Roman Hnatiuk's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Experimental Learning

  I am making a front-end program for the lame mp3 encoder simply for learning experience. I can get it to handle all the options and output the files perfectly. There are a few questions I still have though. 1. Is there a way to hide the command window that pops up when encoding a file and instead show my own progress window 2. How would I detect the progress of the encoding 3. When I have a list of files to encode the only way I can think of is to encode them all at once. Is there a way to encode them one at a time 4. Is there a way to find the bitrate of a file When I add files to the list i want to show the bitrate of that file. That is what I have for now. Thank you to anyone that can help. As an aside, I have thought about contacting a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Wmi and vbscript

  I need to be able to output the amount of memory a script is using at various stages throughout its execution. I have never used wmi in a script before so i have no clue how to start. Can anyone please point me in a direction Thanks Woody You are asking about script. These forums deal with possibly in the wrong place. VBScript Often refers to the script language used in client-side Web pages. Sometimes this talks about other scripting environments like WSH – windows script host. A good source of information on scripting is, but this doesn’t have forums, newsgroups as such. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx One client-side script forum is here: http://forums.asp.net/130/ShowForum.a ...Show All

• SQL Server Differences in varchar size usage, declaring the maximum available of 8000 characters

  Hi, I actually found a thread on this subject and post a follow-up question to it, but it seems that nobody is viewing the thread, probably because it is marked as answer, as such, I post a new thread for my question. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=87635&SiteID=1 My question is mainly on the differences between using a varchar(500) compared to varchar(8000), in the event when the stored string is less than 500 characters. From the explanations that I see from the thread, can I say that to declare a column with a size of 8000 will not have any difference in storage/performance when compared to a column declared with a size of 500, when the stored string in the column is of 100 characters The drawback of h ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can XNA Build manage LOD?

  Hi everybody. Assume that you have an Asset that has three levels of detail (you have for instance three different models of the same car) How does XNA build manage this kind of things Hi Michael, Yes, Does XNA Build collapse the different files in one Could you explain a bit the entire process I mean, assume that i have 3 levels of detail for a car in 3D Max and i want to export this stuff to a file/s that can be loaded by the framework). Should i implement my own importer, loader for this kind of stuff thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help installing visual studio 2005 please

  Hi I just downloaded the 90 day trial for the product for a class before I decide if im going to actually buy it for long term use, what I was wondering though was how I can get it to install...I downloaded it and now I have 2 different files, ones a image file and the other is a PART file...but there isn't anything to click and install it =/ Sorry im kinda a starter on all of this but any help would be appreciated :) I haven't tried the mounting idea yet just because the last time I attempted it with a computer game I completely failed :) I will go try it right now and get back to ya. ...Show All

• Windows Forms [C#]Datagridview copy/paste from a row to another row

  Hi all. Before opening this post, i've already spent a lot of time looking for solution to this problem over the net and over this forum :( I only need to copy some values in a datagridview row, and paste over another row of the same datagridview. Thx a lot in advance at all :) Bye and have a nice day, RaouL. thx at both for answering :) But i was unable to apply your great hints because im a newbie in C#. I've try the above code but i got an error at run time. on my datagridview for example i have:                    column1 column2 column3 row1            & ...Show All

• SQL Server No more datatype TIME in SQL 2005...what to do???

  I understand that SQL 2005 doesn’t support TIME ( which is, for me, incredibly weird). Now, could anyone please help me solve my problem. I want to make it possible to insert into database a start-time for the first runner in a team. And when he finishes, a finish-time. This finish-time I will also use as a start-time for the second runner....a.s.o. Furthermore I want to be able to get the results from the database to present them in several ways. This also means I can't simply insert the time as a string since it won't change hour at every 60 minutes. I have read somewhere that it should be possible to create own datatypes, but I have absolutely no knowledge to that. Could anyone please help me ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I convert a 4-byte array (of type bytes) into a 4-byte floating-point?

  Okay, how do I convert an array of bytes into the 4-byte floating-point number with the same binary representation What I'm trying to do is, that when I loaded a binary file into memory, I want to be able to set the four bytes of a byte array to some values, and then retrieve the value in floating-point. In C++, this would've been rather easy using pointers, as shown : char buffer[4]; // Set some values to this buffer float* fp = (float*)buffer; // Access the 4-byte array as a floating point cout << "Floating point value : " << *fp << endl; // Print it Now how do I do this without pointers Don't tell me to try to load the floating-points directly from the file, by using some function like ReadDWord. A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO ADE

  I know to get the stand alone VSTO 2005 that has the Access Development Extension I need Office Pro 2003, what I am not clear about is if upgrading from 2000 Pro will be sufficient and if having a charity licence makes any difference. Thanks, Dani Hi Dani Upgrading shouldn't be a problem, about the license I can't be sure. I'm assuming it will have Access, in any case. But if you can check in the upgrade version you're being offered in Word: Tools/Templates and Add-ins whether the dialog box has a tab for XML Schemas If it does, then you should be OK. The critical point is that Office contains the XML "hooks", and if this interface is present, it does. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Offline Process Template Validation

  I'm currently doing some extensive customizations of a process template and was wondering if there was a way of validating a process template without having to try and upload it. Essentially I would like to write some unit tests that test whether a process template is valid on the local machine (the local machine could contact a server if that was what is required) before I spend the time trundling through the UI to upload the process template. Is this currently possible via some part of the TFS API. Am I not looking hard enough :) Paul, I don't mean xml well-formedness, I'm perfectly capapble of writing well formed xml, especially with the red squigglies that the VS2k5 editor gives me :) I mean issues lik ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Multiple projects in solution, wrong project is put to drop location

  Hello, We have a solution with multiple projects DAL, Business, Service and a Webservice project. I created a new team build type and run this. I then only get the dll files compiled in my drop location. I'm expecting a "Binaries\Release\_PublishedWebsites" folder. What properties or settings could I check or alter to make it work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Pieter Pieter, Try putting the following in TFSBuild.proj file, within the ItemGroup tag < ConfigurationToBuild Include = " Release|Mixed Platforms " > < FlavorToBuild > Release </ FlavorToBuild > < PlatformToBuild > Mixed Platforms </ PlatformToBuild > </ Configuration ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development MCSIMENU

  I have an appliacation using Microsoft activex component MCSIMENU. ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/gp/777.asp ) This component does not work in IE7. ( https://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/appcompattcs.mspx ) At first I must find out, what exactly na old appliction do. Does anybody knows where I can find documentation for ActiveX component MCSIMENU ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drag and Drop to Word

  Hello, I'm writing a little photo-database application and i would like to be able to drag pictures from a Windows.Forms.PictureBox object to another application that can accept images, eg Word, Excel, Powerpoint... I have the following event handler: private void pictureBox1_MouseMove( object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { if ( this .mouseDown == true ) { this .pictureBox1.DoDragDrop( new Bitmap( this .RealPath),DragDropEffects.Copy); this .mouseDown = false ; } } and the mouseDown property is set when the mouseDown event is fired. This works very well when i try to DragDrop from my app to Excel of Powerpoint but it doesn't work when trying to DragDrop it to Word or ...Show All

• Windows Forms CheckBox Checked.

  Hi there I have a class that derives from Checkbox and is basically a toggle button. I also have the ability to group the class instances so that they behave a bit like radio buttons and reset the checked state of any other buttons of this class on the form. Trouble is, changing Checked to false also triggers the CheckedChange delegate. Can anyone think of a way to temporily stop the CheckChanged event from firing from with the class itself. To explain a little further, the class has a method ResetChecked and this sets Checked to false, but in doing so it fires the CheckChanged delegate. I can't remove the delegate and add it after because I just can't find a way to do that Any ideas anyone Thanks Dave Th ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to install SQl Server 2005 SP2 - Unexpected error

  I am trying to install SQl Server 2005 SP2 but it was throwing an unexpected error when trying to install "setup support files". O/s: Windows Server 2003 SP1 Product: SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition Log file shows: +++++++++++++++++++ === Verbose logging started: 2/20/2007 16:05:42 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 3.01.4000.2435 Calling process: F:\SQL2005sp2\hotfix.exe === MSI (c) (74:68) [16:05:42:635]: Resetting cached policy values MSI (c) (74:68) [16:05:42:635]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0 MSI (c) (74:68) [16:05:42:635]: ******* RunEngine: ******* Product: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\Cache\SQLSupport\x86\1033\SqlSupport.msi ******* Action: ******* CommandLine: ********** MSI ...Show All