Salman Maredia's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Help compiled file viewer unable to link to web page

  I am having a basic problme with the HTML Help Workshop. After I compile my project and try to view it, the Help system starts, displays the Contents and Index tabs, and a page that is the IE error that the referenced page cannot be linked. I have been unable to find anything that I am doing wrong. What gives Special characters in the path such as "#" can cause problems. Create a simple folder name and see if you can get it to load from there. I believe there may also be some issues when loading a help file in the intranet zone (i.e. from a network share) but I don't recall the details. Copy it to your C: drive and see if it opens okay from there. That should help identify if it's one of these p ...Show All

• Visual C++ LNK2001 _DebugHeapTag_t -- Missing Something...

  Hello, I've read over quite a few other posts and found many that are similar, but none that are identical, and none of their solutions solve my problem. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Here's what I get while linking: buildsummaryform.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void * __cdecl operator new[](unsigned int,struct std::_DebugHeapTag_t const &,char *,int)" ( _U@YAPAXIABU_DebugHeapTag_t@std@@PADH@Z) buildsummaryform.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "struct std::_DebugHeapTag_t const & __cdecl std::_DebugHeapTag_func(void)" ( _DebugHeapTag_func@std@@YAABU_DebugHeapTag_t@1@XZ) There are two of these errors for every file in my project. I think I'm missing a library, but I don't know which. I ...Show All

• SQL Server When opening the Reports site, I get "A name was started with an invalid character." error

  Hello, I am running out of ideas on how to get SSRS to work. I am trying get this setup with the intention to replace our Crystal Reports server. Currently I have set up the RS Virtual Directory on a Win XP box. The ReportServer database sits on another SQL2000 box. I can connect to the http://localhost/ReportServer/ on the XP box to display the page the depicts "Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Version 9.00.2047.00" When I connect to the http://localhost/Reports/ , I get this error "A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'http://leej/Reports/'. Line 1, Position 2" I checked my IIS Virtual Directory properties for Reports and ASP.NET is set to v2.0.50727. I also executed ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions registration of C# express not working

  i've installed C# on 1 machine, and registered it successfully, i needed to install it on a second machine as i the 1st pc is often used for other programs, but when i try to register the second installation of C# it just jumps to a thank you page but no registration key is given or box for me to enter a registration key ... and the 2nd copy keeps popping up, i need to register the product, ... i dunno what to do from here ... please help ... If you are installing the system using the CD or manual install you do not get a registration Key and you do not have to register... item 4 from memory on the regeistration FAQ. You will get the nag screen for a few days but it will stop. If you do register the pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio vs 2003 vs 2005

  Guys, New to this forum. I am working with VS 2003, and now my company asks me that they would like to move to VS 2005, and I need to provide them comparision between VS 2003 and VS2005. Is there any link which illustrate those differances Many Thanks Rik I don't think there is such table since you normally have a differential in the form of What's new lists. So, to compose such table take a look at the VS.NET 2003 features ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700867.aspx ) and use the What's new in VS 2005 that I provided. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions missing header files

  hello all.... the master of weird annoying problems is back.   ok heres my problem, wenever i try to compile a programm and include windows.h, i get an error saying that it cannot find windef.h can any body tell me wat happend to it and if i never had it to start out with is there a way i can download it or get it back   thanx, jt ancient sord wrote: wenever i try to compile a programm and include windows.h, i get an error saying that it cannot find windef.h can any body tell me wat happend to it and if i never had it to start out with is there a way i can download it or get it back My copy of windef.h is in the same Platform SDK /include directory as windows.h. You can reinstall the ...Show All

• Visual C++ This code snippet makes no sense...

  I've come across some code syntax I've never seen. It compiled, but I don't know how, or what it even does! I've been reading a book about DirectX, and in one of the examples, this little piece of code was present: D3DXMATRIX *D3DXMatrixIdentity(D3DXMATRIX *pout); "D3DXMATRIX" is a type, of course. And "D3DXMatrixIdentity" is a function, of course. Now I don't see how this works. Okay, to break it down, first we have a type, which is D3DXMATRIX, then we have the indirection-operator (which I assume is a pointer), and then we have a function (perhaps a call) with a new D3DXMATRIX (pointer) as it's only parameter. How the heck does this work It isn't just a regular function-call. It isn't a function-call that' ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Performance of events

  I'm just wondering as to others opinions on using an event based model for game programming... is it less performant to use events as opposed to inline type solutions For instance, lets say I want to make a collision management class: would I be taking a performance hit if I added an on collision event for each item as opposed to just summing all the collisions and returning a collection I thought I read a while back that there is performance hit for over using events in .net such as would be in a tight game loop. I am not sure I would use events for a collision system, but I do use them for user input where the input commands are not necessarily executed each frame, like text input and console com ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) About Window.AllowsTransparency......

  I have a Non_Rectangle window. I got it by setting the property:  Window.AllowsTransparency(=true). In that window, i put a Windows.Forms.PictureBox for video playback. (By using a WindowsFormsHost control) I cann't show the PictureBox when the AllowsTransparency is "True". When i set it to "False",  it works. How can i solve this problem And is there other ways for creating Non_Rectangle windows   Wanted to make sure you knew that there is a <MediaElement /> that you can use to show video natively. If you already knew, but found MediaElement inadequate, please make sure you tell us the details of the inadequacies... Thanks, Rob Relyea Program Manager, W ...Show All

• .NET Development Embedding .dll file in Internet Explorer...

  Hi, I am experimenting with windows form. I tried to embed dll file in Internet Explorer and I run into Security Permission issue. The dll can't run. So I do some research and finally find a way to do it. Assign strong name to the .dll file. Then put the .snk strong name key file and .dll file together in a directory, use the .NET security configuration tool and increase the assembly trust to full trust. Then I am manage to run the .dll without any permission issues. But what I am not too sure is, since I wish to distribute this .dll file from internet through internet explorer, I believe not every user on the client side would have actually configure my .dll to have full trust on their machine. And if it is the case they w ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC based GUI Application in .Lib file

  Hi all I have created a MFC based GUI application (it is CDialog application)...Now i want to put it in a .lib file with certain facilities like once a person links the lib to his program(proc in this case) n run the program from commandline then if C:\proc showgui //proc is program name n showgui is commandline arguement then gui should popup C:\proc nogui //then it shud not popup gui How shud i achieve this.....how do i put GUI in .lib file n achieve above stuff kunal Although you can create a static lib with MFC support , it is suggested to move your code to a regular DLL or ActiveX so your code can be used by more languages and shared by multiple applica ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Files Bypassing recycle Bin

  I wasn't sure of the correct forum for this question, so here it is. I reinstalled windows awile ago and ever since then all files permanently delete instead of going to recycle bin. I know what you're going to say, "right click on recycle bin and uncheck the box". That doesn't work. I also tried editing the Windows Explorer related to the recycle bin setting in gpedit.msc AND created a new registry entry for NoRecycleFiles = 0 (in appropriate path). I've exhausted all the options I could find on the web, so I thought I'd bring it up. Please advise. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. scale texture or move camera

  When dealing with a 2d tileset in d3d, is it better to move the camera adjusting distance to zoom or is it better to scale the texture's world matrix by the scale factor and shift the camera Is there anything that would perform differently between the two I thought I remembered reading someone recommending the later, but I can't remember why. GrkEngineer While you could apply a scale transformation using either the world or view transform, moving the camera isn't the same a scale transformation. Moving the camera is a translation transformation and only results in things changing sizes because you're using a perspective transformation. How much things change in size depends on the far they are from ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form validation -validate everything at once

  Hi I have form with tabs and texboxs. I'm trying to validate everything at once when the save method is called in the form and got focus to relevant field if validation faild. Does any one know how I can best implement this. Thanks in advance Windows forms validation really does not support that. Billy Hollis wrote his own custom validator for windows forms that are similar to the web validation controls. You can download them from here . ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. newbie question

  Hi, i have 3 questions regarding direct3d 1. Lets say i have a 3D cube, and i want to show its wireframe. I can achieve that by g_pd3dDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_FILLMODE, D3DFILL_WIREFRAME);, but how do i show the wireframe without the internal triangle lines drawn In other words, how do i show a cube with just its edges and not the trianglelines which makes up the cube 2. I have a device (g_pd3dDevice) which i render an .X file to it. I need to do some image processing on the pixel buffer. How do i get the pointer to the pixel buffer Where should i do this I'm using the simple tiger.x sample from directx sdk. Pls help with some code example. 3. How can i render an object with fillmode = shade and fillmode= wireframe on the same i ...Show All