MaggieChan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ColorAnimation, Binding From Property

  Hi guys, May be someone knows how can I bind "From" Property of the ColorAnimation list.cs /////////// private Color m_ListColor; public Color ListColor { get { return m_ListColor; } set { m_ListColor=value; OnPropertyChanged("ListColor"); }} list.xaml /////////////// <ColorAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="fillb" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(SolidColorBrush.Color)" From="{Binding Path=ListColor}" To="#111111" Duration="0:0:0.1" /> There is an exception in Presentationframework.dll Appreciate any help, Irina try changing From="{Binding Path=ListColor}" to From="{Binding E ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Page Flip Effect?

  I have seen demos where content has changed through a page flip technique - where the user drags the corner of the page and flips over to the next page... Does anyone know how to do this I develop similar applications but also include : - hyperlinks - dynamic loading - hotspots - thumbnial generator - send to friend function - keyword search - blogging - zooming Are you looking for an off the shelf model to fit to an existing publication or are you looking for assistance with code. Let me know paul@trinityinnovations.ie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Import schema failed with Trusworthy assemblies

  Hi, I've been trying to figure this out, with no luck. I am attempting to import a database schema that uses unsafe assemblies, the database I'm importing from has the Trustworthy database option on so it's not a problem there. However when I import the database schema into my new project I get the errors stating that the create assembly failed. TSD4001: CREATE ASSEMBLY for assembly 'GlobalVariables' failed because assembly 'GlobalVariables' is not authorized for PERMISSION_SET = UNSAFE. The assembly is authorized when either of the following is true: the database owner (DBO) has UNSAFE ASSEMBLY permission and the database has the TRUSTWORTHY database property on; or the assembly is signed with a certificate or an asymmetric key t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Database problem/mistake...

  I am developing an app that uses an SQL Express DB as the backend and VB as the front end. After reading much information I think I initially made a mistake when I created and connected to the database. After installing an initial version (one click) I now have three databases. The one being accessed by the installed version is in a strange directory (documents and settings/user name/.....). I wish I had started out with a single SQL Express DataBase in a location that would be easy to back up with SQL Management Studio. Now the question, can I copy the database that is being used by the deployed version of the app to a directory normally used by sql and then delete the version used by the IDE and connect to that version If I did this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Object Reference Not Set" When Opening Solution

  I created a stored procedure to automate the setting of some default values in my target database.  I ran the stored procedure and the defaults were successfully created.  I then used schema compare to import those new defaults into my project.  The compare picked up the defaults fine.  I copied the resulting script to the T-SQL editor and applied it against my design database (local machine, sqlexpress).  The script reported it was applied successfully. Upon re-opening the project I now receive the error "Object Reference Note Set To An Instance of An Object".  I am unable to access the project with VS.  Kind of painful.  1. Any ideas what happened   2. Can schema compare be ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development XPath - selecting an element by index

  Seemingly this should be a valid XPath select for a <cue> or <par> -- why does it's inclusion cause iHDSim to report an "Unknown Exception" //div[@id=$chapter]/button[1] This should identify a specific <div> (using an XPathVariable set in script), and get the first button it contains. In fact it seems that the bracketed subscript notation doesn't work at all... Thanks again, that was even more helpful. Using el.state.focused='true'; el.state.unsetProperty('focused'); ...sounds like a winner, since using the markup engine here was a workaround. Alternately, using the XPath contains() function to simulate an intersection might absolve the need for script poking the focus aroun ...Show All

• Smart Device Development why cannot get phoneNumber?

  Hi, i run the project: \Windows CE Tools\wce500\Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK\Samples\CPP\Win32\Getphonenumber on my Mobile phone based on smartphone , but it return NULL, it can not get the phone number why Thanks. The phone number can be stored on the SIM card. Most operators don't store it by default....That's why the sample code in the SDK "Does not work" :) Oystein ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DXT compressed Textures

  Hi, in general it looks like there are the same DXT texture compression formats as for DX9. I assume those compression formats do not work with the new DXGI_FORMAT_R9G9B9E5_SHAREDEXP & DXGI_FORMAT_R11G11B10_FLOAT formats In real-life (TM) I always have to store texture data in DXT compressed formats ... if I want to opt for a better color quality in compressed formats, nothing seems to have changed between DX9 and DX10 ... is that correct Thanks in advance, - Wolf This spurred a question for me personally. On <insert console here> we used RGBE for our HDR textures and had to do all sorts of tricks to circumvent DXT's compression so that when decoding RGBE in the shader we got dece ...Show All

• Architecture ASP.NET Shapes in Visio

  Are there any ASP.NET shapes I can download for Visio i.e. GridView, etc You can get them in this post: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/waeumlvisio.htm ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to raise an event for the controlBox Close form button X

  Hi, How can I raise an event for a forms control box close button X The form close event will not do , I need to ony action something when this button is clicked, can not seem to reference this button. Ron Yes I Know I answered my own question I know where I went wrong, and have now resolved it. so lets not labour the issue any more and consider it closed, after all I am only learning like most of us.   Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Me .Close() '\\ Closes the search dialog End Sub Private Sub AccSearch_FormClosed( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System ...Show All

• SQL Server App pool worker process questions??

  I've recently upped the idle shutdown time for my worker processes on the ssrs app pool. Do I need to restart IIS and SSRS when I make these little tweaks Also, I noticed that the app pool is currently defaulted to every 1740 min. for recycling worker processes and the rsconfig has them recycling at every 720 min. Which configuration utility has control here And 720 or 1740 minutes from what starting point...midnight....the time of the last recycle or restart I'd like to schedule this from the IIS manager to recycle based on time so I can do it when there is less activity. Do I need to shut off the rsconfig recycler ...Show All

• .NET Development opening and reading text files

  I am new to visual c# and to programming in general. While I have taken a C++ class and have and understanding of if / else, while, for, do-while, etc., I have no clue when it comes to visual c#. Does anyone have a simple application that opens a text file (where the file name and location is entered on the form) and reads the file. Anything close would be appreciated. Ultimately I need to have an application that reads the text file, line by line, and compares it with a string that will also be entered on the form. Thanks! You'll want to get used to the the forms API first using some of these videos: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/learning/ Then you'll want to learn about System.IO: http://msdn2.micros ...Show All

• .NET Development Using System.Net.Mail class to send mail.

  Hi, I was coding a class to send mail via SMTP, but I found that in Framework 2.0 you have System.Net.Mail to do that task. The classes works fine to send mail on a server that does not require authentication. Unfortunatelly, I can't get it to work on a base64 encrypted server. The process of logging in that type of server is easy, so I expect an bool attribute, let's say, "IsAuthRequired", but it does not exists. From what I've read on MSDN documentation, the way to do that is to have UseDefaultCredentials to false, and Credentials must not be null. The problem is that my code do have both these requeriments, but I still can't run it on SMTP auth servers. I've sniffed the packets sent from my app, and t didn't try to au ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal reports studio 2003 vs 2005

  I have an app in vs studio 2003 that is getting the following error Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=11.5.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. I have several apps running on the same server using vs2005 that utilize Crystal without any problems. Can someone tell me what I need to do to configure the 2003 app to work as well You will need to deploy more files to your server. There are different files used for running under the 1.x and the 2.0 .NET frameworks. You need to create a deployment package with CrystalReports11_5_NET.msm to get the 1.1 versions. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Ancient Greek

  I'm looking for a way to type ancient greek characters including accents into WPF applications. Simply switching to Symbol Font doesn't do the trick. Unicode supports all kinds of characters required but how can I bind the user input to greek characters ...Show All