Dot Net Engineer's Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development Asynchronous (out of mux) PiP using SecondaryVideoPlayer

  As Peter wrote in his blog only syncronous PiP is supported with the current iHDSim. My question is if async PiP is working on the Toshiba consumer players and if someone already tried this. My idea is to stop the main video to play some PiP on top of it. Cheers, Gunnar The Toshiba player with 2.0 firmware might support async secondary. I know for a fact that earlier versions cannot. What do you mean by out-of-mux Do you mean video from pstore That is still muxed into an EVO. That should work in all players, though no titles do that right now so YMMV. You are correct in that stopping main video and playing PIP on top of it does require async support. ...Show All

• SQL Server access front end to sql server express backend

  I would like to make an access frontend linked to my sqlserver express db. Is this possible http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html forumID=102&threadID=205509&messageID=2136367 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Custom aggregate functions?

  I noticed standard aggregate functions like sum, avg, count, etc.  Is there an extensibility mechanism to implement your own, like in SQL-Server Thanks Ad. Adrian, If you're dealing with objects and not SQL, the answer is yes. I blogged some more details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jomo_fisher/archive/2005/09/15/467804.aspx This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Add Files" option greyed out

  Hello! I created a single workspace with components, comp1.1 and comp2.2 from 2 different team projects, TP1 and TP2 respectively. I created 2 new files, file1.1 and file2.2 under comp1.1 and comp2.2 directories in my work space. I go back to source control explorer, and under TP2, comp2.2, I select "Add files" option. From here, I add file2.2 and this goes well. But, when I go to TP1 to add file1.1, the "add files" option is greyed out. I can add this file1.1 to TP2, but this creates a new directory comp1.1 along with file1.1 under TP1. Please assist. Thanks! The tf workfold comand revealed that my TP1\comp1.1 has not been mapped to the workspace. Once I added ...Show All

• SQL Server Upgrade scripts for SQL Server Mobile Databases

  I am looking for a tool that can generate upgrade scripts for all deployed versions of my db application. Does anyone know of such a tool Not sure if there is one that deals with .sdf files. This might work with .sdf file... http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Compare/index.htm gclid=CJSQruT-z4cCFRRtQwodsA4-QA ( you can get a free trial) ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development No images in IE7 from script

  I have a simple vbs script to display a splash page. This has worked in all prior versions of IE. I tried the registry change (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BLOCK_LMZ_SCRIPT) as mentioned on another thread, but that didn't help. I also tried adding about:blank to the local sites. I've tried resetting and setting various security settings, all to no avail. If the page that is generated by the vb script is saved as an html file the page displays correctly with the images. But no amount of coaxing will get the images to display from the script. I'd appreciate any hints as to whats going on here. Script: set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") giftop = fso. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies How to access sharepoint site from the Internet

  Hi, I run SBS 2003 and I recently installed WSS 3.0 parralel to WSS 2.0. "companyweb" the internal site, still responds to http://remote.myserver.com:444 I try to find out a way to make the new site I created using WSS 3.0 respond on the requests from the Internet. The new site is listening to port 80 and I can access it (internally) by typing http://mynewsite Thanks for any pointers you can provide ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System report stops showing data - warehouse not update

  RTM TFS installed on combined AT/DT. reporting was working fine till a week ago, after that, i can still see the report, but there is no data. e.g. for "remaining work" report, even though we still have the same number of tasks, but the work item count (active/resolved/closed) are all showing 0. Report Generated: 8/23/2006 5:24:48 PM by xxxxx ; Last Warehouse Update: 8/14/2006 2:59:30 PM it seems the warehouse update has not happened since 8/14, event viewer doesn't reveal any obvious problem. how to kick start the warehouse update Another possible reason is that the Team Foundation Server Task Scheduler service was somehow stopped. That's the NT ser ...Show All

• Visual Basic To make characters in the text of TextBox ReadOnly.

  Hi All !! I am new to VB.NET... I want to make the characters in the text of TextBox control read only... That is, to make those characters should not be replaced by any other character, or can not be editable... So is there any property or method that can be implemented to the charactres/text(string) of textbox's text Responses are welcome Thanks, Prodigy201   Hi !! Thanks  for the response...  :) . Really appreciate !! But I don't want to make the whole Textbox uneditable. I just want some part of input and moreover already set text in the textbox uneditable, as we can see as par as in MaskedTextBox, for e.g. in date format, w ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sound problem in Space War

  I created a Space War starter kit and the only modifications I made was to uncomment the line in GamePadHelper.cs for the #define USE_KEYBOARD. When I run the game the sound works fine until the first round is over. Then the music sound freaks out and just sounds all static-y. Does anyone else have this problem and does anyone know what is happening There was another post about the Ship Upgrade screen being missed out, but the sounds from the money being added still playing - might be what you're hearing. The post title is along the lines of "Ship upgrade screen being skipped", and has a fix to stop it happening :-) ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to make the list box control alignment to right

  Hi, i'm developing a CF 1.0 application, and i'm using other RTL languages, and i want to display a listbox items right aligned, but i didn't find any property or other way to do this... if any one got ideas please reply me .. thanks, Ahmed Waly Thanks again for your fast reply MRs. Dina, i saw the blog, but it was for Win CE 5.0, well, my application is developed using VS 2005 with CF 1.0, so i think this will be a hard a bit, isn't! i'll try again and see what happens, by the way, i didn't know you are expert in the Smart devices too, thats great thing, and i'm looking forward for cooperating with you if possible, specially that we don't have alot of this type of experts in our area. if we can communicat ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Colormap values in an array to pass to SetRemapTable

  I'm having difficulty doing it. When I declare an array as new object and load it up with ColorMap.NewColor and ColorMap.OldColor, I get a runtime error which is essentially a type mismatch error. When I attempt to declare an array as new ColorMap, I'm told you can't declare an array as new. Can someone tell me what I need to do Or, if I'm on the wrong track for my purpose, which is simply to swap one color for another in a bitmap, perhaps someone could tell me how to do it. I'm using Visual Basic Express. Thanks. It's not fast but it works: Dim bmp As Bitmap = CType(Bitmap.FromFile("c:\temp\test.bmp"), Bitmap) For x As Integer = 0 To bmp.Width - 1 For y As Integer = 0 To bmp.He ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista NO SOUND!!!!!!

  I recently bought a sony VAIO laptop. It was working fine and it came with vista pre installed. However, there was a CD that said 'Upgrade your Windows Vista Experience'. So I installed the software and once (after some hours) it was installed I saw the speaker icon at the bottom right with an X on it. Placed pointer over it and it said 'No Audio Output Device is Installed'. I have tried many things that people have posted here but nothing. I dont know what to do. This is not the only problem I have had with Vista, I was told that that Vista does not read USB ports, is this true Also I have been having wireless problems. I contacted my ISP (AOL) and they said Vista is not compatible with wireless, is this true As you can tell im not an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF30059. Fatal Error While Initializing web service.Can no longer see source control items in Team Explorer

  Went from VSTFS Trial 3 to SP1. Backend is SQL 2005 without SQL SP1. Installed the TFS SP1 Beta and got a message that the installation was successful. Rebooted the server. After this, when I invoke Visual Studio 2005, a error appears which says: Error: Team Foundation Server <servername> does not exist or is not accessible at this time. Technical Information (For Administrator) Http code 503: TF30059: Fatal Error While Initializing web service. I was logged in as administrator when I installed the SP. After this error displays 4 times and I click ok, Visual Studio 2005 does run and from Team Explorer I can see all my work items, etc. BUT, the Source Control folder within Team Explorer ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Schema aware XLinq

  I managed to get some time to read the Linq project overview and play around a bit more. I had some thoughts on how Xml Schema and Xlinq could work well together based on one or two examples i found in the document. I've no idea whether this could happen, but in the word of deferred query evaluation anything is possible :) Consider this example within the document : IEnumerable<Person> persons = from e in x.Descendants("Person") select new Person { Name = e.Value, Age = (int )e.Attribute("Age") 21 }; It would be nicer for me to have previously done this: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <xs:schema id="XMLSchema1" elementFormDefault="qua ...Show All