Annihil8's Q&A profile

• Community Chat Why the ASP.NET Pages are slow ???

  What's the reason of ASP.NET pages being slow, as compared to page when developed in PHP Hi - PHP is not faster then ASP.net. If we have two pages having same stuff. ASP.net will win, if u have created them with best approch. Usually developer miss use the rich functionality provided by ASP.net ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Studio Express License for Scools?

  Hello Dear Developers =)! I've questions about your registration and licensing. Can we get a Scool version of C++, and Java Express Edition The problem is that we've not the time to register every single desktop. We haven't found a good, but simple to install IDE in our language which is easy to understand for the pupils. We tried eclipse but it has no installer and is not multilingual by default, you've to add some language packs. However the whole installation and UI is not easy to understand. We don't want to know every function of the eclipse IDE before we can use it. Thanks in advance. It sounds like you are using the single file installation method (ie the very small fi ...Show All

• .NET Development *.dll.config

  I have recently run into a road-block with one of projects and I have made a post that highlights that problem under the "CLR" topic. Nevertheless, this post is to find out if I can associate a .dll.config with a class library - I know this was an issue in .NET 1.1, but never found out if it was fixed in .NET 2.0 or later. Specifically, I need to use the "probing" element to help the CLR locate some private-path assemblies. Also, if the above functionality is available, is it possible to monitor the CLR's actions at runtime to ensure that it is indeed looking at the .dll.config's "probing" element to locate the assemblies Thanks in advance, guys! Ahhh now I got it. The probin ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7, OE6 Printing problems with headers

  Having an intermittent problem printing To: From: CC: Subject: Attachments: headers on emails. Usually happens with larger emails or emails with large attachments or emails that have been replied to or forwarded from other people. Have installed Generic/text printer and sent the email to this printer but sometimes the headers are still missing even printing this way. I have if I open the offending email and highlight just one or two words in the text of the email eg Dear John and then print the email using my HP printer (not as text on Generic printer) - the headers then print and so does the selected words. Don't suggest using Outlook as often we only print the first page of emails as we already have the rest of the email on file especial ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development linked style sheets

  I am using linked style sheet and using the position attribute to arrange items on the page. But the css are having no affects on the position. Is there anyway to make ie7 position these attributes. I have had this problem before and i had to write the css within the same file as the html. Why is it that position on linked css file does not work Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Invalid cross-thread operations and CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls=false

  I am developing an application in C# .NET2 and I'm finding some issues with cross-thread operations on GUI controls. The controls are a mix of Panel, TextBox and Label and these are all being accessed by threads other than the thread that created the control. Of course, when debugging with Visual Studio 2005 these operations are highlighted by the appearance of InvalidOperationException. I could just switch off these exceptions with CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls=false, but that doesn't feel like the right thing to do. Could someone please tell me why cross-thread access of GUI controls can be such a problem Cathy. Hi Cathy! The Control class (and its inherited classes like TextBox or ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services

  Dear All, Developed a report using Reporting services (2005)integrating Chart FX .The report is built successfully but raises an error on deployment. Error: Could not connect to the report server. To resolve the error in the properties of the project i had given the target server url= Http://localhost/webfoldername (installed webservices on the local server) but still i am getting the same error. How to resolve the error. Regards Mohd Sufian Hi, didi you figure out if the WebService is currently running Just navigate to http://machinename/Reportserver (or whatever you directory for webservices is) to see if something is displayed there. -Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de/ --- ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to color ligne in a listbox

  Hello, I try without success to color ligne (each ligne should be with a different colour) in a listbox with VBA (outlook). I find some example with VB, C#, but nothing I can apply in VBA . Some body can help me . Thank in advance Vincent The listbox controls within the Office products do not support multi formating. All items will be formatted the same. You maybe able to, on your pc, use the controls available within .NET ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. End users shouldn't have to rewrite XNA math functions in order to improve performance.

  The overhead of passing a 64 byte Matrix by value is significant. Most especially when you are comparing two matrices for equivalency (==), or performing a Vector*Matrix multiplication (Vector3.Transform(Matrix)). The following matrix comparison function performs 5-10 times better than your built in == comparison. If the matrices are equal, then it is about 5 times faster. If they are unequal then it fails fast, and is about 10 times faster. public static bool Equals(ref Matrix a, ref Matrix b) { // i check the diagonal first for quick fails return a.M11 == b.M11 && a.M22 == b.M22 && a.M33 == b.M33 && a.M44 == b.M44 && a.M12 == b.M12 && a.M13 == b.M13 && a.M1 ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums BOT Development

  Hi, how can i develop a BOT without using the sdk's from Incesoft and Akonix Thank You. You can use the Colloquis Buddyscript SDK, but but that's unfortunatly possible right now, because a few weeks ago Microsoft aquired Colloquis. Keep an eye on http://dev.live.com , they should post a new version of the SDK there in a couple of weeks... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Model Exporting From Maya (.fbx)

  I have a question and concern regarding the .fbx model exporting from Maya. Problem: Whenever I load a model into my game that has been exported using the latest .fbx exporter plugin from Maya the model is arranged such that some of the pieces of the model are lined up along its x axis. I did some research on the .fbx file format and found out that while it was designed to be an open document 3D model format, it has been grossly revised by just about all modeling programs which have edited it to suit. Which is why you can't export a model in Maya and then import it into Max and expect it to be the same. My question is this, being that the .fbx file format is flaky at best; what make and version of the .fbx exporter/importer is XNA designed ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Two big doubts on XNA Beta 2

  1) On XNA help a read: "Dynamic run-time D3DX Mesh loading is not available in the XNA Framework, so an MDX application using D3DX mesh functions, animation controllers, of x-file mesh loading will require game-specific implementation of this functionality." So this is not a quick work make this kind of coding by our self (loading AnimationSet with custom importer, animation controller functionality like mixing two animations and more) and with code optimizations (MMX, SSE, 3DNOW). Model class has just Bones with their transform. The question: now XNA don't have animation controllers because it is Beta 2, or also final release don't have it at all 2) Runtime model loading will be more simple/quick to coding in final release or will be li ...Show All

• Commerce Server Getting SoldToName in Pipeline Component

  I'm building a C# pipeline component to handle credit card processing. I'm able to get the order form values without a problem. However, I'm not sure how to get the value for "soldtoname" which is stored at the PurchaseOrder level. Does anyone have any code examples where they've done this, or have suggestions I believe the context dictionary is passed in as the second parameter to the execute method within a pipeline component (have a look at the method signature). You should be able to cast it as a dictionary and work with it the exact same way you work with the OrderForm. ...Show All

• Visual C# ignore mouse down event

  I'm new to C# programming, learning it for pleasure on my own time. As an exercise, I'm creating a simple Windows program that 1) takes the mouse-down event as an 'anchor' point, 2) while dragging the mouse around continually draw a line from that anchor point to the current mouse position, 3) once the mouse-up occurs, shrink the resulting line down automatically until it disappears. Not too hard, and it works perfectly fine. My problem is that I do not want the Form to accept any mouse-down's while the shrinking logic is occurring. Currently, while the line is shrinking, I can do some more click-and-drags, and once the shrinking completes, those subsequent lines are drawn/shrunk in like fashion. I want to effectively ignore any mouse- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Isn't giving testers access to the drop location share a security breach?

  To publish test results to a build (when the tests are executed manually), the test group has to have full access access to the drop location share. I know I am splitting hairs, but from a Cobit or Sarbane point of view, isn't allowing people the possibility of delete the release folder a security breach . I'm I missing something or this by design. Thanks B. Huard Incyclesoftware.               Hello, You're right in that giving full access to a location always represents a risk; but this is in fact by design. You should be good by creating a group (for your testers) and knowing what people have the full access to the drop ...Show All