Sean D Wright's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Why do some keyboard shortcuts not work.

  I can only get some shortcuts to work. For instance, I cannot assign a shortcut without also assigning it ctrl, shift or alt. On the same note, only ctrl and alt work. When using shift it gives an error. How do I get around this. I also want to use shortcuts like: S instead of say Ctrl+S. Also, how do I assign the Esc key to a shortcut. Thank you. Troy L. ok, that's different then :-) take the example of just using S. well, what happens if on the form you have an input and you press S the S wouldnt appear but perhaps be overriden to show some menu item instead...hence why doing ALT + S would show some menu as you know that the user is not typing input. As well as this, I believe if you set the shortcut key as S, the designer view ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Drag element on Grid

  Can we drag element on Grid I have seen lot of examples by using Canvas, but I need Grid as container for Dragging the elements. Cheers Hello, I guess you would be dropping the element on the Grid the same way as you would do it on the Canvas. The only difference I see that element dropped on the Grid needs to be added into an appropriate Grid cell. I used such code to achieve that: private void PositionInGridIfNecessary(FrameworkElement child) { DependencyObject parent = LogicalTreeHelper.GetParent(child); if (parent != null && parent is Grid) { Grid grid = parent as Grid; if (grid.ColumnDefinitions == null || grid.RowDefinitions == null) ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Converting Foxpro 2.5 to Visual Foxpro 6

  I opened up my Foxpro 2.5 project under VP 6.0 an none of my screens work. When I try to modify the screen I get message much like this. Error loading File, record number 5 InLine3 < or one of it's members> ColourSource: Expression evaluated to an illegal value. I know I am late in the game converting but I sure hate the idea of redoing all these screens. Does anyone have any ideas. Thanks in advance can you remember how you opened a .scx file as a database do I do that in foxpro 2.5 or with some other program. I can open the .spr files with modi comm but I've never have opened a .scx file expect with modi scree. thanks. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista play video on 3D object

  Hi Is it possible or anyone has done it before.. to play a movie on 3D object like a sphere.. or something My idea is to ge each frame.. and set it as texture.. but that will strech the image.. and that not good .. anu ideas Thanks! In the DirectX 9.0 SDK under Samples\C++\DirectShow\Players\Texture3D9 is the sample for the cylinder example. It only uses a video as a texture mapped to a cylinder primative. The distortion filter I was referring to is something you can create in After effect using the persepective adjustment. You could also create your own as a filter for directshow but that is left as an exercise for you :) ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Configuration.ApplicationSettings with DataContracts

  Hi all, is it possible to use ApplicationSettings together with data contracts If yes, how to configure the data contract serializer for the settings class Ciao ThomasD I've got an own provider, which persists the data in ADAM. Several clients may share a "central" configuration. In order to be prepared for versioning issues I want to use data contracts for my settings and therefore need to use the data contract serializer. Additionally the data contract serializer is much more faster than the xml serializer, which would result in an improved performance. Ciao ThomasD ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using standard gamepad on PC ?

  Still havent got my hands on an XBox - but what to buy a gamepad i can use for testing on my PC. Can i use a standard gamepad for XNA development on PC or do i need to buy the specialized controller for windows I believe he was refering to the "standard" xbox controller, as in the one in green package, versus the one in red package ...Show All

• SQL Server Formatting output from a SQL table

  I have used a Winform textbox to enter the following data into a nvarchar field: 1. Choice number one 2. Choice number two 3 Choice number three etc. How do I print out the nvarchar field to look like the above Can I do this in Reporting Services or something else Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Root from a URL

  I feel this question is a little silly.. I can't seem to find a method to get the root site such as this: http://www.microsoft.com/ from something like this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Browse.aspx displaylang=en&productID=BEAE32B8-4A67-4F78-BF4E-C114F922F1EA So far, I've tried things like this: ToString.IndexOfAny( "/" ) without much luck.. please enlighten me :) you could use regex (regular expressions) but that can be expensive/costly.   you could do a string.split ('/') however that is inefficient. IndexOfAny will return back the first instance it finds the specified value (in this case itll be http:/)   Regex *maybe* the way to ...Show All

• Visual Basic Mounting an image onto Windows.

  Hi, I've programmatically created image of a disk using the Windows API. Now, what I would want to mount this image so that I can access the image as if it is a physical drive. What I need is either to write an application to mount an image or find a freeware somewhere for me to perform this mounting because I want to be able to access the image as if it was a physical drive. Anyone with any freeware to recommend or can provide me with some tips in how to start writing such an application, please help... thanks in advance!  I'm using VB.NET 2003. Thanks.   Hi, Re: Mounting an image onto Windows. Try converting it to an .ICO icon file first. See these links.>> I picked out the 2nd link as the 4 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Multiple Views

  I have a Canvas which contains a drawing. Is there some way to have another view of the canvas possibly side by side with different rotation/scaling/etc.. transforms i.e. An area that would show a zoomed in portion of the drawing without requiring the entire tree to be duplicated. Perhaps put a <Rectangle> in the other Canvas and set it's Fill to a VisualBrush whose Visual property is set to the original Canvas. Then you could rotate/scale/etc the Rectangle. Does that solve the issue ...Show All

• Visual C++ Presenting a C++ library (.lib) for use in C# project

  I have a collection of C++ programs and the C++ libraries they use. The libraries currently compile to a .lib format. Changing the project property to use a .dll results in multiple reference errors. Without having to go through the entire collection of source files, is there a way to create any kind of project in a .NET language that would provide a "wrapper" for the existing .lib files so that they could be used in that environment. Thanks.   RickW_Houston wrote: Without having to go through the entire collection of source files, is there a way to create any kind of project in a .NET language that would provide a "wrapper" for the existing .lib files so that they could be used in that environment. Yes (so ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Queries on Rules Engine

  Hi, I have been using thr WF rules engine for some time and I am facing the following issues 1. Rules cannot be shared/reused among Rulesets. They have to be duplicated in different Rulesets currently. 2. Is there any way I can enter comments along with the rules when I am authoring it in the rules editor Thanks Milind Milind - Thanks for the feedback. Yes - We are aware of these issues and we are working to incorporate these features for our future releases. Thanks, Kushal. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to eliminate blank pages in recursive hierarchy

  I have a report displaying data using a recursive hierarchy. My report looks something like this: - Manager Level 1 + Manager Level 2a + Manager Level 2b - Manager Level 2c - Employee 1 - Employee 2 + Manager Level 2d So this report spans a total of 30+ pages. My problem is that if one of these levels were collapsed, I would get blank pages and wouldn't even know that there were still more data after the blank pages. I need to know how I can eliminate these blank pages so that the page adjust as the report is being collapsed/expanded. ...Show All

• Visual C++ place for code

  maybe this is a stupid question, but I have started microsoft visual C++ today (c++ itself also for the first time) and i dont know where to put the code. i'm making the program hello world, but it doesnt work it asks if i want to 'build' the programm and i dont know what it means. i named the program hello and i put the code in the place where it says: hello.cpp is this the right place if so, what am i doing wrong this is the code: // hello.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include "stdafx.h" int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { return 0; } #include <iostream.h> int main() { cout << "Hello World!\n" ; return 0; } ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom source filter

  Hi all! I need to develop an application that can play a file over a proprietary interface - it must support playback, pause and seeking. The interface is usb on which I can query a digital video recorders harddrive to read sectors from a specified video file (MPEG2 raw data). Now my question is, would it be feasible to write some sort of source filter that could "emulate" this usb interface as a file source or something that lets me use the rest of the video rendering graph Is so, could you give me some pointers on where to start+ Best regards, Andreas Eriksson I think you have three choices write a IAsyncReader filter based on the async samples. The mpeg-2 splitter will th ...Show All