Jim Stone's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Draw Thick Line in Direct3D mobile

  Does anybody konw how can I draw a line with desired width and color using drawprimitives or any other methods in Direct3D mobile. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help: Randamize

  hi, i need help in this, i have an array composed of 9 values, and i have a button , i want when i click on that button to re arrange the values on the array , i don't want to arrange them in order , but all what i want is that every value in the array to change its index randomly can anyone help me plz   Shakalama, I'm a woman. I was glad the gentleman above found you an example please note that example is a vb6 exampl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System instance field naming convention

  In the following code sample, class TestClass { private int age; public int Age{ get {return age;} } } If I decide to use Age for the public property name, what is the recommended naming convention for the related private instance field Any comments are welcome. Microsoft does not provide naming conventions or guidelines for internal members, however, I have seen the following use ...Show All

• Visual Studio Runtime libraries

  Hello. I didnt find at Business Objects website the instalation of Crystal Reports runtime libraries (required to use reports developed on VS2005). I cant just generate it using Visual Studio Setup Wizard because the company must install from a trusted web site. Is it avaiable for download somewhere Thanks. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do collection items notify a change to control.

  hi, I create a winform control with collection property.The collection property include some type object.But when I modify the object's property in the collection on run-time the control doesn't change.How to notify control to change when object's property change in the collection property What kind of control is it, a UserControl If the display of your control is dependant on the contents of a collectio ...Show All

• Visual C++ unsigned long *' differs in levels of indirection from 'unsigned long ** '

  Hi, Can anyone here help me. I am trying to write a program that writes to the com port in c but I keep getting the following message when I am trying to compile: 'unsigned long *' differs in levels of indirection from 'unsigned long ** ' The error is being generated by the WriteFile() function and I think the parameter temp which I have declared as; unsigned long *temp I am new to C can anyone tell me what this message is and wh ...Show All

• Visual C++ IP Helper

  Hi all, does anyone know if IP Helper can be used to disable DHCP and enter dns details etc thanks Martin MLR wrote: Hi all, does anyone know if IP Helper can be used to disable DHCP and enter dns details etc thanks Martin See this article by David Crow http://www.codeproject.com/internet/IPHelper.asp It's pretty comprehensive and details the various capabilities of the ...Show All

• Visual Basic Declaring and Disposing Variables

  Hi, In one of my classes, I have a line as follows: Public CurrentAccount As New System.Xml.XmlDocument My questions are: 1. What actually happens when I declare this variable I understand that declaring a variable allocates memory space for that variable, but does this line allocate the maximum size of an XmlDocument for CurrentAccount Later on in my application, I use CurrentAccount.Load to load an XmlTextReader - does thi ...Show All

• SQL Server DCOM Error 10016 Problem with opening http://localhost/reports$sqlExpress

  I installed sql 2005 express edition with advanced services on winodows 2003 small business server standard edition (with sp1). This computer is domain controller. I cannot open page http://localhost/reports$sqlExpress Error is Unable to connect to the remote server. In event log I find error: Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 Date: 13.5.2006 Time: 14:00:30 User: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVIC ...Show All

• Visual C# Web Page using C#

  I created a new web page in VStudio 2003.  Then I drag a control (any control) over to the web page.  VS snaps the control to the top left corner of the page and when I try and move it, it snaps it back to the top left of the page.  Before you ask, yes, my page layout is GridLayout. Any suggestions Thanks hi may be u can reposition these type of controls by editting the html code example u can i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions incompatible types - from 'char [4]' to 'LPCWSTR'

  Hi #include<windows.h> int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,LPSTR lpCmdLine,int nCmdShow) { MessageBox(NULL,"test","test",MB_OK); return 0; } a.c .\a.c(4) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible types - from 'char [4]' to 'LPCWSTR' .\a.c(4) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible types - from 'char [4]' to 'LPCWSTR' how to solve that problem   ...Show All

• Visual C# AspNetSqlProvider

  I have an error when i am try to make web partzone without using sqlexpress I want to use sqlserver2005 entreprise when i am try to create AspNetSqlProvider test failed and i have this error (An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Networ ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with Identity Specification - deleting rows

  First of all, I'm new to the forums, and I'm still getting started with VBEE and SQL. I'm building a simple Windows Application that has a SQL Database with three tables, related to each other. In all of them I need to set one column as a simple index for the rows (1, 2, 3... etc), to work as a PK and relate to the other tables' FKs. I've set the property Identity Specification of the column to Yes, and added some rows of data for testing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Variadic Macros Vs Intellisense

  Hello, I have identified a strange behaviour in VC++ Express Beta 2 while trying to use variadic macros. It seems like Intellisense stops working just after a variadic macro usage. I own two workstations here: on the first one putting the cursor just after a variadic macro usage and pressing Ctrl+Space causes an "Uknown software exception", just click Ok and go on without Intellisense; but on the second one VC crashes immediately! If someon ...Show All

• Smart Device Development evc 4.0 Upgrade Wizard

  hello, where is the upgrade wizard for Evc 4.0, can i download this thank in advance Just for the record... I've converted 3 solutions and they all worked like a charm. I seem to get 2 'standard' warnings  for everything I convert (even hello world)       1. SxS mainifest files excluded.       2. C++ Compiler conformance change - fully qualified ...Show All