Sascha Zeidler's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Has anyone made a native DirectX bootstrapper package yet?

  I'm looking for something to help deploy native DirectX that will simply download and install DirectX if it needs it. I was hoping someone had a bootstrapper package that would do just that. The managed one I've seen floating around doesn't download it on the fly, and is specifically for Managed DirectX. Any points in the right direction would be appreciated. Many thanks, Taylor I don't know of one, but if you put one together (say using Bootstrapper Manifest Generator: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx id=ddb4f08c-7d7c-4f44-a009-ea19fc812545 ) , you can post it at: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx id=7e8e8cbd-b447-4a9d-a984-9379d1a0c190 ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro System time - synchronizing, displaying

  Hi experts. Does anybody know how to get the real time from internet. I want to have the real updated time in my application. Second task is to changing the system time. How can I do that Third task is how to display time in form for example in textbox. I know the way with timer but if there is any other way I will be glad to know it. But the consequence is in the order I have written. Mainly the getting real time from internet. Thanks I founf this code... is it useful Can anybody tell me how to get the real time from internet from server * NetRemoteTOD's first parameter is a pointer to a * Unicode string that contains the server name. * * The second parameter is a pointer to a byte array * that con ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Missing members in Assigned To dropdown

  The members of the team projects Contributors group do not show in the Assigned To dropdown of the work items, making it impossible to assign work items to team members. I have reproduced this situation in a test environment: - The work item templates are all modified to include only the projects "Project Administrators" and "Contributors" : <FIELD name="Assigned To" refname="System.AssignedTo" type="String"> <ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true" filteritems="excludegroups"> <LISTITEM value="[Project]\Project Administrators" /> <LISTITEM value="[Project]\Contributors" /> <LISTITEM value="Unassign ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trying to Do an inplace Update of Rectangle Objects stored in generic List

  This is a strange one for me. What I have is a List(Of Rectangle) that are each 200 by 200. I want to be able to go through the list iteratively, change each ones location to being 10 pixels to the right and 10 pixels down and then shrink their size by 20 on each dimension. Initially, I planned on something like this: Private Sub prepareMenuSquares( ByRef squares As List( Of Rectangle)) For Each thing As Rectangle In squares thing.X += 10 thing.Y += 10 thing.Width -= 20 thing.Height -= 20 Next End Sub I assumed I would be passing the List by reference and then would have access directly to the Rectangle objects themselves and could do an inplace modifcation, no problem. Well that didn't work a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Strict Color Data Types

  Hey, i know what the problem is here, but i don't know how to fix it! Texttxt.ForeColor = GetSetting("My_Program", "Program_Options", "Fore_Col-Col", Color.Black) It says that it won't work because Color.Black can't be a string. Now i know there's a simple way around this problem... But i'd also like to know how to prevent this type mismatch (i believe that's what it's called) from happening again with ALL data types. Can any one give me some magical web page with all the answers (and solve this) too please The My.Settings.Save actually persist the settings to the configuration file otherwise you are only chnaging the in-memory copy and if you restart the application it wil ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dynamic Control binding to dataset

  dont call acceptchanges on the dataset. In order to update the database, you need to use a DataAdapter/TableAdapter and call the Update() method How are you creating this binding source How are you retrieving data take a look at this and see if it guides you also: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=932108&SiteID=1&mode=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Remotely Access SQL Server Standard Named Instance

  Good Day, I am creating a SQL Named instance as a testing environment. This instance is on the same physical box as my Development environment, both are SQL 2005 standard edition. From the server in Management Studio, I can load, and interact with both instances. From a remote connection (e.g., my pc) I cannot access the named instance. I am getting the following: Connect to Server X Cannot connect to <server>\<named instance> Additional Information An error has occured while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Sever 2006, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections (provider: SQL Network Interface ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating Models

  Is there a way to programmatically generate a model given a data source (similar to the way 'Generate Model' button in Report Manager) Thanks, Geo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Error while requesting "Product Keys" on MSDN Subscriber page.

  Does anyone know why this error is being displayed. please post your question here http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx ...Show All

• Visual Basic Chart in a Window

  Hi. I'm an Italian Teacher. At beginning, please excuse my bade English. I know well EXCEL, but I’m at beginning (practically near to the zero) with Visual Basic. For my school I’m building a file in Excel (with many Sheets) for writing in it the results of some verify. I would create, in a Sheet a button click for open a little Window where I can see the data charted and another button click for close the same. I have learned button click for open a little Window, another button click for close the same Window but I don’t know how can doing, which is the code in VBA for put in the Window the data charted. Can You HELP me, please Ciao. DRAGOblu Hi, I've only got the Beta version of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Use a property-value within an ItemGroup

  Hi I'm new in MSBuild so forgive me if when I'm totally wrong... I have an ItemGroup like <ItemGroup> <MyItem Include="Test"> <Meta>$(MyProperty)</Meta> </MyItem> </ItemGroup> The thing is, when I access like %(MyItem.Meta) it's always empty, even the MyProperty-Property has a value. How can I do something like this Thanks Dani Hi, The problem with your scenario is that Properties & Items are created before any targets execute. So that means you're creating the MyItem when MyProperty actually is empty. In this scenario you can use the CreateItem task to create the item after you've extracted the value for MyProperty . Theres an example in the Create ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Invalid Column Name

  Hello, I am using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and I am trying to connect to an SQL database. I have created the database with the following columns: id, first, last, phone, date I have created a binding source with a Data Grid View and I am trying to load the data. However, I am getting an "Invalid Column Name" error for NO apparent reason. Here is what my code looks like: SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=.\\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\\dsAllMembers.mdf;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;User Instance=True"); con.Open(); if (con.State == ConnectionState.Open) { System.Console.WriteLine("So far, so good."); SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("SELECT id, first, last, phone, date FROM tblMemb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Filtering a database between two dates using MonthCalendars

  Hi. I need my application to filter the contents of its database between two specific dates, as selected on 'From' and 'To' MonthCalendars, but my newbieness won't let me. I have the data, the calendars and the button, but I just can't work out what the code on the button should be to make this filter happen. Thanks in advance. AngusHuey, I found an article in code project titled QuickWhere: create complex forms for searching into databases. I believe this is exactly what you want. :-) Just take a look at the following link then download the project and have a try. http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/QuickWhere.asp ...Show All

• .NET Development MSXML 6 Merge Module

  Does any one know if microsoft are going to release a merge module version of msxml 6 I ask as i need it for an installation Thanks Yeah I think we all want MSMs to make our life easier, but it appears that it doesn't make everyones life easier: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx PostID=274967&SiteID=17 So I don't think we're going to see any more! James http://dotmsi.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Best Practices for Collaborating on Diagrams

  Has anybody developed any good practices for sharing an SDM diagram with people who don't happen to have access Visual Studio for filling details For instance, I am working on the architecture for a solution, and I've built an SDM diagram that shows the high-level design of the entire solution. I'd like to have a network engineer fill in the specific details of machine names, etc., for the various environments to which the solution will be deployed (development, testing, production, etc.), but I cannot count on my engineers having Visual Studio. If I could export to Visio, that'd be cool; the engineers all have Visio. Even if I couldn't do a full round-trip back into Visual Studio, it would still save me a lot of work to let them edit a V ...Show All