Hkrabben's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums Can I use same Pushpin for text and picture?

  Am refining my first map and would like to use a custom icon in the default onMouseOver to display text, and use the same icon to display a picture while the left mouse button is held down. Is this possible I already have the onMouseOver and custom icon working and assume I need to incorporate the onMouseDown and onMouseUp events. Any help on combining these events would be greatly appreciated. Bill I will play with that, but would appriceate the sample as I am pretty new to this. Bill ...Show All

• Visual C++ Two questions - finding modified properties pages easily and highlighting file in solutions tab.

  I'm new to Visual Studio, and we're using 2005 mostly because we need x64 builds.  We have several projects in our solution, and when working on these, changed properties pages for projects and some files.  Now I'm trying to configure a release build, but the properties pages we added (e.g. adding an include search path) should have been put in 'all configurations' page, not the 'debug' page.  I didn't know any better at the time, so I need to move them.  How can I find all the modified properties pages for projects and files   Is there a search function to go to next property which differs from project or solution default Also in VS2003 when editing a file it would show highlighted on the solutions explorer tab. ...Show All

• Visual C# accessing private methods !

  Hi i have class A and class B as seperate classes. i am creating an object of class B from class A.[ A->B ] how can i access private method of class B from class A. please help I trust that neither of these classes inherit from the other If so... you might want to consider opening up the method, having one derive from the other and marking the method as protected (instead of private)... otherwise Reflection is your best option for completely bypassing accessibility rules of the class. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activity Certification

  Hi. Could you please describe the process of Activity certification http://activity.msn.com is not working and activity@microsoft.com is not responding. Thanks. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Converting a windows form (and other) object(s)?

  I am writing a c# DLL and want some functions to create windows forms and windows form objects. The DLL is for a language that only has standard variable types such as int, float, double, string, etc. So I cant really input an object as a function parameter. Is there a way to get some sort of string or integer handle for an object Also, if anyone could give me an example to write a button creation function that returns a handle I would greatly appreciate it. The only type of handle to an object that .NET provides is an object reference. So you'll need to devise your own mapping. What I'd do is create a pair of dictionaries - one Dictionary<string, object>, and one Dictionary<object, ...Show All

• SQL Server problem reading tab delimited flat file source with missing tabs

  I have a tab delimited flat file with say 60 columns. All columns can have null values. The file contains a blank tab for nulls. Now, if a row has null value for last 10 columns, ideally, there should be 10 blank tabs padded to the end of that row. But, this is not the case with this file. There is line break after 50 columns of that row, in the above example. Extrapolating this behavior, most of the rows have null values for last 'x' columns where 'x' is variable for each row. When I try to customize a flat file connection for this file, SSIS is not padding up the missing tabs. In the example above, it should insert null in the last 10 columns for that row. Instead, and weirdly, it is continuing to read next row. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Creating a route with pre-defined intermediate points?

  Is there an easy way to create a route if you want the route to include some pre-determined intermediate points I didn't see any API for this. Has someone figured out a way of doing this -Vishal ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System iteration milestone dates - report

  What is the recommended method to store milestone dates for a particular iteration Management wants a report that will show when a particular team project's iteration completed a milestone like "testing complete". We could then give them a report that goes across all team projects that would give them this high level progress report on iterations. Just thinking out loud here... You could add a field called milestone, which can be used to specify a task as a milestone much like the Issue or Exit Criteria fields on tasks in MSF Agile. You could report on all tasks in an iteration specified as a milestone and display their closed date as the date the milestone was completed. Doug R ...Show All

• Visual Basic email to send in html format !

  I have to use only visual basic 6. Want to send email in html format. Any code please These forums are for VB.NET and there are better places to find answers for older versions of VB. Maybe the VB6 newgroups - http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion&lang=en&cr=US or the VB6 resource center http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/ or web sites such as www.vbcity.com Hope these point you in the right direction. You can of course download VB Express which is free and then send an email (a simple search on this forum for email) will reveal numerous postings with code to achieve this in .NET - to send HTML format is simple. The body element can be coded as a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Question regarding best way to design my engine

  Currently I have a system (quite basic) with a character moved by a 360 pad, a level with about 10 objects in and I'm wondering the best way to handle my game logic. My Question is really this - I like the way that in Xna the Update and the Draw are seperated - however to use them as I would *assume* they are intended, draw *should* only really draw things, and Update should be where the game logic is updated: To use what i think Xna wants me to do is //Pseudo code void Update() { foreach (LevelObject lo in LevelObjects) { CheckForCollisionWithMainCharacter(lo) } } void Draw() { foreach (LevelObject lo in LevelObjects) { Draw(lo); } } Which seems slightly innefficient to repeat the same loop twic ...Show All

• SQL Server Number Of Business Days

  Hello, Without creating an additional table and with the least amount of code, I'm looking for a way to determine the number of business days in a given month. Thanks Let's start by clarifying that my name is not 'man'. Though I appreciate your willingness to help, it seems you are unable to do so without having every single detail given to you. Possibly I plan to edit the code depending on what holidays are observed by a particular organization. Unless you have a function tucked in your back pocket which automatically excludes certain holidays, I don't see that it matters which ones are used for example purposes. If you do have such a function, we can use whatever holidays it uses. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Virtual Earth for Windows Forms

  I am working on an application where GIS is used heavily. One of my requirement right now is to show the Satellite hybrid image centered at a lat, log in a specified zoom level. Here come my question. Can I use Virtual earth in windows forms application with .Net 2.0 Hi, I have a sample available at this URL which demonstrates some basics concepts of using Virtual Earth in a desktop application. http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/TracertMap.asp ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XAP Importer

  Hi, I'm loading files from a windows form test application and I want to load XACT audio assets, but my idea was to ask the user only for the xap project filename, generate the files into a folder in run time and then simply load all the generated data according to the extensions. I've been doing MSBuilds for other standard importers, but I just can't find the names for the importer and the processor. My documentation shows N/A when it comes to XACT projects. Any idea    Thanks! The XACT build process is a bit different to other kinds of content, because we had to sit on top of how the standard XACT tools work, rather than building it fro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions form load event

  How do i trigger the form load event I want users to click a button and the program runs as if loading for the first time. A good attempt, Tall Dude... Demonstrates good use of iterating through forms and removing objects (forms) from a collection by looping thrugh them backwards. But it does demonstrate the hoops one has to jump through to 'reshow' a form from scratch. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shared Classes: Good Idea or Bad Idea

  I wanted to solicit some opinions on this topic since we're laying some ground rules for VB.Net development in our organization. My observation so far is that shared classes are good for function libraries where the calls are stateless. For example, you might have a set of functions that performed common operations on a passed in value or object. It seems like this would be a good way to group this kind of functionality throughout the app or multiple apps. However, I’ve run into a few pre-built shared classes that required setting properties before calling functions and results from functions were available by getting a property with the function only returning a boolean. Making a shared class stateful like this seems like a re ...Show All