mmix's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to keep a Popup aligned with a Control

  My scenario is the following: I want to show a Popup below a TextBox for giving help informations. The problem is that the (opened) Popup stays at the same location when i move the parent Window or the TextBox (through animation). My question: Is it possible to keep the Popup aligned with the TextBox so that it stays below the TextBox even if i move the window Through databinding or something like that (A tooltip is not an option for me.) Well as I have read other posts and help files, I have come to the conclusion there is no other way to do it but manually. You will have to use the Popup's .HorizontalOffset and .VerticalOffset properties in conjunction with the container/window  that is being "moved/dragged". &nbs ...Show All

• .NET Development Class which is implementing IDOMXMLNodeList

  Hello, I'am looking for a class who imlements the IDOMXMLNodeList Interface in MSXML2 (msxml6.dll). tanks Alexander Schneider Which programming language are you using with MSXML or do you want to use MSXML gives you an object implementing IDOMXMLNodeList if you use childNodes or getElementsByTagName or selectNodes. What do you want to achieve that needs such a class where the named properties or methods do not help ...Show All

• Visual Basic creating handler and event for a boolean variable of a class

  Hi, I would like to create handler which handles a boolean variable of the class I have created. for example : Public Class Sample 'other codes Private mSelected As Boolean Public Property Selected() As Boolean Get Return mSelected End Get Set ( ByVal value As Boolean ) mSelected = value End Set End Property 'other codes End Class I want to create a handler and an event , so that I can use it in my Windows forms like : Public Class Form1 ' other codes ---- Friend WithEvents sample1 As Sample ' other codes ---- sample1 = New Sample Private Sub Sample_SelectedChanged ( ByVal sender As System. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Managed DirectX Render Loop

  I'm sure this question has been asked a million times, but what is the current thinking about the best render loop for Managed DirectX I found an article on Rick Hoskinson's blog where he suggests overriding WndProc (http://blogs.msdn.com/rickhos/archive/2005/03/30/403952.aspx) and claims it's more efficient than the commonly used DoEvents and Application.Idle methods but I recently downloaded the April 2006 SDK and notice that the samples still use DoEvents. Also I tried using the WndProc method in a game of mine and noticed that in windowed mode it doesn't 'play nicely' with other windows apps, dragging the window for example is very unresponsive. Is it worth using multi-threading for the game loop to maintain responsiveness in windowed ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Stoping a control from responding to events

  Hello Is there a way I can stop a control from responding to events temperorly For example, I'm animating a grid on mouse enter and mouse leave. Works great. Because the size of the control is changing on mouse enter/leave sometimes depending on where the mouse is; the control gets confused as it is animating its size it starts to respond to mouse enter/leave events. Thanks Houman The best way I have found in this case is using two styles: one with and one without animatioin. ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Explorer Refresh in HTML with multiple opened windows

  When using the Explorer 7 I encounter the following problem: when opening 2 tabs in the browser, the refresh in the HTML I wrote works fine. when opening 2 browsers separately with the same HTML, only 1 of the explorers is refreshed. this is the HTML code for the refresh I am using:    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10; URL=/web/apt.dll pagename=chat_room_messages&userid=USER1&sessionid=27758&roomid=11"> I didn't encounter this issue when using the explorer 6 versions. Any Ideas thanks, Mat ...Show All

• .NET Development Too many connections to database

  Every time I view the data tab or preview a report in reports designer, it creates a new connection to the database that never closes unless I close Visual Studio. In the data tab, the connection happens before I even run the query. Before you ask, closing the connection, closing the report, and closing the project do not work. Only closing VS itself kills the connection. The DBA is complaining. Mention: It's an Oracle db. Is this a bug Can I force the connection to close in Reports Designer Try setting pooling=false or MaxPoolSize=n (where n is the maximum number of connections you want to see) in the connection strings for those connections while you are working with them. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Concerning auto-gen'ed vcproj files

  Hello all, Still new to the MSBuild environment, I noticed that the vcproj files that VS.NET 2005 generates for C++ projects has a format like the following: <VisualStudioProject ProjectType="Visual C++" Version="8.00" Name="SRClient" ProjectGUID="{E80C0F4D-9918-403B-B52E-90C0F3535FA7}" RootNamespace="SRClient" Keyword="AtlProj" > <Platforms> <Platform Name="Win32" /> </Platforms> <ToolFiles> </ToolFiles> <Configurations> <Configuration Name="Debug|Win32" OutputDirectory=".\debug" IntermediateDirectory=".\debug" ConfigurationType="2" InheritedPropertySheets=" ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. maya 7 and multiple animations

  im wondering if its possible at all to export an x file that has multiple animations in it using maya 7. i've seen x files with multiple animations in them and i wrote my animation system to use them, but i cant figure out how to get more than one animation exported in an x file. if i cant export it like that right out of maya is there a tool that will work with the newer x files that would take care of this for me i noticed the old DX9.0b mesh viewer had the option to add animations to an x file but that functionality was removed for some reason, and that tool will not load certain models out of maya. if i could get it to load my x files out of maya i think it would work, but for some reason it doesnt work with certain x files i export a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista UI.Automation and IE7

  I am trying to understand to what extent I can automate a web app using UI.Automation and IE7. I was expecting to be able to interact with the page however all I see in UISpy are the items like the Status Bar and the favorites etc. Am I missing something obvious Any pointers appreciated. Thanks, -jim Current IE support is based on MSAA, and UI Automation clients are seeing the objects through the fallback MSAA provider. As a result, you don’t see what you’d see from a browser with native UI Automation support. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System work items are not publishing from project professional

  Dear all work items are not publishing from project professional,This is the scenerio what i work out I open the project profession and added necessary resouces to the new document. Then i connect to team project server and selected the team project Then i enter the necessary details for work item like Title,task type,assigned to, area,iteration ,etc when i tried to publish to TFS , It shows validation rule failed for Title field of work item ,which i already entered ,but when edited the workitem for title through option presented in validation rule failure.it was publishing to TFS To solve this i even gone through the field mapping options between Project professsional and TFS.But it is not solve can any one ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I can't select items in a listbox with ID key data

  I have a listbox that contains data from a datatable and the value/display member is the ID key, but when I select something inside it it gives the following error: System.Data.ConstraintException was unhandled Message="For the column KaartID applies the restriction that it has to be unique. The value 4 is already present." Figo Fei - MSFT wrote: Hi, The cause is that ID is the unique key of the datatable which can't be duplicated. Pls check what operation have you applied to the listBox about this unique column data Thanks what do you mean with operation what it does with the data but if I just click the data in the listbox it says the same error kaartIDListB ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Studio 2005 Pro - Academic Version

  I'm thinking about ordering VS Pro from school, but they can't give me details (it's not kept in stock)... does anyone have the academic version and does it require internet regsitration/activation Some people are saying yes, others are saying no. Thanks Any mention of off topic item was evidence and reasoning for this on-topic question. There is nothing different about the environment for compiling 64 bit. Its really only a compiler switch. So I wouldnt get you hopes up that being able to compile for 64 bit is something amazing. That said if you compile for 64 bit - you get an additional combobox on the project advanced compile options which sets an attrribute in the project ...Show All

• SQL Server Qualified table name syntax

  Im trying to write a generic data access layer that supports SQL CE and Im wondering if any type of schema qualifier can be placed in front of a table name when executing a sql statement. I've tried soemthing like this select * from dbo.Account I get this error, The table name is not valid. [ Token line number (if known) = 1,Token line offset (if known) = 19,Table name = account ] It doesnt make really make sense to include a qualifier for sql ce but I just wanted to make sure that there wasnt some other syntax that I wasnt aware of. Thanks. Nope, as I describe in the book, the SQL engine for "SQL Server" Compact Edition is not SQL Server--it uses a subset so the concept of ...Show All

• SQL Server problem with convertion of datatypes from Derived column to Slowly changed dimensions

  Hi, I am facing the problem with datatype conversions, the scenario is using derived column transformation for add additional columns and then later i am trying to impliment Slowly changing dimensions(SCM) in my job, while mapping the columns at SCM from Input to Output it gave the error like suppose if i am using the numeric(3,0) at SRC system then i converted it into single byte unsigned at derived column and it recognized at SCD but the job fail while run the package it gave the error as task can not able to conversted given data type to target system dtata type.. ifi am not given the single byte unsigned data type at dervied column at the level of SCD mapping the input to output its not accapring this mapping and return the error as ...Show All