Mathew1972's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to turn off anti aliasing for small text?

  Anti aliasing small text tends to make the letters look blurry and indistinct. I cannot find a way to disable the anti-aliasing of text in WPF and as a result label or button text looks really bad. Ideally I'd like to disable anti aliasing globally for font sizes below a certain size. How can I accomplish this -Ryan rfuller987@hotmail.com I personnally love ClearType. But not the one that WPF uses... On my PC, it seems that WPF does its own ClearType rendering because text rendered by WPF is *not* the same as text rendered by Windows XP with ClearType. Here's a screen shot showing what I mean: http://pages.videotron.com/pbourque/ClearTypeXPvsWPF.png To my eyes, Windows XP's ClearType text is smoo ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Non Server Install (look)

  I cannot connect to the server while installing. So is it possible to download a version that doesn't need to connect to the server. I know it will take longer and be a bigger file size but it will be worth it. Or if its possible to get the server files I dont know. Thanks The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, please check the following resources... Messenger Technical Support is available on the Messenger newsgroup: http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ dg=microsoft.public.msn.messenger&cat=en-us ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Management Studio in the Trial Software

  Just downloaded the Trail to test replication between two servers and noticed that it does not contain the Server Management Studio. So I downloaded the one for Express and installed it. But it does not allow me to Publish and test replication between servers. Maybe I'm missing somthing. ...Show All

• .NET Development Help request on How to draw a vertical upward string?

  Assume that I have drawn two coordinate axes on the screen (X and Y). When I want to put axis captions on the screen it's OK with X-axis such that Graphics^ gObj = this->CreateGraphics(); String^ xAxis ="X-Axis"; // Make necessary arrangements here such as measure string and find the optimal screen position, etc. then draw the string gObj->DrawString(// put necessary parameters here); Then the result is "X-Axis". It is just fine. How can I do it for the y-axis When I choose text alignment vertical, the string containing "Y-Axis" is drawn like this : Y - A x i s (LOL!). How can I put a vertical upward string "Y-Axis" parallel with the vertical y-axis on the screen Rega ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office The value of the 'PublicKey' attribute in 'Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Redistributable' does not match

  I'm setting up vsto run time prerequisite per http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerOverview.asp and I got the above warning message. The install could not proceed. What is the correct publickey for vsto run time Thanks for your response. Thinh Hi Thinh, When we published the SE version of the VSTO runtime, the redist was signed with a new certificate. Hence the Public Key changed. We are currently updating the above article for VSTO 2005 SE and it will be available mid-February. In the meantime you have two choices to resolve the Public Key question. Thanks and regards, Darryn Lavery [MSFT] ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Games Article in XBOX Magazine.

  Congrats to the teams who built iFactor, Eternity's Child, Racing Game, Wildboarders, and Last Alarm : The A.R.G.U.S Complex. All these games have write-ups with screenshots in the lates copy of "Official XBOX Magazine". (Just got  it in the mail yesterday) Also in the magazine, details on the next DBP contest. They list the prizes and they are very nice I must say!   Thanks for posting this Jeff. Ironically, even I don't get OXM, so I appreciate the teaser! (And yeah, the DBP prizes ROCK ) ...Show All

• Visual C# How Do I Show User Accounts on the Computer in a Combo Box?

  I need help detecting User Accounts on the Computer that the program is being run on and showing them in a ComboBox. Anybody have any ideas Haha that is true, I did want all of the accounts didn't I. :) Yes, I do just want the user accounts created as a normal user. I don't know how to not show them either, I was hoping you did. ...Show All

• Visual Basic .doc to .pdf conversion in .net

  i need to convert .doc format to .pdf format through my .net application,is ther any tool or any function in .net for the conversion. could any one of u experts guide me in this thanks and regards basith A simple web search will reveal that there are many 3rd party components that may help you without the need to have word installed http://www.google.com/search hl=en&q=vb.net+%2B+doc+%2B+pdf+%2B+component Search for .NET or COM components to do the conversion and see which one provides you with the canned functionality you require. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express Edition silently at command prompt

  I want to install the SQL Server Express Edition silently at command prompt (but want the dialog boxes, I mean with /qb option), locally, with no network options. I want to install it with following options i) In the Feature Selection, I need a) Data file (Database Services) b) Shared tools (Database Services) c) Connectivity Components (Client Components) d) Management Studio Express (Client Components) ii) Instance name as “Default Instance” iii) Service Account as “Use Built-in service account a Local System” iv) Authentication Mode as “Mix mode” with sa password as ‘sysadm’ v) Collate Settings as “Latin1_General_CS_AI How c ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Components Advantage

  Is there any real advantage to creating a class as a component Say I have a camera class - Is there any reason to base it off of Component If you base it from Component, then you can drag and drop it if you're using the visual designer. Whoop de do. The component model included with Xna is not a substitute for an actual scene graph, and the developers don't intend it as such. You have to write your own scene graph classes if you want modular and reusable graphics components and if you do that then it makes perfect sense for your camera class to be descended from your scene graph base node. ...Show All

• Windows Forms where can I find out about the combo autocomplete

  not much detail on how to use. I want my custom datasource to be the same as what filled the combo box If using data table is an option for you, you can try the following: DataTable table = DataHelper.RetrieveData(); // Fill the table comboBox1.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode .SuggestAppend; // Set autocomplete options comboBox1.AutoCompleteSource = AutoCompleteSource .ListItems; comboBox1.DisplayMember = displayColumnName; // Set display/value members comboBox1.ValueMember = valueColumnName; comboBox1.DataSource = table; // Set the data source Andrej ...Show All

• Windows Forms Not getting mail alerts using Windows service

  Hi, I am Ravindra,currently learning .net. I wrote a windows service.the main function of this to send email alerts. But even the windows service is started, I am not getting any email alerts. So please help me. The code is................. using System; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Diagnostics; using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Web.Mail; namespace mailalerts { public class mailalerts : System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase { /// <summary> /// Required designer variable. /// </summary> private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null; public mailalerts() { // This call is required by the Windows.Fo ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute multiple statements at once...

  I am not even sure if this is possible but I want to be able to excute several statements (or SPs) at once from inside a SPs (or any other method). What I am doing is a I am taking data from a single column, multiple rows and making it into one row (i.e. data1 + data2 + data3....) But I am doing this to a total of 2.1 million individual rows and the result will be about 204k rows.... what I have written is basically a nested loop and it works fine but very slow... slow as in it has been running for 24 hours now and it is about 60% done... I need this to finish in under 36 hours preferably... If I could handle more than one set of data at once (there will be no duplicates) I could speed up the process by how ever many I feel like work ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Compact Edition RC1 Released

  Dear Community, The SQL Server Compact Edition RC1 has been released and is now available at download center http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=85E0C3CE-3FA1-453A-8CE9-AF6CA20946C3&displaylang=en Please note that the RC1 page link is the same as CTP page link, we have updated it for RC1. This doesn’t have ClickOnce files (Zip file) as the same is available with Tools for VS 2005 sp1 beta at download center at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=61289b5d-af86-45dd-8962-e7dcc5221796&displaylang=en We have blogged about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlservereverywhere/ . Please check out the RC1 bits. Thanks Sachin, Program Manager, SQL Se ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help: error C2065: 'XConn' : undeclared identifier

  This seems elementary, but still has me stumped. This happens in VC++ 2005 Express. XConn is a public managed object in the main form (public ref class Form1) of a Windows CLR application. I'm attempting to access it in a method of another managed class. I always get that error message. The class browser appears to show it as a "variable" of Form1, but specifying the scope of XConn produces the same error message for Form1. Form 1 is instantiated in the main cpp file as: Application::Run(Form1()); I would assume that after instantiation, the object XConn is accessable. But there seems to be no way of telling the compiler to look for this somewhere. I thought public members - managed or not - were supposed to be acessible to all parts of a ...Show All