kiwilamb's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic 2005 Express help

  ok i have visual basic 2005 express installed and that is all no other programing software on either of my pcs. I am just starting to learn vb. and i am watching these video tutorials and reading these books. it says go to add new item then click inheritance form.. well that option is not availible in 2005 express. So can someone talk to me like i am stupid and tell me how to fix this. and also will inheritance form pull information from form 1. like num1 = whatever and i just reference num1 on the inherited form and it pull the information Thank you for the all the help You can format the output of your calculator as follows: Dim num As Double = 12.1264 Dim s As String = Strin ...Show All

• .NET Development Compiling ASP.NET projects on x64

  What are the basic steps involved in compiling to x64 for ASP.NET 2.0 In Configuration Manager I've created a Solution Configuration of "Debug x64" and set the Active Solution Platform to "x64". I've set the Configuration and Platform dropdowns on all the projects to the above and checked the Build checkbox on all of them. A Rebuild All skips all my assembly projects but then attempts to build the website which then fails because its assembly dependencies have not been built. Why is it skipping my assemblies Can it not find the 64-bit version of the .NET framework on its own, or do I have to set that somewhere Thanks, Terry Ken -- thanks! Does this "force" the 32 bit mode, ...Show All

• .NET Development How to pass not simple types using .NET Remoting

  I can't count how many .NET remoting tutorials and book excerpts i read. Every single time the example involves a chat client passing strings or some other example where strings, ints, and simple user defined types are begin passed. I am looking for an example which shows me how to pass pointer types, like most things in .NET library. For example, I want to pass a FileInfo or FileStream object from server to client. I tried that, it didn't work. Someone told me that's because System.IO.FileStream object, for example, is a pointer to a memory location which would have meaning on the machine it was instantiated on. If I pass that pointer to another machine than that pointer would have no meaning on that machine. But I did check an ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. generate mipmaps

  If i generate mipmaps my self, how is dx expecting them like this: |-------------|------|--| |-------------|------|--| |-------------|------| |-------------|------| |-------------| |-------------| so as a single array like: |-------------|------|--||-------------|------|--||-------------|------||-------------|------||-------------||-------------| Do you talk about the data organization to create an immutable resource ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro converting xml to foxpro table

  Hi, I own an insurance and investment company and just play around with some foxpro applications for my business. I have developed several helpful database programs for such things as tracking insurance quote requests that come in, etc. in VFP ver 5.0. I just purchased VFP 9.0. I am pretty much clueless as to what xml does or how it works (i don't even know what it stands for); however, I am now in need of being able to suck data that is currently in xml format into a vfp database and vice versa. I tried playing around with the smltocursor and related commands, but they are way over my head. Is there a simple program code someone has that will just convert this for me Or is there one of you folks out there that I could hire for a small ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid view customizing by end user

  I was my datagrid view to be customized by end user If user wants to hide a column of grid view, he selects the column to be hidden from a list, and the column should get hidden If he wants to change the color of alternating rows, it should happen pls let me know copy and paste the code., works nicely, thanks for the incentive too:) Public Class Form1 Inherits Form Dim dgv As DataGridView Dim DataGridView1 As New DataGridView Public Sub New () setAll() End Sub Public Sub New ( ByVal d As DataGridView) Me .dgv = d Me .Controls.Add(DataGridView1) DataGridView1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill setAll() End Sub Private ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataGridView automatically adding bindingsource columns in VS 2005 Designer

  Hello, I'm experiencing an annoying problem with DataGridViews which are bound to class objects. All fields from my class objects are added to the columns collection of DataGridViews, when the forms or custom controls that contain them are viewed within the VS 2005 designer. I haven't been able to figure out how to stop the designer from auto-adding all of the fields found within the bindingsource object. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chris Durkin Cleo, Thanks for the help. This seems to have fixed my problem. Now, I just manually data bind the DataGridView within the container's load event. Sorry that it took so long to respond. I was fighting other fires. C. Patrick ...Show All

• .NET Development WebCam and Windows xp x64bits

  Which version of WebCam can from i use on windows xp 64-bit platform Jacques ( laphilosophie.final@sympatico.ca ) A bientot! Jack Jacques im afraid this is the incorrect forum for your question. These forums are for software development on the .NET platform for the 64bit. The best place to ask would be here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware&lang=en&cr=US Alternatively, consult your local computer shop! Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms User control with some parts drawn translucent

  Hi, everyone! I'd really like to hear (or read ;)) some help on solving my problem. I want to create a custom user control. I'd probably derive it from Control class, I want to draw everything on the control by myself (it's actually not going to be really complicated). The problem is that I want to draw some kind of a shadow that drops onto the background of this control. Obviously, it has to be translucent. And I would maybe make some other parts of the control translucent. So I tried to draw the shadow using brush colored as Color.FromArgb(100, Color.Gray), for example. I do my drawing in overridden OnPaint method. This did NOT work. I started to look for the solution on the web. Everything I found was one method of creating such a beha ...Show All

• SQL Server DBCC command for data file size

  Is their a DBCC command or some other kind of command that can show how much of data file is actually being used I looking for something similar to the DBCC SQLPERF (LOGSPACE) command, but for data files You might try this: -- Individual File Size query SELECT name AS 'File Name' , physical_name AS 'Physical Name', size/128 AS 'Total Size in MB', size/128.0 - CAST(FILEPROPERTY(name, 'SpaceUsed') AS int)/128.0 AS 'Available Space In MB', * FROM sys.database_files; You could write a script like this to hit all of your databases. USE DatabaseName; GO SELECT name AS 'File Name' , physical_name AS 'Physical Name', size/128 AS 'Total Size in MB', size/128.0 - CAST(FILEPROPERTY(name, 'SpaceUsed') A ...Show All

• .NET Development Starting from scratch XML & Build Your Own Game

  I have no prior experience in building a game but have the rights to a successful boardgame. MS says XML will allow me to-build-it-myself... Any comments on the reality of that statement... and is there anyone out there who would like to work with me... I just signed up and am waiting to see if MS will send me the Beta kit to get started. XML has little to do with games. This is a meta-language for describing other languages. It can, and probably should be used in game industry but I don't think this should be important for you at the beginning. If you can post link to the MS claim you refer we would have better chances to comment on it. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trigonometry Woes

  Ahh, it's good to be back. Did y'all miss me Oh well, here's my question. I have asked this in the C# forums, but I am also very keen as to how this could be done in VB.NET as well, so I thought I'd pitch it at you guys, too: I am having a bit of difficulty with coding some trigonometric functions. The primary goal I have at the moment is to find the two unknown angles in a right-angle triangle of which I know all 3 dimensions. While I know how to do this in theory, finding the code to accomplish this is proving difficult. For example: I have a triangle with a base of 6cms, a height of 5cms and thus a hypotenuse of ~7.81. It is a right-angle triangle and thus one of the three angles is 90 degrees. How can I find the other two angl ...Show All

• SQL Server Accuracy of Host column on SS 2000 Enterprise Manager Current Activity Process Info Screen

  Yesterday and today, the Process Info screen in Enterprise Manager indicates that the "Host", a single workstation on our network, is generating around 50 connections to the database. This particular application is well-behaved and typically generates only 2 to 5 connections per instance. Furthermore, we cannot find this particular workstation/host on our network because we retired it off the network some time ago. Anyone know of the accuracy of the Hosts column on this Enterprise Manager screen We're suspecting that the network address column is correct but the Hosts column is incorrect. There are about 10 different network addresses pertaining to this particular Host (1-5 connections per network address). ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Material vs Shader

  Welcome to another one of my newb questions! Can somebody explain the difference between a material and a shader My own ideas would probably be: - A Material defines the texture and lighting properties of a surface, and maybe even the sound properties of a surface. Visual qualities of a material can be described with  shader(s) ! Anyway, if someone could give me some ideas here as I find the two terms quite conflicting, but its probably because of my limited understanding! cheers :) The reason I ask is I was thinking about making a Material class that maybe describes texture, lighting properties and sound of certain geometry. edit: by the way I have checked out the definition of a material in the directx documentat ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to configure one listenUri address with more addresses(logical)

  Hi, I have a scenario in which I am sending signed soap enevelopes to SoapRouter. Because to field is signed I configured SoapRouter to use listenUri and address field. I would like to have one wellKnown listenUri of the Router that will accept all envelopes addressed to different logical address. I tried like this, but it doesn't work. < services > < service name = " Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples.SoapRouter " behaviorConfiguration = " metadataBehavior " > < endpoint address = " fx://logicaladdress1/ " listenUri = " net.tcp://localhost/services/soap12/binary " contract = " Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples.IDuplexSessionRouter " binding = " routerBinding " bindingConfiguration = " TcpB ...Show All