ihateC's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How to compress Image in .net

  What is the procedure or way to compress a image in .net that meens its like a file compression (winzip). Well, first of all, if the image is a jpg, it's already compressed. jpg is lossy, of course, but it compresses very well compared to bmp, you won't compress a jpg, no matter what you run on it. http://www.gold-software.com/download3321.html looks like a good bet to me, I don't see anything built into the framework. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Policy violations email

  How do I set up the email address(es) to which I send emails if there has been a source control check-in policy violation Thanks You can also look in the version control database and query it to find the policy violators...it can be quite a hoot what some people write as their excuse... ...Show All

• Visual Basic Photo Matching Database

  User selects a picture and querys the database for a match. How do I write the Code for this SELECT id, image, description FROM pictures [database] WHERE image EQUALS picturebox1.image I am concerned that the "image" format stored in the db will not match  picturebox1.image and that I probably will have to convert picturebox1 into a binary array to match the format already in the database.  Furthe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How create a Baseline for work itens with Project Professional integrated with Team Foundation

  Hi, How should i work with Team Foundation for Project Plan I want create a mpp with all task , create a baseline with this planning and published this task for my team and after that my team create others task , i want open this mmp and refresh a progress these tasks. Finally i want to utilize features of project for Earned Value. Hi Gleydson, This should be easy. Open the Development Project Plan.mpp in MSF fo ...Show All

• Visual C# Creating Partial Class in VS2005

  Hi, I am new to VS. How can i create partial class in VS2005 do i first have to create the class and specify it as partial regards, rnv Yeah, just create a class and put the keyword "partial" in front of the keyword "class". That's all there is to it. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to subclass a combobox?

  Dear guys:       In my ppc  project  ,I need to replace the dropdown list in combo box with a tree control,for the pocket pc doesn't support the ownerdraw property,what should I do             Thanks!       Why don't you create a brand new control, comprising of a textbox, a button with an arrow ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can we use Arraylists in CF?

  Hi. I have some images as Byte arrays in my application. Can anyone tell me if it is possible for me to store those images in a Arraylist So that I can just run a for loop and insert those images one by one to the SQL CE database Thanks. Yes, you can. By the way, why could not you just insert them into SQL CE database right away instead of storing them in the list This way you will save some memory a ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista HELP! shell extensions on Vista

  i'm having a hard time getting my shell extension to load in Vista. The same extension registers and loads fine on XP, but not Vista. Something must have changed. I had a go at building and installing the sample extensions from dino E's shell book ... they failed to register ! Vista is disallowing regsvr32 to write the usual shell extension keys out... I'm logged in as Administrator. I have even tried it from a CMD box 'run elevated' - no joy ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF Bitmap Effects

  I'm having trouble building the RGBFilterEffect sample from the Beta 2 SDK. I modified my environment for c++ examples like it said in the readme, but I still can't build because of an alleged sytax error in unknwn.idl. What gives Also, it was my understanding that you could create a bitmap effect with a hardware accellerated pixel shader. Are there any examples of this Another update: (Sorrry about bomba ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2005 compiler bug? keyword substitution vs. C++/CLI

  Sample 1: given the following code compiled with /clr #define enum enum class public ref class MyClass { public: enum MyEnum { e1, e2 }; }; the compiler output is: CLIEnum.cpp .\CLIEnum.cpp(11) : error C2332: 'enum' : missing tag name .\CLIEnum.cpp(12) : error C2236: unexpected 'class' 'MyClass::MyEnum'. Did you forget a ';' .\CLIEnum.cpp(12) : error C3379: 'MyClass::MyEnum' : a nested class cannot have an assembly access speci ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PDC COM312 Federation demo source code needed

  Does anybody would have the source code for the PDC presentation (COM312) presented by Martin Gudgin (Gudge) I would like to see the source code of the STS Service that was used for the Federation sample. We can see clearly in this demo that the STS client credential type was set to Certificate. This is exactly what i need to do and i would like to see what the STS looks like because i have not been able to make the STS from the SDK's Federat ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS web search results in Firefox

  I'm having trouble getting WDS to provide web search results in Firefox. I understood this function was simply supposed to load up my default browser (firefox) and pass it " example query". This should go to my default search page and list results for "example query". However, I'm taken to the page "file:///C:/ %20example%20query" instead. If I type the string " query" into the location bar in FF directly ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Performance Issues with Version Control

  We (a dev team of about 15 people) have been experiencing some performance issues recently with Team Foundation Version Control.  It takes about 30 minutes to just load the project into Visual Studio and then another 30 mintues if you do a "Get Latest Recursive" on the entire solution. I setup SQL Profiling on the VSTEAMSCC DB and noticed some odd results: Based on the profiling duration, the sproc: prc_QueryItemsExtendedLocal is the ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista [SysTx] Why do two connections get promoted, when one's always closed?

  Hi there, I've got a question about System.Transactions. Why does the following code gets promoted to a MSDTC transaction using (TransactionScope trans = new TransactionScope()) { using (SqlConnection conn1 = new SqlConnection()) { conn1.open // execute some insert statement } // this closes and dispose conn1 using (SqlConnection conn2 = new SqlConnection()) { conn2.open // execute some insert statement } // this closes and dispose conn2 } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Lock level of file superceded by check out

  When check out operation is performed on file, the lock set will be that of the check out option specified. It may lead to some not entirely obvious consequences. Obvious example 1) No lock on file prior to check out 2) After check out is performed with lock option other than "None"("Check-out" or "Check-in" lock), the file is editable and has changes "Lock,Edit" associated with it (in "View Pendin ...Show All