martin_eifert's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. May seem like a silly question... (DirectX logo)

  What are the terms for using the DirectX logo in a game Been looking all over without finding an answer. In my case I'd like to display it as an icon while performing initialization and during configuration. I had the same question just recently, and emailed our Friendly Community Manager :), in doing so I got a really good and helpful answer. What I found out is that there is no official logo bundles available, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Should you exemplificate me how to use pre- and post-deployment script?

  As of subject. There are some statements you may want to run before or after database is deployed. Those may be setting users, permissions, server settings, etc. .When you build, the database deployment script generated in your output directory (i.e. ..\\Database6\Database6\Sql\NewDB or .. \\Database6\Database6\Sql\UpdateDB ) is prepended by the content of the Pre-Deployment Script and Post-Deployment script ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Add-in for MS Outlook. Problrm with PropertyPage

  Hello all. I develope add-in for MS Outlook. Add PropertyPage in "Settings". But my page is cut of the right. Where error You've probably just made your options page too wide. There is a maximum width limit which is about 415 pixels. ...Show All

• Visual C++ create binary file

  I'm trying to get a binay file open to save the high scores of the game I'm writing (with allegro, if you want to know) . Heres how I'm doing it. (posted in order of calling) [global] fstream sav; [main()] sav.open( "hssav.sav" , ios::binary|ios::in|ios::out); [game() function called by main()] textprintf(buffer, font, SCREENW / 2, 30, BLUE, "Opened %d" , (( int )sav.is_open())); //prints the integer r ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System depend request

  1) What exactly does add depend request mean 2) Is it possible (without code) to say based on an extraction rule request this page I am writing a web test for a site with multiple security roles. I wrote the test with the master security role. Now I want it only to make certain webpage requests based on the user logon ~Todd A dependant request is simply one that happens because of some other request. For exampl ...Show All

• Windows Forms SETUP Forcing desktop short to All Users

  Using the MSI builder that is in VS.NET 2002 OR 2003, I cannot figure out how to get around installing the shortcut on just the desktop of the current user when doing installs. It is not uncommon for people on my client's site to use& ...Show All

• SQL Server Annotations

  Is there anyway to allow my Data Flow annotations to wrap (April CTP) Thanks   DarrenSQLIS wrote: Would be nice if they actually wrapped though, so when you resize a component's screen icon, you don't have to change the hard-code line breaks. Logged this a while back. Yeah, I put in a request for font formatting and the ability embed links/images as well. Basically an editor like the one I'm curren ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Presentation of 3D Evolution Games engine Microsoft.DirectX.dll version 2.0

  Hello here is the worlds first 3d games engine for Microsoft.DirectX.dll version 2.0 we have just realaese the engine you can registre and download the engine and 4 tutorials , alot more is comming Plaese give a try. The engine is free. shaerd source 70 % close and 30 % open Michael Hansen Mh@3devolution.net Http://www.3devolution.net Please do not double post. Your other thread has been removed. This is du ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions System.InvalidOperationException in System.Windows.Forms.dll

  Hello, I use to do programming long time ago, in the DOS era, survived TRS80, Tiny Basic, GWbasic and Quickbasic. Recently I managed to pickup programming Basic style again with Visual Basic Express. After installing it and playing a bit around, I tried to find an initial setup for a Local area network packet sniffer. Google came up with a package called PackMon.NET and Sniffer.NET from v2softwares http://www.1vbstreet.com/vb/scripts/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Reports: ParameterField Object displaying J# Methods/Properties in Intellisense

  In VS .NET 2003, I am trying to duplicate the MSDN C# example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/crystlmn/html/crtskparameterfieldsruntimecustomization.asp frame=true However, intellisense does not display the ParameterField object's method "ParameterFieldName" or the collection "CurrentValues". But it does display a long list of setters and getters that seem to be used in the J# portion of the above example. Anyone have any ideas on ...Show All

• Smart Device Development configuring pocket pc 2003 second edition in vs 2005 to test mobile web applications

  Does somebody know how to configure the pocket pc 2003 second edition emulator that ship with visual studio 2005 to test mobile web applications. I keep getting the following error message:requested url not found Here is the url I use:http://localhost/jotali (jotali is the name of my application folder in IIS under wwwroot) Thanks in advance Please check that you have done following things 1. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Security policy does not permit customization to run

    screenshot I have no clue what to do to solve this problem.  It's a VB.Net 2005 application that starts a Word document (also created with VB.Net), which in turn load a normal Word document and fills in the CustomDocumentProperties. Both apps work as they're supposed to, but when they have to work together, I get this security warning. I tried the text below, but there is no simple Properties window (only that complex s ...Show All

• Visual Basic Saving Image as jpg with particular size into access database

  I want to save image from picture box into access database with size of 400x300, regardless of whatever the original size of picture in the picture box. 1). For example The Picture may be Desk or Chair. Chair size may be 50x75 varias Desk size might be 400x300. The rest area of Chair picture should be saved as transparent or white space into the database. So when we retreive the picture it won't be distorted. Can anyone help me to ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to add soapExtensionTypes into web.config file

  Hi, I use Visual Web Developper 2005 beta. I have a class inherited from SoapExtension called AxisSoapExtension. This class is into my application App_Code folder. I try to configure web.config file to declare this SoapExtension: < xml version="1.0" > <configuration> ...   <webServices>    <soapExtensionTypes>     <add type="AxisSoapExtension" priority="1" group="0 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with ToolboxBitmapAttribute

  I have created a custom component and now I want to display a custom bitmap when the component is displayed in the toolbox.  I have applied the ToolboxBitmap attribute as follows: [ToolboxBitmap( typeof (Resources), "Resources.ComponentImage")] public class MyComponent : Component {    ... }   The weird thing is I can call ToolboxBitmapAttribute.GetImageFromResource( typeof (Resources), "Resources.Component ...Show All