GaryMcC's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista display interlaced video

  hi, I have a HDTV capture card that always combines two fields into a frame, i.e., it will generate a 30fps video at 1920x1080 for a 1080/60i input. The interlacing effect is very noticeable in the video render. Is there any existing de-interlacing filter for DirectShow The only one I found online (from alparysoft.com) does not work with HD (it seems). Note that I need a real-time solution. Ideally, I would like to display the video at 60Hz (instead of dropping half of the resolution). Given the 30fps input from the capture filter, is there anyway to "double" the frame rate in a filter graph Finally, a simple question about graphedt, is there anyway to show the actual video format being used in a filter graph through the UI I alw ...Show All

• Visual Basic anything that resembles Gosub?

  Can you make something in a sub that works almost like the gosub command I dont want to make a new sub and call that, cause i use a datareader and different variables in the current sub ( and i also would like to use a gosub command in the printdialog sub) Can you make a sub or fuction in the sub or something Any ideas But how would you use a call function in a printdialog What i mean is, can you call a sub from the printpage event and still draw to the page ...Show All

• Windows Forms Automatic installation of database and virtual directories

  Hi All, I need to create a setup application so that everything is automatic. The tasks this program need to perform are: 1. Create two databases with schemas and some default data. 2. Copy ASP.NET binaries to a windows folder and configure a virtual directory in IIS. 3. User should be able to choose the location of the binaries. Please suggest me ways to do this. Thanks in advance. 1. You can check out the following Walkthrough for some ideas: 2. Use a Web Setup project. This will do Virtual Directories. You will probably need to use the Add->File stuff in the setup project unless you are using the Web Application Project add-on for VS 2005. In that case, you should be a ...Show All

• Visual C# What are these warning messages: (Consider app.config remapping...)?

  I noticed several conflict messages in the build output of my solution. What are these warnings, do I need to resolve them and how would I do that since it appears to be referring to system versions When I look at the individual references in the properties of the projects for system.drawing.dll it shows version 2.0.0.0 so where is the 1.0.5000.0 reference coming from Consider app.config remapping of assembly "System.Drawing, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=969db8053d3322ac, Retargetable=Yes" from Version "1.0.5000.0" [] to Version "2.0.0.0" [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SmartDevices\SDK\CompactFramework\2.0\v2.0\WindowsCE\System.Drawing.dll] to solve conflict and get rid of warning. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista help on Pinnacle PCTV Stereo install for vista

  Hello! Sorry about so many questions by me, but i just installed vista rc 2 today and i have lots of questions :) I want to know if it will be possible to install and use my pinnacle pctv stereo tv tuner card with vista do i need special drivers where can i find them/ Thanks! I have installed the Windows XP Driver for my Pinnacle PCTV Stereo under Windows Vista RC1, but when you can't see the picture on live TV, and when you're not watching it you get the current channel's sound through the line-in even when PCTV Vision is not up. If you want to install it anyway, insert the original PCTV Stereo installation disk that came with your card, and instead of letting it autoplay, go to My Computer, browse to your CD/DVD drive and ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 and Visual SourceSafe Nightmare

  It seems that we cannot do anything in Visual Studio 2005 without surreptitiously going out to SourceSafe and churning for 3-5 minutes.  Granted we have (unavoidably) made the mistake of placing the SourceSafe database on a network file share -- it does not explain these covert and constant SourceControl accesses. For example, loading the project does something like "verifying source control".  Why do we need to verify anything and why does it take so long   I can launch SourceSafe myself and verify faster than the IDE can. Refreshing the solution (recursively) appears to be doing just that -- RECURSIVELY refreshing the solution -- meaning the refresh of the SLN file causes a refresh of the child projects, and the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Difference between stakeholders and constituents?

  Stakeholders and constituents sound like the same group of people. What's the difference between them Are they interchangeable For example, an end user is a stakeholder to a project, can I say he is also a constituent for that project Thanks in advance. Hopefully what is a "constituent" was sufficiently covered in the thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=936639&SiteID=1 A "stakeholder", as defined on page 60 of the MSF Essentials book , is "anyone with a vested interest in the effort...". Therefore, comparing the two: a constituent is someone (or something) being advocated (often indirect influence over project requirements) whereas ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What is the status of Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E)?

  Hi, I'm interested in Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E) as a possible alternative to Adobe Flex development. All the information and blogs that I can find are from back in March to May, e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/ Has anything happened since then What tools do I need to develop in WPF/E Where do I get the browser plug-ins (miniturized CLR for IE, Firefox, and Mac) Thanks, Mark I think that it’s abit sad that the WPF/E developers don’t interact with the community as the WPF guys does. Well, we’ll just have to wait and see, I dropped Mike a mail from his blog, but he probably gets a few of those :) ...Show All

• Visual Basic listbox textbox and ado

  Hi, can anyone help me with this problem.. i have a combo box, a list box and 2 text boxes the combo box contains a list of categories, which would limit the contents of the list box into the items that are contained within the selected category.. the list box calls and lists the field "Name", and when you click on an item on the list, the textboxes are supposed to contain the other fields that correspond to the item on the list box.. here is the code that i tried.. the only thing the textboxes show are "False" text.. how do i make the textboxes show the needed information.. Dim dbFood As Database Dim rsFood As Recordset Dim z As String z = List1.Text Set dbFood = OpenDatabase("C:\Program Files\Microsoft ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Console Application

  What can you do with a console application ... have really no idea Can you make an email application - so when you type in a certain thing, it'll send an email (FOR EXAMPLE) You can do virtually anything you can do with a graphical user interface program in a console program. The major difference of course being the input and output is all text based, which can make many tasks a good deal more difficult to do with a console application. For simple actions, such as sending an email as in your example, a console application would work well. Dennis ...Show All

• Windows Forms Forms in different dlls needs to communicate

  hi, I am fairly new to Visual Studio (2005, c++) and I have a large application that needs to be ported to this plattform. Most of the application we need to rewrite from scratch (as it contains very bad code). But since this application is large, I need to devide it into several dlls (assemblies) and I also need to put forms in the dlls. I have tried to search the Internet for this, but I can't find out how the forms can communicate with eachother! Do you understand my problem Well, I have three dlls; A,B and C. In each dll I have one form AF, BF and CF. AF is a mdiparent and BF and CF are childs. This works and I can show them and operate with them, but I cant get BF and CF to send data to eachother. I tried to u ...Show All

• Visual C# Another P2P Question

  I have read about microsoft Peer to Peer system but besides Thoughtpost is there any other implementation I'll be glad for any P2P protocol implementation .. :) Thanks Moved to http://btsharp.com . Cheers, David Smith ...Show All

• Windows Forms Retrieve Object from ListBox

  I've got a OleDBDataReader object whose values I want to store in a ListBox for user interaction. The values I'm storing in the ListBox are the users first and last name (this is the displayed values). And I'm storing in the ListBox the users Social Security Number. I have done this by way of creating an object: class ListBoxStorage { public object data; public string display_string; public ListBoxStorage(object data_stored, string display_val) { data = data_stored; display_string = display_val; } public ListBoxStorage() { display_string = "Empty String"; } public override string ToString() { //MessageBox.Show("User " + display_string.ToString() + ", has the SSN of: &qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Innate memory leak with C#?

  Hi, I've been doing some testing with C#, and it seems that innate to the language is a memory leak, or so it seems. If you create a completely blank form, and run it, when you move the mouse over the form, memory usage slowly increases until it finally peeks out at about 700k. As you I add more and more buttons, labels, and other things, this number slowly increases. Right now my applications memory usage slowly increases until it peeks out at 1200k. In order to see this increase, you do have to continually move the mouse over the form. Has anyone heard of this before What is the cause and is there a way around it Here is sample code I used to create the blank form: using System.Windows.Forms; namespace ActiveXTest { public class For ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks() in visual c++ express ...

  Hi, I have been trying to get memory leak checking to work for the past few hours but have been unssuccessful. I have created a basic win32 program winmain etc .... and have tried to allocate some memory and then not delete it ... but I can't seem to get it to report the memory leak. The basic idea ... WinMain( ... arguments ... ) { allocate some memory _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks(); return 0; } I've also tried setting the following .... _CrtSetDbgFlag ( _CRTDBG_ALLOC_MEM_DF | _CRTDBG_LEAK_CHECK_DF ); _CrtSetReportMode( _CRT_ERROR, _CRTDBG_MODE_DEBUG ); but nothing seems to be working. Anyone know why its not reporting the leak Thanks for this info, but wha ...Show All