Glenn Burnside's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System API function to display 'Choose Source control item'

  Is there an API function somewhere in the TFS Version Control system that will display the standard source control dialogs. For example I am writing a winforms project diff tool and it would be nice to be able to pop up a dialog box to choose the source control folder to compare. G'day, As far as I know you cannot invoke standard dialogs of Visual Studio by using API. It is possible to execute VS command (one exposed in toolbars or menubars) but that means that your control over the dialog behavior is very limited - you just initiate the command sequence. Additionally, object model assemblies contain some controls that you may want to reuse - for example, user groups list controls. But you wi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Public Folder Tasks

  I have written code in vb .net that uses outlook.taskitem. I create my body part using my data which is stored in a string. When using outlook 98 the formatting is fine in the body of the task created in the public folder, but when I upgrade to Oulook 2003, the body of the task also shows the formatting i.e. {\rtf1\ansi etc. What is the best way to overcome this Is there any way to use the clipboard cut & paste method to accomplish what the initial post was asking I too have a RichTextBox that I simply what to get it's contents into the message.body. If in the code I do a message.display I can manually copy and paste the rich text content into the message body, so couldn't the same thing be done thro ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting my application to run on someone elses computer

  I just tried to get my version of my program to run on another computer. The application fails to start up because it fails to find d3dx9_30.dll. The person has on there computer direct X 9c runtime installed. So my question is how do I make my application so it can run on anyones pc who already has direct X 9 installed Will I need an installation program to ensure the person has this file Or can i get by with changing the compile settings. Or can i include d3dx9_30.dll in with the application Using Visual Studio 2005 and direct X 9c I have direct X 9.0c(4.09.0000.0904) installed and the SDK i'm using is the June 2006 edition. I could upgrade both using the Febuary 2007 release of the direct X SDK ...Show All

• SQL Server copy content of a text file into table

  Hi Guys, What approach should I use to copy content of a text file. Example of the text file's content: Date, "20060101" ST_Code, "101" A_Code, P_Code, T_Code, amount, price "0001", "1111", "0101", 550, 230 "0002", "1111", "0102", 345, 122 "2001", 0212", 0930", 410, 90 In the example above, I just want to copy the rows Date, "20060101" and ST_Code, "101" into a table. Regards, Lars Hi Larry, If the text file is not very large, in that scenario you can simply iterate through the file line by line checking for those lines which contain your desired content. Extract ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What do you get with “Creator’s Club” membership?

  Just couious if for the $99 a year what do you get with “Creator’s Club” Mainly does it include XBL Gold Just wanted to know, I am not the richest person in the world and have to convince wife that $99 is worth it. I just want an "I <heart> XNA" bumper sticker and t-shirt. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Keeping an MDI child window on top always

  I am creating a simple painting application. My application has an MDI form with two forms within it. One is frmCanvas, where the user can paint images etc... and the other is frmTools, from where the user can choose the tools to paint with. I want frmTools to always stay above frmCanvas (especially when they overlap). I tried using the 'TopMost' property. It worked when frmTools was not an MDIChild. It is not working when I set the main MDI form as frmTools' parent (i.e. when frmTools is an MDI child window). Is it suppose to work that way or am I missing something here How can I make frmTools stay above frmCanvas when both of them are MDIChild forms Thanks. I wouldn't make frmTools a MDIChild instead i would set ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Handling user input from any device

  Does anybody have any ideas for a decent strategy on handling user input from multiple input devices, such as keyboard, mouse, gamepad, joysticks, etc. I have been going over it in my head for a while and really need to discuss these issues with the likes of yourselves! I wrote a quick class as a test and it seems to work fine, its only for keyboard at the moment and I map the keys in the constructor (obviously this could be done in a config file and read in at game start up), the class names and such are probably not the best named but its a start, something I will probably scrap but just so you know I have at least tried something! public class InputInfo {     Dictionary < Keys , InputKeys > _User ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Question about time format in createTimer

  1) How can I use miliseconds in createTimer function 2) How many miliseconds contain one frame It depends on your "framerate" (set in the playlist). If you are running at 60fps, then 1 frame = 1000/60 = 16.7 ms. If you are running at 24fps, then 1 frame = 1000/24 = 41.7 ms. For "framerate", if you are using the page or application clocks, then the framerate is your tickBase. If you are using the title clock, framerate is the timeBase. Note that anything faster than framerate / tickBaseDivisor (set in the Title element) won't happen that fast anyways, since your application will ignore the intermediate ticks. So, if you have 24fps and your tickBaseDivisor is 2, that mean ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to check if a value entered in a TextBox is a number

  Hi, My program ask the user to enter a number in a textbox. I want to check if the value entered is a number (ex. : 23.543) and send a message to the user if its not a number. I want to do the same style of validation with a textbox where the user enters a filename. I want to check if the file exists. How can I do that I'm sure it's very simple but I can't find the code lines... Thanks! Implement the Validating event for the TextBox. For example: Private Sub TextBox1_Validating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.Validating If TextBox1.Text <> "" AndAlso Not IsNumeric(TextBox1.Text) Then MsgBox("Please enter ...Show All

• Visual C# Unable to copy file during build

  When I try to build my solution I often get this error: Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\MyProjectXXX.dll" to "bin\Debug\MyProjectXXX.dll". The process cannot access the file 'bin\Debug\MyProjectXXX.dll' because it is being used by another process. The project it's trying to build is a class library referenced by a couple of other projects in the solution. The solution builds fine the first one or two times after opening Visual Studio, but after that the only way I can get it to build is to restart Visual Studio. Any ideas what's wrong Thanks I'll be totally honest: I'm not exactly sure. I'm just passing on something that was passed on to me. My best guess is that&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C# Working with Excel files - MSDN let me down :-(

  Hi all, I'm having major problems accessing Excel data in files. I've found the following snippet which seems to work:                  Range range = firstSheet.get_Range("A1", "C3");                 //Retrieve the data from the range.                 Object[,] saRet;                 saRet = (System.Object[,])range.get_Value(Type.Missing);                 //D ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can we implement a STS without wsFederationBinding?

  WCF Typical STS is implemented in the following pattern: Click Here Image But I want to do some customization work to fit my requirement. Is it possible to use WSE's way to implement STS scenario, like using wsHttpBinding(customeBinding) between Client and Service, and use wsHttpBinding(customeBinding)  between Client and STS as well. So we can manully control the flow of service token issuing. Appreciate your help ^_^ Hi Pedro, It is as simple as changing the client configuration as follow: < clientCredentials type="TokenCache.CacheClientCredentials, TokenCache" > < clientCertificate findValue = " CN=WCFQuickStartClient " storeLocation = " LocalMachine " storeNam ...Show All

• .NET Development OraOLEDB.Oracle.1 provider is not registered on the local machine

  I have a working ASP.NET web application in production that I have ported over to a new staging server that I will use for development. Both servers are running identical versions of software, i.e., Windows Server 2003, .NET Framework 1.1, Oracle 9i OLEDB Driver. The production server works fine. When I attempt to run the same application on the Staging server, I get the error: The 'OraOLEDB.Oracle.1' provider is not registered on the local machine. Exception Details: System.Data.OleDb.OleException: No error information available: REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG(0x80040154). Blogs I've read have suggested changing various registry settings, granting IUSR and other accounts access to the Oracle\Ora92 folder etc. and I'm still getting this erro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Implementation of IWsdlExportExtension.ExportContract

  The DataMember attribute by default makes the member nillable. Since the EmitDefault is not available in beta2, I am trying to figure out how I can do this by intercepting the ExportContract method of IWsdlExportExtension in IContractBehavior implementation. But it is not clear where and how I can modify the generated WSDL. I was able to get my implementation invoked when navigating to WSDL for the contract. However I am not sure about how to modify the supplied arguments to ExportContract. I would appreciate if some can post an example code on how the wsdl is modified in this method. Thanks. Hi, I'm also looking for a way to edit the generated schemas... Could you please post your code Thanks Lior ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Building a camera class.

  Hi all, I have built a fps camera class but I have some doubts I would like someone to clear. My camera follows this steps: 1) built a view matrix from CreateLookAt with inital pos/orientation 2)Set from client code rotation & new pos. The rotation code uses the inital camera axix (we obtained from CreateLookAt and transfroms Forward, Right & Up. 3)When client code calls update, Forward,Right & Up vectors are copied to internal matrix that keeps current viewmatrix 4) client code gets the matrix, inverts it, and pass it to the shader. My doubts: 1) CreateLookAt is giving me the Camera matrix what means... this is not the matrix I should pass the to shader, but the inverted one I have check some tutorials at riemers page and he ...Show All