macyp's Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development Drawing

  Does ihdsim support the drawing features yet I tried several things but had no result. Also do the current players support drawing or will they with a future firmware upgrade I've tried from script: Drawing.createColor(200,210,190,255); Drawing.createPoint(960,540); Drawing.createPoint(961,540); Drawing.createPoint(962,540); Drawing.createPoint(963,540); Drawing.createRectangle(500,400,200,200); Also, the default size of the drawing object canvas is 1x1, so you'll need to specify a different size to get any meaningful images. You'll need something like the following Markup: < object type = " application/x-graphic " id = " graphic1 " style:position = &q ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to connect to SQL server database

  I recently installed VS2005 Prof edition and SQLExpress 2005 and have been teaching myself C# using the book Microsoft Visual C# 2005 step by step. I have done all the examples including the examples on databases without problems up to chap 27 which is trying to demonstrate adding security to a web site using the ASP.NET Web Site Administration tool. After opening the tool and clicking on "security" the error message appears. Unable to connect to SQL server database As I understand it a database provider AspNetSqlProvider is supposed to create a database called ASPNET.MDF in the App_Data folder of the web site. Needless to say nothing is produced. I have read various posts and done the following without success. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Debugging a custom task?

  How does one go about debugging a custom task At present I am relying on Log.LogMessage etc which is quit etedious. My build project is not overly complex but I do make use of variables passed in from ItemGroups and PropertyGroups. I am also hitting the TFS api in this task. I read somewhere of creating a mock build engine object but that would be more for unit testing, and not actually real-time testing. Is it possible to attach to the msbuild process and then step through the code Those of you who have created custom tasks, can you share your thoughts Thanks! Hi, I just ran into this problem and was wondering if theres anyone who has now solved this issue or, at least, made it easier to do I wrote a MSBuild tasks that did some c ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Fragment linker and ps_1_x

  Hi, I have encountered while implementing a dynamic shader-library that the fragment linker while using AddFragments fail when the pixel_fragment is compiled with ps_1_x profile target... My question is if there is any particular reason to why the fragment linker does not support ps_1_x fragments Or if it is a feature that is to be implemented any time soon Best Regards, Magnus ...Show All

• Visual C++ compiler switches

  I am working on a new project that has a lot of regular DLLs. I wanted to find out when and where a particular DLL got loaded. Is there a compiler swicth that would list that in output window If not, where should I set my breakpoint to iterate the flow Is there an easy way of doing it BTW, It got loaded in the very beginning. My guess is that there are some global variables. But I don't know which one since there are too many classes in this particular DLL. Thanks The error is "Error loading type library/DLL". I guess it is still a managed DLL even though regasm created an entry in the registry. My question is that how do I use it in C++ program after I regasm the C# Dll into COM ...Show All

• .NET Development Why is this SQL statement slow?

  I have a database with 1,000,000 records. I am trying to implement a paging technique using the SELECT TOP statement. On an SQL server db, it is relativley fast. In access DB which is linked to the table in the SQL server DB, it is slow. I am running it through an OLEDB DataAdapter. It is slow when I use a statement such as : SELECT TOP 5 * FROM MyTable ORDER BY PrimaryKey It will speed up when I modify the statement as follows: SELECT TOP 5 * FROM MyTable WHERE PrimaryKey < 'Small Number' ORDER BY PrimaryKey Why does it speed up when I modify the WHERE clause to return only a small number of the records Shouldn't the TOP statement make it fast by itself I'm baffled. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Vector2 Type Converter

  I have created a very simple TypeConverter that allows for Designer Support of Vector2's. It is only a simple one and doesn't do anything special. I have created a landing page on my site that has the link to the file and some more details. http://www.kinlan.co.uk/2006/09/xna-vector2-type-converter.html Is there any planned support in Future releases so that we don't have to keep making them Should I put it through Connect as a Feature Request Kind Regards Paul Kinlan It would be great if you could file this as a feature request, and more importantly, anyone else who thinks this is important vote on it. We're obviously already aware that type converters for the standard framework types would be a good thing, but i ...Show All

• Windows Forms DrawToBitmap z-order issue

  Hi To come to the point - imagine we have a UserControl on which we place a number of TextBoxes and Labels. Lay these controls out partially over one another. Now place an instance of this UserControl on a Form with a button next to it. On clicking this button take a snapshot of the UserControl instance using the DrawToBitmap method that this instance exposes (via the Control object). This creates a Bitmap where the z-order of all controls seems to have been reversed i.e. if a textbox was on top of a label on the original control then on the newly created Bitmap it is placed behind the label. There are a few more inconsistencies regarding using this DrawToBitmap method (like colourings) but this probably is the main one. Thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving and Opening files

  I want to save and open a file with a unique extentions. How do I do that Well how else would you write a file if you are writing a text to a label and want to save the file onto the computer, once the text label has been set, then the next line of code would be to save a file/to the file - you are not really able to do this "automatically" without coding it after a certain event, in this case, after you set the text property of a label. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to reference to System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting.Web

  Hi All, I am creating a workflow sample with ASP.NET 2.0. I am using WorkflowWebRequestContext to get the workflowruntime but getting declaration error. I am not able to find System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting.Web namespace. Could anyone update me what assembly I need to reference for this Would appreciate your help Cheers, Sansanwal Sansanwal - they removed that namespace after beta 2.0(I think that was the version). The answer generally is that if you need to get ahold of the WorkflowRuntime you need to create your own hosting layer. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3.0 w/ Outlook 2007 Beta - won't return results in cached mode, does when online.

  Hi, I have been fighting WDS 3.0/Outlook 2007 for a good while now. I started with Outlook and BCM loaded, but have uninstalled BCM and re-installed Outlook alone with WDS 3.0. Everything seems fine, but my searches return no results. On a whim, the other day, I turned off "use Exchange in cached mode" and voila, WDS started returning results! This is repeatable. I turn on caching, WDS does not return results. I turn off caching, it does. I do not use a .pst file, but rather keep all my information on the Exchange Server. I wonder if it has something to do with either an Exchange Server setting, or something to do with my .ost (offline folder) file. Anyway, I wonder if others that are having trouble getting WDS to ret ...Show All

• SQL Server Public key Token = b77a5c561934e089

  Hi Ppl, I have installed my program and SQL server 2K5 on the server. But when I try to run it (from he client machine)I get the following error : It works fine on the SERVER The appication attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. The operation required the security Exception. To grant this application the required permission please contact your systems Administrator or use the Microsoft .NET security policy administration tool. If you click Bla,bla,bla Request for the permision of type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlClient Permission, System.Data Version - 1.0.5000.0. Cultre = neutral. Public key Token = b77a5c561934e089 I've done some checking ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to create document w/o assembly attached?

  I use VSTO to add some special formatting features to word. I need to use Smart Doc model to use Actions Bars cause Add-ins don't support them (till word2007). But I need to save results of user's work in this document w/o any reference to my controls (to allow to open it on other computer w/o assemblies etc)... Is there any way to do it P.S.: MSND says "Use the SmartDocument object to manage the XML expansion pack attached to the active document." but this object have only 2 methods. Is it the only control we could have Assuming we're discussing VSTO 2005 (not 2003) and you want to remove all things VSTO (including the Actions Pane), you ...Show All

• SQL Server Toolbar available with Web Service?

  Hello - I am trying to find out whether the Toolbar is available when using the Reporting Services Web Service interface. Right now, I am using the Web Service to render a report, but the Toolbar does not appear. I have set the <Toolbar> element in the DeviceInfo string to true. thanks - will Thank you. If you ask me, the effort to upgrade your app to .NET 2.0 (granted without knowing too much about it) will be far less than if you have to write your own web-based report viewer. BTW, the books shows how you can write one should you decide to start on this journey. You will need to implement a custom toolbar though. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to verify the .Net 2.0 and .Net 3.0 while Installing

  Hi I'm creating a setup and msi file for a .net 3.0 windows application. Also I set the prerequisites for the setup project with .Net 2.0 and .Net 3.0. While installing through setup the validation is happened properly but while installing from MSI file the validation is not happening properly. The validation is happened for MSI when the system does not have both the .Net 2.0 and .Net 3.0. But the installation is allowing when the system, has only .net 2.0. Any help Thanks ...Show All