RavinderSingh's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions What is left out for Express Edition (C# Express vs. C# Professional)

  Besides the Object Designer, what does C# Express lack that the Standard or Professional version has Thanx Here is the VS 2005 product features overview : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700921.aspx Hope it helps. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Reasoning behind CardSpace's secure desktop

  The CardSpace's secure desktop is displayed in order to submit your card. I don't fully understand the reasoning behind the decision to disallow interaction with the desktop while selecting and submitting a card. Can anyone explain this What I'm most interesting in, is the fact that there is a Firefox Identity Selector plug in available at http://www.xmldap.org/ . This plugin, being based on Java, does not lock up the desktop. So, given that there may be valid reasons for having a secure desktop for identity selection, would that mean that any non-Microsoft identity selection solution will be 'sub-optimal' One of the advantages of building an identity selector for a particular Operating System is ...Show All

• SQL Server Losing dimension permissions in security role with deployment wizard

  I'm working with an AS database that has security roles configured with dimension and dimension data permissions. If I deploy my BI project using Deployment Wizard with the option to Retain roles and members, the roles and members do remain intact but the cube access in the roles is set to None and the dimension and data dimension permissions are gone. Is there any way to use Deployment Wizard so that it retains the roles, members and the cube/dimension permissions defined for the role I don't want to deploy roles and retain members because my roles will be different depending on the target server. Thanks in advance. This seems to be the same bug as described in Chris Webb's blog today: http://c ...Show All

• Visual Basic Limits on Memory Use?

  Hi all, I was testing the VB2005 Express and decided to create a large array in the IDE. My 32bit XP Pro machine has 3.5GB available and I thought I'd check to see how much I could use with VB. I understand that there is a 2GB process limit, but I thought I just check that out. My code: Class Form1 Private Sub CreateArrayToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CreateDataTableToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim bigarray(1000000, 250) As Single End Sub Private Sub ExitToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ExitToolStripMenuItem.Click End End Sub Private Sub Form1_L ...Show All

• Visual C++ unresolved link when using template class

  Really new to C++ so please be gentle with me on this one. When I try to compile the following code, I get 4 unresolved link errors. Note that I have three files in my project, "Sample.h", "Sample.cpp", and "Main.cpp". //Sample.h template <class t> class Sample { public: Sample() ; ~Sample() ; } ; // Sample.cpp #include "Sample.h" template <class t> Sample<t>::Sample() { } template <class t> Sample<t>::~Sample() { } //Main.cpp #include "Sample.h" void main() { Sample<int> Sampleint; Sample<float> Samplefloat; } An example error is as f ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. PC deployment in a single download. (Minus framework download)

  I have not seen this posted since the 1.0 release. I really want to be able to get games into peoples hands with the least number of steps.. Downloading the framework is one more step I do not wish the less technically inclined to have to deal with. Has there been any more information released on the future prospects of being (PC SIDE) able to have a deployable game that does not require the download of external libraries ( The XNA framework ) Thank you and sorry if I missed a post on this. Easiest is to use the re-distributable installers for .NET 2.0 and XNA and DirectX, and put those installers into your game installer. Then chain out to those installers, in "/silent" mode, to make sure the pre-r ...Show All

• Visual C# Attractive UI design

  I'm developing a desktop application with C#. I want to make the user interface attractive and different from usual. Is there any site where I can see some samples of attractive UIs. Thanks. Hi, I have been using this component and its realy greate. Professional UI ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) specify service identity

  Hi consider a server side config file what is the difference between this section <service > <endpoint ...> <identity > ... </identity> and this section < serviceBehaviors > <behavior name="xx"> <serviceCredentials> ... regarding configuring service identity they do look the same thank in advance I understand one is related to the endpoint (interface) and the other to the class .. is this the difference if it's so, how would that turn usefull and meaningfull TIA ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Potential DX10 Hardware Problems [and blurb]?

  Alleged info [floating around the internet] about nVidia's up-and-coming DX10 hardware suggests it will not be 100% unified architecture compliant. Now sure I understand the minimum DX10 requirements are steep and harsh when compared to 9.0c. But because of the guarantees of DX10 it has very limited CAPS support. So I was wondering how will anyone programmatically query the limits of DX10 hardware when it fails to be 100% DX10 compliant I was hoping to combine pixels shaders with the new geometry shaders to make a full-fledged raytracer (fully powered by the graphics hardware). Havok isn't the only one with interesting ideas :) ... but it may be a stretch if the first DX10 hardware doesn't meet the requirements. I've been waiting sin ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Framework 2.0

  Hello all, When I started to program a service using a ftp to upload files to I noticed that my Visual Studio .NET (or at least the C++ part) is still using .net 1.1. This creates a problem (for I would like to use the FtpWebrequest class that is integrated in .Net Framework 2.0) Thanks in Advance, Dexter Then why doesn't Visual Studio 2005 include templates for C++.Net features like Studio 2003 does. Can I possibly import them or should I keep starting projects at the 2003 studio and import them to 2005 in order to make them work correctly. What is this for an inconvenient manner Dexter ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Collision Detection With Bezier Curves

  Hi, I'm currently making a small 2D game in XNA Game Studio Express. It involves a player moving around a terrain and being able to collide with it. Nearly all the graphics and settings in my game are user generated so this allows for everything to be quite customisable. For collision detection the user specifies paths made of Bezier curves which are stored in a file. The game reads this file and stores a number of points on the curves in an array. The player is also made of Bezier curves that are converted into points: This shows how I want collision detection to happen; if any of the lines that make up the player intersect with any of the lines that make up the terrain, then a collision has occurred. Once a collision has occurred two t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Powerpack Additions (What Microsoft Forgot)

  Powerpack Additions (What Microsoft Forgot) 1. BeforeUpdate and AfterUpdate for every control. (A way to make thing simple!!!) 2. MultiColumn ComboBox (A way to make thing simple!!!) 3. Line and Shape Controls 4. I vote for Data Repeater Control 5. Real Books. I want to buy one comprehensive book instead of 15 specialized books. Thanks very much for the suggestions, I encourage you to go to http:\\connect.microsoft.com\vbasic and enter and vote for these suggestions and others so we can better track them and best decide on which to develop next. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Approval Workflow in SharePoint 2007

  We know that SharePoint 2007 comes with a set of out of box workflows.One of the features of the workflow that I found to be awkard and strange is that when the document is being routed through an approval workflow, each person in the approvers list is assigned a task. While editing the task the end user can enter his comments. An email goes as an alert to the next user regarding the task being assigned to him. But in the email, you never get to know what were the comments of the previous user. All the comments are consolidated and emailed at the end of the workflow. In the intermediate stages one has to log on to the Sharepoint site and check in the workflow status. Please share your views and thoughts ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Strange checkin policy error

  I have setup a code analysis checkin policy on a Team project, I have a solution where I have migrated code analysis settings so I know they are as stringent as the checkin policy and a build of that solution has succeeded. However when I make a change to one of the projects in my solution and try and checkin after a successful build I get the following policy error: TF10139:The following policies have not been satisfied Internal error in Ensures that code analysis is run with a predefined set of rules This project that is having problems is one where I have significantly changed the contents of the .csproj file as it is in msbuild format. However the IDE build reports no problems. Any ideas Hi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. bounding box with 2d

  hello, how can i use a bounding box with 2d... must a bounding box always be a box (a rectangle) or can i "draw" it around my object thx Depending on the shape of your object multiple boxes or circles can be used to tighten up the collision detection. I thought one of the tutorial sites had something on it, but I can't find it. ...Show All