Craig G's Q&A profile

• Audio and Video Development Playing ASF files with third part content using WMP 11 / Vista

  Hello, I have generated some .ASF files containing a MPEG-4 video stream. I'm able to play these files with WMP 11 on Windows XP using a DMO without any problems. But when I try to play these files on Vista, WMP shows an error indicating that not decoder is available. (But I still can play them on graphedit using the DMO, so the DMO is registered) The question is: Is it required to convert the DMO to a MFT for being able to play ASF with third part content in WMP Or is just a bug in Vista Many thanks and regards ! /John Fredman     Hi, It is strange, but the DMO contructor is never called, so I logged all the WMP register readings and it loo ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Signing a personal web package (Sharepoint Designer 2007)

  Hi all Could someone please (let me know how to go about/point me to any docs on) "signing" (for someone to be able to trust the content) a personal web package generated by using the "export" option inside Sharepoint designer 2007 I could not find a relevant place inside the menu options. Am I missing something Thanks in advance. Best regards Subbu Question related to Sharepoint 2007 should be posted at http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx#15 . ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How do I manually deploy the CF2 to my PPC?

  I tried running the Microsoft installer and although it starts the installation on my PPC (running Windows Mobile 5.0), it never actually installs the Framework. Is there a way to manually install the CF 2.0 There is a file created in the root partition called MS .NET CF 2.0 LOG.TXT. Here are its contents (sorry this is long): 10/05/2005 00:40:57: PocketPC 5.01 10/05/2005 00:40:57: Processing alternative file: '\Program Files\.NET CF 2.0\cgacutil.exe.-410~-410~ARMV4'. 10/05/2005 00:40:57: Special file extension: '.-410~-410~ARMV4'. 10/05/2005 00:40:57: File is intended for OS: -410 to -410, CPU: ARMV4 10/05/2005 00:40:57: Device CPU: 'ARMV4I', 05020000 (84017152) 10/05/2005 00:40:57: Delete file '\Program Files\.NET CF 2.0\cgacutil.exe.-4 ...Show All

• .NET Development How to Recieve an XML file via HTTP Post

  Hi Does any one know how to recieve an XML File using HTTP Post. I have an application to recieve an XML File using HTTP Post. From a Third Party Vendor should Post an XML File using HTTP Post. My Listner Applcation will recieve the XML file and should save in an XML format in a specified location.. How to do this Please help me .... Regards Deepu M.I ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development WMP 11 cannot connect to install??

  When i try to install the WMP 11 beta 2 it gives me this "error" Setup cannot continue one or more of the following problems has occured during setup When i try to install the WMP 11 beta 2 it gives me this "error" Setup cannot continue one or more of the following problems has occured during setup ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem when passing parameter to Execute SQL Task

  Hi! I have a execute sql task to create and drop logins. I want to create/drop the ASPNET login, but I need to pass the domain using a parameter. So I mapped a parameter: Variable name: User::serverName Direction: Input DataType: Varchar Parameter Name:0 and the sql is the following: CREATE LOGIN [ \ASPNET] FROM WINDOWS But I get the error: Executing the query "CREATE LOGIN [ \ASPNET] FROM WINDOWS failed with the following error: "Windows NT user or group ' \ASPNET' not found. Check the name again.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly. What am I doing wrong ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Trying to load an Effect, file .XNB not found.

  I use a basic shader class to load an effect to use for my objects, but when i use [code] Effect _effect = loader.Load<Effect>(_path); [/code] I've got a file not found error. In the details of the error it says that the path/file couldn't reach the .XNB file and i'm supposed to load a .FX file Hey, I just resolved this same problem. Stuff to check: You're not appending .fx to the filename (it'll auto-compile to .xnb) filename.fx -> Properties -> Build Action : Content filename.fx -> Properties -> XNA Framework Content : True ...Show All

• SQL Server Page Restoring

  In SQL Server 2005 Book on Line, it mentioned that you can restore a database by pages instead of to restore the whole database. But, it also says "Page restore is supported only for read/write filegroups." If this is true, then how about most of the database files are not designed as filegroup (or just primary filegroup only)   Can they enjoy this convenience too Also, when you find a suspect page in suspect_pages table in msdb, how you find out in which log_backup file that contains this bad page Thanks, Charley The sequence for restoring a database page is fundamentally the same as that for restoring a database file, except that you're moving FAR less data. You need to start wi ...Show All

• .NET Development StreamReader, Regex and memory

  I am using StreamReader's method ReadToEnd() to read an entire file in to a String. I then use a Regex to parse some content from the file. I do this two times for each file to get all the data i want from it. The first regular expression looks like this: String^ regexData1 = "<tag>( <Occurrence>.* )</tag>"; Regex^ regOccurrence = gcnew Regex(regexData1, System::Text::RegularExpressions::RegexOptions::IgnoreCase | System::Text::RegularExpressions::RegexOptions::Singleline); This is working just fine for now and whit smaller kinds of files. But I would like to learn how to parse larger files. I suppose that I can't use ReadToEnd() with really large files. I could use ReadLine() instead to parse ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Looking for Developer

  Hello All, My company is currently interested in developing tools for the Tablet PC. We would like to establish a relationship with a developer who is knowledgeable with this platform. If anyone is interested in possible application development for Tablet PCs, please contact me at vpetrillo@spellex.com . Or if anyone would happen to know where we could find developers for the Tablet PC, please let me know Thank you in advance for your assistance! Best regards, Vince ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom tool window like DSL Details..

  Hi all, I have defined my first little language with the very impressive DSL Tools. When I now work with the application I miss a custom window to handle the (very specific) configuration of some of my model classes. What I need is a tool like the DSL Details tool window so I want to ask if someone has already builds a similar think. Seems like I have two (write an Add-in or a Package) or more options to solve my requirements but I’m not sure what is the best way to do this. Today I’m not very familiar with writing any kind of IDE Extension but after looking in the documentation it looks not really hard. But the first big problem is: How can I call a command from the DSL Designer View to the Add-in and vice versa. ...Show All

• Visual C# Need a bit more help

  OK, I am using a FTP library to try and run a new application. I am having a huge write problem that again I'm sure is simple to fix, but I can't find the answer my self. I want to take an html file and ftp it to my website. If I try to send a single line text file it works fine, but if I try to send ant type of complex file like an html webpage the debugger send me to this line of code writer.Write(line, 0, line.Length); The details say: {"Input string was not in a correct format."}. How would I make this accept a full html file or multi line text file I am using the FtpClientTester that I found somewhere online a few weeks ago. This is the only problem I now have with my app. Please help before I go crazy and say ba ...Show All

• Windows Forms Control in richtextbox can't scroll down

  Hi, I have a richtextbox with a PictureBox control added to it. The addition of control into the richtextbox is done via codes below: thanks nobugz, i already did that paste method before but only works for bitmaps. Gifs will be displayed with blue background, though I have set it to be transparent. I need gifs as I need to display animated icons in the RTB. But for now, I'm settled with bitmaps. Maybe RTB is really meant only for text. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can't link a managed wrapper (mixed managed/native) assembly to a static lib???

  Unless I'm missing something, this seems like a fairly major limitation... I have a mixed manage and native "wrapper" assembly project that wraps a third party's static library. We do not have a DLL version of the third party library, just the .lib. In VS 2003 with managed extensions for C++, the project compiled and linked fine. Now, after having converted all the managed extension stuff to C++/CLI, I have it all compiling. However, it does not link because of multiply defined symbols (LNK2005 error). It appears the static library had linked (statically) to libcmt.lib When linking my project I get 20 or so linker errors like this: libcmt.lib(fflush.obj) : error LNK2005: _fflush already defined in MSVCRTD.lib(MSVCR80D.dll) My ...Show All

• Visual C++ .NET Wrapper performances?!?

  Hello, I have my nice C++ class library that wraps some vector based functions. I have a COM wrapper around it developed with comet, and everything is ok. Performance is not the best , specially on object creation (since it's a wrapper I need to create the Wrapper object and the wrapped one). Finally , with some preprocessing tricks , I wrote a .NET wrapper in the standard documented way. I have a managed class (ref class Wrapper_Line) that contains a pointer to the original unmanaged class (Line *) ref class Wrapper_Line { private: Line * m_line; void Move (Offset){ m_line->move(Offset); } .... } and so on... I did some stress test and saw that the .NET wrapper is WAYYYY slower than the COM one. I've r ...Show All