notjosh's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Double buffering a panel in c++.net

  Hi Im fairly new to c++.net and im writing an application which models little creatures represented by coloured squares which move around in a panel. Ive been having problems with screen flicker, and reading around it seems double buffering is the answer. Unfortunately though, I cant seem to find any help on implimenting it in c++ (seems to be lots in c# which I tried to adapt but it didnt work). Any help would be appreciated, especially if it contains a few exemplory lines of code. Thanks in advance, Julian The games folks could have more information on such issues. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions One Click Deploy

  Hi I am having problems with the one click deployment as follows: The setup and associated files are created but when I click on the setup icon I receive the following error ERROR DETAILS Following errors were detected during this operation. * [18/01/2006 19:53:13] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (Unknown subtype) - Not a valid number of matching trusts were given an application version. - Source: System.Deployment - Stack trace: at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationTrust.RequestTrust(SubscriptionState subState, Boolean isShellVisible, Boolean isUpdate, ActivationContext actCtx, TrustManagerContex ...Show All

• Windows Forms Hosting

  Dear Friends How can I make my home pc to host a web site  Please give me brief steps to be taken. Thank You Step 1.  Install and Configure a Web Server on your PC Step 2.  Configure personal security software to allow incoming traffic on port 80 Step 3.  Configure your internet connection hardware to redirect incoming web traffic (i ...Show All

• Windows Forms IssueVision.msi cannot find my SQL instance

  I downloaded both the VB.net and C# version of IssueVision.msi to check out, but during the initial setup process neither one can locate my running instance of SQL on my local machine. Has anyone had this type of problem If so, how do you fix it I would really like to review this application. Thank you for your help. Nice one John ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Additional Alerts?

  How do I setup alerts for people to be notified when new tasks are assigned to them How do I setup alerts to be notified if someone checks in a particular file   How can I generate custom alerts Where is all of the documentation for TFS Thanks Scott Under the covers the filtering capability of the alert system is pretty extensive.  In the UI we only expose some pretty simple alert subscriptions. In VS go to Team -> Project Alerts... "My work items are changed by others" will give you alerts when new tasks are assigned to you, any task assigned to you is changed by someone else or any task assi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Question about .NET Framework version 1.1 redistributable and .NET Framework version 1.1

  Hello, I am trying to install the .NET Framework version 1.1 on a XP professional workstation that already has the .NET Framework 1.1 (with SP1) and whenever I try to do the install, it fails with no error message.  Can I have both the framework and redistributable versions on the same machine   I am trying to download the redistributable so I can install the .NET framework version 1.1 SDK.  Please advise if anyone has experienced this issue before. Thanks, Matt If the .NET 1.1 Framework with SP1 is already on your machine, you can not install the 1.1 redistributabl ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Pre/Post Operation Invokation Extensibility

  I am looking for a way to set up some state in thread local storage immediately before operations are invoked and then to clean it up immediately after they have completed. (i.e. the pre/post operation code must run on the thread used to service the request). What would be the best way to do this Thanks. Frank, The IOperationBehavior and IOperationInvoker interfaces will do it for you. The following are the major steps: 1. Create your Invoker class derived from IOperationInvoker and implement its method object IOperationInvoker.Invoke(object instance, object[] inputs, out object[] outputs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista VS2005 froozen (100% CPU)

  Hello, When I install Visual Studio 2005 extension for worklow fondation on Visual studio 2005 professional, my computer (win XP pro sp2) use 100% CPU for a long (I have wait more than 20 minutes before cancelling) time. Can somebody give me some information for solving this issue Patrick Uninstalling AnkhSVN worked - VS 2005 stops hanging on startup. I uninstalled JetBrains ReSharper 2.0 EAP#214 first, but that wasn't it. Thanks a lot for suggesting this! I'll file a bug report with the AnkhSVN developers, as this plugin is rather important to me. Any chance you'd consider native VS support for other SCM systems : ...Show All

• .NET Development Render Control to string

  I programmatically created a control and now want to get the rendered HTML as a string. How do I do it I tried:         Dim MyRenderedOutput As String = ""         Dim SW As New System.IO.StringWriter(MyRenderedOutput)         Dim hstw As New HtmlTextWriter(SW)         MyControl.RenderControl(hstw) But I get an Error: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'System.IFormatProvider'. Your help is very much appreciated Beat Hi ...Show All

• SQL Server Database Maintenance Plan Setup Failed

  I attempted to setup a Database Maintenance Plan in SQL Server 2005 for a nightly full backup of all system & user databases on my development server. When I tried to save the job, the error, "Create failed for job x" popped up. Any suggestions/ideas No errors in event log. This isn't really a question about setup, so I've moved your post to the Tools forum where you're more likely to get help. Paul ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Linq and 3rd party ORMappers

  If anyone is interested, linq is currently beeing integrated some 3rd party ormappers our own attempt with NPersist: http://blogs.wdevs.com/phirephly/archive/2006/06/05/13420.aspx http://blogs.wdevs.com/phirephly/archive/2006/06/07/13452.aspx and by the genom-e team http://blog.genom-e.com/PermaLink,guid,36c9557c-5576-44ad-b655-7e832351610f.aspx incase anyone question why it is interesting with 3rd party mappers when dlinq is on the way: both npersist and genom-e have some remoting capabillities where entities can be transfered from a server to a local machine and then back again through soap. so you can still use ormapping w/o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem with custom DDEX Provider on Binding Source configuration

  I'm writing a DDEX provider for the Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider (firebird.sourceforge.net) While Trying to configure a BindingSource from an existent connection ( that can be opened correctly from the Server Explorer and it shows the tables, stored procedures and views information correctly ), i'm getting the next error: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Failed to open a connection to the database "Unexpected error." Check the connection and try again. --------------------------- Aceptar   Ayuda    --------------------------- Any ideas about what i'm doing wrong wrong ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) dragging control will immediately crash visual studio

  Problem repro: create a new windows application fx project, create button on the grid, drag it to another location. After about 0.5 seconds visual studio throws an error and asks me if I want to debug. If i choose yes, I can get to this call stack: > ntdll.dll!7c901230() [Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for ntdll.dll] milcore.dll!53216a95() milcore.dll!5316ba53() milcore.dll!530d9318() milcore.dll!530d5b1b() milcore.dll!530d5b38() milcore.dll!530d93c2() milcore.dll!530d9204() milcore.dll!530d9464() milcore.dll!530d94b3() milcore.dll!530d57be() milcore.dll!530d57c8() milcore.dl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Is there Noone capable of answering this question on this forum?

  I have posted this question on several forums and in several newsgroups including this one. I recieve no answers other than is it a legal copy or is on cd or other such ***. Is there anyone capable of answering the question here, can I install this on my machine or not The same post I have posted everywhere else: I purchased visualstudio .net from the microsoft alliance at my school and can't get it to install on my machine, a celeron 1200.. I was able to get it to install on my wifes machine a celeron 2400. I need to install, if at all possible, onto my machine. I get a Strong Name validation failed for assembly 'C:\W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VSTS Speed

  So far I have been very disappointed with the speed of VSTS.  Whenever I run projects locally everything is fairly smooth.  However, once I connect to Team Foundation and check something in the entire app seems to do nothing for long periods of time.  I checked the CPU, Memory, and Network on the client the App/Data PC.  They all look like they are doing nothing.  If I wait for an hour... suddenly everything checks in.  I can believe this is normal.  Any Idea how I can track this down Thanks, Nate At this point, I'd recommend waiting for the September release of beta 3 ...Show All