voltagefreak's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions If a function returns a "char", how do you pass

  it to main function I had it as void main() { char rValue[1]= ""; CMenu UData; UData.Intro(); for (;;) // infinite for loop { // executed one or more times rValue[1] = UData.GetInput(); // But rValue[1] didn't get the returned value. } } From previous posts, it looks like you are using the forums to learn the language. I would highly encourage you not to do so. Please use any of the suitable books at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=107484&SiteID=1 and the samples there to learn the basics ofthe language. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual Basic IDE extremely slow!!!!

  This 2003 IDE is incredibly slow!!! Unfortunately our company chose Microsoft for our development platform. Now we all rue that day! The IDE is so slow that we may go out of business waiting for one character to type. Does anyone out there know how to speed up the IDE I am working on a dual process or dual core machine but the IDE only uses on CPU. Please help. This is monopoly at its best. If we wrote software like this we would be out of business. How much memory do you have and what other applications are running Also, how large is your solution When I was using it, 2003 seemed to be fairly snappy. There are some issues in 2005, but nothing like what you are reporting. Jim Wooley http://devautho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Studio Express C#

  I'm downloading the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. The Setup screen says "Setup is loading installation compentes. This may take a minute or two.". Three quaters of the way it just stays there and it never completes. I tried to manually set the BITS that did not make a difference. It never completes the down load. Any suggestions Thanks, Kimberley Hi, I suggest that you use an alternative way to get your setup working. You can download an .img or .iso file, which gets downloaded as one physical file (approx 430MB) and then burn it into a CD. All instructions about how this can be done, along with the .img and .iso download links are present at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to kill horizontal scrollbar of treeview control.

  Now, I have treeview with Scrollbar properties is true, it mean that I will have two scroll (vertical scrollbar and horizontal scrollbar) . So, I don't want to use horizontal scrollbar, I want to kill this scroll. Please give some idea or solution for this problem. Many thank, Glad you like it. Don't hesitate to mark the post as the answer if you think it is the correct one. ;) ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 Install on Vista problems

  It installs but a few times during it I got pop-ups saying its not compatible with Vista.  After the install completed, it says it had some problems during install.  Is this normal, or is something wrong They're known issues and will be fixed with a vista specific service pack. The list of known issues are here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx A beta of the service pack is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=fb6bb56a-10b7-4c05-b81c-5863284503cf&displaylang=en ...Show All

• Visual Basic Transferring Variables

  I'm trying to send a variable, defined as a currency and has it's value set by check boxes and option buttons in one form, to another form in VB 5.0. Both the destination sub and the sub where the variable is defined are public. Any advice This newsgroup is meant for VB.Net questions. Please refer to this link for information about VB6 and earlier. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=551512&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Schema Compare --> Write Updates doesn't seem to be working.

  Hi, I have a view defined in my DBPro project as: -- View CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vINJECTION_VOLUME] AS SELECT PDEN_ID, CAST ( REPLACE (VOLUME_DATE, '-' , '' ) AS int ) TIME_ID, VOLUME FROM PDEN_VOL_SUMM_OTHER WHERE ACTIVITY_TYPE = 'INJECTION' AND VOLUME_METHOD = 'MEASURED' AND CAST ( REPLACE (VOLUME_DATE, '-' , '' ) AS int ) >= 20050101   I compare this to one of my external databases (DPPro project is the target) and Schema Compare says that the object in the source looks like this: -- View CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vINJECTION_VOLUME] AS SELECT PDEN_ID, CAST ( REPLACE (VOLUME_DATE, '-' , '' ) AS int ) TIME_ID, VOLUME FROM PDEN_VOL_SUMM_OTHER WHERE ACTIVITY_TYPE = 'INJECTION' AND ...Show All

• SQL Server Assistance in connecting a SQL Server Client to SQL Server sitting in a shared environment

  Hi, I need to connect to a SQL server thats running in say abc.trident.com and also sits in a shared environment.. I have couple of questions 1) That SQL server is accessible from my network, yet when I swtich on my enterprise manager I am unable to view that in the list of running SQL servers in the populated list. Is it because its sitting in a shared environment I am unable to view that 2) What is the connection striing I should use to connect to the server..When I try to configure a SQL server registrations it normally asks for SQL Server name along with the user authentication Should I mention fill the Server: field as  abc.trident.com or // abc.trident.com/abc.trident.com to connect to the clus ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I have already installed all the programs but I have a problem

  Hi everybody I hope you could help me. I have already installed this software: MicrosoftR Visual C#R 2005 Express Edition XNA Game Studio Express and DirectX Software Development Kit (dxsdk_oct2006.exe) When I open a new Window Game (XNA) project, it has only the g raphics component , that's all right, but when I build and run the game it should work but it doesn't, I get the next error: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException was unhandled Message="The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid." Source="Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game" StackTrace: at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components.GraphicsComponent.CreateDevice(GraphicsD ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Ann: A "Proper" Text Rendering Component

  Hi! I'm just in the process of writing a proper text rendering component for XNA. It fully integrates into the content pipeline and can import any TrueType font during compile time. Just like any other XNA framework content, an .xnb file is generated from the font which can at runtime be loaded by XNA's ContentManager, eg. BitmapFont myFont = this .content.load< BitmapFont >(   "Content/Fonts/Arial" ); // ... this . myFont.drawText(   new Vector2 (100.0f, 100.0f),   "Hello World" ,   Color .White ); The component is still in development and there will likely be some changes in its interface, but it's already fully usable. If you want to give it a go, you can find the component here: http://www.nuclex.org/fra ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO v3 CTP

  Hi I'm Mr Grumpy this morning especially since I just started upgrading my dev environment to look at the latest WinFX CTP. Looking at the latest VSTO v3 download page it seems that all is in vain since one has to install the Feb version of WinFX which I had to uninstall to use the July WinFX CTP (you see where this is going right ) So... down to the question and don't worry, I suffer from chronic bouts of foot-in-mouth, is there ANY way that between your teams you can co-ordinate a little better. Perhaps delegating a liason guy that sits with someone briefing from the WinFX and/or other guys on a Friday exchanging issues - yes the old fashioned way - for feedback to the VSTO guys on a Monday, perhaps in report / memo / advisory / ...Show All

• .NET Development Easy way making two programs connect together over internet.

  Subject says it all. What is the easiest way to make two programs connect together over internet. My plan is to make two programs "talk" together over the internet. So, how Still dont get it! Can someone please help me post some code for creation of sockets or something. Cause its just confusing! vb6.0 was so easy, why would 2005 express be so hard ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTE Crash on Rename of WebTests and OrderedTests

  Back on April 19, 2006, the following problem was posted regarding VSTE crash problems whenrenaming webtests. I didn't find any further thread information/answer/resolution/suggestion. I'm experiencing the same problem... but with not just webtests... but with orderedtests, as well. Is there a suggested solution available Tx dgorena_MS (Expert): Q: If I go into Solution Explorer and attempt to rename either webtests or folders that they are in, there's a 50% chance that VS just shuts down. Re-opening the project and showing all files shows that both the original and renamed files are there. A: Is this something that you can repro for any project or a specific project We definitely want to know the cause of this and help you ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Graph within a Filter

  Is it possible to create and run a filter graph within another filter I am trying to write a source filter. You will be able to specify the location of a graphedit file in the properties. The graphedit file will contain a graph that has a source and possibly some transform filters within it. My filter will run that graph, get the output and pass it along through my filter's output pin. Right now I am very new to DirectX. I do not understand how to get the data from the last filter in my internal graph so that I can pass it along through my output pin. Any help is greatly appreciated! Any time someone talks about passing data between graphs, I'm going to think about Geraint's GMFBridge. Have you taken a look http://www.gdc ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development popup menu default item

  I have a popup with 5 buttons on it...how and where do i define the 1st button to be active when it pops up A note regarding this suggestion: setting state:focused="true" in the base XML isn't guaranteed to override the existing focus when the new popup is displayed. In order to assure correct focus management, don't set state:focused in the base XML. Instead, use <set state:focused="true"/> in a <cue> that is triggered by the appearance of your popup (if you rely on markup for focus management) or use the Animated Property API: document.yourPopup.state.focused="true"; document.yourPopup.state.unsetProperty("focused"); ...Show All