Yann BOURON's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. BMP To X-File

  Hi I am very new in managed DirectX. I want to create a 2D-Surface with using a X-File. For example a Rectangle with a hole (circle). What Should I do Should I define all of the triangles or is there a way to convert a BMP to an X File Thanks... MAT There's really no way to convert a BMP to an X file. However, it's definitely possible to create a .X file the way you describe (although I can't personally think of a good reason why ) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista own Attributes on Interfaces

  I planned to use the method definition in an interface with additional custom attributes for an own global correlation implementation. E.g. public interface IExampleIFace {   [GlobalCorrelation("ID", "id", true)]   void Test(string id, string test); } But if I try to get the custom properties and the settings during design time in a custom activity, I had to discover that the WorkflowDesigner is raping my Interface and exchanged all my attributes with AttributeInfoAttribute attributes. While I already figures out that I can access the values my attribute again by the AttributeInfo.ArgumentValues, I have to be exactly aware of the order of my properties in my attribute to get the right ones. This replacing of attributes ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is there any funciton which can tell me my computer is busy or not in vc ?

  Is there any funciton which can tell me my computer is busy or not in vc Check this thread for small implementations in VB, C# and C++ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How i can set the default columns in the Input List when i use Excel for create a New Work Item?

  Hi to all, i would like to know if there are any way for setting the default columns that are displayed when i create a new Work Item using MS Excel with the Input List. Thank you. Hi, Upto my knowledge you can't set the default workitem columns in the INPUT List...i also tried the same. However the only alternated solution is you can choose the column names after getting the input list and start adding the necessary columns and publish. Thanks, kathir ...Show All

• Architecture I don't know what can I extract from my load project

  !Hello everyone! I have tested my application, it includes: indigo's service, a little logic based in typed datasets and an Oracle DB. Well, all, included the database, is into a P4 3,2 Ghz, 2gb ram. Only that machine. From my machine I have launched a test, it call an user case which access the DB with little logic. Well, in the test I have only achieved 20 concurrent users without errors (I think that is enough for my app). When I put more concurrent users the problems begins and IIS falls. What I want to know is if in that topology 20 concurrent users is a good number or I should have reach more. Thanks, I don't have experience in load testing and I don't know what expect. you should be able to achive 50 concurre ...Show All

• SQL Server How to acesses sql server 2000 from remote pc ?

  hi masters, i am using Sql server 2000 (MSDE) , and i want to acesses database from remote machin, how it is possible any one tell me pls thanks for reply 1. Yes the client and server on the same network. 2. Yes ping is replying but how to do-- What's the tcp port sql server listen on You can get this from errorlog. Try "telnet remotemachine yoursqlport", can you connect If you have firewall, please put both your sqlport(tcp) and UDP 1434 into exception. will you guide me ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Allowing the user to pick a cell in excel

  Hi, I would like to allow the user of my program to choose which cell that should be the starting cell for my program. How can I do this with a macro. This is how the code should work: It searches the worksheet for a specific text-string(This part have I fixed). If it fails to find that cell I want a pop up window to be visible where the user is asked to point out which cell that should be used as starting cell. The, by the user selected cell address should then be assign to a variable inside the code. Anyone that knows how to do this \Jonas Hi, I think giving you my utility file is more helpful. I am kind of too lazy to look into the whole thing. Basically this utility file give you all the example of some useful stuf ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can we reuse a workitem after it is resolved?

  hi I'm new to vsts.I can't get an exact idea of work items from books I have read. Let me share two doubts about work items: 1.If I have a task workitem and I associated it with a particular action(say for example, ichecked in a c# file).After that I included another c# class to the project.Can I associate this new change with the old workitem In fact ,I can do that ,but my question is :is there any problem doing so 2.Should I associate every actions in team project with a work item Thanks in advance. akjal there is no problem at all with associating more actions with the same workitem. About the second question, well there may be different opinions, I think it can be good to ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to bind a property to resources in a Resource File

  HI, I would like to know if its possible to set a property of a control in xaml to a resource in a Resource File. E.g Typically you have images/icons contained in the resource manager, normally you can access these resources with code, textBox1.Text = Properties.Resources.txtPageTitle; or image1.Source = ConvertToImageSource(Properties.Resources.MyImage); How wil this be possible in xaml <Image Source= ></Image> Or else, is it possible to imbed image data that is in base64 like the rtf format <Image Source="(base64 data)"></Image> Thank you very much, Jaco Check out this SDK entry and this article . I believe they should answer your questi ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing connectionString from ConnectionManager in a script task ends with "login failed"! WHY!!

  So in a script task for one of my packages I have a connection manager to an dtsConfig OLE DB. This is the code Dim ConnectionString As String = Dts.Connections("db_stage").ConnectionString Dim sqlConnection As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConnectionString ) I get a login failed for user...But if I hardcode the connectionString, including the password this works. 1) Why is it that the ConnectionString from the connection manager omits this password 2) Since this is an OLE DB, is there anyway to set the Data Source Designer to omit the "Provider=ABCDED.1" section Thanks! Tony Well I ended up recreating the connection to use an ADO.net connection source, and then manually hardc ...Show All

• Windows Forms cause a property to display "builder" button to browse for folder ?

  I'm writing a custom control. One of its properties is a directory name. I'd like the property sheet to display a "build" button that--when clicked, displays the standard Browse for Folder dialog. I have no idea how to do this. Any help getting started is appreciated. The Editor attribute takes 2 arguments, not 1 as in your example. I dug around to find an example, and was able to make it work, but I don't really understand it. [ Editor ( typeof ( FolderPropertyEditor ), typeof ( UITypeEditor ))] ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can't close Excel with VisualBasic 2005

  I'm using excel.application in visualBasic 2005, and I don't manage to close it. I tried some solutions found on the net, and appart the one killing the processus "Excel" in the task manager, no solution seem to work. In this simple example, Excel disapear from the task manager, but with the line in comment activated, excel stays open. Launching the function a second time create a new Excel Process, but close it after (one is still staying in the task manager). Please, help me to close the processus. Dim xlsheet As Excel.Worksheet Dim xlBook As Excel.Workbook Dim xlapp As Excel.Application Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions GetPortNames problem

  I have been trying to use the GetPortNames function to work in my C# project (I am a total newbie to C# and OOP) by copying code from an existing simple terminal program. However, no matter wherre I place the code, I get an error message: "Static member 'System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.GetPortNames()' cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead" I have a serial port instance I've dragged onto my form, called serialPort1. The code to get the port names is: private void get_port_names() { string[] ports = serialPort1.GetPortNames(); comboCOM1.Items.Clear(); foreach (string s in ports) comboCOM1.Items.Add(s); } This should generate a string array, and put the port nam ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem checking out items

  Hi I've been trying to checkout items using the _applicationObject.SourceControl.CheckOutItems(ref ItemNames) method, but this do everything except check out the items. My code looks like this List < object > GeneratedFileList = new List < object > (); // where GeneratedFilesList is actual a list of string ( Full File path name .e.g C:\Test\Test.cs if (GeneratedFileList . Count > 0) { // Check them all out (did the check above already) object [] arrFiles = GeneratedFileList . ToArray(); _applicationObject . SourceControl . CheckOutItems( ref arrFiles); } It works using " _applicationObject . SourceControl . CheckOutItem(Filename)" however this takes ages as there is abo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Implement the ComboBox of the Properties Windows when hosting forms in run-time.

  I'm implementing a designer form. I've a PropertyGrid that work fine, but i want to show all the controls in the hosted form in a combobox just like de Properties Windows of the VS2005 ide. I've got several problems doing this. I'm reusing the classes of the DesignerHost sample of MSDN. Could anyone helps me on this Thank you. ...Show All