abhijit narvekar's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Graphics.drawString() looks terrible

  I have SmoothingMode set to AntiAlias... all the lines and polygons come out nice and smooth, but the text is not antialiased, it looks terrible. I'm creating a new bitmap, and getting the graphics object off that. I have noticed that if you load&nb ...Show All

• Visual C# Using Timers in a console application

  Okay, so... I've only worked with Java so far, and never even understood multithreading in that, but anyway, now I'm REALLY lost. Yes, I looked all over for tutorials, but they were all talking about applications in windows forms which have their own threading thing going on apparently, and mine is a console application. So here's my question. I have this (using Syste.Threading.Timer): t = new Timer(callback, null, Timeout.Infinite, Timeout.Infi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office [Urgent] How to trap Excel Window Scroll Events

  Hi all, Does anybody have any idea about how to trap the window scroll-bar events and mouse scroll events for an excel sheet through VSTO We can also make do with any events related to change of visible range. We are in real soup now. Any little help will be appreciated Thanks in advance Sangeetha Hi Sangeetha, Excel doesn't expose scroll events through the OM. If you need to know when scrolling as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO & MS Access

  I'm just trying to get up to speed on the new Visual Studio 2005 and the new Tools for Office.  We do a lot of work with MS Access (and Excel) and what I find odd is that in all the articles I've read there is not mention of MS Access w.r.t. the VSTO.  Do the VSTO not work with MS Access   What am I supposed to use if I am doing development with Access 2003 Can someone please clarify how VSTO works with MS Access   We've alr ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Running Full Trusted App in a browser

  Is it possible to run a WPF application that requires full trust in a browser Our app runs when we set the security options to 'requires partial trust' but setting the security options to 'requires full trust' produces the following error message; "The application cannot be deployed because it is untrausted and possibly unsafe." ERROR DETAILS Following errors were detected during this operation. * [3/13/2006 10:27:59 AM] System.D ...Show All

• SQL Server Date Concatenation

  Working with an archaic mess of Access dbs, and am trying to convert to a single SQL Server 2005 db. A couple of places in the original monstrosity I have the time and date in separate columns, like the following example: [Ticket Date] [Ticket Time] 12/1/99 0845 12/2/01 0932 One problem is the two columns can be of different data types, like a date col and a text time. If anyone knows how to bring these into a single column using SSIS, I would ...Show All

• .NET Development Process.Start() of xcopy only works under the debugger?

  I am trying to run a child process to xcopy files into another directory.  xcopy is regular old Windows system xcopy.  I am creating a new System.Diagnostics.Process, filling out some start info, then kicking it off with Process.Start().  When I run this code under the .NET debugger it works fine. However, if I run my app outside the debugger, the xcopy child process fails to do anything.  I've attached a debug ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error using Code Coverage

  When i try to view code coverage after a test run, i get the following error (In a message dialog): --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Code Coverage Analysis engine threw exception(s): Error when creating coverage info: Error loading symbol file. Symbol and binary files should be in the same folder as the coverage file or on the symbol path: C:\PathToMyProject\bin\Debug\AssemblyName.dll. ---- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Backup DataBases with Sql Server Express?

  How to Backup DataBases with Sql Server Express I want a T-SQL statement that backup's my database files like what we do in CTP (sql server management studio). If its possible please write down a sample T-sql statement . See if the following helps: How to: Create a Full Database Backup (Transact-SQL) ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is it possible to change the column header backcolor of datagridview?

  Hello, Is it possible to change the backcolor of Column header of datagridview. I can change style, height, width of the column header of datagridview but i'am not able to figure out how to change the backcolor of column header. Please help me. Thank you in advance. - Manju ...Show All

• SQL Server IIF driving crazy

  This is driving me crazy… =IIF(Fields!COUNTRY.Value = "United States","US", IIF(Fields!COUNTRY.Value = "UNITED STATES", "US", Fields!COUNTRY.Value)) Is that not correct =Iif(Fields!Country.Value = "United States", "US", Nothing) =Iif(Fields!COUNTRY.Value = "United States", "US") =Iif(Fields!COUNTRY.Value, "misb_db_prp1" = "Un ...Show All

• SQL Server Express Manager for Sept CTP

  Does anyone know if there will be a version of Sql Express Manager (XM) for the September CTP Regards Graham ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error occurred while Loading Workflow

  I have created a NEW simple StateMachineWorkflow project. Upon creation the designer view tries to render and I get the following error: Error occurred while Loading Workflow An error occurred while loading the workflow Please correct the following error and try reloading the document to view the Workflow CodeDomDesignerLoaderNoRootSerializer Non StateMachine projects seem to work fine. Any thoughts Do you see a similar behavior ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem loading simple shader

  I'm trying to use my first shader: float4x4 matWorldViewProj: WORLDVIEWPROJECTION; struct VS_OUTPUT { float4 Pos : POSITION; }; VS_OUTPUT VS(float4 Pos : POSITION) { VS_OUTPUT Out = (VS_OUTPUT)0; Out.Pos = mul(Pos,matWorldViewProj); return Out; } technique TVertexAndPixelShader { pass P0 { VertexShader = compile vs_1_1 VS(); } } I compile this from an .fx file with the following: hr = D3DXCreateEffectFromFile ...Show All

• Windows Forms webbrowser html events vs.2005

  greetings, this code works for vs.2003,  how is this done with vs.2005 beta 2 Dim doc As mshtml.HTMLDocument = DirectCast(webBrowser1.Document, mshtml.HTMLDocument)         ' Cast to the interface that defines the event you're interested in         Dim docevents As mshtml.HTMLDocumentEvents2_Event = DirectCast(doc, mshtml.HTMLDocumentEvents2_Event)   ...Show All