Ephi's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Food for thought

  With the release of XNA game studio express and the forth-coming photosynth application, would it be possible to create 3d environments for use in XNA gse from photosynth This feature would be great for creating REAL 3d environments for use in games by simply using your holiday snaps!! Just an idea maybe you guys at microsoft can get your heads together on this one! ...Show All

• Community Chat Zune Subscription

  I've been scrounging around online and thought I might be able to get a definitive answer here. Currently, I have Napster-to-go with my Dell DJ. The DJ is on it's way out the door, and I'm looking at getting a Zune. Will this Zune subscription thing for 15 bucks a month allow me to transfer music to the player itself, or is it simply to let you listen to music on your computer In other words, will there be something like napster-to-go that works with the Zune TIA! I have been using Zune since my kids gave me one for Xmas, and it is the iTunes killer. The subscription is a bargain. I have been downloading and listening to literally hundreds of songs I would NEVER pay for on iTunes, and have really been ex ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) IsEnabled overrides IsMouseOver in a style with animation

  I searched around and could not find an answer to my problem. I have a button that has a style with some triggers on the control template. When I run the application (sample code below) the IsMouseOver trigger works just fine. Then I click on the 'Disable' button that sets btn3's IsEnabled to false and this animation works fine as well. Then I click on 'Enable' and set btn3's IsEnabled to true and this animation works fine. But then I mouse over the btn3 and there is no animation at all. It appears that the trigger property for that buttons IsMouseOver property is not being called. You can still click on the button and it will work by displaying a messageBox with some text. Any ideas why the property is not being called Also, if I set the ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Service client performance

  I'm having an issue with the performance w/Webservices. My web server is actually WebLogic 9.2. Our .Net client is averaging around 5 minutes to get data from one of our calls (returns around 43000 rows of data). Problem is our Java client is taking 18 seconds... Sounds like a real issue... Not sure if it's the parser... WSE 3.0. Anyone have any suggestions of where to look. Sorry I should have specified. Yes we are using WSE 3.0. We also see the delay is after the message is received, when it starts to partse the message and deserialize the .net objects. I'm just not sure what I can do to optimize that process. -mathew ...Show All

• Visual Basic Are there any escape charecters in Visual Basic?

  I know there are in almost every other language, but are there things like \n, \r, \",.... Other than the constants that Spotty mentioned, there is one way of escaping quotes - basically, within a string, any pair of quotes is considered as a quote character to be included in the string. So: dim s as string = """" will result in a string with one character: " dim s as string = ""Murder!" she said." will result in the following text when printed: "Murder!" she said. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setup cannot access Reporting Server

  Hi there, i'm trying to install the Team Foundation Server. When setup asked me to enter a user for the Report Server. I created a user TFSReport and added him to Administrator-group and all the sql-groups. I opened the Report-Server Configuration and configured it so that the TFSReport-User controls the service (works without any errors). Near to the end of the setup, i get the following error, that setup cannot access the SQL Report server. I should ensure that it is installed, that it runs and that i can access it. Any idea Thanks in advance, David I don't remember exactly which log it is, but you'll want to look in the usual places (c:\windows\, c:\windows\system32, and your profile's temp directory ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot debug class liberary sproc

  im trying to debug a sproc that was written as a class liberary, in c#. i go to the debug menu in visual studio, and click "attach to process". i attach to the sqlsevr process. but now, any breakpoints i create give the message : "he breakpoint will not currently be hit. no symbols have been loaded for this document" and no matter how i execute the sproc in sql server, my breakpoints are never hit. what is wrong here Hmm, I was almost certain I had replied to this a couple of minutes ago (I apologize if this post appears twice). Have you uploaded the debug symbols file from your assembly to the database The syntax is as follows: ALTER ASSEMBLY your_asm_name ADD FILE FROM 'path_t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Project special directories

  In my project solution I have a directory named "data" and a couple of files below that which will eventually be included in the deployment. The files contain data which will be read in via a streamreader and added to a dictionary. Is there a special name I can use in "My.Settings" to point to this directory without having to hardcode a path in thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Alternative to Timers

  Yeah, are there some other things I can use that replaces timers Like a loop or something   Sj was right, there is a thread brewing here. I think some historic context is needed. I came from mainframe environment with sophisticated timers and asynchronous operation. You used to see code like this in DOS applications which was not a multitasking operating system and it didn't have good asynch or timer support. It had problems. Looping  for a delay was fine when all there were were 8086s. That all ran at the same speed. But going to 286s broke these loops because suddenly there were two modes. Regular mode and turbo modes which meant two different processor speeds and the loops didn't have the same delays. Mult ...Show All

• SQL Server ---PULL replication with SQL Server Express, it is possible whether or not?---

  Hello! Question of such plan, to documentation to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition it is written, that the given product supports only PUSH replication, however in his{its} structure there is an agent replmerg.exe which description says: replication merge. Synchronization means, that the agent of merge transfers changes from the subscriber to the publisher, and then transfers changes from the publisher on the subscriber … And so the question if this agent is present at this edition, whether that is possible to adjust manually his{its} call, or through Windows the agent, for realization PULL replication or it is impossible and for what reasons Thanks. You can find replmerg.exe i ...Show All

• Visual C++ RAS dialup details

  I have problem while I make dialup connection: 1. How to disable Client for Novel Network in RASENTRY ( dwfOptions2 has flag RASEO2_SecureClientForMSNet to disable Client for Microsoft network) 2. How to define that dial-up connection is available for all users Dial-up connection dialog, option Save user name and password for the following users: () Me only () Anyone who uses this computer Hi aputic, I have the same problem. I’m searching for a Delphi API to set the checkbox "Anyone who uses this computer". Did you find a solution, yet Regards, Veit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a 3rd party time entry addon to TFS?

  I need a way for developers to add time against work items. You can just put time against a task. That task could be used by any member of the team, not just the developer. http://www.holliday.com.au/blog/tracking-hours-in-tfs.html ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Scrollbar bug

  If you have columns which extend beyond the DataGridView window, the horizontal scrollbar is never displayed. The vertical scrollbar displays, but the horizontal bar never displays. I've tried with the scrollbar settings set multiple ways. Is this something I'm doing or is this a known defect Jeff Seems there's a number of issues here. Klee310 talks about frozen columns, but the a few people go on to talk about the frozen scrollbars after updating the DataGridView (DGV) from a different Thread. Regarding the frozen scrollbars issue after updating from a different Thread : All of the above mentioned "fixes" about setting properties and methods are rubbish fixes. Sorry to sound strong, ...Show All

• SQL Server SharePoint Integrated mode

  Hi! I wonder where in Reporting Services Configuration i can change the mode to Share Point Integrated Do i need to create a new database, or can i change the mode for the one i use //C To add to what Sharmila mentions, please also refer to the following topic in the updated SQL BOL for more details: " How to: Create a Report Server Database for SharePoint Integrated Mode (Reporting Services Configuration) " thanx, Prash ...Show All

• Visual C# Create DataTable in Class

  I have a class file and I want to create a Datatable in it.....How would i do this....Do i create the table in the property or would i need to have like a CreateTable function pretty much yes :-) rule of thumb is: Have a method which does tasks, in this case, create and return the datatable Properties to be used as getters and or setters, to get or set the private property in the class in question The "outside" class to be able to create an instance of this class which can then access its public functions/methods to do tasks. ...Show All