Bill Calkins's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Native C++ Or C++.Net2005!!!???

  Common Guys, I Did Many Test, And Always The Rersult Tell Me That Native C++ More Faster Than C++.Net.How Is This Plz Tell Me, Does This Is True Thats right, but there are several things that you must remember when using managed code. It is much safer than native code. You have to pay a price for this safty and ease. Some people find that the speed loss is acceptable for the safe coding. The only way you can see the difference and if the speed loss is acceptable for you is to create a sample app and test it. ...Show All

• Visual C# decompress entire directory

  Is there a way, using DeflateStream or GZipStream, to decompress an entire folder (hopefully all at once) Do I need to use a different zipping class that doesn't come with .Net 2.0 Hi, Alex Decompress Zip files: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/decompresswinshellapics.asp Zip files within a folder: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1136953&SiteID=1 File decompress: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1069499&SiteID=1 Hope you can find the answer. Thank you ...Show All

• .NET Development Resources & ImageLists

  I have a project in which I use many icons/images. For some of the UI elements, you bind design time on an ImageList. Then per item, you assign an ImageList key or item number. For example: treeview1 is has imageList1. Node1 then has ImageKey "NiceIcon". So far so good. To manage all my content (Icons and literals and Images), I make use of the outstanding Resource Manager. This is where the problem occurs: I cannot link embedded resource items in an ImageList! When I add an Image design time i VS2005 in an ImageList, I have to choose an image from disk. Gone Resource Manager advantage. No single place to manage mij content any more. So I thought it might be a solution to replcae the code in the designer class, and put in these lines ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How can MPC play avi video with bad indexes?

  Hi I'm using Visual studio 6.0 and directx 8.1 SDK, and I got a problem in my directshow application. I need to play avi that could have bad indexes. If I play them using MPC I got not problems, if i try using IGraphBuilder:RenderFile(), it can not build the graph. Using Graph Edit, I noticed MPC uses different filters when it plays video with bad indexes, but that filters are not available in DirectShow, and using IGraphBuilder:RenderFile() the GraphBuilder can't find them. Does someone know something about the filter used by MPC Does it use internal filter Is it possible using them Can you play avi with bad indexes using directshow If yes, what codec are you using Is available source code for repairing an avi with bad indexes Pl ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Differnce Between Windows Ce 5.0,windows mobile 5.0 Pocket Pc and windows mobile 5.0 Pocket Pc

  Could Any Body Give me the Basic differnce Between Windows Ce 5.0,windows mobile 5.0 Pocket Pc and windows mobile 5.0 Pocket Pc types of application Difference is mostly in UI designers, e.g. SmartPhone has no buttons and Windows CE has menu on top instead of menu on the bottom in Windows Mobile. Also please see this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=459195&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Multi-Monitor... no hardware drawing support

  Hi, as a split off from this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=679032&SiteID=1 I'm working in the financial industry and virtually every deployed client machine uses a multi monitor setup. However, I noticed that as soon as I move a WPF application from the "base" screen to another screen it loses all hardware accalerated drawing support and everything is way laggy. Is this a known issue that is going to be addressed or what's going on here This even happens with the Expression Designer. Right now this makes WPF totally useless for multi monitor setups. Thanks, Tom ok, now this is strange... when I move the whole Expression Desinger App to the side screen, the perf ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Analyzer

  I am new to SQL and I need t run a Query on how the company database is performing. I need to determine if any indexes, partitions are needed to help improve performance. I have never done this before. Can someone help me with the proper steps to accomplish this I am using SQL Enterprise 2000 to access the databases. Thanks in advance, Carl Johnman AH, ok this request makes more sense to me. If you are executing a query or a stroed procedure use the Estimated execution plan functionality for investigating any bottlenecks. More on SQL Server performance is available at www.sql-server-performance.com HTH; Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Images Embedded in XML Comments

  Hi, I was wondering if there's a simple way to embed an image in XML comments in, say, base 64 format (rather than linking out to a separate image file). It's something I'd find useful when writing XML comments (we currently link out to separate files using our own custom technique in nDoc). For example, something like this: /// <summary> /// Gets or sets whether the tree shows tri-state CheckBoxes. /// </summary> /// <remarks> /// A tri-state CheckBox in the tree has three states. Under the default /// Windows XP theme a ticked CheckBox appears as follows. /// <image> /// iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA0AAAANCAYAAABy6+R8AAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAA /// AARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAgY0hSTQAAeiYAAICEAAD6AAAAgOgAAHUwAADqYAAA // ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions differences between VB.NEt 2003 and VB Express 2005

  what differences would I notice I will be teaching Visual Basic (using the "Code Rules" software), and was wondering for a beginning high school programming course, would we notice any differences. If so, where can I find what the differences are There have been significant improvements, many of which can be found here . Other changes include the datasources window (which simplifies access to databases and allows you to bind controls to objects) and a new resource and settings designer. As mentioned before, the .NET framework has also been improved, and now includes (among other things) layout controls (table layout, flow layout), a new cool grid control (the datagridview), toolstrip controls among many other things. ...Show All

• Visual C++ error C3861: 'wsprintf': identifier not found

  New to c++ using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Created a new "CLR/windows form application". added a "wsprintf" line and got " error C3861: 'wsprintf': identifier not found" will appreciate any help. following the test1.cpp source // test1.cpp : main project file. #include "stdafx.h" #include "Form1.h" using namespace test1; [STAThreadAttribute] int main( array <System::String ^> ^args) { char Fname [50]; int i = 1; wsprintf (Fname, "Abc_%2d.txt" ,i); // Enabling Windows XP visual effects before any controls are created Application::EnableVisualStyles(); Application::SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefaul ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can't get Csv format for clipboad to work with unicode

  I have been struggling with writting a comma seperated string to the clipboard with the intention of pasting the string into excel. The code below works fine for all three character sets (ANSI, MBCS, and UNICODE) when using appropriate standard formats CF_TEXT or CF_UNICODETEXT. When I add the Csv format everything works ok for ANSI and MBCS but does not distribute the values seperated by the commas in the text strings into individual cells in UNICODE. In fact, when I paste special and select Csv, all I get with UNICODE is the first value in the first cell as opposed to 1 in first cell, 2 in second cell, 3 in third cell, and 4 in forth cell. I get the Csv in seperate cell with my project set to ANSI or MBCS. What am I doing wrong I use ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Component properties

  So I've created a game component. I've setup the properties like MitchW did in his nice little video tutorial, and finally I've successfully been able to drag the component from my toolbox to the Visual Designer. The next logical step would be to link the graphics object into the component so that my component has access to the GraphicsDevice which I'll get from the GraphicsComponent that XNA gives you to start out with. The problem I'm running into is that the property that I'd like to edit isn't showing up in my list of editable properties for the compnent I've written. I've saved, compiled, nothing will work at this point. Please help me! I've been having similar problems... after i created a game compo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office invalid bookmark after requery

  hi experts, I try understanding and solving a bookmark error using access 2003 SP2 connected to oracle database via odbc and oci. The form interface is the following : Left-handed is a sort-, filter- and searcheable treeview-control which is filled using a recordset "rs_show". rs_show will get data after reading an complex oracle-view into recordset "rs_tv_base", optionally filtering and sorting by setting sort and filter-parameters and then opening with rs_tv_base.openrecordset .. .. set rs_show = rs_tv_base.openrecordset Right-handed is a detail-area composed by a tab-control which shows different aspects of data - i.e. connected business-partners, accounts of business-partners, account-positions etc. Each ...Show All

• SQL Server Writing AMO code for parallel processing

  Hi, I want to write some AMO code which will process many partitions of a cube in parallel. The process API doesn't have any required parameter to specify the parallel ( or batch ) processing mode. Can you please let me know any pointers for the same Do I need to use the XMLA for parallel cube processing regards, dattatray. If you prefer to use AMO don't want write the XMLA by hand, you can get AMO to generate the XMLA for you using the CaptureXML property and ExecuteCaptureLog method on the AMO server object. I have a sample of using the objects on my blog at http://geekswithblogs.net/darrengosbell/archive/2006/06/21/GenerateXmlaByName.aspx . This example is written in PowerShell, bu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Split string function

  Hi, I just started VC++E not long ago. Already used to VB split function to split a string. Was wondering how do i split a string like below into an array strLine = "abc,123,def,456"; strArray[0] = "abc"; ... Thanks in advance! Darren Voon wrote: Hi, thanks a lot for your answer. But I was wondering if we can make the code shorter by utilizing the String::Split function Firstly, i have no idea which string class that refers to (String::Split) i dont use any managed code, or MFC code as they are non-portable. Secondly, moving from visual basic to C++ is a large but not insurmountable step, C++ brings you closer to the machine, and that implies that normally you have to write more co ...Show All