Crashone's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Am I "Barking up the wrong control"?

    When I develop Windows apps, I put the date, time and status in labels located along the bottom of the form.  I wanted to create a re-usable Control where all I had to do was drag it from the toolbar and drop it onto the form I was currently working on.  I created a User Control and now have a statusControl.dll; however, for the life of me, I can't find any info on how to get the darn thing to display in the IDE ToolBox! Have I lost the ability to read English or, have I done something incorrectly   And, if this is in the wrong forum, please tell me and I'll go there.   Rhubarb In order to manually add a component of your own to the Toolbox simply right click in the Toolbox and select C ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Draw() called before Update()

  I noticed Game.Draw() is being called before Game.Update(), which doesn't (seem to) make sense. Is there any suggested way of dealing with this If Update() is supposed to, umm, update the state of the application to a certain local time, before the first Draw() there is no state ready to be painted to speak of. Most of us agree that it's a problem. Someone has already filed a bug on this called "Game.Update should be called before first Game.Draw". Please go vote for it if you agree. ...Show All

• SQL Server Service Pack

  How would one determine the SP for Reporting Services. Is it different from the SP of SQL Server itselves. This is for 2005 Does this mean the we can have instances where the SP levels are different for SQL Server and Reporting services I thought when a SP is applied on a server it is applied to all the services ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Will the XNA Software Be Available On Mac's Some Time

  Will the XNA Software Be Available On Mac's Some Time David, What about Cider ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using VertexBuffer with Z-Buffer

  I have a primative which I am rendering from a vertex buffer (positioned, colored, textured), among some meshes. All of the meshes seem to work fine with the Z buffer, texutre transparency works fine... except for when I make my primative transparent, you can only see the cleared background, and none of the meshes behind it. Just to give you an idea, here's some code! (obviously not all in the same method). frontVertices = new VertexBuffer ( typeof ( CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured ), 4, Device, Usage .WriteOnly, CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured .Format, Pool .Default); CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured [] vertices = frontVertices.Lock(0, LockFlags .None) as CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Optional claims - how to obtain them from browser?

  Hi, This paper http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/4/0/54091e0b-464c-4961-a934-d47f91b66228/infocard-techref-beta2-published.pdf (p.11, 4.1.4. Claims in issued tokens) says that the relying party can specify required claims as optional. On other hand, in the Windows Card Selector user can set "... Include optional data checkbox to view optional data and then send it." which I, actually, never saw. The question is how can the relying party specify in the HTML OBJECT which of the claims are optional Just found it myself. There is a parameter called "optionalClaims". See the "Web"-guide: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installation Cd

  Hi, does an italian ISO image of VB 2005 express exist Or the only way to install it is to download every time all the package Many thanks in advance P.S. is it possible to check MSDN NG from OE B.regards Fabrizio Check this thread ... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How Can I use Label Edit for List View Subitems?

  I would like to use the LabelEdit on subitems as well, but I am unsure howe to do this. I did a search and found one topic but there were no responces. I'm sure there is a way, but I'm just a simple self tought hobbiest programmer. I'm hoping that this would be an easier approach than to Load a new Form and then replace the Listview1.FoucsedItem, which how I have been doing it. Can any one help me or point me to a site Thanks. Yeah you're right. Well my program is a CD Key Storage Program, I have a lite version on my web site, http://progranimation.com/Cd-Keys%20Express.exe If you would like to see what I mean. This is the code that I'm using to insert my informaion: Private Sub Insert(ByVal InsWhere As Integer) If Trim(tx_prog ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how to save flowdocument as image?

  Hi, Is that possible to save a flowdocument as an image file (for example jpg or png file) (What I am trying to do is to load a flowdocument xaml file and save the display as an image file.) Also, is any existing tool that I can use to create flowdocument file thanks chong You could get the image of the RichTextbox which would eventually be the same as the flowdocument. Image myImage = new Image (); Visual v = rtb as Visual ; RenderTargetBitmap bmp = new RenderTargetBitmap (180, 180, 120, 96, PixelFormats .Pbgra32); bmp.Render(v); myImage.Source = bmp; ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Getting Absolute Positioning from Photoshop into my Markup.

  I receieved alot of art elements today and I am trying to find a good way to position all of the items in the Photoshop .psd in my markup. Is there a way to have photoshop tell me the absolute position of items in a .psd relative to the whole document How is everyone translating from .psd to markup accurately Up untill now I have just been eyeballing it but I would like a good formula to go forward with. Thanx all! Spent most of the day developing a system for this...it works very well and will improve my authoring speed. Basically you use Imageready to define "Slices" You make up,over,down states for them and then you export as XHTML and it gives you the perfect cuts and a .txt with all of the absolute coordinate data. So for ever ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to use generic test to run vb script

  I have an existing vbscript which do the actual testing. And I can put this command into a generic test: "cscript.exe myscript.vbs". In the script, I use WScript.Quit(1) for test failure. But the question is how can I pass the return value from script host to Generic Test and tell it's pass/fail Thanks, Frank Hi Frank, If your existing test uses process exit codes to communicate whether the test passed or failed (0 for passing, any other value for failure), you can wrap it into a generic test with no problems, everything should be fine. If you want detailed results, then you will need to modify your test sources so that they use an XML file to communicate the detailed results. The XML file must conform to th ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Migrating Evc 4 project To VS 2005 Generate error C2440

  Hi, I am Migrating Evc 4 project To VS 2005 ,but it Generates error C2440： The Debug info as follow: .\MyView.cpp(51) : error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'void (__cdecl CMyView::* )(void)' to 'LRESULT (__cdecl CWnd::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)'         None of the functions with this name in scope match the target type the IDE pointer to this line: ON_MESSAGE(WM_KDV_HOTLINK, OnHotLinkKDVExplain) the following argument is in the MyView,cpp: afx_msg void OnHotLinkKDVExplain(); #define WM_KDV_HOTLINK     WM_USER+101 above is define in a header file. My project is : Single Document others using default. and Vs 2005 professional  version 8.0. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Updating Major and Minor versions from TFSBuild.proj file

  I would like to be able to set the AssemblyMajorVersion and AssemblyMinorVersion from my TFSBuild.proj file and am using the AssemblyInfo Task to update the BuildNumber and revision. Is this possible to do I've looked around at the posts such as http://blogs.msdn.com/gautamg/archive/2006/01/04/509146.aspx and got AssemblyInfoTask working fine. I can edit the \AssemblyInfoTask\Microsoft.VersionNumber.targets file to override the Major/Minor versions there and also each individual AssemblyInfo.vb in the projects I'm building, however I would like to be able to pass through the Major/Minor version from the TFSBuild.proj file. If I do what Gautamg suggests in the above post it doesn't work. Any ideas - Ossian ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem in Chart

  Hai all, I am generating chart using the Sql Reporting services.I have done 2 charts. when i am clicking one chart it will navigate to another chart.It is happened in reports. when i used in UI page(web Page). when click the chart it is not navigating to another chart.The same chart will appear when i click the chart. Can u guys help me soon to solve this problem.. Thanks In advance. Double click the original chart and right click the field that you want to navigate to the other chart. Click properties. Click the action tab. Select the Jump to report radio button. In the drop down menu, select the second chart that you would like the original chart to navigate to. ...Show All

• SQL Server Copy Table in same database

  I'm using partitions in my project to age data that's older than some predetermined number of days. Normal deletion of the data takes too long, but the following sequence of operations seems to work well when testing with raw sql queries: Split (to create a new partition for new data) Create (a new temporary table to hold the oldest partition's data) Switch (to move the oldest partition's data into the new temporary table) Merge (to combine the oldest two partitions, "removing" the oldest one in the process) Drop (to drop the temporary table and all the old data that we don't want anymore) My current problem arises at step 2, "Create." The precise column/index/etc layout of the data being aged is no ...Show All