Angel Malus's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Playing wave files

  Greetings, Can I get some direction on how to play a wave file using C++ Express Edidtion. First off, I have been searching and reading but have not found something that will work easily for me. Playsound(); playresource(); Don't seem to work. Missing header file Not supported by Express Not sure what a .rc file is or how to use it. Very green with C++. Two classes in college 5 years ago. Things have changed... Thanks!! Before you dive into multimedia programming, you may want to find a basic programming tutorial that you can follow along to get generally comfortable with Visual C++ an ...Show All

• Windows Forms AutoScroll in Panel

    In Windows Forms App, I use a Panel with the AutoScroll property to presents a PictureBox.  MouseWheel acts on VScroll. But I would like to use MouseWheel to change the cursor without acting on VScroll .  I can change the cursor but not stop VScroll. How to do this in VB.NET Many thanks   i think you need to resort to PINVOKE here. you need to subclass the panel and listen to the appropriate window messages and do your custom message processing.. ...Show All

• Visual C# passing data from a form to another

  those anybody know how can i pass data from form1 to form2 i want to put a TextBox1 in form 1 and when Form2 initialize,  show a MessageBox with the Form1 TextBox1.Text   Please help How exactly you want to do that I mean, when some one type something in TextBox in Form1, you want to show that message or lets say some body has typed something in that textbox and then the Form2 is initializing at that time you want that text in TextBox of Form1   In second, case its very simple way that Make a public property  that can expose the textbox or Text of textbox anything you want then at Initial ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions opengl api

  I'm taking a class on computer graphics soon and I want to get set up to compile glut etc. I found many resources online for how to install pdsk, update visual8 c++ express direcories to read from pdsk bin, include and lib. I even got the glut.h , glut.dll (put this in system32)and glut.lib. I got the #include <Gl/glut.h> to compile fine for a win32 console application. The program I got from a book using glut compiles fine no errors. It executes fine but doesn't do what I expect. The window that appears is blank. I guess there is some kind of opengl api the visual c++ is supposed to write to but it never does. It would be great to get ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Distorted texture after lost/reset device

  Hi, I'm drawing a textured mesh using DrawIndexedPrimitive, using an effect interface. After a windowed/full screen toggle the texture appears distorted. Interestingly when I draw another mesh in wireframe mode in the same render call the problem doesn't occur. Can somebody help Nico Depending on where you load the textures to, you need to release them and recreate them. Make sure that you are properly handling them. Look at the Samples in the DirectX SDK install directory and also under lost devices in the documentation. It explains clearly how you must handle a lost device and how to reset it. I hope thi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Install 32 bit SDK on 64 bit OS?

  I'm new to the 64 bit OS but I want to use it to develop 32 bit applications using the 32 bit VC++. Can you install the 32 bit Platform SDK (Windows 2003 Server/SP1) on a 64 bit Windows XP OS When I attempt to install the 32 bit SDK, I get an error indicating it is for the wrong platform. Thanks. I have the Windows Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 SP1 and it installs fine on all flavors of Windows XP and it can target several different processors. Just be sure you open the correct build environment for your OS and machine. I use it now in Windows x64 and it does fine for me. ...Show All

• SQL Server Databound image in report header

  After finding out that SSRS doesn't directly support databound items in the header or footer, I found the workaround from Microsoft yesterday at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159677.aspx . The problem is that their solution only works for the first page of the report, so it's basically useless! Because this is an image, it also means the workaround of using a parameter doesn't work, either. Does anybody have any advice Is there a solution to this problem One approach to accomplish this is to create a custom function that queries the database for the image, caches it and then returns it for us ...Show All

• Visual C# How to destroy an object in C#?

  I created an object using "new" method from a class. After some operation, I need to explicitly destroy this object. In vb the code is simply "object=nothing". But in C#, i don't know how to do that. Thks. Actually, object = nothing does not delete it at all. object = null; will do what object = nothing does in VB.NET, which is to discard the reference to it, which will speed up when it will be cleaned up by the garbage collector, but you can't know when that will be. If an object has a Dispose() method, you need to call it before it goes out of scope. You can use the using keyword to do this for you autom ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to set the Formuals options of Excel 2003 in Csharp code as runtime.

  Menu: Excel2003>Tools>Options>Click View tabpage. There is a Formuals option.Can you tell me how to set the option in runtime Thanks! This is more of a question for the Excel Programming newsgroup. You can post your question here:   http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.excel.programming&lang=en&cr=US Thanks! Mike Hernandez Community PM VSTO Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms Panel alpha transparency issues

  I've been working for a couple of days now on a simple interface that looks nicer than the default Windows form.  Please feel free to blast me if there's a better way to do this, but here's what I've found: - Drawing alpha-transparent pngs on the form using the Bitmap class works beautifully... overlapping images is not a problem. - However, the i ...Show All

• .NET Development passing xml to a webservice?

  I'm new to webservices. Started with my first one today. I'm told that I need to create one that another system will use to pass data to my system. This other system is on a mainframe, I think. Supposedly, we have a schema for them to use to send data through to us, and so I was wondering how I code this I know how to just take individual pieces of data in arguments that are passed with the method call, but am not sure what type of argument to use if they're passing a set of data in xml form. Besides answering this question, I'm curious what best-practices are regarding this issue. You can ac ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office What happens if I call CommandBar.Enabled when the menu is displayed?

  Hi; This is a continuation in my quest to enable/disable the menu when it is displayed. The message I can intercept comes after Word draws the menu. What happens if the menu is enabled/disabled after the menu drops down thanks - dave ...Show All

• SQL Server Where is the Northwind SQL scripts for SQL server 2005

  I am looking for the northwind install script in my SQL server 2005 directory and cannot find it. The introduction to VB 2005 uses it for an example and I would like to walk thru it. Does anyone have the sql If so could you send it to me. I am going to see if I can get it off a 2000 install. Thanks. Hi Arnie, thanks for sharing the helpful link. i downloaded the northwind db setup from the microsoft site and i found that the script are not complete. im not able to find ProductsByCategory and many other like CategoriesList etc stored procedure at all. im surprised that how could microsoft could share t ...Show All

• .NET Development Server as form - how to call methods on the form etc.

  Hi all, I am trying to write a music player (hosted in a winform) that can be controlled using Remoting over TCP/IP from different applications (e.g. asp.net, pocketpc etc.)  The problem I have been unable to solve is how to get my remote object (instantiated on server as singlecall) to call methods on the server winform which hosts e.g. the mediaplayer activex control. For example, I want to do soemthing like the following: 1.  Client (say PocketPC app) calls "play" method on remote object passing filename of mp3 to play 2.  Remote object validates existence of file and calls method on winform to play file 3.  MediaP ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Distorted texture after lost/reset device

  Hi, I'm drawing a textured mesh using DrawIndexedPrimitive, using an effect interface. After a windowed/full screen toggle the texture appears distorted. Interestingly when I draw another mesh in wireframe mode in the same render call the problem doesn't occur. Can somebody help Nico Depending on where you load the textures to, you need to release them and recreate them. Make sure that you are properly handling them. Look at the Samples in the DirectX SDK install directory and also under lost devices in the documentation. It explains clearly how you must handle a lost device and how to reset it. I hope thi ...Show All