kayers's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using DShow to render to HD video

  Hi guys I'd like to take some Direct3d scene and render it to video meant for HD (High Def) TV screens. Any pointers on where I should start looking ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) WPF/E (TextBlock) is not rendering Unicode correctly

  I have downloaded the WPF/E CTP & SDK, I played with them and have noticed that WPF/E does not fully support Unicode, as I use a TextBlock to test the display of Arabic text, WPF/E was rendering the text incorrectly as if it is rendering the text from left to right while it should render the text from right to left. This same behavior is true for Hebrew too which is also a right-to-left language. Hello Fayez, I tried also that and it did not work. I would expect full language support from MS soon hopefully. it is a must if they want it to pick up fully. I am interested in communicating with you to talk about common topics regarding WPF/E feel free to email me arabdad@hotmail.com ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem with DirectX and Visual Studio 2k5

  Hey,    I've noticed something very wierd. I am using Visual Studio 2k5 for sometime but I've never tried to complile my previous Direct3D relelated projects on this release of Visual Studio, maybe because it never occured because the machine that I was developing them had 2k3. Now for the Problem if you create a Win32 default application with MFC support (or not) that you try to write the following stuff you get linker errors and sometimes complier errors. I've never had them before and I don't know why they are occur. I checked for the Project Properties, altered some stuff (such the use of precompiled headers etc with no luck :S). The DirectX samples compile fine but I don't know the cause of the pr ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error while compiling

  i’m conpiling this code UtlBoolean OsSocket::isIp4Address(const char* address) { // nnn.nn.n.nnn // ^==== dot3 // ^====== dot2 // ^========= dot1 char* dot1 = strchr(address, '.'); // <-- here it’s where the error happened and this error happened: error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'const char *' to 'char *' can someone know what can i do to solve that problem I forget something, i’m using vc 2005 express The function strchr has the signature: const char* strchr(const char*, int); The 'const' on the return type is necessary as otherwise strchr could not be safely used with string literals. The easiest fix is to change the decl ...Show All

• Visual Basic Warning As Errors

  Is it possible to default this to on Thanks. I have done this... If anyone would like to vote for this suggestion it is here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=213927 ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with ROWTERMINATOR

  I am trying to import data from the text file using BULK INSERT command. BULK INSERT test . s1_test FROM 'D:\s1.txt' WITH ( CODEPAGE = 1250 , FIELDTERMINATOR = '|' , FIRSTROW = 2 , ROWTERMINATOR = '|\r\n' ) In the text file in the end of each row is symbol which looks like a square - you can see it here If I use rowterminator '|\n' of '|\r\n', 0 row(s) affected. Please, can you help me hi, are you sure it's a CR + LF carachter it this is the case, data should show it, but your pic does not.. open it with a hex editor... regards ...Show All

• SQL Server A Query on Outer Join.

  Hi. I want to know the difference between taking an outer join on tables and taking an outer join on the conditions that are defined between the tables. Thanks in Advance. The difference between specifying an outer join in the FROM clause and the WHERE clause has to do with when the conditions are applied. Conditions specified in the WHERE clause are applied after the JOIN has happened. This means that the whole record will be excluded instead of just one half. Consider a report of employees and any car that is not red. Select e.name, c.model, c.color From employees e Left Join cars c on e.empID = c.empID and c.color <> 'RED' Select e.name, c.model, c.color From employeess e, cars c Where e.em ...Show All

• Windows Forms StatusBar ToolTip Crashing

  Hello All, Quick Background: I have a UserControl that uses a StatusBar and ToolTip to allow a user to navigate data displayed in the control. On the main application there are a number of buttons that will create a new Form at runtime and place a static instance the main applications single instance of my control on the newly create Form. This was done because generating the UserControl is complicated and costly as far as memory and rendering is concerned. The Problem: If I place my control on one of these newly created Forms and the user hovers over an item that has a ToolTip it works fine the first time. The problem comes in that when the user closes the form the UserControl is removed and the Form disposed, and a user will click ano ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. no query - big mistake

  Hi, Paul Bleisch said about support for device queries: "They are not there today. What are the scenarios where you are using device queries (i.e. which queries) We've had much internal debate about this (in regards to the general lack of support for them and what the API should look like if we did it)." My question is: Whether there will be a support for device queries and when the XNA team will spend the patch to XNA which is removing this big mistake Cheers, query. Well someone else also mentioned this but I noticed that nobody has entered a bug/suggestion into connect. So if this is really important to you log in and go to https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/defa ...Show All

• SQL Server UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY confusion.

  I wrote this stored procedure and it works fine, it seems. The questions I have are as follows: (1) What is the difference between PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE. They seem to pertain to the same behavior. When I used only UNIQUE as qualifier I did not see that the column was marked as primary in the SQL Management Studio. What I need is for a column to be unique in the sense that it would not allow duplicate values and it must have an INDEX on it. I need it to be descending . (2) Did I do it right or there are aspects in here I do not quite see set ANSI_NULLS ON set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[CreateTableDailyClose] @symbol varchar (10) = null AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(500) SET @SQL = 'CREATE TABLE dbo. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Designer can't find user control when dragged off toolbox

  In Visual Basic Express, I create a form that is the main form for the project. I then create some other classes and also a user control, but do not yet place it on the form. After building the project the user control appears in MyProjectsName components in the toolbox. I can drag one onto the form, no problem. However, when I try to build the project again, the designer complains: Type MyProjectsName.MyUserControlsName is not defined. Opening the designer file in the code editor, it offers me two error-resolution options, neither of which works. It wants to either drop MyProjectsName. from the name or else prefix it with Global. In both cases, it complains that a property it is trying to assign a value to is not a member of ...Show All

• SQL Server Errors on install of SQL Svr 2005 Enterprise

  Greetings, I have attempted a full install of 2005 Ent on our W2k3 Enterprise server. When attempting to install all services (SQL Svr database, analysis, reporting, notification, integration, client services/components) I get the message: "The features specified are not valid for this edition of SQL Server". I got the same thing when attempting to install with various subsets of services. Then I tried just database services and client components and got the message: " There was an unexpected failure during the setup wizard. " Perusing the core.log, I see: Fatal Exception caught while installing package: "10" Error Code: 0x80070002 (2) Windows Error Text: The system cannot find the fil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF53010: Error encountered while trying to use file cache ...

  Below is the error I keep getting with my Continous Integration Builds. We are using Automation as our CI build tool. If I do an 'IISreset /restart' things work for a couple builds, but after that this pops up again and builds don't get started. Automation kicks off on checkins but no builds are started. Anybody have any idea what I need to do, [VC] [Error, PID 5208, TID 4260, 14:03:06.137] TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 1/23/2007 2:03:06 PM Machine: AS73TFS01 Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/Root/VersionControl-2-128140264306475579 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Binding resources to XNA executables?

  Hey Everyone, Is there a way to bind a resource to an XNA .exe, i.e. a bitmap, so the resource in question is "folded-into" the executable Any advice/help would be most appreciated. Thanks! If you create a .NET resource file (.resx) in your project, you can add files to that and then use the ResourceManager framework class to load them back in (call ResourceManager.GetObject to load as a byte[], then construct a MemoryStream around that array which you can pass into other loader functions). I should just point out that this isn't really the recommended XNA way of doing things, though, as we'd prefer people to use our content pipeline once that becomes available! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Printing the .NET Framework

  Is there some way in VS or elsewhere to print the entire .NET Framework including classes and their sub-classes AFAIK that sort of direct functionality does not currently exist... instead you could try using some reflection to iterate through all of the classes within an assembly and print out all of the methods and properties... of course this would be a very manual process... That being said... why are you looking to do such a thing I ask because often times in cases like this with a better understanding of what is desired it is possible to find easier and often better alternatives. ...Show All