David Weller - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Showing latitude and longitude lines on the map ?

  Hi Is it a built-in functionality to show latitude and longitude gridlines on the map   or does anyone know how I can do it in some other way I am a bit new to Virtual Earth , but I have a windows app, that is using Virtual Earh to show positions for fishingvessels and those who are using it wants to have gridlines on the map, because they are used to it from other software they have used   ( GIS stuff ). The vessels are sending xml messages from wherever they are fishing and into a server. Their position are inside this xml message and I show them on the map. Stein   You can draw them yourself with a few lines of code in any colour you like! check out: ht ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Programatically Add a Group/User to Report Server...

  Does anyone know how to programatically add a group/user to Report Server and assign it a role. You use the SetPolicies method on the web service, described at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.wssux.reportingserviceswebservice.rsmanagementservice2005.reportingservice2005.setpolicies.aspx . This method takes an array of policy objects, which are group/user / role pairs. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is it a good Idea to Access Database in the Constructor

  Hi All Is it a good Idea to access DB in the Constructor of object itself and populate the Fields of a object. Or Should I have a seperate method which will do this once I initaialize the object. Please let me know the Good practice and pros and Cons of each of the above method Thanks in advance Amol Wankhede I think it depends on what you are trying to do. As always there are trade-offs to consider and risks to evaluate. Of course, whenever you do database operations you must take care to trap potential database errors, whether it's in an object constructor or not, even whether it's in C# or some other language. I routinely initialize objects based on information stored in a database, for example, loading a particular ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Unhighlight

  How can i un-highlight rows from the datagridview when the user click on regions out of the datagrid I know we could use the Ctrl+Click to unhighlight, but i dont want the row to always be highlighted even if the focus is on another control. Thanks, Please make use of the below code on “ Leave ” and/or “ MouseLeave ” events of the datagridview. foreach ( DataGridViewCell gvCell in dataGridView1.SelectedCells) { gvCell.Selected = false ; } Hope it helps! Thanks, JDee ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF53010 error after SP1 install

  I installed this first http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=c18c756e-8f80-4987-b3bf-600068a9e3c4&DisplayLang=en then installed this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=A9AB638C-04D2-4AEE-8AE8-9F00DD454AB8&displaylang=en everything installed ok. Reboot. Went into VS2005 and get several 503: TF53010 Service Unavailable errors. The event log is shown below. I read one post but all the TFS databases are in multi user mode and there arent any IP restrictions in IIS. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1026766&SiteID=1 I can access work items, documents, run reports but cant access source control - help! ! ! TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Build Events in VB.NET Express

  Hi, I would realy like to use Pre and Post Build Events in VB.NET 2005 Express. Can this be done, as I dont see a Build Events Tab in the project properties. thanks Alan Build Events is not in the Express Edition. It is an IDE Feature that is intentionally removed as it is considered and advanced scenario. To get this feature you would have to purchase a copy of VB / VS ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Documents for WM Decoder and Encoder DMO's

  I am wondering if anyone could point me to a source where I can find detailed description of WM decoder and encoder filters such as WMAudio Encoder DMO, WMAudio Decoder DMO, WMVideo9 Encoder DMO, WMVideo Decoder DMO, etc. I assume they are ASF codecs. The reason that I am asking this is that I am thinking about writing filters to get ASF data from the encoders and filters to feed ASF data to the decoders. Thanks, There is informatuon about these DMOs here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964564.aspx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Wasson, SDK Documentation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You assume all r ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# setup

  hi, I made a program in C# and I would like to distribuate it to friends into an setup.exe file. I could find a program already who could make this setup.exe for me by clicking the right things in the wizard. But the problem is it just compiles the data and then just extracts it into it's normal form. And people who don't have C# installed can't use the program then. Can somebody help me by giving me a free program who can create my C# project into a setup.exe file but so others can use it to without having to install C#. (I only have the free version of C#, so I can't do it directly using a setup project) Many thanks! There's lots of installer tools out there. Some of the more common ones are ...Show All

• Gadgets Hot to contact a user

  I'm developing a gadget for a Web site. This gadget has to let user serarch a string using the site searh and opening the web browser for display the results. I've do all, but the sarch must not to be done if the string is less than 3 character. Is there a way to warn a user if he enters a string that type javascript alert doesn't work, and i was thinking if it is possible to use a balloon tip!!! Thanks all Luca var oShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"); oShell.Popup("some text"); ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista RegLoadMUIString Missing In RC1? C# Code Sample

  Hello, I am trying to get a device class value out of the Vista registry. The "default" key for a device appears corrupt in the Vista registry, for example: "[xufkY][ VD/ D-ΓO ιν !!! ]" is displayed instead of "DVD/CDROM drives". I noticed there is a new "ClassDesc" key which appears to be an MUI formatted string, I'm trying to use the following code to retrieve the display friendly class description using RegLoadMUIString: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using Microsoft.Win32; namespace ConsoleApplication2 { class Program { [ DllImport ( "advapi32.dll" )] public ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Missing effect.Name and effect.Tag

  Hello I’m getting stucked in designing a ResourcenManager for XNA GS. Some basic thoughts : -          For bigger scenes it is not wise to load just models and manage them, because they hold   Effects and Textures. It would be a better idea to manage Effects and Textures separately, so that you can share them between ModelMeshes. In some cases it would be even better to share ModelMeshes too. -          To export a model, for example from a model tool to a x-file, you have to handle the material convertion problem (since the time of shaders). Maybe your model tool supports fx shader, but these are mostly not compatible with those in Game ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C++ with the Microsoft Platform SDK

  Hi there, I am trying to compile my c++ project using VC++ with PSDK but it doesn't work somehow... here is the error am getting: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1>Verknupfen... 1>main.obj : error LNK2001: Nicht aufgelostes externes Symbol ""class ARToolKitPlus::MemoryManager * ARToolKitPlus::memManager" ( memManager@ARToolKitPlus@@3PAVMemoryManager@1@A)". 1>main.obj : error LNK2019: Verweis auf nicht aufgelostes externes Symbol ""public: void __thiscall ARToolKitPlus::Profiler::reset(void)" ( reset@Profiler@ARToolKitPlus@@QAEXXZ)" in Funktion ""public: __thiscall ARToolKitPlus::TrackerI ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System I have this error when I create an accessor: "unit test generation does not support the source language"

  Hi to all, I have a solution with some projects in C# and one project in C# that integrates a native class from a dll. In the history of this solution, I have managed normally my unit tests in an apposite project test for an assembly. To create the unit test I usually click right with the mouse on the class declaration and I select to create an accessor on the unit test project. Today I make this, but the system reply to me with two errors: private accessor creation failed for "..." --> than I click on OK... unit test generation does not support the source language . And this couple of errors are generated only in a project test. If I select another project test, the system doesn't signal any error. ...Show All

• .NET Development Generic function without parameter

  This is example from "CLR via C#" book: static void Swap<T>(ref T a, ref T b) { T t = b; b = a; a = t; } String s1 = "a"; String s2 = "b"; Swap(ref s1, ref s2); Why does this compiles without specifying Swap<String>(...) What features of C# compiler or CLR allow this When calling a generic method, C# allows you to omit the type argument list; if so the compiler will try to infer the type arguments. This usually works, though you can run into situations with overloaded methods where the compiler can't determine which one you want to call. In this case you'll get a compilation error and you'll need to explicitly declare the type arguments. If you're i ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS 2005 - "Server Error in '/Reports' Application."

  When trying to open the reports server \\servername\reports we are getting an error page titled "Server Error in '/Reports' Application." The server has been restarted, and as this is a new deployment, there has been very little access for individuals to make changes. Any ideas on how to resolve the problem Thanks in advace I ran from the server http://localhost/Reports . There error it gave was a Configuration Error, pointing to the web.config file, however no further detail was given. ...Show All