Panagiotis Kefalidis's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Variables values

  How can i see the variable values while program is running Set a breakpoint in your code, or put them inside a setter method so when they change you can set their value on a control somewhere. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Height of a picture

  I'm starting with DirectX (working with C++), and I'm loading some pictures with the function D3DXCreateTextureFromFile into textures. How can I know the dimensions of the picture I mean the height and the left. for C++ i don't exactly know but, in vbs you can Dim a file as picture and then, when you write the name you gave to the picture e.g. picture1 and then enter a dot (.) a box appears where you can select ...Show All

• SQL Server Deserialization Failed: Parent Columns and Child Columns don't have type-matching columns.

  After about an hour and a half of validation, my Analysis Services database has been migrated from 2000 to Analysis Services 2005. I am now receiving the error in the subject any time I try and access the Data Source View that was created. All dimensions and cubes cannot be processed. I have tried editing the xml manually to no avail. Any ideas would be much appreciated! Would still like to know what the issue is, but I found a w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VS 2005 Express C# hangs when creating WinApp.

  Hi! I've just installed VS 2005 Express C# (without previously installing any betas) with the 2.0 framework and SQL Express. Installation completes with (reported) errors. Creating a ClassLib project works. However, after creating a new WinApp project the IDE hangs. After the empty form and the Solution Explorer are displayed I can't click on anything without the hourglass popping up and staying up, indefinetly. Trying to close the IDE gives the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Editing the email notification format

  Hi every one, I'm trying to customize the email notification format. I'm doing it by editing the XSL Stylesheets file. I succeed to edit the mail body, but I couldnt find a way to change the 'subject' of the mail. Thanks in advance, Shmulik There is not a mechanism to change the subject for Team Foundation alerts. You've already discovered that the XSLT TeamFoundation.xsl is responsible ...Show All

• Visual C++ Activex control newbie question

  Is there a difference between OCX files (Activex Control) to a DLL component that is created using ATL Which method is better Also, can I package DLL into cab files to embed in HTML Or can I only do this with OCX files steve bushner wrote: Is there a difference between OCX files (Activex Control) to a DLL component that is created using ATL Which method is better Also, can I package DLL i ...Show All

• Visual C# remove specified character [] from string

  Hi, I need to know How can I excluding any characters of a string except a specified set of characters defined by Char[ ]. Example: if I have Char[ ] x = {..,..,..,.........}; string y; and y is a mixture of characters in x and other characters not in x so how can I return a string z that contains only the characters belong to x and excluding all others Thanks in advance for any help. Aya. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can no longer add reference to CF 2.0 assembly in windows forms application

  Hi everyone I had solution that contained many projects which was written in visual studio 2005 beta 2, the solution contained both smart device projects (windows forms and class libraries) and projects that targeted the full framework as well (windows forms and class libraries).  Some of my full framework projects contained references to my .net CF 2.0 class libraries as I wanted to share the libraries between both platforms.  This ...Show All

• Windows Forms What is the AddNew method of BindingContext???

  I need to try this question again: Does anyone know what the AddNew method of BindingContext Class is   It is not documented in the Class Members. Here is the code that generated this question.  This code is found on a form displaying one  ...Show All

• SQL Server The transaction log for database 'mydatabase' is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait

  Every time I get this error, at different points of testing inserts and deletions on my table: The transaction log for database 'mydatabase' is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases Why do I keep getting this All I'm doing is deleting several hundred thousand records and inserting them into a couple of tables. i shouldn't have to truncate my log every time or my application ...Show All

• Windows Forms very urgent : how to set width and height of toolbar

  hi there,  plz help me.  i need to resize the toolbar for one of my application, since the toolbar is taking its default size i.e. '630', coz i hv to place some controls whose width is greater than toolbar. how would i do this. thanx in advance Are you using the ToolBar control If so, do the following: 1. Change the ToolBar.AutoSize property to false . 2. Change the ToolBar.Dock property to DockStyle.None . ...Show All

• .NET Development .net framework 2 on windows 2000?

  Can .net framework 2.0 be installed on windows 2000 server without problems Is there any restriction Thanks Absolutely Luis: we're actively testing on this platform so there shouldn't be any hitches. Let me know if that aint the case! Regards, Kit kitg@microsoft.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Replacement equivalent for SQK2K SQL-NS in SQL2005

  Is there a comparable replacement for SQL2K Namespace (SQL-NS) in SQL2005   I kind of remember that there wasn't way back when but couldn't recall for sure now.  ...Show All

• Windows Forms System.ArgumentException when extending ToolStripMenuItem

  Hi, i made a custom control extending ToolStripMenuItem and i'm overriding the OnPaint method, but on the OnPaint method if i write graphics.Dispose() in the end every time the class is intanciated for the second time it throws an System.ArgumentException: System.ArgumentException was unhandled Message="Parameter is not valid." Source="System.Drawing" StackTrace: at System.Drawing.Graphics.set_TextRenderingHint(TextRe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Organizing Projects into Products or Customers or Releases?

  Hi! We're trying to figure out how to best organize our VSTS projects. We have 5 different product all sharing the same core. We have core releases every 3 month, and a product release about every 6 month.The core is developed together with the product, so before the start of a new core release, the "core" functionality from all released product are merged into the Core. In addition a product are usually sold together with some c ...Show All