Alessandro Camargo's Q&A profile
Internet Explorer Development IE7 and desktop icons
I just installed Internet Explorer 7 today, which I guess is a.k.a. Windows Live . All of my fancy customized shortcuts on the desktop disappeared and each got replaced by the same generic windows icon. Right-clicking & changing the icons in properties no longer works. Also, when I create an internet shortcut while browsing, that creates a shortcut with that same generic icon (not even an explorer logo). Now my desktop is just one forest of identical icons. Anyone know how I can fix this I've wasted all day without success. I have just installed ie7 today I like lots of things about it BUT I have the same problem; all my customised icons with which I am familiar have dissapeare ...Show All
SQL Server AS2005: write a cube to a local .cub via xmla?
Hi, i wonder if it is possible to write a cube (in AS2005) to a local .CUB file using xmla instead of the "old" CREATE GLOBAL CUBE statement ... I haven't found anything in the msdn ... perhaps I've been blind background of this question: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx postid=463952&siteid=1 Thanks for your answers and for tolerating my bad english best regards, Sven Hi Christopher, Take a look at: http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!877.entry Regards, Chris ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions mutipe pages?
im trying to use a button to load a new page in the same window can someone give me some device Just close the existing one and create a new one: Public Class Form1 Private mForm2 As Form2 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click If mForm2 IsNot Nothing Then mForm2.Close() mForm2 = New Form2 AddHandler mForm2.FormClosed, AddressOf Form2_Closed mForm2.Show(Me) End Sub Private Sub Form2_Closed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As FormClosedEventArgs) mForm2 = Nothing End Sub End Class ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Question about the Tracking Service
Hello I have a workflow that looks like this, and I have the SqlTrackingService enabled and running for it: Workflow1 SequenceActivity1 SequenceActivity2 CodeActivity1 SequenceActivity3 &nb ...Show All
SQL Server Chart in Report Builder
hi there I am just designing a simple chart in Report Builder - but when trying to drag any field into the value field of the chart (it doesn't change colour and won't accept any field). If I drag a field into the category or series the curser changes and on approaching the chart properties they seem to change colour. Can someone help to what can be wrong thanks Dianne hey there Carolyn thank you for your answer - I didn't know that. so if I explain what I wanted to do can you tell me if it is possible some way then. CallID field Application field in my graph I just wanted to show - no of calls per application and as you pointed out my CallID field is not an aggregate ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Sample Grabber misses samples
Hi All, I'm struggling to work out why the sample grabber sometimes misses samples. I have a filter graph which consists of a DV camera as source, dv splitter, dv decoder and a sample grabber on the video chain through to a video renderer, and the audio chain terminates in a null renderer. I'm using the sample grabber's buffercb method, which includes a double SampleTime parameter. I write a simple callback which basically divides this double value by 0.040 (my video is 25Hz, 40ms/frame) to get a frame number. I'm then just storing this frame number in an array. I'm not doing anything else in the callback, so it's very lean and mean After ~50 minutes of video, I dump the array contents out so i can analyse what frames i receive ...Show All
Visual Studio Tools for Office Incompatiblity issues with VSTO 2005 SE with Office 2007 RTM
Hi Misha / Savraj Dhanjal / Andrew Wiles I have been working earlier on VSTO using Office Beta + Win FX (Feb CTP) + VSTO v3 (June CTP). I had used the Excel 12 Document solution for my project. Microsoft @ BLR suggested me to upgrade myself to the latest (ie. Office 2007 RTM + VSTO 2005 SE) and I did the same. Now my project doesnt seem to open at all. I get errors while loading the project. Also when I tried to create a new solution (thought of creating an Excel 2007 workbook solution), I find that its no longer available. I only find options to create Add-Ins on Office products. What do I do. Am I missing out certain installations. I need to continue my Excel 2007 workbook solution. Reference to my previous blog : http: ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Invoking MSBuild programmatically at runtime (editor model building and loading)
I have decided to work on a editor. For this, I have been researching on how to invoke MSBuild at runtime programmatically. I read that we can use the MSBuild API. I was wondering if anyone has managed to do this Any help is appreciated. A method I have so far is to create a .proj file each time according to the asset I am trying to build, and then call the MSBuild as an external process like this: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\MSBuild.exe test.proj"); I believe there is a better way though. This doesn't even work for me anyway. Thanks Leaf, thats a good start for me. Ok, so I am getting an error with the build with the following .proj file ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums Robot Invaders final results?
The official rules state that: "Potentially winning Participants will be so notified via e-mail the week of on or about the week of October 15, 2006, (based on the contact information provided and maintained by Participants on the Site), subject to verification and acceptance as specified in these Rules." It is of course possible that I am not a potentially winning Participant (although I hope I actually am), but the rules also state: "In addition, Contest Prize winners will be posted on the Site on or about October 15, 2006. " I haven't seen or heard anything about the results of the contest. Has anybody got news about it I would like to know what is happening, because the judging period is real ...Show All
SQL Server Cannot install RS on a SQLserver 2005 SP1 installation
The situation is as follow: Sqlserver 2005 installed, reporting services NOT installed SP1 installed Trying to add Reporting Services results in an eror messages about incompliant versions. Nothing happens Is there anybody who has a clue SQL Server does not ship a slipstreamed version (1 install that brings you up to SP1 level), so as Jiongxiong mentioned, you'll need to install the RTM version of RS from your original media, then apply SP1 to the newly installed instance. Then your box will be at the normal SP1 level for all components. Thanks, Sam Lester (MSFT) ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My shadow maps work on Windows, not Xbox 360
I'm having some problems getting my shadow maps to work on the Xbox 360, but they work great under Windows. There seems to be some weird SetRenderTarget and ResolveRenderTarget behaviors I don't really understand on the Xbox 360. I’ve got too much code to post here, so some pseudocode is at the bottom. I realize it may be hard to help without seeing the actual code, so if more information is needed, I’d be happy to provide it. Any advice on what I might be doing wrong is greatly appreciated. Thanks! clear render target to ambient light color for each light { set render target to light's depth map clear render target draw scene depth from light's perspective resolve render target } for each light { set render targe ...Show All
SQL Server How to remove {CR}{LF} and Tab {t} characters from source data?
I have built a SSIS package that reads in data from a SQL Server 2005 source database into a flat file destination. The Row Delimiter is {CR}{LF}. The Column Delimiter is Tab {t}. The data being read from the SQL Server database contains both {CR}{LF} and Tab {t} characters in various fields on several rows. How can I process the input data from the SQL Server to remove these characters before passing it to the destination output file Sorry if this is obvious to all, but I am only just starting with SSIS... Many thanks Adrian If you have the data in a DT_STR ro DT_WSTR column, you can use the Derived Column transform with a REPLACE() function to replace those characters with empty strin ...Show All
Visual Basic Is there a Way to Open a Website's Source Code into a Texbox?
Dim allText As String Dim LineOfText As String FileOpen(1, "http://www.msn.com", OpenMode.Input) Do Until EOF(1) LineOfText = LineInput(1) allText = allText & LineOfText & vbCrLf Loop RichTextBox1.Text = allText FileClose(1) I tried that code and I got an Error stating the URL format is not supported. Or simply fully qualify the items being used, that way you dont need to specify an imports statement Dim theRequest As System.Net. WebRequest = System.Net. WebRequest.Create(" http://www.microsoft.com ") Dim theResponse As System.Net. WebResponse = CType(theRequest.GetResponse(), System.Net. HttpWebResponse) ...Show All
Windows Forms DataGridView - How is mouseDown implemented?
Hi I've made a class that inherits from DataGridView. I have overridden the mouseDown like: protected override void OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e) { DataGridView.HitTestInfo hti = this.HitTest(e.X, e.Y); if(e.Button == System.Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Left) { if(hti.Type == DataGridViewHitTestType.Cell) { if(this.RowChanged != null) this.RowChanged(this, new MyProject.DataGridViewRowSelectionEventArgs(this.CurrentRow, this.Rows[hti.RowIndex])); } } As you see, I do not select the row pressed, because I want to have this done outside the control. (Because sometimes I ask the user if she wants to select/unselect that row). Then to select/unselect a row I have a method: public void SelectRow(int index, bool selected) { this.Cu ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. ? Porting the engine (written in C++) from DirectX 8.1. What are my options ?
I`ve got a 3D engine used in my previous and upcoming online/budget PC games that I wrote by myself from scratch during last several years. However, I would like to port it to XNA since that would give me another platform (XBOX360), since that`s what most of distributors would like to have (multiplatform title) these days. Plus, all games/demos that I would create would then run on both platforms, which is a fantastic feature in itself, and a great negotiating factor with distributors/publishers. Will XNA support ASM shaders natively, or will I have to rewrite those in HLSL I`ve got a pretty huge set of ASM shaders handling lighting,animation,decompression and lots of other stuff. But, from what I`ve read so far, it seems I`m goin ...Show All