bluebx32's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Calling a c++ dll function in a C# thread

  I have writen a c++ DLL project which does some OpenGl stuff. After that I've created a C# project in which i want to use functions from the DLL. - the 2 exports are: RenderScene(); - which works perfectly when i call it from C# RenderWindow() { while (1) { RenderScene(); } } - also this works fine when i call it except it blocks the C# interface. So I've decide to call it from a thread: Thread myThread = new Thread (RenderWindow); myThread.Start(); Unfortunely this doesn't have the effect i've expected - The OpenGl pixels are totally scrambled... Does anyone have any Idea why this happens It's not ok to call the dll function (written in unmanaged C++ code) from a C# thread ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. "Indie" Game Development on Xbox 360 and PC

  (This is my first (technically second, I commented on something else) post on these forums) Alright, as a high schooler looking to get into game development after college (or possibly even nixing the college and going straight in) I was wondering if Microsoft was planning on doing anything at all with the XNA Framework that would support low budget game development. How available will tutorials and books about the code be available How much money will the tools and such cost How easy is this code going to be to learn Will it be easy for people to test on PC and a (normal) Xbox 360 with this code I've questioned Nintendo (through their website) about whether or not they'd be supporting "Indie" development, and I was given an aff ...Show All

• Visual C# Regex, remove file extensions PLZ HELP !

  Hi ! Does anybody know how do I can remove all extensions of file with regex rules for example file: sdfkghsjhg3248-sdf_034--d3.org.filt.dat should be: sdfkghsjhg3248-sdf_034--d3 Right now I'm using quick fix: ^((\w*-*)+) But it is unlikely going to work with all possible filenames. PLZ HELP ! Hey there, I have looked into your problem and there is actually no way to really get just hte file name without the extension. All you can do is either remove everything and including the last dot in the filename or just take the eveything before the first dot in the filename ( which would be [\w-]+) Reason being is that filenames alone may contain dots, which is possible i can call my file my ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel 2007, XlPattern.xlPatternLinearGradient question

  Hi, I'm trying to color some cells of an excel sheet using managed code. More specific I want to apply a custom style to a certain cell. This style has the pattern property of the interior set to Excel.Pattern.xlPatternLinearGradient (which is new for Excel 2007) The problem that I have is that I cannot set the gradient color at all. If I do not specify any coloringI will get a gradient from white to light blue (default values). If I set the color property of the interior to red, it will reset the gradient and I will get a red cell. How can I have a gradient from white to red The same issue I have when using XLPattern.xlPatternRectangularGradient. Observation: I'm developing an addin for Excel 2007 using C# and VSTO 2005 SE, I' ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing SSRS 2005 in web server and cluster environment.

  Hi, I am installing SSRS 2005 with the following scenario: - Report Server and Report Manager will be installed on web server - The repository databases (ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB) will be hosted in SQL2005 cluster server. Both servers are running Win2003 SP1, SQL/SSRS 2005 SP1 When I try to browse the ReportServer virtual directory from IIS on the web server, the system keep asking username and password. After 3 times trials and it failed eventhough the username and password is correct. The error message is: HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. Internet Information Services (IIS) I've been searching on the web and found couple of articles talking about this issue. ...Show All

• Commerce Server Porting an SQL query from Commerce Starter Kit to CS2007

  I am trying to translate a SQL query (pasted below). written for Commerce Starter Kit into its equivalent for CS2007. Basically, this query is returning daily sales aggregate. Could some help me to translate this query I am quite new to CS2007. Also, will it be the same query for the CSharpSite and for StarterSite Thanks in advance, Joannes Lokad.com , sales forecasting provider select CSK_Store_Product.productID as [ProductId], CSK_Store_Product.sku as [Sku], CSK_Store_Product.productName as [ProductName], DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, CSK_Store_Order.orderDate), 0) as [OrderDate], Sum(CSK_Store_OrderItem.quantity) as [Quantity], row_number() over (order by CSK_Store_Product.sku) as [RowNumber] from CSK_Store_Product inner j ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Versioning Websites (Shared Solution Files?)

  What is the solution that eveyone is doing to allow a developer to fix bugs on a web site v1.1 for example while then needing to switch back and forth to v1.2 which would be a branch from 1.1 containing new features ect Ideally, what we want is to open a solution file and or switch workspaces and have TFS provide the latest version of all files related to that solution file and or workspace. For example.... Solution 1.0 websiteA 1.0 websiteB 1.0 DALProject 1.0 Solution 1.1 websiteA 1.1 websiteB 1.0 DALProject 1.1 NOTE: Workspaces cant have the same local directory (IIS Virtuals in this case) in two different workspaces point to unique directories in TFS source control I think the second opti ...Show All

• Visual C++ MFC - How to split column header in list control in VC++?

  Is there any way to have 2 cloumn headers(or is it possible to split the column header into 2) for each column in a MFC list control Please direct MFC gui questions to one of the MFC newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups . This forum's scope is the C++ langauge and standard extensions, as implemented by VC++ 2005. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to Add Solution to Vss : It do not show the Existing Visual source Safe database

  Hi , I am facing an acute problem when trying to add solution to vss. When I right click the solution and select add solution to source safe it shows the a dialog box with no database in it. When I try to add a new database it asks me for two things 1. Database path. 2. IP Address of the database I am not sure what ip address to provide. and why its not showin me list of only the databases on my hard disk. I tried out creating new databases but it didn't helped me. You probably have the VSS Internet plugin enabled. Go to Tools -> Options -> Source Control and change it to the regular "Microsoft Visual SourceSafe" plugin. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Scrolling Panel with graphics

  Ok, I have a very simple form that only has a panel in it. In the panel I create graphics. I have set the Autoscroll option to true for the panel, but if I draw past the bottom of the panel it doesn't create the scrollbars to scroll down. Do I have to create my own scrollbar and scroll event You also need to pay attention to AutoScrollPosition when you paint your graphics. Check this thread for code. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Parameterisation of text fields as in Mercury QTP

  The application I automated, contained pop up questionnaire screens that had to be filled. The date entered in these fields may be different for different runs of the script. Eg: the data entered may be a product name as in Microsoft office, Visual studio etc Another field could be a version number of the entered product. I need a mechanism where by the Automation tool will pick up this information from a spreadsheet. Currently it doesn’t. The data from the input form fields gets encrypted or so into a string, as seen in the response body of the HTTP request. For each run I wish the application to select a different product and a different version. I have seen this facility is there in Mercury ...Show All

• SQL Server Landscape/Portrait Problem on Linked Report

  We have a a base report that when executed, Reporting Serivces 2000 and 2005 see it's print orientation as landscape which is correct.  However, when I create a linked report that points to the base report, it thinks the orientation is portrait.   Does anyone know how to get the linked report to be recognized as a landscape report   ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Any "Team BritBot" winners?

  The Team BritBot competition ended 2 weeks ago, and according to the rules, the winners should be notified by e-mail: "18. Prize winners will be notified by e-mail by 15th September, 2006." I didn't participate (I'm not from the UK unfortunatly) so I don't know if the e-mails were indeed send out. Any participants here, or maybe even winners I am pleased to announce that we (Inside C) were contacted by Thin Martian, the agency who ran the site britbot.co.uk on behalf of Microsoft UK, who told us that InsideMessenger (chat@insidemessenger.com) won the Britbot competition. Thanks for all the support / kind comments! Riaan @ Inside C Creators of InsideMessenger ...Show All

• SQL Server AS400 member

  I need to query data through SSIS from what I was told is an AS400 DB2 member table. I am assuming this is a sub-table of the main table. I was going to write a correlated sub-query in SQL to get this data, however our AS400 contracted programmer says that there is an easier way and she pointed me to the main table's member. I do not know how to go about accessing this. Has anybody had experience with this The AS400 programmer is familiar with SQL syntax, however she does not know how to have SQL grab the data from a member table. If all else fails, I will just construct my correlated sub-query. Thanks for the information. These types doesnot work. I have a situation. Its like we to m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO ServerDocument object to parse text or convert to a Document Object?

  I am attempting to allow clients to upload docs to a webserver where I will then bust up the documents into paragraphs and load them into sqlserver. This is easily done using the document (interop) object but it starts a winword.exe instance, which is an unacceptable resource drain on the webserver. Could anyone point me in the right direction toward a c# solution that would allow the creation of a serverdocument object which I could then be used to parse and canabalize a word doc Sincere thanks. The VSTO ServerDocument documentation is here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.tools.applications.runtime.serverdocument(VS.80).aspx and here: http://msdn2.microsoft. ...Show All