Duncan Stewart's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Does new Orcas CTP have anything new in it for WPF?

  I see the March CTP for Orcas is out and it includes WPF this time. Does this CTP just include Cider as we have it in the November CTP extensions or does it include anything new. I am currently developing on VS2005 with Nov CTP extensions on it, should I move up to the March CTP Do some of the issues with Cider get resolved Has anyone tried to install March CTP in Vista When it starts to install it stops with an error at the first step (the Microsoft Web Designer Tools). ...Show All

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

  Its seems like there is no font class or any other text rendering class included in XNA. Now i have tried different font samples i found on the internet but none of them fillfill my needs. They are all bitmap based font renderers ... i have no problem with that at all, but non of them have text parameters, like font size, bold, italic, ... that kinda stuff. Whats the best way to create this. Is it possible to mix xna with the normal DX SDK Moo_Ger wrote: Hi, there is a good way, in my eyes: http://www.ziggyware.com/readarticle.php article_id=44 Didn't know this solution bevor. Greetings Moo I tested that one, but its very limited http://blogs.msdn.com/garykac/archive/2006/09/23/7 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Update a grid row when an item is selected from a combo box

  Hi, Just wanting to know how to do the following. I have a grid with the first column being a drop down. Whenever I select an item from the drop-down, I want to be able to refresh the current row with the details of what I have selected from the drop-down. The dropdown is populated manually. I have the following code - the grid has two columns, the first column is the drop down and second column is just a text. Whenever I select an item from the drop-down I want the second column to update, but unfortunately it doesn't. Thanks in advance. The Data using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Collections.ObjectModel; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Text; namespace WindowsApplic ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Getting the Direction between 2 points.

  Hi all, Let me see if i can make you understand what i need to do. I have two points (like latlong points), and i want to know if X is set 'north ou south, east or west' from the Y point. Please if you know, tell me how to do that. And also please tell me if you don't understand what i mean. Thanks Ton You mean you want to get the bearings Theres an algorithm here for doing that given lat/longs http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/LatLong.html ...Show All

• Visual Studio List of updates included in the SP1 for VS 2005

  Where can I find a list of included updates The KB-Entry doesn't exists and the only known list is for the Beta of the SP1. Andre Andre.Ziegler wrote: Thx, for the List, but this is the list for SP1 Beta. The final is afaik another KB. I also wonder that my VSS 2005 still has all RTM files and no updated one. This is strange. This KB has been last updated the 15th December for the SP1 RTM. Where do you see it is for the Beta SP because I don't see that anywhere. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Decimal separator and other strange questions

  Hello, everyone, I've found several threads about decimal separator, but I couldn't figure out what to do with that info. I'm new to Visual Basic, but I have some basic knowledge of it, also a basic knowledge of C++ and a very good understanding of Actionscript. My friend has to write a thesis and he asked me to create an application to calculate something that has to do with quaternions. The user has to input 8 values and then the user has to press a button, so that a result is presented in a textbox by using a formula. Everything is going great, but I'm hoping on the good working of my friend. But now I want to make sure, that he can input nothing but numeric characters and that the decimal numbers are placed behind a comma. I have no id ...Show All

• Visual Studio Domain Property input using Multi-Line style?

  Hi everyone, Can I add a domain property of type "String" (to a domain class) and define the String input style to Multi-Line instead of single line Thanks. You can make this assigning the property your custom attributes. [Editor( typeof (MyEditor), typeof (System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor))] You can read more about PropertySheet here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/vsnetpropbrow.asp I believe the editor you should use is MultilineStringEditor , but I don't remember the namespace... Regards, ...Show All

• SQL Server Keep speed

  Hi... I'm inserting and deleting about 30 000 records into 2 tables each day - import them from a text file using DTS. The users add about 1000 records a day using Access and Windows .NET frontends... Which TSQL commands should I run frequently to keep the database up to speed I'm doing the following ... do you know of anything else Backup LOG MyDataBase WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (MyDataBase , 40) GO Backup LOG tempdb WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (tempdb, 70) GO THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dave Hi Dave, What comes to mind immediatly is that there will be a potentially large amount of fragmentation of tables/indexes in your db. This is because: a) you are performing a large amount of ...Show All

• Visual Studio No Debug/Release selection after installing vs 2005

  I recently hd to rebuild my machine. When I installed VS 2005, I think I chose the "Web Developer" option, instead of the "C# Developer" option. Now, I don't have the Debug/Release choice on my toolbar. Also, I don't have the solution explorer toolbar that I had before. I can't find how to change the ssettings or enable the toolbar. Is my only choice to reinstall this product ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to make a simple function

  Hi, I was wondering if there is anyway to turn a huge amount of code into a simple function. Right now I have a bunch of check boxes and they are all named C1-C7 and W1-W7, instead of putting in code for each one when clicked, which results in a large amount of code, is there anyway I could make one function to handle all of these. I tried something like this. If C(num).checked=true then W(num).checked=false endif its just a basic example of what i want and i could really use this later on. Thanks Well, it gets out of the infinite loop but it doesnt allow me to check anything.  I can probably use it, still want it to uncheck rW1 if rC1 is checked. Oh, whats the differ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel Driver and Excel.EXE

  Dear All, I have a VSTO project for Excel written in C#. One of the requirements is to be able to query the Excel workbook (i.e. the VSTO Document) while it is still open, and then to dump the resulting Dataset into a new worksheet within the workbook. To do this I am using an ODBC connection (via Microsoft Excel Driver). The technique works fine when there is only one Excel process running (i.e. the same process that hosts the excel workbook that I am querying). However, when multiple excel.exe processes are running and the query is executed, the workbook being queried gets opened again as "Read Only" in one of the other Excel processes. From then on, any subsequent queries refer to the workbook in this other process, ...Show All

• SQL Server SP2 y SQL Native Client

  Hello. Does anybody knowk if it's necessary to upgrade Sql Native Client to conect to a Server when you has upgrade it to Sql 2005 SP2 That is to say, can you conect to a Sql server 2005 SP1 and to a Sql Server 2005 SP2 from a client with the same Sql Native client or you have also to upgrade it Thanks. No, you don't have to do anything special. When you upgrade to SP2, SQL Native Client has also been upgraded. Btw, any version of SQL Native Client can connect to any version of SQL Server 2005 without problem. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can you use C++ dll files in C#?

  The title probobly isn't very descriptive, but that was the best I could think of :\ I've noticed that the 3 managed languages (VB, C#, J#) can all "assimlate" eachother. That meaning, you can, say, create a .dll file in any language, and reference it in any of the other languges (which I know at compile-time or whatever, it converts the .dll to the native language instead). But, is this possible with Visual C++ I've seen a few threads of how people can use C++ .dlls, and then use them in their C# applications. So, how would you go about this Do you have to create a managed C++ application And/or have to tinker with the .dll's assembly, or something Thanks. EDIT: Also, is using a, say, C# .dll file in a C++ application possi ...Show All

• SQL Server Set report display name in visual studio before deploying??

  Is it possible to set up the report display name somewhere in Visual Studio before deploying I have many reports and i don't want to list the report file name in Report Manager, instead i want to display a more user friendly report name. I know it is possible to change the report name in Report Manager, however when I deployed a new version of it, it didn’t replace the existing file, it put a new one up (meaning i now have two copies of it, so each time i deploy i have to delete the old report and rename the new one). I also want to set up the “view in list” property in Visual Studio, which I assume would be in the same place. Would be nice if they could include this in the next release...which is soon i hope! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) taskpane: automatic flow

  Hello I'm designing a task pane: different taskpaneblocks , each block has a caption and a contentpart . The caption has a button: when clicked, the contentpart will collapse/expand. Now I want the other taskpaneblocks to move up when an upper block is collapsed (and move down when an upper block is expanded). I thought there should be a control that takes care of this, like a stackpanel, dockpanel, grid. But none of these three does this. Am i missing a property Or should i take another control Or does a taskpane already exist in WPF Thanks, Have you looked at <Expander> <Page xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x= ...Show All