GRK's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Mega Cluster logic

  Dr Neil first mentioned this on the via virtual earth site recently and now I need to use them. Just though I would put my ideas out here and see what you all think and can add. To be clear this is a concept and I’m looking for ideas / help before I build it. Basically the issue is you have X number of points to put on the map where X is very large. 1. If you go and add them all it is going to slow down to a crawl. 2. If you have points at a close proximity at certain zoom levels they are going to sit on top of each other and be unhoverable. The solution is to have a mega cluster that provides information about the points it represents. Firstly we need to look at how we calculate what po ...Show All

• Visual Basic differece between c# nd vb.net

  differece between c# nd vb.net the difference is really the syntax. VB.NET and C# get compiled down to the same CLR and uses the same .NET Framework. .NET Framework is the core "model" where everything is used. The beauti about .NET/Visual Studio is the fact that you can use any .NET based language (VC++.NET/VB.NET/C#) to do the same job but using the different syntax for the language however it uses the same base classes to do the job ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Camera translation in a 2D environment

  I'm trying to build a platformer, but I can't figure out how to do camera translation in the 2D space. I'm using sprites for the environment and characters... How would I achieve camera movement in this situation I've tried messing around with the BasicEffect class (since I read on the forum that that's where you should move the camera), but to no avail. Thanks in advance.   TreyTro wrote: If you could post a link to your camera class, LeeC, that would be great. What properties does the object need to expose in order for the Camera component to track it   Screen/pixel coordinates etc. - Trey I have put the project on my website, you can download it with this link ( ...Show All

• Visual Basic My BMP to JPG program.

  This is going to be my new push for a finished project that does something usefull, but I need help getting started first. I have everything basic down, such as the buttons and menustrip. So far, I have added the openfile feature and it displays your image in an image box. I need to know how to convert the bmp file to a jpg file and have it ready for saving. Thanks in advance. Public Class Form1 Private myImage As Bitmap Private newJPGname As String Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim OpenFileDialog1 As New OpenFileDialog OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "Bitmap Image(*.BMP)|*.b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom code snippet functions

  is there a way, using the VSSDK, to create custom code snippet functions Curtis Curtis, Not that I know of. There are internal calls that are used to evaluate the expression and return values for each so each function is hard coded into the language service. The only way to extend the functionality would be through aggregating the language service, but I'm not sure that this can be done as to my knowledge only project systems can be aggregated. We've implemented snippets and expansion functions in our language but there seems to be no external inbuilt interface for extension. It could be possible to provide extensions via a plug-in mechanism but only if the language service is developed to handle this, which I don't think any are. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Obtain the name of the current executing Function

  Hi I need to obtain the name of the function which it’s executing, in other words the function need to know its name. Thanks for your help. Believe it or not but there’s no good way to do it. The very ugly way is to throw and catch exception and get the name from stack trace. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Load test response time identical with or w/o gzip compression

  We have two web servers: one is configured with gzip compression while the other one is not. I'd expect that when we run the load test against the web server w/gzip compression, the response time would be faster. But our testing shows both servers have similar response time. Any idea why I ran the webtest, reviewed the request headers from the results, and I could see "Accept-Encoding : gzip". What else should I check ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem when changing BasicHttpBinding to WsHttpBinding WebService blocks

  Hello, I'm working in a Tutorial about WCF. I have build a webservice which interacts with a database SQL Server 2005. An a Win32 Client to consume the WebService. Everything works fine, but when I change tu binding form BasicHttpBinding to WsHttpBinding, the webService blocks. I have worked a lot of time to find a solution, but nothing. :-( Here is my contract : namespace BankingService { [ServiceContract()] public interface BankingContract { [OperationContract] [FaultContract(typeof(BankingServiceException))] string DebiterCompteTrans(Transac t); [OperationContract] [FaultContract(typeof(BankingServiceException))] string CrediterCompteTrans(Transac t); [OperationContract] [FaultContract(typeof(Bank ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLConnection fails from Windows Service

  Hi, I'm currently writing a windows service which will generate XML documents for FTP upload. When running the service the goal is to get records from a stored procedure, then generate the XML documents. When running the service (lokal service account) the connection fails; instead of using the supplied connection string, it defaults to the LocalService account. How can this be solved Thanks in advance In this case, you just need add account "<domainname>\<computername>$" to your SQL Server. Thanks! Ming. ...Show All

• .NET Development client - Server in Windows Applications..

  Hi All.., I have a VB.Net Windows Application.. I need to Run this Exe From Some Other System(Client) and I need to Upload some specified files to the Server System.. Now my doubts are.. 1) Is client-Server concept is Possible in Windows Applications.. 2) Can I pass some arguments to that exe.. from server.. Regards.., Ramesh.R... 1) Is client-Server concept is Possible in WIdows Application. Ans: 100 % possible as Mr. Mike Flasko said. 2) Can i Pass some arguments to that exe from server Ans: confusion do u wanna run some exe file on server by issuing command by client and also want to pass some argument to that exe if i guess correctly the answer is YES, you can do this by using System.Dia ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ProgressBar1 with Process.start...

  Hello, i'm using this code Dim impbig As New ProcessStartInfo("impbig.exe") impbig.Arguments = "/i openme " + "t20__" + ComboBox1.Text + ".oop " + "t20__" + ComboBox1.Text + ".oop /c" impbig.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden Process.Start(impbig).WaitForExit() this code works great! But i'd like to ad progress bar to it so it starts from 0-100% untill process is done, any help many thanks, greetings from Croatia! Unless your process impbig.exe is returning some form of progress values which you can use then your out of luck. The progressbar control works by providing it details by updating properties which can be used to determine how the progress to be sh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Very simple help needed

  I apologize for asking this but I couldn't find any help. I wanna put a button on my form that will assign a number to a frame, it needs to be uneditable by the user but editable by the computer. I need to put something like a frame in there. I've looked up and down the list in my copy of 2005 Visual Basic Express Edition but I couldn't find a frame control to put on my form, so what do I choose Say you were making a calculation program to add two numbers, so you'd have two text boxess to put the two numbers you want added in, you put in 15 + 15 and you click a button and the computer adds your numbers then shows your results in a "frame" control. ...Show All

• SQL Server Localization of Report Manager to Portuguese

  Hello to all! I want to translate de interface of the Report Manager to Portuguese. I'm develop a class that implements Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms. IReportViewerMessages The class is in a file called "ReportViewerMessages.cs". The structure is like this, the project is called "PortugueseReportManager", there is a namespace named "PortugueseReportManager" and the name of the class is "ReportViewerMessages". So far so good, but when I change de web.config file in the report manager folder I'm getting over and over this error message when I try to see a report: The type PortugueseReportManager.ReportViewerMessages, PortugueseReportManager, Version=1.612.19.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken= ...Show All

• Visual C++ MSVC 2003: ctor-try-block error: possible compiler bug

  This message was originally posted to comp.lang.c++.moderated ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi! I 've faced a problem in my production code. I could deduce this problem to program shown below. It seems, that try-block in constructor doesnt work as it should (compared to case where no try block exists at all). I tested this small program on my MSVC .NET Pro 2003 (and separately on PC with MSVC2003 SP1 installed). In both cases I experienced the same behaviour - access violation. Please see comment inside the program body. To get this sample work - just comment out try block in ctor. Have anyone faced such behaviour before Is there known workarounds Thanks. Kiri ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Required or optional fields.

  I have a data contract that looks like: private string _BasketIDField; [ DataMember (IsRequired= true )] public string BasketID { get { return this ._BasketIDField; } set { this ._BasketIDField = value ; } } But when I generated the proxy for the client I see: [System.Runtime.Serialization. OptionalFieldAttribute ()] private string BasketIDField; [System.Runtime.Serialization. DataMemberAttribute ()] public string BasketID { get { return this .BasketIDField; } set { this .BasketIDField = value ; } It seems that the "IsRequired" on the property is getting ignored. One other indication is that I get an exception ...Show All