shifter's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The COM-based CORE engine (a lot of questions)

  I'd like to discuss a creation of the core engine for our future projects. I chose this forum not accidentally, I hope that professionals (especially from Microsoft) will help me in my questions. First, I'll say a few words about the core engine. It provides system, input, video and audio core techniques. Also, it has a pluggable system. The main COMponent 'MWCore' (from 'MWCore.dll' server) is only the bridge which connects the parts listed ...Show All

• Visual C++ Suggestion/Functionality - Office Workbook/Worksheet to have similar operations as other components.

  Geoff Darst of the VSTO team suggested that I post this suggestion here: When clearing is required on other controls such as textboxes, one can simply call clear to clear the whole box. There is a similiarity found on other controls or even class components where the ability to clear the whole item is acheivable without defining specifics of what to clear . That similiarity ends with the classes that handle the operations found with dealing with ...Show All

• .NET Development using parameters in the configuration wizard in vb.net?

  Hi, I have a question regarding how to congure parameters in the configuration wizard instead of writing code in the code behind page in vb.net. I have configured and designed the dataadapter, theconnection, the dataset using the configuration wizards, just to avoid writing code. I have a combobox populated with some values. I need to select a value from it during run time. Now, I have to insert this selected value into an empty column in a di ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions help needed in creating Addins in MSVC++....!!!!!!

  hi all, can any one help me out in creating an addin using C++ in MS VC++.... i am completely new to this and help from the scratch is needed.... the addin must execute a given command in cmd.exe ...and should be fired before the build process......... Plz get back 2 me as soon as possible..!!! regards, pardha saradhi AFAIK the Express Edition does not support add-ins. However, I think that what you describe is co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Launching Application in Foreground from Macro using Keyboard Shortcut

  Hello, I have written a small macro that will launch an application. When I run the macro from the macro window, it will launch the application in the foreground. When I assign a keyboard shortcut to the macro and press the keyboard shortcut, the application is launched but VS.NET remains in the foreground and I have to alt-tab to the application to see it. Is there any way to make sure the application (C# Windows Application) runs in the for ...Show All

• Visual Basic Opening window in own application!!!!

  Hi Guys. I have searched all over the internet and almost every VB Site I could find and i have no idea how to make on of my window applications popup after i click its corresponding button. E.G. I have a button which says "Add Swimmer". When I click this i want to be able to see the Add Swimmer Page either in the same window or a different window. (If there is any way of putting it in the same window then thatd be great).] Thanks in advance i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Good Book or Set of Rules for Control Development

  Any suggestions  I'm creating User Control and Components in VB.NET right now but I'm not sure that I'm dotting all my I's and crossing all my T's. Specifically, I want to ensure all my User Controls and Components work equally well in C# and&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is SCRUM

  What is SCRUM Is it a framework like MSF or a process to manage software projects Hi, Following on from Rob's comment: We're developing " Agile Software Development with Scrum " for Team System - Process Templates and Guidance for running your project using Scrum. You can find the original press release here: http://www.conchango.com/Web/Public/Content/NewsRoom/PressReleaseDetails.aspx PageID=270 When released it will be a free download ...Show All

• Windows Forms Memory footprint!

  Hi I am a product development manager in the UK and we are working on a .NET application.   99% of our product is server side however we have just created a couple of client side "sexy show off apps" - however! - the memory& ...Show All

• Visual Basic Announcement: Article on Refactoring of legacy VB code.

  Hi, Just to let you know that I have published a tutorial on how to use refactoring in order to successfully migrate legacy (VB6) code to VB .net. http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Refactoring_elixir.asp Thanks, Danijel Arsenovski ...Show All

• .NET Development Step by Step Procedure for Creating Remote Application

  Documentation gives a example of Step by Step Procedure for Creating Remote Application but it is with using command line compilers. Is there any detailed step by step procedure for creating remote applications using visual studio IDE Hi, This is will be usefull: http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/10919_1479761_1 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Authoring Workflows at runtime

  I want to implement a designer at runtime for my clients so they can create their own Workflow. As there is no out-of-the-box control to implement this I suppose I have to work with the workflowview class explained in lab 12.  I implemented this functionality but now I'm having some problems: 1)  When I try to move activities in the workflow I get an error stating "Component Serialization Service is missing".  2)  I've tri ...Show All

• SQL Server How to create a cover page

  This seems like it should be a very simple task. I need to create a cover page that appears as the first page of all my reports. It contains a confidentiality statement and I don't want any other report information on this page. I created the cover page in a separate report to be used as a subreport in any report that needs the statement included. However, I have searched all over the Web (including this forum) but cannot find any info on how to ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Get a Checkbox inside Listbox in Compact Framework

  Hi, I am designing a Questionnaire. In this i need to design a multiple selection in the listbox by using checkbox.. but i didn't find this option in the listbox. How to get this feature in listbox Regards Sarath Hey Alexy,                    Could you send me the Code Regarding This (if possible ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro 2 more questions (VFP8)

  (1) I've made and deployed a simple app. with its own helpfile, but when deployed, nothing happens when I press F1. (It is not, that the app cannot locate the helpfile. If I rename it, I get an error when starting the program.). Any suggestions (2) The other problem is, that about one in every 4 times I close the program, the process keeps hanging and thus locking my datafiles. (When I kill the process, the datafiles are corrupted, when I start ...Show All