dario-g's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX Runtime Components 3.0 Beta 2 installation problems

  Hello! I have some major problems installing WinFX Runtime Components 3.0 Beta 2. It won't work... The errorlog says: [05/26/06,11:43:37] Windows Communication Foundation Beta 2: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Windows Communication Foundation Beta 2. MSI returned error code 1603 [05/26/06,11:43:56] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates WinFX Runtime Components 3.0 Beta 2 was not attempted to be installed. I have tried everything, please help me! /Goran Please follow this procedure described the readme: "2.7 WinFX Beta 2 installation fails on a system with WinFX Jan CTP or earlier previously installed&qu ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS Query from VBScript or COM

  I'm looking at integrating WDS functionality with an existing application and have been trying to call the ExecuteQuery from VB6 but am having problems. Does anyone else have some example code that they've managed to get working I've worked out that passing empty strings seems to case issues and am passing null references instead but am getting some errors raised ("Inv. Proc. Call"). This is for a small quick research project to decide between WDS and GDS so any suggestions would be very gratefully accepted! Many Thanks, John I moved on from trying to call the search from within an A ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Webcasts on game development!

  Hi, I have been participating at the MechComander webcast. I'm wondering if you could do more webcasts. I'm interested in general DirectX programming with maths involed for 2D and 3D, AI, animations, graphical design and general designing of games. It would be cool if multiple webcasts covering those sections could be done! Thank you a lot. PS: What do the other people in the forums think about the topic Thanks for the feedback. We do indeed intend to do more webcasts over time that address the issues you are asking about. In the meantime, we invite you to look at websites like www.gametutorials.com (that's not an endor ...Show All

• Visual C# Memory usage Help!

  Hi! I'm gaving some problems with this C# code: I mean I have a application that has a very simple GUI. The problem is when I watch the memory usage while my application is running I see that only when I press some buttons - that don't have any events loaded, so these buttons are doing nothing- the memory usage for my application is rising !!!! WHAT'S HAPPENING ! At this point my application does nothing - just loads the a form that contains a TabControl and some buttons. I used an endurance test for .NET : BoundsChecker and this program showed that my app has no errors and no memory leaks! But still if the user that will run my applicati ...Show All

• Visual Studio some question In DSL Tools

  hello all! after i build DSL project and run,i see there are some toolitem on toolbox in debuging solution ,and i drag item from toolbox to docview ,designer create a domain shape for me, it is great! ,but i have a lot of more powerful functions.e.g for example below: in activities diagram ,i will create some reusable complex activity components in a Assembly, then ,in a other new project, i reference that Assembly,i want add those complex reusable activities to ToolBoxWindow with distinct bitmap, and i can drag the item to the designer docview , then designer will create a shape for me. so do this ,i can reuse these bu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error during test run (during build)

  I recieved the following error and I'm not sure what to do about it. Has anyone run into this problem Run has the following issue(s): C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets : warning : Cannot initialize the ASP.NET project 'http://localhost/EffortTrackingService/'. C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v8.0\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets : warning : Exception was thrown: The web site could not be configured correctly; getting ASP.NET process information failed. Requesting 'http://localhost/EffortTrackingService/VSEnterpriseHelper.axd' returned ...Show All

• Visual C# Threading - ActiveX Events/Objects

  Hi, I have a threading problem that drives me absolutely nuts and I don't know what to do: I'm using an ActiveX object and subscribe to one of its events. Whenever I execute the method that drives the event, a couple events are triggered. The event response holds an ActiveX object which I need to work with. What happens now is that whenever the event response returns it runs on a different thread. I want to store the event response activex object in a Hashtable which was created on the main thread. Now, when all the events are done, I continue processing on the main thread. But here's the odd thing: All the actvivex objects in the hashtab ...Show All

• Visual C# Stopping a service if there's an error on startup

  Hi, I've been trying to achieve this without success, and I'm sure I'm missing something that is in front of me. I'm writing a windows service that loads some configurations from an xml file and sql server, and I'd like the service to be stopped if any of those fail to complete. I already have all implemented, and got to write information on the event log to tell me where's the error, but the service keeps started. Any help Thanks in advance, Hi, I think you are using try catch block in the OnStart method. Either don't use it or re throw that exception. You will get error in the event log. protected override void ...Show All

• .NET Development [C#] having a long menu not taking all the screen height

  Hi, I display a lot of images in a context menu, using OwnerDraw=true and overring OnMeasureItem/OnDrawItem. The automatically displayed arrows are great, but the menu takes all the screen height! My boss want the menu to be shorter... I tried to display only a few images, and added my own arrow items at the beginning and the end of them, but I can't make the menu scroll when I click/select the arrows! - when clicking the arrows, the menu automatically closes - when selecting them, I dynamically modify the images items, but I can't make the menu update ! I tried everything: Refresh/Update/Invalidate of the parent control, PerformSelect on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding New Team Projects Fails (Worked Yesterday)

  After perusing many a blog till the wee hours of the morning, I finally got Team Foundation Server installed and running. I created a few new Team Projects and everything worked fine except deleting the build files from my own local temp directory and I can clear those manually. My problem is that today I came back to add a couple more Team Projects and when I get to the final step of the wizard (Specify Version Control Settings), the “Branch from:” option is disabled and the drop down for the list of current Team Projects shows “[Loading list of team project folders…]”. I tried this from another developers machine (also a member of the Nam ...Show All

• Visual Basic Protecting Class Library DLL's?

  I originally posted this on VBForums.com, but haven't received any replies yet, so I thought I'd try here. Anyway, the project I'm currently working on is getting quite large and we are looking at breaking a few components of the software off into manageable class libraries (i.e. DLL's). I've been experimenting with it over the past few days and the problem I'm finding is that the DDL's are insecure. What I mean by this, is that when we distribute our software to the public, anyone with Visual Studio 2005 will be able to create a VB application, then add our DDL's as references and viola, they now have access to the internal functionality a ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid displaying '+' sign

  HI,    I have binded datagrid with the datasource and its displayed a '+' sign on the datagrid. any idea how to remove it  Hi,  Thanks for reply.   I tried using it again but it gives me error "Cant create a child list for tblPerson"   Is there any very simple way to bind the datagrid with the dataset&n ...Show All

• Visual Basic Installing.

  Kelly, You will get alot further with your frustrations by providing details of your problems/issues to the product feedback center: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/Default.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development FileSystemWatcher Problem

  I have windows service, in OnStart I do the following: FileSystemWatcher fsw = new FileSystemWatcher();                   fsw.Path = @"d:\data"; fsw.InternalBufferSize        = 10005;                   fsw.IncludeSubdirectories     = true ;                   fsw.EnableRaisingEvents       = ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Confused with MDI, Child and docking.

  i'm trying to make a tool that is similar in design to the VC# express studio. i've done the MDI and Child button event no problem. now i'm trying to get a Child to be dockable with a toolscontainer in the Parent. least thats how it looks like its being done with the VC# express studio. example is my Parent is my world editor. the Child would be say a texture browser or a objects properties. i want to be able to move and dock the Child with a Toolscontainer. thats assuming this is how it's handled in VC# express studio for it's movable/dockable solution, properties windows. sofar i've had no luck and begining to think VC# express studio does ...Show All