efontana's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Windows Media Player control and Compact Framework 2.0

  I am developing an app for PocketPC (Mobile 5, WMP10, VS2005, C#, CF2) that has to be able to playback wmv videos. Following Alex Feinman's directions ( MSDN , for example) I've been able to embed WMP10 control in a CF2 form and play videos. Well, till now I have just tested on emulator (device emulator 2.0 beta). My problem is that WMP control not behaves according to the changes I make on its properties. For example, If I change uimode property to none, WMP is supposed to hide playback&volume controls, but nothing happens. Fullscreen mode works but as I have not been able to catch click events, any click exits fullscreen and I didn't figure out yet how to detect that. Does anyone know if WMP10 control on PocketPC supports raising ev ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Mail Configuration?? Very Urgent

  Hi!!!! I'm a hobbyist Developer.... I'm would like to know how to send mails from Database Mail option in SQL Server 2005. I wil be glad if i can get a step-by-step procedure or any KB.... Moreover what i did was, i tried to setup the database and i got the error message when i tried to send DB mails.... "An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established" wil be thankful if i get help ASAP. Thanks, Jeffrey I'm no expert; but, did you set up your email configuration I've set up my account / configuration; but, I'm getting the following error: The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure . ( Sending Mail using Acco ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Will we be able to shared compiled versions of XNA apps?

  Ok, so before someone flames on me. I searched the forums and what not for a long time, before I posted this. I only saw threads about actually selling the homebrew games and I'm not interested in that. What I want to know: Is there plans in future releases to share only compiled versions or some sort of package I mean if I spend my heart in soul making a game that I think others will will enjoy for the love of the community. It doesn't seem fair that everyone gets my source. So are there plans for just sharing complied versions of some kind If so, whats an approximate time frame Thanks, Nick O Wilmot wrote: I am also waiting for that day. I see almost no point in giving awa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Pan, Zoom Level and Print Preview buttons in re-hosted designer

  Hi, I have implemented a re-hosted designer using the Workflow Designer Control sample as a basis. I am trying to get the 3 buttons on the right - hand side underneath the scroll bar to work in the same way that they work in Visual Studio. I can't seem to get them to fire any event - I have tried overriding in the WorkflowMenuCommandService. Does anyone here have any ideas on how to get them to work as this issue is really bugging me!! There must be a way to get them to work as if there wasn't they wouldn't work in Visual Studio!! Answer from my c olleague Sergey Chub : The user would need to implement IMenuCommandService .ShowContextMenu () to show the context menu for the correspondi ...Show All

• Visual Basic AccessKey for Custom Button Control in VB 2005

  Hi all, I have a custom button Control converted from VB 6.0 to VB 2005. I need to know how to set accesskeys property for the custom button control. This is the error i get in the converted project. 'UPGRADE_ISSUE: UserControl property UserControl.AccessKeys was not upgraded. Click for more: 'ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_commoner/local/redirect.htm keyword="CC4C7EC0-C903-48FC-ACCC-81861D12DA4A"' Thanks, Hello Mick, Me.OnClick did not fire the click event of the button control. I had five custom button controls in the sample application. After the if condition is passed, the Me.OnClick did not fire the onclick event. Also what is the difference between Me.OnClick and MyBase.OnClick Can they be used interchangeab ...Show All

• .NET Development StringBuilder - octal notation escape sequences

  Hi, I'm having a problem with StringBuilder when I try to append string sequences that contain octal notation escape sequences: e.g.: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder (); sb.Append( "ABC" ); sb.Append( "\001DE" ); ... this results in the StringBuilder only containing "ABC". Any idea why it's doing that Thanks, Tom In C# \0 in a string literal means the NUL character that is usually used to mark the end of a string. There are no octal espace sequences. To insert the character with code 1 (what is that you are after, right ) you need to write the following: sb.Append("\u0001DE"); where 0001 is the hexidecimal code of the Unicode c ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums pushpin pop up and asp.net controls

  I have an asp.net page (C#) with a filter (with labels and dropdown lists) on the top and a map show the results under the filter. When the details pop up window appears on the top of the map, it is shown under the dropdown controls. I tried with the z-index on various elements but without success. How can I have my pushpin details box appear over the asp controls The AJAX Controls toolkit has a custom dropdown control that eliminates this. DropDowns have been on the topmost layer since the dawn of graphical interfaces for the web. Netscape, IE, Firefox -- all the same. Maybe it's because part of the W3C standards doc Just a fact of life that nearly all dynamic HTML programmers have had to deal w ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do I load a 3d mesh (.x file)?

  How do I load a .x mesh into my scene The space game seems to use its own format (which it names .swm), and there's nothing in the help. I've been scanning through through the classes in the Framework namespace, but I can't see anything obvious! Is .x the recommended format for objects like this (If not, I change my question to be about the recommended format :D) If anyone knows anywhere that has some nice .x meshes I can play with, that'd be cool too. The only one I have lying around is a chair, and that's going to look a bit funny running around my game :D The content pipeline is what takes a .x file and makes it appear in the content manager. Since that is missing you cannot use this API yet. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSMQ Infrastructure

  Hi all, I was wondering does MSMQ use SQL server or any known database as its underlining infrastructure architecture Other word, what protocol does MSMQ use to save its files Thank you for your time. Hello, MSMQ has its own durable store implementation. It doesn't depend on SQL server or any other database product. - leszek ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Unable to load content && X360 Club sub question

  Hi, I'm creating a demo on the windows version atm, but it refuses to load any content - A couple of textures in this case. I created a folder in the project called Sprites, then added two existing items, one a jpg off the net, the other a bmp created in paint. I named the assets "Sign1" and "Metal1" but when I went to load them, Texture2D spr = content.Load<Texture2D>("Sign1") it threw a contentnotfound exception. I've tried everything I could think of, including turning on copy to output dir, and by referecning them by their actual filenames. all the same exception. Is it a bug or am I doing it wrong Also, getting a 360 in a week or so and want to do coding on it, but i have no credit card, will i be ...Show All

• Visual Basic Fileget

  Hi, i am using fileget to read a file, but i am going the following error: System.Security.SecurityException was unhandled Message="Late bound calls to file system methods in the Visual Basic runtime are not permitted." my code is the following: Public Structure rec <VBFixedString(4)> Public icount As String <VBFixedString(48)> Public iTellerID As String <VBFixedString(48)> Public iTellerName End Structure Public myrec = New rec Dim iFr As Short iFr = FreeFile() FileOpen(iFr, "day_08.log" , OpenMode.Binary, OpenAccess.Read) FileGet(iFr, myrec,1) FileClose(iFr) What i am doing wrong Please help. hi, I alrea ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice does not contain a definition for 'BeginScene' ?!?

  I am confused, I keep getting an error telling me GraphicsDevice does not contain a definition for BeginScene. All the posts I find elsewhere (for example http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=684405&SiteID=1 ) show that as the method to use, as it was in MDX. Any idea what's going on here Thanks Well, as far as I have read elsewhere, I need to be calling .. GraphicsDevice.Clear GraphicsDevice.BeginScene //... do drawing GraphicsDevice.EndScene GraphicsDevice.Present This would make sense to me, as that is the same way it was done in MDX. However, maybe this has been changed. Do I not need to call BeginScene and EndScene any more I could always test this myself, ho ...Show All

• Visual C++ Facing problems in implementing Application sharing

  Hi All, I am trying to implement Application sharing (sharing a running application to a remote user) using SDK. The requirement is the remote user shall see the application window (shared by me) and its child windows only. Whole desktop shouldn't be shown to the remote user in any case. As of now we are grabbing the snapshot of the shared application with its windowDC. Below are the problems i am encountering. 1) Couldn't grab the popup menus when it falls outside of the window. 2) Couldn't grab the message boxes displayed if the owner/parent of the msgbox is not the shared application. Please pour in your ideas. Rgds, PavanKumar This ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) vote for extension properties

  I was playing with extension methods the other day, and I find it really exciting. The natural language expressiveness is great, epecially when creating a Domain Specific Language for an app or framework. Some uses were natural for methods, such as a Behavior-Driven Development style of testing method like: public static bool ShouldBeEmpty( this ICollection coll ) { return coll.Count == 0; } // var x = new ArrayList(); x.ShouldBeEmpty(); returns true Other uses were not so natural, where the parentheses get in the way. public static TimeSpan Months( this int number ) { var now = DateTime.Now; return now.AddMonths( number ) - now; } public static DateTime FromNow( this TimeSpan span ) { return DateTime.Now + span; } ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Setup error of 1935

  I am trying to install the client tools on an XP machine. I already had to run the .NET 2.0 repair to get past an earlier problem. 3 components fail, the first one being VS. Here are the highlights of the summary.txt file. What can I do to resolve this TIA! Microsoft SQL Server 2005 9.00.1399.06 ============================== OS Version : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment 2005 Error : Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonIDE,Version="8.0.0.0",FileVersion="8.0.50727.42",PublicK ...Show All