VFRDave's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Creation of a PDF file.

  Hello, I'm building a program, and I need ot convert a lot of word documents to one pdf file. Does anyone know about a class library or a code that can do it Even if the code can only make one word document to a pdf and then merge the PDF files. Thanks, Ofir. you could concatenate all those word documents into one, then use adobe's pdf online creator ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to view imported dimensions in VS

  Hi all, I created an SSAS database with a few objects by AMO code and imported to Visual Studio for easy viewing.  I can view data source, data source views without any problem.  However, I get the following error for dimensions and cubes: Error loading 'DimName.dim' : Deserialization failed: The method or operation is not implemented.. C:\My Documents\...\'DimName.dim Actually I can browse these dimensions after processing them in Management Studio. Does anyone know how to fix this Thanks, hz hello Can You exactly Tel;l me what do you want to do, so i can guide you Properly ,Becoz i have worked on thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Associating server folders with comment.

  Hello, Is there any way that I can associate a server folder with some text properties or comments or anything like that Thank you, Hello Martin. I want to associate development branches with "Software Change Request" numbers. I have a simple structure: $/TeamProject/Mainline $/TeamProject/Branches For every change request I branch the mainline into a directory in Branches called ‘bxxx’, where xxx is a sequential number. I want to associate ‘bxxx’ with the change request number (or numbers) that it was created for. Thank you, Hisham. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ accross other .NET languages??

  I was wondering if we will be seeing this implemented across other .NET languages such as C++ and J#.  Will 3rd party language implementers be able to include Linq support in there products Here's a response from Danny Thorpe about Delphi's possibilities with LINQ: http://blogs.borland.com/dcc/archive/2005/09/15/21195.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development Typed TableAdapters with Dynamic ConnectionStrings

  Can a TableAdapter pull its connection string from an app.config file without writing code to read from app.config and set then set its connectionstring property   The literature is fuzzy but it sounds like a TableAdapter can pull its connection string value from an app.config file without writing a line of code to do it.  Upon creation, the TableAdapter wizard offers the option to embed the connection string into your code or write it to app.config .  The TableAdapter then stores the connection name and connection string as properties which can be viewed in the data designer by selecting the Table Adapt ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista backward compatibility

  Hi, is MS Vista supposed to be backward compatible with the other MS win32 operating systems I mean, if I have an application running on MS Windows XP, can it run on Vista as well thanks. My ADS Tech PTV341 DVB-S works only with XP, not Vista nor W98SE, something to do with BDA. ADS Tech has been promising a fix the last year or so. Thus Vista is NOT "backward compatible" Couldn't MS provide a 'switch' in Vista to enable the appropriate functions Regards, Roger ...Show All

• SQL Server Working around Temp tables in Reporting services.

  I have been working for days to translate a report out of an old system and in SQL reporting services. Getting the basic code down to get the required data was easy, however getting it to work in reporting services has turned into a nightmare. Why, because I have been told that SQL reporting services does not allow temporary tables...HUH! Ok, so how am I supposed to take three data queries and munge them together into a report. Here is the query that does work, can anyone give me an idea of how to make this work given the limitations I have run up against. I have already thought of using a store procedure, but we have ruled t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. capture audio

  Hi! REALLY sorry to post this here but didnt know where else! is there a way to capture audio from the sound card I am trying to use directX but the sample I have seen is hard to understand unfortuantly :( How do I capture audio either using DirectX or some other method I want to capture it to a normal wav file Thanks! :-) You should take a look at the Windows Media Encoder SDK. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmencode/htm/usingadeviceasasource.asp Good Luck. ...Show All

• .NET Development Creating our own datasource

  Could We create a structure so that it could be binded as a datasource to control who supports databinding. If yes Could any body provide me a sample (with code) of creating our own datasource in C#.That is i don't wan't to bind to dataset ,xml etc I wan't to create my own datastructure.What I have to do. Hi! Create any class (structure is bad solution) and declare there public properties (they will be bindable). Like this: public class Person { public string Name { get { return _Name; } set { _Name = value ; } } public string Phone { get { return _Phone; } set { _Phone = value ; } } ...Show All

• Visual C# What is wrong with this ?

  Hi all         I am testing the Code Analysis new feture of .net 2005 so I have added these lines to the Assemply info file [assembly: CLSCompliant( true )] [assembly:SecurityPermission(SecurityAction.RequestMinimum)]   and signed the assemply with strong key file when I build the project it's failed to be build put when I go to Error List to find what's my errors to correct it I didn't found any errors or warnings or even messages So what is the problem. any body can help and the amazing thing that when I remove the code analysis check it works fine ,is this a bug in .net 2005 code analys ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) AngleGradientBrush or something like that...

  How can I do an "Angle Gradient Brush" (or Radial Sweep) effect with WPF brushes Is possible Or Has WPF some support to do this task Radial Sweep effect sample:  http://www.dizteq.com/images/GDradsweep.jpg Thanks in advance! Hi, A similar feature is offered in GDI+ called "PathGradient". We're not offering this feature in Avalon v1, but it is on the list for consideration in v2. Best, Seema ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem while Webservices accessing application business logics

  My web service is a scheduler and completes scheduled jobs by accessing business logics written for the main application (Controller). My web service method gets fired every 5 seconds by the Windows service application (Scheduler) that I have written. There is a AutoResetEvent.WaitOne() method in it which is released once the job is done. While the web service is waiting on waitOne(), my main application (Controller) which should work independent of my Scheduler application fails to respond to any clicks and gives a "Page cannot be displayed" error. Can anyone give me a robust solution Do I write the web service methjod to ...Show All

• .NET Development XPath and namespace problem

  I am having trouble with SelectNodes with namespaces. I am testing with the .application file generated by the Publish wizard. Below is the part that my code will operate on: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <asmv1:assembly xsi:schemaLocation="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1 assembly.adaptive.xsd" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:xrml="urn:mpeg:mpeg21:2003:01-REL-R-NS" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">   <assemblyIdent ...Show All

• .NET Development TimeSpan or Stopwatch not as accurate as Environment.TickCount

  Can someone, maybe preferably from Microsoft, confirm a behavior that I'm noticing concerning the lesser accuracy of using TimeSpan and the Stopwatch object to time something in milliseconds versus using Environment.TickCount. Specifically, I'm noticing that in my Ping class that when I use Environment.TickCount to measure how long a host responds to my message, the result in milliseconds is accurate compared to the results when I use Ping.exe from the command prompt.  However, when I measure it using either TimeSpan or the Stopwatch class, the results are off about 100 to 200 milliseconds (more). Here's pseudo code of how I'm ...Show All

• SQL Server Cursors in SQL Server 2005

  Are cursors still taboo, performance killers in SQL Server 2005. If not, how has the behavior changed Cursors are still performance killers because of the row-by-row processing. But there are certain class of problems or tasks that needs the use of cursors. For example, if you have to perform an administrative task on all databases in a server then you may have to use a cursor loop to through each database and run a command. There are certain behavior changes in SQL Server 2005 for cursors that may or may not introduce performance issues in your existing code. It depends on your current usage and type of cu ...Show All