David d48701's Q&A profile

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 Crashes on Specific Web Pages

  I have tried 3 times to use IE7 (install, uninstall, re-install) and it keeps crashing! Here is a page that it crashes on: http://www.wftv.com/news/10517404/detail.html Here's the odd thing, if I click on this link it crashes, but if I paste it in after copying it from Firefox, it doesnt crash! Cole ...Show All

• Community Chat My creation: Galaxy war (2D game using DirectX)

  Hello there. This is my game: Screens: Selecting a map, lets start on Easy Shooting stars in game, fun multiply backgrounds Lets see my score Download game: Galaxy war Official website (for more information) The game saves progress as you advance (the save is encrypted so forget cheating ;) There are multiply backgrounds and multiply ships. The design of the game is so good that the user can create ships himself. It takes about 2 second to add another level on the map, the information is kept in an array inside the program. I have created a version containing songs in the background (the ending background music was set to Back to the Future theme song) but first: It was a .wav file over 30 mb and I still haven't learned how to play m ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DreamBuildPlay is up!!!

  Now go register!!   Actual contest details to come the week of Feb 5th I'm not speaking for Microsoft, but if you want to enter you can always enter a US State and Zip code and phone number for now until they get that addressed. I'm assuming that you can edit your information later once that's been corrected. Again, I don't speak for Microsoft on that, that's just what I would do in your shoes. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Fitting Lines to Fill Available Space

  Hi, I would like to be able to have a line be able to fit to the available height. For example, < StackPanel Background = " SlateGray " Height = " 100 " Width = " 100 " > < Line X1 = " 50 " X2 = " 50 " Y1 = " 0 " Y2 = " 100 " Stroke = " Yellow " StrokeThickness = " 5 " StrokeDashArray = " 3,3 " /> </ StackPanel > But without having to specify the Y2 value. Clearly, in this simple case I could bind to the parent width, but I would like to have it do it automatically. Does anyone know of a way to do this Thanks! Your int ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Testing Vibration, Led, SMS on Emulator?

  Hi, Can any one please tell me how to test Vibration, Led, SMS Notification on emulator. I added Vibration, SMS notification, Led to my code. but I am unable to find difference on Emulator. Is there any way to test these things. I hope you can help me in this matter. Thanks in Advance, Malleswar, 1) Vibration is supported in Windows CE 6.0 which was recently released. Device Emulator version 2 (v2) was shipped along with it. It makes the emulator window vibrate on the screen. It looks quite realistic. 2) LED is implemented in the emulator, but a skin may not be available. 3) SMS notifications--no idea. Let me get back to you. Vijay ...Show All

• Visual C# Domino/Lotus Notes automation problem: _COMPlusExceptionCode = -532459699 error

  Hi I'm sending email using Lotus Notes by referencing "Lotus Domino Objects" (v1.1) via COM in C#. This has been working successfully on my machine for several weeks (both in the ide and compiled versions). However this is not working on several machines in production. I keep getting a _COMPlusExceptionCode = -532459699 error. The exception is thrown whenever I try to create the NotesSession Domino. NotesSession notes = new Domino. NotesSession (); The Notes client is installed on all of the target machines. It would seem to be an environmental problem, but I've spent the last few hours scouring the net for an answer and am still no closer to a solution. Has anyone come across this before Thanks in adv ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums about MSN SDK

  is this possible can I create a windows application and embedded simple MSN in my application. KenLin wrote: is this possible can I create a windows application and embedded simple MSN in my application. Of course you can. There have many SDK here. What's develop language you use ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Create new instance of Database all the time, or keep around?

  With the access to the underlying data store being abstracted and relatively hidden from us, I find myself wondering how to manage connection pooling and scalability. I have a static utility class that provides all the methods that generate queries. At the moment, it creates a singleton instance of the Database class (e.g. MyDatabase() , the one created by Sqlmetal) (this is for LINQ to SQL, not EF). Should I be creating and disposing of the database instance within each data request method, or should I be trying to maintain the reference to the static instance of the db My gut instinct tells me to do something like this : public static List<MyData> GetSomething(params) { using (Database db = new Database()) { var x = from .... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Deploying Crystal Report with application written in VStudio 6.0

  I have written an application in Visual Studio 6.0 It uses Crystal Report XI controls to display reports. There is all fine if I run application on computer which has installed Crystal Reports XI. Problem begins when i install this application on computer which has no Crystal Reports installed. How can I install necessary modules (I have only Visual Studio 6.0, and I can not (can I ) use merge modules for .NET instalation). From what I have noticed, it is required to have installed proper DLLs, image files, *js files,... which are placed in ProgramFiles/CommonFiles/... directory. (Crystal Report requires that files to display input parameters dialog - it uses Internet Explorer window embedded in application window). Thanks for ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Resize window issue

  I am working on my first game in XNA and C# and ran into an issue. I have an array of alien sprites and when I minmize the window and then resize the window the alien sprites are gone or are way lower on the screen than they should be. I can't seem to figure out how to fix this issue. Has anyone got a solution or can at least point me in the right direction -Stanley Ok there was about 6 hours wasted on that method. Still have the same issue. Does anyone know of some code sample or better explanation of OnLostDevice or OnResetDevice events or something else that might help I am pretty sure it has something to do with the array and drawing the aliens from the array. The other sprites stay as they are. Is t ...Show All

• Visual C# MDI child child interaction

  hi all i was playing around making a small image viewer app type thing (first foray into windows apps) and have run into a problem geting the child forms (or any off them for that matter) to communicate in a way I want, I'm not sure if its even possible, it should be as it seems to me to be a relatively fundamental use of them. basically I was trying to get the mouse coordinates to update another child form that iwas going to use as a control, so ...the parent form opens the two child forms, one contains a picture anmd the other is just for info (the coords), I can pass the info over if I do a MessageBox.Show("e.X.ToString()); however when I try to update, say a label it doesnt do anything. I imagine I'm doing something i ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing connection string at run time??? :(

  I have got two connection strings in my application which I am creating in VB.NET 2005, one whose database is installed with my application so i can keep the connection string and other which is already there with the user. I want the connection string of the other database which i am taking from the customer to be installed in the registry which is fine, the string value is stored in the registry from the customer input. Now how do i get that string as the current connection string as systems.settings.connectionstring is read only Is there any ways this can be done because I am working on this project and it needs to be done somehow Maybe this is what your looking for: Everytime your application need the connection string, d ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can i exclude certain files from being scanned for xml document generation?

  My problem is this: When designing a class, i create the .h header file like so: // foo.h ///<summary> /// This is foo ///</summary> class Foo { public: ///<summary> /// Default constructor ///</summary> Foo(); }; Then when i create the .cpp file i copy the comments into that also so i can read what the function does (at a later date) from any of the 2 files like: // foo.cpp ///<summary> /// Default constructor ///</summary> Foo::Foo() { //do something }; Now when the .xml documentation is generated, for each member it lists the summary twice ie: < xml version="1.0" > < doc > < assembly > "F00" </ assembly > < members > < mem ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is it possible to do a MasterDetail Binding with a TreeView?

  I used a ListBox and did a test on MasterDetail Binding and that works find. But if I have a TreeView is there any way to do MasterDetail Binding Example a preview box in a file dialog window /godzilla9 It seem that this is working only for the first level of the tree. I would like to list all childs of any nodes of my tree and for leaves, display their properties. For atomic node I bind textBox in code like this void SelectionChanged(object sender, RoutedPropertyChangedEventArgs<object> e) { TreeView tree = (TreeView)sender; Binding myBinding; myBinding = new Binding("CountryName"); myBinding.Mode = BindingMode.TwoWay; Country c = (Country)tree.Selec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express 2005

  Where can I find info explaining how to connect to an existing Access Database. The only stuff I have found so far is for connecting to SQL Express 2005. Use the oledb namespace and check your connection string at www.connectionstrings.com Although most of the samples ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789075.aspx#data ) deal with sql server...the principle of working with a data store is the same....just use the appropriate data namespace (oledb for Access) ...Show All