fspilot2006's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista unexpectedly flipped frames using null renderer

  I wonder if anyone else has experienced this curious frame flipping behaviour and might have a solution to offer... I'm rendering frames from a capture source (the integrated camera in a WM5 device), through a custom transform filter (derived from CTransformFilter), and finally out to the null renderer (i.e. the renderer you get by specifying NULL as the last parameter on RenderStream). The transform filter doesn't do anything to the video data at the moment - just copies everything through verbatim. I call IMediaControl->Run() to start the graph, and everything runs normally - frames are being displayed ok on the mobile screen (appearing the right way up, like a camera viewfinder). But then, if my app has cause to call up an AfxMessage ...Show All

• SQL Server MS SQL Server 2005 Database Documenter

  I have started a Reporting Service project called "SQLDB.Documenter" that can be used to document databases hosted on MS SQL Server 2005. Now, the project is in its alpha phase. I am willing to give it out to people who might be interested to give it a try. It can only document MS SQL Server 2005 databases and requires SQL Server Reporting Services to run it. Please contact me directly if you are interested and want to give it a try. Any suggestions and/or feedbacks will be highly appreciated. My e-mail address is < George.Liu@iko.com >. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get .Net 3.0 to work with VS2005?

  I am running WinXP SP2. I downloaded and then tried running the .Net 3.0 redist package from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx familyId=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&displayLang=en It bombs every time with a generic failure message. All I want to do is ty to get .Net 3.0 to work with VS2005 (not Orcas) and do some work with WCF. I'm seeing quite a few posts on the confusion of what exaclty to install. I'm not sure why this has to be so complicated, especially if .Net 3.0 is supposed to have been released. Can anyone point me to a clear series of steps of what to download, and where it can be found Have a look at this thread. http://forums.microsoft.com/forums/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1083382 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error while creating Dataset

  Hi, I have recently downloaded Visual C# Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. When I try to create a dataset from within the Visual C# IDE, I get the following error: An unexpected error has occured Error Message: Key not valid for use in specified state. Is it a SQL Server related error How can I correct it I can create new database and tables and diagrams in the database using the Database Explorer of the IDE . But when I try to create a dataset, this error occurs. Thanks a lot. This seems like a VS error since things haven't even gotten to the point where you're connecting to SQL Express. Additionally, you point out that you're able to create and edit database through ...Show All

• Windows Forms transparent label?

  Holla Im designing a new user form. How do I create a label with transparent back color There is a field "Transparent" at the properties-dialog wich inserts "Color.transparent", but it doesn't work. The label has the same color like the window. Is there a way to get a real transparent label Thanks knackpunkt83 Figured this out on accident while messing around. Once the label is set to transparent, you have to add the label control to the picture box. pictureBox1.Controls.Add(label1); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with AddHandler click event with runtime Picturebox(es).

  Greetings, I am adding multiple Pictureboxes at runtime and I'm trying to add an AddHandler to handle the (left button) .Click and within that event be able to know which Picturebox was Clicked. Would somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong, my code is working as far as the handler is called, my problems are : 1. The handler is called for all 3 button clicks (not just left click) 2. How do I retrieve the Picturebox name that was clicked. 3. What should the Handles in the SUB MyPicturebox_Click be. Approximately 16 PictureBox are created, so PictureBoxDisplay is called each time. My Code is : . Public Sub PictureBoxDisplay( ByVal ImageFileName As String , ByVal Count As Integer , ByVal pos As ...Show All

• SQL Server Horizontal charts - point labels issue

  Hi. I'm currently having some troubles with the Reporting Services charts and I was hoping I could get some help here. The issue here is that I'm using charts with horizontal bars, and I can't seem to be able to control the alignment of the Point Values. I've read that the alignment can't be set while using stacked bar charts, but I'm not using a stacked bar chart, just a simple horizontal bar chart. A workaround for this would be to use different colors for the values displayed outside the bars than from those displayed inside the bars (for better visibility). I had expected RS to display the values inside the bars when they are greater than a set percentage of the chart range (e.g. 95%). Alas, this is not the case, as it seems to c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System tf.exe gets stuck doing a Get from a label

  I'm trying to get a system set up using FinalBuilder ( www.finalbuilder.com ) to automate a complete product build. I'm running into a problem doing a Get from Label in the FinalBuilder project - sometimes (most of the time, actually), tf.exe gets stucks after getting all of the files and fails to terminate currectly. (By stuck I mean that the process continues to exist, is consuming no CPU time and performing no I/O operations). Now, there's every possibility that this is really a FinalBuilder issue (and I've inquired on their foums as well), but I thought I'd ask here in case anyone knows of any reason why tf.exe might "hang" after getting a bunch of files. It "smells" like tf.exe is waiting for console input, ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development BPL Workshop day 1...

  Very very very cool. Great to see alot of familiar faces and chat...unfortunately I had a client come in for a demo at noon!!! I raced back and we got the project!!! woohoo I also like my new murse (man purse) Look forward to getting some animation from script info tommorow...and I hope to discuss the benefits of MNG vs PNG ... Glad you liked the fashionable carry-all (and the discussion of MNGs... which don't really buy you much except slightly simpler XML). Marking this as the "answer"... please remember to post "comments" rather than "questions" if you don't actually need an answer. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I get outlook express email from my desktop to function online?

  How do I get outlook express email from my desktop to function online This is off topic for this group, this group is for questions on installing and registering the express development systems. You will have to post your questions to the outlook express support groups.. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. SimpleMesh game component and x2swm

  I've uploaded a SimpleMesh game component to use on conjunction with x2swm. Instructions are here: http://astaroth.beatbuggy.net:8080/Images/XNAMagic/SimpleMesh_GameComponent_rm.jpg Download it here: http://astaroth.beatbuggy.net:8080/Downloads/SimpleMesh_GameComponent.zip Instructions: 1) Add the game component to your project. 2) Drag the component onto your game designer. 3) Set the mesh path and mesh name. (i.e media\\ , Dwarf.swm) 4) Put the DrawComponents() call in whichever effect pass you wish. This works for n swm batches. It will continue to work if the texture is missing. Here is the latest x2swm: http://astaroth.beatbuggy.net:8080/Downloads/x2swm_1_0_0_3.zip I forget to mention so ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) One Page Multiple MIME Content Types

  I have a webpage that use to only load images from a database but,  now I want to be able to do different file types like Word documents or Flash MIME types.  The way I did the images was by having a viewer page and the viewer page had an <img src="http:\\site.com\grabImage.aspx ID=19" > So, now that I want other file types then image to showup too.  What type of control would I use instead of the Image Tag.   Thanks, Jeff ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Smooth Sprite Animation (was Smooth Movement)

  I want to revive some of the discussions originally started on this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=691811&SiteID=1 I too have implemented a simple ball bouncing around the screen. This ball movement was jerky with the default settings (IsFixedStep = true). Changing SynchonizeWithVerticalRetrace and IsFullScreen had no affect. I found that setting IsFixedStep = false makes the animation smooth (~350fps). Setting IsFixedStep = true and changing the refresh rate of my monitor to 60hz makes the animation smooth. Setting IsFixedStep = false, TargetElapsedTime to 72fps and changing the refresh rate of my monitor to 72hz (the max, it's an old monitor) makes the animation smooth. This leads m ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Hello UIAutomation World with WPF

  I am currently trying to figure out how the new UIAutmation works. I tried the "Hello World" approach, i.e. the (almost) simplest possible example wich uses UIAutmation to simply click a WPF Button. The Apps UI looks like this: < Window x:Class = " UIAutomationTest.Window1 "     xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation "     xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml "     Title = " UIAutomationTest " Height = " 328 " Width = " 334 " MouseDown = " Window1_MouseDown "     >   < Button           AutomationProperties.AutomationId = " Butt ...Show All

• Smart Device Development AntiAlias / LogFont problem ...

  Hi all, I'm trying to use the LogFont class (Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms.dll) to be able to see the different Quality options for fonts rendering. I have tried with an MSDN sample http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181011.aspx The sample is running fine, i can see the text rotate, but none of the Quality options is working, setting the Quality to NonAntiAlias or to ClearType have no effects at all. I'm trying to found a way to get really smooth fonts on Windows CE5.0 based device, but it definitely seems impossible ... Thanks. Lucas Hi Lucas, You won't see any difference between fonts when the device has ClearType enabled system wide (this trumps all other settings). If you have system wide ClearType turned off, you should b ...Show All