InvestorDrew's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Errors with "glew32.dll" and I have no idea what it is

  First off, what is it I get the error after trying to run a few of my apps. "This application has failed to start because glew32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem" I've gone to glew.sf.net, but I have no idea what to do with the installed files. Any help ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. time zone

  I live in San Diego, same time zone as Redmond/Washington. It's 7:36 AM, Wednesday August the 30th. Where is the download It can happen anytime today. Just keep an eye on the XNA Developer Center . Most likely in the next couple of hours, but it depends on how fast the staging servers pump out the bits. ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.Net Performance

  Hello All, I have a question about ADO.Net performance from C#. I've done some testing to see how slow it is doing selects from a database, and I'm a bit surprised at its slowness. I was wondering if anyone could suggest reasons why it's slow or whether the speed seems reasonable. I am using SQL Server Express as my database. It has one table in it with a GUID as a primary key: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TypicalTable] ( [GUID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL , [int1] [int] NULL , [int2] [int] NULL , [int3] [int] NULL , [int4] [int] NULL , [int5] [int] NULL , [int6] [int] NULL , [int7] [int] NULL , [int8] [int] NULL , [int9] [int] NULL , [int10] [int] NULL , [string1] [text] COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL , [string2] [text] COLLATE ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to create a Popup control that has the look of a callout window in Excel Autoshapes collection

  I need to create a popup window which has a bunch of controls in it, when user presses a button control. The look of the popup window needs to be like the Callout box that appears as part of Excel's autoshapes collection. Another example is in Windows the little popup window that appears on the "install update" startup icon on the taskbar. When we startup the machine the popup window appears which has the msg "Updates available" displayed in it. Is there a way to create this kind of stylised popup window in WPF Thanks, You go at it the same way. Just place whatever graphical elements you wish to have in your control template. I made a quick vector image in Expression Designer and then export ...Show All

• Visual Basic other languages

  How can i embid the chinese language in my program Don't forget to install asian language support on your system. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Datagrid Paging

  Hi, Does de datagrid in the CF 2.0 for windows forms suports paging Regards Mario If by paging you mean "Up" and "Down" buttons, then no, it does not. You can add these buttons and some code yourself, however. As user pushes these buttons, load data source with different portion of data and you all set. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows Mobile 5.0 == Windows Mobile 2005?

  Hello everyone, I am learning developing C/C++ applications for Windows Mobile platform. I often met with the two confusing item, Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 2005. Are they the same thing -- means the next version of Windows Mobile 2003 thanks in advance, George Thank you Manav, mgaur_MSFT wrote: Below should clarify few things for you: Windows CE is the embedded real-time operating system used inside small devices e.g. controllers, GPS devices etc. Windows CE versions are 4.0, 4.2, .., 5.0 and upcoming 6.0 and so on Windows Mobile is the operating system for phones and pocket PC. Windows Mobile OS is built over top of Windows CE and tuned for smartphones o ...Show All

• .NET Development 64-bit with pinvoke and com components

  We have just installed a 64bit windows 2003 server and are in the process of getting our application to run on it. It looks so far, like we will be forced to compile all of our code as a 32-bit application. I've scoured MSDN for more information on the topics of 64-bit and com and pInvoke and haven’t found much information Our application is both .net and native. If we move to and compile our app under 64bit windows can we use any of the 3rd party 32bit com controls that we rely I’ve found that native code compiles fine in 64bit when importing 32bit controls but then CoCreateInstance fails when trying to load the control. What happens when I try to use 32bit controls in 64bit windows with .net applications Next big q ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Grabbing a Texture from the Screen

  Is it possible to grab a portion / rectangle of the screen into a texture Get the backbuffer into a texture: device.ResolveBackBuffer(texture, 0); Then render that on a full screen quad to your desired RendeTarget2D. The portion/rect is defined by the texture coordinates of the quad. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista UAC issue

  hi, To start sql settings 2000 in vista need any UAC mitigation because my application get stucked at while starting the sql settings thanks divya SQL Sever 2000 isn't supported to run on Vista. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/sqlonvista.mspx But a call to SQL Server 2000 on an different server should be supported and not an issue. Please clarify if your app makes a call to a different machine not running vista for the SQL 2000 connection. If this is the case, do you get any error message How about SQL logs is there anything of interest there like the attempt to connect ...Show All

• Visual Studio I need help to covert this qury ????

  SELECT  qry401kDPCCal30.empnum,  ccur(0) as [Cal 18], ccur(0) as [Cal 24],ccur(qry401kDPCCal30.SumOfamount) as [Cal 30] FROM qry401kDPCCal30; union seLECT qry401kDPCCal18.empnum, ccur( [qry401kDPCCal18].[SumOfamount]) AS [Cal 18],ccur(0) AS [Cal 24], ccur(0) AS [Cal 30] FROM qry401kDPCCal18; UNION SELECT qry401kDPCCal24.empnum, ccur(0) as [Cal 18], ccur(qry401kDPCCal24.SumOfamount), ccur(0) as [Cal 30] FROM qry401kDPCCal24;   convert this script into sql server managment studio T_SQL ...Show All

• .NET Development XML transform

  Hello everyone, I have a requirement as follows.... Sql server table is retrieved from database as a dataset. By using writexml I retrieved the dataset xml . But I have requirement which to save the xml in a different format. Can you tell me how can i transform the exisitng xml to a different format which embeds some rules. Can any one provide me a direction how to do this.... Thanks!! SqlNew Study the VS2005 documentation on XslCompiledTransform . Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persistence and Tracking Service

  Hi, guys:        I am a fresh of learning wf, would someone help me about how to use Persistence and Tracking Service with SQL2000        Are there any samples about that Please show me!!!        Thanks very much!!!!!!!!!!!!     You can use persistence and tracking in ASP.NET the same way you use for a console application. You can find plenty of samples and reference to how to use WF inside ASP.NET by searching this forum or the WF community site at http://wf.netfx3.com . Shelly Guo ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CeFindFirstFile using VB6

  Ok, my first Smart Device project and I've come to a bit of a standstill, trying to find out what files are on the device. Tried the CeFindAllFiles, but from what I have read I don't think it will function in VB6. So, on to CeFindFirstFile and and CeFindNextFile. It all looks so easy. I'm confused as to how you set up the returning information. I keep seeing references to 'CE_FIND_DATA', but what is that all about If anyone has an example or ideas it would be appreciated. Bert Checkout this post http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/WindowsCE/microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded.vb/2004-10/0029.html Manav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problems with VSTO 2005

  Hello. I'm trying to look at some samples of using VSTO 2005 ( e.g. Microsoft's VSTO - Outlook Hands on Lab ) but am getting the following error when loading the solution: The project file 'C:Program Files... ...\HandsOnLab.Lab1.csproj' cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation. I've got VS 2005 Professional Edition Version 8.0.50727.42 and Office 2003 Professional Edition SP2 installed. Also i've installed the Office 2003 PIA's and VSTO 2005. Any ideas on what i'm missing Thanks, Paul Hi Paul No, vstor.exe is the RUNTIME distributable. You put this on client machines as part of the setup installation so that a VSTO solution can be deployed. It's not the full development ...Show All