sevanoaks2005's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Method of plotting 2D grid

  Hi. I have a question. How would I plot 2D grid It's got to be infinate but without any performance loss. Will this work To show you wnat I mean, download a trial version of 3D GameStudio and open GameStdudio in 3D GameStdudio, located in the Program group. And one more question. Since I'm going to be developing an authoring suite along with an engine, in an application (world editor) with 4 windows, would it be possible to have 4 D3D c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hey Help me please

  Thanks to traxer_x I got what I was missing without the tear down and with out putting 60 pages of code over the internet but I am sorry for my mood swings I had so much going on I just needed to step away from the problems of life and focus on the task at hand.  I apologize guys but that I know isn't enough. Thanks anyway for your help Stacy, this is a web forum. These forums have rules, for the benefit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to Unlock a lock in another workspace

  Say a dev has a bunch of files of locked (checkout or checkin locks) and leaves to go on vacation for a month (yeah - bad dev).  As a project administrator I see in the security dialog box that I have the right to "unlock other user's changes" but I can't figure out how to do it from the VS UI or the command line.  How do you do this Keith, your lock command did actually work.  The command doesn't ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System customized test templates

  In the thread http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=13002 , it is explained how to create your own manual test templates. Easy enough. But, it would be nice to have the whole team working with the custom template. Is there an easy way to get this template an each machine I dont know about other source code control tools, but for source safe: Set the working firectly for the project where these files are located, and point i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Set Sort Field and direction at run time

  Hey all, I'm having problems with VS 2005 (VB) to alter the sort field and the direction (asc or desc). The sortfields are already written into the report design (non-embedded reports) - but for some reason the sort won't take and does not get displayed. To complicate matters there are several groups on certain reports. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this Regards, Hena ...Show All

• SQL Server Web Synchonization Performance & Concurrent Users

  Hi I need some rough figures for replication performance. Can anyone give an idea of the number of concurrent subscribers a single IIS server can safely handle before having to move to load balancing with multiple IIS servers. I would estimate the average daily row changes to be in the region of 500 to 2500 per subscriber. Any ideas Many thanks RL highly depends on your hardware, amount of data b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Contextmenus and Key Shortcuts

  I have assigned a contextmenu to a datagrid in my WINDOWS application and I  want to use keyboard shortcuts. I have assigned a shortcut - lets say ctrlK - but do I need to assign a  handler in the same way I have to do to capture ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application Error Help Needed

  Please help me how to fix this error. When i'm open about 10 MDI window then open a new MDI window and cause this error and then application crash.  Invalid parameter used. Stack Trace:    at System.Drawing.Graphics.GetHdc()    at System.Windows.Forms.I ...Show All

• SQL Server Heeeeellllllllppppppppp!!!! Replication Latency in Dist Agents

  Hi, I have Transactional Replication running and Pushed to 2 subscribers.  I am noticing that, sporadically, the latency shown on the Distribution Agnets is extreme.  This means it's taking a very long time for transactions to get to the subscribers... which in turn means that my 'High Availability' scenario is down the tubes.... which is a disaster. Usually I see latency numbers under 5000... and they are reset periodically.  T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office adding a button to the email message window in outlook using vsto

  ive done a bit of searching on the net and this forum, but i can't find any definitive examples for doing this. i came across a few hacks, but someone must a simple and good example for how to do this thanks I would look at the ShortcutBar example for an example of how to add a button to a CommandBar. After that, you want to set an event on New Inspectors, much the same way the example sets them on Explorers, an ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with Concurrency Checking

  Has anyone else had a problem with the concurrency checking not working   If so, how did you fix it    I noticed the problem when I was unable to get the conflict resolution form to open up.  Upon examining the code& ...Show All

• .NET Development registering for COM interop creating duplicate registry entries.

  Hi, I am working on .NET 2.0 beta2 on Windows 2000 advanced server. I have created small .NET dll, in which I have exposed a number of classes for COM interop using ComVisible(true) on those classes, for example:         [ComVisible(true)]         [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]         public  class Class1: IClass1         { ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Directx 9.0C issues , cant play games anymore.......

  I had a missing system DLL file in my Directx 9.0 C . I tried reinstalling 9.0C but I kept getting the same error over and over , missing system DLL file. So I decided to check with colleagues and on the Internet and Microsoft and found out that I needed to first REINSTALL the original directx 8.1 drivers from my Windows XP Home Edition cd.........but 1 needed file ( d3d8.dll) was not there which i really needed for my UNINSTALL/REINSTALL TOOL ! ...Show All

• SQL Server Information for Column-Level Merge Replication

  Please provide me a column-level merge replication in SQL Server 2005. In the SQL Sever books online, I could able to get very few informaiton about this topic. Please provide me a best practices for using this kind of conflict resolution in Merge-replication. Provide me a best solution for this problem Following are my tables structure Organization (top-level)    AddressID -> ID         & ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to hide a tab?

  I would like to show or hide tabs in a tabcontrol but the .visible property (which shows up in a TabPage objects intellisense) doesn't work. I can <i>enable</i> or <i>disable</i> a tab, but this actually disables the contents of the&nb ...Show All