ayeesha's Q&A profile

• Internet Explorer Development Working with the dot net 2.0 WebBrowser control

  I had originally created a post here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1027977&SiteID=1&mode=1 where I was trying to figure out some issues in dealing with this control, and using it as a "chat interface" related object. The items I was trying to figure out were related to disabling the internal IE menu stuff and using a context sensitive menu. I did receive one answer that I am exploring (thanks again Martin) but I am still having problems grasping why the most common of items, "copy and paste", are causing me so much grief. :) I admit... I am not an "html" person, although I do understand the generic concepts of simple html elements. I am sure that once I get into stepping i ...Show All

• Windows Forms image transparent background

  I want to add an .bmp image to a label. The image has a transparent background. When I add the image the transparent part becomes white. How can I add the image to the label in a way that the background will not turn white. thanks If you're not using an image format that supports transparency (like .gif or .png), you need to make the image transparent yourself. For example: private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(@"c:\temp\test.bmp"); bmp.MakeTransparent(Color.White); label1.Image = (Image)bmp.Clone(); bmp.Dispose(); } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions can't find Microsoft.Office.Interop.....(excel)

  can't find Microsoft.Office.Interop..... i search COM components but i cant find it..... oh i see... i need to reinstall the MSoffice..... currently we're using ms office 2000.....thx another question.. assuming i install that... and publish my program..... once i install my program to another computer(with out MS.office.interop), it wont work ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Synchronizing workitems with 3rd-party defect tracker?

  Hello, my previous post on date-time queries was reall part of a bigger picture. I'd like to use TFS workitems as my 'master' issue tracker, but I want to mirror the workitems to another defect tracker. (Initially, in a read-only fashion). I'd like the synchronization to be 'real-time', or at least quick (within minutes). * One solution would be to have TFS raise a flag (and have the other app whatching the flag) or itself trigger the synching program whenever a workitem is saved. * Another solution would be to have an agent frequently polling TFS for changes, asking "has any workitem been saved since last time I checked ". Will TFS support any of these methods Any suggestions are welcome. thanks, /Tomas ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. release date of font stuff?

  on the xna lunch party, they showed some font stuff. do anybody know, when the font stuff will be released i know that there are a lots of classes etc. which implements some stuff equal to the stuff which were showed on the xna lunch party, but i want to know, when we will be able to use some stoff from microsoft Something similar has already been done, if you ask me its so damn good you wont even need what the XNA team come up with for fonts :) http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1120927&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• .NET Development Validating very (huge) large Xml files against Xsd Schema

  Hello all, I have a very large xml file (about 500.000 lines) that I would like to validate against a xsd. As I expected I'm having performance problems in the validation phase. Even with tools like XmlSpy validation takes a lot of time. What are the best practices for this situation Do you have an equal scenario How do you manage to validate your huge xml instances I'm not looking for code samples (although very welcome!). I'm just trying the gather other's experiences in this matter. Thanks jay Thanks airwalker2000 , I tried some code similar to yours and in fact it is really fast. I validated a xml file of about 800000 lines with about 1700000 nodes and took about 10 sec ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I disable the close button on the Form titlebar?

  Hey… How do I disable the close button on the Form titlebar …I do not mean the, e.Cancel = True Best Regards Cathrine nobugz Thanks, but it does not work on my form… for any reason…, any suggestion Cath ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transparent label Control in VB 2005

  I am trying VB 2005. The label control has no transparent (backstyle) option. The help says that this is so and to overcome it by setting the background color to transparent. I tried this but still get error that backcolor transparent is not supported. This is very annoying as I use transparent labels and text boxes all the time. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or an alternative. Thanks for the reply. I am using Visual Basic in VB 2005. I am clicking the back colour and selecting transparent on the web colours. I also tried setting it from code Backcolor = color.transparent. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DLLs and Message Queues

  Hi all, I have a service EXE which creates a window and recieves windows messages from one other exe that I have. Based on the message recieved, it performs necessary operations. I need to convert the service EXE into a service DLL. I am not able to make this work. The findwindow fails in my EXE and I can not find the handle to the DLL where I need to post the messages. The reason I understand is, service DLL is a child window now and findwindow do not find child windows. One more problem is since this DLL makes a window I am not able to see my EXE's main windows also. How to tackle these Any guidance on this would be appreciated. Best regards, Ashish Vyas Hi, this is my sample code. ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Does Downloader allow cross domain calls?

  I'm developing a WPF/E application and I'm trying to download content using the Downloader object. While this works when the url property points to a relative path the downloader fails (no event is ever fired) when the uri points to another site/domain. Is there a security restriction preventing cross domain downloader calls Wouldn't be usefull an onError event on the downloader were you could retreive information on why your request failed Thanks I wonder, why is that From what I've read "the Downloader object is modeled after the XMLHttpRequest (XHR) set of APIs..." surely you can download xml content from different servers (domains) using XMLHttpRequest why this is not the case when it comes to the Downloader object An ...Show All

• Visual C++ Changing Static properties.. Is this impossible?

  Hi there.. I have been trying for days now to change the property of visible on a static text control in my application to false during runtime. I have researched this and researched this, and even posted on Expert Exchange, but no one seems to know how to do this.... I'll post the answer I was given on EE.com, and hopefully someone here will know more about it. I have only been programming in C++ for a week now, so forgive me if this is a stupid question.... I have several static text controls setup in my application (DirectX pong game) to report various stats that assisted me in creating the game and diagnosing troubles that may arise setup in a console.rc resource in my project. These are displayed in a control panel beneath the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Failed to open VPC Network driver Vista Enterprise RTM

  Hello, I have just upgraded to Vista Enterprise RTM and now when I try to open WM 5.0 device emulater (Selecting connect) I get the message below. Is there a fix out yet I did install the windows mobile device center, as well as the Virtual Machine Network Driver for Microsoft Device Emulator ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=dc8332d6-565f-4a57-be8c-1d4718d3af65&displaylang=en ) but it didn't seem to help. Thanks in advance.\ John Message: Failed to open the VPN network driver. Verify that the driver is installed, or install the driver from the web download location at..... Did you install the VPC Net driver with elevated priviledges. Please note that while instal ...Show All

• Visual Basic populating textbox using datetime picker

  I am using VB 2005 for developing a winform application I want to display a datetime picker ( or a calendar) to choose date when a user click on the textbox very similar to www.expedia.com on the textbox click event I am using the following code to display datetime picker's calendar GUI Private Sub TextBox1_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.Click DateTimePicker1.Select() SendKeys.Send( "%{DOWN}" ) End Sub is there any easy to remove the combobox out of the Datetime picker so when a user click on the textbox datetime picker's calendar Gui will displayed and a user selects a date that populates the textbox ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiple Instances of the Same Model

  I've hit a really weird problem with the game I'm writing for the DBP competition. The reason it's so weird is because I'm sure it wasn't a problem before. Basically, I'm implementing the p1_wedge model in a class I have created called Player. Originally, I only had one player on screen but now I've added a second player. The problem I'm having is that it only draws the model for the second player. However, once the second player gets destroyed it then starts to display the model for the first player. It's as if the first player can't be drawn because the second player is using the model. I haven't done anything special to implement the Player class. I have made the main class a Singleton so that I have access to the graphics and content o ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Bitmap Font problem

  Hi, i have problem when using font in simple 3d scene, source code: protected override void Draw( GameTime gameTime) { mGraphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear( Color .CornflowerBlue); // draw car transforms = new Matrix [mCar.Bones.Count]; mCar.CopyAbsoluteBoneTransformsTo(transforms); Matrix carRot = Matrix .CreateRotationX(mVehicle.DiffFb) * Matrix .CreateRotationZ(mVehicle.DiffLr) * Matrix .CreateRotationY(mCarRotation); Matrix carPos = Matrix .CreateTranslation(mCarPosition); Matrix carMat = carRot * carPos; foreach ( ModelMesh mesh in mCar.Meshes) { foreach ( BasicEffect effect in mesh.Effects) { effect.EnableDefaultLighting(); effect.World = transforms[mesh ...Show All