Ikhan's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Managed DirectX, disposing resources

  If objects dispose themselves in C#, do we ever need to explicitly dispose Pool.Default resources when the device is reset or Pool.Managed resources when the device is destroyed If they dispose themselves, what are the OnLostDevice and OnDestroyDevice methods for Its always best to manage the lifetime of Managed DirectX objects yourself for a couple of reasons. If you have the default even behaviour enabled ...Show All

• Windows Forms Controls emulating Mac interface

  Well, I am a young windows programmer and I really admire Mac interface. Buttons and toolbars are perfect, don't you think  Do you know any .NET or ActiveX controls emulating Mac interface Thanks in advance. www.dotnetskin.com www.dotnetskin.net Enjoy. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Sql CE for smartphone

  Hi to all, I am new to the development of smart phone application. i would like to know whether the smart phone has any sql ce edition as they have for pocket pc. can we access the database using Smart Phone second Edition. Can anyone give me any instruction regarding this or any useful links Thanks in advance Regards Biju S Melayil SQL CE/Mobile is not supported on SmartPhone prior to WM 5 ...Show All

• Windows Forms My Control's Are Stacked!

  Hey, I'm having an issue with a few of my custom controls. I want to add my custom controls to another control at runtime and have them dock to the top.  (this.Controls.Add(<myCustomControl>);) The controls get added to the form but they all dock&n ...Show All

• SQL Server Link server error The provider did not give any information about the error

  Hi! We have a test  server (win 2003) in which MSSQL server is installed.In my system (win XP)I  installed MYSQL server ,MY sql odbc driver.Now all I want is to create a linked server on MSSQL server so that data on Both server can be in sync.When even a new record in inserted in MYSQL it should be replicated to MSSQL srvr tabl immeditely I tried to create a linked  server but every time I got this error Error 739 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Cider and other tools

  Hi To All, What are the significant differences between "Cider - Visual designer for WPF" and Microsoft Expression products ( Acrylic, Sparkle and Quartz that also targets WPF ) (Other than that cider may be a designer tool built within Orcas ) Thanks, Ganesan Krishnamurthy. Hi Ganesan, The spirit of the differences between the various tools can be summed up in the customer they're each trying to address.  ...Show All

• .NET Development Resource editor suggestion?

  I'm looking for a resource editor (for use with VS2005) that better than what's included in Visual Studio.  Primary will be working strings, and some binary data. Anyone have any suggestions, recommendations TIA, Richard The problem you are most likely seeing is that the resource editor complains about the file already existing, right The default file name of the image is taken from the resource name, whi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to save Files with a "SaveFileDialog"

  I don't Really know how Can someone tell me how Like you type a string in a textbox and you press a button called "Save" then you want to select the folder you want to save the .txt at.    Thanks It's a two step process: a) Get the file name and file path: The SaveFileDialog doesn't save anything: it simply allows your user to navigate to an allowed folder and enter a valid filename. The dialog box looks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem uploading file to sql

  Can someone please help me with this code. I am trying to upload a file to my sqlserver but it won´t work. I have tried using it in asp.net and i works fine, but not in a windows form     Private Sub btSelect_Click(ByVal se ...Show All

• Windows Forms standalone appln

  i developed a small stand alone accounting application using vb.net2005 and ms-access 2003 as backend now, i want to make setup file of my appln and install it on my client system i dont have any idea about deployment issues or different kind of deployment methods pls suggest me the best kind of setup and deployment You can start by checking out ClickOnce. This blog entry has a list of pointers to Clic ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting basic question

  Hi All, I am new to .NET Remoting and have a very basic question regarding it- While creating a remoting application, both the remoting client and the remoting server needs a reference to the remote object library( the dll that contains the remotable object). I don't understand why the client need to have a reference to the remote object library Adding a refernce to the remote object library from the client will copy the remote object dll ...Show All

• .NET Development Problems with my Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE

  Every time I start my Visual Studio.NET 2003 IDE, it starts up in a tiny little box that I have to re-expand every time.  Supposedly, when I shut it down, it's supposed to save the layout.  However, it doesn't, and every time I run the thing again, it starts up in this little square that I have to re-expand. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I have tried deleting my devenv.xml file in my application settings. Anyone have any ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2000 On Server 2003 x64

  Hi guys, I'd like to clarify that SQL Server 2000 can be ran on the 64bit edition of Windows Server using SP4. We'd like to do this as an interim step for moving to 64bit SQL 2005. Thanks for any comments. Darren Yes. 32-bit SQL Server 2000 and its SP4 can be installed on x64 machines. There is neither 64-bit SQL Server 2000 nor its SP4 for x64 machines. But there is 64-bit SQL Server 2000 for IA64 machines. So ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Who has a PPC-6700 Sprint AudioVox Mobile 5 (Can I use GPS?)

  I have the Sprint AudioVox PPC-6700 and I know that it has the built in GPS chipset but everywhere that I search I can not find out how to actually access the API. There are a few of the GPS API references throughout msdn & msdn2 but none have an actual walk through. It is very easy to access the phone API's and contact lists/appointments and whatnot but the GPS is not to be found. As far as the GPS is conserned one could argue that it ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Buffer overrun in SQLDriverConnect()?

  Hi, I am running a unicode web application where data passed is in the form of MBCS. Now i am receiving 'Buffer Overrun Detected' error while connecting to CDatabase::OpenEX(). I have an application developed in VC++ (MFC). BTW, connection string passed is in non-unicode format hence there should not be a problem in connecting to database. One more point to notice is, I am getting this error in DEBUG mode and not in RELEASE mode. Can ...Show All