WPFMonkey's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Distributing directshow

  How do I distribute DirectShow now that it's not part of DX Or is it still part of the DX runtime Are there any WinSXS issues I should be aware of I thought I had WinSXS DX folders, but I don't anymore, so I'm not sure what's going on, nor can I find any DX merge modules in the SDK. This is an excellent question, to which I have not received a satisfactory answer. My GUESS is that 9.0c is going to be the last DS version shipped ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System managing source control folders through VS.NET 2005

  Hi We are in the process of uploading VS.NET 2005 projects into the source-control managed by VSTS. One of the projects was mapped incorrectly in the source-control tree (under the incorrect parent node). We are unable to remap it to another another node. Even after cancelling the pending checkins, unbinding the VSTS project mapping, the source control remaps the project back into its original and incorrect position within the "tree s ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I run SQL Server??

  Hi there. How can I run SQL Server in my PC. I am using windows xp, SQL server Express 2005 and it is in my local pc. thanks in advanced Hi, sure you can use it on your computer, just install it and make sure you turn on tremote connections if cou want to connect from antoher computer to your installation. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. ---- http://www.sqlserver2005.de ---- ...Show All

• .NET Development remote monitoring of client-server ports

  There are 2 machines, one running a client application and other running a server application. From a third machine on Lan , I want to find out which one is a client and which one is a server without using web services. How can I do this in .NET For this am I suppose to monitor the ports through which they are communicating. If so, how do I get the port numbers ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Error

  I am making a game called Battle Tank and I referenced a DirectX reference just as the tutorial said but I'm getting an error saying: 1 Error, The type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code\2.0.0.0_x86\Microsoft.DirectX.dll' and 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code\1.0.2902.0\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.dll' Here's my code to the game: using System; using ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) At least one security token in the message could not be validated.

  Further adventures with STS. System.ServiceModel.FaultException: At least one security token in the message could not be validated. [MessageSecurityException: An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party. This fault may have been sent in response to an improperly secured request. See the inner FaultException for the fault code and detail.] I have logging and tracing turned on in the BizService as well as t ...Show All

• SQL Server script problem with POWER(x,y)

  hi, i can't see why the following field is not working correctly, ie: it's always coming up with 0: ((POWER((1+((((((POWER((1+(dbo_table1.APR/100)),(1/12)))-1))*12))/12)), dbo_table1.FREQUENCY)-1)*(12/dbo_table1.FREQUENCY))*100 AS YIELD breaking the code down to a smaller formula it does work. it looks like i can't have more calculations/references inside a POWER(x,y) function. any comments would be appreciated. thank you ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to deal with Windows Forms Application?

  Hi! I have created an application with forms(Windows Forms Application). I want to generate a window which contain some elements such as buttons, containers and toolbars. I used the toolbox to do such work, but it seemed so ugly.I mean the result of execution is not what I imagined. Maybe I did not choose the proper toolbars. Could somebody possibly provide me any information or examples about how to create a Window Forms Application proper ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to populate a datagridview?

  how can i populate a datagridview without a database i'd like to use it as a list. You need to manually create the columns for the datagridview at either design time, or runtime. Check out msdn resources for "Unbound Datagridview" You'll also have to create the rows programatically. ...Show All

• Visual C++ error C2065: '__LINE__Var' : undeclared identifier

  hi, I get the following error when I try to move a project from vc6 to vc8. error C2065: '__LINE__Var' : undeclared identifier The error line goes to a macro definition which doesnt have a _LINE reference. And one more error which i get is error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'THIS' I tried to use #undef THIS and #define THIS. But it didnt work. Is it possible that old windows files are getting linked. In that case as well t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need a Thread... I think

  Hi folks. I've written Windows Form application that copies files. I've noticed that when I give it a large number of files, it stops responding until the copy is complete. How can I put the copy method into a thread so the main gui remains usable Additionally, as the thread copies, I would like to send updates to the Form to show what file it's currently copying and increment a progress bar. I gather a thread (in managed C++) is what I need - c ...Show All

• Smart Device Development referencing drawing2d using vs2005 cf 2.0 c#

  Hi, i am a complete novice so please excuse me if this question is naive. I am creating a project in c# and wish to use graphicspath which is in drawing2d. The help files seem to suggest that system.drawing.drawing2d is referenced from within a project using c# and compact framework 2.0. I do not see this under the references and can find no sign of it in the add references screen. So my question is, is drawing2d.graphicspath available ...Show All

• Visual Studio COR_E_INVALIDOLEVARIANTTYPE

  I am working on developing a VS.NET addin. In that context, I'm hosting the MS web browser control to provide some of the user interface for the addin. In order to respond to user events from inside the HTML document, I'm hosting the control as described in the second example here: http://www.codeproject.com/books/0764549146_8.asp I'm implementing various OLE interfaces on the site that is hosting the control(through IOleObject.SetClientSite) ...Show All

• Visual C# activating javascript in windowform

  hi! i want to activate javascript in windows form like that: private sub checkForWin() { if ... then <activate the javascript> } how do i do it ...Show All

• .NET Development Optional configuration elements

  I have the following custom configuration: <mySection>   <defaultElement name="default" />   <element1 name="1" />   <element2 name="2" </mySection> And: public class MyConfigurationSection : ConfigurationSection {   [ ConfigurationProperty ( "defaultElement" , IsRequired = true )]   private   MyElement DefaultElement   {       get     & ...Show All