Oscar Ivan Gil's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Set pixel of a window

  I'm trying to learn basic C++ so that I can make DLLs for use in another programming language. I've had some success, but got completley stuck when trying to set a pixel on a window. I thought this would be a very easy task, so maybe I'm missing something basic. Anyway, here's the entirety of the code I'm trying: (the window and hDC are already prepaired by the other language) #define STRICT #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I do this with the DataGridView?

  Hi Mark, I have a few issue that need help from you. 1. Custom Column in the DataGridView. a. Multi-Column ComboBox in DataGridView b. DataGridViewTextBoxCell with a button, when the button is clicked a new form pops up, when selecting the value in the pop up form , value will be displayed in the textbox. Besides that, we can directly type in text in the textbox. c. Memo field in the DataGridView , where allow user to type ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to add a new report to a Team Project

  How can I add a new report to an existent Team Project Ok, it's easy to add the report through Resporting Server, but how can I link it with the parameters of Team Foundation (ex.: project), like we do with the ReportsTasks.xml file I've looked through the entire database but coudn't find this configuration. Thanks, Max Andrade ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Inserting ComboBoxText, StartTime and EndTime into SQL Express table

  Hi I'm trying on a tabletennis applications which save playernames,playernpoints,startTime and EndTime into a sqlExpress table, I've also created in c#express. The MatchTable contains following colums: MatchID int (isIdentity) PlayerName1 nvarchar(50) PlayerName2 nvarchar(50) PlayerPoints1 int PlayerPoints2 int MatchBegin datetime MatchEnd datetime (here I want also the seconds) For the playernames I'v attached 2 comboxes to the matc ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Mouse intersect plane (Full project available)

  Hi, this has been driving me nuts for weeks now, im trying to get the point where the mouse intersects a plane. I have to have this project for college done for thur and i im just stuck. If anyone can help it would be excellent, i have created a simple test project to show what im doing, Download (118kb) Thanks for any help, -Dave Already answered on gamedev http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista installation problem

  hi i have downloaded windows vista and have tried installing it (i am using daemon tools to mount it) 3 times on a 40gb ide hard drive. i have 2 40gb had drives 1 with xp on and 1 for vista. also i have a 250gb external 1 for backups. part way through the installation after it restarts for about the 3rd time it boots into xp and when it finshes loading i get a message saying: Your Windows Vista installation has failed Your previous ver ...Show All

• Windows Forms Inherited Click handler

  I have an MDI application in which all of the child forms inherit from a base form. This base form handles all of the common functionality of the child forms, including form initialization and closing logic. I have a protected method called CloseButton_Click which is supposed to be the Click handler for any button on a derived form which closes the form when it is clicked (primarily OK and Cancel buttons, but there a few other cases as well). Th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Accessing forms from external classes

  Hi, I am quite new to high level language programming (being one of those who lived with machine code for a couple of decades). I am creating an application for my company which will store lots of information in a database (and I am using the C# language to do this). What I would like to do is access a form that I have created with Visual Studio 2005 professional from other classes. As the project is going to be large, I will create severa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista The new WZC API

  On Vista, what is the new API for WZC (and where do I find it in the SDK) WZC = wireless zero config Thanks. In vista , Wlan will be used, see http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms706563.aspx And where can i find WZC api in WindowsXP, which SDK thx ...Show All

• SQL Server Upsizing Wizard

  A few days ago I installed SQL Server 2005 Express edition and successfully used the upsizing wizard to convert a MS Access database to SQL Server database. Today I found I could get VB.Studio Express. The instructions said to delete SQL Server Express and .NET before installing VB Studio because it would re-install them both. I faithfully did that but since then I have been unable to get the upsizing wizard to work again. I have uninstalled SQL ...Show All

• Visual Studio VB6 and VS 2005

  Hi I have just set up VS 2005 on my PC - all OK. I had VB6 on the same PC Now, whenever I try to open VB6 it asks for the VS2005 CDs and if given them tries to update the VS installation, over and over and over. If I Cancel the request for the CDs (a number of times) then VB6 opens and works fine. Any ideas how to get rid of this annoyance. Roy T Michael Yes yes this is only a work around but in my case I am happt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Connecting to access mdb file problem.

  I am having some trouble connecting to my Access Database from Visual Studio Express 2005. I can add a connection if it is a sql database, but when i change the Datasource to the access option and hit ok i get a window that allows me to change my Connection string, and thats it. If i cancel it exits the wizard. Also the only data provider i have is .net framework provider for ole db. Should i have a second provider The other softw ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to get CoverageInfo from .coverage file

  Hi, I'm trying to get the CoverageInfo from a .coverage file. But when I use CoverageInfoManager .CreateInfoFromFile(filename), I get a ErrorLoading symbols error (error as shown below). Can someone help ! Error description - ****************************************************** Microsoft.VisualStudio.CodeCoverage.CoverageCreateException was unhandled   Message="Error when creating coverage info: Error loading symbols"   Source="Micr ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there anything wrong with this line of code?

  Dim rsStudentInfo As ADODB.Recordset Dim strStudentInfo as string OpenConnection () call here rsStudentInfo = New adodb.recordset strStudentInfo = "Insert into Student (FName, LName, Age ) values " & _ "(" & FirstName& "," & LastName& "," & Age & ")" I just wanted to save all of the user inputs into the database table but it doesn't do anything and keep giving me 0 in the student ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Clearing PictureBox using buttonclick

  Hi, complete novice at VB but perservering I want to clear a PictureBox of the image displayed by clicking on a button when the user wants to clear the data. Can anyone give me any help on this please. I can't see anything in the PictureBox properties that would do this. I thought there might be a clear() function but there's not. Any help much appreciated Sassie Hello Sassie. All you need to do is set ...Show All