Péricles's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) save canvas to image?

  Hi all, question... does anyone know if it is possible to save the visual state of a canvas (or some other such visual object) as an image (then save to harddrive). I'm basically creating a very simple photoshop-like program (with Canvas as the place where a composition of images and shapes are shown).  I would like to be able to save this composition down to the harddrive, as a jpg, or tif, etc... I've done this with GDI+ in the past.  I wonder if avalon has this capability yet (I'm willing to look at using someother base component for my 'canvas' if that will get me this functionality...) thoughts thanks, Steve Sterling Excellent, i have my solution and it works beautifully!  Than ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Basic Data Base

  With VB Epress is it possible to created a really basic data base where it can pull and save information directly from you computer This will be spacific to my computer only. Do I need to know SQL if it just this basic Thanks. it depends what type of information you want to store and pull up. I mean, if its small simple data, you can store it in a file or Serialize the data/store it in Xml and retrieve it from the Xml file. Otherwise if its a fairly larger amount of data then yes you are probably best using SQL Express (or SQL Server if you can afford it ;-))   So an example could be, storing names and address. you would create some "contact" class which has information about a person (name, address, phone numb ...Show All

• SQL Server Table visibility

  Hello All, I am using sql reporting2005. I have two tables in my report. If I click a value in the first column of the first table, the second table should be visible. How do I do that Initially I will keep the second table hidden. Thanks.... This can be done, but there will be a toggle image on one of the textboxes in table1. right click on the table2 to get to the properties go to the visibility tab set initial visibility to hidden check the "Visibility can be toggled by another report item" select another report item (probably a text box in table1) and set the initial appearance of the toggle image to collapsed. This should do the trick, although there is no on click event that can set the table to visible ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Does XImporter exist in XNA Express 1.0?

  hi, I've just installed XNA Express 1.0 and have a look at document about "Content pipeline" There's list here ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.VSIPCC.v80/MS.XNAFX.1033/XNA/CP_Overview_StdImpsProcs.htm shows that a 'XImporter' is supported to load X file format. But I could not find it in the library................ The .x file importer is part of the content pipeline. You can use it by just adding a .x file to your project. See this page in the XNA Docs about rendering a model. Cheers, Leaf. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can Access 2003 be 'converted' to VB.Net?

  Hello! Just curious if Access 2003 can be converted to VB.NET Wouldn't assume it could with the database end, but if it was split Thanks in advance...! Hello! Thanks for the reply...!! I assume I can access an Access DB in VB.NET probably ADO (haven't done it yet, but did in VB 6.0)... To clarify, can the Access 2003 front-end be converted (is there a wizard or ) to a VB.NET program Thanks in advance... ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 Title bar shows up in Chinese instead of my language

  Hello, Downloaded and installed: IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe OS: Windows XP Home (legal version) I had IE6 with SP2. I downloaded at first the IE7 RC1 but then I downloaded the file I mentionned above. With both RC1 and IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu version I got the weird Chinese titles in my Blue Titlebar. The tab-titles tho are correct. I've uploaded a screenshot to be downloaded here . This screenshot gives you the view of my IE7 browser with the blue titlebar. My Language is Dutch and at the Tools - Internet Options - General tab I've set my appearance language at Dutch (screenshot here ). Could somebody please help me out I really really love to have my own language or the english titlebar instead of Chinese. Yours Sincerely ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions changing current directory to bin

  Hello all, I'm currently working on a project that requires me to switch the current directory of the project to the project's bin. I've looked in several places, and can't figure out how to do it. Does anyone have any ideas Thanks so much for any input... sorry for this stupid question -Robert Oh, no, sorry for being unclear... basically my predicament is that I've got an openfile dialog box that... when a user opens a file in a different directory, the path that the program saves files to (or whatnot) changes from the bin to the directory that was selected by the user via the openfiledialog. I'm wondering how I change it back to the bin after it gets changed from the openfiledialog. Again, sorry for being unclear, and thanks a tr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Making Drawing.Color by seting RGB values

  Hello, I'd like to know how to configure new System.Drawing.Color by seting RGB values. I need to make color from 3 ASCII converted chars. Following: sam = 115, 97, 109 to clolor is color.r=115 color.g=97 color.b=109 then I can set to the bitmap pixel with color made that way Now the only problem is, that r,g,b parameters are only readable :/. Is there any way to SET values of color.r, g & b Color.FromArgb method is very useful in this kind of situation. And I think that this works in the way you want it to.. :) Dim myColor As Color = Color.FromArgb(r, g, b) Regards, Timo ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild, How to pass Clean or Build or Rebuild in the command line

  Hello, I want to say to MSBuild.exe that I want to do a Build, a Rebuild or a Clean. If I write this command, it does want I need : C:\Projects\MySolutionDir>MSBuild /t:Clean /p:Configuration=Debug But, I want to use a project file. Here my project file : <Project xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003 " InitialTargets="MyInitTarget" > <Target Name="MyInitTarget"> <MSBuild Projects=".\MySolutionDir\MySol.sln" Properties="Configuration=$(Configuration)" /> </Target> </Project> And here the command line : C:\Projects>MSBuild BuildVC2005.proj /t:Clean /p:Configuration=Debug But I receive an error : "T ...Show All

• SQL Server Global Cubes

  All what I am looking for some nice ideas to design global geographical cubes using Analysis Services 2005. Your question is unfortunately is bit too broad. If you are interested in general data warehouse design clues you might take a look at http://www.kimballgroup.com/ . Many people find this book useful http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471267155/qid=1128605285/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-4814565-4213606 s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Edward. -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...Show All

• Visual C# Odd results after Console.read() input

  In the following little "learning" program of mine, I am making a simple class constructor program. The place I am having problems is with Console.Read(). If you run this program and go into debug, and once you come upon the conosle.read() the variable selection takes on some funky results. Selection is first initialized at 0, but as soon as you input for selection the number jumps way up. When I type in 1 at the menu, the variable takes on 49, 2 takes on 50, and 3 takes on 51. Obviously I am very new to this, and i'm guessing I am doing something wrong with Console.Read() but I don't know. class Menu { public void MenuOptions() { int selection = 0; while (selection != 3) { Console.WriteLine( ...Show All

• SQL Server Formatting numbers question

  I have a datagrid with currency amounts, the default currency format "C" shows only two decimal places, I would like to show up to 4 decimal places. Useing the formula/expression editor, how would this be done Both of the above are possible options. rs12345 - put "c4" into the Format property of the textbox guyinkalamazoo2 - apply the formatting directly tot he value in the expression of the textbox ...Show All

• SQL Server SSRS Slow waking up on first report

  Greetings, I continue to see this similar post all over the place, but no resolutions. We have SSRS installed and operational in production. There are reports that get accessed from either an aspx page or from the built in IIS site for SSRS. First time access is the performance problem. Here are two scenarios: 1) from your browser, pull up the front page to SSRS: http://myserver/reports . This simple operation will take about 2 minutes to come up. Drill to the report in question and it runs fairly well first time through. Throw a different query at it and it runs faster. If you wait a while (maybe 15 minutes +) the whole thing will spin back down and take 2 minutes to come up again. If you exit the website and come back ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Incoming call handling in a Smartphone application

  Will I always receive LINECALLORIGIN_INBOUND for an incoming call on a mobile phone If I have Call Waiting feature, will I get a new HCALL during LINE_APPNEWCALL How can I distinguish that Just wondering whether it makes any difference if I do it in C++ instead of .NET I have tried Smartfilter and the phone never rings. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to programmatically create the Invoked event handler on an ExternalEventHandlerActivity

  HI I have created a custom StateAtivity Now within this activity I have an EventDriven Activity Within this event I have an ExternalEventHandler Activity I now want to programmatically add the ExternalEventHandlerEvent.Invoked Event Handler (with some custom code already inside) so that when the user drags and drops my custom state activity on the wf designer it already creates the invoked in the code behind. If this is not possible, should i just add a code activity and define the guts of the code here here's my code... ========================= protected override IComponent [] CreateComponentsCore( IDesignerHost host) { EmailState EmailStateActivity = new EmailState (); // SendEmail EventDriven ...Show All