sameach's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Auto Start of Windows Application after installation

  Hi, I have a windows application which as to Auto run the application, soon after the setup is installed. How to do this thanks Murali People use this sometimes for VS setups: http://www.cornerhouse.ca/en/msilaunch.html ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Loading MechCommander 2 models

  I have the .ase files from the Shared Source release, and I would like to use them in my game. I don't want to parse the files myself if I don't have to, but I can't find a way to import them back into Max. Does anyone know of a good converter I've googled around but I can't find anything very robust. Are the original Max models available Excellent. I never would have found Deep Exploration on my own. Looks like it doesn't support COLLADA yet, but that's no big deal if I can at least pass the models through Max. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Following item failed to download

  Setup has stopped because the item listed above could not be downloaded... It dows that trying to install any Visual Studio Product. I am having a similar issue with VC# express. The error I recieve is below. The following item failed to Download: Microsoft Visual C# 2005 express edition -ENU. I go through the trouble shootign page and it tells me my BITS Service isn't workign correctly so I go and set it to manual, try agian. nothing, then i try the last step to enable it's dependencies, and it doesn't seem to have any. Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting protected controls through reflection

  Hi, I am inspecting an assembly that has a form, and this form has some controls that are inherited from a BaseForm class. Using GetFields I get to know its controls. However, the inherited controls do not show. I have set BindingFlags as follows: BindingFlags flags = BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic; Am I missing something, any ideas Thanks in advance. Add BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy to get inherited fields as well. Although if it is a form then you can also just use the Controls property to get all the controls contained in the form. Michael Taylor - 1/25/07 http://p3net.mvps.org ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DirectShow and Windows Media Format

  Hi, I get an error when I try combine DirectShow and Windows Media Format in my graph. I have to use ASF writer filter (DirectShow graph) and IWMWriterAdvanced2 (from Windows Media Format, to do network streaming). I get 0x8007007b error when I try to run the graph. Here is my code (error handling is ommited, but there's no errors before I run the graph): IWMWriterFileSink * pFileSink = NULL; WMCreateWriterFileSink(&pFileSink); IWMWriterAdvanced2 *pWriterAdvanced2; pGraph->AddFilter( pAsfWriter, L"WM ASF Writer"); pGraph->AddFilter(pCap, L"Capture Filter"); pAsfWriter->QueryInterface(IID_IServiceProvider, (void**)&pProvider); pProvider->QueryService(IID_IWMWriterAdvanced2,IID_IWMWriterAdvance ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word/VSTO 2003 : Odd MailMerge Behavior

  Solution: Office 2003 Pro using VSTO 2003 Word Template I have a situation that I'm finding rather strange, and am trying to understand why this is happening the way that it is ... the situation is as follows: I have a Word Template that contains MailMerge fields, when the template is Opened, I connect-up the MailMerge.DataSource and execute the merge. The resultant template is saved back out as a Word Document (.doc) file. All this works just fine. For some odd reason, some saved documents (.doc), when opened back up, immediately attempt to execute a merge again, actually executing the SQL statement that was bound to the DataSource; this is happen before a single line of my code is being hit. Other documents do not do this, yet all the lo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Quick question regarding accessibility of 360 hardware with XNA.

  Hello everybody, First of all, let me say that I think that the concept of XNA rocks, and I'm very happy that Microsoft actually released a cheap "SDK" for the 360. Secondly, has there been a list compiled of things that are off-limits to developers All I know of that is off-limits is the networking. From what I've read, I assume that the DVD drive is out and so are any system/other game files on the 360. But I can't believe that these are the only things off-limits... I mean, can we really access everything on the 360's GPU and CPU (note that I'm not talking about every register because it isn't assembly language) I think a complete list of everything that is inaccessible would really help those on the "fringe" o ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro drop-down combobox problem

  Hi I'm still struck with the combo drop-down part problem for nearly 2 weeks and need help from you. When the values of these 2 textboxes match with each other, the list of employee is able to display on the combo drop-down. But I have one problem :- The list of employee on the combo drop-down repeat unnecessary (even a few blanks) when i changes the values of textboxes. How to refresh the combo drop-down once the values of textbox changes Thank you. hmm, I'm using the table (contacts.dbf). So, RowSourceType properties will be 2- Alias and pls advise me what i put on RowSource properties to "refresh" and narrow down the list of employees that is related to these 2 values of textboxes. ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2k5: Instantiate a textbox and assigning a text property

  Hi, I tried instantiating a textbox with: Dim txt1 as new textbox However, though no error is encountered when I assign it a value, when I pass it to the database, all the fields are null. My insert method is working fine (coz i see rows with null values that are added in my tables), only, it cannot get the exact value of my instantiated textbox. I know i'm missing something.... hmmm probably i still need the property let/get... just guessing... Can someone help out cherrie You might want to actually try adding them to the controls collection. I think this will help. Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load ...Show All

• Visual C# Check if laptop has low battery? or if not connected to A/C possible?

  Hello all, I am using a Dell Laptop (Latitude D520) and I was wondering, is it possible to write a program that checks if the A/C adapter is plugged in or if the battery is getting low, to notify the user I know dell provides a program to do this, but i would like to make my own and access this information myself. TIA! A recent Coding4Fun article You can Take it with You, Part 1 discusses this topic in both C# and VB. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do you draw text?

  Since the XNA documentation is lousy, I'm gonna ask here. How do you create text in XNA I want to use it for debugging purposes :( Here you go - http://jubbernaut.blogspot.com/ I've made a little blog to explain how to very quickly plot a font on screen. Including a font I drew with my own fair hand! The code has been simplified down to the bare minimum for ease of understanding - but a good font routine will have tons of options for transparency, scaling, kerning etc. And possibly different routines if you intend to plot a lot of text - some without the options to increase speed a little. I've lost count of the number of font routines I've written, from back when you had to redefine the ch ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using VB Express to connect non Sql or Access Database....

  Follow the Learning VB.net books....I can easily connect the Sql Express database with just draging the Data Source after add connection and add new data source....It's automatic build a DataGridView Control, a tableadapter, a bindingsource, and a bindingnavigator. We can add, edit, delete, and update data in datagrid with the bindingnavigator icon. It's so easy......But how it can doing the same way if I use to connect a Oracle database ... When right click the database Explorer, then click Add connection, the databases that can be connected or created are just MS Acces and Sql Express.......Can help me pls..... thanks......... I tried to connect VB Express to an existing database. Whatever I do I seem to come across the ...Show All

• .NET Development ASPxGRID with edit

   Hi,    I have downloaded ASPxGRID form www.devexpress.com . what i reqested ,In my application aspxgrid appear with in solution explorer->references->devexpress.aspxgrid.dll file(like system.data,system.oledb).when  i am click any one of the web page in my project the debug problem is raised "devexpress.aspxgrid.dll file not found"  .How to solve the problem. thank u............ RAJU ...Show All

• Visual Basic Groupbox resizing info/help

  Hi How do I make a groupbox automatically resize to the form that is in being expanded SITUATION:- I have Two groups with buttons etc one docked on the right the other docked on the left:- When I expand the form groupbox1 goes to the right and groupbox2 goes to the left leaving an empty space in the middle of the two groupboxes, how would I expand both group box’s evenly into the empty space in the middle So that grouptbox1 expands to the left (into the middle) and groupbox2 expands right (into the middle) Many thanks, Andy Sorry about the wait ;) If you want the user to be able to resize the 2 groupboxes, then a Splitter will be better suited: -- ...Show All

• Windows Forms Position of a treeview?

  Does anyone know if it is possible to get the position of a treenode Mikael if tn is the current node in the treeview, then you can get the path to it from the root like this Dim str As String While Not (tn Is Nothing ) str = tn.Name & "\" & str tn = tn.Parent End While MessageBox.Show(str) Is it what you were looking for ...Show All