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• Audio and Video Development Error event while media session is running

  I'm getting an error event while the session is running (in the loop of the event handling). This event is ERROR_SXS_MANIFEST_FORMAT_ERROR and I didn't found any usefull information as to the cause of this error. I have a custom source that send a single frame from a picture and a sink that saves the frame into a file. When I connect the source to the sink all is fine, and the frame is being saved. When I enter a MFT between them I get the error. I don't know where this error comes from, or what is the meaning of it. Can anyone explain to me what this error means Thanks. A couple questions to help us get to the bottom of this: How does this error arrive Via MEError, or via some othe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Vista Error

  There seems to be a problem when running a clickonce application from a url, with the prerequisites including .Net Framework 3.0. If I click install, it runs the setup and asks if i want to install .Net 3.0. I click cancel and it closes. The same thing occurs if I click the direct link to the .application file. As vista includes .Net 3, it should be detected. Why is this happening If anyone's interested, the link is http://people.bath.ac.uk/cja22/143/ Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing Resolution

  I have made a program called "Who Wants To Get 100 From Biology" .It's just like "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". And I have used some graphics. But I have made it in the resolution 1024x768px . I want the resolution to change automaticly at the start and change the old one.How can I do it I didn't use DirectX I don't know how to. Please reply me in your earliest convinence. Regards, Mustafa Thanks a lot. I have changed my mind , I get the resolution and warn the user.I am not going to change. Some computers may have problems with it. No need to cause problems. ...Show All

• .NET Development StringBuilder COM marshaling across COM apartments

  I have the following interesting problem: I am using COM interop to work with an SDK, where one of the methods I call has the following signature: HRESULT GetName([out][in] WCHAR *pName, [out][in]DWORD *pcchName); The way it works is that the client first passes a NULL as pName and gets the number of characters in the name as the second out parameter (pcchName). Afterwards, the client can allocate the required memory and pass in the array and the capacity. I am using this method from C# and I have the method signature as follows: [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall, MethodCodeType = MethodCodeType.Runtime)] public virtual extern void GetName([Out, MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] StringBuilder name, ref int nameCapa ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2 to 1.1

  I know this question is asked alot but still... My boss just asked me if i could move our .net Application from .net 2.0 to 1.1 because of most users dont have 2.0 ( cant see the reason why microsoft just didnt include 2.0 in autoupdate but well ). anyway... the application is made in VS2005 with as base language C#. I doupt bringing the application from VS2005 to VS2003 would really be a usefull solution, because we use new c# keyparts like partial classes and attributes. So.... is there any way to use .net 1.1 in VS2005 thanks already! -Koen in the auto updater it won't be included as .NET is an optional component, not a required security patch. the same goes for things like WMP, t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Render Target For Effects.

  I am having a problem here. In PC development I love the availablity of StretchRect. You can render an entire scene at a high resolution then stretch it to a low res map to create all sort of fun effects. The problem is XNA does not support stretch rect ... so then is the only option to: A. Render the whole scene to a render target and use it to create lower render targets for use in effects. (Currently using) Pros: 1. Very Fast. 2. Only 1 scene render Cons: 1. Locked to texture resolutions 1024x1024 or 512x 512 2. Will never be a perfect monitor resolution match thus muddy areas will always be there. B. Render the whole scene once at full rez then render it a second time to a Render targe ...Show All

• SQL Server difference between inner join and intersection

  Hi Can anybody explain me what is the difference between inner join and intersection I prepare a query but it shows the same results then why we need two functions like this to perform same operation Thanx-Nagu hi, we are here dealing in both cases with semi joins, where the rows from one (or both sides of the join operation, depending on the left/right/inner join proprosition) table are returned base on the evidence of existing related rows in the correlated table.. semi joins can be performed both via standard INNER JOIN, and via EXISTS clauses.. the inner join proposition requires for this the distinct clause as well like SELECT DISTINCT s.Id, s.Name FROM dbo.Students s [INNER] JOIN ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Specify default for query parameter

  I'm trying to build a query using date parameters. I created a StartDate query parameter and have to give it a default value. The UI only shows me a list of values starting from 1/10/2001 through 11/1/2006. The last entry is "Filter Members", which shows up a non-intuitive dialog box. If I want to select 15/12/2006, I have to enter something like "UTDDateTime contains 12/2006", press the Test and OK button and then select the value I want from the list. If I want to change this value, I have to this all over. Is there anyway to just enter the value you want as http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156303.aspx suggests Thanks hi paso, happy new year! have you l ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Is Media Foundation ready for software development now?

  Hi all I'm new to Media Foundation and spent several days looking for and studying its information. As you know, we can find very few documents currently. The main source is the MSDN online version and is still very immature. Since Vista has already claimed MF as its next-generation platform for high qualitiy multimedia presentation and the PMP/PE forced people who want to take advantage by OS-native protection to use Media Foundation instead of DShow (as you know, PMP only supports MF.), I think people who want to develop multimedia applications (well, maybe for Bluray or HD) should consider now to change from DShow to MF. But from the documents I read and from this forum I saw lots of unresolved issues (including the multiple ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can I not use Team Foundation Server for other IIS hosting?

  We installed TFS on a server. But now I want to host a totally separate website (virtual directory) on the same box. When I set it up, I can't browse to the content. Is this not allowed somehow in TFS Thanks, Ron Thanks Andreas, but I'm not seeing a particular link within that section to exclude my particular virtual directory from SharePoint. It shows the default virtual server and then the TFS virtual server but does not list any virtual directories under. Can you please tell me more specifically what I'm looking for Thanks again very much for the help. Ron Cook ...Show All

• Visual C# Invalid Resx file. A strongly-named assembly is required.

  I've been randomly getting this error on a few of my forms in one of my projects for about a week now. Its always the same forms each time and its always in the same place (its the closing tag of a <data> element with the same base-64 encoded resource each time). It seems arbitrary whether or not I get this and usually restarting visual studio will get rid of it, but sometimes i have to restart it several time. The really weird thing is that no one else on my team has gotten this and we're all working off of the same codebase. I've tried blowing away my local copy of the source and getting a completely fresh copy form source control and that seems to help it for a bit, but it always comes back. Has anyone ever seen this or anyone ha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installation Trouble

  I am having trouble with my installation: Normal Download I click download, save it to my desktop, and I open and run it, after the first loading bar it just disappears. Its running but it tisnt doing anything. Manual Download I use Isohunter-after i extract the files i cant find setup.exe does anybody know the source of this problem Duplicate post. (Main post is here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=633665&SiteID=1 ) ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies How to test Search result cache sharepoint sites?

  i have tried for many ways to create different items with different persmission with some user don't have persmission try to search result for persmission item to non persmission user accsess but result came out wrong. it will show me non authorised item to unauthorised users. then how to check cache search in sharepoint site or how to understood particular site caching search results which is bypasses to unauthorised users Please send any one me answer as early as possible please anybody found any link help or hint. regarding to above question please send me ...Show All

• SQL Server Matrix with 2 subtotal

  Hi All, I wish to have a report with 2 subtotal using matrix control given by reporting service. CD DVD Total Price Total Qty 2.00 5.00 JOHN 5 25.00 5 JOLIN 5 10.00 5 Total Price 10.00 25.00 Total Qty 5 5 I only can came out total price(subtotal) which provided by matrix control. Does the matrix control able to come out as table above with 2 subtotal Thanks Kendy Hi there! I created my r ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Vista, VS2005 SP1, Mobile Device Center and disconnects

  Situation: I had to install Vista Ultimate x64 I installed Visual Studio 2005, SP1. Both in Italian. I could not install the "Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista " because it is available only for English. To work with my PDA, I installed "Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center Beta 3 for Windows Vista (AMD64)". I'm able to sync my PDA with my PC. The problem: When I run my VS2005 VB application, it is correctly distributed on my PDA. BUT, as soon as it load the symbols for debugging, the PDA gets disconnected from the "Windows Mobile Device Center" (but NOT from VS 2005!!) This happens randomly, but about 4 times out of 5. I can debug my application, but since my application is tryin ...Show All