Raffaele Rialdi's Q&A profile

• Architecture Microsoft Architect Insight conference 22/23 March 2006

  Microsoft Architect Insight Conference, 22-23 March, Newport, UK This exclusive two-day retreat for senior enterprise, infrastructure and solutions architects, at The Celtic Manor Resort, will feature renowned industry speakers such as Ivar Jacobson, creator of the Rational Unified Process and Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, along with speakers from the event sponsors: Avanade, Capgemini, Conchango and ThoughtWorks. We have just confirmed that Channel9 will be a Architect Insight on the 22/23 March! Ron Jacobs who hosts the podcast on Channel9 called “ ARCast ” will be ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to build the shell explorer on the TreeView component

  Can anyone tell me how I build an explorer like the left pane in the Windows Explorer, using the TreeView component in VS-2005, C# What I need is the ability to browse from the desktop, and downwards on the disk structure. I found the dialog for folder browsing, but I need it to be a part of my main window - exactly like the windows explorer... Thanks a lot for your help... Best regards, Mikael Hi, Check following article: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/TreeViewFileExplorer.asp Max ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE 3.0 Console Hosting on different box

  I've followed the latest Messaging Lab for WSE 3.0, in particular CS/Basic/Part 2, and have successfully run the example using localhost. Prob is, I can't get the same thing to work across my LAN where the console is on a different box. I've used a variety of different locations to listen for on the provider including short name, FQDNS name, IP address, and all of the previous with various ":<port>" numbers specified. The only time I can make the samples work is when using "localhost". The error that keeps popping up is "WSE 101: An asynchronous operation raised an exception.". Can someone hel ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Why to use DirectX?

  Why would I use DirectX What's that "something" in it, which makes it better than others I know that it's very useful and so on, but can someone tell me what is its strength. I'm thinking should I begin to practise DirectX. Thanks, Timo Speed. Also, it's the industry standard. But, most people find the COM interface structures a little intimidating at first. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Studio C++ Express 2005 builds send my monitor nuts

  I'm running XP Home + SP2. Video adapter is NVidia GeForce 4 MX 440. Visual Studio C++ Express 2005. My monitor goes into a blackout/clicking frenzy due to resolution changes it believes exist during any build. This happens every time "Compiling..." appears in the Output window, and when "Linking..." comes up in it. This slows down my builds a lot, plus I can't use the machine for other tasks while all this is going on. The resolution appears to switch to some very low value, and the cursor appears as a fairly large white square on this black background. The problem lies somewhere in my Windows setup/registry. I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Mixed credentials: Username & Certificate

  Greetings, Our services will be exposed on the Internet. Only specific partners applications should be able to have access to them. At the same time, the partners applications users will need to be authenticated & authorized by our services. We will use role-based security to authorize them. The reason why we need a double validation using a certificate for each application is because we don't want anybody on the internet to be able to query those services directly (that includes our users having usr/pwd credentials who could try to pull the services content from their own app). We want to make sure only "known" applications ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Export and Import Diagrams

  Export and Import Diagrams how to export and import database diagrams If diagram in the source database contains relations not exist in the distenation database are they will be created there ...Show All

• Visual C# how to make form invisible on startup?

  I have an application that minimises to system tray and runs on windows startup. I would like the application to start with the main form invisible when loaded. Everything I've tried so far has failed. Any ideas Yes, that seems to work quite well now. Here's my solution for future reference: I have a boolean stayHidden which gets initialized when the form is created depending on wheather or not the program was started with a command line argument or not. Then in the VisibleChanged event of the formI have: if(stayHidden) this.Visible = false; This sets the form invisible when it loads. I made the applic ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to do password masking in data grid

  Hi, I would like to do a password masking in a data grid cell. It should display * characters instead of password. I appreciate your help. Regards. Hi Ken, Thanks for your suggestion. I create a derived class exactly what you recommend, the * characters displayed in the datagrid. But when I click on the password field and then click to other field, the following error appears --------------------------- Error when committing the row to the original data store. --------------------------- Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Do you want to correct the value --------------------------- Yes   No   ----- ...Show All

• Visual Basic Does anyone know of a good Logical Expression Evaulator for .NET?

  I need to build a simple rulebase for a small project and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for what I could use to define the rules The specifications require IF, NOT, AND, OR etc.. math functions are not needed. Variable subtition would be great if possible. Thank you for all your help. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. vertices in Direct X

  Hi I can`t really understand how can i make a 3d cube with vertices and c# .. can anyone show it i so examples are Welcomed!!! lol i checked that beforfe posting here man.. i only showes already made .. and i know how to make simple forms like triangle i was looing for a 3d cube so... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DateTime ToBinary() /FromBinary()

  The new DateTime struct in the .NET Framework 2.0 now has a Kind property. The DateTime.FromBinary() and DateTime.ToBinary() are the best way to persist a DateTime struct. Why these methods weren't included in the Compact Framework Any idea Regards Currently, the suggested way to serialize DateTime (including for use in web services) is to use ToFileTimeUtc(). Supposedly because of this ToBinary/FromBinary was not implemented. To/From binary is in fact redundant since you can always assume your serialized data contains UTC ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Making a Exit button

  How can i make a exit button http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development Support JScript!!!

  It is interesting, when there will be normal support JScript from party MS. Microsoft is in the process of increasing the investment in the JScript space. Stay tuned. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Additional files (readme.txt) in deployment

  In Net 2003 there was a step in Deployment to indicate which additional (miscellaneous) project files were to be copied into the application path. Readme.txt files were shown as an example. How is this accomplished in Net 2005 If additional .txt files are added to the project, then they are automatically included when Published. Otherwise, you can set it by opening up Project Properties, clicking on the Publish tab and then Application Files. Hope that helps, Yun ...Show All