Maria G. Valdes's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms designer can't load because of Bitmap constructor

  I have a WinForms project which uses some custom controls contained in a .dll. I created a button using custom graphics. To load the images used for the button I wrote this code static System::Drawing::Bitmap^ originalBitmap= gcnew System::Drawing::Bitmap("Brain Spawn.bmp"); static System::Drawing::Bitmap^ connectedUpBitmap= gcnew System::Drawing::Bitmap(originalBitmap,23,23); static System::Drawing::Bitmap^ connectedDownBitmap=gcnew System::Drawing::Bitmap(connectedUpBitmap,connectedUpBitmap->Width-6,connectedUpBitmap->Height-6); static System::Drawing::Bitmap^ originalGreyBitmap= gcnew System::Drawing::Bitmap("Brain Spawn grey.bmp"); static System::Drawing::Bitmap^ disconnectedUpBitmap= gcnew System::Drawing::Bitmap(originalGr ...Show All

• .NET Development networking issue

  ok i now know how to share my hdd with the other computer on my network and visa versa. But i am having another problem when i click on workgroup computers and double click on the other computer it saids "\\Ron is not accessible. You might not hae permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of the server to find out if you have access permissions. the network path was not found." The other computer also tells me that when i try and double click on this computer. Help This forum is dedicated to questions about network enabled software development using the System.Net namespace in the .Net Framework. Please repost this question to a forum dedicated to Windows co ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Issue with WCF method in client app

   have a Web Project called secure that I would like to use a WCF service on the server. In the Solution, I have another project, WebFuncs, that is some common code, and includes the Service Reference to my WCF Service. Because secure imports WebFuncs I was able to use this code: Private proxy As New OrderCompletion.OrderCompletionProxy ... Private Sub btnSend_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSend.Click  ...  OrderNum = proxy.CreateOrder(Me.CartID, Me.tbComments.Text)  ... End Sub However, in use I get this error: System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: '!0 System.ServiceModel.ClientBase`1.get_InnerProxy()'. at secure.OrderReview.btnSend_Click(Object sender, ...Show All

• Smart Device Development hosting smartphone designer

  HI, I am trying to host a smartphone form designer into a multi-tabbed designer and also want to add new properties to this designer. I want some tutorials on the smartphone form designer as this is a flat form with flat controls and I want to know how to obtain such controls and design surface. You're right - there's no standard supported way of hosting the designer. The designer used for our WM apps is built on top of the desktop designer (find details here - http://blogs.msdn.com/parthopdas/archive/2005/10/10/479085.aspx ), so you will need to extend the desktop designer for your purpose. There are more details on this here - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/37899azc.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Iterating the rows of a script component

  Hi There, Can someone please let me know what is the best way to iterate the output rows of a script component and stick in those ids in a where clause of a select query (to retrieve additional info from a database) Is this possible at all If not, what is the best way to deal with this situation Thanks a lot!! Sam_res03 wrote: Thanks Jamie. I will investigate it. By the way, if I have a dataflow task(source and the destination) in a foreach loop container and if the number of items it is iterating is x items , does it mean that it will make x calls to the source database Yes. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Bug where it becomes impossible to save your files

  Hi all, Has anybody encountered a bug where somehow XNA game studio express doesn't allow you to save your files I've encountered it once (and I forgot the message it popped up unfortunately), but I thought it was a one-off thing. Then a co-worker told me he got it quite regularly when starting and stopping programs. Just wondering if this is something that more people are experiencing. At the time I had two XGSE's open, one with my (saved) project, and one with a temporary spacewar project. Unfortunately when I was trying to repro this bug, I couldn't get it to do this again. My co-worker gets it when editing files while the program is running. Cheers, Nick Waanders I posted a bug for this on Connect if ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Help : DXUT with Stack OverFlow

  Hello everyone, I am a beginner of d3d. I copied the EmptyProject sample from SDK to my workspace, then add the code that draw primitive. When I debug the program, if I resize the window, it crashed down, IDE shows "Stack Overflow",pointed the lines DXUTState& GetDXUTState() { // Using an accessor function gives control of the construction order static DXUTState state; return state; } I knew the DXUT is written thread-safely, maybe I have not add code to do some resize work in DXUTSetCallbackMsgProc or DXUTSetCallbackFrameMove Why Thanks. #include "dxstdafx.h" #include "resource.h" LPDIRECT3DVERTEXBUFFER9 g_pVB = NULL; LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9 g_pTex = NULL; struct VERTEX{ D3DVECTOR vpos; D3DVECTOR no ...Show All

• .NET Development Updating tables in a join from a datagridview.

  I want to display the results of a join in a datagridview, and allow the user to update some of the values. I want this to work with sql server everywhere, so I can't just do this through a view in the database. Since I would need a separate update command for each table to do this, is there any way to do this with a data adapter Thanks Matt Brown ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Milkshape Model Errors

  Hey guys, first post here :D. Im have modelled a primitive looking gentleman for my first attempt at game programming using milkshape. I tried to enter the model into the first tutorial program but have met with the error "Error 1 Error normalizing vertex bone weights. BoneWeightCollection does not contain any weighting values. C:\Documents and Settings\Dave\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Game1\Game1\Content\Models\attempt1.fbx Game1" On every model I try to enter except for the one provided by the tutorial. myModel = content.Load< Model >( "content\\Models\\theigh" ); is the code im using to enter it. Does anyone know if there is an issue with milkshape or if its just someth ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I install crystal reports XI R2 into visual studio 2005?

  How can I install crystal reports XI R2 into visual studio 2005 After I installed crystal reports XI R2 on my machine, where visual studio 2005 is installed. It seems nothing has changed, the report are still in bundled version. Should I config anywhere to make it replace the bundled version Joseph Thanks a lot, Paul. My version is 11.5.0, and I followed your step to install XI R2 succesfully. But Crystal reports are always troublesome, while I open my existing projects, it generated lots of erros, and the namespace is different, I guess. Not like visual studio 2005, which is perfectly support back-compatiblity. I had ever given up crystal reports 1 year ago, shifted to reporting services, which is sti ...Show All

• .NET Development FileSystemWatcher - event is for a file or folder?

  FileSystemWatcher can raise events to determine when a file or folder has been created, changed, deleted or renamed. The event argument determines the type of change, but does not specify if it was a file or folder. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to determine if a file or folder is being changed One suggestion has been to use the 'name' argument, to check if a folder exists with that name. If it does exist, then it can be assumed that the event is for a folder, if it doesn't exist, then it can be assumed that the event is for a file. I personally dont like this approach, as it doesn't handle deletions, i.e. if a delete event is raised, how can you check to see if a file or folder exists when it will have been deleted The ...Show All

• SQL Server How to Schedule Reports and How to use File Share Suscription

  I tried to schedule reports using File Share Subscription as specified in MSDN, But was not able to schedule the report. ...Show All

• .NET Development Project setting 'Platform Target' {x86, x64, Any CPU}

  Hi Why would you ever want to change the project 'Platform Target' setting from the default value 'Any CPU' to either 'x86' or 'x64' If an application will only ever be deployed on a 32 bit system, what advantage is there in changing the 'Platform Target' to 'x86' If an application will only ever be deployed on a 64 bit system, what advantage is there in changing the 'Platform Target' to 'x64' Thanks Yeah, it shouldn't make any sense. .NET assemblies are supposed to be platform independent. This article contains the dirty laundry... ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express 2005 with Advance Service License Question

  Currently, i am planning to develop a small system for my client by using SQL database. However, i am not sure is it legal to use SQL Express 2005 in this project I mean setup the SQL Express 2005 in their server then my application will access this database. Is it legal or Do i need to purchase any license in order to do that or I need to purchase a SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise version SQL Express is free to use, by you and/or your clients. Here are some resouces about licensing: (Don't hesitate to call the Licensing folks if you still have questions. Licensing -FAQ http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/faq.mspx Licensing -SQL 2005 http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/c/a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Localization Support

  Are there any plans to have better localization support in the Orcas CTP's The current method of localizing XAML using LOCBAML and manually editing csprog files is not very developer friendly. The Winform designer has a property (Localizable) that when set will automatically move all strings to resources. Steve Mark, Possibly something like the Winforms designer. When you set the Localizable property on a form to true, it moves string resources (for example button text) to a resource file (Form1.Resx) Another approach would be to be able to right click on a XAML file on the solution explorer and click Generate Resource or Add to Resource. This will parse the XAML and put all the strings in ...Show All