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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Changing the Color of a Row On a ListView

  I'm trying to set up a listview control where if a row meets a condition i want it to change the color of the text for that row (red) else it should be the default color. I have it bound to a dataset. Could someone point me in the right direction Thanks Hi Burldo, That link is specific to the Windows Forms version of a ListViewItem and not the WPF version. I'm not trying to be a jerk, rather, I'm just trying to help A.Carter stay on track. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. cloud of dust like in battlefield 2 : mc

  does anybody know how the developers from battlefield 2 : modern combat did the cloud of dust effects did you know what i mean hello what you need is this keep on reading http://www.markmark.net/clouds/ my game engine use simelar consepts ...Show All

• Windows Forms Building an MSI file in Visual Studio.NET

  I have developed a tool in C#/.NET and built the release .EXE of that tool. I woluld like to build an MSI install of the tool. How can I do that from within the Visual Studio.NET IDE Thanks You could use any third party tool that builds MSI files, depending on the requirements of your setup: http://installsite.org/pages/en/msi/authoring.htm including Visual Studio's Setup&Deployment project. http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/getting-started-with-setup-projects/ http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/visual-studio-setup---projects-and-custom-actions/ http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/updates-to-setup-projects/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to take the Value from Database

  Hi, I am a beginner of C# and a beginner of Database system. I am studying by using VS and SQLServer 2005 free of charge.But it's difficult for me to learn many things.I am stumbling in the method of obtaining the value from a data base. Please see the following... ---- SQL Server2005 Express Table: Daily ---- Create Procedure GetLastID: Return (SELECT MAX(ID) FROM Daily) ---- C# Express ---- int iCode; SqlCommand sqlCom = new SqlCommand("GetLastID", cn); sqlCom.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; iCode = sqlCom.ExecuteNonQuery(); MessageBox.Show(iCode.ToString());   ...and the result is always Minus One. Here, will it be a place in which it ...Show All

• Visual C# Need suggestion on Charting component for use in C# application

  Hi. Not really sure where to put post this question but I figure this is the closest (I hope). I am currently looking for a good charting component. Need to plot number in a graph. Does anyone have any suggestion on which once to look at I am currently trying th Graphics Server .Net one and would like to try out other products. I just want something that is easy to use. Specially something that is easy to plot numbers coming for result sets, result sets that are dynamic for every query execution. What I mean is, for the same query, it will return different number of columns (almost always). Please let me know. Thanks, Rick.. Never used it in a databound scenario before, but the library I usua ...Show All

• SQL Server Converting a date in the form of a string to a datetime format

  Hi, I'm writing some SQL and want to convert the following expression into a date format in the SELECT list: '01/'&Month(OrderDate)&'/'&Year(OrderDate) Basically, I want to look at each order date, convert that date to the first of that month and GROUP BY this expression. There is a CONVERT function, but I'm new to all this and can't seem to get it to work. Any help would be gratefully received! Cheers! Keith you can group by without having to transform the date and that is done like the example below use northwind select year(orderdate) as year, month(orderdate) as month , count(*)as ordercount from orders group by year(orderdate),month(orderdate) order by 1,2 ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies How to create a sign up page on wss 3 ?

  Hi, I would like to let the possiblitie for people to acces to my site. By first creating an account via a sign up page and then the user have to sign in to finally access to the sharepoint website. But I have no idea about how to do such thing (what tool i need , infopath, visual studio ... ). I dont know as well how this system can interact with active directory. Thanks for your help Hey, just found a much nicer implementation of a registration web part, mine was done quite a while ago after all! :-) http://www.sharepointblogs.com/chandimak/archive/2007/02/02/18868.aspx I'd suggest you try and make use of this one as it will definitely be more supported as it's hosted on Code ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom User Control (drawing outside the parent Region)

  Hi, I am trying to create a custom combo box, whic is a combination of textbox, command button and a datagrid. I am able to implement pretty much whatever was required. I ran in to a problem when the user control is contained in a Group Box, thus on the drop down event, my Grid (which is acting as the drop down list) does not show properly as it cannot go beyond the boundries of the Group box. Is there a way I can make my user control act as Top most Window so it draws over every other control. It tried using Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32.dll but it doesn't seem to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Thanks for the reply. However, I don't think that would resolve my problem, as the Group box size ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office deploying add-ins without installing PIA's in Target machines..

  hi all, i ve a seious issue regarding installing addin that i ve created for Outlook 2003 . it will work fine in the machines in which i manually install outlook 2003 PIA.. i dont want to make it an overhead on the users.. or my addin in fail if the user in case uninstalls that thinking that it's not required.. how do i deploy this properly.. i saw many posts asking not to deploy the office 2003 pia's and even asking to exclude them from them from the dependency list.. i m totally confused.. wats the right way to follow ur help is much appeciated.. thnkz in advance.. The articles my blog is pointing to discuss how to create a bootstrapper that will install all the pre-requisites. In this particular article please refer t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Comparing and printing database entries

  I have 3 tables in my database. One contains employee information (table 1), one contains signing in times (table 2), one contains signing out times (table 3). What I would like to do, is be able to print a summary page using the information from the 3 databases to tell me who is signed in at the moment. What the print function would need to do is take all the employee information from table 1, compare this data with table 2 to see who has signed in and discard the rest of the names (since they are not signed in), then compare this new data with table 3 to see who has signed out and discard those names. The common link between all the databases is the employee number (its the primary key in table 1, but appears in both table 2 and 3 ...Show All

• Visual C++ Upgrade to VS2005 gives problem with iterator

  Hi all, I have been assigned a task to upgrade a solution to VS2005.The solution is originally written in VS2003 and Compile with 0 error and 0 warning in VS2003. This solution contains 48 Projects. I am sending the excerpt of the code. This Code is working Fine in VS2003 but it is giving the following error in VS2005. Is there any specific way to use iterator in VS2005 . Code : typedef std::vector<_TCHAR *> FTBaseResourcePaths; class STXferWinsock { Public: FTBaseResourcePaths * m_pPathVector; } DWORD WINAPI STXferWinsock::thfnSocketThread( LPVOID dwUser ) { STXferWinsock * pThis = (STXferWinsock *) dwUser; --- -- //Some code here - ...Show All

• Windows Forms what is problem in this code?

  private void DownloadFile(string fName) { string msg="download done"; /* System.IO.fInfo fInfo = new System.IO.fInfo(fName); Response.Clear(); Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fInfo.Name); Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", fInfo.Length.ToString()); Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"; Response.WriteFile(fInfo.FullName); */ this.myLabel.ForeColor=System.Drawing.Color.Red; this.myLabel.Text=msg; } When I remove commented section, this method does not show ...Show All

• Visual Studio How-to: create a custom tool that runs directly against a model file

  The T4 engine that ships with the DSL tools gives you a flexible way to generate text output based on the contents of a model by running a custom tool against a template.   However, in a production environment, you may not want a user of your designer to have access to the template. You might prefer the user experience to be more like that provided by the Microsoft dataset generator, where the custom tool runs directly against the model file, rather than against a template.   This is very easy to do using the May release of the DSL tools.   1) Create and test your template as normal, but then put in a placeholder in the directive where the name of the model would usually go e.g. “%MODELFILENAME%”.   2) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Udder Assault XNA Warmup Submission

  When you get done with you game and sumbit it, crow about it here. A little over 24 hours left until the deadline and I'm so amazed I'm done, so much better than college Thanks to ZMan for his help, good luck all. I'll post the source code for my submission once the deadline hits. Bill I turned mine in on monday. Its called Space Race: Warp Speed. My wife played the role of "Novice Gamer" quite well too. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. constructive solid geometry

  Hi , I hope to create a system CSG, where you will be able to add boolean operators between object (cube/sphere/cylinder...), is there anyone who know algorithm's name to apply boolean operator cheers Hi, although I am aware, that this probably doesn't belong to DirectX or XNA itself, you might find this link interesting: http://www.flipcode.com/cgi-bin/fcarticles.cgi show=64448 At least there are some basics and references for two different realization methods: "Set Operations on Polyhedra Using Binary Space Partitioning Trees" by Thibault & Naylor ( ACM Link ) "Constructive Solid Geometry for Polyhedral Objects" by Laidlaw, Trumbore & Hughes ( ACM Link ) If you have an ACM ...Show All