boocowofdeath's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development An internal error occurred in PlatformVerificationTask

  Hi I get an 'internal error occurred in PlatformVerificationTask' warning when I build, but the code is still able to execute. There aren't too many people reporting this warning. So, it must either be very rare or there must be a quick fix to it. Ok, here is more detail concerning this warning and my project: 1) The project type is a device application for Pocket PC 2003 and is written in C#. I am running .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and OpenNETCF 2.0 beta. 2) I am running VS2005 version 8.0.50727 (RMT.050727-4200) 3) The project was originally upgraded from VS2003 about two months ago, but this warning started showing a week ago. 4) The warning started showing after I added localisation to the project. This i ...Show All

• Windows Forms RichTextBox question

  I am using odbc driver to manipulate records to and from a Paradox database. In the Database I have two columns that are Paradox 5.0 memo fields, they have been formatted with a Rich Edit field in Delphi7 . I can view the data in the fields in my C# app in MSVS 2005 with a RichTextBox control except that the formatting shows in the text box as well as the data. Like this: {\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 MS Sans Serif;}{\f1\fnil MS Sans Serif;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\b\f0\fs16 3/4x3/8--63/4x4/78--One X Leather--One 1/2" wedge. Hook heels around instead of cutting off.\f1\par } Is there a way to get the richtextbox to process the formatting Thanks Jon (Moderator: Thread moved to thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF service : Cannot browse the .svc file & hence the WSDL after hosting the service in IIS

  I have created a simple WCF  service as below. But after hosting it in IIS, I am facing problems as I am unable to browse the .svc   file, it gives ‘Page cannot be displayed’ error. But when I host the same service to some other machine, I can browse .svc file & hence the WSDL. Can anyone help me on this   My service contract & service code as below (GreetMessage.cs) using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.ServiceModel; using System.Runtime.Serialization;     namespace GreetMessageSolution {     [ ServiceContract ()]     public interface IGreetMessage     { & ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What are the best resources for people trying to get started?

  All right, simply put, for someone interested in learning how to program, how to design, and how to model, what books or websites would you reccomend most for someone trying to get into Game Development DirectX/OpenGL/Shockwave PC/Console/Mobile/Phone Native/Managed What are your current skills and programming language expertise Otherwise http://www.gamedev.net/reference/start_here/ ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there control which will fully emulate internet browser?

  Hello, I'm trying to write screenscraping application and target site is using tons of cookies and redirects, I don't want to manually implement all of the plumbing (handing cookies, redirects etc). Is there a control which will do it for me Hi I've been using a library called 'Watir' to System Test aspx web applications with features similar to what you have descibed. The library works by invoking IE, either visible or hidden, and using the browser to perform a sequence of tests as defined in a custom script that the developer writes. Unfortunately, the tool does not directly integrate with Dot Net as it is written in Ruby. Once a script is written you would have to invoke the script fr ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D - Draw points on screen

  Hello, I'm experimenting with a 2D space-shooter type of game and need to implement a starfield. To that end, what is the easiest way to draw a single pixel on the screen I'd like to be able to do this using normal (positive only) display coordinates (ie: 0,0 - 1024,768). I'm not familiar with cameras/matrixes/transformations but I'm hoping I won't need all that just to do something as simple as this seems to be. Thanks! -newbie RivieraKid wrote: its still a hack. Using a vertex buffer with a point list is the correct way. QFT. It's not difficult to do it this way. I'd suggest doing it. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Determine Compact framework and sqlce version

  I need to know the version of the compact framework and sqlce installd on the machine from my application from a C# program. I need these to know if to do automatic upgrade from CAB files (NETCFv2.wm.armv4i.cab, sqlce30.ppc.wce5.armv4i.CAB) on a SD card. Is there also a way to know the version in the CAB files. No, there's no way to find out version of the CAB without unpacking it first. You can check version of NETCF and SQL Mobile by checking file versions (e.g. mscoree2_0.dll and sqlcese30.dll). Also see this: http://wiki.opennetcf.org/ow.asp CompactFrameworkFAQ%2FDeterminingVersion ...Show All

• SQL Server Touble with text being truncated

  I am trying to send a large string to my table where I have typed the field as "text". The data is truncated ( I am only sending about 5kb and it is being truncated to about 4kb). I am using SQL 2000. My web page is classic.asp and I am sending a parameterized query to my stored procedure. This is the relevelant code for the parameter I'm sending: objCmd.Parameters.Append = objCmd.CreateParameter("@PostBody",adLongVarChar,adParamInput,20000,PostBody) This is the typing in my stored proc: @PostBody text, I can either INSERT or UPDATE using Query Analyzer and the data is NOT truncated. Wondering if it was my parameterized query that was causing me trouble, I rewrote the code to send the SQL upfront (skipping the stored ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to use the progress Bar

  i have developed an application that copies records from one table in Database1 to another table in Database2. i want to use the progress bar to display the progress of the copying. please how do i do this A user was nice enough to post his progress bar example in this post . ...Show All

• SQL Server how to design dynamic reports based on user's choice

  Hi all, I'm a beginner to Report Services, and have tons of questions. Here's the first one: if the reports are created based on the condition that the user selects, how can I create the reports with Report Services For example, the user can select the fields that will be shown on the reports, as well as the group fields, the sort fields and restrict fields. So I would not be able to pre-create all possible reports and deploy them to the report server, and I think I should create the reports dynamicly based on what the user select. Could someone tell me how to do it (create and deploy the reports) Thanks a million! Jonee I think this it's possible to certain extend, but not sure if ...Show All

• Visual Basic Passing a Byte Array to a COM object expecting a variant

  I'm trying to pass a byte array to a COM object, SHDocVw.dll, which expects a variant variable. VB.NET won't let me do this. I understand that the variant type is no longer supported in VB.NET, and I have come accross several references to marshaling, but none that make any sense to me. Anyone have any ideas [my appologies, but as this is an urgent issue for my project, I posted this issue (sort of) on another thread with a subject meant to attract a different knowledge base - sorry for the duplication] Just to be clear, there is not Object to Variant bug in .Net. I took a closer look at the loop that you posted, and it is incorrect. The problem is that arrays in .Net are 0 based, but the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to refresh the window in this case?

  hi, all I have a question about window refresh. The situation is, I need to hide the whole window. But it might show up some error message box if I need to. The problem is, after user clicks on Yes or No, the message box won't go away. The code is like this: SomeForm myForm = new SomeForm(); Application.Run(MyForm); SomeForm:OnLoad() { this.Visible = false; bool bValid = ValidateData(); if(!bValid) { DialogResult dr = MessageBox.Show(xxxxxx, do you want to continue); if(dr == DialogResult.Yes) { /// Here, do other work. /// At this point, the MessageBox is still there, won't go away. /// I think the reason is, there is no client area to refresh since the this.visible is false. So it does not re ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.NET (2.0) communicating with remote SQL server via SSL/HTTPS?

  I'm trying to get some understanding on how I can communicate with a MS SQL 2000 server via SSL/HTTPS using my VB.NET (.NET 2.0) code/connection Is this even possible Reason, I ask is that the environment we're using does not want to have port 1433 open to the outside world and do not want to have VPN's established with our remote locations, so it has been suggested I use SSL/HTTPS to communicate with my SQL server. The ONLY way I know of how to make this happen is to code Web Services (which is a huge re-write of code) and I'm still not sure how to implement via web services -- I've created a couple of basic we services before and they were EXTREMELY slow and I can only imagine they would be even slower using SSL/HTTPS. Keeping in min ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums live messenger becoming increasingly unreliable

  Has anyone else had this problem WLM is losing more and more messages lately. I had a friend over on my local wifi network and we were both messaging each other and nothing was showing up. It never gave us the undelivered warning or anything, just didn't send the message. This is becoming a lot more common too. It's hard to develop with something that I flat out can't count on. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX -> XNA: AlphaOperation is here, but what about AlphaArgument?

  I'm converting from MDX to XNA and want to  be able to control the alpha of an object through its vertices. I see that there's an AlphaOperation property in the RenderState, but what does the AlphaOperation operate on I don't see any AlphaArguments like there were in MDX, so I'm a little lost here. Thanks in advance. Oops. I should have said SourceBlend, and DestinationBlend. The ones with Alpha prefix are for blending into the frame buffer alpha channel (per Shawn Hargreaves in another post). Sorry for the confusion. ...Show All