Edwin Chan's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DreamBuildPlay is up!!!

  Now go register!!   Actual contest details to come the week of Feb 5th Hmm... State location and phone number seem to be USA specific. An oversight, or is the rest of the world excluded ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSContent and Addin Schema Question / Issue

  Hello, I am making my VSI installer, and it is working mostly ok. But I have a couple minor issues. First, let me explain that I have many <Content> Sections in the VSContent file. There are 2 ProjectTempaltes, 2 ItemTemplates, and My Addin. The 4 Templates all get installed to their proper place, and load up just fine. The addin gets installed to the right place as well, but i have The Partner Assembly in the GAC. When I had the dll in the addin folder to debug, it was easy and all worked well. The <Assembly> element was simply GBMVSEnviromet.dll. Now, when it's in the GAC, I thoguht I would do the same thing as in the Template for Wizards. Using the Assembly, version, culture, pky, custom, below i pasted both my XMLS ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development ActiveX Control Issues - IE7+Vista

  Folks, I am trying to connect to a website, upon loading the first thing website does is it installs ActiveX control. If i am in Guest account, UAC in Vista asks for Admin Credentials. How can i avoid that credentials message box. Is there any thing i need to take care of while deploying ActiveX control. I don't want to disable Group policy setting to avoid credentails message box or force user to enter admin password. All i wanted is to make sure the ActiveX control installs fine in Guest Account. Is it possible Does any one has faced this problem I expected atleast some hints :) I guess the reason UAC asks for admin credentials is i am downloading ActiveX control to C:\Windows\System32 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project wont load

  Can anyone advise how to debug my VS2005b2 project. Its been working fine now all of a sudden when loading it, it gives me object or with block variable not set. Ive tried reloading, removing from the solution and loading independently but to no joy. On editing the vdproj file the MSBuildVersion element has a wavy blue line over it with a hover saying MSBuildVersion attribute not declared, and there are many errors through elements within the xml, the first of which is PropertyGroup has an invalid child element nam The only other weird thing is that when opening the solution of which this project is  part, it says VSS has detected that a previous operation was terminated unexpectedely please run analyze, which I do, to find now ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can Sandcastle output a help website rather than a CHM file?

  I used to use NDoc to create help in HTML format. When I try to use SandCastle, it appears that the only option is to create .chm files. Is it possible to create a website similar to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa388745.aspx using SandCastle I was thinking about doing that in my DocProject software for Sandcastle but with a lot more features than just a list of topics.  I added a work item for it recently and I'm hoping to get some feedback from the community on this idea as well: www.codeplex.com/DocProject   For now, there are basic DocSite  templates in C# and Visual Basic.NET that you can use to create your own website.  Each comes with a&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ DumpBin can't find mspdb80.dll

  When I try to start DumpBin, either from the command prompt, or by clicking the filename in Windows Explorer, I get the message "The application has failed to start because mspdb80.dll was not found..." DumpBin is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin, and mspdb80.dll is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE, and also in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSA\8.0\VsaEnv. What do I have to do to get DumpBin to operate When I open a VS command window (View/Other Windows/Command Window) and type "dumpbin.exe" I get "Command dumpbin.exe is not valid". What do you suggest I do differently ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to add an assembly reference when processing an item template?

  Hi, I have an item template that uses a base class in another assembly. Is there a way to ensure the project has a reference to that assembly and if not, add it when processing the template Regards, Alexander Well, the idea was to have some kind of declaration (probably within the tempate) stating what assembly references the template needs. And the engine careing for the reference in the project. I know how to do that in a custom action, yet it strucks me as a very common demand that should be available within the system. Regards, Alexander ...Show All

• .NET Development Retrieving data from Excell 2003 - Could not find installable ISAM.

  I am trying to access some data in a Excel 2003 file and import it to a dataset using a oledb provider.Here is the code : string cnxString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + "Data Source=C:\\TEST.xls;" + "Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;"; this.excelConnection.ConnectionString = cnxString; this.excelConnection.Open();I keep getting this error :A first chance exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in System.Data.dllSystem.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Could not find installable ISAM.I have search everywhere there is a space between data and source. I have read the KB articles but nothing seems to be doing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Vista TreeView does not cancel user check

  I have some treenodes which i want to make it uncheckable. This is achievable by hooking to the BeforeCheck event and set the Cancel to true for TreeViewCancelEventArgs. However under Vista, when user doubleclicked the treenode, the check box still get toggled even though the Cancel member of TreeViewCancelEventArgs parameter had been set to true. Does anybody know how to work around this bug Thanks in advance. Just for what it is worth. You can disable the doubleclick function all together by creating a wrapper around the standard treeview control. Here is the code. Public class MyTreeView : TreeView { protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) { / ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Beginning Game Development: Part III - DirectX II - Problem with the "Using..."

  Just started the Direct X Part II (Part III) tutorial, and I seem to have an odd problem. I get one error whenever I try to build the solution, Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Device' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference ) C:\Documents and Settings\Doug Ross\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BattleTank2005\BattleTank2005\GameEngine.cs 68 17 BattleTank2005 Now, I put at the very top of the GameEngine.cs class, right below all the other "using" directives... using Microsoft.Samples.DirectX.UtilityToolkit; So now the "Using" section at the top of the GameEngine.cs looks like... using System; using System.Collections.Generic; us ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can I use WCF in .NET 2.0 or does it need some extra library

  Hi, This is probably a dumb question but I need to know the absolute correct answer. I want to design a service for an organisation who is thinking about using .NET 2.0. Enterprise Edition for the developement They do not intend to go to .NET 3.0 in near future. I wanted to ask whether WCF is support in .NET 2.0 Enterprise Edition without having to download any classes and libraries I have got two conflicting answers uptill now. One is yes you can use WCF in .NET 2.0 Other answer is you can use WCF in .NET 2.0 but you will need to download extra classes and libraries Thanks in advance Swati Hi Swati , I dont think there is a .NET 2.0 enterprise edition . There ...Show All

• Visual C++ Getting linker errors in VC++.NET 2005

  Hi, I am having a VC++.net 2003 application. When I try to compile and build the project in VC++.NET 2005(coming with Visual studio 2005), after the conversion process, it gives series of linker errors. All are coming from .obj files (some are my own files and others are from stdafx.obj, assemblyinfo.obj !!!). It seems that some compiler options to be changed. Could somebody help me on this problem The sample error message is below. error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol " .cctor@@$$FYMXXZ " ( .cctor@@$$FYMXXZ ) Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to make a instant messenger?

  Hey everyone! I was wondering how I would go about devloping a instant messenging program in VB Express 2005 also maybe making it possible to have it where you must sign in inorder to chat, Thanks! I am not much of a network programmer but this is how I make my applications talk with each other. Setup a free e-mail address with some random provider. Use the computers host name as the "screen name" Dim ComputerName As String = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName() Send an E-Mail to the address you created with the following properties Subject:(ComputerName) Contents:(The Instant Message) _____________________________________________________________ Set a timer to every 2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview cell coloring problem

  I have created the two datagridview control named: dgvDBtemplate1 and dgvDBtemplate2 with 2 columns one column of type DataGridViewCheckBoxColumn and another column of type DataGridViewTextBoxColumn, added at the design time. Now what need is to color the selective DataGridViewTextBoxColumn of dgvDBtemplate2 when the CellContentClick event is fired from the DataGridView named dgvDBtemplate1. I managed to to get the particular cell of dgvDBtemplate2 that is to be colored and applied the property as: dgvDBtemplate2 .Rows[idxGrid].Cells[0].Style.BackColor = SystemColors.MenuBar; The property worked but the problem is that instead on coloring single cell, it colored the whole cells. Pls, let me know how to solve this problem. Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SOAP header Action was not understood

  I have a WCF service available with metadata publishing. I have .NET 2.0 and 1.1 applications that need to use it using the old style Add Web Reference dialog. The reference can be successfully added, but each time I try to call the service I receive a fault, "SOAP header Action was not understood." What is required to get WCF 3.0 services to work with non-WCF applications No, it uses wsHttpBinding ... what do I lose by going to basicHttpBinding I plan on eventually using an STS to authorize messages, will I not be able to with basicHttpBinding Could I host multiple endpoints in IIS with basicHttpBinding and wsHttpBinding with only a address extension like address="mex" for the M ...Show All