Steve Whitley's Q&A profile

• .NET Development IntersectClip Method vs Clip Property?

  Is there any difference between: System.Drawing. Region ClipRegion = new System.Drawing. Region (pGraphParams.m_rInnerRectangle); glLayer.LayerGraphics.Clip = ClipRegion; and glLayer.LayerGraphics.IntersectClip(pGraphParams.m_rInnerRectangle); For some reason, using IntersectClip is VERY ocassionally causing a stack overflow and I am struggling to figure out why. If I use the Clip property instead, I do not get this overflow. The only think the call stack really tells me is that it looks like something recursive is happening in ntdll.dll and it gets out of control. The Clip property sets the clip region, the IntersectClip method combines the previously set clip region with the rect ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Cant Start Projects

  When I try to start a project it gives me an error ("The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect") or something like that, any one know why and how to fix it I sent a report and its when I try to start one, not save. I click start new project, then select ANY project type and it gives said error. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro working on toolbar and time

  hi guys...im developing a system for my thesis and i have problem on these: A. toolbar - i have already created a toolbar using class and then drag it to my form and created a formset. when i try to run the form, the toolbar is at the upper left corner and needs to be double-clicked for it to be placed below the menu bar..what i want to happen is that when my form appears, the toolbar will be automatically placed below the menu or when the system opens,it will be automatically placed below the menu bar. what should i do B.Time - i have a label, timer, text1 which displays the date and text2 displays the time..by default the label's caption is Good Morning..what i want to happen is that when the time reaches 12:00pm, the label will display ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Binding to an item within an array.

  Hi All, I am wondering if it is possible to bind to a specific property of an object that I have in an array in an Activity. By default the designer will allow me to bind to the entire array, but is it possible to bind at a more granular level such as an array item, or a property of an item in the array. For example imagine my activity class contains an array of type 'User'. The User object amongst other things has a string property called 'Username'. Is it possible for me bind a value to the Username field of an arbitary User object in the array Regards Ben by default, you can bind to an item in the array, if the array items are the same type as your property. In your case, if your property was ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to change the font of a DesignerTheme?

  How can I change the font of a CompositeDesignerTheme The font property is readonly and I cannot overwrite the property in a derived class. Hi Tom, thanks for your help. However, it does not help. I must to change the font for my own DesignerTheme derived from CompositeDesignerTheme. Thus, I try to do it in code and cannot use the "Create New Theme" command. The problem is, that the Font property is readonly in derivations of DesignerTheme. This is a general problem, that I see in the Workflow Foundation: too much readonly properties. This makes it very difficult to customize the appearance of the workflow. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions newbie.

  Hi, I've written a short program using Express but when I come to compile it the debug options are greyed out. Can anyone let me know why Cheers, Tim Vieweg. Sorry, I don't understand your problem. Do you want to compile and debug your app Does compile give any errors If not, try to press F5 and see if your app starts in the debugger. -- SvenC ...Show All

• SQL Server Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user .......error code 0x534...

  == I asked this question directly to Remus and wanted to share the response to all of those people using this forum == We recently moved our database server from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. All applications on our intranet development server stay the same [VS.NET 2003], but recently resources in our Dev DB server ran out of space. While doing a thorough investigation, I noticed ERRORLOG file was occupying about 35 Gig of HDD space. I immediately checked SQL Server error log and noticed an entry which says – =========================================================================================== Date 7/7/2006 4:45:37 PM Log SQL Server (Current - 7/7/2006 4:45:00 PM) Source ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Combining two effect

  Hi, i am trying to render mesh with two effect: the first - simple texturing effect, and second - simple directional light and always get a result of first shader. And when i am rotate camera i get a strange artifacts. May be someone can show me a working render with two effects and mesh Thanks Shawn! That article is very interesting, but not so easy and i am trying to understand some aspects of it. Now, i want to answer you about my problem. Sorry for my english :) For example, I have a model or mesh. My model contains list of effects: class Model { List<Effect> effects; } And I have two simple effects: the first is a simple texturing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WorkItem Project Alerts not working

  Hi, We have project alerts working fine for "Build completes" and "Anything Checked in" project alerts. But NOT for the "work items changed by others" setting. Any idea why this is the case We have been creating and assigning work items up the wazoo but no alert emails so far... I don't see errors in the event log either. Thanks, JGP Responding to previous 2 postings... Its not working for any one in the team, although the other alerts work for all team members. Sanjay, I'm aware of that. Thanks though.. -JGP ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to add custom fields that works like iterations or areas?

  Is there a way to add custom fields that allow project administrator to add values For example, I really need a "Clients" field that works like the Iterations or Areas, which let user add values as they go. Just to let you know, these are client bit changes and can be uninstalled when SP1 releases, so it is not *that* dangerous, however if it is for larger deployment I agree it does sound dangerous. ...Show All

• SQL Server Question transport-level error

  Hi all, I'm having a little problem with my sqlserver 2005. I'm trying to crate a user in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio throug a query. Like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USE [master] GO CREATE LOGIN [MYUSER] WITH PASSWORD = N 'MYPASSWORD' , DEFAULT_DATABASE = [MYDB] , DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = [us_english] , CHECK_EXPIRATION = OFF , CHECK_POLICY = OFF GO ALTER LOGIN [MYUSER] ENABLE GO USE [msdb] GO CREATE USER [MYUSER] FOR LOGIN [MYUSER] ; GO GRANT EXECUTE ON [sp_start_job] TO [MYUSER] GO EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader' , 'MYUSER' GO EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_datawriter' , 'MYUSER' GO EXEC sp_addrolemember 'SQLAgentOperatorRole' ...Show All

• SQL Server NULL Attribute values in XQuery

  the .Query method doesn't seem to abey the normal rules for NULL values. If I specify an attribute as NULL using the sql:variable function the NULL is treated as an empty string. This is unlike other areas i.e. FOR XML and OPENXML that treat a NULL as a missing attribute. declare @message xml set @message = '' declare @jobid int declare @fingerprintId int declare @action varchar ( 10 ) set @jobid = 23121 set @action = 'INSERT' set @fingerprintId =NULL SELECT @message . query ( '<fingerprintSearchModify fingerprintId="{sql:variable("@fingerprintId")}" jobId="{sql:variable("@jobId")}" action="{sql:variable("@action")}" ...Show All

• Visual C# Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Configuration

  have a problem with the framework 2.0 on Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Configuration (that don’t exist) I have converted an application with Microsoft framework 1.1 in the new framework 2.0. This line code has an error: Database db = new DatabaseProviderFactory(ConfigurationManager.CreateContext()).Create("DBProva"); 1) ConfigurationManager don’t exist ( OK I have added System.configuration and ConfigurationManager exist now) 2) …but ConfigurationManager don’t have this method CreateContext(). what I do to resolve this problem Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Script task to check for file existance

  Hi all, Let me apologize in advance for what I know is a very basic question, but so far I'm not being terribly successful trying to find sample code to learn from. I'm trying to write (my first!) .Net Script in SSIS to check for the existance of a file (since that seems to be the only way to do it). I've created the Script Task, with the following settings: PrecomplieScriptIntoBinaryCode = False (it complained at one point in time (possibly on validation)) EntryPoint = ScriptMain ReadOnly Variables = ProductBuyListFileLocation, ProductBuyListFileName ReadWrite Variable = FileFound Now the ReadOnly variables have the 2 components necessary for a file location, i.e.: ProductBuyListFileLocation = 'D:\Testing\Pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF82039: Team Foundation was unable to modify the project plan (TFS, MS Office Project Standard 2003)

  Hello, I am running: 1) Team Foundation Server v1 2) MS Office Project Standard 2003 SP2 Steps: 1) Create new MS Project (linked to TFS project) 2) Past project tasks in 3) Publish to server - success 4) Refresh and get "TF82039: Team Foundation was unable to modify the project plan" I have tried saving the MS Project plan to a new file and refreshing with no luck. I am not running Project Server. Any ideas Smitha, I saw your instructions and followed the same to get the error log entry as I am also having the same problem as the original poster. My mapping file is good. Here is the error log entry. Can you please help us understand what could be my problem. I have tried e ...Show All