Tim McDaniel's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms GDI+ & games?

  Would it be wise to develop a game in a .net language using GDI+ for gfx in the game or is it too slow  I've tried to learn DirectX 9 but I find it to have a slow learning curve. The game I'm developing is a 2D scroller, but because I will use physics in the game the cpu will have a lot of work to do. What do&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ syntax in VB.NET

  I've been looking into this LINQ thing, and it's looking good. Thumbs up! I watched the videos on Channel9 with the Great Dane Anders Hejlsberg (ok he lives in the US but I like to think of him as Danish) - godt gaet Anders og co! I really like the syntax in C# where you turn the query around when compared to SQL, so it is like FROM {x} WHERE {y == 1} SELECT {z}. This I understand was done because of IntelliSense, which is great. Now I have learned that the VB.NET implementation is not turned around, it's more like SQL, and I wonder why... Are we gonna lose IntelliSense over this /Klaus Enevoldsen Welcome t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Area and Iteration fields and field constraints

  Hello, we are busy editing work item types (fields, states and transitions,... ) for our own use. We edit the process templates with Process Template Editor Tool (Imaginet Resources). In one problem we ran: It seems not possible to add field constraints to the fields Area Path and Iteration Path (TreePath data type). We want mark these fields as Required and preselect default values. Every time I try to add a constraint to such a field, I get an error: e.g. "TF26062: Rule "<Required>" is not supported for the field System.Area.Path." What is the reason for that behavior Is there an other possibility t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Working with Frames

  We have a website that requires a login and, based on users roles, displays anywhere from 3 to 10 frames. The initial recording was done with a "super user" account so that all requests were recorded. Now, during playback with an ID having limited access, the web test fails due to the number of frames not authorized for this user. I believe that I can determine what frames are authorized for this user by looking at the response from an earlier request and use this information to prevent the calls that I know are going to fail. Is this doable Thanks. I coould do this from a coded web test. How ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Failing a test step

  I have a load test which contains various web tests along with many remote servers which perform tasks based on the responses received.  The webtest performs several actions which use validation rules to check the pages are displayed correctly etc. However data contained in one of the response is passed to a custom TCP connection and transmitted to a waiting server to process. The server then does some 'stuff' with the response and sends back a pass fail status. Ideally if a fail is received I would like to mark the previous web request also as failed. Or at minimum mark the current itteration  ...Show All

• .NET Development New Controls

  Does Microsoft have plans for adding an IP Edit box control into VS 2005   Many developers have been looking for one with the same functionality used to change your IP address in the Windows Network Settings for many years.  It would be helpful for one to be included so we could drag and drop onto our forms. -Jason David, You said that maskedTextBox allows you to move to the next component, could you clarify upon this. I am setting a custom mask as 99999.99 , for a decimal number. Its possible that a user wants to enter only 356.50, so he has two move till the decimal by using space which is of ...Show All

• Visual Basic Wich array type???

  Hi I would like to make an array of some sort, with these things: key(int),Name(String),adress(string),amount(int) ... What kind of array can i use to make this type of data collection It should have some of the same qualities of the dictionary array where you search by the key. Unfortunately the dictionary can only store two values.. You can create a small class to hold the individual items: Public Class Person    Public Key As Integer    Public Name As String    Public Address As String    Public Amount As Decimal End Class Then create a ...Show All

• SQL Server Full RecordSet not Received from SQL Server ??

  My IT dept and I are completely stumped on this problem, and if there is a better forum to post this question to, please let me know. Thanks! I have an ASP web-site connecting to an Access db, and everything works fine. I ported the Access db to SQL Server 2005 Express and on only 1 page, when I request a recordset, I do not get all the fields returned. Some of the fields are "blank" (not NULL). When I test for NULL (Not IsNull), the answer is True, but the field does not contain the numeric value that I can see in the SQL db. The page is identicle from the Access based site to the SQL Server based site, so I'm really conf ...Show All

• Visual Basic Sub Main

  Hello How can I startup my project from "Sub Main" But I don't want to disable application framework because If I disabled it, I can't make single instance application. How can I startup my project from "Sub Main" and use "single instance application" Thanks Thanks I still have a problem. If I disabled application framework, I cannot set shutdown mode to "when last form closes". Is there another way to set shutdown mode to "when last form closes" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changes in behavior of the DomainProjectPicker control in the TFS RC

  The behavior of the DomainProjectPicker control seems to have changed in the RC, and I want to understand the best way to handle it. I have been using this control in a standalone application that uses the TFS OM for months now to allow clients to choose a server and project, etc. The problem is, in the RC - due to what I assume are changes related to what you are discussing in this thread - the user is no longer prompted with the same credentials dialog (the one that allowed you to save your password.) Instead, they receive an error message when the DomainProjectPicker control's ShowDialog() method is called. I have read that the credential ...Show All

• SQL Server XQuery: SQL type 'xml' is not supported in XQuery.

  Why is this I am trying to insert an xml fragment into the children of a node using XML-DML insert statement, but it is not letting me do anything useful. How can I insert an xml fragment into the node structure of an existing xml field Any ideas Thanks... Putting a bump on this because it is exactly the same thing I am trying to do. I figured this would be something TOTALLY simple to do but, for some reason XQuery doesn't understand xml hehe pretty funny stuff ...Show All

• Visual C++ Watchdog Timer

  Hi Everyone, Are there any accurate timers in Windows that can be used like a Watchdog timer What is the closest to it Is there a type of timer in windows (besides SetTimer and KillTimer) that will call a function after a time expires Thanks, Jason SetTimer can also take a function parameter. Just read the docs. Still SetTimer needs a message loop, and without running MessageLoop no WM_TIMER or TimerProc is executed. Otherwise you need a second thread for your WatchDog. ...Show All

• .NET Development Collect Search Results

  I am pretty new to .NET programing. I want to create an application that will query multiple remote websites and return the results data to my program. How would I approach this Are there examples of this online If you want a UI component you can use the WebBrowser control (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.aspx ). If you want to just issue HTTP GET requests programmatically, you can use the HttpGetRequest or WebClient types (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.aspx ) Here is a sample on how to use the WebBrowse ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to get the version inforamtion of microsoft office ,that is ,office 2000 or office 2002?

  How to get the version inforamtion of microsoft office ,that is ,office 2000 or office 2002 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Capture MouseClick or MouseDown event in WebBrowser Control

  Hi! Is it possible to capture the MouseClick or MouseDown event in a WebBrowser Control I tried but it seems that the events are not firing.... Thanks for your help. Jus You'll need to sync the event you want on the particular HTML element.  The way you do this is to use the DocumentComplete event - surf through the WebBrowser.Document, find your element and sync the mouse event you want. ...Show All