Basil Brunner's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Zooming only a part of the image.

  I am creating a application in which i am displaying a .jpg in a picture box.Now i want to give a functionality so that user can select a part of that image and zoom it on PDA screen. Is it Possible with CF Please help me out. thanks in advance. I doubt you can do this with a picture box, unless you first draw the bitmap with part of it zoomed, and then you may as well draw it directly in a paint ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem after moving WS to QA Server

  I moved the webservice from localhost to our QA server. Now I cannot connect at all through the log in, alothough I can test it fine through a browser (get a ticket, return a ds).  What do I need to do to get the web service  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Use remote counters for load test?

  Hello - I am performing a load test using a few recorded web test scripts. The built in counters are great - but I would like to also use custom counters that are on remote servers. When I add a new computer to the 'manage counter sets' screen, I only get the option to select the built in counters, ado.net, application, etc. Is it possible to access the list of custom counters that are on the remote machine as well Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic copy my.settings / app.config

  hi there, its me again :) soo.. i have a question.. in an application i have to include the possibility, to save the settings (which is automatically done) manually, so if the user is doing something stupid, the external saved settings should able to be restored. is this possible using vb or should i tell them to save the app.config file manually i hope my explenation is clear enough.. my english is not the best. ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem in overriding or adding methods in Collections .Can you help?

  First of all ,please be patient with me as I am trying to learn c#(moving from vb) + use of generics Collections and I am problems in trying to improve my collections I have created a set of collection all inheriting from the original ones. I would like to extend the collections that MS gives us by either overriding or adding my own methods etc.However I seem to have all sorts of problems   1)Trying to override Contains to give my own im ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "An unexpected error has occurred" After Upgrading Portal Server to SP2

  I did a dumb thing and upgraded the Portal Server to SP2. WSS had apparently upgraded itself to SP2, and I couldn't add custom web parts (from Microsoft downloads). So I thought I'd upgrade to SP2 on the Portal Server. Now, I can't get to the default page or my home page, they all give: "An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily disable Web Parts o ...Show All

• Windows Forms About combox databound

  Have a field such as "ProdoctID",i want to use a combox,user can select the "ProductName" in the combox to set the "ProductID" field. The database have a table named "Product" witch contain "ProductID,ProductName".   Is the class field that you are binding to (in Bindings.Add) a string field or a number field If it is a number field, like the ID of the class, then you dont want to bind to the Text pro ...Show All

• .NET Development .net framework v2.0

  i'm wondering if i really need .net framework v2.0, i know it's an optional update on the Custom Page i have 1.1 net framework XP Home. Processor Architecture: Intel CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel Processor Level: Pentium III or higher (15) Processor Revision: Model 4 Stepping 1 Approximate CPU Clock Rate: 3057 MHz Number Of Processors: 1 Page Size: 4,096 bytes (4.00 KB) Allocation Unit: 65,536 bytes (64.00 KB) Minimum Application Address: 65 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Convert each record in an ArrayList to an array of strings

  Hi, Is there some method I can use to convert each record in an ArrayList to an array of strings What I'm looking to do is iterate through the ArrayList collection with a For Each loop and convert each record to a 1 dimensional array of strings so I can use the Join method to delimit the record with commas and then write each record back to a text file - I know a longer way to write each record in the ArrayList but it seems like it would be ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting the ScrollableControl.AutoScrollPosition property

  Every time I set the AutoScrollPosition of a Form (or Panel) I get a {0, 0} value.  Is this a bug Related info: http://dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/4/22432.aspx For those who are interested, here is what I found in MSDN: AutoScrollPosition represe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSDN online search

  Hello, in my installation of VS 2005 Express doesn't work the online search of the MSDN. I don't know way. Could it be a problem with the proxy In the internet explorer settigns a proxy is used... Regards Hansjorg There can be a couple of reasons for this. Check out the Developer Documentation and Help System forum at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=66&SiteID=1 . There are several th ...Show All

• Visual C# Save Binary file

  How do I save a binary file, eg. png, exe. code: byte [] buffer = new byte [255]; int start = readBinary.Read(buffer, 0, 255); while (start > 0) { writeBinary.Write(buffer); start = readBinary.Read(buffer, 0, 255); } That's because you didn't say it was a png, and so he's given you code that saves it as strings, with a new line at the end of each. You should use Environment.NewLin ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Lost Device

  I'm using managed directx 2.0 and the sample framework and there's a couple of things that i cannot understand concerning lost devices. My main problem is, where should i put the creation of objects. For instance in the sample framework a sprite is created in OnResetDevice, my question is why in here and not in OnCreateDevice When should i create resources with Pool.Default And when i'm using directx objects how could i know where i put the crea ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro editbox programmatic change

  I am looking for an easy way to determine if I've made interactive change in an editor box. The issue is that there are about 16 controls on a container, they are initialized from a table record thus their values at activate time generally are not trivial default. I have to save the changes with a SAVE button if I made any but I want this button's click method to quickly determine which control values have been changed. I do not want to do REPLA ...Show All

• Visual C# String IsNumeric ???

  Hi, VB.NET has a way to check for valid numeric strings i.e. strings that are checked to see whether they contain digits only : IsNumeric is the name of the function. Is there such a thing in C# thanks Chris Here's an example using TryParse: http://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/Articles/CSharp%20Equivalent%20to%20IsNumeric.htm David Anton www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com Instant C#: VB to C# converte ...Show All