daviddou2006's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Documentation Compiler - Sandcastle

  We did code complete of documentation compiler ( code named "Sandcastle") on June 15th and currently we are testing the tool building our .NetFramework documentation. We would like to release the CTP version of Sandcastle in Microsoft download center by next week. The perf in our testing has been great as we are able to build the entire framework content in less than 1 hour. I am in the process of going through final check and code signing required to post this in our download center. Please expect the CTP in the next week or so and I will provide an update here as soon I post the CTP. Anand.. I think we all are. Don't forget that a Program Managers "desire" to release something is not always met. I think we ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving Settings?

  Hey i have made a little program in VB2005. Their are some settings of cores :) Right now i am saving them a very strange way.. I make a txt file for each setting. And then i just use the my.computer.filesystem.Read/Wright ting. Hmm.. so if it reads like the file contains the text "1" then it will activate the setting... That is quite hard to do that for every settings. And it is quite messy to look at in the program folder where all the files are saved. So my question is: Is their an easier way to do this I am thinking of something like one text file where you could do it like this AutoSave 1 Hide 0 You know 1 = on, and 0 = off I was thing that the vb might somehow reconigse the text "AutoSave" and then reads i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Video/Animation Playback

  Hi, I'm currently writing a library (for XNA/DirectX) for animation/soundless video playback, and I have a few design questions for the pros out there if you don't mind answering them : I'm having my animation class inherit from game component, and update the frame depending on game time in the overriden Update method, and render it in the overidden Draw method, but even when I preload my textures to render, playback is choppy. Not sure exactly why, but I notice this only when I have significant number of frames (I noticed it with 100 frames, but *not* with 10/15). This problem may be linked and solved by the 2nd point, so please read on. When I preload all the textures for the frames in the animation (and the no. of frames ...Show All

• Windows Forms GraphicsPath on Transparent Bitmap

  I've recently migrated over from VB6 to VB.Net and C#. I decided to rewrite a fairly simple program that drew lines onto a semitransparent form and then made the form completely transparent once the drawing was complete. The problem that I've found with C# is that after I call Bitmap.MakeTransparent(), I cannot use GraphicsPath to draw on the form. Is there some way of setting the bitmap back having a solid background after calling MakeTransparent Any help would be greatly appreciated. Will Vandergrift Wilz Modz It is not clear how the bitmap and drawing on the form interacts. Show us some code please. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Friends List Query

  Can you access Freinds Lists of Freinds etc (to the point of viewing thousands, if not millions of Freinds of Freinds of Freinds etc) . Have you got a limit on how many friend lists down you can go from one Freinds List. Surely if someone was to write a program that did this automatically they could log quite a few thousand Live IDs for purposes such as spamming and hacking individual accounts Is this possible Nice feature but i dont think it'll work to well if someone was to do this. Short answer: No. In order to access a user's contacts list or friends list, you (the developer) need the permission of the user to access their data. With the user's ok, your app has access to their immediate contacts. That's all, nothing else. ...Show All

• .NET Development SharperCV Compliances.

  We are a group of 3 students making a project Hand Gesture (Interpretation) Recognition for physically impaired .We (myself and group members) are accustomed to VB and C#,fortunately we came across SharperCV,though many of the posts in other topics helped us a lot,like,how to install and work with it. But we need to know how to perform image subtraction using it,there is some paprameter conflict,while we use it in VB.The problem is we got frames from the video,now in order to detect movements of hand,we thought of subtracting the corresponding frames,then deciding what action is to be taken...Please can anyone help us how to perform it in Visual Studio 2005(SharperCV's documentation does not provide that much help),I mean some other eff ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Issues using the keydown event

  I am new to visual basic 2005 Express Edition (I learned in Visual Basic 6.0). I have been creating a tetris game for fun to learn the new modifications on the visual basic language. I have run into a problem concerning how to use the key down event to register when the user presses an arrow key. I used the help function and came up with this: Private Sub frmTetris_KeyDown( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me .KeyDown Select Case e.KeyCode Case keys.right etc etc. End Case End Sub (I left code out) I cannot get it to respond to my keystrokes, and i cannot figure out why. At one point it did respond, but i corrected an error in my ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving dropdown items?

  I am making an internet browser and i hav used the following code for adding a site to the favourite menu. itmFavo.DropDownItems.Add(web1.Url.AbsoluteUri) but how can i save the added dropdown items when the form is closing en how can i open them when i open the form. take a look at this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=837396&SiteID=1 you can basically serialize the data to xml and deserialize it when loading up the form again. the link should explain it all hopefully. That would be the proper/best way of doing this than to say, writing it all out to a text file and reading it again. Xml serialization serializes the objects for us and can deserialize it without us doing much, by itself when we c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic 2005 - Databinding not updating the database

  Well I had a tough time trying to resolve this issue and always thought that there is something wrong with my computer or the software itself. Then after searching the forum i found out the solutions to this problem. the solution is location in the link here. This is a blog about working with Local Data File: https://blogs.msdn.com/smartclientdata/archive/2005/08/26/456886.aspx . Quoting from this blog Where is my data -- Understanding the file copy for desktop projects But i didnot understand it properly. my project is created in the visual basic 2005\projects\ MAK folder, where MAK is my referred project created by me. There is one database file i.e. MAKdatabase.mdf located in project\mak\mak folder ans another one in the folder ...Show All

• Visual C++ string to float

  Hi, I have a string "4.19 X FLA" from which i want 4.19 i have used atof but that is giving me a value 4.0987876 some value like this. how do i manage this.. Regards, Couple comments: /fp:precise is already the default.  It won't help on the representation of floats though. It just restricts the compiler from making optimizations on floating point expressions that can result in deviations from those produced by unoptimized code. To an earlier poster, C++/CLI is not intended to replace C++ in VS2005 nor is Microsoft recommending people drop C++ in favor of C++/CLI. C++/CLI is intended for those who wish to create managed/.NET-dependent code in a language that closely resembles C++ (rather than using the other .NET ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Highlighting code in an email

  Hi there, In my office a lot of code is sent around embedded into the body of outlook emails. So a typical email could look like; Hi, I managed to hack it, here is the code <oooh>hack</hack> cheers, me Now what I would like to do is clearly differentiate the code from the message. On several forums (but not this one strangely) this is usually done by highlighting the code and then clicking on a symbol in the toolbar (usually #). This then wraps <code> </code> tags around the highlighted area, indents the text and marks the background grey. Is there any way I could roll this out into my office. I'd like to have a simple button on the toolbar that anyone can install, and then use. Please note t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Accessing toolstrip from child window

  Hi, Could any one tell me if I can access the toolstip of MDI parent window from child window, and how Thanks in advance, With regards. Thanks Mr. Grant. What I need to do is to update the data in toolstrip based on the content available in the child form. If I don't access the parent MDIform(toolstrip) from child, is it possible to access the child form data from parent MDIform based on the event generated by child form (as you suggested). Note: I am a at beginner level in C#. With regards, ...Show All

• SQL Server For MSFT, What are the new log messages in SP2

  [Reposted because no-one answered me before: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1097115&SiteID=1 ] Hi, Quick one for anyone from Microsoft. Does there exist anywhere a definative list of all the new log messages that are being introduced in SP2 Thanks Jamie ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. beta 2 mouse input (windowhandle and ismousevisible)

  Setting Mouse.WindowHandle to Game.Window.Handle doesn't seem to do anything... I assume it should only cause mouse events that happen on that window to be captured, but I'm getting mouse events even if I'm on some other window. Also, setting Game.IsMouseVisible doesn't seem to work all the time. I'm trying to hide the cursor while the right button is down, but it doesn't hide. If I set it to false outside of the if statement, it does hide... I know it's entering that if statement though, as I'm doing other things there. This is the final functionality with regard to window focus. Before you reset the mouse position, you could check the IsActive property to see if someone else has taken the input f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions loading large pictures in picturebox

  Hello. I'm working with large pictures (one of them is 4021x3123) and I want to load them inside o PictureBox so the user interacts with it (draws on it). The problem is after I load the picture, when I use the scroolbar to move around it, it has that flicker effect and also the interaction with my application has a delay (it takes about 1 sec for the other controls to react). I'm guessing my problem appers because of the large picture I'm loading, so is there a way not to load the entire picture inside the PictureBox and only load that portion of the picture that is currently dispayed by the PictureBox Is there a better solution to that Thanks. The picture is a JPG file. That's strange, because ...Show All