p1edmond's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem debugging with VS2005 and DecemberSDK

  Hi all... I'm in the process of writing an WorldEditor for my little engine. My engine was working real good in C#/MDX. DX was reporting messages, warnings, errors to the output windows of VS. But now that i've port my engine back to C++/DX.. DX is no longer reporting to the output window of Visual Studio. I must admit that tsi make a long time i didnt program in C++ but its not much more different from C# except maybe to setup DX to be use in DebugMode I've my D3D set up to debug in Control Panel->Dx Icon... I've include D3D_DEBUG_INFO in the preprocessor configurations of the project.. i even define it before ev ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't use online help content

  Is anybody else having trouble using the online content of the VS2005 help system   Each time I perform a search, the ‘Questions’ and ‘Codezone Community’ search time out and   the ‘MSDN’ search always returns unable to connect to remote server.   I’ve tried allowing unfettered access to the internet for everything, I can see that two connections are made to services2.msdn.microsoft.com and remain in the Established state for a short while.   When I installed VS2005 it worked okay, it’s only been in the last few days, and I don’t believe anything has changed with my configuration. ...Show All

• SQL Server Licensing of launch SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition

  Sorry, but I wasn't sure where to ask this.... Microsoft is giving out SQL Server 2005 Standard edition at the launch events. At least they gave a copy out at the Nov 7th San Francisco launch. My question is.... is this just a copy of the software, or is there some form of license that goes with it The software is nice, but I'm trying to figure out if I can legally do anything with it beyond look at it -- thus I'm trying to figure out what type of license was granted - if any - with the copy given out. Anyone know Brad!   Tom Rizzo - MSFT wrote: It's Standard Edition licensed via the server/cal m ...Show All

• .NET Development Prevent Assembly from being "Reflected" ??

   Hello  can we prevent assembly from being reflected by tools like "REFLECTOR"  Can anybody help  Regards       Obfuscate your assembly. Visual Studio has one community edition obfuscator called dotfuscator, but if you want you can buy the full version from here: http://www.preemptive.com/products/dotfuscator Regards, -chris ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transparent Panel Headaches

  Hi, I'm having a really frustrating problem when using transparency in a Panel, if anyone has any suggestions I would really apreciate it. My problem is the following: I have a Form with a Panel contained on said Form. The Panel has the BackColor property set to "Transparent". I would like the background of the Form to be visible through the panel (I assume this is what setting the BackColor property to transparent means ). When my form first loads all is well - the underlying Form is visible through the transparent Panel. However, if I minimize the Form and then Restore it - now my transparent Panel displays what is underneath the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Specifying a generated CS file as to be not-source-controlled

  I'm using integrated source control in a C# project.  I recall a Source-Control related feature in the VS.NET 2003 (or 2002 ) IDE that let you identify a particular file as to be not-source-controlled'.  I used this feature in the past to indicate that a generated CS file was to not be checked in with the project. I had thought a menu option on File->Source Control let you do this, but I cannot find any such menu option. Is it possible in VS.NET 2005 to specify that a particular file is to be not source controlled I'm using a Perforce SCC provider, in case this is a source-code-provider specific feature. Thanks in advance, Ho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Changing AssemblyInfoTask properties for a single csproj?

  I'd like to be able to fix the AssemblyVersion differently for different projects on my dev-machine. Let's say I have ApplicationA with version 1.0.0.0 and ApplicationB with version 1.3.0.0. To get this to work I assume that I could use a PropertyGroup in the csproj file for these two applications (as they reside in different solutions). So basically I'd like to add the following to the csproj file for ApplicationB: <PropertyGroup> <AssemblyMajorVersion>1</AssemblyMajorVersion> <AssemblyMinorVersion>3</AssemblyMajorVersion> </PropertyGroup> However, doing so does not lead to the desired b ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to sync with datagridview columns and object properties

  Hi I try to bind datagridview witha  business object of three public properties. but the column order seems not in sync with the order of business object. is there any way to control the order of the columns when binding to an object thanks  Could you post the example you were speaking of Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development how to set the dataset's namespace

  hi, I'm use the Dataset Desinger of Visual Studio 2005 to design a dataset. Then, I compile the project. The desinger generate a typed dataset class. But the dataset class is inside the global namespace. How to set to generate the typed dataset class in a customed namespace. The namespace above is C# namespace. Not the XML namespace. thanks. Hi, When you create a typed dataset, the generated dataset class inherits the DataSet Class object. That is why it is inside the global namespace. You cannot customize the namespace of the generated dataset class. Hth, Michael Castillones ...Show All

• Windows Forms What is the fastest way to draw images?

  I am writing an application in .NET that has some very specific requirements for a very rich and sophisticated visual interface. It is similar to a 2D game interface, in some ways. Because of some of the visual techniques that the application requires, I decided that it would not work well to represent each control as a Windows.Forms control. So, what I have done is created my own custom GUI library that is currently "hosted" in a Windows.Forms control. That is, the Windows.Forms control passes keyboard, mouse, and redraw events to objects from my custom GUI library for processing. So far, all is working quite well, but my rende ...Show All

• Visual J# Acquiring Installer/Deployment templates

  I am trying to publish my project, but when I run the installer it dies because the the project has been improperly formatted. I have been unable to find any references to formatting during publishing, or even system requirements for the published version. If you have an easy solution or if you can point me in the direction of reference material for this that would be great. Thanks. Hi, Yes, Visual Studio Team System is not freely available. Again, what I understand from deployment is that you want to create a .msi for you J# projects. That is not supported in Express SKUs. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development Soap Serializer does not support serializing Generic Types.

  I tried to serialize an object contains list (List<>) of objects and I got this exception: Soap Serializer does not support serializing Generic Types : System.Collections.Generic.List. It works fine with the  BinaryFormatter. Yeah, Let me post more codes about the configuration. What I am doing here is, I have a remoting server start, also to have the capability for a client to event call back to server, we defined a delegate and an event wrapper as the book "Advanced remoting said". Here is the definition: public interface IFactory { IWorker getNewWorker(); } public del ...Show All

• .NET Development Activator.GetObject and client-activated object mutually exclusive?

  Hi all, From reading the documentation and articles, it appears that when the remotable type is configured as a client-activated type, Activator.GetObject cannot be used. I tried creating an instance of a client-activated remote object using Activator.GetObject. I started from a working implementation of a Singleton to a client-activated type. I can get a proxy, but every call to a method on the proxy results in a "Requested Service not found" exception. The reason I want to use Activator.GetObject instead of Activator.CreateInstance is because I prefer to only have an interface on the client side and not the full object implementation. Usin ...Show All

• Visual Studio msdn library won't install

  I have Visual C++ .NET 2003 Standard Edition. When I install the library in hangs on disc 2 every time(I let in run for 2 hours). I tried transfer the files from the cd on to the local drive and the computer crashes. The softare came with a box set I purchased some time ago. Can anybody help me solve the problem, who to email, or where to download I would greatly be apprecited. Thanks. Edit: The CD is 2003JAN. With a folder 1033 inside. I understand there are different ones. Also the crash is actually a blue screen.    I have been trying to resolve this for weeks, the install would hang indefinat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions obtain filename only from opendialog

  can anyone help me with how to retrieve only the filename and extension with openfiledialog. when I use openfiledialog.filename I get c:\folder\filename ( just like the documentation says) and cant seem to find an easy way to get just the filename. I am using visual basic express. thanks hi, you can try something like that Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System. Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim MyOpenDialog As New OpenFileDialog MyOpenDialog.Filter = "text files |*.txt|Html Files|*.html;*.htm" MyOpenDialog.T ...Show All