Finzzownt's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Great, VS2005 is released! when will we see VS SDK released?

  Subject says it all. just wondering when we will see the VS SDK release now that Visual Studio 2005 is released. Bill I think it's just showed up on VSIP Downloads. "October 2005 RTM This is the final release version of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK for use with the RTM versions of Visual Studio 2005." Wasn't that going to be listed as November 2005 release ...Show All

• .NET Development Security Problems

  dears, am developing web application that use Tablet PC which created in windows application as Windows Control,and use the windows control through html by <object classid=......>, after that i have many errors 1)when i do save image or upload image it appear SecurityException (the save,upload image from windows control). that is the Error:   System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type System.S ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to draw a persistent image?

  Hi, I have a PDA running under Windows Mobile 5 and I'm working with Visual Studio 2005. I want to draw an image anywhere on the screen, ie. even outside of the application's window, in a way that makes it 'persistent' (unless I want otherwise). Let me explain. Normally when a window pops up (presumably external to my application) at the position of the image, the window covers the image so that it disappears. But I want to prevent that from hap ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS within a SQL named instance?

  Is it possible to install TFS in a named instance of SQL Server 2005 Beta 3 Refresh documentation says that it isn’t possible. Is there any workaround Will this restriction still be present in RTM   Regards, Max Andrade I'm afraid it is not possible and the restriction will still be present at RTM.  TFS must be installed in the default instance.  This is a restriction we hope to remov ...Show All

• SQL Server URGENT : DataSource Problem

  HI, My name is Paras Dhawan, I was looking for a code which can execute mdx queries through JAVA code using XML for Analysis and I found the following code at Microsoft Forum (click to see) import java.net.*; import java.util.*; import org.apache.soap.*; import org.apache.soap.rpc.*; import org.apache.soap.encoding.*; import org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.*; import org.apache.soap.util.xm ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I loaded a mesh and it gets drawn weirdly....

  I'm trying to load the airplane formthe dx9 samples. For some reason it gets drawn weirdly: http://img20.imageshack.us/my.php image=dx9thinger4vh.jpg Here's how I'm doing it: public class Model { Mesh mesh = null; Material[] materials = null; Texture[] textures = null; public Model() { } public Model(Device device, String filepath) { ExtendedMaterial[] tempMaterials; mesh = Mesh.FromFile(filepath ...Show All

• Windows Forms When to use Databinding in Windows Form

  Hello Guys, Do any one can provide information on when to use databinding in windows form, and best practices for this. Thanks! In general, databinding is used to move data (display and update) between the screen and a permanent data source, like a database. Try reading about databinding in the MSDN, and searching this forum and the internet for more information. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office question for Microsoft Office File Properties

  Hi My question: I have created my custom file format. And i set “Summary information” stream and “Document information” stream to my file. Then in Microsoft Explorer on File Properties/Summary tab shows only Title, Subject, Category, Keywords, Comments, Source, author, Revision Number property. But if i change file extension (for instance) to “.doc” or “.ppt”, File Properties/Summary tab shows all properities such as word count and pages. How it ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Source for JPEG.dll for Windows Mobile 5.0 device

  One of our CE products requires jpeg.dll.  This library was a system file on PPC 2003 products but is missing from my Windows Mobile 5.0 device. Is this build into any of the existing Windows Mobile CE libaries   If so which one do I need to link against If not where can I get either the equivalent dll or a Visual Studio project to compile it myself Alicia I personally don't know the details, ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid rowheight

  Hi, I am having difficulties setting the row height of the windows DataGrid. Do you know how to change the row height of the grid when using a tablestyle P.S. I am using the tablestyle to change the size of one of the columns. And because of this, I can not use datagrid.preferedrowheight property. I can now set the rowheight but the problem now is that when I click on another row and go back to the row which had the proper height, it goes ba ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I read a 250 Meg XML file?

  Ok.  A vendor is giving me a 250 Meg XML file.  I am having a very difficult time reading this, because of the size.  I keep getting memory errors in my application.  Here is the basic code I am using to read this.  I am sure that the xmlDoc.Load is reading the entire document into memory.  What I need, is to read it a I go, not all at once.  I can't figure out an Xml way of doing it.  The only way I can t ...Show All

• .NET Development Using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider to authenticate against ADAM

  Hi there, I've searched all over the internet and found more developers with the same problem, but no solutions at all. I'm using the June CTP of VS.NET 2005 on WinXP SP2 and want to use the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider to validate my users against ADAM. My web.config contains the following parts (where CDomain\MyUsername is a local administrator that is also member of the administrators-group in the ADAM-instance): < connectionStr ...Show All

• Visual C# Mouse and Keyborad API

  hello ppl,, im making a lan administrator program and im wondering if theres any API to manage the mouse and keyboard.... i have a program that need to be able to lock a computer... for example.. when the server send a message to a client... the keyboard and the mouse should be locked,, no matter if the client moves the mouse,, or if he press keyboard,, I need to disable them,, and also if possible.. move the mouse to a specific location,,make ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to write to access db in VB.Net 2005 (migrating from VB6)

  Hello all, I am recently in the process of migrating from VB6 to VB.Net 2005 B2.  I so far love everything I see, except for this problem.  (I am jumping from 6 to 8, skipping .NET 2003). The only problem I have is writing to an access database.  The following is the code I am using to read from my database... which works flawlessly ... I am referencing (the same as I did in VB6): Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.5 Library Micr ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C++ Common Architecture questions

  Firstly, precompiled headers are new to me. If a project is set up to use one, does that mean that each new .cpp file must include it Does it also mean I need to #include and re-build the .pch each time I add a new header file Secondly... after updating the August sdk with the December 2005 release, the fps count in a project was capped at 60. While that's not a problem, ( as I understand that's ideal ), I did use fps as a gauge for ...Show All