Eissing's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. unhandeld exception at 0x77062b86 in VCSExpress.exe: while installing xna

  I know it's unsupported, but supposed to be running : I Ran XNA Game studio express wizard on my vista machine, The Installation starts.... Until it reaches Registering project templates Then i get a nice box "Microsoft visual c# Express edution has stopped working" [Debug] [CLose Program] i press debug. Then it complains about "unhandeld exception at 0x77062b86 in VCSExpress.exe: 0xc0000005: Access violation reading location oXe419c08c" The executing dll is ntdll.dll and disassembly of that location 77062B5C cmp eax,ebx 77062B5E je 7707CAFD 77062B64 mov cl,byte ptr [eax+7] 77062B67 cmp cl,4 77062B6A je 7700CC6E 77062B70 test cl,cl 77062B72 push edi 77062B73 jns ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) endpoint addresses, uri baseaddresses, and ServiceContract namespace

  Ok... I think I getting a little confused... Can someone please explain (or point me to a good doc) that explains the relation ship between these setting As you can see below... I had to code my url to the service in the namespace to get it to work. That works for my local tests, but will never fly in the real world. I What I trying to prove out is a soa/mid biz tier... callable from CFMX, Java, and .Net. So I'm using basicHttpBinding and even set the security to None.... < basicHttpBinding > < binding name = " CoreBasicHttpBinding " > < security mode = " None " /> </ binding > </ basicHttpBinding > I have it all working, but I had to set the namespace on ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sprite Blitting question - Wondering if this is still a problem

  Hi all, When Beta 1 was out I dove right in and started working on a simple demo that moved a sprite with some alpha transparancy around the screen. The way I had it set up was something like this: -I had a class set up for the sprite that I called Player -The Player had a Vector2 for his screen position. -If the user was pushing the left thumbstick in any direction, the Player class's move function was called ,where a new X and Y location was made based on the angle that the thumbstick was pointing. -When Drawing the sprite, I'd get the sprite's screen position vector via a get property. Doing it this way often made my screen position vector have decimal values for the X and Y screen position of my Player sprite. This caused some funky is ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTimePicker

  I have a problem with datetimepicker, when u start an aplication datetimepicker always has default value which is todays date. my problem is that i only want the value when somebody picks a date otherwise i want to have null i dont want to have a date when nobody picks it. Thank u for help From what I know, the DateTimePicker control can't not show a date. In order to get what you want, you will probably need to write your own user control or find one that already exists from a third-party. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to use webservice in workflow?

  Hi, Just started learning Windows Workflow foundation. I have encountered some problems invoking webservice from my workflow. I have look through the samples provided by MSDN, but I don't really quite understand with what they have did. They added a web reference to it but it seems like they are not calling it like what is usually does. How do i actually call a webservice to workflow so that i can use it Thanks alot. When you add an "InvokeWebServiceAcitivity" to your workflow, there should be a "(ReturnValue)" parameter in the properties window, you should set this parameter with a field you create in your code, this field will contain the return value from the web se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Workbook VBA project stays in memory after the workbook is closed

  A class in my VSTO solution hooks up to the Application's WorkbookActivate / WorkbookDeactivate events. When these events are fired, the class examines the properties of the workbook that is passed as the event's second argument. What I discovered is that even though I may close a workbook, its VBA project stays in memory. If I start the VBA editor, the Project Explorer shows a list of all the workbooks that have been opened in Excel's running instance. Moreover, if I opened a workbook twice, the Project Explorer lists two VBA projects for the same workbook. I have a little COM experience and I know that this happens because .NET increases the reference count of the workbook interface preventing it from being released even after the workbo ...Show All

• Visual C++ Transparent Splash Screen ?

  Hi there, how ist it possible to create Splash Screens like this I mean the transparency in the picture. (red color) And what is the best kind of file to make this GIF No, it doesent support partitial transparency... What sort of C++ project is this Unmanaged Managed/.NET If it is the latter, the easiest way is to create an image file (gifs are fine) that has the shape and size you want your form to have and for those areas you want to be transparent, fill them with a single solid color. Next, in your form designer, set you splash screen form’s background image to the image you just created and set the TransparencyKey property to the color you used in your image and boom, a transparent form. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Binary multi Array

  I have a binary file created in VB6. One of the headers is an array - Aname(26,10,10,10) - I can't get VB2005's FILEGET or FILEGETOBJECT or a BinaryReader to fill the array. What do I do The array is a structure ( Type in VB6). dim structure as hType twords as short blocks as byte offset as short length as integer end structure array(26,10,10,10) as htype and wrttten to the file in VB6 as integers & byte The program in VB6 take about 4 minutes to create the file - - VB2005 translation takes 1 hour and 5 minutes. Can't read correctly!!! Mosslake ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I install my program files into "C:/Program Files/"?

  How can I install my program files into "C:/Program Files/" wizkid1 wrote: How can I install my program files into "C:/Program Files/" Are you creating setup of your program If yes, there are some options to select the Program File of Target Machine in "File System(Setup) Panel". - Right Click on "File Sytem of Target Machine" Note Ob: The Program File Folder will be shown in Content Menu. Enviroment variable for Programfile is "%PROGRAMFILES%". ...Show All

• SQL Server sp_executesql and speed

  Hello, I am using sp_executesql this to pass parameter to sql string and I am seeing deadlock between sp_prepexec which does UPDATE with another UPDATE done by another process. When it comes to speed and deadlock, would you recomand not using sp_executesql Deadlock just indicates that your application is performing certain dependent operations in the wrong order or making incorrect assumptions about concurrent access to certain resources. So this is not really artifact of using sp_prepexec or sp_executesql. Both these system SPs will be used by drivers/providers for efficient execution of statements. They provide parameterization capabilities and efficient cache lookups upon execution of the command. So you need to first di ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IFsiDirectoryItem::AddTree() returning 0xC0AAB120

  I don't see that constant assigned in imapi2error.h Actually, I don't see the ones from the document in there either, they must be in some other header... IMAPI_E_INVALID_PARAM IMAPI_E_NOT_IN_FILE_SYSTEM IMAPI_E_READONLY I suspect that this has something to do with the large size of the directory - it is 3.73GB. I checked to make sure the hard drive is not full :-) I have run this code regularly to burn CDs with no problems, but now I am burning DVDs with more files and I just ran into this. (I am always passing false as the 2nd includeBaseDirectory parameter.) Any ideas Hi Henry, I was actually making a call to that, following the sample code: LONG freeBlocks; hr = da ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Where to store common config. files for all users to access

  I work for a company that designs and manufactures an industrial machining tool that is PC based. We are trying to get our applications so that they are compliant under the Windows Vista UAC. In the past, the initialization files for the software that runs the machine have been stored in C:\Program Files\[Our Application Directory] . Our software will read and write to those initialization files depending on how the user sets up the machine. The software (and the machine) therefore is dependant on one set of files regardless of who the logged-in user is so that critical variables are maintained. The problem is that Windows Vista UAC no longer allows writing to the directory where our application is located. Instead, it stores to a V ...Show All

• Visual Basic Check programatically a cluster?

  Hi everyone, I'm trying to check the resources for our 2003 64 bit cluster by mean of VB .Net but I don't know how to. Let me know any link related with (any link would be welcomed, even VbScript or using WMI provider) Best regards, enric vives, There is an article in msdn titled Creating a Failover Cluster (64-bit) in the following link. I hope it helps :-) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa274530(sql.80).aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printing DatagridView

  Hi, I'd like to print only certain columns of a DataGridView. How would something like this be done I couldn't find any code examples. Thanks The MSDN library provides the following guidance for printing a DataGrid... This example demonstrates printing a DataGrid control. Example private void printGrid_Click(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e) { printDocument1.Print(); } private void printDocument1_PrintPage(System.Object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e) { PaintEventArgs myPaintArgs = new PaintEventArgs(e.Graphics, new Rectangle(new Point(0, 0), this.Size)); this.InvokePaint(dataGrid1, myPaintArgs); Is it planned to have this work for the DataGridView I have tried to ...Show All

• SQL Server How to enforce SQL Server 2005 to use Worktable?

  I have a problem in SQL Server 2005. In some cases SQL Server produces an execution plan of complex query (8 joins of views, some of views contains couple of joins) which does not contain a woktable creation in tempdb. As a result time of query execution increasion for about 5 seconds to about 4 minutes. All necessary indexes are created. It sims all data located in cache. Is there any way to enforce SQL Server to create worktable Query SELECT [a0].[id],[a0].[Priority],[a0].[Heading],[a0].[DocumentDate],[a0].[LastName],[a0].[FirstName],[a2].[Name],[a1].[Position],[a4].[ContactTime],[a4].[Subject],[a0].[WorkPhone],[a0].[MobilePhone],[a0].[FaxNumber],[a0].[PrimaryEmail],[a5].[ContactTime],[a6].[Value],[a7].[id],[a7].[id_class],[a8].[id ...Show All