Fortes's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ I've lost my status bar...

  Hi, Not a big issue, but my VS2005 has "lost" the status bar at bottom. I don't know how I've managed to hide it (if it's my fault, which I don't know), but I'm definitely uncapable to find how to show it again. Any tips Best regards, Eduard Huguet Go to the Tools->Options... menu alternative. You will have a checkbox for "Show status bar" under Environment->General. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build, static analysis

  Upon attempting to do a team build on a solution with static analysis, I get an error, "In order to perform Code Analysis on managed binaries, MSBuild needs to launch FxCop. MSBuild is unable to locate the FxCop binaries. Make sure Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers or Visual Studio Team Suite is installed and run MSBuild from within the "Visual Studio Command Prompt" or specify the path to FxCop by setting the FXCOPDIR environment variable." The build is taking place on the same machine as team foundation server and team build.  Am I reading correctly that it also needs Visual Studio Suite or Test SKU on top of Team Bu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help system lacking in Visual Studio 2005 Beta

  I am concerned about the lack of features such as the "Search in Previous Results", "Search Titles Only", etc. in the help file included in VS  2005. I certainly hope this is rectified before tyhe product's ship date. The lack of these features makes searching tedious and inaccurate. What does everyone else think Thanks for adding your feedback. I agree with your sentiments. There is a fundamental need to allow users to incrementally converge on the desired document and we hope to nail that scenario. We are tracking this feedback! Thanks, Jeremy Jones ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Databases (lots of 'em!)

  Hi there, I am new at Visual Basic Express, and am in the process of planning a Visual Basic Application. The project will rely on a a database - I am uncertain on a number of things. The data will need to be accessible in the office of the company - I was thinking of either on their NAS, or hosted on the Web. a) Which is better -Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Access I know that if I pick Microsoft Access, I can upload it onto a host no problem, and also put it on the NAS. If I was to use SQL server, would I only have to place the mdf file on the NAS b) Is it possible ...Show All

• Windows Forms Regarding Array as DataSource to ComboBox

  I was just wondering what if i dont want to pass a DataTable as a DataSource to the    ComboBox and i want to pass an array as a datasource then how would i set the display member and value member. Can we pass two dimensional array as a DataSource. Just for an example suppose i have a combobox which contains ReportType such as  ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) JPEG "Orientation" from EXIF for automatic rotation

  Is it possible to get Orientation from EXIF I think I can get Author and other fields, but there is no property for Orientation. JpegBitmapDecoder dec = new JpegBitmapDecoder ( new Uri ( "" ), BitmapCreateOptions .None, BitmapCacheOption .None); string author = dec.Metadata.Author; I want to automatically rotate my photos and I don't want to recompress JPEG. Should I do something special to achieve this or do JPEG decoder and encoder handle this for me by default Thanks very much for any answer. Vojta We expose convenience properties for some common metadata properties. However ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Fix: Debugger & Forms Designer in Beta 2 fails

  I was using C# Express Beta 1 for long time, today I installed C# Express Beta 2 but after that I can not create WindowsForms project or open WinForms/Project Settings/Resources When I try to create new WinForms project I get warning as follows Package "Visual studio Settings and Project Designers package" has failed to load properly ( GUID = xxxxx) .... Would you like to disable loading of this package in future ..... <Yes> <No> Ignoring this, Now when I try to open WinForm class (From newly created project) I get following error Could not load type " Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsRunningDocumentTable2 " from ass ...Show All

• Visual Basic Detecting External IP Address

  Hi, How can I detect the External IP Address of machine which is running my Application. By External IP address means that IP Address through which PC running my Application is accessible through Internet. and not the local IP Address Thanks Hi, Thanks "plenderj" I got your point..Though I doesn't love the idea to be dependent on external resource for this. But it seems the only answer. Thanks Vikarm for your attempt...I am not making a Web Application. But I am making a network Client application that host it self on internet for client of it to join them.. Now since Client will join only on external IP of the Server and not the i ...Show All

• Smart Device Development setting of ppc(i cant connect to sql from ppc )

  hi. i want to connect to sql server 2000 from ppc 2003 SE Emulator. i have a combobox on form and i populate a table from sql. i write codes of combobox on form_load but when i try to work application, there is an error. it is sqlexception. how i can connect to sql. i am writing what i want. my table is Employee. i want to populate combo with EmployeeName(displaymember) and valuemember isEmployeeID.pls help me. what is settings of ppc thx. As I stated before this has been answered quite a few times before. In case you can't find previous answers for some reason, here are couple of them: http://forums ...Show All

• .NET Development Validation problem

  This really isn't an ADO.NET question, Hasan. You might perhaps get a more definitive answer in an ASP.NET forum. Off-hand though, I think you may be able to get the behaviour you want if you set the CausesValidation property of your search button to False. -- Brendan Reynolds (MVP) wrote in message news:68d4e511-2603-4dca-886a-1babd2e9cc45@discussions.microsoft.com... > Hello again: > I put requiredFieldValidator controls on Entry Textboxes. When I enter > the criteria to search in the search box, the requiredFieldValidators > become activated. The search does not work unless I fill out the all > validated textboxes. ...Show All

• SQL Server Subscriber.Enabled() returning incorrect result

  I am giving my users the ability to disable their account from my NS front-end web app and to do that I am using the NS API. In order to disable the subscriber account, I - instantiate a Subscriber object for the subscriber - set its Enabled property to False - call the Update() method The problem is, when I create another Subscriber instance for the same subscriber somewhere else and check the subscriber.Enabled() property, it always returns True (even if I restart the app), whereas the database is showing that the subscriber account is disabled. Any idea why this is happening Shyam, I would like to get in contact with you. I a ...Show All

• .NET Development Additional strange behaving

  Hello I have written the class ScopedReaderWriterLock which allows to lock objects as reader and or writer with using scopes. Sometimes the method ReaderWrioterLock.DowngradeFromWriterLock throws an ApplicationException with the message "The parameter is incorrect". I know that this exception is thrown when I have downgraded and call DowngradeFromWriterLock with the same LockCookie which I have used for the last downgrade. But as far I can see my code seems to be correct (the code follows below). I have also added a log which shows all calls of UpgradeToWriterLock and DowngradeFromWriterLock. I need help to find the bug in my ...Show All

• .NET Development Transformation of Binary Data

  Hi friends, I have an XML file with one tag having binary data(image Content) base64 encoded - now, I would like to know how can I apply stylesheet (XSL) on that XML file and get that binary data(image) back. Let's discuss it in this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=398112&SiteID=1 Best regards, Anton ...Show All

• SQL Server variables in variables

  It it possible to define a variable that is the result of 3 other variable like @[User::Total] = @[User::varA] + @[User::varB] + @[User::varC] I know that i can set it with a scripttask but is there a way to define it when creating the variable Absolutely - and this is one of the cool things about variables. They can be set using expressions just as any other property of an object can be. Select the variable in the variables pane and hit F4. The properties pane will appear showing properties of the variable. Set: EvaluateAsExpression=TRUE Expression=@[User::varA] + @[User::varB] + @[ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What is in DX9 that is similar to Selection in OpenGL

  I just start to trun from OpenGL to DirectX. I'm writing a program that requires user to select 3D objects by mouse clicking. In OpenGL this is easily done by Selection mechanism. So what is the best way to achieve the similar effect in DirectX 9 Thanks! It seems D3D is doing a different way from OGL, o/w I have huge size mesh that would make CPU version extremely slow. ...Show All