DaPosh's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions wont save as a .txt file

  when i build this program it was only to learn how to save and load files. now i can open files but when i save it doesn't do it very well and it does not show up as if it is a .txt file it is unknown. the below link is to the website that contains the program i hope it works if it doesn't please tell. but i really need help with the saving part and what i did wrong. www.visualbaisc.ccworx.com.au please help The correct link is: http://www.visualbasic.ccworx.com.au/ The debug subfolder seems to be missing files. The Form1.designer.vb seems to have manually added code. Someone else please give this a look. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Need help with programming with outlook 2003

  I am using VC++/CLI and I am trying to create an outlook object to connect to outlook and create appointments. Outlook::Application ^outlookApp = gcnew Outlook::Application(); Outlook::AppointmentItem ^oAppointment = gcnew Outlook::AppointmentItem(); The second line gives me the error: Error 1 error C3767: 'Microsoft::Office::Interop::Outlook::AppointmentItemClass::AppointmentItemClass': candidate function(s) not accessible Oh, right, you will need to do some casting in there as well... outlookApp->CreateItem actually returns a generic 'object' type, so you have to do a cast to what you want. In C# you have to C-style cast it to (Outlook.AppointmentItem).  I am sure there is some sort of cast ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ComboBox custom ControlTemplate

  Hi, Just a simple question (I hope). I've created a custom control (below) - basically it's just a TextBox with some extra features, which is displayed in the right hand cell of a grid, with a label in the left hand cell. It all works very nicely, and I thought it would be just as simple to do the same thing with a ComboBox. So I gave it a try, replacing the references to "local:CustomTextBoxBase" in the example below with "ComboBox"... but I'm blowed if I can get it to work - I see the Label, but there is no sign of the ComboBox.... Am I missing something obvious (I expect so.) Any pointers would be much appreciated! <Style x:Key="{x:Type local:CustomTextBox}" TargetType="{x:Type local:Cus ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Weird backface glitch

  I'm not sure what's going on here; I wouldn't be surprised if it's just my video card. But has anyone seen this before cellphone_rendering_bugs.jpg That's a series of screenshots I took as the model rotated... the original model in Maya has all its normals facing the right way. I exported it as an FBX200611 model. I'm (unfortunately) using a Compaq Presario with an NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE video card. I thought it might have been a matter of the near/far draw limits being too far apart and the Z buffer lacking the precision to draw this relatively small area properly, but I turned it down to 1.0 -> 100.0 and it still happens. Any thoughts Make sure that you have culling on, and make note of the directi ...Show All

• Connected Services Framework Well-enabled Services

  Hi Folks, I have been looking through the docs, but can't find a definite answer. Does the Connected Service Framework benefit in any way from the fact that the services it consumes are well-enabled. Is the Microsoft WES Template an example / recommendation of something that is a "good" webservice, or is it more than that Thanks for your help All the best, Ash Ash, It is not mandated that all services should be WES, but it does help in a system of collaborating services to share standard interfaces so that new services can be plugged in easily. The benefit comes from the fact that all leaf services expose similar (if not identical) interfaces. It makes it easy to disccover and cosume them ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D rotation question

  These are probably pretty Noob questions but this is my first game ever. I'm looking for the XNA way of doing things for the following: 1. I have a sprite that is a simple rectangle. When I spriteBatch.Draw I rotate the sprite say 90 degrees. I have a bounding box that corresponds to the sprite which I also need to rotate so it matches what is drawn on the screen. Origin is (0,0) but I could make it the center of the sprite if that is easier. I'm guessing I have to use Matrix.CreateRotation (x,y,z ) then a Vector2.Transform This is the part I'm kind of confused on. 2. I want my enemy ship to face the player ship. I have the position of both objects. How do I calculate the angle between them 3. Calculate the distance between two points. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Customising New Team Build Type creation wizard.

  Hi, I want to customise the New Team build type creation wizard.I want to know if this is possible.Are there any APIs to do it.Please provide some pointers. That sounds like like a great idea. What I would suggest is that you simply create a Visual Studio add-in that launches your own UI to do what you want. You won't get our wizard pages, but if you do it yourself, you can customize whatever you like. The version 1 wizard simply generates a very simple MSBuild project file in a very specific location: $\<teamproject>\TeamBuildTypes\<buildTypeName>\TfsBuild.proj. It also creates the WorkspaceMapping.xml and the TfsBuild.rsp file. If your wizard creates these files in a folder under T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Update/create SQL Express database

  Not sure if i should post this here or in the SQL area, but anyway... I am deploying an app with 1 click and wanted to know the best way to update and or create the database and objects using a sql express database. My idea was to not include the database as part of the install and have it created from a script or schema file, then on all other updates it does a compare then applies an update based on the difference. Is there a best practice for this or whats the easiest way to be able to update the database once deployed. Thanks in advance Creating the database is easy as i can use a script from Sql management studio, but whats the best way to maintain updates to the database do i need to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Execute a console application from C++

  Hello to all! I am engineering student new at MFC and inexperienced at C++.For my project it is asked from me to design a GUI in MFC with buttons and edit box.When i clicked the button it will provide to execute to exe file that i specified, at the background and display the result that i see in command window, in the edit box . Can anybody help me send me any source code i will appreciate..many thanks in advance! Eyup Hello, First of all the VC++ express edition doesn't include any support to MFC and hence you will have to use a larger edition. Also, I woudn't depend on the forums to learn any technologies. There is a list of recommended books at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost. ...Show All

• .NET Development IPC Remoting class is created in seperate thread.

  In using the sample code from http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xcs3s8f3.aspx When I run the server/client it all works fine. but however, the implementation class gets created in a seperate thread when the client calls it. How can I pass messages to the server class (App Domain Primary Thread) from the HelloWorld() class, either with callback or other method yes, I'm saying the implementation class that is shared between both apps (But contained on the server app) is created by the client upon connection in a different thread. How do I pass messages received from the client directly from the implementation class to the main class or thread Thanks, Rick ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Protect Source Files But Retain Content Functionality In IE

  Hi - I develop in XML and convert content to HTML , DHTML and PDFs. Usually, the content is bundled and put on a CD or CD or DVD for viewing. Because I would like to protect my source files and applications from prying eyes I have been working on a way to hide proprietary code files without impacting the functionality of the user seeing the content (i.e., HTML pages, graphics and animation) on the applications from prying eyes I have been working on a way to hide proprietary code files without impacting the functionality of the user seeing the content (i.e., HTML pages, graphics and animation) on the CD or DVD in an IE browser. Here is my question: Is there an application or database process that would protect or hide source file ...Show All

• Visual Basic Webpages Not Linking Up

  I cannot link up the webpages from various websites. While i'm on a webpage I press the back button to go back to the main webpage or any other previous webpage and it won't go back it get's stuck and also the back button isn't shaded-in on the toolbar. Any ideas what's wrong ...Show All

• SQL Server Where is SSIS package stored?

  I have used Import-Export wizard to import some data from a flat file into a db table. When prompted, I have chosen to store the package in SQL Server. The package is executing correctly, scheduled to run (job) once a day...the problem is that I can not see this package in EM and I do not know how to open it in BIDS (since i can not point to a certain file). I can see the package in msdb sysdtspackages90 table, but nowhere else in EM - under management->Maintenance Plans I can see the packages created for db maintenance, but not the one created using import-export wizard. I can se the GUID in the job (command line tab) but the search for the GUID # does not yield any results. The searc for .dtsx does not show this package either. Where ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error in stored procedure Tfs.WorkItemTracking.ProcessIdentities

  Hi forum, We have received this error in our event log: Computer: APP-TIER Source: TFS WorkItem Tracking Category: None Type: Warning Event ID: 3000 Description: TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): DATE PM Machine: APP-TIER Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/Root/WorkItemTracking-4-128111289312419168 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Server.DataAccessLayer, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727 Process Details: Process Name: w3wp Process Id: 2732 Thread Id: 5872 Account name: DO ...Show All

• SQL Server ALTER COLUMN on an XML column type can give error Msg 511 after a few attempts

  Basically I am trying to apply an XML Schema to an XML column after data has been added to the table. I need to do this to generate a computed column for use in an index to improve the access times. While I was playing with the schema getting the format/syntax correct I needed to apply and remove the schema several times and got errors. The following is how the errors can easily be generated rather than how I encountered them initially. Software=Windows 2003 Server, SQL Server 2005 The database table used, without the schema, was... CREATE TABLE [dbo].[EventXML]( [EventID] [INT] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL, [XMLData] [XML] NULL, [msrepl_tran_version] [UNIQUEIDENTIFIER] NOT NULL DEFAULT (newid()) ) The data com ...Show All