_Matt Smith _'s Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development Production Method for Released HD-DVDs

  I'm curious, have all the currently released HD-DVDs been produced using SACA (Sonic) If not then what are the other tools Accelerated decode of H.264 is definitely on the horizon...as well as VC-1. It is not uncommon for VC-1 to achieve high-quality encodes for HD distribution in the 12mbps range. There have been major HD DVD movie releases at this bitrate...and I think you would be surprised if I told you which ones (which I can't...so don't ask :->). These movies were encoded using Microsoft's VC-1 Deployment Kit which is the best encoding solution available for VC-1 today. If that encoder isn't used as the reference for any kind of quality comparisons between codecs then your efforts are fruitless. This means that it i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Buttermilk Game Engine and LGPL

  I'd like for Buttermilk to have the following features in its license - Free to use and redistribute. Free to publish commercial games on Windows. Free to publish free or commercial games on the XBox360 (XBLA, etc). Basically no restrictions except don't pass my code off as something you made :) Will LGPL do this I hear it's looser than GPL. The looser the better, methinks. There's a hidden 'gotcha' in LGPL.... "If anyone uses your project for the Xbox 360 version of XNA, they must open source their entire game. This is because the 360 version of XNA doesn't allow you to box libraries into their own DLL/Assemblies, as you can on the PC and thus be in compliance with the LGPL without open sourcing everything. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persistence Service with Remote SQL Server connection

  Is there anyone out there that is successfully persisting and tracking workflow data on a remote server I've had no problems doing this on my local machine. I'm attempting to point to another database server and am getting this error message: System.InvalidOperationException: Workflow with id "9ff9b8b7-2243-4dfd-b606-a7daa88d9b16" not found in state persistence store. I've checked all of the obvious things, remote connections being allowed, DTC turned on and running, etc. I've even opened port 135 through windows firewall and added dtc as an exception. What am I missing ! Well, I ran everything with a fresh copy of the database with the exact same result. And I haven ...Show All

• SQL Server Incremental Update

  Good afternoon, I was wondering if someone could help. I'm busy researching into SSAS's capabilities, specifically Incremental Updates, however this would be the first time I'm working on SSAS, so I don't know where to begin. I've read through the BOL July 2006, and it explains that you have to enable this option; however to me it's not very clear. I followed the steps outlined in the Book; however when I go and update the source table, the partition does not update automatically. Could anyone please let me know if there is a website detailing how Incremental Updates work, and also how to set it up correctly Thanks Colin. Hi Thomas, I managed to get my Fact Partitions to automatically update ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2003 to VS2005 conversion

  I'm attempting to upgrade an application developed using VS 2003 for a device to VS 2005. When I open the application in VS2005 the conversion wizard runs and informs me that the conversion was OK. However on opening the forms the desigh and layout has been lost, the forms also have many additional properties, those of standard windows forms. Also in the project menu there's no indication that its a mobile device application. I tried starting a new project in VS2005 and importing the forms. This did n't work either. Its been suggested that deleting the .resx file associated with the form is the solution but I have found this to be only a partial solution as any data stored in the .resx file such as embedded images is lost. Does anybo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Client Web App - Server Application Unavailable

  Hi, My client application is an AspNet site (Web App Project not website). The services normaly run on the same machine for dev, but to investigate this problem a little I am calling the services on a different machine. So I have an asp.net client application that is calling wcf service on a remote machine. I have occasional Server Application Unavailable messages in the client application and there is very little information in the event log. The three error it reports are : Event Id : 1023 .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A05E2B3) (80131506) Event Id : 1000 Faulting application aspnet_wp.exe, version 2.0.50727.42, stamp 4333aece, faulting module mscorwks.dll, version 2.0.50727.42, ...Show All

• Visual Basic Print Preview: PrintableArea and MarginBounds

  Hi - Can anyone explain simply what causes the difference between the PrintDocument.DefaultPageSettings.PrintableArea rectangle and the MarginBounds rectangle of the graphics passed to PrintPage And how to calculate the latter from the former Thanks v much, PrintableArea is the area that the printer can print to and is calculated from the Bounds minus the HardMarginX/Y. It doesn't account for the Landscape mode. MarginBounds is the PageBounds minus the Margins and does account for Landscape mode. Thus PaperSize => PrintableArea + HardMargins for PageSettings PageSettings.PaperSize => PageBounds* => MarginBounds* + PageSettings.Margins for PrintPageEventArgs where "*" marks propert ...Show All

• Visual C++ error when using a mixed mode dll in a windows service

  under the dot net 2.0 framework I get the following error when i use a mixed mode dll with in a vb.net windows service. System.BadImageFormatException: Invalid access to memory location. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800703E6). This dll works fine if used in a vb.net standalone application. Any ideas what may be the cause Interesting I have found that this mixed mode dll will work in the service if its linked directly to the service. or if i pre load the assimbly with loadfrom. It seems to be some type of native vs managed load issue. I also get the same error when i try to use this dll in my webapp or webservice. System.BadImageFormatException: Invalid access to memory location. (Exception from HRESULT: ...Show All

• .NET Development Insert passwords to sqlserver

  How can I insert passwords as '*' into SqlServer Thank you well in design way and architecture no. a web app should use its web classes, a winform app should use its own classes. You can achieve MD5 easily for either web or winform manually by following the example shown in the MD5 link I had supplied earlier. It may well do the same thing but its down to design and architecture in this part. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Making custom user control as root of xaml

  i'd like to create a class that inherits from a WPF control say UserControl or Grid and then have another XAML whose code behind in turn inherits from that class. On using the name of the custom class in the Root element of the XAML, get an error saying this is an invalid root element. Is there a way to get around this Here are the classes and XAML files: Get an error in View1.xaml saying that the root element is invalid. Window1.xaml <Window x:Class="WindowsApplication1.Window1" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title="WindowsApplication1" Height="300" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSSCCI Provider installation error

  Hello! One of the devlopers has .net 1.1 framework installed on his computer. He is using Visual Studio 2003 and wants to access Team Foundation Server. I tried to install msscci provider version 1.1 from the msdn downloads website and it comes up with the message: "The setup requires the .net framework version 2.0.50727. Please install the .net framework and run this setup again. The .net framework can be obtained from the web. Would you like to do this now " The user isn't ready yet to get .net 2.0 framework. Please assist. Thank you! Using TFS Msscci Provider you can perform SCC operations from other IDEs, like VS2003. To add solution to Source Control, just open it in ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Mobile Sync problems

  I have just upgraded from a working app for Pocket PC 2003 developed on MS SQL 2000 and VS 2003 to Mobile 5, MS SQL 2005 and VS 2005 and have been nable to get anything working. I decided to go back to basics and just try to sync a SQL2005 and SQL mobile database by following the MS doc "Creating a mobile application with SQL Server mobile" and "Step by Step: Developing a SQL Mobile App with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005". Unfortunately I have n't been able to get either of these 2 examlpes working either. The Database, publications, subscriptions etc are all created OK yet when I come to sync I get the following error: "A request to send data to the computer running iis has failed" I'd great ...Show All

• .NET Development canot open user default database

  im using sql server express and building a mobile app with vs.net2005. im seeing this error sometimes but its working sometimes. The following is the error msg.. System.web.services.protocols.soapexception: server was unable to process request. ---> system.data.sqlclient.sqlexception: cannot open user default database. login failed. login failed for user 'MP-zk-Lab1\aspnet'. at system.data.sqlclient.sqlinternalconnection.onerror(sqlexception exception,npp;eam breakconnection) at system.data.sqlclient.tdsparser.throw exceptionandwarning(tdsparserstateobject stateobj).... i need some fast advice on this issue.. TIA did you add the aspnet user account ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Strange issue when building an app :-s

  When i build an application in visual studio express my firefox loads up and loads 3 websites. this is only when i build, install or run the application after install. Doesn't matter what i build i keep getting the same 3 sites. Does any one know what could be causing this not at all - we all learn! Even if this was to happen if you execute the application on its own, a website to just pop up would not be happen IF the computer did not have the correct components required to run the application. if this was the case, you would get error messages instead ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Camera issue

  Hi, I've written a simple Windows forms application for my XDA ATOM running Windows Mobile 5 camera API. However, I'm getting a flickering image displayed in the Picture and Video dialog box before the image itself is returned to the application. I think this is a problem with the XDA ATOM, but I can't be sure. Any help as to how to proceed from here would be useful. Thanks, Marc I'm not entirely certain what you mean by a "flickering picture," but having done fairly extensive work with CameraCaptureDialog, I don't believe I've seen this problem on various HTC (Wizard, Tornado) or Palm Treo devices. You'd probably want to take this to an XDA (Htc) specific forum, such as: http://w ...Show All