MrBrilliant's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is This For Me?

  Hello, Thank you for having me here. I plan on doing more research into this product, however I have a few questions I was hoping this community could please provide to me. - I have never done any programming other then some HTML, CSS and a few lines of PHP. I have also made extremely basic apps using Visual Basic - my knowledge of this was no more then 'playing around' and this was so long ago I have forgetten most things I had learnt. Is XNA Express the ultimate tool for a beginner to learn how to program specifically for developing games - Should I have any previous programming knowledge before attempting to use XNA - What are the first few steps I should follow 'as someone who has never programmed' before - Should I have knowledge ...Show All

• Visual C++ C++ design capabilities

  I want to create software that allows the end-user to create multiple copies of their own buttons on a scanned map which buttons can be rotated 360 degrees and linked to a database. I thus need libraries of code for rotate and also zoom functionality that I can incorporate. Can I get this done with C++ or any of the other Visual Studio programs If not, what software do you recommend I'm not so much interested in being a cheerleader for Microsoft technologies with someone who is sitting on a fence as I am giving technical information on how to solve a problem.  If you are still unsure, I would continue to gather information from other sources.  Whichever route you decide to take, I wou ...Show All

• .NET Development Access Hotmail using .Net

  Hi. Does anyone knows if is there a way to access a hotmail account using xml web services, o library in the .Net Framework I was looking in the net, but only found this article http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_internet/mail/article.php/c5923/ , but I think that should be a better way to access Hotmail. Thanks for your help. No... and actually this link shows how to access Hotmail using the DAV service.... at this moment Hotmail won't even allow to use DAV for free accounts (Outlook Express won't work anymore)..... so, as POP is not provided and DAV won't work.... you won't be able to acces Hotmail from other source appart from msn homepage. Regards Rodrigo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Using web services with xbap application

  I have created an wpf browser application that relies on calling a web service. However, whenever I call the web service, I recieve a "System.Net.WebPermissions" error message. The web service is located on a different server. How do I get this to work Thank you for the help. Steve I'm struggling with this too. I've created an xbap application, and an asmx web service, but I get the System.Net.WebPermission exception every time. Both the web service and the xbap are installed on the same IIS, different virtual directories (I'm not sure that it's possible to put them in the same directory ). Has anyone ever got an xbap application to connect to a database Or even got this alleged web s ...Show All

• SQL Server Full Text Search - Auto Change Tracking

  Id like to know a bit about the behaviour of CHANGE_TRACKING AUTO, specifically when the update of the index takes place. In the docs it states 'these changes may not be reflected immediately' but in general when can the changes be expected to appear. Is there merit to updating manually, although the user needs ALTER permission on the table in that case vs. letting SQL Server run it automatically. Thanks for any help - Mike In case you or anyone else has found any relevant information about this topic I'd also be interested to hear about it since the documentation doesn't really clear things up. kind regards, heinz ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) SQL query to LINQ

  I have SQL query: Select * from c_payments Union all Select * from m_payments How can I do the same in LINQ Thanks for advice but... Error 5 The type arguments for method 'System.Query.Sequence.Union<T>(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T>, System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<T>)' cannot be inferred from the usage. Try specifying the type arguments explicitly. How can I resolve this error ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) I don't like xaml :-)

  Everything that I can do using xaml I can do from C# code, right And I am not sure whether this is true also other way round. I know people are saying that xaml is great because tools used by designers can generate xaml files and whole UI can be created by them independently of programming language (C# or VB) and so on... But I know C# and I don’t have designer and I am going to create whole application alone and I don’t want to learn some kind of new language (xaml) only to use it because it is cool. Also when I am writing xaml I feel like doing web page and not implementing standalone application. And I have some feeling (maybe wrong) that doing things in code runs faster then when using xaml. A ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with deployment (VC++ 2005)

  I have run into a strange problem with deploying applications developed using the VC++ 2005 Express Edition. After building "release" versions on my development machine, I usually copy the release binary over to a laptop and run it there (the laptop has .NET 2.0 and VC++ 2005 Redistributable packages installed, but not the development environment). Both computers are running Windows XP Professional. Now, all of a sudden, I am finding that new applications that I am developing are NOT running on the laptop after I copy the release binaries over. The error message complains about incorrect configuration... And yet, I am still able to copy my earlier applications over to the laptop and run them without any problem. As far as I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Reading and Writing image "Rating" metadata

  I'm looking for a way to read and modify "Rating" metadata that Vista uses to rate image files. I'm able to read the rating although I noticed that the rating is written in several places in metadata... and I'm not sure which Vista is using... it looks like all of them are changed at the same time and are kept in sync... so do I have to modify all of them to keep them in sync /xmp/Rating / xmp/xap:Rating /app1/{uint=0}/{uint=18246} When I'm trying to modify the rating... nothing happens... I'm using this code Stream fileStream = new System.IO. FileStream (path.LocalPath, FileMode .Open, FileAccess .ReadWrite, FileShare .ReadWrite); BitmapDecoder decoder = BitmapDecoder .Create( this .fi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Permanent and Temporary CommandBars

  Hi, I'm new to VS AddIn developement and have run into a problem. I'm trying to get my 'Command' to appear on the "Item" menubar of solution explorer. However, if I create a command in the OnConnection() method when the 'connectMode' is 'ext_cm_AfterStartup', i.e. it's a temporary AddIn, then the command's 'IsAvailable' property is set to false and nothing appears in the context menu. Alternatively, if I create the command when the 'connectMode' is " ext_cm_UISetup", i.e. it's a permanent AddIn, the command's 'IsAvailable' property is set to 'true' and everything works fine. Now, to be honest, I'm don't know whether the command's 'IsAvailable' property is anything to do with it but it seemed like it ought to. ...Show All

• Visual C++ CWnd derived class to receive messages.

  Ok, so I've got this class (CThingy maybe ) and it's derived from the CWnd class in hopes that it can be a child of the view class in a doc/view application. The idea is I would have a bunch of these things lying around the view that the user can click on and interact with through message maps. Here's the code I would use. <code> // declaration class CThingy : public CWnd { DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CTest) public: CThingy(); virtual ~CThingy (); protected: DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP() public: afx_msg void OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point); afx_msg void OnMouseMove(UINT nFlags, CPoint point); }; IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CThingy , CWnd) // definition CThingy ::CThingy () {} CThingy ::~CThingy () {} BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CThingy , CWnd) ON_W ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Update Database from Dataset / Datagrid

  Hi there I'm new to wortking with datasets and dataadapters etc and was hoping someone could tell me if what i want to do is possible and if so point me to some help. I am writing a Windows Mobile 5.0 application in visual studio 2005 which is to store and edit data on a pocket pc using sqlmobile2005 The part of the application i'm stuck with consists of 3 stages, the first two of which i have completed successfully. The Third stage i cant seem to find any help files for which are relevent to my needs. 1) I have a datagrid on a form which uses a dataset as the datasource (this is done on the formload call) 2) The dataset data is then edited using text boxes and buttons (all data is updated in the dataset and the datagrid is ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Merry Christmas

  Wishing you, and yours, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May 2007 be at least twice as good as you can possibly hope for and Marcia and I look forward to 'seeing' you all on line. Merry Christmas and a happy new year. ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Initial video state

  I would like the video not to play at start, but show the first frame and be positioned at the right top corner. If i call Player.playlist.pause(); Player.video.main.changeLayout(...); The video is not resized till it is started. When I call these lines in reverse order, I get exception HDDVD_E_INVALIDCALL Basically you have a background like this in your markup: <div id="background" style:position="absolute" style:x="0px" style:width="1920px" style:y="0px" style:height="1080px" style:backgroundImage="url('file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/your-still-image-here.png')" /> Then when the movie actually starts, you set th ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem with WS-AT: WS-AtomicTransaction protocol service is disabled...

  Hello, I am trying to call a WCF web service with enabled transaction flow from a Java client. The Java client is capable of WS-AT and calls the WCF service from within a transaction scope. I always get the following exception: "The flowed transaction could not be unmarshaled. The following exception occurred: The MSDTC transaction manager's WS-AtomicTransaction protocol service is disabled and cannot unmarshal incoming transactions." The binding my WCF service uses is: <customBinding> <binding name="customB"> <transactionFlow transactionProtocol="WSAtomicTransactionOctober2004" /> <textMessageEncoding messageVersion="Soap11" /> <httpTranspor ...Show All