rako77's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Rant

  I like Workflow foundation, but after three months of playing with the betas and CTPs on and off, I am not sure it's really easy enough to use in its current form. It started to go wrong when I tried using WF with ASP.NET as that's how our application runs. Although there are lots of examples out there I had a lot of trouble getting WF to talk to other applications - partly because of all the plumbing that's required just to do fairly simple stuff. Want to tell WF something Well first create an interface, then a class to implement that interface, then create a dataexchanger and add that class. Don't forget to make it static and global so it's always there during your app's lifetime. It all adds lots of code which does very little fun ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Controlling Messenger from other program

  Hi, I'm trying to figure out the proper way to control Windows Messenger from a java program. I think about starting conversations, find out whether a user is online and so on... 1) Is it right that this is usually done through COM 2) Is the Messenger Object the right point to start at 3) Are there any java libraries that already do this job The only libraries I found directly communicate with the Server. This is not what I wan't to do. I think that it's more comfortable for the users to use the installed messenger. Sorry if this question is stupid, but it's a bit hard to find the information I look for. Your marketing department was just too busy finding new names for the same things the last few years ... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DVD Media Access on 360

  If I burn a DVD that contains regular files, will my app be able to read the files from the media when running on the 360 I'm sure I'll be able to work around the restrictions. I'm not talking about MMORPG level data. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Direct3D Flickering Issue

  Hi there, I am having some problems with my screen flickering when I redraw my scene. Below is my code ... private void tabPage16_Paint( object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { //clear the direct3d device this .mDevice.Clear( ClearFlags .Target, Color .DimGray, 1.0f, 0); //send the scene info this .mDevice.BeginScene(); this .mDevice.VertexFormat = CustomVertex . PositionColored .Format; this .mDevice.DrawUserPrimitives( PrimitiveType .TriangleList, this.mVerts.Length / 3, this.mVerts); this .mDevice.EndScene(); //paint the scene info this .mDevice.Present(); } private void tabPage16_MouseMove( object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dispose objects?

  Hello, In my WPF application, I'm creating objects such as image, mediaelement and other things and than have to get rid from them after a while. I want to be sure that I don't cause any memory leak but I didn't see any "Dispose" method in objects like in Windows Forms. Can somebody point me tips about this Regards, Ozden Most WPF objects doesn't implement the dispose pattern except DrawingContext, TextLine, TextLineBreak and among few others. I guess the reason why those objects doesn't implement dispose pattern is because that those objects will automatically get disposed at a lower layer aka MIL layer, if you don't need the Images or MediaElements, just simply detach them from the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions [OTP] VB6 and ms SQL 2005 DATETIME

  Morning, Could'nt find a post / site that has addressed this issue and I would be very surprised if I'm the first to find this. I am currently having an issue passing a parameter via a stored procedure in vb6 to SQL 2005 that is requiring a datetime format. VB6 supports these separatly i.e. DATE, TIME were as VB.Net etc. support this as DATETIME. Is there any way I can get the date into the SQL 2005 database, not fused about the time part as this would help being stored as 00:00:00. What I've tried so far is: strDate = Format(strDate, "yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00") but when passing through it details parameter not supported: .Parameters.Append .CreateParameter("dteDate", adDate, adParamInput, , dteDat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Remote Debug VS2005 Debug Symbols Not loaded

  I am receiving the following message while attempting to remote debug an application: "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document." I have successfully installed the remote debugging components on the server. I am able to attach to the remote process fine. My program is just waiting for a request in order to start executing, but it will not be able to do such since the debug symbols are not loaded on the remote server. On my dev machine, I've located the debug symbols for my application in the C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\.... folder, but this still does not fix the problem. Suggestions, please. Am I pulling the right debug symbol ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can't install Vista CTP 2

  I can't seem to even get Vista CTP 2 installed. The compatibility report says that i must contact the device manufacturer for updated driver software for: "SCSI and RAID controllers: Intel(R) 82801ER SATA RAID Controller" I've download the lasted driver from Intel and have installed it, but Vista still does install. By the way I've not loaded any version of Vista before. Any help reguarding this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Brian By the way here are some the specs on the computer: Dell Dimension XPS Gen 2 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz 1 GB RAM Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 ...Show All

• Visual J# vjc throwing an exception

  I do not have this problem when compiling from VS 2005. This started after I uninstalled the J# redist and then reinstalled it using the MSBuild created bootstrapper program (testing it). When I build using nant which calls devenv to build the solution I get the popup asking me what program I want to use to debug vjc because it hit a problem. Even weirder, the compile continues - it does not return an error. But the rest of the projects are not compiled. What is going on and how do I fix it thanks - dave Ok, now I tried running from nant and got the popup once asking if I wanted to debug the exception in vjc - I said no. It then said the build was successful (which matches VS 2005 in that the exception in the compile d ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing XML files via network shares

  Hi; Note: While our specific use is ASP.NET, this is a general "accessing XML" question. Our ASP.NET application allows a user to give it an XML filename and the app then opens that file as a datasource to generate a report. The issue we face is we do not want the file opened using the credentials of the user that our ASP.NET app is running under for two reasons: The ASP.NET user may not have access to \\hr\payroll\salaries.xml but the person requesting the report does. The ASP.NET does have access to Web.Config but the person requesting the report does not. Our app supports both forms and WindowsIdentity as an authtication/authorization method. So we do not have the client identity to use if they are using ...Show All

• Smart Device Development resizing message box

  Is there a way to resize a message box My text string kinda long and the message box just wraps it automatically. It would be nice to make my text display in one line. Any suggestion Thank you but CF treat every screen as full screen no matter how we change the form. is that true So is there a way to show the form in a smaller size ...Show All

• Community Chat Help with Windoes Screen Saver

  I was wishing that when I have certain applications or programs running is there a way to make the screen saver not come up It would be helpfull. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# Declaring a datatype with suffix "?" ?

  Hi, I have seen code samples like this: public long WorkPhoneNumber; What does the suffix " " do Thanks for any help. That is a nullable type, a new feature in C# .Net 2. public long WorkPhoneNumber = 0; WorkPhoneNumber = null; This makes working with databases simpler, where null is a valid value for a field. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Search for values of data in .ini file

  hi, i would like to know the steps in searching for the values of data in a .ini file... example, i have these data in the .ini file: DCDInterval=10 UCDInterval=15 T1=5 T2= 10   and i wish to know the values of DCDInterval, UCDInterval, T1 and T2... on the click of a button...the values of the respective data would appear in it's respective textboxes. how do i achieve this ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows Update and the .NET FW 3.0

  Hi All, Does anyone know if and when the .NET FW 3.0 will be pushed out to Win XP users via windows update I seem to recall that's what was done when .NET FW 2.0 was released but I haven't seen the FW 3.0 available via windows update yet. Anybody know whats up with that Thanks in advance, Andy Hi, I meant, will it ever automatically be pushed out via the windows updates Kind of like security patches and so forth--those are automatically pushed out to the end-users if they've set their automatic updates to lookup and/or automatically download and/or install updates. I'm just curious. -Andy ...Show All