cbpd86's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Am I wrong about WCF usage?

  I have been experimenting with WCF, on and off, for some time and it 'seems' that 99% of the design effort is around B2B communication with 1% on a self-contained applications. I say this because the assumption with WCF interface contracts is that the client-side knows nothing about the business model; thus, the operation contract requires explicit declaration of types. This, from my view, is horrible for uses where a developer is designing a self-contained application. I have hundreds to thousands of classes where 90%+ only need a two interfaces between client and server when generics are applied. Declaring 500+ classes as known types for a data contract is rediculous. Now - thank goodness - there is the NetDataContract which all ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Which info is the best to identify a computer?

  Hi, for my new licensing-system I need a Information (a string) that is explicit. Also something like the mac-address but it need to be very hard / impossible to fake. And I want to get this Information with vb.NET. Thanks & regards, Fabian Golle Hi, Try the Hard disk physical serial number.>> See these threads.>> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Search/Search.aspx words=hard+drive+serial+number&localechoice=9&SiteID=1&searchscope=allforums and a few more here.>> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Search/Search.aspx words=hard+disk+serial+number&searchKey=&lcid=1033&searchscope=allforums&siteid=1&ForumID=-1&ForumGroupID=-1&GoButton=+Go +     ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Integrate with Visual Studio

  Hi, - I have dotnet 3 installed on my machine. - I've created a website and added a .svc file that I can browse and gives me the Service Information - I've tracked down SvcUtil.exe in the following folder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin". - I've downloaded an installed "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN).exe" Now I"d like to create a client talk to the website. But I'm not sure what to do from here. I'm using the following blog ( http://dotnet.org.za/hiltong/articles/52518.aspx ) and there's a mention there of right clicking onthe client project and selecting "Add Service Reference". But there is no such menu option. When I click "Add Web Refere ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office formula support in COM-addin for Excel in VSTO 2005 SE

  I was reading article about "Visual Studio 2005 office SE" in which they provide "Excel add-in" project type for Office 2007. By using this project type you can create COM- addin just for Excel. I was wondering does any body know is this COM add-in also support the "formula" which can be referenced in excel cell. Thanks Based on Andrew Whitechapel's reply in this thread, I'd say the answer is yes. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=787087&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Designer Toolbar

  I have added the Query Designer toolbar to my Management Studio environment. After open a new query window this toolbar stays greyed out. How can I use this toolbar with my queries Thanks, Was a solution ever found I am also not able to use the Query Designer toolbar. The buttons are all greyed out... ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Help - Movie maker

  I've been having problems recently with it everytime i load it up it comes up with an error "Windows Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." and the file that it says are included in the error form are "C:\DOCUME~1\Midna\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER070e.dir00\moviemk.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\Midna\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER070e.dir00\appcompat.txt" I have tried multiple times reinstalling it, does anyone know how to fix this problem thanks! Try posting your question here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• Visual Studio Compartment Shape Equivalents

  Hi, I checked out the compartment shapes walkthrough and i have a similar scenario - to implement an embedded relationship. I have defined a image for the class into which i want another class embedded in to. If i have to implement compartmentshape for the embedding i have to change the imageshape to compartment shape. Is there any way i can retain my image and still implement the embedding relationship Kindly let me know. Thanks, Hi Suraj, So let me check if I have your request correct. You have an image shape as a parent and you'd like to visualize some other shape as an embedded child of that image shape I'll continue on the premise that I've understood you correctly. In our V1, we don't support visually embedding ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista VuMeter

  Hi, I want to develop a VuMeter to integrate on a capture and player App. How can i kwon the audio level thru DirectShow All comments/suggestions/tips are wellcome. Thanks Hmm. That's too bad. Looked like a good solution. There are a variety of ways to retrieve the raw audio data as it passes down the graph. Perhaps the easiest is using the Sample Grabber. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF60032: The VSS Converter requires Visual Sourcesafe 2005... HELP!!!

  First off: Major gripe here; Why would I need to purchase VSS2005 if we just shelled out $8000 for TFS and CAL's What do I need to do to get this to work Can anyone tell me how I do the VSS2005 setup I have tried searching through the forums here with no end. Furthermore: I don't have the MSDN access level to download VSS2005 as it would appear others have resorted to. I tried the VS2005Team 180day trial, but cannot find VSS2005 there either. I have re-installed TFS. I have also tried the beta service pack to no avail. I have spent (wasted) countless hours hunting for the elusive VSS2005 install. Oh, TFS itself works fine... just need sourcecode.. Please, Please help, -David The reason for the dependency is that the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ...

  How do I check if a URL is valid He means to check if it will display in ie, like if (webpages.exist(address.text)) then msgbox ("KK IT EXIST :)") end if and why: I know him ;) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions OpenGL cannot find glut.h?

  I'm learning opengl now. after i developed the code and start to build the solution, it always give me the error: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glut.h': No such file or directory but i do have the glut.h file in lib/GL, or i need to set the path or sth like that thx in advance. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Abort the Thread

  Hi, I have two forms Welcome,MainForm. I want to use Welcome as SplashScreen till the second form instance is created. In Welcome form I have use one thread to create instance and to show the Main Form. After displaying MainForm I want to close Welcome Form as the thread. Can you please tell where Can I use abort() and close the Welcome Form. I think I misplaced the abort in my code. public partial class Welcome : Form { MainForm mainForm; Thread splashThread; public Welcome() { InitializeComponent(); } static void Main() { Application.Run(new Welcome()); } public void StartMain() { mainForm = new MainForm(); // ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Vehice Physics

  Hi, I've been trying to learn vehicle physics for a car game that I'm making. I took some physics from the SpaceWar starter kit but it doesn't have the right physics for my kind of game. In SpaceWar, when you move the ship and then turn it in another direction, it keeps going in the initial direction. That wouldn't work with a car, which needs to change direction when the wheel does no matter if acceleration is being applied or not. Does anyone know of some real easy and good car physics tutorials and examples out there Thanks, Dan Castellon RayCar does a nice physics simulation, using the open source ODE graphics engine. It is C++, so you'd have to port both ODE and the sample code to use it with XNA. In ...Show All

• .NET Development Invalid issuer and/or serial number in .NET 2.0 System.Security.dll

  Hi, Did anyone run into a System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Invalid issuer and/or serial number when validating a PKCS#7 signature that was signed with a certificate that had a serial number 0 The stack trace looks as follows: at System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.SubjectIdentifier..ctor(CRYPTOAPI_BLOB i ssuer, CRYPTOAPI_BLOB serialNumber) at System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.SubjectIdentifier..ctor(CMSG_SIGNER_INFO signerInfo) at System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.SignerInfo.get_SignerIdentifier() at System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.SignerInfo.get_Certificate() at System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs.SignerInfo.CheckSignature(X509Certificate2Collection extraStore, Boolean verifySignatureOnly) at System.Security ...Show All

• Visual Basic locking down a column in a listbox.

  Hi All: I have this code and when i run it I do not want the user to move the first column from this listbox1. What am I missing here. I am using Visual Studion.net 2005. Thank you. RB ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------< Code > frmBuildings.ListView1.View = View.Details frmBuildings.ListView1.FullRowSelect = True frmBuildings.ListView1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill ' frmBuildings.ListView1.HeaderStyle = ColumnHeaderStyle.Nonclickable frmBuildings.ListView1.Sorting = SortOrder.Ascending frmBuildings.ListView1.Columns.Add(New ColumnHeader) frmBuildings.ListView1.Columns(0).Text = "Index" frmBuildings.ListView1.Columns(0).Width() = 0 ...Show All