ricky1980's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Creating Dynamic Image Signatures for a forum?

  I created this class to generate a dynamic signature to be use as a signature on forums ans is working great but my problem is that will a url like http://website/dysig.aspx id=123 Now for most forums the signatures cant be dynamic scripts like that they will have to be something like http://website/dysig123.png or some other image format like that. Does anyone have an idea how can I manipulate so my output url will be what I need ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Windows Desktop Search won't start & I cannot remove it

  I recently upgraded to the most recent version of Microsoft Desktop Search. From the Admin account it seemed to be operating perfectly. When I logged off and then on to another account It gave me an error. It suggested that I remove and reinstall. I did and encountered the same problem. I was going to uninstall it, but it has disappeared from my "Add or Remove" list of programs. HELP! Paul, Thanks for getting back to me. Everything was done under the administrator account. I've tried to re-install, but I get the same problem. I cannot un-install the windows desktop search program because it is no longer on the list of programs under add/remove programs. John ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Date formats in timeofday.now

  Hi all - when i do timeofday.now, it says it in a certain format. Can you configure it or use a different method to make it long/short/different Cheers, James. btw eg DD-MM-YY Thursday June 2007 and you also have a hand full of methods: Dim MyDateTime As DateTime = Now Debug . Print ( MyDateTime ) Debug . Print ( MyDateTime . ToFileTime ()) Debug . Print ( MyDateTime . ToFileTimeUtc ()) Debug . Print ( MyDateTime . ToLongDateString ()) Debug . Print ( MyDateTime . ToLongTimeString ()) Debug . Print ( MyDateTime . ToShortDateString ()) Debug . Print ( MyDateTime . ToShortTimeString ()) Debug . Print ( MyDateTime . ToString ( "dd-MM-yy" )) Produces: 7/27/2006 2:27:0 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Post-Processing Shaders and Layers?

  I want to create 2D sprite scenes in GSE the way you work with layers in Photoshop. This is an example of a scenario of what I would like to achieve: Say, I have 2 layers of background and 1 layer of foreground. The first background layer is a sky with a sun. I want to blur this layer with a PixelShader. The second background layer is trees. This layer I also want to blur, but not as much as the layer beneath it, for a Depth of Field effect. The foreground layer contains the grassy ground and the player sprite. On top of all layers I want to put a glow effect from the sun also with a PixelShader. The glow effect should use a Glow Alpha texture that will be "deformed" by the layers, if something is covering the sun those pixel in the Alpha ...Show All

• Visual C++ ATL Service Install and Registration Issue (COM Server vs. Windows Service)

  My client submitted the issue below: MSIExec.exe (and SC.exe, for that matter) knows how to register services with the Service Control manager, which it does just fine. The problem is that ATL generates information that it expects in the registry. The only way that this ATL stuff gets in the registry is if the ATL Service self-installs using a command line similar to: MyService.exe /service If the "/service" arguement is not included MyService gets started as a COM Server (not a service). MSIExec.exe (and SC.exe) doesn't know about the special ATL information and, consequently, doesn't add the information to the registry that ATL will be looking for when it starts. Whenever the ATL component is started, it goes ou ...Show All

• SQL Server Selecting hierarchy from a self referencing table

    I have the following SP which returns a single row based on the ID passed (int identity field) SELECT ManufacturerID , ManufacturerName , ManufacturerDescription , ManufacturerURL , ParentManufacturerID , L astUpdated FROM Manufacturers WHERE ( M . ManufacturerID = @ManufacturerID ) Can anyone recommend the best way to modify this to select not only the matching ID row but also any rows which have matching ParentManufacturerID's,  and those rows parents etc... ie recursively all the way till the selected parent rows hit the parent's column default ID of -1 Thanks Mac   Please mention the version of SQL Server you are using. You can ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Edit and Continue don't work?

  HI guys a have been working in some code all this week and for some reason that I don't know the edit and continue stop working. It have been working all this time but now no way. I can't edit when I'm debbugin and I'm getting frustated. Can some one help me I have VB.net express edition, so i don't know where to configure this feature. Tools->Options menu, look under debugging. If you do not see all options you should have a checkbox in the lower left corner that you can check to see all option. There you should have an option to enable edit and continue. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Connect to MS Exchange Server?

  Hi, I'm really clueless on where to start on this one. Are there any ways to connect to an exchange server and get ones emails and appointments Thank You, Bryan St. Amour yes, use the system.net.mail namespace to achieve your goals: Namespace System.Net.Mail Member of: System Summary: The System.Net.Mail namespace contains classes used to send electronic mail to a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server for delivery. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How can I disable [Minimize] or [Maximize] of title bar and system menu ?

  I need a window like this: when it is in a normal state, it can be moved and resized, but not to be maximized from system menu; when it is in a maximized state, it can not be restored from system menu. I found that if a window was set as maximized and not resizable, it could be MOVED, that is really strange. But it could be still restored to normal state.  I want a window in maximize state unable to be restored (could only be minimized); a window in normal state unable to be maximized. Shortly, I want to disable [Minimize] or [Maximize] in the system menu. ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Documentation for BHOs and Toolbars

  I have a BHO and custom toolbar that works with IE6. Where can I find developer documentation for converting these to work with IE7 Has the IE7 developer documentation been released Is there a BHO upgrade (IE6 to IE7) guide Thanks, Frank Sorry, I oversimplified a bit too much. Yes, in IE6 you can have frames with their own document. But if I have the 'main' window and document, I can find my way from there. In IE7, the main window has several 'TabWindowClass' childwindows, with a ShDocView window underneath. My BHO wants to know which tab window fired the OnDocumentComplete event. Still, the real question is, in IE7 behavior must have changed for things like IWebBrowser2 - where can I fi ...Show All

• SQL Server Aggregate functions not allowed in the dataset filter

  Hi, I was trying to filter a dataset based on a condition like this: Fields!SalesAmt.value <= Sum(Fields!SalesAmt.Value)*0.05. This is nothing but it filters those SalesAmt that are less than 5% of the total sales amount. However SSRS doesn't allow to use aggregate functions in the dataset and data region filter. Is there another way to do this Sincerely, --Amde Sorrt about the font size. Here it is again. You're trying to hide the rows correct if so then try this =IIF( Fields!SalesAmt.value <= Sum(Fields!SalesAmt.Value)*0.05, true,false) true meaning that if it is true then hid the row. Hook this into a parameter and you have a dynamically filterable report ...Show All

• .NET Development Communication between Microsoft Access application and a .NET EXE

  Hi, I am trying to have an Microsoft Access application invoke and execute a method from an existing running instance of an EXE app (and not create a new instance). I have created a prototype that uses timers on both the access and .NET apps and a remoting interface. But the end-user would like to find an alternate method in order to avoid the overhead of running timers. What would be a good way to achieve this Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. AccessViolationExcpetion

  I have a really weird and annoying error appearing. Basically, I'm following the Hazy Mind engine tutorials for XNA, and I can't get post processing working correctly. I get this error occouring An unhandled exception of type 'System.AccessViolationException' occurred in Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll Additional information: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. This does not always happen in the same place though, if I turn off code optimisation, it happens in the line above. I have run Windows Memory Diagnostic and my memory seems fine. Here is the code public void ResolveAndRender(GraphicsDevice myDevice) { myDevice.ResolveRenderTarget(0); myDevice.SetRenderTa ...Show All

• Visual C# learner

  Hi, I am new to this forums. how can i indulge in participating in these and learn lots of c# stuff. Hi, I guess first you should pick a book to start with, then you can post your inquiries, also you will find a lot of C# tutorials around, search Google. Regards, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Where is the storyboard's target

  Hi, I have an animation running through a storyboard. I want to stop the animation in some CurrentTimeInvalidated callback. Looking in the debugger, I see that when the animation runs through a storyboard, its clock controller is null. Therefore, I can't stop it through the clock.controller.stop() interface. However, the storyboard is accessible as (Storyboard)clock.parent.timeline, so I can use it for either seek() or stop(). These functions require a frameworkelement, which should be the same one that I passed to storyboard.begin(). Where do I find this element, short of keeping a reference in some private data structure I didn't find it in the animationtimeline, animationclock or storyboard. The ClockController is null until you s ...Show All