Andreas_'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Project Properties|Code Analysis tab missing

  I got a new laptop last week and am in the process of migrating everything from my old laptop. I installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers - same version as I had on my old laptop. However, I find that I'm missing the "Code Analysis" tab under Project|Properties. (There were a few other minor menu variances - such as 'Batch Build' missing from the Build menu option.) All I get are Application, Build, Build Events, Debug, Resources, Settings, Reference Paths, and Signing. I can actually run the Code Analysis by right-clicking on the project and selecting 'Run Code Analysis' - I just can't access the GUI to customize the rules. :-( Only difference I can think of is the source of the installation. Last ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. New Tutorial - Off Screen Color Keyed Map

  I have uploaded my latest XNA/GSE tutorial, this time in response to a forum post asking how to determine what color pixel is under the mouse cursor. The intent was to determine what country the player's mouse was over on a strategy-type game map. This tutorial explains how to use an off-screen color-coded map to make this process simple. The same technique can be used if you overlay a game interface onto your 2D/3D game by making a color-coded image of the interface to determine what controls the user is interacting with. Check out the Full Tutorial for details. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PPC bluetooth communication via a serial port

  I have heard that you can use bluetooth to communicate from a PPC to a PC by creating a virtual serial port on the pc, but is it possible to do this when I am just trying to have 2 PPCs communicate with each other If so, could I use the SerialPort class, and how would I do this Which ports would I use The reason I want to do this is my devices use a broadcom stack instead of the microsoft one, so I cannot use 32feet.NET. Depending on your iPAQ model you may need to use a data rate slower than 115,200 as the Bluetooth serial implementation on some iPAQ models (certainly the H2200 model) won't go that high. 57,600 bps provides reliable service for our applications. In terms of your proposed application it ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Migrating to Beta 2.0

  Hai I have hosted the workflow designer in a windows forms application....i am trying to pass a value from my windows application to the workflow.....in Beta1.2 i did this using ParameterDeclaration Class..while migrating to Beta 2.0 i declared a public property in my workflow and hosted it in my application... then when i compiled the Xoml file that was generated, it throwed an error stating that root activity has to be a composite activity ..... need help regarding this as soon as possible Regards AshokKumar thanks Tom I tried compiling both ways as you said but still iam getting the same error. need help as soon as possible regards Ashok Kumar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Using VSTO Beta 2 - Excel template issues

  I am trying to use VSTO (from within Visual Studio 2005 Professional) for the first time and want to create an excel add-in. When I create the project (c# or VB) and choose excel template I don't get any excel specific documents added in. For example, there is no ThisWorkbook.cs nor is there a dialog box that allows me to choose "Create a new document" on project creation. I clearly am doing something wrong - any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Kevin Correct, VSTO 2005 SE is an add-on to VS (or VSTO, or VSTS) and as such it only has new project types. It doesn't include anything that shipped as part of VSTO 2005 (e.g. document-level projects). Note that the Second Edition is ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista with MFC app & VMR9 windowless I can't see video when playing

  I build the graph (SetNotifyWindow on my app childview), no errors there, and the when I play the graph, I gewt only the sound but not the video. Please help One place you might start is taking a look at your graph to make sure it built the way you intended: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/directshow/htm/loadingagraphfromanexternalprocess.asp frame=true ...Show All

• Community Chat New revolution - Classic ASP/VB6 moving onto ASPX and VB.net, what u think ???????

  Supp Coder , Just wanna know, now that there are new frameworks and managed codes in .NET while we most are used to coding da classic stuff -------------------------------------------------- Who is going to procede wit da new code style -------------------------------------------------- and who feels like sticking to there old coding style -------------------------------------------------- for example who wants to stick to C+ or who to move on to C# --------------------------------------------------- and what could be da conciquences of sticking to unmanaged coding or is it just a microsoft monopoly act (im a microsoft oriented coders, just so u know) ---------------------------------------------- ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Webservice interaction with Borland SOAP (UTF-32 widestring conversion-problem)

  hello i have written a .net-webservice in c#. the client who accesses my service has a borland-webservice, written in delphi. all text-contents delivered in string-arrays from the borland-ws are utf-32 encoded (widestring's). when i retrieve the data (delivered in string-arrays) from the request, the encoding is wrong: all special characters (e.g. umlaute (u, e, ...)) are replaced with question-marks. does anybody know, how i can convert these utf-32 widestrings to a utf-8 character-format without loosing any information thanks in advance schmid ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The Content Pipeline and my Scene Graph

  I implemented a scene graph. Items in the graph are of type Entity. StaticVisual, a subclass of Entity, takes a Model as a constructor parameter. Using the content pipeline and contentManager.Load<Model>("assetName") things seem to be working smoothly. Now, I want to extend the content pipeline to have complete scenes be content. I'm not sure how to do this without writing a ton of redundant and error prone code... My idea is to write a Model Processor and look at the node's names in order to decide which types of Entities to instantiate. I'd modify my StaticVisual class to take a ModelMesh (or a ModelMeshPart ) as a parameter and in theory I could construct a whole scene graph. I'd like to write single generic pai ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Upgrading Workgroup to "Real"

  Apologies if this has been asked before, but I looked and didn't find a relevant post. We installed TFS Workgroup edition to mess with it. At this moment we're on the verge of finally "going live" and adding real projects. We have four users now, soon to be five. Eventually though we know we'll blow the 5-user limit. Turns out our Partner level (Gold with ISV competancy, etc, etc) gets us a "real" server license. We got a disk but it was bad so we're awaiting a replacement. So I have a couple of specific questions to put my mind at ease: 1) Are we supposed to just install the "Real" version over top of Workgroup We don't need to blow away everything and start from scratch I hope. 2) In the short term, if we in ...Show All

• .NET Development Invoke exe from web.

  Hi, I want to invoke the EXE from my Web application.Is it possible.How.Please help me. Thanks, justin(Navyajeevan) Hi, Thanks for your reply.I have one web page with button.When i click the button,Invoke the exe from the client machine.Is it possible then How ...Show All

• Visual C# current stacktrace - programmatically?

  how do i get current stacktrace programmatically i've tried taking a StackTrace from exception but it was not full stack but a relative stacktrace of one method :( public static string getStackTrace() { try { throw new Exception (); } catch ( Exception e) { return e.StackTrace.ToString(); } } Environment.StackTrace Property Also have in mind that code can be inlined therefore the stacktrace might return some unexpected results. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Pending changes error

  Automatic checkout is enabled for my project. When I make new change to a file, a checkout attempt is made and if the pending changes window is open, I get the following error about 70% of the time: "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." The file will check out, but it will not show up in the pending changes window, if I try to refresh the pending changes window I am greeted by this error again. If pending changes is not open, this error will not occur and if I close Visual Studio and open it again pending changes will load correctly. There is one other developer in the office this is affecting as well, but we can not find a rhyme or reason. Has anyone el ...Show All

• .NET Development TypeInitializationException

  Hi, I have develped a C# application that runs well on windows xp SP2, but when I try to run it on windows xp 64 I get the 'TypeInitializationException' exception, the exception details is: System.TypeInitializationException was unhandled Message="The type initializer for 'StartWindow.ArabicTextMiningForm' threw an exception." Source="StartWindow" TypeName="StartWindow.ArabicTextMiningForm" StackTrace: at StartWindow.ArabicTextMiningForm..ctor() at StartWindow.Program.Main() in C:\GetDataBack_car\CAR\Soft_Associations_Charm_Apriori\StartWindow\Program.cs:line 17 at System.AppDomain.nExecuteAssembly(Assembly assembly, String[] args) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUser ...Show All

• Windows Forms Inherited controls moves

  Hi all, ok, my big big problem is that the two buttons that was inherited from my base form moves to the right everytime I open the form. I’d tried to modify the Initializecomponent method by adding the code to change the location of both but nothing happens. The buttons only show in the correct location the first time but when I reopen the form designer it moves rigth so on and so forth. Can anybody explain me the way to avoid this problem Best regards. Ok, anybody can explain me this mystery. Why the inherited buttons move everytime I load my form I move it ti the right position, save the file, close the file and when I try to reopen it again...YEAHHH the button moves again. But if I close the file wi ...Show All