... Could someone give me a simple example of how to correctly multiply the matrices in order to achieve the desired result thank you, sa o ...Show All

• Windows Forms MaskedTextBox question

  I've never used this forum before, so here goes. I needed to force the user to only input numeric values, so I decided to use the maskedtextbox control. This control is supposed to inherit the modified property from the textbox control (or textboxbase control), however, it is not doing anything. The control is bound to a dataset value, so upon the initial load, there is a value in there, and I expect the modified property to be false. However, when I change the text, the modified property should automatically change to true (like it does using the regular textbox). In essence, the maskedtextbox modified property is not working like the same ...Show All

• SQL Server Load time of packages? Turn off validation while loading?

  Nitesh, Loading packages can be a looong process in September CTP too, unfortunately. Andrew Watt MVP - InfoPath wrote in message news:b795f68f-0c7c-4263-a698-e572902def57@discussions.microsoft.com... > My solution contains 28-30 packages in one solution. > Each time I try to open a package (which was closed earlier), it takes a > loooooooooong time to load. Is it only june CTP or thats typical. > > Is there a way I can disable validation while loading but keep > validation ON while developing the package My solution contains 28-30 packages in one solution. Each time I try to open ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Clear breakpoints in C# Express

  In VS2003 there was command Debug->Clear All Breakpoints and Debug->Disable All Breakpoints . How do the same in Visual C# Express(beta 2) This is a great product and I am so appreciative that something this powerful and easy-to-use is given away. But if there was one feature that was annoying me most at this point, it would have to be the fact that you can't disable all breakpoints. It's not a show stopper, but it would definitely help me out greatly. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SharePoint Worflow project template

  Hi, I am looking for the VS2005 project template for SharePoint Worflow projects. If some one can provide the link to download the same, appreciate it. Thanks Praveen The templates have not been release yet, but should be ready in a couple of weeks. For questions about SharePoint, or any of the other Office 2007 products, the newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/community/newsgroups.mspx are a better place to ask. ...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

• Windows Forms diabling CTRL + Tab in tab control

  Hello,    I have VB.NET application which has a tag control and 2 tag pages.    I wanted to disabled the event when user Press CTRL and Tag together.    Means i don't want index change of tabcontrol when user press CTRL + tab key    Any idea. Amit Pandya You can try overriding the ProcessCmdKey( ref Message msg, Keys keyData) method to eat the Ctrl-Tab combination. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problems with stdole.dll

  Hi, I made an application and use the MapPoint ActiveX Control. When I start the app I check for the presence of MapPoint and if it is there it shows a map. This all works fine. But now I tried to deplay the app to a clean machine. XP SP2 / .NET CF 2.0 (downloaded dotnetfx.exe) are on the machine. The app deployed fine on the machin until I added tha ActiveX Control. Now after some installation work it brings a MessageBox: System Update Required Unable to install or run this application This application requires your system to be updated to stdole Version 7.0.3300.0 I tried to include the dll in the project - that does not help. Is there a w ...Show All

• Windows Forms hot tracking menuitems

  How do i create a main menu with hot tracking effects. When i point to the menus i would like to change the back color of the menus just like the menus on the visual studio.  This is a nice example with source http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/vsnetstylemenusvb.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView not showing values for first added row

  I have a DataGridView bound to a custom collection that implementes IBindingList.  Everything works great except for the very first time that I add a new item.  When I first add a new item to the underlying collection, a new row in the DataGridView appears with all of the proper columns, but the values are blank. I know the values are there because I've implemented an "Edit" button which opens up a customized form for the item in the collection.  The DataGridView appears to be getting notified that a row has been added; I just can't see the values!  I can even raise a ListChangedType.Reset event in the cust ...Show All

• SQL Server Guide to Setting Up the Different Data Mining Operations

  Unfortuately, the documentation doesn't seem to really provide the process to setting up the various mining operations (clusters, trees, etc.). So I am sitting there, trying to figure out what it is asking for when I try to set up a K-means cluster. Is there a better guide available The hands-on lab is actually using Beta 2 of SQL Server 2005 instead of the latest CTP.  Hope this gets updated as a lot of people want to dig in to these new features of SQL Server 2005. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. .x Model and duplicated vertices issue

  I can see that in a .x template template VertexDuplicationIndices { <b8d65549-d7c9-4995-89cf-53a9a8b031e3> DWORD nIndices; DWORD nOriginalVertices; array DWORD indices[nIndices]; } There is a duplication of vertices. I believe this was done during the export when faces sharing a vertex duplicates that vertex. Am I right to say that My main problem is how can I get pointers or references back to the original vertices Can anyone help I was looking on the net, but information on this subject is sparse, I found some good ebooks though. From what I’ve understoo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Handling Sliding Keyboard + Some ARM Assembly decoding

  Hi, Apologies in advance if this may be off topic, but i think it is an interesting and challenging issue related to WM device programming ( besides, no one has been able to assist of yet in other news group ). My device has a sliding keyboard...when that keyboard is slid open on the WM2005 Today screen, the keyboards enters a "num lock" state. This is where some overloaded keys that act as the phone dial-pad ONLY output numbers, not characters. i'd like to disable this so that the keyboard functions normally on the today screen when my today item has focus and the keyboard is slid open...this way i can accept chara ...Show All

• .NET Development How to block managed code being decompiled?

  After a lot of efforts, around 6 months of my development work on windows forms and components to bring a better application, I learnt that managed codes can be decompiled (Including Visual c++ 2003 in which I am developing - supposed to be stronger than C# and VB!). This looks like a setback, at least for initial start of my application in the market. I have made a trial run on my own code (95 % managed code with forms and windows components), simply it can be decompiled. Only 1 out 12 classes, which is unmanaged code, was not decompiled. Is there any way, using option like /CLR or otherways I can make managed code obfuscated from out ...Show All