Arild Fines's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ How to Create a .dll to be used in other Projects

  Hello Everyone, I created a project Under Win 32 and even tried MFC dll to use in other code....I have a C# code, when I try to add that .dll as a refrence that its not a valid assembly nor COM....How can I create a dlll to use under my C# project... Thanks, Harsimrat Take a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sd10k43k.aspx for interoperation and mixing native to managed code. One way, is to wrap your C++ code in managed wrappers and use the resulting managed binary in your C# application. Also, take a look at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=73716&SiteI ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can WWF Beta2 be used in vs2005 chinese version?

  Can WWF Beta2 be used in vs2005 chinese version Hi, Unfortunately you will not be able to do so. We do not have a Chinese version of Windows Workflow for Beta2 and the English does not work on Chinese VS because of a bug. Thanks Devinder ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Draw System.Windows.Media.PathGeometry in 3D?

  Is it possible to draw a PathGeometry in 3D for instance mapping it to a plane Otherwise, is it possible to mesh/tassellate/triangulate a PathGeometry Andrea Yup, just draw your path geometry on a 2D control (like a canvas), put that control in a VisualBrush, put the VisualBrush in a Material (eg DiffuseMaterial), put that Material in a GeometryModel3D, along with the mesh (MeshGeometry3D) to which you want it to be mapped, put that GeometryModel3D in a ModelVisual3D, and put the ModelVisual3D in a Viewport3D. David ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Extracting rotation/translation information from a transformation

  Is it possible to extract the rotation and translation matrices from a matrix that is the concatenation of the two, given that you don't have the rotation or the translation matrices available If so, how would you do this Thanks, Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) C# 3.0 Feature Suggestion - symbols

  I was playing around with ruby the other day and was reminded of the ":" symbol as in "abc".send(:length), although ruby doesn't care if the :length symbol actually exists on the target, it gave me the idea that we could really use a language feature that would have compile time checking for class members to be used as an alternative to passing around field/property names as strings that are later used in reflection apis, O/R mappers, rule engines, WPF, etc. Reflection can be useful way to remove clutter from the domain model and make the code simpler it can also introduce hard to find bugs (if your tests aren't good enou ...Show All

• SQL Server Protecting scripts form running (accidentally) on the wrong database

  Hi In SQL 2000/7 I have a header which is placed (automatically) at the top of mainteneance and upgrade scripts: <code/> if db_name() ='Master' or db_name() ='model' or db_name() ='msdb' or db_name() ='tempdb' raiserror('Incorrect database: abort script', 20, -1) WITH LOG Go </Code> In 2K this has the effect of bombing the connection and preventing the script running against the "important" databases In 2K5 the "with log" produces an error because the user may not necessarily have the rights to raise log events unless they are admins I'm looking for a compatable way of bombing in 2K ...Show All

• Visual Studio Beta 2 – Getting Build Verbosity

  In Beta2, there’s a new Tools Option page under “Projects and Solutions”, “Build and Run”, which includes a Build verbosity setting. When hosting MsBuild, we currently create a BuildLogger object. How do we ensure it picks up the verbosity setting set by this page Is there a mechanism to obtain a correctly set BuildLogger, or do we have to examine the option setting and create our own logger. If the latter, how do we get the value of this property I also noticed that the Managed Package Framework doesn’t appear to have been updated to deal with this new setting. Thanks in advance. Mark. Lukasz ...Show All

• Visual Basic Delete Directory

  How do you delete a directory if it has files in it and doent prompt the user.. My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory Or System.io.directory.delete http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.delete(VS.80).aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't get the actual width and height of control?

  I have a picture box.  It was a container under it.  When I access the height of the picture box it gives me the height including the container that is below it.  Is there a way to get just the picture box height Thanks in advance, Devin ...Show All

• .NET Development off topic but need help - Java Script

  Hi all, sorry i know this is totally off topic. but i need to get some help with a java script..... i dont want to bother you all with my problem unless i know there is someone out there that is good with javascript. So if your good with java script please let me know as im stuck in a desperate whole. Thanks Dan ...Show All

• Visual C# fullscreen

  I want to create a fullscreen window in which I can draw in. I dont want any window frame to be visible, or the windows toolbar to be visible. I tried doing this with a regular winform, and changing the dimensions to the screen dimensions, but the window frame and toolbar were still visible. How should I go about entering into some kind of fullscreen mode in which I can draw in Creating a window that covers even the task bar is probably not a good idea.  I as a user would not run such an app.  If it were a game or something using DirectX then the API already provides a method for doing this. Howeve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions metronome

  how would you write visual basic code for a metronome i'm fairly new and can't find help anywhere Find a nice metronone wav file invoke the sound with a timer You can control the interval with a slider. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Modify Load Test file

  Hi, I use load test tool for a while but I don't know whether I can change the load test file ( with loadtest extension) programatically before the load test starts Thanks, Ran Mouri Hi Ran, I don't think I understand what you want to do. Can you ellaborate Why do you want to change the loadtest Thanks, David ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComboBox - catch Enter Key press event

  Hi, how can i catch an Enter key press in a combobox It works with a textbox that is set to AllowEnter = true but the combobox KeyPressEventArgs don't seem to handle the Enter button. So how can i get around that thanks, tom ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. dds file format usage benefits

  hi a question is next, what are benefits of using DDS file fomat for textures, say over other graphics formats(PNG,TGA,JPG). say dds is compressed, but is it gives lower memory usage or some speed, since dds is directx format, so I can think its better in all diecttions to use. On emore thing, does dds used in some worldwide games Some dds benefits : - It can contain a lot things, for example cubemap, mipmaps, and so on in one file. - Volumetexture support - It has a good tool, dx texture tool to change format, check it out. - Alpha channel (other textures can be opened as alpha channel for the texture) There is not r ...Show All