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• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I make a custom Control?

  Okay, hopefully I'm phrasing this question correctly. I'm writing a sort of black jack game. I have, in my project, a card class. One of the properties of the object contains the image of the card, which I can use to pass the image to a picture box on a form. This works okay. But what I want to do is actually place the card object itself on the form. How do i create a class from which I can instantiate an object that has a visual element that I can actually drop on a windows form, and possibly add events and so forth... ala a custom control If someone could maybe point me to the correct article. I've been searching, but i don't think I'm phrasing my question correctly. Thank you and best regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MediaElement is playing HD-movies slow in RC1

  I've just upgraded my system from June CTP to RC1 of .NET 3.0. Rebuilding my projects worked without any problem but when i try to playback a HD-movie(720p) in a mediaelement i get unacceptable framerates. In June CTP the exact same movie worked perfect and i can't think of anything else that has changed in eighter my system or project that might affect videoplayback. Playing the movie in WMP, VLC or any other player works just as before. My system: Athlon 3200+, 1024mb ram, Radeo 9800pro 128mb, XP Pro, WMP 10 Thanks for your help What does 'up to date' mean A video plays fine in windows media player 11/10 but not in WPF The drivers Im using are a month or so back. Does vs studio express come with th ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Map is Done Loading

  Is there way to tell when all the tiles within the map have loaded ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF inheritance and DataContract

  I’m having troubles creating a service reference. My contract has 6 operations; all of them are much alike. The basic signature of a single method is ResponseType DoSomethingUseful(RequestType), where ResponseType and RequestType are my types, i.e. classes used for communication. They are inherited from some classes and I have some other classes that are based on these two. I’ve tried having these classes in different assemblies, and all together, do not make a difference. The ideas is a simple, establish communication with classes based on the ResponseType and RequestType. When I build a project and add a service reference to a client my proxy is just a partial set of classes. Majority of them are missing. I don’t know why. Is th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions iTunes

  Is there a way to controll iTunes through a vb program I have used the "references" tool to controll a word document but can it be done with iTues I want to open a playlist and start it automatically as a sort of alarm program. Thanks! not unless the product has some plugin/SDK/API you could use....as far as I am aware but could be wrong. I don't know how itunes works, since ive never used it, but perhaps you can launch the application, using the Process.Start(), and perhaps somewhere in the itunes software configuration, maybe there is a "play track when loaded" option or something in the software Perhaps the software accepts the path to the files to play in its exe file (like a swi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Legal rights regarding distributing ActiveX controls licensed w/VB6 but included in apps developed with 3rd party product

  I have Visual Studio 6 and have successfully written and distributed applications using MS Common Dialog ActiveX control with Visual Basic, Packaging and Deployment, etc. I am now using LabVIEW to develop an application in which I wish to use the Common Dialog control. This, of course, works as long as it is executed on my development computer, but fails due to a lack of license on any other computer. How does one go about obtaining the proper licensing rights for including the MS ActiveX controls received with Visual Studio in applications developed with other tools (if I don't already have those rights due to the purchase of Visual Studio) A following question: what are the mechanics of getting the license properly bundled with ...Show All

• Visual C++ I want to edit the .rc file in vc project, from where can I open the text editor to edit the .rc file ?the steps to do it ?

  I want to edit the .rc file in vc project, from where can I open the text editor to edit the .rc file the steps to do it when I replace the bitmap file in the res folder with another similar bitmap file with the same file name, and I compile and run the program,it give me some error: CVTRES : fatal error CVT1106: cannot write to file .\Debug\SiteViewer.res : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt Error executing link.exe. Can you tell me the steps of how to change the bitmaps file in the res folder Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Windows Live Messenger problem

  hi all my Windows Live Messenger doesnt have Windows Live call (icon + in the tools menu) i just can call from pc to pc i try every thing ,, same problem ;/ please im waiting The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, please check the following resources... Messenger Technical Support is available on the Messenger newsgroup: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ dg=microsoft.public.msn.messenger&cat=en-us-msn&lang=en&cr=US&ln=en-us nntp://microsoft.publi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System OTP: windows 2000 SP4

  Hi. Im not sure if Im in the right place but im sure someone here will be able to help. I got an Ipod nano today for my birthday, whoo hoo, come to connect to my computer and I cant!! IT says I need SP4. I am running windows ME I think. . . . I have gone to web site to download SP4 and it says I cant!! What can I do Any help gratefully appreciated!!, Boo As you surmised, this is the wrong forum. These forums are for programming questions. Congratulations on your new toy, but you'll need to find a new forum ( probably an apple one ) to ask this question ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Help to convert xaml into csharp

  Hi Everybody, Could anybody please help me to convert this code into csharp code Thanks in advance. Joy < Button Name = " btn " Content = " Click " Grid.Column = " 1 " > < Button.Template > < ControlTemplate > < Grid > < Grid.ColumnDefinitions > < ColumnDefinition /> < ColumnDefinition /> </ Grid.ColumnDefinitions > < TextBox Grid.Column = " 0 " > Hai </ TextBox > < ComboBox Grid.Column = " 1 " ></ ComboBox > </ Grid > </ ControlTemplate > </ Button.Template > </ Button > 1. XamlReader.Load(...) or 2. Button btn = new ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Why WF?

  Hi, I spent the last few months playing around WF, finally have better understand on how to create workflows and design the host applications. Then the next question is where and how to make use of them. My job focus is on Web-based Document Management Solution, which might involved some document approval workflow. One of the basic requirements is we need to provide a way for the users to design / modify the workflow (like many other DMS solution in the market). If we go for WF as the Workflow engine, I've the following concerns: 1) the WF designer seems too complex for ordinary users to understand. Also doesn't work under Browser Environment (actually it can but not recommended because of security issues). 2) a workflow ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions install problems

  ok i went to intall and it said i needed to download system pack 2 so i did and i restarted my computer but when i went to install it it still said i needed to install system pack 2 Hello Re: install problems I am going to mark this thread as answered since you have not followed up with any further information on your problem - I assume you solved the problem yourself or one of the suggestions in this thread helped you solved the problem. If you have a solution you could post it so others can find it. If you do not have a solution then please submit further details and then mark the thread as unanswered. Thanks Damien ...Show All

• Community Chat What language do you prefer?

  Could someone please enlighten me as to what the advantages and disadvantages of the following languages are, in general: C# C++ Visual Basic Also: I read somewhere that C++ was much better for game programming than VB, but why VB is easier to learn and use, so what are the advantages of C++ Here's my take on them. C# – It’s a relatively new language that’s essentially a cross between Java and C++. In fact, some have called it Java with the serial numbers scraped off. It’s closely associated with the .NET Framework and is the primary language for it, meaning that you’ll see new Framework features in it first and often better implemented as opposed to what you see in other languages. The syntax is conducive to go ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing SQL Server 2005 Express as Part of My Application

  I have found a lot of info on MS site regarding installing SQL Server 2005 Express as part of an application. I have found these articles to be extremely inaccurate or at best incomplete. 1. The documentation says all I need is the setup.exe from SQLEXP but this is not true. 2. When I do launch setup.exe during my app's install, it fails because setup.exe trys to run the support.msi. Of course this causes failure because my install is also an msi. So, does anyone know how to install SQLEXPRESS as part of my app's install Thanks. Hi Shawn, I think you might be misreading the documentation you've found, Setup.exe is simply a bootstrapper that launches other SQL component installations. You h ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums "I'm not ready to publish yet"

  Is there any way for a smart content plugin to stop the publishing progress because it isn't ready yet eg it is busy doing some work to create something and hasn't completed If you could put a flag that i can set to cancel the publishing process into generatepublishhtml() that would be grand.. at the moment i have to throw an exception in there to cancel which is a bit ugly ...Show All