Peter Chapman's Q&A profile

• Visual FoxPro Some thing like edit box with picture control support???

  Hi there experts. How can I make a control like editbox where can I type in and phrases like ":)" will automatically change into o graphical picture(best will be gif file). I mean something like. Or is there an control which can do it without creating a difficult code Thanks in an advice . Bye I see... Is there another control like editbox, that support displaying animated gif files Maybe a paid control from internet I was looking for some controls but unsuccessfuly... :( ...Show All

• Architecture architecture guidance.

  hi everyone, iam planning to do a project and iam in analysis phase of the project. desc: it is a very simple project. lang: asp.net ,C#,oracle9i. i completed all the ui related parts.the project is very simple get the datas from the database,update those data or insert new data.uploading and downloading of files.excel uploads and downloads.user administration. now iam going to design the business logic and data access logic. i need to implement form based authentication. can any one provide me guidance for desiging the data access logic ,security logic thanks for your valuable information hi michael nemtsev im ahmed abedulla im student in enginnering faculty ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using additive blender on the fly in a SpriteBatch (possible bug)

  Hello, I'm trying to draw some sprites of a 2D sidescroller with an additive blender, like the "burn" effect of a rocket. However the SpriteBatch.Begin() method takes a single blending effect and has no way of changing it "on the fly" during the batch. So how can I procede to achive the desired effect Ending/Beginning the batches everytime I need the additive effect is not practical at all... I've searched on this forum and I've found this topic about the subject: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=976132&SiteID=1 Which suggest the use of graphics.GraphicsDevice .RenderState.SourceBlend = Blend .SourceAlpha; graphics.GraphicsDevice .RenderState.DestinationBlend = Blend .One; with a SpriteSo ...Show All

• Community Chat What version of vista are YOU getting?

  So, out of all of the editions, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Starter and Ultimate , which are you getting I am going to get Home Premium because it seems like it has mostly everything I would need. Comes with mostly everything except backing up software which you can just download. So, what are you getting "Switching XP requires restart, which is pretty annoying. I hope I can set it up on the file properties, like XP's legacy windows emulation." No it doesn't!!!!! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx I run XP and Vista on the same system all the time. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error accesing outlook contacts

  Hi, I've got a problem accessing a large number of outlook contacts. It always crashes after doing 248 contacts. It exits with the error : Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Outlook.ContactItem'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{00063021-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}' failed due to the following error: Interface not supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)). I dont get why it gives me the error there while the rest works. Source: { Outlook.MAPIFolder oPublicFolder = of["Public Folders"]; of = oPublicFolder.Folders; Outlook.MAPIFolder oAllPublicFolder = of["All Public Folders"]; of = oAllP ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 10 things to do while waiting for XNA Game Studio Express

  1. Read every single blog and forum post trying to find something new about it 2. Refresh your emails every 20 seconds hoping for a new mail from Microsoft 3. Stare at the wall 4. Make Content for your to be games ( lots and lots of content) 5. Design a game that will soon be forgotten about when the download is ready 6. Run to the fridge and stock up on supplies for when you start your game making 7. Make some more content ( there is no such thing as too much) 8. Read a book ( Book ) 9. Think about how awsome this is going to be 10. refresh your email again If all else fails repeat step 3 until step 2 is sucessful 16. Write game code so you can just plug it into your GSE p ...Show All

• SQL Server How to check out cluster state remotely?

  Hi everyone, Primary platform on client is XP Pro sp2 and on server Win2003 Ad.Server 64-bit We're looking for any snippet or link related with Clustering instantiating. We need to call our remote cluster from an ASP 3.0 page and check out if one of our Active Resource is up (in this case is a .net service) . We suppose that it should be done for each node. It's an Active-Passive cluster. Thanks for your time, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tool for converting animated GIFs to spritemaps/bitmaps

  I basically wanted a tool to convert animated GIFs into a bitmap so that I could use the bitmap in a sprite.  I couldn't find one, although I'm sure they do exist. In the end, I created one myself.  Please feel free to download it.  There's a link on my blog at http://blog.dunnhq.com . If you know of any other tools that do this, could you let me know Cheers, Steve Dunn. Paintshop pro comes with an animator product that lets you open animated gifs and open one of the frames in Paintshop. Once there you can do anything you like with it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setup.exe

  Setup.exe copies 44 files to my Temp directory and loads some installation files and quits. I used Nero and Roxio and made 2 CD's from the image VWD.iso and niether one works they both do the same thing. Am I doing some thing wrong Make sure all antivirus software is disabled. Can we take a look at your logs 1. Open Windows Explorer 2. Paste %temp% into your address bar 3. Paste the contents of dd_vsinstall80.txt ...Show All

• Windows Forms System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (ManifestLoad)

  Hi, I have an application I am trying to install using ClickOnce Deployment. I am getting errors, one of which is shown below: SOURCES Deployment url : file://server/App/App.application Deployment Provider url : file://server/App/app.application Application url : file://server/App/App_1_0_0_1/App.exe.manifest IDENTITIES Deployment Identity : App.application, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1334f3a39bcb9e23, processorArchitecture=msil Application Identity : App.exe, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1334f3a39bcb9e23, processorArchitecture=msil, type=win32 APPLICATION SUMMARY * Installable application. ERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors ...Show All

• .NET Development Accepting multiple requests in server socket

  Hi, I want my server socket to accept mutiple requests arriving simultaneously. How can I acheive this Thanks very much I have a question for you, how do I manage different connections In my application each client connected will need to send and recieve different information, how should I manage the data being sent into the server ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Simple math problem

  This isn't exactly a VB question, but it's for a VB program I'm working on. If a^b=c, how do I find b given a &c   For example, if 2^5=32, how do I get 5 given the 2 & the 32 What I'm trying to do is take an integer and round it to the nearest power of 2. (2,4,8,16,32,64,128,etc.) This should be easy, but my math skills aren't what they used to be.  Hopefully somebody can help me.  Thanks... x^y=z → y = Math.log(z) / Math.log(x) or x^y=z → y = Math.log(z, x)   ...Show All

• Smart Device Development outof memory exception in webbrowser

  Hi, I am using webbrowser control of opennetcf to display html page in netcf 1.0. I am using webbrowser.documenttext method to display the html pages.Each html page have 5 to 7 images.If i load 10 pages one after another i am getting outof memory exception.So how to dispose images in webbrowser to avoid this exception. I tried using Gc.collect and it doesn't work. Hi, I re-worked my test application to have an XML file with HTML in nodes. When starting the application, I read in the XML file and create an XmlNodeList and then switch between the different "pages" using the InnerXml property of the various nodes. I have GIF and JPG images in a subdirectory of "My Documents" ...Show All

• Visual C++ What is _osfile(int filehandle) doing?

  I am asking because isatty(int filehandle) is calling it. The reason I am interested is I was wanting to call it. Does anyone know of any win32 apis to determine if a HANDLE is to a file, pipe, or console, or other It simply returns the attributes of the file. To see it's definition, search for _osfile in the internal.h header file from the CRT sources. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Limits on Memory Use?

  Hi all, I was testing the VB2005 Express and decided to create a large array in the IDE. My 32bit XP Pro machine has 3.5GB available and I thought I'd check to see how much I could use with VB. I understand that there is a 2GB process limit, but I thought I just check that out. My code: Class Form1 Private Sub CreateArrayToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CreateDataTableToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim bigarray(1000000, 250) As Single End Sub Private Sub ExitToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ExitToolStripMenuItem.Click End End Sub Private Sub Form1_L ...Show All