• When the “Connect to Server” dialog comes up, choose the Options>> button 
• Next to “Connect to database:” type in “master” rather than <Default>
• Connect

It’s that simple.

If that does not completely solve the problem, then you’ll want to run SQL command from the command line, also very easy.

• Open a command prompt (Windows Key + R and type cmd)
• Type
  •  sqlcmd -E -d master
  • ALTER LOGIN [DomainName\UserName] WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE = master
  • GO
  • QUIT

Refer to  this blog post for more information

There are many occasions for using TitleWindows as PopUps in Flex applications, and most of the time the code goes something like this:

• Create an instance of a TitleWindow
• Set its properties (showCloseButton = true);
• Add an eventLister for the close event
• Instruct add any children to the TitleWindow (forms, custom components, etc.)
• Use the PopUpManager.addPopUp() or PopUpManager.createPopUp(); methods to show the Pop Up to the user

You end up with something like this:

Using the AnimatedTitleWindow component is almost exactly the same; however, there is an added benefit of specifying an open effect, close effect, open animation duration, and close animation duration.  All of these properties have default settings as well, so you can literally use it out-of-the-box, just like the TitleWindow component, and it will perform an Iris effect on the open, and a resize effect on the close.

If you want to make the AnimatedTitleWindow behave in a more custom manner, you can create instances of effects, set their properties, and pass them to the AnimatedTitleWindow’s constructor, and it will play them accordingly.

For example, if you wanted to have the AnimatedTitleWindow open with a Dissolve effect and close with a Zoom effect, you could create an instance of each, pass them to the constructor of the AnimatedTitleWindow instance, and then when the PopUpManager adds or creates the Pop  Up it will play the animations on open and close of the component.

If you choose to use the default animations for the open and close (Iris,Resize) then all you have to do is instantiate an instance of the AnimatedTitleWindow and pass no properties to the constructor

So read this article  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26078087/ and then read the words of my friend, a career military member, and patriot below.

First, let’s keep this in perspective… Predator “pilots” and Sensor Operators (SOs) do not conduct their business individually 24/7. They work 4 to 5 days a week, like regular folks, assuming 8-10 hour shifts spending approx 4-6 hours ‘in the seat’ at a stretch. The remainder of that shift is spent on administrative duties, ancillary training, required meetings, and other ‘aircrew’ training. AND, they do get to go home after their duty day, AND they do get to attend family functions as their schedule allows. Is there such a thing as PTSD?..Absolutely. However, having been an Intel professional for over 20 years, and having worked Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions spanning every war and limited conflict since Desert Storm across a multitude of airborne and overhead platforms providing still imagery as well as full motion video collection and analysis in a forward capacity as well as a reach-back environment, I maintain that these PTSD claims from these ‘Remote Control Warriors’ are complete bull$#!t!! Mr. Lindlaw, this is a fine piece of satire. Keeping this in perspective, and using a compare and contrast model, readers need to examine the article with circumspect. Our AF TAC-Ps and Army JTACs, who are the consumers of the Pred video, don’t operate in air-conditioned trailers, they work in the environment’s extremes- ridiculously hot in the spring/summer/fall months, cold in the winter months, enduring the relative frequency of dust storms and rain. Yes, rain. And when it rains, it’s Texas rain that drops large amounts in a short period of time. Rain that raises the desert sand into inescapable mud that adds 5 pounds to each boot when stepped in. Nor do they have the luxury of dinners with spouses and kid’s soccer games at the end of the day, unless the former can be attached to having an MRE while sitting in the shade outside of your patrol vehicle, or hustling through the DFAC where the sign on the door reads “No Weapon-No Food.” The latter can be enjoyed when it is in the form of casual observation of a group of local national kids playing soccer in a vacant lot while out on patrol. And, killing people from 7000 miles away with computer keystrokes requires far less mental toughness than the tactical interview and taking of lives at close range. I maintain that, if these ‘Warriors’ don’t have the mental capacity to support our fielded forces while also enjoying all of the luxuries and amenities of life here at home, they lack the capacity to watch any PG-13 movie or complete their Self Aid and Buddy Care training that graphically shows open wounds, burns, and a popped-out eyeball. The high-resolution detail cited in the article is an embellishment. This whiplash transition is crap. Ask a Pred “pilot” when the last time was, and with what frequency he/she shoots a missile. Rest assured, on the occasion these ‘warriors’ pickle a weapon, the subsequent splash is met with high-fives and hell-yeahs that can be heard outside of their air-conditioned trailers from all members of the crew. Elation over the wholesale termination of bastards who desperately deserve it is what Predator crews and their supported customer(s) have in common. When they complain about their 24/7 operations, keep in mind the schedule they keep, referenced in the first few sentences. By comparison, those ISR consumers run an operation, are out on patrol, or are conducting weapons cleaning and inspections that provide for 3-6 hours of sleep before they are required to report for the next patrol/operation, often on an ad hoc basis where they are hustled out of the rack because they need to respond to a target of opportunity. Pred crews observe a duty day that does not exceed 12 hours and cannot exceed a certain total number of hours over the course of a month. They enjoy ‘crew-rest’, which requires that within that 12-hour period between missions they are provided the opportunity for 8 hours of sleep. Further, these “pilots” and SOs don’t validate their own targets or own the weapons they employ. Those functions/responsibilities reside with Intel professionals and TAC-P/JTAC, respectively. There is no BOOM! when Predator crews shoot a missile, or ‘potentially’ shoot a missile, for that matter. All they hear is the hum of their air conditioners. There are very few Intel qualified personnel working in the 196^th RS. Most are former boom operators and aircraft maintainers held over from their days of flying refueling missions on KC-135/KC-10s. The armchair psychology taking place at March Air Reserve Base paints themselves, the community, and the Air Force like a bunch of pampered candy-asses. Thank you, Col Greg Davies for not allowing the entire Predator community to be painted with the same brush. I’ll be shaking your hand at WEPTAC. With a new CSAF, an increase in the demand for ISR and the emerging capabilities to satisfy that demand, we need personnel who have the moxie to provide support, especially from home station. If you predator crews whose foot fits in the shoe fashioned in the article can’t take the service in that direction, the please, for the love of God, country, and fellow servicemen, ETS as soon as possible, or go back to flying the gas-passer. Save the money spent on transition assistance and disability for those real warriors thrust back into society after doing the mission, not just supporting the mission from afar as they nervously walk thru a crowd at the fair or in a shopping mall, whose heads are still on a swivel in traffic, or who can scarcely enjoy a 4^th of July fireworks display.

The conference was great- there were topics for everything from beginners to Flex gurus.  I am happy to say that I learned an incredible amount about Flex and programming in general.  I met some great people too.

While at the conference I got to witness something truly remarkable.  There was a charity Flex Code Jam.  Several developers came together during the off-hours of the conference to donate their talents to a local Bay Area non profit.  The team came together to help create a web application using Flex for a local foodbank.

The foodbank provides food to a large number of people in the Bay Area, and they needed a way to aid hungry families in finding soup kitchen locations.

This is where the code jam people came in.  They created a really great Flex app that uses the Yahoo! maps API to locate, and provide information on where and how to get food.

It was really amazing to see how much technology helped this organization.

I am inspired by this act of kindness, and I would like to do something similar either as part of a team, or by myself.

So I am volunteering to donate my time to code for a charitable organization that needs a technology solution to help people.

My criteria are pretty simple:

The challenge has to be something that can be solved with technology, e.g. create a mapping applicaiton, or user interface to help people in need.

It can be anywhere, I live in the west, but I’m willing to help anyone with a worthy cause

If you are interested, please contact me through this site or email lance@binarygiant.com

Thanks,

Format your WSDL correctly in your web service, and Flex will interpret the SOAP and XML into Array Collections that contain objects that represent your data.

At lease one way to perform this successfully using Flex and .NET web services is to use the XmlDocument class on the .NET side. Generally you’ll get your data from a database, loop over the record set and create an XML version of the dataset, and return it to Flex via a web service. Rather than returning the XML dataset as string, return it as a native XML document as an XmlDocument which is a .NET (at leaset C#) object. Flex will interpret the SOAP and XML returned as an ArrayCollection. It pretty simple.

Example:

C# code to get data from the database, convert the dataset into an xml string, and load that xml into an XmlDocument and return it to Flex