Stéphane Beauchemin's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Drawing a Line between two 3D Points?

  Hello, I want to draw a line between two 3d Points. Actually, I want to show the user a wireframe of the 3D model that I have made. I have tried many things but in vain. Can some one quickly help me how to go about it Regards, Rohit. You can find a library containg a wpf 3d line element (SpaceLines3d) here http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx id=2ce2a6b8-2085-4839-a001-1c539525f5fa . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I calculate the absolute width of glyphs?

  I am working on a project to collect data via an order entry interface and part of the data is a personal message that will be engraved on the inside of a ring in a factory. Personal messages are being offered in true type fonts and I need to know if the personal message fits given the circumference of the inside diameter of the ring. How can I calculate the width, perferably in inches, of the personal message I have searched this web site and found functions such as getcharABDwidths but a description of the function does not define the return value. I am looking for a return value that represents distance. That isn't going to 'cut' it (heh...). All fonts of the same size return the same value - clearly incorrect (a fonts point ...Show All

• Windows Forms Flickering ToolTip on Vista

  Why the tooltip on any control with Vista always flickers without stop when the mouse move over the control,such as button control ,label control , checkbox control and textbox control etc . All of controls run on Vista appear flickering issue in despite of .net framework 1.1 or 2.0. But that would be ok on earlier windows OS. This seems to be rendering issue with windows vista. Detail Steps: 1) Drag a button control and a tooltip control on form 2) Use the button MouseMove event 3) add some code like the below private void button1_MouseMove(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e) { this.toolTip1.SetToolTip(button1,"Flickering ToolTip on Button!"); } Run the winform , move mous ...Show All

• SQL Server Show dimension members only if there is data associated with them

  Hello, Is it possible to set-up dimensions to contain only members that have a match in the fact table I would like the dimensions pull-downs to show only members with data. Thanks, Philippe Well I haven't found a solution when you have more than one fact per cube - and the client tool is a pivot table using owc because the users wants all the dynamic features - we can't discard the cube. In addition - I would be supprised if the cube in SSAS does not support conformed dimensions build by the Kimball Method where the idea is that you use the same dimension across several measure groups (fact tables). Therefore - any suggestions that limit the dimension members to data associated with the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Privateprofile access win.ini as filename hung app

  I have found that when using pathname\win.ini as the filename for use with private profilefunctions that this will not work correctly in vista. Vista reports a hung app message. If the filename is changed to something else such as pathname\setup.ini, the same code works exactly as expected. This fault was found in vista beta 2, and then again when tested on release version of vista. Using win.ini as the file name is just a bad idea, because the IniFileMapping mechanism doesn’t care about path, only the filename, and there are numerous redirections under IniFileMapping. See the documentation for the *Profile* functions for information about IniFileMapping. Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview with dateedit column

  Hi, how to specify a column as dateedit like combo,textbox thanks venp-- HI, will the below statement help me in future to get rid off the format exception. private void dgBilling_DataError( object sender, DataGridViewDataErrorEventArgs e) { //exit out return ; } venp--- ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Internet Explorer Toolbar (Menu Bar) disappeared after installing IE 7

  I use yahoo as my homepage, when the "Get IE7 now!" appeared in the toolbar, I clicked on it and installed it. Big Mistake so far...Here's the problem, after installing my IE menu bar (toolbar) containing "File, Edit, View, tools, help" vanished and I can't figure out how to retrieve it or get it back. I have checked and it is not hidden behind another toolbar. Along with that, The IE blue bar at the top & small bars at the bottom contain no information of the URL (webpage) when pages are loaded. In the Yahoo toolbar, under the pencil icon- there is no standard toolbar listed anymore. Also my tabs disappeared from yahoo and under the toolbar options there no longer is a check box to "Enable Tabbed Browsin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions some little question ;/

  how can i get an or in my if-construction (like if myint == 0 or myint == 5), i know it is some stupid question but somehow i cant find the answer ...Show All

• Visual C# Live Update?

  How could I add a live update to my application using: WebClient client = new webClient(); client.DownloadFileAsync(Uri address, FileName filename) I can download the file and run it with a dialog box, but I need to check the version of the file I have just downloaded. And if the file version is higher than the current, it runs, else it shows a MessageBox. See This: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=840615&SiteID=1 Best of Luck! ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX query count of customers who purchased in prior period and this period

  Hi there I'm looking for help with an mdx query that will tell me how many of my customers are returning to purchase each period and thus by default how many existing customers haven't purchased this period. So in English I want; Count of distinct customers who were active in this period and were also active in prior period. Or in T-SQL something like this select count (*) from ( Select distinct customer_id from fact_table where date = current period and exists ( select distinct customer_id from fact_table where date = prior period) ) I have a measure called distinct customer count and a dimension called DIm Customer which currently doesn't have customer_id as a level in any hierarchy, althoug ...Show All

• SQL Server OnInformation event on SSIS execution

  Hi everyone,   I'd like to alter OnInformation event in order to add more parameters (as TaskHost). Is it possible I've tried but appears an error:   OnInformation' cannot to implement OnInformation' because of it doesn't exists on the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.IDTSEvents'   Sub OnInformation( ByVal taskHost As TaskHost , ByVal [source] As DtsObject, ByVal informationCode As Integer , ByVal subComponent As String , ByVal description As String , ByVal helpFile As String , ByVal helpContext As Integer , ByVal idofInterfaceWithError As String , ByRef fireAgain As Boolean ) Implements IDTSEvents.OnInformation   I suppose that I must add an overload method but how     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO 2005 and Outlook 2007?

  Hi, I'd like some informations...I've started to use VSTO 2005 to build my plugin for Outlook 2003 some months ago...but a few weeks ago an user told me he has successfully installed my plugin into Outlook 2007! However, he's the only case... Do you have any clue Should they change the PIA, something else I still don't understand how this guy have been able to install (he neither...he just double-clicked the installer, and voila! :)) Please help me ;) Bye LastHope Until recently I'd been ignoring VSTO as an option because my next version was to support OL2002 & OL2000 as well. That left me with ADX.NET as my best/only option to let me do .NET coding and support the old Office versions. But now I'm hearing that I can likely get aw ...Show All

• Visual C# Commenting/Describing Methods

  Hi, I have just started a large team-based project in C#.NET. In order to simplify the use of code written by other developers I was wondering if it was possible to create the auto-popup things in the .NET environment. When you call a method in C# it lists the arguments it excepts and the return data type. For methods included in the .NET framework, often this is accompanied by a brief description, all encompassed in a neat little yellow tooltip-style popup. I was wondering if it is possible to achieve this description for methods that we have written to make it easier for developers to use each others code. Example: http://dieanotherdave.co.uk/popup.gif The above example shows what I am referring to. Thanks for any help, Dave. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Cascading combo lists

  Does any one know how to create cascading combo lists where in one combo list, you select a product and another combo list would display the sub-products/subcategory related to the product. How would the database design work so that the information can be correctly displayed in the combo lists. I have been trying to get my head around implementing this, but I have not found any suitable answers on the web. Any help would be great. Regards Dipendra take a look at this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=862343&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C# and SQL Express Problems

  I have installed SQL Express, Visual C#, created a test project and created a database. Made a table, populated it with some random info, and it appears that it is connected to the database server. I create a simple form to display in a table this information, it works. The problem is though, I cannot see my database with the SQL Server Management Express. I refresh and nothing, just like it does not exist. More, if I stop the instance of the server, and try to relaunch the simple form, it will not run since it cannot connect to the database. So, it seems like there is a database present, but why can't I see it with the Management Software Hmm, I created the database in c:\databases\ and I disconnected fr ...Show All