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Visual C++ Linking between two projects
//Project one: test (Class Library) //header file: test.h #include <iostream> namespace test { template < typename _uintX, class dum = dummy> class CTest { public : typedef _uintX uint_type; CTest(); CTest(uint_type value); uint_type testfunction(uint_type value); }; class dummy { public : dummy(); }; } //cpp file: test.cpp #include "test.h" template < typename _uintX, class dum> test::CTest<_uintX, dum>::CTest() { std::cout << "Constructor Called" << std::endl; } //Project two: testApp (win32 console application) //testApp.cpp #include "../test/test.h" us ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Cherry Pick Merge causes conflict
I know this subject has come up a few times in the forum, and I've read the answers to those - but still not sure I'm following the answer. I am following an admittedly old webcast from TechEd 2005 by Douglas Neumann that talks about TFS Promotion Modeling, and the ability to Cherry-Pick merge a particular changeset. I'm wondering has something changed since the beta when this seemingly worked Very similar to the demo, I have the following setup: DEV branched to QA (changeset 29) DEV class1.cs QA class1.cs Make a change to class1.cs and check it in + add new property called "NewFeature" for the next release (changeset 30) Make another change to class1.cs for a bug fix and check it in + add new property called "BugFix", need this in th ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums Polylines opacity with Firefox
Hi all, We are experimenting problems with alpha setting for thick polylines. With Firefox alpha parameter is ignored and the line is solid. We've already seen a report on this on the forum. Is this a known issue Is there a plan for a fix Thanks! Paolo Have you tried using the Firefox fix http://viavirtualearth.com/wiki/Firefox2.ashx Are you using FF 1.5 or 2.0 ...Show All
Commerce Server Site Refresh not working for Business Apps
Hello everyone, I can't seem to refresh the site cache from the BizApps on CS2007 RTM. I have the BizApps installed on a dedicated server and even with the hotfix KB 922068 applied I can't get the sitecache refresh feature working This is the error I get. System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Instance validation error: '0' is not a valid value for System.Net.HttpStatusCode. at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterList1.Write1_HttpStatusCode(HttpStatusCode v) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterList1.Write3_CacheRefreshFailureInformation(String n, String ns, CacheRefreshFailureInfo ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C# and Dx9 trouble.
Hi, I'm not sure if this belongs in here, because I don't know wether my problem is a C# or a Dx9 issue, but ill take my shot. I made a C# Project using VS2005 Proffessional, which includes a Picturebox, in which I render my 3D stuff using DX9c. The app also has some non DX9 standard tools, like Buttons, Textfields, etc... . The second i start rendering with the Directx device, all non DX9 stuff stops being redrawn. The Buttons still work but theres no animation, no update, the Framerate stops being updated, nothing works which includes graphical altering except the DX9 stuff rendered within the Picturebox. I tried to Refresh the Form, but nothing helps, I'd appreciate all comments, thnx. Greetings Alexander You h ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Program Error
Ive built a sample program that has three forms : A Main form holding menu bar etc etc and a panel Two forms that open in the panel, 1 form follows on from the other by a button click Whenever I open the form in the panel, (in debugging and as a published program) , the top left side of the form is greyed out and I cant work out why: A screenshot is here http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/ss002d6252/untitled.jpg Does anyone have any suggestions are you sure there is nothing there on top of the other controls does this also appear in the design viewer, when you are not running the app are you sure you are not perhaps relocating/positioning some other control in that position what happens ...Show All
Visual Basic Opening files from SQL
Hi, I have a database (SQL 2000) with two image fields, one image column holds a certain Adobe PDF document while the other column holds the image of a word document. I have figured out the routine to upload to SQL from a similar routine used for images. However, displaying them is much different to displaying images (which can be converted to .NET images and displayed in a picture box). How can I program it (using VB 2005) so the user can click view and they load in to their respective programs The only way I can see of doing it is to convert the byte array in to a file and use windows to load the file (taking in to account the mime type); however, I don't want to take this approach as it isn't clean and simple. I also don't wa ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Some helpful advice for the 360 dev.
I mentioned in a previous thread, that developers need to be careful when creating their games as the 360 has only 512mb of ram available. I noticed recently that as more people start to use the XNA launcher, they are running into this memory wall. So here are my top tips to help avoid the wall. 1. Be aware of your asset sizes. Texture and sound files are your culprits here! Use the content managers unload function to purge memory at the end of levels, between menu states and so on and so forth. Don't leave un-used textures or sounds in memory. This is the reason why all reatail games load data during level changes and even for trivial things like going from the main menu to the options menu etc. etc. I have a memory chart and usually fi ...Show All
Visual C++ How to capture a termination signal?
I apologize if this is not the right forum. It seems the most appropriate. I have a win32 app that runs in the background. I want to detect when it is requested to close. On *nix platforms I can do this by capturing the termination signal. But I have noticed in the documentation that windows only supports a few signals and termination is not one of them. So how do I detect if the program is closing because the user has logged out of the session Thanks Brian The UI group was the right way to go. They recommended creating a hidden window and listening for the wm_quit message. Thanks Brian ...Show All
.NET Development Which Method is Better for Transferring Large Datasets/Tables
Here is the application: There's database server that has a database that has "a lot" of data in it. i.e. There are about 30K+ Customers, 15K+ suppliers (Of course growing) and I want to be able to access the data from the various table and display(listboxes, comboxes) and query(by entering ids/strings etc) from mobile application on PPC 2003 WLAN Powered Handheld Devices. For eg . the customer name will be loaded in combooxes and when customer is chosen the customer info is shown. As it stands now loading all of the customers in the combox takes a long time (few loong seconds). The autocomplete feature is also very slow is there anyway I can do this that it doesn't take a long time as this deem the application not very ...Show All
Windows Forms Drawing line on Forms
Hi All, How do i get a vertical line on a Form Is there a control to do that or do i have to draw line using graphics Please let me know.. Thanks Jith using Windows.Drawing public void Draw() { Graphics g = this .CreateGraphics(); Pen p = new Pen( Color.Red, 5.0f ); g.DrawLine(p, 10.0f, 10.0f, 20.0f, 20.0f); } Try this in your form ...Show All
SQL Server create user from certificate problem
Greetings... I'm trying to create a user (from certificate): USE master GO CREATE CERTIFICATE UnsafeSample_Certificate ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'All you need is love' WITH SUBJECT = 'Certificate for example_sp' , START_DATE = '20070201' , EXPIRY_DATE = '21000101' ; BACKUP CERTIFICATE UnsafeSample_Certificate TO FILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\hunter\SampleCert.cer' WITH PRIVATE KEY ( FILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\hunter\SampleCert.pvk' , ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'Tomorrow never knows' , DECRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'All you need is love' ); CREATE USER UnsafeSample_Login FROM CERTIFICATE UnsafeSa ...Show All
Windows Forms Win32.SetParent problems
Hi All, I am using Win32.Setparent in my application. Because of that my default application behaviour is getting changed. Does anybody have any idea what to do after calling win32.setparent......................to get original setting of the form I am using windows XP. bhavu wrote: yes, but in a little bit complicated way........................... actually this code is already there and we cannot change this code.................................. StartLocation.CenterScreen won't do anything inside another form. I'm pretty sure of this :) You will have to set the form.Location manually. [Form2.x = (Form1.width /2) - (form2.width /2)] ...Show All
Windows Forms VB.NET2003 - Items in ListBox are invisible
Probably a simple answer, but I just loaded VS.NET2003, and opened a sample applicaiton with 3 items in a preloaded in dropdown combo list box. when I click on the dropdown, the preloaded entries are invisible when I click on one it displays in the selected box I tried a simple list box with 5 preloaded values and I can tell they are entries but are invisible.... I even checked to see if the background foreground colors got change to the same..... I tried labels and they are fine.... ... The problem is your antivirus (mcafee). Download this patch http://sdownload.nai.com/products/protected/hotfix/VSE80P05.Zip and it will fix all your problems... Bye Ste ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Skinned Mesh Content Pipeline Import Bug?
I'm having an error when importing a skinned mesh in beta 2: (please do not download this unless you are from MS and are going to help debug the issue) Download Sample (2.5 mb) Error 1 Building content threw ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: weight at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Graphics.BoneWeight..ctor(String boneName, Single weight) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.MeshConverter.PreprocessVertexWeightData(_D3DXMESHCONTAINER* meshContainer) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.MeshConverter.ProcessMesh(_D3DXMESHCONTAINER* meshContainer) at Microsoft.Xna.F ...Show All