Gafrage's Q&A profile

• Internet Explorer Development Internet Explorer ghastly photo quality

  My website has many high quality photos and about 900 visitors a day look at them, most use Internet Explorer. Unfortunately IE completely wrecks the picture quality when displaying it. If the photo is downloaded and viewed the quality is good. Are there any settings within IE that can be adjusted to improve displayed quality I realise that this would increase the time taken to display the picture. If nothing is available within IE itself, is there any other viewer that would give good results Without seeing the behavior myself, I'm guessing that this is either related to the image files' color space or with IE's image auto-scaling feature. If it's the color space, then I'm guessing that the ima ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Blocking registration in Windows Live for specific domains?

  Is there a way to block Windows Live from accepting registrations for specific domains that we own We have having a constant problem with people registering non-existant emails under own domains and then trying to trick others into thinking that they are affiliated with us. Thank you for your response, We need a solution to stop people registering with Windows Live using our domains, or a method to allow us to authenticate requests to register using our domains. This is a serious security issue as it allows anyone to masquerade as if they were part of our team. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding a solution with multiple websites in version control

  i added a solution with multiple websites in version control in tfs. It added the inetpub/wwwroot in another folder in version control . i want the website in the solution folder in version control. what should i do and is there a best practice for folder structure in version control After dealing with using a nested project structure in VSS where the tree matched namespaces, e.g.: MyCompany --MyProduct ----WebSite ----Business ----Data I decided, when migrating VSS to TFS, to use this simpler structure instead: MyCompanyTeamProject --MyCompany.MyProduct.WebSite --MyCompany.MyProduct.Business --MyCompany.MyProduct.Data I find that this gives me the ability to quickly figure out just how ma ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Framework wish list

  XNA Framework wish list. - System.Net.Sockets o Socket (Tcp & UDP transport) o Do not really need support for TcpClient, TcpListener and UdpClient - System.Security.Cryptography o Rijndael o MD5 - System.IO o FileStream o StreamWriter / Reader - System.Text o StringBuilder o Full UniCode support - System.Threading - System.Diagnostic Thanks, Roger Larsen None of the underlying crypto mechanisms are available through the XNA Framework on the Xbox 360 due to various security reasons. System.Net also won't be available on the Xbox 360. It's highly unlike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installing Visual Web Developer Express

  Hello, Are there any problems installing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express on a machine which has Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite installed on it already Also, will there be problems if I did install Visual Web Developer and later decided to uninstall it. By problems I mean will it cause a problem within Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite after Visual Web Developer has been uninstalled No, the express edition install side by side with other visual studio products. I have had multiple VS version including a few express edition where one was the web developer installed at the same time on one computer. I have uninstalled VWD and all other products had remained stable and usable. No problems at all. Be sure to not uninstall any sha ...Show All

• Windows Forms Rehash manifest problem

  Hi, I am currently working on my deployment project using Clickonce. I am installing the Clickonce project onto the customer's server using a web setup project. So far no hassle. However, I need to update a settings file within the ClickOnce package on the server. But doing this will invalidate the hash values. So I figured I needed to update the manifests. But I can't get that to work, this is what I do... 1. Update my Settings.txt file 2. mage.exe -Update myApp.exe.manifest 3. mage.exe -Sign myApp.exe.manifest -CertFile ... -Password ... 4. mage.exe -Update myApp.application 5. mage.exe -Sign myApp.application -CertFile ... -Password ... However, I still get a incompatible hash error. Something like: the application manifest has an inva ...Show All

• Windows Forms getting media files from a winform

  I am designing a winform client that should get around 30 media files (mp3, mp4 etc) in the size of 10 mega. every X minutes the client will check for updates, and if it finds any it should download the new media files from the server. what is the most efficient/fast way of transferring those file to the client 1. ftp 2. binary format with Windows Communication Foundation (and I can notify the client about changes so no need to check for updates) any other options or considerations (security ) thanks for the quick reply, It's my network and my server so i guess i can control the firewall settings. The server is a web server, not custom application. what is the performance and security diferences ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 Beta - ShellFolderView Object - Problems!!!

  ( Matter: ActiveX Automation/ShellFolderView; Severity: Very High ) Dear Sirs, In ActiveX Automation operations, IE7 refuses to load the contents of a Shell Folder, rather lauching a Windows Explorer Instance, and, thus, making impossible for JS/VBS code to access the "ShellFolderView" Object ( let us remember that this is the only way for these Scripting Languages to access such Object ). This is expected behavior ( that is "vanish/deprecate the access to the 'ShellFolderView' Object through IE Automation Instances" ), or there is a problem ... Hi, Dave. The problem is as follows: in an ActiveX Automation operation with IE6, when the Method "Navigate()" is called ...Show All

• Visual C++ Good book please

  Hello All, I'm new to vc++... but i have a good knowledge in c++.. can you please suggest me a good book for a beginner.... i want to study indepth.. please guide me... What area are you interested in: WinForms, Communication ala Remoting, WCF (Indigo), ... Up to now I took the MSDN and not further book, but if you specify which area of VC++ somebody might give a better suggestion. -- SvenC ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Flash

  Hi, I would like to make a program, in visual basic, to convert a powerpoint file to flash. If it is possible i would like to include the animations and sounds. Is this possible and if so how would i do it Dman1, If I may reignite this posting... How does one go about doing this We have an application that produces a Flash output, but not a flash video. We write out a series of XML files which populate each slide with image and text as a user clicks from one slide to the next. What I want to do is produce an animated video, one integral stream of animation. You stated this was possible, but I can find no other references to how. I do not want to use someone else’s tool, I want to develop my own. ...Show All

• SQL Server pathname property(WMI) in sql2005 reporting service UNAVAIL

  We are planning to migrate reporting service from sql 2000 to 2005. In the old code(sql2000), we need to retrieve the [pathname] property of the server instance to get the directory path. We use the directory path to do some special handling. Everything works fine in sql2000. I changed some wmi code according http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/library/ms154648.aspx. But I could not find the [pathname] property. The following is the output of the msdn code: ------ Instance Detected Property Name: EditionID Value: 1804890536 Property Name: EditionName Value: ENTERPRISE EDITION Property Name: InstanceID Value: MSSQL.3 Property Name: InstanceName Value: MSSQLSERVER Property Name: ReportManagerUrl Value: Property Name: ReportServerUrl ...Show All

• SQL Server How can we verify the Clustering algorithm models?

  Hi, all here, Since we are not able to use accuracy chart for Clustering algorithms there. So how can we verify the accuracy of clustering algorithm models here in terms of its classification and regression tasks Thank you very much in advance for your guidance and advices for that. With best regards, Yours sincerely, Actaully, you are able to use accuracy chart if you define any columns as predictable for the clustering model. You can verify this by using the Targeted Mailing data set from the Adventure Works DW. You can create a Microsoft Clustering model and set the bike buyer as predict. After you process your model, you will be able to get lift chart, profit chart and classification matrix for your clustering m ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLH2 Performance Collector - Buffer Cache Hit Ratio Problem

  Hi All I am having the following problem with the SQLH2 Performance Collector. I am running the SQLH2 Performance Collector against both SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 servers. Data for the 'SQLServer: Buffer Manager | Buffer Cache Hit Ratio' counter is being collected successfully from the SQL 2000 servers, but not from the SQL 2005 Servers. The only value recorded for the 2005 servers is always a 0. There are no errors in the Event Viewer for the Performance Collector. Any suggestions or experience with this problem would be appreciated. Regards Stevo Hi Stevo, As we discussed in a separate email, this is a known issue (it is actually a .Net 1.1 bug). Thanks, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Controlling Aspect Ratio

  So I was playing around with my XNA Control (1) for windows forms last night and got some sprites rendering based on some UI input (ie. press the "Add Sprite" button, file dialog comes up, and you pick a texture to add). I've got the control in a split container in the right pane. When I stretch the window, the sprites stretch right along with the window. The ideal behavior would be that stretching the window would simply give you more screen real estate. I'm imagining the way to figure this out will also apply to dealing with 4:3 vs 16:9 aspect ratios (2). Just need a few pointers on how to properly handle this :-) Thanks! (1)http://codecube.net/item.asp cc_itemid=314&searchstring=xna%20control (2)http://forums.microsoft ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Additional menu in a Word template

  Hi I am working with C# and started developing my first application using VSTO. The application is a Word template with additional menus that allow the user to integrate with a database throw forms. I have some problems getting started and would like to know how can I add new menu and menu items using VSTO Thank you Dan Hi Dan There's a lot of information on the MSDN site. Start here for a list of articles to perform "Common tasks", among them creating menus and toolbars. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/htx7t4k0(VS.80).aspx ...Show All