Lil endian's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Populating per like statement

  I have a large Access table with words, definitions,... what I have been trying to do for too long is to type a word pattern (p r or t n* ) in a textbox and after a button is depressed to have a datagrid populated with words similiar to what is requested. I have utilized the data source wizard to add the source, added the adapter, binding source and dataset. I have dragged the datagrid into the form. when started it populates. Then i added the textbox (txtFind) and button. i right-clicked on the adapter, went into the query via the dataset designer, added like txtFind.text in the filter area for the word field, and added : Private ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Do Not Catch General Exception Types

  I have a question about the fxCop rule on "Do Not Catch General Exception Types"...I started some discussion on this in another thread but I didn't get a full answer to my question and I thought this topic was worth starting a new thread. I think I'm using the recommended Microsoft approach for Exception Management: I'm using the Enterprise Library Exception Management Application Block to handle exceptions At the "top of the food chain" I have defined some policies for handling exceptions and use the EM application block to determine how to handle, report, and log the error. In all cases at the moment, it simply ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OpacityMask and PerPixelAlpha

  Hello people !! I'm trying fx3.0 and I want to made the principal window with a mask of opacity like I do with a rectangle (example I have an image like mask.png with alpha transparency). Can any give an idea of how to do that Thanks a lot !!!! The timeline for future releases is not clear, but yes, you would be able to use the a png mask. Of course, you could do this today using the hwndSource property setting as described in this forum thread: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=465520&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Where Do I Go To Get It?

  Hi, I have just recently got an invite and i entered my email and password it then took me to a page saying; "Congratulations! You're in! Now all you need to do is download and sign in." With an Orange button saying 'DOWNLOAD' but its not clickable and i am not to sure where to go... So would anybody be able to direct me, i would be very greatful! Scott Hi in your e-mail editor it may be blocking links from displaying. can you move the message to your inbox if you are using outlook or the new Hotmail and mark the e-mail as trusted and it should work ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Scrolling Horizontally Text Jerks on Plasma Screen

  hi there, i have made ticker text (Horizontal Scrolling Text) using Managed DirectX (Direct3d). but having a very unusual problem, getting jerk on plasma screen while running it but did not get the same jerk on monitor or LCD. by the way this jerk on plasma comes after certain time recursively. i dont know how to handle this issue. is there any setting needs to be done on plasma or any extra parameter needs to be set during device initialization. please reply soon thanx Is it on a different graphics card are you outputting at a native resolution of the plasma or is it having to do some stretching Is th ...Show All

• .NET Development Help Creating a Wrapper

  Hi, I am fairly new to .NET development but i was wondering if anyone could help provide me with information on how to create a wrapper to use in a C# application. I am creating a Vision application and want to use the OpenCV library so i need to create a wrapper in order to use this. I have had a look at the SharperCV project and it seems very good but development has stopped on this project so i wouldnt like it to be my first option. The SharperCV implementation is based on and older version of OpenCV. What I want to know is whether there is a standard way of creating wrappers for libraries such as the OpenCV library so that i cn pick and ...Show All

• SQL Server Where are the Server Groups in SQL Server 2005 Management Studio

  I have installed the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio and have set up connections to a couple of databases, but when I close SSMS and open it again, only the last database I had open is there and I have to re-connect to it with a user name and password. In the old Enterprise Manager, any connections I had could be part of a "server group" and I didn't have to re-connect every time I opened Enterprise Manager (they connected automatically). Where is this feature in SSMS I found it. My mistake was in creating the initial database connections in the Object Explorer pane instead of the Registered Serv ...Show All

• Visual Studio VC++ 6.0 installer crashes on xp

  I have winxp pro SP1 US.  When trying to install VC++ 6.0 pro, I just get this message: 'setup has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.' A crash. But think the cd is good.  Are there problems installing vc++ 6 on xp  I'm wondering if some file in my one year old xp installation is corrupted, and is causing this crash.  Other apps install just fine, but then again they probably use a different installer.  I'm hoping to avoid having to reinstall xp, cause it takes hours, and other programs work fine still. IS there anyway you can send ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to work with camera?

  I try to deal with .x format object after loading it from 3ds max I receive big object. How to make it smaller I understand that I have to move back the camera, but I don't know how to do it. Hi, taking the bounding box or sphere of your object. To calculate how much you have to move to the back (if you used the bounding sphere of your object): float dist = boundingSphere.radius / tan(fovY * 0.5f); Now that you have the distance you have to move to the back to make your object fully visible on the screen, just take the center of the sphere of the object and move the cam back. newPosition = boundingSphere.c ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help reading xml data into my application

  http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/OMNI/ws/OMNIdataWebService.cfm Help! Based on this page, I have used their .xsd file to generate classes in my VB express application. I then load in their "sample xml" file. To test, I run this code: MessageBox.Show(vesloc206.SERVER.POOL(1).VESSEL(0).VESSEL_NAME) It works. However this code: MessageBox.Show(vesloc206.SERVER.POOL(1).VESSEL(0).STATUS_RECORD) gives me err: Value of type 'vesloc206.STATUS_RECORD' cannot be converted to 'String'. From looking at the sample.xml file, it should show "Done". How do I get MessageBox.Show to show "Done" By ...Show All

• .NET Development WebService Timout troubles

  My webservice times out after insterting 15 or 16 rows into an access database from a mobile device. I read that databse querys and things of that nature take a long time. (well longer than regular methods) Ive gone into my iis server setting and changed the script timout to a higher value (longer than what its timeing out at) no change. i put <httpRuntime executionTimeout="600"/> in the web.config for the service. Not sure if this even does anything anyway. in the call from the mobile device I have done instance.Timout = 600000 I have tried the first and second things together no change have not tried all three togeth and I doubt it w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report Server Windows Service login failed

  Hello all, I am trying to install TFS application tier and it keeps failing because of "cannot connect to report server database" I have dual server setup and TFS database installed fine on sql server. I tried couple of times with different accounts and it still keeps failing and saying that it cannot connect to report server database. During the installation setup I get the following error message: Error 29105. Team Foundation Report Server Configuration: The Report Server databases were not created. Common reasons for this are that the current user does not have permission to create the databases on the Tea, Foundation ...Show All

• Visual C# C# .NET Naming Conventions

  Does anyone know where I can find a list of naming conventions for UI elements.  I found a bunch of places where they have variable, property, method, event handler, formatting style, etc. conventions.  But I am having a hard time finding naming conventions other than the Visual Basic 6.0 Naming Conventions on Microsoft's website. As the programming world is rapidly moving away from hungarian notation, it's easy to state that you should not use it, or any type of prefixed notation. Naming textboxes "txtThisAndThat" or strings "strThatAndThis" is unnecessary, since the IDE can give you the type and ...Show All

• .NET Development jpg file information

  Hi, Using C#, I'm trying to get some information about a .jpg file (it's a photo): for example I'd like to get the date and time when the photo was taken. ....It's easy to get information like file creation date (by means of File.GetCreationTime() ) but I can't retrieve information about the photo. can you help me The following is a class to get EXIF info out of a jpeg. using System.Drawing.Imaging; using System.Text; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using System; using System.Collections; using System.Drawing; using System.Diagnostics; using Sys ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Iterations's Scope

  I understood that, in MSF 4.0, each iteration should be composed by activities of all tracks, well, at least, the majority of them (plan, build, stabilize and deploy). These days a friend of mine asked me about that governance picture (MSF for CMMI). It shows a lot of successive iterations, but none of them covering the four tracks at once. It looks very similar to the RUP approach, when the iteration scope varies depending of the current development phase. I thought that in MSF we didn’t have the cycle divided into phases There is a passage in “Cycles and Iterations” that says: “Each iteration should result in a stable portion of the overa ...Show All