TommieJ's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Is there any way to view contents of clipboard ring?

  I understand that in VS 2005 the contents of the clipboard ring can be accessed via the keyboard, but I would like to be able to view all of the contents so that I can select what I want to paste. This is a feature of 2003 that I use constantly. Is there any way to do this in 2005 Thanks. The clipboard ring is so hard to find in the toolbox because it is not there anymore. This is too bad, because it was one of the most useful features of the last version of Visual Studio. Unfortunately, the Visual Studio development team has had a practice over the past 3 versions of removing some of the most useful features for C++ developers with each new version. They seem to be on a reverse ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Flash rendering in Activity window

  http://www.dqatestsite.nl/msnrendererror.jpg Hi, Just yesterday I have added a flash file to one of the pages of our bot activity. And some how, I have tried a lot, I get this sort of render error. The flash is being displayed over the scrollbars of the activity window. Is this a known issue, and if so what can I do about it. Can you please point me in some direction to help me solve this. Thanks Maurits Hi, I see... So when our activity is provisioned this might be solved Because at the moment the activity is send in for provisioning. It is actually our own activity but it still shows colloquis because it is not provisioned yet. Alvast bedankt! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Named Materials in Model

  I'm trying to draw a model (imported from an *.X file) that contains 3 different Materials. In the xna model this results in 1 mesh containing 3 meshparts (one for each material). I intend to load different *.fx effect files for the different materials, but I see no way to find out what material belongs to what meshpart. I would expect a MaterialName (since the materialnames are in the *.X file as well), so I can apply the required *.fx file for that material to each meshpart.effect. What am I missing Although I haven't tried it, I think the way to retrieve materials from your model is the same way as with the textures: for each part of your mesh, you cast the effect to a BasicEffect. I ...Show All

• SQL Server The 4000 character limit for expressions

  I am building rather large SQL statements using expressions and I am about to hit the 4000 character limit. First, what were the reasons for setting such a low limit With it in place you are forced to come up with other solutions, but perhaps that was the intention. Speaking of limits, what are the limits for storing a value in a string that is defined in a package configuration file What are the limits when creating a string within a script task and then use it to set a string variable in the package What are the limits when using a string value as an input parameter to an Execute SQL Task using OLE DB Do these differ depending on the connection type I guess I'm getting a bit paranoid about limits, but I don't want to hit any other ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer Setup Error: Missing DLL

  I'm having trouble installing Team Explorer onto a Win 2003 Server system, I receive the error: Setup had detected that pidgen.dll file is missing. This file is critical to running setup. Please verify that the files in the location from which you are installing match the files on the original installation media, then run setup again. I had used the same installation to install to other systems with no problem. On this system, I looked at the temporary files extracted during install, and found pidgen.dll. I also tried downloading the free Team Explorer setup, and that failed with the same error. This is blocking the installation of a SCRUM plugin to TFS, which requires Team Explorer to be installed on that server so it has access to the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions compiling a basic .cpp code file without saving entire project

  this might be a stupid question but in visual c++ express why can't i just create a new .cpp file, enter stand-alone c++ code, save it and then have it compiled leaving me with a simple .cpp file and an .exe instead it appears to insist on my creating an entire project which automatically generates all sorts of useless sh*t that's irrelevent and unneccessary thanks in advance. First of all, I appreciate your reply, Mr. Hamilton (orcmid). That pretty much clears all doubts related to this thread. And no, I love the Visual Studio IDE too much to be able to work on anything else. It's just that creating a new project for a small code snippet takes a little more time than it would've if it wouldn't have requir ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Video in 3D environment

  Hello, Can Anyone tell me how to display a video inside a viewbox or a viewport3D in XAML code THX http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2006/05/30/WPF-sample-movie-and-reflection.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms User Control Inheritance and Namespaces

  I've noticed two unusual issues with Windows Forms user-controls in Visual Basic and was wondering if there was a workaround for either of these: You don't seem to be able to place a user-control in a namespace other than the project's root namespace. When you add the namespace to the class file you receive the error: The class UserControl1 can be designed, but is not the first class in the file. Visual Studio requires that designers use the first class in the file. Move the class code so that it is the first class in the file and try loading the designer again. I assume this is because the partial class is in a different namespace, is there a way to influence what namespace is used for the partial class You can't have ...Show All

• Windows Forms send message to other process

  Hi:( The problem is: I have two winform processes A and B. When form A is closing I want him send a message to form B, so that form B can save the data. How can I do that Thanks in advance. Sorry, didn't catch the "process" part. If that is the case you will want to use MSMQ. Microsoft Message Queueing. It is built for windows applications to send a messages from one app to another. I wouldn't recommend remoting, it has a lot of problems. This also will work regardless of which platform you have, 1.1 or 2.0. Here is a link to get you started, good luck. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/msmq/default.mspx Hope that helps. -The Elder ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 360 Dev do's and don'ts

  Hi, My primary platform at the moment is Windows, but I want to ensure I don't code anything that is going to cause alot of pain when I eventually get around to subscribing to the creators club and deploying to the 360. I've read a couple of articles on GC and other performance related stuff, but I wondered if anyone has any advice generally on what to avoid or if there are preferences in how ceratin things are coded (e.g. there are many types of storage, is one better than another for XNA specifically) that will mean the transition to 360 is as smooth as possible. Any thoughts or comments welcome! Cheers :) again, those are both value types. A good way of finding out whether something is a value or ref ty ...Show All

• Windows Forms disabling the mainmenu in a form

  Hi Does anyone know how to make the main menu in a form non responsive. I have this function which expects the user to pick a point on a pictureBox in the form with the mouse. Until this happens i want to stop the user selecting anything else on the form. The only thing he can selected at the moment is in the main menu that's why i want to make it non responsive for a while. Any ideas how to make this work. Much appreciate it. george Yes, MenuStrip.Enabled works. You also might want to turn on mouse capture (PictureBox.Capture = true) to redirect all mouse input to the picture box. Modal operations like this are usually a lot of trouble, considering just setting a flag that indicates "the next MouseD ...Show All

• Visual C++ Virtua; class compile problem

  Hi, I have a compile problem with a virtual class. The base class is a dll. Interface is, public interface class BuildModule { virtual void saveModuleDataTiny(TiXmlElement *startElement); } There are a few other virtuals in the above class that work fine, syntax is the same. The above class is then inherited in the class below, which is also a dll. public ref class BuildInputModule : public BuildModule { virtual void saveModuleDataTiny( TiElement * startElement) { //some xml code in here that compiles fine } } Both the above classes compile fine. Problem is in my application that uses the BuildModule. When creating the code in the app intellisense sees the method but when I create an insta ...Show All

• .NET Development Access Database and x64 OleDB Connect

  Hi, i've written a programm wich access an .mdb Database with OLE-DB. Under Win x32 everything works fine Under x64 no Database is found. Is there no way to access an mdb Database from x64 Hi, First, thanks for a nice clear answer. I've been hunting for this all day. However... WHAT The only 64-bit ODBC driver I've so far found is for SQLServer. My options seem to be: 1) Install 35Mb of SQLServer Express on every client PC (this is a standalone app, not networked); 2) Write my own RDBMS with compiles to 64-bit, then re-write my app to use that instead What is the recommended way for a C++ app with a small database requirement to go Thanks, Jim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Compiling web sites with Team Build

  I am trying to automate the build process. I have 5 web sites and I want to be able to run the team build and then be able to run the aspnet_compiler to publish them to a new server. How do I use the team build to produce all the associated dlls with that website like it is done by right clicking on the web site and clicking 'Build Web Site' Assuming ASP.NET 2.0 Web sites, try changing your platform from "Any CPU" to "Mixed Platforms". This will usually take care of it for you. In terms of deploying, there are various approaches. Most people use copy or EXEC with Xcopy in the build. (Can't be more verbose now. this is a hand-written reply on my Tablet.)   ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Windows DDK 3790.1830

  I have just installed Windows DDK 3790.1830 and followed the installation instructions to verify the DDK installation. However, I got all errors from "build -cZ" and with no file compiled. I wonder if any one knows the issue and give me a hint. By the way, one question about what is different of Windows Server 2003 for SP1 DDK and Microsoft Platform SDK for Winows Server 2003 SP 1 Hi, You might want to repost your DDK question in one of the Windows API or Device Driver forums. This forum is for Windows Live web services discussions. We don't know nuthin 'bout no DDK. ;> -Danny ...Show All