Tom v E's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista LSP (Layered Service Provider) issue related to UAC and IE7 on Vista

  Currently I am working on a LSP but got an issue I cannot solve, hope some expert know the reason and solution for it. My LSP works well for IE 6/IE 7/Firefox 2 on WinXP/2000, and Firefox 2 on Vista except IE 7 on Vista. After more test with IE 7 on Vista, I found: If launch as Administrator for IE 7 on Vista, my LSP works well for it. If just double click IE 7 to launch it (I know due to UAC it will has low privilege), my LSP will not work for it. One more clue, launch as Administrator will create iexplore.exe process under explorer.exe, while normal launch will create ieuser.exe and iexplore.exe at the same level as explorer.exe when I use Process Explorer to trace. My finding is that it seems my LSP will not be attached t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Texturing problem

  Hello, I'm writing my own content importer for my maps. At the moment, I'm able to load all triangles and draw the map but i have a problem with textures. In my importer i load texture like this (it's just a test) : BasicMaterialContent material = new BasicMaterialContent(); String texturePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(filename) + "\\Textures\\wall.jpg"; if (!System.IO.File.Exists(texturePath)) throw new Exception("Texture not found !"); material.Texture = new ExternalReference<TextureContent>(texturePath); Then I apply my texture to a mesh : builder.SetMaterial(material); When I deploy it on xbox360 or run it on my pc, my mesh have a color similar to my texture but it's just a color! I ca ...Show All

• Smart Device Development display .rtf file

  I am implementing a user agreement form inside my app. How can I display the user agreement file (.rtf) into a textbox for example I ended up using a streamReader for it. I got it working with .dat and .txt file. but not .rtf. I display the stream to my textbox.text. It would be nice to make it work with .rtf so that the formatting is preserved. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) xmlns:src="clr-namespace:DataBindingLab"

  Hi! I'm using:VB.net in Visual Studio 2005 ver 8.0.507... with Orcas Technology Preview - WinFX Dev Tools 1.0 I'm trying to get the DataBindingLab from the Hands-On-Lab to work -- with a caveat -- it does actually compile and execute, but there is what must be a small issue. The "Design" page of {Design, Xaml, Source} from DataBindingLabApp.xaml doesn't display, I get the "Whoops! Visual Studio has encountered an error reading the designer..." The code that fails is the xmlns:src="clr-namespace:DataBindingLab" ==> assembly could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference DataBindingLab is the project name and this is the default code. It's probably helpful to note that every place that xmlns: ...Show All

• Visual Basic .EXE Application on other PC

  After i Build my project in VB.net(2005 expres Edition), can this be Run in other PCs with no VB.net and SQL instaled if not what should i do Check out www.microsoft.com/net You can get v2.0 of the Runtime from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en ...Show All

• Visual C# Active Directory membership with Site Map Security Trimming

  I'm new to .Net 2.0 and I'm not sure what I want is even possible.... Are you able to link the security trimming feature of the Site map for a Tree View to Active Directory so that if a user isn't a member of an Active Directory Group, then it won't show that node. If this is possible I'd really appreciate a simple explaination of the setup I need to implement .. my searches on the web have been unsuccessful to try and understand this. What I have tried so far is having the following in my web.config file: < authentication mode = " Windows " /> < roleManager defaultProvider = " WindowsProvider " enabled = " true " cacheRolesInCookie = " false " > < providers > ...Show All

• Visual C# Debugging

  To All, I have a C# app that is interop a native C++ COM. I turned on debug->enable debuggers->Enable unmanged code debugging. When I stepped into the unmanged code, I can only see the parameter values but no member class vars are visible in locals or watch windows. Do I need to fully qualified the vars. If so, how do I do it Thanks yes. I have the pdb file. However, the COM was written in VC 6.0. If I go back to VS 6.0, I can see 'everything'. But if I go to VS 2005, I can't see 'everything' except the params passed. May be VS 2005 has problems reading VS 6.0 PDB file ...Show All

• SQL Server New CTP(december) of SQL Server 2005 SP2 available

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=d2da6579-d49c-4b25-8f8a-79d14145500d&DisplayLang=en Mosha! Your SP2 MDX discussions on your Blog, finally works with this version. Regards Thomas Ivarsson ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Searching multiple of Excel Files via Visual Basic

  I am writing a program that has to search through a multitude of excel files (42 to be exact). In each of these files I am searching for the same exact string. After finding the string I have to grab 2 more columns of data. This data will then be placed in a seperate workbook. I was wondering what the fastest method of roaming through these 42 files would be and what the code would look like to go through each workbook I know how to open individual workbooks, I just didn't know if there was an easy way to go through all the workbook files without writing a string for each one. The program WILL go through every file each time. Thanks in advance for your help. Private Sub entityButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.E ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Retrive MAC-ID using Visual Basic 2005

  Hi All, I have a Button and a text box in a form.On Button click it should retrive the MAC-ID of the system and should display the value in the text box.How can this be done http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=845110&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Source from internet

  Where can I find a source on the internet where will be wethear forcast for Slovakia and the other world... I want to include it in my program, to show the weather forcast, just temperature, humidity, air pressure, wheter it will rain, or snow, etc. Don't know wheather this kind of source exists... Thank for your advice O.K. forget about what I wrote before... I will make it other way... I want to export some infos from site... Is there a way how to do so ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Woeful XNA GSE Install

  I've uninstalled my XNA GSE Beta 1 and everything but I get that stupid error message whenever the installer gets around to installing the DX Runtime. I never had this error when I installed GSE Beta 1, so why now You'll have to run that from the command line. To open a command line window hit the Windows Key+R and naviage to the directory where the install is located then type that line in the command line window and hit enter. ...Show All

• Architecture What is the most valuable principle in design?

  In looking at SOA, earlier component based design, separation of concerns, etc. It seems to me that architecturally they can all be lumped in to various flavors of abstraction. So, it occurs to me and seems to hold true in my designs that the most valuable principle in software design is abstraction. Does anyone feel that a different principle is more critical Are there different schools of thought (SOA, SOC, Interface based design, etc.) that are contradictory when dealing with abstraction New to the forum, but have been wanting to talk with people that make an effort to further their design knowledge. I am an architecture student in Egypt, and i started my first project about a vacation house, can anyb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't install 90 day trial version VS 2005

  I have downloaded the trial version of Visual Studio 2005 twice. Each time it downloaded as an image file. Trying to open the file fails. There is no response at all. Do I need to download an installer According to the MS website, launching the file should bring up an installation wizard but this doesn't happen. What gives Thanks Brian much appreciated. Further moved it to the VS Studio and installation subforum   the download comes as an ISO Image format - an image of a CD/DVD and you would need to either: burn it to CD using your CD creation software tool extract the contents to your local HDD and run setup mount the image using a CD/DVD image mounting tool   you ma ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamically pick the source and destination tables

  I want to write a SSIS which picks up the source and destination tables at runtime is it possible. As we have a SSIS which is used to pull data from oracle but the source and destination table name changes. A little bit of searching will help you out... I found: http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2005/12/09/2480.aspx ...Show All