LordDark's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Embedding an edit control into a tab control

  I want to embed four different edit controls into four different tabs. How do I do that Please include more details What technology are you using What have you tried so far yourself Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Needs a Property keyword like MC++ has now

  I've said this before, even directly to Anders, and I'll say it again: C# needs a simpler way to declare properties. Don't believe me Check out this video of a John Lam talk about the future of programming languages that espouses dynamic programming langauges like Ruby: http://www.ftponline.com/channels/net/reports/vsliveto/2006/multimedia/lam.aspx About 1/5 of the way into the presentation he gives this example of a piece of code everybo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Are there any MDX examples of frustrum and occlusion culling about?

  well by examples i'm realy looking for something that uses frustrum followed by occlusion culling in c#. as i'm trying to find out how i would take the result of frustrum then feed it into occlusion culling. inorder to get the final render. i'm also very new to c# and MDX. and here's one on frustum culling from chad http://www.c-unit.com/tutorials/mdirectx/ t=45 In general though frustum and occulsion cullin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions old Resrouce cache???

  Hello, I have this label and its text is old1 and I saved it.. then I change the text to newNEW and I save, then I do the debug and run thing, then when I go to that label, it comes up as old1... is it some sort of resource cache problem Well, I had some memory problems during my previous saves and it crashed so, could that have messed up the whole thing well, I am posting this at 12:30 A.M. (past midnight) and my project is due the very sam ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I do not want SP2. I do not want SP2.

  Hi. I run on Windows XP Professional SP1 and I really need Visual Basic .NET Express edition, as SharpDevelop2 is very buggy (atm). The thing is: I do not want SP2. Please do not flood me with comments such as "BUT OMFG SP2 PWNZZZ SP1 ! !" but tell me one good reason why to update into it. Not "security", not "more stable", but something real. Incase it comes with some updates needed by the Visual Studio's, why not ...Show All

• Visual C++ Compiler error C2081 building a non-MFC dll

  I'm attempting to migrate a development project from Borland C++ to Visual Studio.net 2003.  The main application exe is compiling cleanly, but I cannot get the plug-in dll modules to compile. This same code compiled and ran correctly with the Borland compiler. Here are the code fragments involved:  from file ate.h: #if !defined (_ATE_H_) #define _ATE_H_ #define MAXSLOTS 16 //Defines for application custom messages #define ATE_BASE& ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to to let 2 projects communicate to each other? (MVC)

  I have an addIn project and a webform project. If something changes in the addIn project, the webproject should be notified (Model View Controller) and vice versa. One solution to this is using sockets, but I am no so sure if that is the best solution. If I make in my webform project a reference to the addin project, a copy of the addIn-dll will be made. So this won't work, because the addIn project should be able to notify the web project. Sugg ...Show All

• Smart Device Development is there an api to set the background image on the home screen?

  I would like my Windows Mobile 5.0 application to be able to change the background image on the home screen. What code should I use for this Me .BackgroundImage = Image.FromFile( "derr.jpg" ) change derr.jpg to what you want... At least that works for Visual Basic... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Discover cradled PocketPC

  Hi! I'm looking for a way to programmatically (preferably through .NET, but native code will do as well) discover a PocketPC in its cradle so that I can access its registry and retrieve some files from it. I'd be grateful for any help in this matter. Do you want to detect on the Pocket PC if it's cradled, or on the PC to which the cradle is connected ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Source / ODBC error

  Hi all, My replication of those SQL 2000 servers gave errors: Data source (11): General Network Error. Check your network documentation... and ODBC (08S01): Communication link failure. The replication was across the WAN. I don't know where to start to troubleshoot this problem. Please help! Thanks in advance. John Communication link failure means some network or communication problem between the Publisher/Distributor and Subs ...Show All

• .NET Development Sockets: two way comm. and extended conversation?

  My ideal is to have a continuoulsy open connection where either system can initiate a conversation, and that conversation can consist of multiple sends and recieves. The simplest socket connection is delightfully easy: client.connect stream.write stream read But that is only a single call + response.  Is is possible to have multiple write + read pairs in some kind of loop   All the examples I have seen always close the connection.&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C# intercepting onclik

  Strange request... I have a program written in asp.net and vb. I want to try to intercept a click on a button with my program. Is it possible I explain better: i want my application (console/win/web) does click of the other program (winform).. thx no no...i want to simulate click of a button of another application with my application. Eg: i have an application where clicking on a button it opens a panel... i want to create m ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to animate enumeration property (Rectangle.Visibility)?

  Hello,   Sorry for the dumb question, I novice in WPF yet.   Is any way to animate property that has enumeration type I try to animate Rectangle.Visibility My goal: show dotted rectangle when the mouse is over some grid cells. For this I placed rectangle to grid and trying to do such animation:         <Style TargetType="{x:Type Rectangle}">  & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Customizing the Assigned To field on a Work Item Type

  Hi , I tried customizing assigned to filed in task.xml. Following lines of code added FIELD name="Assigned To" refname="System.AssignedTo" type="String"> <ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true">       <LISTITEM value = "[Project]\Contributors" /> </ALLOWEDVALUES> </FIELD> Then i have imported the process template and tried creating new project , but it failed to create new project. What might be th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Batching on multiple items?

  Is it possible to batch tasks on mulitple items Consider: <ItemGroup> <Foo Include="a"/> <Foo Include="b"/> <Bar Include="c"/> <Bar Include="d"/> </ItemGroup> <Target> <Message Text="%(Foo.Identity) - %(Bar.Identity)"/> </Target> I'd like this to print: a - c a - d b - c b - d But one of the items always end up empty. a - a - - c - ...Show All