Jamie Thomson's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can the WMAsfWriter be configured to Append to an existing .wmv file?

  Hello, I'm trying to determine whether it's possible for the WMAsfWriter filter can open an output file in "append mode" so that the graph output is added to the end of the existing file rather than overwriting it. The WMAsfWriter filter implements the IFileSinkFilter2 interface, which includes a SetMode() method, but based on the documentation, it only supports overwrite mode. Any tips or tricks for effecting an "append" mode within DS would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! MMCompton AFAIK, no. There is a wmvappend sample in the WM Format SDK but that requires two separate files (created using the same profile). ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setup project: install Windows Service with new user fails with "No mapping between account names and security IDs was done"

  Hi Forgive me if this is the wrong area but I could nto find a dedicated section for Setup projects. I have a setup project that creates a new local user as part of the install. The installer then installs a service and sets the service to run as this new account. The code to make the new account is in <myserviceinstaller>_BeforeInstall. It DOES create the account successfully, as I can see it in computer management right away. The installation always claims it fails with "No mapping between account names and security IDs was done", despite the new user account being created fine. It's as if the new user accunt was created too late, AFTER I tried to install the service, despite the code to add a user bein ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Not Working with my version of VB6

  I am running Visual Basic 6 version 6.0.81.76, and after installing the MSSCCI provider, team foundation server is not available in the program. Is there anything I can do Thanks. Hello, please check the following thread ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Accessing the VertexBuffer of a ModelMesh

  I want to load a model from file into XNA and then warp it and then store those vertices back into the model mesh and use that warped version as the final mesh. Is this possible I've seen information on creating a vertex buffer, storing data in it and then using it for rendering, but not information on creating a vertex buffer and storing it into a ModelMesh or even BETTER, taking a ModelMesh's data and modifying it. That's really what I'm looking to do. If I cannot grab the ModelMesh's data and modify it, I at least need to know how to grab the data and copy it into my own vertex buffer and then if there is a way to store it back in, how I could do that. Is it possible to modify the contents of an existing ModelMesh's Ver ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions It's got to be simple

  I thought I would expand on the example shown me in the last thread, I decided to add two RadioButtons one for Rectangle and one for Ellipse, below is what I have but I get a squiggle under where I've underlined with a message that reads Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'AddRectangle' accepts this number of arguments If radEllipse.Checked = True Then z.AddEllipse(startX, startY, Wid, Hght) g.SetClip(z) Else z.AddRectangle(startX, startY, Wid, Hght) g.SetClip(z) End if If I write the code like this it works but, obviously, only for the one time I click on the image. dim pathRect as new Rectangle(20, 20, 100, 200) If radEllipse.Checked = True Then z.AddEllipse(startX, star ...Show All

• SQL Server SYSAdmin users do not have permission to see records in a view?

  We have a third party application and wish to create a report based upon a view. The strange thing is logged in to the server as a SQL SYSAdmin account, we cannot view the data via the view. SQL Admin accounts are setup correctly and there is nothing different on this particular server. No errors are returned just a blank view with no records. Could this be a permissions problem or orphaned schemas in that particular database I thought SYSAdmin could view and do just about anything and the people who use this particular database would not have the know how on denying permission to the SYSAdmin role. Thanks N double post ...Show All

• SQL Server Business Integration Template missing in VS 2005

  Hi, Business Integration Services Template is missing in my Template List of VS 2005. Can any one help me how to add this Template Thanks, Uma Ramiya     Hi, I managed to get the BI Template. I just uninstalled and reinstalled SQL Server 2005. It worked :-)) Anyway thanks to everyone you took effort to read/analyse it. Uma Ramiya ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. GraphicsStream.InternalDataPointer null?

  Good day, We are creating a texture from a bitmap region using an unsafe section in C#, but occasionally the InternalDataPointer for the GraphicsStream's returned from Texture.LockRectangle will be null. Following are the relevant lines: Texture texture = new Texture (device, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height, 1, Usage .Dynamic, Format .A8R8G8B8, Pool .Default); int pitch; GraphicsStream graphicsStream = texture.LockRectangle(0, LockFlags .None, out pitch); unsafe { byte * to = ( byte *)graphicsStream.InternalDataPointer; ... It is a multi-threaded app, but to our knowledge no other thread acts on these members. What could cause a null InternalDataPointer Thanks in advance... ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista LAN Driver problem

  Hi all. Finally yesterday finished downloaded Vista x64 Ultimate for my pc, it is build 5600 rc1. Upon getting into vista and being very impressed with what ive seen i started to install the drivers and such, now i couldnt install the drivers using vista so i set the compatibility for Windows XP SP2 and the drivers installed fine Unfortunately under the network area in vista it says unidentified network and the onboard lan cannot connect to my router. whenever i try to renew my ip address nothing happens and the private 169 address is given to the adaptor. Im using an Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 - This has a ULi M1695 chipset. Does anyone have an idea where a vista compatible driver is for this chipset Any help appreciated! ...Show All

• Visual C++ COM & visual studio 2005

  Is it still relevant to use COM in new projects if yes, how can I use it with visual studio 2005 It depends upon your task and environment. You may use COM or Framework. The best choise for creating com-components is ATL. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t9adwcde(vs.71).aspx For using com-components you can use: ATL, MFC, and even compiller support for COM (like _com_ptr_t, #import). ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Difference between Platform SDK/Windows SDK/WDK/DDK/ and Vista SDK

  Hi There are a large number of development kits mad available by MSFT for developing windows applications and device driver. Can anyone briefly explain the difference between the following products or point to a suitable resource which talks about the differences. Platform SDK Windows SDK Windows DDK WDK Vista SDK Regards The second post does not even mention the DDK Still looking for a good description of DDK versus WDK for longhorn. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cast error when pass a parameter in localreport and reportviewer

  hello friends, i have a problem with my report when pass a pamameter in vb.net and VS 2005 The code is: Dim objParameter As ReportParameter objParameter = New ReportParameter( "Name" , "test" ) Me .ReportViewer1.LocalReport.SetParameters(objParameter) the error is: System.InvalidCastException was unhandled   Message="Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportParameter' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportParameter]'."    Please help me Rodrigo Your post has been very helpful, thanks. I run into a problem though when the default value of the report parameter is not a constant such as a date. In the rd ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) I am not able to install Orcas Technology Preview for .Net 3.0 on top of .NetFx 3.0 RC1

  I am not able to install "Orcas" Technology Preview for .Net 3.0 on top of .Net 3.0 RC1 . I had installed .Net 3.0 RC1 and Win SDK 3.0 RC1 but was working with June CTP using msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1 mentioned by Rob Relyea on his blog.. http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!167AD7A5AB58D5FE!616.entry/ I have tried uninstalling everything and installing everything back again but the install programs would not run and complains of missing .Net3.0. How can I solve this nightmare Any leads.. Looking at comments since yours on that post...Sounds like somebody else was having a similar problem. They used the workaround (msiexec ...) to in ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mouse-responsive programs

  Well done to everyone for getting it out of the door. Like a lot of us I had a double-take with the Spacewar example - strange, that although this version specifically doesn't allow you to deploy on Xbox 360, the only complete example provided requires an Xbox controller as released (... or change your build options to include USE_KEYBOARD). OK, a couple of visits to this forum answered the question ... but ... it raised another one. I'm only a (keen but ignorant!) hobbyist, and have no interest in deploying anything on Xbox, ... but I've quickly begun to wonder if we're going to be easily able to write PC-only apps that respond to the mouse. Or, are we going to have to sacrifice easy mouse handling to retain support for both Xbox and P ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Office 10 \ winword.exe runtime error

  I have downloaded the service pack 3 but I'm still encountering the problem when I try to open MS Word. MS Excel, MS Outlook , MS Powerpoint & MS Viso all work fine. Any time I try to open MS word I receice a Box vissual c++ runtime library. This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusaul way. Microsoft Office\Office 10\Winword.exe. Per the support engineer: Would you please ask our ISV to provide us the detail error information For example, the information showed in the Box visual c++ runtime library. -brenda (ISV Buddy Team) ...Show All