Luisfe's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting a 360 for contest... wait for Zephyr?

  Should I wait for the next rev before getting a 360 and a Creator's Club subscription Are there any plans to offer rebates or trade-ins I don't need 1080p or a 120GB disk... are those the only alleged upgrades (aside from the cooler cpu) Jim Perry wrote: I'd sell the PS3 and buy another 360 and a ton of games. :) Another 360 would be good for testing the network api when and if it's available... But I would probably trade it in for a Wii instead. :) ...Show All

• Windows Forms Nested Parentable Control

  I have created a user control which contains a container control on which I want to drop other controls, however I am having trouble convincing the designer to allow it to happen. At the moment, it is just a panel (panel 1)that contains a second panel (panel 2). Panel 1 has a public property to Panel 2 which I thought would be sufficient. Can anyone help me out If you're having trouble picturing what I'm trying to accomplish, picture a TabControl with only a single TabPage. The TabPage is what actually hosts other child controls, but it is hosted by a TabControl object. Thanks This is a limitation in the Windows Forms designer, it cannot add controls to inherited containers, other than forms. You'll see ...Show All

• Visual Studio Charset for a button

  Hi, I have this button that won't diplay its label (in chinese) correctly in a ENG system: <OBJECT id=hhctrl type="application/x-oleobject" classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11" codebase="hhctrl.ocx#Version=5,2,3790,2453" width=100 height=100> <PARAM name="Command" value="Close"> <PARAM name="Button" value="Text:Ao3 "> </OBJECT> Could you please let me know what would be the correct charset syntax, so it will correctly display on a ENG system Thanks, Cata Hello Cata - I asked one of the original devs for HTML Help whether he knew if this was ever suppo ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums No maps in 3d view!

  Hi I recently upgraded my VE code to v4, and whilst the 2d stuff still works perfectly well (even the Birds' Eye View works fine), all i get in 3D view is a green blur (i.e. just the globe) regardless of my zoom level. It doesn't matter where i look at in the world - whether it be here in the UK or anywhere in the US. It's almost as if the 3D tiles aren't loading, as the navigation control and the orientation widget are both present. I just can't see any details on anything - very frustrating! The 3D examples on the maps.live.com (i.e. Tower of London and the Millennium Wheel) do exactly the same thing, so it's not my code at fault. Has anyone any ideas as to what might be going on Thanks Spencer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Behavior of a MenuStrip inside the Actions Pane

  I'm posting this here because I have another issue that seems to be related to (the hosting provided by) the VSTO Actions Pane within Word's Task pane. If it would be more appropriate to post this question to a different newsgroup, please let me know which one. I have some UI code that contains several MenuStrips and a TreeView that has a ContextMenuStrip.  Basically the same UI code is re-used in two different environments, a standalone WinForms app and in the Actions Pane of a VSTO Word Template project.  The UI code when used in a standalone WinForms app acts pretty much as expected.  However, when the same UI code is placed in an Actions Pane Control in a VSTO2 Word Template project, both the MenuStrip drop-down menu ite ...Show All

• Windows Forms input numbers in the cells of a DataGirdView

  Hi, In my winform, there is a DataGridView and its datasource is an generic list. There is a problem when I run the app, and try to input some numbers in the cells.Here is the description: Step1：Click one cell (now the cell is selected, instead of the context inside,which is 0.) Step2：Input 1, the cell will show '11' ,which is wrong. It should show only one '1'. (now the context,11, is selected. Input one more number, like 2, it shows '112' , and that's correct.) I am having this problem at random. If I rebuild the solution, the problem may be gone.But next time it may come back again. I don't know what I can check to fix it.. or is there any way the user can select the context directly ( without selecting the whole ...Show All

• SQL Server HELP !! HELP: Trigger to send REPORT !!!

  Hi all, Report Manager is failing to email out the reports !!! And... I can not use Report Manager to configure the trigger ! How can I trigger manually to have SQL 2005 email out the reports again OR how can I trigger to run those emailing jobs again Thanks, Frank All report server jobs are named as Guids in SQL agent. Every job does essentially the same thing, which is add an event to the Report Server queue. You would need to match up which job created the correct event. If the subscription is to a shared schedule, the schedule ID will be the same as the job name, otherwise the only way to figure it out is find the schedule Id via the RS tables or trial and error. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Audit Log

  Hi All, In Visual SourceSafe Admin, How to get the Audit Log. Babu To view where the Audit log is located using VSS Administrator you can: 1. Launch VSS Administrator 2. Select Tools->Options... 3. In the SourceSafe Options dialog, click the General tab. 4. Look at the path inside the text box next to the label "Log all actions in journal file:". This path should tell you where the audit log is located. FYI, to create a journal file in Visual SourceSafe Administrator: In Visual SourceSafe Administrator, on the Tools menu, click Options . In the SourceSafe Options dialog box, click the General tab. Select the journal file to use. Sec ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need some help please. Not able to debug!!!!

  When I try to debug, VB goes therough the usual steps, but the project never appears and no error message comes up. Any ideas as to why What can I do It looks as if it is going to load and then nothing happens, it will let me debug again without stopping, as a matter of fact, it doesn't even appear that I have run the program at all. This is all that appeared in the build output window.  I am a lowly high school teacher, so please help!!!-- ---- Build started: Project: WindowsApplication1, Configuration: Debug .NET ------ Preparing resources... Updating references... Performing main compilation... Building satellite assemblies... ---------------------- Done ----------------------     Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 ski ...Show All

• .NET Development running Asp.Net 2.0 on Windows 2000

  I tested very simple webform (have just one button) on my develope pc (windows xp) using asp.net 2.0. Its ok. But when I publishe it on our server (windows 2000) its failed. I recieve this message: Server Error in '/kamaei/DBD' Application. ... <!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="Off"/> </system.web> </configuration> But I did this settings. Is there any specific configuration base on win 2000 Tnx for any help ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to specify listboxitem style to listbox that is bound to XmlDataProvider

  I have a listbox that is bound to an XmlDataProvider. I have created a style for changing the background color of the listboxitem when it is selected. How can I apply this style All the examples I have seen have static listboxitem tags defined that have the style on them. <Style x:Key="ListBoxItemBackground" TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="ListBoxItem.IsMouseOver" Value="true"> <Setter Property = "Background" Value="Delete"/> </Trigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> <ListBox Button.Click ="ListBox_Button_Click" Background="White" BorderT ...Show All

• SQL Server Bulk Insert vs. Data Flow Task (different row results using flat file source)

  I'm importing a large csv file two different ways - one with Bulk Import Task and the other way with the Data Flow Task (flat file source -> OLE DB destination). With the Bulk Import Task I'm putting all the csv rows in one column. With the Data Flow Task I'm mapping each csv value to it's own column in the SQL table. I used two different flat file sources and got the following: Flat file 1: Bulk Import Task = 12,649,499 rows; Data Flow Task = 4,215,817 rows Flat file 2: Bulk Import Task = 3,403,254 rows; Data Flow Task = 1,134,359 rows Anyone have any guess as to why this is happening Data flow taks has a property to eliminate duplicates under fast table/view load option. This could eliminate dupl ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) POX and Sessions

  Is InstanceContextMode .PerSession supported on POX bindings It looks like the service type is being instantiated per call even if the InstanceContextMode is  set to PerSession You could try refering http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733040.aspx for asp.net session this might be helpful http://blogs.msdn.com/sajay/archive/2006/08/03/687361.aspx The requirement is for using WCF sessions you need some binding that supports session. Refer http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730879.aspx I dont know if i can or how i can make messageversion none as the address becomes none and it would throw and exception check if the code sample below helps you to test out you different bindi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Some thoughts on XNA Game Studio / Framework

  First of all, I'd like to note that what Microsoft is attempting to do with XNA is commendable. Game development is notoriously hard, getting harder by the month in fact. So Microsoft's goal of simplifying the process, opening it up to a whole new audience of student and hobbyist developers, is a natural one. However, actually attaining that goal is going to take a lot more than XNA. Here's why. The process of game development is difficult for a variety of reasons. When a new programmer first begins to learn game development, the earliest things they will have trouble with are things like wrangling the windowing system into doing what they want it to, reading input, drawing triangles, and loading content into their app. But once they've le ...Show All

• Visual C# Two way Communication between exe and dll

  How could i acheive two way communication between the exe and my dll (without adding reference of each other in both ) thanks From your dll function call the exe with parameters Example, if your exe name is testExe, call it as Process.Start("testExe", ---parameters---) These parametes you can configure it in such a way that it calls a specific class method for a particular parameter. Do look into MSDN System.Diagostics namespace and it should be clear. mecspek ...Show All