Rosalba's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Fade in/out

  I use Sprite to draw some texture and want the texture fade out after some time. Should I set the "device.RenderState" before drawing the texture to do fade in/out What should I do if I want the whole screen fade in/out Thank you In order to influence all your screen you need all your element in the screen to be influence by the Ambient light, and then you play with that ambient light value ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2003 attach to process crashes Visual Studio

  I often am notified by Windows that Visual Studio 2003 has encountered a probem and has to close when I run the debug/processes command to attempt to attach to and debug one of my projects. Usually this happens after I have successfully attached to the program using the command once. Subsequent attempts to do the same the next time my process is started often results in the IDE crashing after I select the processes command. No Processes dialog s ...Show All

• Visual C++ need help with sizeof operator

  When I pass a char* array to a object constructor, and then use the sizeof operator to find the length of the array It always gives an answer of 4 bytes (ie one char**) no matter how big the actual size, is there any way to get the actual size in bytes of the pointer, without passing it to the constructor, the following code should give a better idea of the situation For example: char *names[]= { "eye.bmp","fonts.bmp", "white.bmp"} ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert to int

  Hi all what is the function name that allow me to do this operation string s="abo76hmza2" int i=function(s); now i=762; the second function i need string s="3+2"; int i=functoin2(s); now i=5; please help First Function ------------------- public int GetNumbers( string OriginalString) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder (); foreach ( char c in OriginalString) { ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't ActiveSync my Device after Cradling my Emulator

  I'm a SmartPhone owner and developer. As such, I have occasion to cradle my Emulator and my actual Device (Audiovox SmartPhone) with the same ActiveSync (v4.1.0). I'm finding that after cradling the emulator (as a Guest) I can no longer Sync my SmartPhone. I can cradle the SmartPhone and I can Explore it via ActiveSync, but I get this very vague message when it tries to sync: Synchronization error The only way I ca ...Show All

• Visual C# using keywords

  Hi everyone, I have some doubts about the usage necessity of using keywords. Instead of using this keyword, it is enough to only add the packages into our Assembly(DLL files), so inspite of this, why do some programmer do both of them(add the packages into Assembly and also use using keywords for these packages). Thanks, Mert Regardless of your having added a package to your assembly, you need either a using statement, or a complete namesp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System May I ask a Question outside .net?

  I came up against a word "streo",when I read som e_book about .net. It means "stereo",but how to pronounce it It is not a joke. I am a teacher of IT English,and i am a Chinese . I can't check the word("streo")'s pronunciation in any Dictionary. So i just ask it in various way. May you help me ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Struggle - Password chars, delete buttons and dialog box

  Hello to all forum members, For more then few days I struggle with the DataGridView Control of C# - with little success. I will appreciate your help for the following issues: I have a dB with a table that contains one column of passwords. I'm interested in displaying the information in this column as '*' and not the real content. How can I do this (Can't do casting to textbox). How would I add a 'delete' button, by which I can remov ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) InfoCard: ADFS

  Reading the InfoCard Guide to Integrating with InfoCard  I was asking myself if the ADFS can be considered (and how) an Identity Provider. Any thought Thanks, Pierre It will be post R2. We do not have a specific timeline that we can share at this point. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSSCCI provider for VS6

  I have a question about release date of subject. When it will be available Or where I could see pre-release version of this plugin Hi, This is 'coming-soon'; we are literally just working out the EULA before releasing a beta version. Thanks! Eric. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration

  I have tried to register my express version of VS2005 C# for about a week now. Each time I try I get an email back with an invalid link to retrieve my key. I have now surpassed the three tries Im alotted but still have not gotten a key to activate my product. Help! I have a project due and now Im totally locked out of it. You'll need to go through Contact Us support (free web support) to have them clear your acc ...Show All

• SQL Server Balancing scalability with availability

  We are beginning to design a new application with SQL Server 2005. Our current production environment is slated to be two SQL Server 2005 machines with the databases residing on an EMC SAN. We have requirements to both have automatic failover between servers for availability and also be able to balance the load over two hot servers for scalability. Can anyone point me in the right direction for things I need to consider in order to be able to ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dynamically populating a combo box .?

  I am trying to populate a combo box on a form based on the contents of a field within SQL. i.e. I read the data from the SQL field.  In this case I return the string "Select * From Transactions" I populate my dataset and set the dataset as the datasource of my combo box.  This works fine. However what I want to do is to use a where clause in my select statement such as "Select * From Transactions Where AccNo = '" & strAccNo & " ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SSL

  Hello, I'm new to WM development. I'm developing a client that should run on a Windows Mobile 5 device. I need to communicate with my server via SSL. Can anyone please point me to an example or a detailed document Thanks, Zohar. Have you searched through this forum yet ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Biologon in Vista?

  Hello, we develop the fingerprint security software. I would need to log the user on without his interaction with logon UI - the user simply places his finger on the sensor, our software retrieves his username and password and... and would call InitiateInteractiveLogon() from biologon.dll in Windows XP. But in Vista this doesn't seem to work. Does anybody know the solution Thank you in advance. ...Show All