reb1577's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Replacement for AdornerDecorator.GetAdornerLayer(Canvas)?

  Anyone know what has replaced this in the September CTP Found it sorry. AdornerLayer.GetAdornerLayer(Canvas) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to make MENU in 3D game

  Hey guys, I made a 2D game and the menu was like a one bitmap(with drawed texts- NEW GAME, EXIT..) and I was checking where user clicked...and appropriate was then called. Now I am trying to make a 3D space shooting game(in C++ with DirectX 9) and wondering how to make a menu... a) make like a 3D scene with some objects - new game and so on...and checking for PICKING - b) or draw a bitmap on the QUAD and render the quad or ...Show All

• .NET Development Where is my dll?

  I wrote a web service with VS2005RTM, and after published it, I cannot find the dll from the bin folder, Where is it Anybody can do me a favor I think these binary files are in the directory of cache. It's a sample of path: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Impersonation Question

  Firstly, let me apologise for the cross-posting. I am desperate to get this sorted out. Greetings,  I am writing a Windows Forms application that access a SQL Server database. This application can be installed on multiple machines and should be allowed to&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Pevious SQL statement for Reporting Services:

  I need to write a SQL statement or IIF statement to get results that I need in Reporting Services. Below is what I need and I am unsure how to create the statement for my results. I have a lot number which is associated with a PB Number and an Expected Start and Expected End Date that is running in production. The lot number is a parameter that the end user will key in the report. I need the report to display the previous lot number which ra ...Show All

• Architecture Extensibility hooks meet Enterprise Library?

  Wow! I hope this forum starts to get a bunch of traffic from the architctecture community.  I really have been looking for something like this to post the really hard architecture questions I'm dealing with at the office. Most recently that has been surrounding the usage of the enterprise library and how we can embrace and extend it to help achieve high levels of productivity when delivering line of business applications.  The ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Source is out of date

  This is what I see when I open the debugger' Trace window . Right before I begin any execution but after the form with all the controls and all associated prg files is brought up. I want to know what source it is talking about. Is it source code In which sense is it out of date Is it my source code or FoxPro's in some way I may believe that I perhaps use some operators that have been deprecated but there is no indication where to look. I ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums WLM Invite PLz.....

  Last week, the Messenger team offered Windows Live Messenger Beta invitations to the first 5 people who submitted Activity Apps that passed the provisioning process. Drum roll please...  And the winners are: 1. Notesaic by Daniel Tse 2. Quatro by Chris Weeink 3. Boter kaas en Eieren by Glenn Klijn 4. Let's Play Chess by Prasad DV 5. CooperYoung by Frans-Willem Hardijzer Congratulations to the winners!  You will be receiving your beta i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista VS6 C++ Compile error using "GetAddrInfo"

  Hi, Windows XP SP2. Platform SDK recently downloaded. VS6 C++ SP6. I am using the 'GetAddrInfo' function ( DLL Ws2_32.dll) Header ( Ws2tcpip.h) When compiling I get the error "c:\program files\microsoft platform sdk\include\wspiapi.h(45) : error C2265: '<Unknown>' : reference to a zero-sized array is illegal " I believe there is some 'compatability' issue between IPv4 and IPv6 functions !! Not sure how to sort it th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Difficulties unit testing a web service

  I have found it extremely difficult to unit test a web service - perhaps it's my testing-fu is very weak, but following some of the various help files are not getting it done. Scenario: 1. Created a web service project - web service has one method. When I access the web service via the asmx page, it works. 2. Right clicked on the method and chose to "Generate Test" - a test project was generated. 3. Prior to understanding - I just tried to run t ...Show All

• .NET Development Can somebody tell me how exactly we handle Concurrency Violation.

  I know what is Concurrency Violation. I want to know , How exactly we can handle Concurrency Violation in .Net Application. Practical Example will be more helpful. Thanks in advance. Can't give you a simple example but if you have a library or bookstore nearby check out Microsoft ADO.NET book by David Sceppa he has a good chapter on this I recall. ...Show All

• Visual C++ _TLOSS in _matherr

  I am porting a mathematics application from Borland C++ to Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition beta, but it seems that _matherr does not work as described in msdn. After some research and tries I have succedded in getting _matherr called with the _DOMAIN error (for instance when evaluating log(-1)); but it seems that _PLOSS and _TLOSS are not used and the supporting routines do not complain if things like sin(1e300) are evaluated. Any ideas to make ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Rule Interface

  HI...I'm trying to check that an interface name begins with the letter "i" using the following code: public override ProblemCollection Check(TypeNode type) { Interface interfaz = type as Interface; if (!(type is Interface)) return null; if (!(type.Name.Name.StartsWith("I"))) { Problems.Add(new Problem(new Resolution("Interfaces deben empezar con 'I'"), type.FullName)); } retur ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is it OK to implement IValueConverter on the custom control class itself?

  I have a custom control that displays a lot of lines as a Polyline (to display a histogram ;-)). Therefore I implemented a IValueConverter, that converts my histogram to a PointCollection. My question is, is it OK to implement the IValueConverter on my custom control class itself as I sometimes need some more information during the conversion that is only available in the control class It is ok to implement IVa ...Show All

• SQL Server Using ALTER ASSEMBLY to refresh the bits of an existing assembly

  According to the documentation , it looks that it's possible to use ALTER ASSEMBLY to change the contents of an existing assembly: "If the FROM clause is specified, ALTER ASSEMBLY refreshes the assembly with respect to the latest copies of the modules located at the network location you specify." However, if I execute: CREATE ASSEMBLY [MyAssembly] FROM '\\mymachine\Test\MyAssembly.dll' ALTER ASSEMBLY [MyAssembly] FROM '\\mymachine\ ...Show All