andyedw's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms How to create and Invisible Groupbox

  I am creating an application for a Tablet PC that has a flash movie playing in the background and looks for input from the user (from a writing area I have defined in a groupbox on the main form). I am curious how to make this groupbox invisible but still usable so that I can show it and unshow it without anyone knowing the difference and it will still collect the pen input. Thanks! You're welcome. In order to keep things simple, my example assumes you want to make the transparent form cover the base form entirely. Handling user events gets a lot more complicated once you start making one larger than the other. I expect you could make it work but the code will get messy and complicated pretty quickly. Here's another approach that ...Show All

• SQL Server Copy SQL Server 2005 DB to SQL Server Mobile - is it possible?

  I'm creating a prototype of a PDA app using CF.Net 2.0 and SQL Server Mobile for a prospective client and I've gone through and designed, built and populated a database using SQL Server 2005... and then realised where I really need it is on the PDA! Without going through all the pain of setting up SQL replication or writing all the code is there a way to export a 2005 database to SQL Server Mobile so it results in an .SDF file I know I can script each table out and run it via the SS2005 management studio when connected to a local .sdf file then copy that to the PDA but the thing is I really want to keep my test data so I don't have to re-enter it again. TIA for any help... there must be a way to do this but I'm quite new to SQL Server ...Show All

• .NET Development error: c101008d

  Hi all, I have the following minor but annoying error whenever I build my application for the first time after modifying its code . "Error 2 general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file ".\Debug\eConsole.exe". The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. mt.exe " The building is fine for the second time. In other words, whenever I modify the code, I have to build it twice because the first time always generates the above error. This is true for both debuga and release versions. This is not a big deal, but just a bit annoying. Could anyone offer some tip to fix this Thanks, hz I had this error, too. It seemed to be caused b ...Show All

• Visual C# define a property which accepts a parameter

  Hello! What's the C# syntax to define a property which accepts parameters. The VB syntax whould be: Public ReadOnly Property Item(ByVal index As Integer) As Object Get Return CType(Me.List.Item(index), MemberDataValidationError) End Get End Property Then make Strings a property which returns a class which has it's indexer defined as you like. Or make Strings a method which takes a parameter. The syntax is only going to be slightly different between the two. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Quaternion camera help

  Hi, im trying to build a quaternion camera atm, without much success. ive created a quaternion for rotation, and am currently trying to convert that to a matrix, combine the matrix with a transform matrix to create a view matrix. unfortunately it doesnt work, and i cant figure out what im doing wrong. what im doing is basically: Quaternion q = new Quaternion ( Vector3 axis, float angle); Matrix m1 = Matrix.CreateTransform( vector3 worldPos ); Matrix m2 = Matrix.FromQuaternion(q); Matrix view = m1 * m2; and use view as my view matrix. i suspect that im screwing something stupid up... any ideas I should also add that a matrix that is composed of translations and rotations (which is what ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Running outside TFS - Possible?

  I've got almost the same software at home as at work, except for the Team Foundation Server of course. I've installed the VSTS at home and have added the VSTS-DP. Is there some way I can take the db project from work (on a usb drive) and work on it at home and then merge the modified files back into the TFS-VC EDIT ******************************************* Well, I grabbed all the files from work thru remote.  Then tried to open it here at home. When it was opening it complained 3 times about not resolving the server name.  And also warned me about source control and gave me the option to work temporarily uncontrolled.  Toward the end of the load, it said I needed to go to Tools | Options and change the validation database ...Show All

• SQL Server Please help

  Hello everyone, I received this program for use with my college class's. Now it is important that I get this working, after about 4 hours of messing around with Visual Studio Pro to get it installed, I ran into yet another problem. The SQL Server will not install here is the error log I get. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup beginning at Sat Feb 17 12:21:14 2007 Process ID : 3932 c:\f3669493315ed3747ac0bc50\setup.exe Version: 2005.90.2047.0 Running: LoadResourcesAction at: 2007/1/17 12:21:14 Complete: LoadResourcesAction at: 2007/1/17 12:21:14, returned true Running: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2007/1/17 12:21:14 Loaded DLL:c:\f3669493315ed3747ac0bc50\xmlrw.dll Version:2.0.3609.0 Complete: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2007/1/17 1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Is Installing SQL05dev and VS05pro on the same machine supported?

  Hello,   When SQL05dev is installed a SQL05 version of Visual Studio (SQL05-VS) is also installed (called the “SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio”).   The SQL05-VS installs files into a “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE” directory (and other directories - not described here).   When the full version VS05pro is installed it installs/uses files in a “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE” directory.   The number of files in these two directories is different – the directory for VS05pro has (of course) many many more files than the directory for SQL05-VS.   On the surface this seems ok since the instal ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. making easy multiplayer game

  hi, I would like to create as feature a mulitplayer game and I was wondering how. I have the latest directx, directx SDK, C#, all frameworks,... and a server anybody can help me to good tutorial and tell if I need to use directx SDK for this If you're interested in just the client / server aspect of it, then you should try creating a simple server and then join from a client. From that point, move to transmitting a string. Then transmit a string and do something (server side) based on the content of the string. Using that type of logic will allow you to move onwards and do more involved network coding. If you need a tutorial on how to do this, e-mail me and I'll send you some basic code on how it i ...Show All

• Visual C++ GDI+ problem

  Hello all. I have some strange problem with displaying images through GDI+. I use the following code: case WM_PAINT: HDC hdc; PAINTSTRUCT ps; hdc = BeginPaint( hwnd , &ps); Graphics graphics(hdc); // here goes some painting... EndPaint( hwnd , &ps); return 0 ; The problem is that after executing that painting, there is no immediate effect on a window. I have to, for example, minimize and restore my window if I want to see the painting effect. What could be wrong with that code Thanks in advice for any suggestions. Best regards. ...Show All

• SQL Server Limiting Results from MDX query

  Is there any way to specify that I only want the last 16 rows of an MDX query Thanks. OK - if you need to get 16 weeks from the current week - you can use StrToMember(@CurrentWeek, CONSTRAINED) : StrToMember(@CurrentWeek, CONSTRAINED).Lead(16) If you need 16 weeks before the current week - you can use StrToMember(@CurrentWeek, CONSTRAINED).Lag(16) : StrToMember(@CurrentWeek, CONSTRAINED) HTH Mosha ...Show All

• SQL Server execution package task-SOS

  hello to every body.. well i have a problem.. well i created a package the task of which is to update thedimensions and the fact tables from the tables of source. i created a configuration file with all the parameters that are nedded (connections managers; parameters of packages).this config file will include all the paremeters need for the execution of other packages In that package i call an other package (execution package task). this package normally will take the parameters of the parent package isn't it (i put the parameters of this package to the config file of the parent package). i must also note that for the second package called there is also a package... i must also note that i have 2 DWHs (a and b) for testing. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Checkin policy dll is blocked after the policy usage

  I tried to assign new checkin policy to the project - it failed and adviced me to install the policy. I am actually compiling project tot he folder where this policy should be assigned from and now, after the error, my Visual Studio can not override the dll file. Looks like that Wizard or whatever it is didn't release the lock from dll. It happens every time when policy is touched in any way and until the Visual Studio is closed down - either memory leak or something... I'm not 100% sure I'm following you, but I'll assume I am and state what's going on - please correct me if my assumptions are off. You have one Visual Studio running in which you're creating/editing your checkin policy. To test it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions View Source

  Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to toggle the mode of the web browser viewer to show "View Source" Any assistance would be appreciated Jason Hi, thanks for the feedback on this :o)... do you think there maybe a way to pipe the "View Source" data to a textbox, rather than open up a Notepad window is this possible Regards Jason ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SharePoint

  I am getting this error. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: An error occurred loading a configuration file: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\template\admin\1033\web.config' is denied. Source Error: [No relevant source lines] Is this about Team Foundation Server installation or just Sharepoint if second one I would recommend you to post this in Sharepoint newsgroups: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbr ...Show All