Mark_Compliance's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Custom Control

  How would I go about creating a custom control What do I create in the Designer Yes, try it, it's all in the designer properties like a regular control exept its YOUR control and can look like whatever you want it too. ...Show All

• Windows Forms VB background image properties

  Hi, A real beginner's question I'm afraid. I've been working my way through the Learn Visual Basic lessons (via the link on the front page of Visual Studio) and am at the Images/Picturebox lesson. At the end of the lesson, it gives you some code to paste to change the background image property when you click on the background (note that in the sample below I have changed this to clicking on a button as a test to see if it made any difference). Anyway, nothing happens. I have checked and double checked that I did everything right - all the rest of the lesson works but my background image property does not change. Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Clic ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Codecs for video playback in games

  Can anyone recommend a good codec for playing back video in a game for such things as cut-scenes etc I'm aware that many professional games use Bink but obviously this technology requires a SDK license fee in the thousands of dollars range. Are there no free codecs out there that compare well with Bink that you can statically or dynamically link to your game application It would be ideal if the codec offered true-colour lossless quality and had a relatively low resource requirement and memory footprint in your code. Most general video codecs are resource hungry and not suitable for programmatic access in a real-time game, so something targetted at game video playback like Bink would be preferable. Also useful would be a 256 colou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error spawning 'cmd.exe'

    When I compiled the project, there was an error,----Error spawning 'cmd.exe'.   Why Hi all, I've got the same problem and i've found this solution... In the Options go into Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories page and place this rows: $(SystemRoot)\System32 $(SystemRoot) $(SystemRoot)\System32\wbem Bye ...Show All

• Visual C# Constraints in generic clases

  Hello, I have the following problem and I can not figure out how to solve it in the best C# style: I need a class with 2 methods: Figo Fei - MSFT wrote: interface Imine { //define your interface } And you must implement the interface in the class you transfer to "T". Otherwise, you dont need Imine. The problem is that a) we would need IMine defined like this: interface Imine { static Imine operator+(Imine a, Imine b); static Imine operator-(Imine a, Imine b); static Imine operator*(Imine a, Imine b); static Imine operator/(Imine a, Imine b); } which is impossible. and B) even it such an interface were possible and did exist, we'd need to have int, short, ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Everywhere Edition Tools for VS2005 SP1 Beta are available

  Dear Community, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta is available for download at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=61289b5d-af86-45dd-8962-e7dcc5221796&displaylang=en Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta is installed after the installation of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and updates the Smart Device Development components in Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta with the SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition design time UI/Dialogs, device CAB files, and includes new features like |DataDirectory| and ClickOnce support for ease of deployment We would highly ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Joining Linq with Dlinq

  Hi, My problem is how to join Linq dataset with Dlinq This is for my school study project . Here are 2 example that work: var q = from r in REVIEW where r.Field<double>("ALBUM_ID")==1002 select new {TEKST = r.Field<string>("TEKST")}; var q = from a in ALBUM where a.ALBUM_ID ==1002 select new {TITEL = a.TITEL}; My join solution was something like this: var q = from a in ALBUM join r in REVIEW on a.ALBUM_ID equals r.Field<double>("ALBUM_ID") where a.ALBUM_ID ==1002 select new{TITEL = a.TITEL, TEKST = r.Field<string>("TEKST")}; But this doesn’t work. Does anyone know if i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Variable foreign key generation ratios

  Is there a way to generate foreign key values in a non-uniform way If I have a sales order table and a child sales order detail table and I set the generation ratio to be 10:1, every sales order is going to have 10 detail lines. I would like to have some variance where sales orders have anywhere from 3-12 lines, for example. Ah, thank you. I wondered if the data generation engine was somehow smart about this, but after some experimentation, I found out I needed to do what you suggested. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Lock Up Issuses w/ Source Control Explorer

  I have a couple individuals on our team that can't use the Souce Control Explorer. Visual Studio will stop responding w/ a couple mouse clicks. For example, 1. When they click on "Workspace" and choose "Workspaces" in the drop down the "Manage Workspaces" window appears fine. However, when they select "Add" or "Edit" the application will freeze. 2. In the Source Code folder, when they right click on a file and choose "Compare", Visual Studio will stop responding. Other memebers on our team can preform the exact same steps and function perfectly. We have tried reinstalling Visual Studio and TFS with no luck. Any Ideas Hi Justin: Quick question. this only hap ...Show All

• .NET Development How to validate an XML file

  Hi there, I'm trying to validate an ".xml" file using the following standard technique: 1) MyDataSet myDataSet = new MyDataSet(); 2) XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings(); 3) settings.Schemas.Add(null, "MyDataSet.xsd"); 4) settings.ValidationType = ValidationType.Schema; 5) settings.ValidationEventHandler += new ValidationEventHandler(MyHandler); 6) XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create("MyFile.xml", settings); 7) myDataSet.ReadXml(reader); When line 7 is executed, the handler on line 5 is not called even when I pass an ".xml" file on line 6 which doesn't conform with the schema on line 3. I've tried many variations and nothing works. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > Ok. It seems to be worki ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Activesync on a headless Device Emulator OS design

  Hello, I'm trying to get ActiveSync to connect to a headless (well, at least shell-less) OS image built atop the Device Emulator BSP that ships with Windows Embedded 6.0 Platform Builder. I've included SYSGEN_AS_BASE and run connmc.exe and the 'PC Connection' applet within control panel to generate the appropriate RASBOOK entry/selection within the registry. The RASBOOK entry (called `DMA) is setup to connect via Serial over DMA, using the default 19200, 8, N, 1, Hardware settings. I cradle my device emulator via the device emulator manager and then attempt to manually run repllog.exe from the target control shell. Note that I haven't hooked into an event to launch repllog.exe automatically yet (is this OK ). The typical ActiveSync connect ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can I use my Pocket PC application (developed in VS2005) in Smart Phone?

  Hi, I developed an applicaiton for Pocket PC in VS-2005. Can I deploy and run the same in Smart Phone If it is possible Can you tell me How it is If It is possible with modifications please guide me. I hope I get response. Thanks in advance. Checkout this MSDN articles http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/mantsngbin.asp Manav ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with Faults

  I'm have quite a time with Faults. I defined the following custom fault: Fault Contract: Yes, I used the fullly qualified name. I removed the fully qualified name from my example because it was long. The current code actually uses the fully qualified name. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista unable to connect to remote graph

  I could not find anywhere in the docs how to use connect to remote graph feature of GraphEdit. how do I do this Funny, I did a search for "Connect to remote graph" on the ms site and it popped right up: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/directshow/htm/loadingagraphfromanexternalprocess.asp ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiuser games?

  Just curious... but has anyone used XNA/C# to develop MOG's or even MMOG's AndyL wrote: Back on topic - the performance of a MMORPG server is all about architecture and nothing about raw language performance. If you have the skill set to design such a system, and the time, it could be implemented equally well in C++, C# or Java. But you have to understand how to build a system that scales well across 50 to 100 servers if you are going to emulate something like Everquest. Agreed completely - just look at Second Life - they have their own interpreted language that is used for the server-side scripting of every object in the game world! I'm interested in that kind of stuff, so I found this video particularly ...Show All