Scott ODonnell's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Don't Show Group in Listview Control

  hi all, I have Started My project on Windows 2000 with SP4. on .NET 2002, then i have Upgraded to the .NET 2003 with OS XP with SP2. Now, i have again Upgrade my Project to Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 2.0. and i am going to add new Group in My Listview Control but it doesn't displyed in Runtime only.. it displayes in Design time. i have already set "ShowGroup" Property to "TRUE". Kindly, do needful... here is the code for the same... Public Class Form1     Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form #Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "     Public Sub New()         MyBase.New()         'This call is required by the Windows Form Des ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How about this new Texture2D member?

  In addition to 'Width' and 'Height', how about 'Center' as a Vector2 Most times I find it more useful to draw my sprites from a center origin and I'm always using the good ol' "image.Width / 2, image.Hight / 2" for origin. It would make things a lot cleaner to just have "image.Center". You can always derive your own texture class from Texture2D and add a center property. If a sprite/texture doesn't fill up the entire width/height, then center will be calculated incorrectly. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Integrating .Net into a VB6 client

  Hello I have a question about whats the best way to integrate a .Net application into an "old" VB6 application. The current problem is that we need to rewrite "parts" of the application and need to incorperate those "parts" into an old legacy System... This system is written in VB6 and the goal would be to make this possible with the smallest amount of changes to the VB6 code. I was thinking about creating a plugin or something like that which would have its own form or controls and only require a very "minimalistic interface" (like show()) Are there any patterns which I should take a closer look at or has anyone a suggestion on what would work best The "part" of the system will ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C++ Express Compiler fails after installing SP1 beta

  I have just installed VSC++ Express SP1 beta and now nothing compiles because there seems to be problems in the xutility library. Here is the version information from help: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.363 (SP.050727-3600) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0.50727 Installed Edition: VC Express Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 76542-000-0000011-00125 Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Here is a simple Hello World program that won't compile: // HelloWorld.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include "stdafx.h" #include <iostream> int _tmain( int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { std::cout << "Hello World\n" ; return 0; } Here ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Response times and Caching in webtests

  Hi, I have a webtest with 4 webpages. When I run the webtest, along with the http status it also shows the response time and size for each url. Can I count on these numbers I mean, are these numbers the same as what I get when I test the URLs from IE Also, how does the caching work in VSTS I do not see anything in the temporary internet file after I ran the webtest. Thanks. Thanks for the reply. Howeverm I have a couple of questions. 1) If I like to know the page time in a webtest, how can I do that My pages have a lot of dependents and I dont want to calculate the page time manually. 2) Page A has dependents 1.gif, 2.gif and Page B also have the same dependents. Ideally, IE would bring ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions syntax code

  to those of you who are familiar with the coding, could you write a simple code example so we can understand,give us simple syntax examples please of; deleete command accept changes command that way those  of us who are beginners can read the syntax and get a better view of how it works. ok.... now if you are giving a method a string (newsong) to a method which only takes a certain type (integer) you will get this error. It's like, remember those "fit the shapes into the correct holes" Where you have a triangle which fits in a triangle shaped hole Pretty much the same thing here, a method which expects a parameter (value you are giving) must be of the same "shape" (val ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combining ClickOnce and MSI Installer

  Hi, I have been surprised by the gap there is between ClickOnce and MSI. And I need to solve this. The scenario is this: Install a windows form application on a client (registry values, files, folder creation) and use ClickOnce to just update the application. Any GOOD documents about it Thanks!!! OK. Let me try to explain: 1.- You will need to create an Installation project (MSI) and finally get your app.msi file. 2.- Need to download the Bootstrapper SDK which contains the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator ( http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx id=ddb4f08c-7d7c-4f44-a009-ea19fc812545 ) 3.- Now you need to create a Package Manifest. 3.1 – need to add the MSI you just generated. 3.2 – Follow ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Authoring software

  Hi guys.  Please excuse my more basic question that is not about advanced content. I have a SD DVD I need to convert to HD DVD.  I've used the now defunct DVD Maestro to do all my authoring and I am proficient with it.  I need a tool, preferably XP compatible, that will allow me to do some HD DVD authoring with that level of flexibility.  The only thing I know of is Scenarist and that may be a stretch for my pocketbook. Are there any other options   It is important that the authoring process does not do any recompression of the content. Thanks, Scott Like all new standard it is hard at beginning. I remember , to my mind, the problem with DVD project and DVD players i ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB 6.0 - No. of Controls in the Container

  Hi Is there any restriction in the number of controls that a Form Container should hold How to trace the Form Container capacity depending upon the VB version, Control Type and Other criteria. Is such information stored in any system files that is shipped during VB application install I Know the restriction is there. But how to get the Upper limit whether it is based on the memory or any other parameter..... Or on what parameter this restriction get used ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I quit the execution from the recursive function?

  Here is the code I had used. It doesn’t quit from the loop. Please let me know where I made the things wrong. private bool LocalWindowsTest( string path) { bool Flag = false ; DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo (path); foreach ( DirectoryInfo d in dir.GetDirectories()) { foreach ( string fileExt in new string [] { "*.csproj" , "*.vbproj" }) { foreach ( FileInfo file in d.GetFiles(fileExt)) { Flag = true ; break ; } if (Flag) break ; } if (!Flag) LocalWindowsTest(d.Full ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DirectShow / DirectDraw surface problem (getsurface())

  First off i apaologise as my DirectShow knowledge is more or less non-existant, if it was better this problem would maybe be blindingly obvious but I have searched forums, documentation, usd the DX debugging features etc and still haven't solved it! I am using directshow with directdraw surfaces to play avi's in the Irrlicht engine. they play fine in a windowed app but I have a problem in full screen. the movie is played to a surface then copied to a texture that I can use. The problem seems to be that I use 32 bit textures and that when I call pSample->GetSurface(&pSurface,&Movie_rect); (pSample is a pointer to a IDirectDrawStreamSample) I get a 16 bit surface in fullscreen mode, even though my Irrlicht devi ...Show All

• SQL Server “AcquireConnection method call to the OLEDB Connection Manager for SQL Server failed” Error

  I have an SSIS package which takes input from Flat file and transfer the data to SQL Server using OLEDB Destination Data Flow Item. The OLEDB Connection Manager used for the destination is configured to use SQL Server Authentication for the user ‘sa’. The package works fine without enabling the configurations. But when I enable package configuration and save the configuration of the various connection managers in an XML configuration file and then run the package it gives the following error in the validation phase: [OLE DB Destination [21]] Error: The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "<Connection Manager Name>" failed with error code 0xC0202009. And after the validation phase is comp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Messages From site

  Hi All, Does anyone have anyideas on how to display latest news from a website into a vb.net app basicly I want to keep people updated when a new playlist is availiable etc. ive looked at rss, but dont need loadsa catagories etc. Is it possible to display a txt file on a server for example in an app Hope someone can help, Stuart "you can use SQL Express and enable remote connections, then directly connect to it and retrieve the playlist or whatever (same way I used webservices but without webservices) however there will maybe some security issues." Is it possible for some example code would be very apreciated and thank you for the help ...Show All

• Visual C++ extern "C" not working in 2005

  Hi, I try to create a simple dll, native, standard libraries, no MFC, no ATL. No .def file. The following code build in VC++ 2003 created the dll with an exported function with name SetPowerUser . The same code in VC++ 2005 creates the dll and the exported function name is: _ SetPowerUser@4 . Can you figure out what is wrong with the code below cpp file: #include "stdafx.h" #include <shellapi.h> #include <msi.h> #include <msiquery.h> #pragma comment ( lib , "Msi.lib" ) extern "C" __declspec ( dllexport ) int __stdcall SetPowerUser(MSIHANDLE hInstall) { .... return ERROR_SUCCESS; } // SetPowerUser StdAfx.h: #pragma once #ifndef ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to represent 2 D data in Grid View?

  Hello, Can anyone help me in this.. Is there any way out to display 2D data in a Grid... Means a data which depends on 2 entities... Sort of bar chart data... or let say Matrix form.... Of course it's possible to create different row headers for each rows.Maybe this thread make some sense to you. ...Show All