safetyglance's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DXUT with Windows Forms menus.

  After spending ages understand and getting what I wanted done in DXUT I am at the stage where I need a GUI. The best solution for me would be simply one that lets me use windows forms but if forced to i didn't really mind doing a GUI in DirectX as well, however how can i do things like bring up a standard OpenFileDialog easily Using a custom DirectX control also seems viable with the exception that none of the ones I have seen enable the ...Show All

• Visual Basic validation woos

  I have an Access backend with a VB.Net 2003 frontend.  In the table, I set an input mask for both the telephone and zipcodes.  I also set them as required fields.  But, when I input in the form, it lets me put anything in the field or leave it blank.  what am I doing wrong I don't know if you are creating Windows Forms application or ASP.NET application. Validation controls (like Required Va ...Show All

• Visual C# Conversion from VS2003 to VS2005

  Hey guys, I have just received the VS2005 Beta 2 disk collection. Since I didn't have Server 2003, I just installed the .NET IDE and also the Server 2005 Developer. I am trying to migrate several small solutions from my vs2003 enviornment. The VS2005 application recognizes this and starts the conversion wizard. In its' statement it ask that I make sure that  the correct 'Source Control plug in' is active What is the name of t ...Show All

• SQL Server Volatile parent key

  I get this message every time i start Server Management Studio Express CTP, i have lates download ie 11/11/2005 V2. Can not create a stable subkey under volatile parent key. I click continue and Server Management Studio Express CTP seem to start OK. Can you help with this. Hi, Have you found an answer to this problem I get the unexception error and it states that the "input string was not in correct for ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview

  I found this fantastic article on codeproject about datatables, datasets, and datagrids. Then I found out that the new preferred way in 2005 is to use datagridviews But I can't get it to work. I created a datatable and inserted rows and columns and  ...Show All

• SQL Server How can I use SMo in VS 2002 SP1 c# applications?

  I have got error: cannot add reference to Microsoft.sqlserver.smo.dll ..... I understand VS2005 is bettrer than VS2002 but I have what I have. Thank you. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to bind solutions and projects to source control without opening them manually?

  Is there a way to bind solutions and projects to source control (team system beta3), without opening every solution in VS2005, and bind them manually We have added many solutions and projects to team system with "Add to source control", checked them in etc. Then we want to bind them to source control to have VS2005 recognising if a file is edited etc. I know how to do this manually (i.e. open the solution in VS2005, Source Control->Change So ...Show All

• SQL Server Where is the old Enterprise Manager :(

  Why is this new version of SQL Manager so difficult to use Tasks I was able to do in one step, now I have to do in several steps: 1) Genrate Drop Scripts for tables, views, stored procedures 2) Generate Create Scripts for tables, views, stored procedures 3) Import data to the server I used to be able to do all this in Enterprise Manager in one DTS package . Which I could automate to synchronize data beteween two databases. Is there s ...Show All

• Visual C++ Converting time [hh:mm] into decimal format!

  Is there anybody out there that can help explain to me how on Earth to tell my computer (program, in C++) how to take an input of time, in the typical hh:mm format; and convert "that" into hours (decimal format). For example, if I were to prompt the question: "How long ago did something occur [hh:mm] _ And the user's response is 2:30 (which would represent 2 hours and thirty minutes ago). How do I explain to the computer to ONLY t ...Show All

• SQL Server Access Data From Multiple SqlSever Instances

  Hi I am having two SQL Server instances installed at two different systems and want to fetch data from both of them in a sigle query with joins. Somebody suggested that I need to link up the sql server instances at the admin level. If you have an idea about the process of linkng multiple sql server instances kindly convey it to me. For Details of the discussion kindly follow the undergiven link http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Pos ...Show All

• Windows Forms Win 32 Windows form

  Hello people, I want to create form's in win32 using visual form create (RAD), without a .net framework, it is possible to do that please help me! thanks! If I understand you correctly you want to make a Windows app that does not use the .NET Framework... if that is the case, I would suggest looking into building it as an MFC Application. Does this answer your question ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System extract an a tag

  Hi, I am trying to extract an href attribute from an "a" tag, based on the anchor's text. The HTML content is like this: <a href=" Link'>http://localhost/url_for_a.html">Link A</a> <br> <a href=" Link'>http://localhost/url_for_a.html">Link B</a> What extraction rule i can use I tried with Extract Attribute Value, but i did not know what to fill for MatchAttribute. Thanks, Dan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual SourceSafe Compatibility Matrix

  It looks like there is no way to use VSS 6.0d's SourceSafe Explorer to browse a VSS 8.0 data store via web services. Does anyone know of an open source equivalent that can access a VSS 8.0 data store via web services In any case, I've been attempting to verify the following scenarios. Can some please confirm this   VSS 6.0d Data Store File System VSS 8.0 Data Store File System (same as 6.0d) VSS2005 Tea ...Show All

• Windows Forms inherited controls (solved)

  I would like to have, say, textboxes of 2 different sorts: A and B. I think inherited control (inherited textbox) is the ideal concept. The goal is to have event handlers ONLY in the Parent Form (from where inherited forms will be created,  ...Show All

• SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 Aggregations?

  Hi, When i try to calculate the cube aggregations it will always give me 0 aggregations... why is this happening I have about 10 dimensions and if i remove 3 of them (always the same dims) the aggregations are calculated to about 99% so why the hell with that dims it would not calculate They are Parent-Child Dimensions... Best Regards, Luis Simoes Looks like a bug to me. Can you please try and contact Customer Support and o ...Show All