RickHan's Q&A profile
Gadgets Pre-instalation of Gadgets for all users
Hi, I need to create a disk-image of a Vista system that will be put on several computers and there a sidbar gadget that is supposed to be pre-installed for every user. I tried installing the gadget as administrator, but if a new user opens an account on the computer the sidebar is wiped clean. Do you know if there's a way to have a widget installed for all users Thanks. It's no different to NT or XP. Create a template user with Admin rights, and install all the settings/apps/gadgets you want your users to have. Then copy that user profile over the Default User profile and disable the template user (personally I remove them from builds for security). Any new user logging in, will start with that def ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums Launch an approved activity
Hi all, I submitted an activity created by me to gallery.live.com, and even after it got accepted, I have not been able to launch it in my Messenger! When i click the 'Launch in Messenger' link, all i does is that it takes me to a page with ads of MSN games! This is the link to my activity: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=141912f8-dd72-485f-943a-971b5bdbc8cb&l=6 Please help me (as the creator of the activity) see what it's turned out to be! You're taken to this page , and that page contains a javascript to open the activity in messenger. Are you sure you use Internet Explorer It should work... ...Show All
SQL Server LIKE
HI,I want the synthaxe of a query with "LIKE" knowing that the fields must contain strings then a parametre then strings I tested with this synthaxe but it is not true: New_VilleExtensionBase.New_name LIKE “%” + @param1 + “%” How is that done I think this will work for you. New_VilleExtensionBase.New_name LIKE '%' + @param1 + '%' Hope this helps. Jarret ...Show All
Smart Device Development Difference between SmartPhone and the PocketPC
What is the difference between the smartphone and the pocketPC A quick question then, since there are 2 different SDKs, does that mean that a software developed for Pocket PC will not work on a Smart Phone (Assuming that we use all the controls that the Smart Phone supports) and vice versa How hard would it be to port from one platform to another ...Show All
SQL Server server groups
is there a way to enumerate through existing server groups Im trying to create children server groups. Hi Chuck, Have a look at the code I posted earlier - it includes the logic to do what you ask and in fact just populates a treeview with all registered servers/groups. Is there something specific you're having a problem with Cheers, Rob ...Show All
SharePoint Products and Technologies Sharepoint error when adding Web Part
Hi, i'm getting a very basic error but i can't figure out what's going on. I'm the administrator of a Sharepoint site. When i try to modify the Shared page, (dragging and dropping a web part, for example), an error page displays. The page is a generic error page, with no information on what the error is. Can anyone help me Thanks! Francesc Hi, I see this error message after making the suggested changes: Invalid postback or callback argument. Event validation is enabled using <pages enableEventValidation="true"/> in configuration or <%@ Page EnableEventValidation="true" %> in a page. For security purposes, this feature verifies that arguments to postback or cal ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. error loading model in xna framework
hello i have a problem loading a model that i have made it in 3d studio max 9, the model is a human all with texture, but when i put it in the content pipeline and try to run or compile the program the compiler send me this error Error 2 BasicMaterial has a texture, but geometry does not contain texture coordinates. E:\my games\prueba01\prueba01\enzo.X prueba01 What i need to do to correct this how do i put texture to a geometry what does it mean i'm tired, i have tried a xxxx number of options, configurations, checked and unchecked option and allways is the same, if the model show in the game the only thing that i can see if a big square and the other option is the maps coordinates error, to go eas ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. RomantiqueX XNA engine
Version 0.0.1 released. We will be glad to get some feedback from you. Download engine demo at http://www.codeplex.com/romantiquex/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx . Information is avaliable at http://www.codeplex.com/romantiquex . Please, provide the following info: your graphics card, FPS, FPS with enter pressed (with no HDR). Best regards, RomantiqueX development team. Wow, very cool demo. I have a eVga Geforce 7950 GTX KO it was between 50 and 55 fps with HDR 60 - 65 with no HDR ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System tf.exe through iis
Hi I'm trying to make a simple application that builds and deploys my solution through a web page. My approach has been to make a nant script that runs tf.exe a number of times and to run this nant script from the web page (this might seem strange, but it was chosen simplify maintenance). The Web page runs in a separate application pool (Windows 2003) having the identity of the user I'm using all automated tasks from. The application works fine up until I'm running the "tf get c:\deploy /recurive" where it complains about "Unable to determine the workspace". Before this line I have run several tf commands on the server, successfully, but none of them requires workspace. I have checked: - that the user is correct by p ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Treeview Collapse?
Thought I'd start a new thread for this, Here is what I have in the collapse treeview Private Sub TreeView1_BeforeCollapse(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.TreeViewCancelEventArgs) Handles TreeView1.BeforeCollapse e.Node.ImageIndex = 0 e.Node.SelectedImageIndex = 0 End Sub I load the treeview no problem, C and D drive have the drive icons, if I click plus next to drive C, I get all the folders on drive C (with folder closed icons) If I click the + next to a folder I get the open icon folder, and all the pictures with (picture icons) appear in the Listview. So far So Good. The Problem When I the close the pics folder the icon changes to a drive icon if I then open another folder the pictures tha ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums Reducing Browser Memory Leaks
I spotted this in the google API documentation and wonder if it has been address in VE Reducing Browser Memory Leaks The Google Maps API encourages the use of function closures , and the API event handling system GEvent attaches events to DOM nodes in such a way that almost inevitably causes some browsers to leak memory, particularly Internet Explorer . Version 2 of the Maps API introduces a new method, GUnload() , that will remove most of the circular references that cause these leaks. You should call GUnload() in the unload event of your page to reduce the potential that your application leaks memory: I just posted a reply to another thread about memory leaks. To solve the memory leak problem, call Dispose in the page u ...Show All
Windows Forms CanConvertTo
This code: Public Overloads Overrides Function CanConvertTo( _ ByVal context As ITypeDescriptorContext, _ ByVal destinationType As Type) As Boolean If (destinationType Is GetType(SpellingOptions)) Then Return True End If Return MyBase.CanConvertFrom(context, destinationType) End Function from this page doesn't make any sense to me. We're talking about converting between a string and an object. The ConvertTo function relates to conversion from the object to a string. The CanConvertFrom and ConvertFrom functions relate to conversion from a string to the object. So why does the CanConvertTo function also relate to conversion to the object Surely you're looking for the destinationType to be a string here ...Show All
.NET Development do we need to call myObject=null when we finish using it or no need
Hi, is it better to call helperD= null ; whenevr i finish using an instatiated object or no need Thanks Chris Lyon - MS wrote: Hi R.Tutus I have a blog entry that describes when to set variables to null: http://blogs.msdn.com/clyon/archive/2004/12/01/273144.aspx Mattias is correct; in general the JIT and GC are smart enough to know when the last time an object is referenced and make it eligible for collection without the need for setting the reference to null. -Chris Ah, thats good to know. My understanding was that this particular optimization wasn't in place yet, but something that was desired by the CLR team in a future version. It made sense that the GC would consider any local v ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX functionality removed from VB.NET?
From reading through the information on the Microsoft DirectX web-site, they are saying that the DirectX2.0 is deprecated and is being replaced by what they are calling "XNA Game Studio Express". Further, from reading the following : "..One problem with the first path is that XNA Game Studio Express is supported only through Visual C# Express" It seems to say that you will only be able to use managed DirectX with C# Is this true Can anyone clarify if this is the case I have quite a few applications that make use of DirectX in vb.net for display elements (like "loading bars", neat effects on forms like spinning logos, etc), and I have no intention of switching to C# at any point in the future and GD ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Textpattern giving exception by UIAutomation on AMD64
I am using Mita to do some development, which is dependent on UI Automation. MitaSpy exposes properties of my control as ControlType.Document and supported patterns as Scroll. The classname being displayed as richedit. The control doesn't support the text pattern. This is occuring only on a amd64 machine and not on a x86 machine with ws03 OS . Exception: ******** <Exception Type='PatternNotFoundException' hash='19515494'> <Message Type='String'>The pattern 'TextPattern' was not found on the UIObject '{Certificate status, RICHEDIT, 42.590260}'</Message> <Data Type='ListDictionaryInternal' Count='0' hash='41421720'> ********** Is there any way to read the conten ...Show All