SanthaMind's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Adding Possible Debuggers to VS JIT

  Is there a way to add more possible debuggers to the list that appears in the visual studio 2005 jit debugger Id like to be able to add Windbg to the list I do not know of a way to add extra debuggers to the VS 2005 jit debugger list, but you've got the option of replacing it completely with something else by changing the Debugger key in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrenVersion\AeDebug , and if you export the existing key, you'll easily be able to restore it. Note the standard 'editting the registry is dangerous' disclaimer applies ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Higher End games being developed on XNA?

  From what i've seen and read, a lot of people are using XNA to develop more simple arcade and sprite based games. I am building a development team at the moment and was wondering if there were any other games in development using XNA that would be considered more intensive. By intesnive I mean something along the lines of a FPS featuring HDR lighting, complicated physics solutions, etc. I'm just trying to make sure that XNA has the capabilites built in to develop a high end game. Any projects currently in development that I can reference would be awesome. FYI: I'm an artist, so reading the technical mumbo jumbo doesnt help much... I suspected the programming team would have to write most of the code th ...Show All

• Visual C++ LNK2019: unresolved external symbol error when using #include <fstream>

  ERROR: ---------------------------------------------------------- error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > & __cdecl std::operator<<<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >(class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,char const *)" (__imp_ $ 6DU $char_traits@D@std@@@std@@YAAAV $basic_ostream@DU $char_traits@D@std@@@0@AAV10@PBD@Z) referenced in function "public: static void __cdecl Message::init(void)" ( init@Message@@SAXXZ) Message.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: void __thiscall std::basic_ofstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> & ...Show All

• Visual C++ .NET 2003 SP1 Compiler Internal Error

  .NET 2003 (no SP1) and .NET 2005, C++ compilers in both cases, compile this code just fine.  The build 6030 compiler in .NET 2003 C++ SP1 however fails internally.  I can't really tell where or why, looking for clues. c:\trunk\dev\ul\util\test\t_uprefs.cpp(468) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR                 (compiler file 'f:\vs70builds\6030\vc\Compiler\Utc\src\P2\main.c', line 148) Anyone at Microsoft able to identify what would cause this   Basically line 468 is a macro that says if the statement does not evaluate to true, throw an exception.  Now obviously this code is just plain wrong, as it needs to be checking the result ...Show All

• SQL Server JavaScript Error in report

  When ever report is blank it gives me javascript error. In IE on bottom left it shows js error icon. Details of error are: Line: 20 Char: 634 error: Object Required Code: 0 URL: http://<servername>/Reports/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd ReportSession=vzlkcz453qxkilexp4sgutqp&ControlID=ac36d700-2cdd-4325-ade1-95fda484e6db&Culture=1022&UICulture=9&ReportStack=1&OpType=ReportArea&Controller=ClientControllerctl161&PageNumber=1&ZoomMode=Percent&ZoomPct=100&ReloadDocMap=true&EnableFindNext=False&LinkTarget=_top If there is any data in report then it does not give any error. For possible solutions I have checked that in IIS mapping for axd extension is already given and checkbox f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Windows Serive Crashing IIS

  Hi, I have created a windows service using C#. The service works fine on my desktop which has Windows XP Professional. When I use the service on Windows 2000 Advanced server, the IIS works fine for a couple of hours and then crashes with the following error: Event ID: 3 Source : IISLOG Description: IIS Logging was unable to create the file C:\WINNT\System32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\ex990628.log. The data is the error. I have to restart IIS after that but it again crashes after some time. I have also noticed that the process Inetinfo.exe is using 75% of the memory. Could it be a problem with Windows 2000 Advanced server Any help in this matter will be really appreciated. Thanks, Brijesh ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Where can I find "PKEY_Device_FriendlyName" definition?

  Hello, guys I'm trying to compile sAPO property sample project in Vista DDK 5472. But everytime I'm trying to do that, I'm getting the error message which says that "'PKEY_Device_FriendlyName' : undeclared identifier". I already searched all the files in DDK 5472, but nothing was found. Can anyone advise me that where can I find that defintion or can anybody advise me how to solve this problem Thanks in advance. WDK 5482 is now available! the problem looks like gone, and look like working okay. I finally succeed in compiling and installing sAPO on my Vista beta2, though I still having a problem in property pages. ...Show All

• Visual Studio DSL Element (concept) - Propriety Validation

  Hi, I wanna put a restriction on some propertys of my DSL Elements, i.e: string field with 3 chars; string field limited to 50 chars, ... How can I make this validation I really appreciate your help D Hi, You have a couple of ways to do that. Regular validation. The document in the samples directory contains information how to implement validation. e.g. C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 2005 SDK\2006.09\VisualStudioIntegration\Samples\DSLTools\Example.DesignerCustomizations\Example.ValidationAndConstraints.doc Validation conflicts can be written to the Error List with a severity (warning, error, ) Applying a 'ChangeRule' would also do the trick. Since the rule concept runs inside a tr ...Show All

• Visual C++ please help! compile error

  hello, I have following error in visual c++/win xp when compile a file. Please help! Thank you very much! d:\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\atlmfc\include\afxv_w32.h(216): error C2664: 'GetWindowThreadProcessId' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'void *' to 'LPDWORD' If it was being compiled as C it would have blown up long before this point. But just in case it didn't you can add /Bd to the command-line (find it under your project properties - down near the end) and take a look at the output if you see c1.dll being used instead of c1xx.dll then it is being compiled as C. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Confusion about style:display

  I've set up a screensaver by creating a single style for the images: <style id="PHOTO" style:position="absolute" style:display="none" style:x="0px" style:y="0px" style:width="1920px" style:height="1080px" /> And inserting them into the markup: <div id="PHOTO01" style="PHOTO" style:backgroundImage="url('photo01.jpg')" /> <div id="PHOTO02" style="PHOTO" style:backgroundImage="url('photo02.jpg')" /> <div id="PHOTO03" style="PHOTO" style:backgroundImage="url('photo03.jpg')" /> <div id="PHOTO04" style="PHOTO" style:backgroundImage="url ...Show All

• SQL Server Database is read-only.

  Hi I have been learning on how to use the new features of the .NET 2.0, and Well I using VS2005 and everything is pretty straight foward. I did a Membership webform where you log in and create users and roles etc. I installed the SQL Server 2005 express as my Data provider and thats where my Tables are. I used the aspnetsql_reg comand to integrate the server to this application. Anyway my problem started when i decided to copy my project to my IIS server and well when I run the app from the Browser tells me that he Database It's set to Read-Omly and therefore it cant update it. This happens right after log in. but then I open the App. on hte VS and it runs find. This is the error:   Exception Details: System.Da ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xbox Live Arcade "Standards" ???

  Does anyone have any information about the required "standards" for an Xbox Live Arcade game For example, most arcade games I've downloaded appear to have the following 6 standard menu options for their splash screens (in order)... 1. Single Player 2. Multiplayer 3. Leaderboards 4. Achievements 5. Help and Options 6. Return to Arcade (For trial versions, there is also a 7th option, Unlock Full Version, or something similar. Also, I'm assuming Multiplayer is optional; non-multiplayer games obviously don't need it.) What other requirements are there Where can I find more information about this Thanks! Here is an interesting interview on Gamasutra http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_inde ...Show All

• SQL Server Deadlock problem? 3 way conditional split of data from one table to another never completes

  I have a source table which I'm splitting 3 ways based on a column value, but the target is the same OLE DB destination table. One conditional path is to a Multi-Cast two way split to same OLE DB gestination table. The default split is to a flat file for logging unknown record types. For a test I have data for only the 3 column values I want, but I'm having trouble with the process completing. If I pre-filter the data going into the source table by one or two values I can get the process to complete even if one split is to the multicast. If I include all three data types in the source table, I get different results depending on the order in which the conditions are specified - sometimes only two split paths are executed; other times all th ...Show All

• Visual Basic TextBox Input Validation

  Greetings: I'm trying to get a textbox to only accept the input of numbers, ".", and the back key. I modeled this on the example in the MSDN help files, which is close to what I want and works just fine, but this tweak doesn't work. No input is accepted. The debugger will display that e.KeyCode is "NumPad5{101}", for example, but the debugger slides right over the first Case where I'd expect it to be accepted. Any other key gets the same result. What's missing here Private Sub txtExp_KeyDown( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) _ Handles txtExp.KeyDown Select Case e.KeyCode Case e.KeyCode >= Keys.NumPad0 And e.KeyCode <= Keys.NumPad9 ...Show All

• .NET Development System.IO.Compression not as good as compressed folder

  I'm getting much better compression when I make a compressed folder (Windows XP) than I am using DeflateStream or GZipStream.  I thought these were the same algorithms used in PKZIP and for compressing folders.  Why such bad compression DeflateStream: 3544Kb -> 1261Kb GZipStream: 3544Kb -> 1261Kb Windows XP: 3544Kb -> 804Kb So how can I get the same compression ratio as Windows XP Thanks, Jeremy > it should compress the same as PkZip since it's supposed to be same algorithm PKzip and other file-based compression utilities can and will store files using wildly different algorithms or compression parameters. For example, here's a header dump (wit ...Show All