Rick Simmons's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding favourites to a WebBrowser control project

  I've built a Web Browser as a private project, but i'm unable to make a favourites list, i have the Favourites pane on the left of the screen, and toggleable (on/off), but how would i make something that save a name and a url, that can be clicked on to makem the browser go to what the user clicked....and how would i make that into an xml file that can be loaded and saved by the user... i want people to be able to simply click a button to make a window appear (i have built that already) and in the window have 2 textboxes and two buttons tb1 = namebox tb2 = urlbox button1(ok) = Button1 button2(cancel) = Button2 and i want it so when the user clicks ok it take the name and url from the boxes and adds it into a file in ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Vertex Animation help

  Hi, I'd like to do some simple vertex animation on a model using a vertex shader, but I'm having an extremely difficult and frustrating time figuring this out. I've been looking at the content pipeline documentation, I've found the tutorial about the BBox processor and done that a couple times, I've written a C# converter for a custom mesh format I have to X and still I can't work out how to accomplish this. I guess conceptually I understand how the content pipeline works. I ran the X processor DLL that ships with XNA through reflector and just about had a nervous breakdown looking at all the classes in there. I write geometry exporters, importers, and deformers for Maya at my day job, so I like to think I should be able to do this, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot bind to the property on the DataSource

  I'm trying to add a new column to a DataTable. I first added the field to the underlying Access database. Then I added the column to the DataTable. But when I try to set the Source property, the field does not show up on the list. The field shows up in the Data Sources window for the DataTable, but I cannot seem to bind the new column to it. What am I missing John Hi, The strongly-typed table must be regenerated. Delete it from the dataset and redrag the table from the server explorer. You'll lose any modification you made... This is annoying and I hope they fix this in SP1. Charles ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Use SetData

  Is it possible to draw sprite using another sprite as an alpha map As far as I've read the only way I can do this is by first using the DirectX Texture Tool to create a DDS file. Is it wise to be talking about sprites in XNA when it's really a Texture2D How do I access more blending options for the source and destination The point isn't to create pre-transparent textures, what if I want to have dynamic alpha blending (an example would be giving the user a flashlight on the mouse which would uncover underlying objects if I had another sprite on top of it. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can not run a C++ program over a network

  Hi, I coded a VC++ program using VS 2005. It's a MFC MDI structure and it run fine both from VS Start and Release directory in Windows Explorer in the computer it was created. However, when put its release build into a directory in a network and start it from the computer where it was created, it doesn't work. There are no explicit libraries to be linked to the program. A "TODO" error message is related to MFC, simply saying "TODO: <File description> has encountered a problem and needs to close." Does anybody happen to know any clue for solving the problem Thanks in advance. Jason this looks like an access denied problem. your remotely hosted release build may not have ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB Express (INKEY$) function.

  I have just finished writing my first VB Express program (Sub Search). I often found myself wanting to do an INKEY$ function as I used to do in Quick Basic. I want the program to pause, and wait for me to hit a keyboard key... then to analyze that keystroke, and branch-off to various points. I have seen references to such a capability (keydown & others) but have not been able to decode the directions to the point that I can apply it to my program. Where can I find a full list of names for keys like the windows key and CTRL key Can anyone help ...Show All

• SQL Server how to build a sql server instance in the network using sql express?

  Hi, how to build a sql server instance in the network using sql express thank you. hi, please have a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx regards ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to open and goto a specific record in Contact or appointment

  I want to programatically run the calaneder , task or conact and goto and specific records . can it be done how can i do it seewan The applications dont themselves support this. However you can use Pocket Outlook Object Model (POOM) to access specific items and call Display() to show the standard card screen. For .netcf code on Windows Mobile 5.0 see the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace. For native code see POOM in the SDK documentation and samples. Peter ...Show All

• .NET Development DateTime.TryParse generates an Exception

  Hi, few days ago I had to reinstall my machine but, after it, I started to have problems with the DateTime.TryParse method: it throws an exception of type IndexOutOfRangeException.. This simple example: private void TestParseDate( string strDate) { DateTime date ; bool b = DateTime .TryParse(strDate, out date); // here the Exception is throwed } generates: System.IndexOutOfRangeException was unhandled by user code Message="Index was outside the bounds of the array." Source="mscorlib" StackTrace: at System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.InsertHash(TokenHashValue[] hashTable, String str, TokenType tokenType, Int32 tokenValue) at System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CreateTokenHashTable() ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problem related to security using MD5 algorithm

  hi all, I want to use System.Security.Cryptography.MD5 to encode the file name that i provide and assign a unique key to that ant store it in the database.But i dnt knw how to do that. please provide me with some sample. Thanx in advance. MD5 is a hash algorithm. It is not reversible encryption. You will want some symmetrical algorithm like RC2 or AES128. See code example in the online documentation for RC2CryptoServiceProvider class , Rijndael or TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider (or anything else derived from SymmetricAlgorithm) ...Show All

• .NET Development How to detect if an exception has been thrown

  I need to know if in my current thread an exception has been thrown, is there any elegante way to know this I need to add that code to my RollbackTransaction method, I want to know if there is no transaction in the TLS cause something failed previously. Juan Roman wrote: So there is no information in the thread, the stack trace, the app domain that states if an untrapped exception has occurred If it's un-trapped your application exits. I don't know if the ApplicationExit event is raised; but, it doesn't have any included information about why the application exited. ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to access an https server with winhttp

  Hi I habe started to use winhttp to "dialogue" with web servers from a VB.Net app. It works fine as long as the server is a straightforward http server. I now tried to do the same with an http S server URL, and i just can't connect to it. I have tried setting credentials like this: URL =" https://myroot/mypage/script.do " ' Open an HTTP connection HttpReq.Open( "GET" , URL, False ) ' Set credentials for server. HttpReq.SetCredentials( "myuser" , "mypassword" , HTTPREQUEST_SETCREDENTIALS_FOR_SERVER) ' Send the HTTP Request. HttpReq.Send() but that does not help at all (still no response whatsoever from the server) I have looked at the SetClientCert ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE Font Rendering Inconsitency on Select Elements

  I've noticed that there appears to be an inconsitency with how text is rendered in elements on IE7. I have a web page that is encoded in utf-8, and contains japanese code points. All text looks fine except text in select elements. In a select element the text is rendered as squares. I can fix the problem by explicitly selecting a font that contains these code points (e.g. MS Gothic) However, that doesn't seem to be required for any other element. So what gives Is this a bug If it is, is there any chance we'll see a fix Thanks. Here's a test page that shows the error... <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd "> <html> <head&g ...Show All

• SQL Server Trying to return DISTINCT COLUMN data with varying information

  I'm trying to find the best way to return distinct data from a column (Message). The problem is that the messages are not distinct. Ex. Message1 - An unhandled exception occurred type 123456 Message2 - An unhandled exception occurred type 346742 Both of these messages are being returned since they are not unique. Now I was thinking about doing a character length and dropping the message after x number of chars, however, there are other issues like the unique data in the message isn't always in the same location. Any ideas of how to query this would be much appreciated. ...But 10,000 is an exaggeration right You could use patindex to work out where the word 'type' is, and then get the string from there (p ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 70038 on install

  Hi all I packaged .Net Framework & Sql Express with my setup project. When I attempt to install it on an XP (with SP2) system .Net Framework installs fine. The Sql Express gets about 25% of the way through then fails. Here's the content of the log file: The following properties have been set: Property: [AdminUser] = true {boolean} Property: [ProcessorArchitecture] = Intel {string} Property: [VersionNT] = 5.1.2 {version} Running checks for package '.NET Framework 2.0', phase BuildList Running external check with command line "C:\DOCUME~1\Gary\LOCALS~1\Temp\VSDA0.tmp\dotnetfx\dotnetchk.exe" Process exited with code 1 Setting value '1 {int}' for property 'DotNetInstalled' Reading value 'Version' of registry key 'HKLM\Softw ...Show All