Baloodevil's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is the returned Stream object from Include.Open() disposed automatically?

  Is the returned Stream object from Include.Open() disposed automatically Or I should take care of it manually Yes, internally that stream will be closed when the underlying D3DX object is done with it. (If you're familiar with the unmanaged version of the functionality, the stream is closed when the ID3DXInclude::Close member is called by the unmanaged API). ...Show All

• SQL Server Fuzzy Lookup componant eating all available virtual memory

  Hey, I have a large set of data that I need to match against another large set of data.  The reference table has 9.8mill rows and my input has 14.6mill rows.  I started with a new project.  I added my connection, then a task to clear the result table, then my data flow, then my OLE source, then my Fuzzy Lookup task, then my SQL Server Destination.  I set the connection of my OLE source and set the query to pull the dat ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how can i load image from jpgfile to the picture box ?

  hello .. i am new at the smart device developing .. in WindowsApplications i was using Picbox.Image = Image.FromFile("..") But in the smart device application i can't found " from file " function .. Regards , wating for the answer please :) .. You have to use : Picturebox1.Image = New Bitmap("Image Path") ...Show All

• Visual C# Emulating Multiple Inheritance

  I often miss the MI from C++, but I have a suggestion of how to emulate it in C#, given the following: interface IFoo { void FooIt(); } class Foo : IFoo { public void FooIt() { Console.WriteLine("Foo-ing!"); } } interface IBar { void BarIt(); } class Bar : IBar { public void BarIt() { Console.WriteLine("Bar-ing!"); } } class BaseClass { // More BaseClass methods here. } One could use ...Show All

• .NET Development referencing images with full path such as /images/header/left.gif

  Ok, I need to know what is the best standards and practice for the following scenario.   Note -- I've been developing web sites since 1996 and have developed a certain set of workarounds with each environment since VS 2002; however 2005 still exposes the same issue. When creating a web project, VS2002-2003, the default is to create a virtual application root off your existing IIS.  So your are testing your web application, you loa ...Show All

• Windows Forms Profiles failing to update a Click Once application

  The scenario: We have a Click Once application deployed to 70+ machines. This deployment site has been active since mid November 2005. There are multiple profiles on these machines totaling easily 140 profiles. There are profiles on each machine that are used more often than others. We push patches to the deployment site regularly, sometimes multiple patches in a day. The application checks on startup for patches. Typically a profile is log ...Show All

• SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio not installing from Toolkit

  Everytime I went throught the express Toolkit install and I chose, all components, it just responded with "nothing to do." I installed the BIDS by just executing vs_setup.msi. as mentioned above. This seems to have worked partially. Visual Studio is now there. However, no templates are available except "Blank Solution" The case seems some Report Builder/Model Builder templates should exist What am I doing wrong What can I do to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Bug? Unable to merge shelved files with files changed locally but not checked in.

  Is it not possible to merge changed from shelved files the files have been changed locally as well This is the scenario: 1. "Developer A" works on "Method1" in the file Class1.cs 2. "Developer B" is also working in the same file, Class1.cs, but with "Method2" 3. "Developer A" is ready with "Method1", but is not allowed to check in his changes to Source Controller cause this would break the build for other developers right now. 4. "Develop ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is Active Directory required for Dual-Server installations?

  ...or can you use Workgroup-based installations in this configuration AD is required for a dual-server configuration. While it is possible to construct workgroup service accounts that would allow the AT to access the DT using matching names/passwords, we do not recommend or test that deployment option. I think it is probably also true that the TFS administrative utility (tfsadminutil) options to manage service ...Show All

• Windows Forms WebBrowser and file:// URLs?

  Hi folks, Is there some reason why file:// URLs don't work in an embedded WebBrowser If I make an HTML file with this link in it: <a href=" Test file:///D:/Profiles/mabster/Documents/nocover.png">Test</a > ... then launch that HTML file in Internet Explorer and click the link, the file pops up just fine. However, in the WebBrowser control, if I load that HTML file, the link doesn't work. Heck, the "Navigating" event isn't even fired ...Show All

• .NET Development Attempted to read or write protected memory

  I have an .Net 2 application which usage unmanaged OCI APIs to load the data in the oracle server. It works fine in general but throws following exception when I run it multiple times (40- 50 times). and it works fine after restarting the application (sometime i need to reboot the machine also.) Error: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. at OCILog ...Show All

• Windows Forms Installing 3rd party prerequisite with bootstrapper and multiple MSIs support using ClickOnce

  I have the following scenario. I am trying to install a 3rd party prerequisite that has multiple MSIs and one bootstrapper. I am using VS 2005 Beta 2 with ClickOnce to install this component. Since there are multiple files included in the 3 rd party tool installation, ClickOnce can't just download the 3 party bootstrapper but also needs to download all the 3rd party MSIs that bootstrapper is using. One solution might be combining MSIs and ...Show All

• Visual C# using IEnumerator to removing items

  I want to remove some items from an ArrayList. Can I do that using a foreach(…)- loop an IEnumerator like this. foreach(string s in arraylist) { if (s == “del”) { // Here I want to remove the item from arraylist… } } Any ideas how to solve this without creating a new ArrayList and add items I want to save. Feels like that solution will bee to time consuming… All tip ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Sparkle Interactive Designer (on Windows XP)

  I am trying to install Sparkle onto my laptop, it is xp (sp2) iwth Office 2007 beta 2, VS2005 and the various .net frameworks and betas including WinFX Runtime Components Beta 2. Everytime I try to install the error asks for me to install "windows presentation foundation 6.0.5295.60113". I am puzzled as I had no problems with Graphic Designer or Web Designer and all 3 betas will install fine onto my desktop Can anyone pin ...Show All

• Visual Basic COM Interop, Property Get,Let,Set Interface Attribute?

  Hello, We are in the middle of a rather large piecemeal upgrade of our VB6 system to .NET 2.0.  We started in 1.1 and have sence migrated that code to 2.0.  We have done a few of our libraries to this point, and are gearing up to upgrade a lot more of them in the next month or so.  We ran into a problem in our first library that required a rather nasty fix and I was hoping someone could point us to a better solution. ...Show All