Robert Ingebretsen MSFT's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why is everything in Avalon so blurry?

  As my title says its all, everything in avalon seems so blurry, XamlPad is blurry as! :S Things are not blury on my machine, and I suspect the same is true on most machines.  If you can be more specific you might get more specific help. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Shader debugger + ... VS2005beta2?

  I want to hear the answer from Microsoft representatives: does the "DX extensions for VS" (the most important for me is HLSL debugger) compatible with VS2005beta2 And if it is - what SDK version i should have to use it (now i only have June2005)   There is a bug in VS2005 / DirectX-installer. If you only have VS2005 installed the installer program will not recognize that you have VS at all, and t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Running an application

  My VB kids cannot run their applications!!! They do Start without debugging and an error comes up "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging. Access denied. Verify that you are an administrator or a member of the 'Debug Users' group..."  I cannot add each user to the debug users group of each machine...sometimes kids switch machines .  How to I get around this   What can I change in .NET's security ...HELP  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Secure LDAP Failure on Vista

  I have code which uses both insecure (ldap_init, ldap_set_option to set the protocol version, and ldap_simple_bind_s with a NULL dn and password) and secure (ldap_sslinit, ldap_set_option to set the protocol version, and ldap_simple_bind_s specifying a dn and a password) LDAP calls to communicate with the same corporate LDAP server. This code works fine on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. On Vista, the insecure LDAP works fine but the secure LDAP ld ...Show All

• SQL Server Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_personas'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.personas'

  Hello, I am trying to insert from an excel file to a table on sql server 2005, but I have that error. I will show you the data that I have on the excel file. cedula     nombres     apellidos dd     sa     s ff     d     sa fsd     l     xxx ss     k     ...Show All

• SQL Server Double-click on a .dtsx file

  Double-click on a .dtsx file results in dtexecui being displayed. Anyone think it would be more useful if it opened it up in BIDS -Jamie Just in case you've not seen this: you can right-click the .dtsx file and select Edit command which opens it in BIDS. We debated the default command on double-click, and decided it should open dtexecui, like double-click on .cmd files runs them, while Edit command opens it in Notepad. Also we think ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista FreeFormActivityDesigner and Connectors

  Hello, The built-in routing for a connectors connecting two activity designers inside a FreeFormActivityDesigner (root) works nicely as long as the source designer is not contained by the target designer. But when I attempt a connection between a designer and the composite designer that contains it, the connector is drawn inside of the container, instead of exiting the container first, before looping ar ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to make a cursor

  hi, i desperately need to make a custom cursor. Would someone help me you just need a graphics package that will export to a .cur file. Iconmaker is good (and free for non-commerical use) Cathal ...Show All

• Visual C# Reading data samples from sound card

  can any body please inform me How to read data (digitized sound samples) from soundcard with or without using directX. and then saving the samples to a file or displaying them. desperatly waiting asap coz i am stuck with this problem...... Hi!! I made a some google search for you and found this article for you.. i shows you how to get the output of a soundcard withoud the DIRECTX .. Hope u understand a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ComboBox.ObjectCollection.IsReadOnly Property

  Hi, How do I set the combo box to read only. I have found a topic on this using the, ComboBox.ObjectCollection.IsReadOnly Property, but not sure how to code this. Ron I assume what you want to do is to force the user to pick only certain selections rather than just typing in what she thinks is appropriate. Set the DropdownStyle property to "DropDownList" and populate the Items property ...Show All

• Visual Basic Display data from sql (RichTextbox Data)

  Hi everybody,    The data is from a RichTextbox control has format like indentation, Butted list, Font Style and others and stored in sql.    Is Windows.Forms.Label control be able to display the data with ints format intact How do I do that, the usual way of using its Text property and just that. Thanks. Dennis ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Re-using LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 as LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9

  Hi! I have created a texture and as surface as hr |= D3DXCreateTexture( this ->direct3DDevice, ( unsigned int )img.sx, ( unsigned int )img.sy, 0, 0,D3DFMT_A32B32G32R32F, D3DPOOL_MANAGED, & this ->texture ); and a surface as : hr |= this ->direct3DDevice->CreateRenderTarget(( unsigned int )img.sx,( unsigned int )img.sy,D3DFMT_A32B32G32R32F, D3DMULTISAMPLE_NONE,0, true ,& this ->renderSurface0,0 ); I have render into my ...Show All

• .NET Development FTP Help in asp.Net 1.1

  Hi guys I am fairly new to ASP.NET so please feel free to let me know if there is something that i have overlooked. I need write an asp.net page where i will need to retrieve from and upload files to a ftp server. I've had a look in google and the forum, and I am struggling to find any useful reference to write the FTP module using .net framework 1.1. And the only thing that seem to be useful was with .net framework 2 with the FtpWebr ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I run batch file and get output in code and command window from my Visual Basic .NET code

  Hello,   I have an batch file which needs to be executed from my VB.NET application.   I have successfully done that using System.Diagnostics.Process class   and openning command window from that..   But my requirement have changed a little bit..   Now i need StandardOutput and StandardError both to be returned after the   execution in both command window and VB.NET Code..   I trie ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System To detect the use of 'return' keyword

  Explicitly using return allows the JIT to perform slightly more optimizations. Without a return statement, each function is given several local variables on stack to transparently support returning values without the keyword. How to detect whether a method uses 'return' keyword (of course irrespective of language). Can Fxcop do this Using the visitor pattern to traverse the Method.Body, you would override VisitReturn. Otherwise, yo ...Show All