Kyote's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Why to use DirectX?

  Why would I use DirectX What's that "something" in it, which makes it better than others I know that it's very useful and so on, but can someone tell me what is its strength. I'm thinking should I begin to practise DirectX. Thanks, Timo Speed. Also, it's the industry standard. But, most people find the COM interface structures a little intimidating at first. ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem overriding method in a derived class

  Why can't I override a virtual method and return a subclass of the parent type as in the code below. I.e. return ColorSwatch instead of Swatch so that the caller doesn't have to recast the return value. In fact if I don't make the method virtual/override I get the problem that the compiler then complains that the derived class ColorExists needs to use the new keyword because it is hiding the method in the parent class. What gives with this How come the compiler isn't smart enough to see what is happening Thanks for any ideas. Steve public class Swatch : IDisposable {    internal virtual Swatch ColorExists() ...Show All

• Visual Studio DSL : Properties Grouping in the Property Window and Shapes Grouping in the ToolBox

  Can anybody please tell me how to group Shapes and Properties in DSL also havin questions for dialog box popup in DSL. please let me know on my above quieries. Thanx for the help. Hi Kiran Thre's no way to group toolbox items at present. We'll likely have this facility in our next release. You can group properties by setting the Category on the Property The standard Visual Studio IUIService should be used to raise dialog boxes. hope this helps, ...Show All

• Visual C++ how do I install missing file msvcr80.dll

      Please, if someone knows how to install file msvcr80.dll, if you   don't mind let me know. Check this: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml msvcr80 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Question about the Caller Interface

  Hi, have somebody ideas to redesign the Caller Interface on the WM 5.0 phone edition like the picture above: WM 5.0 Dialer Skin The Question is how to resize or relocate the buttons and the picture. Thanks for your help Patrick Eisel If your intention is to re-write the Caller Interface using C# or VB.NET, you will be able to create the UI as you choose.  I do not believe there is anyway to modify this specific form. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Adding Project References

  In the VCS express edition, I don't see an option for adding project references.  There is a project tab within the "add reference" dialog... but it doesn't have any buttons like [add] or [browse]... only a blank list... that is all that I see on the project tab. Is this normal   Is it a problem with my install   How can I add project references   Is there another way to go about it through the UI Thanks again!  You are correct.  That answers my question.  I can "add existing projects"... then those projects will show up in projects tab under "add ref ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help with Help .. its driving me crazy!!

  Installed the new Visual Studio 2005 (*not beta) from an .iso image file (CD) Installed MSDN Library October 2005 edition from CD's. NOTE: I chose the option to install the library from the Visual Studio 2005 setup. Launching VS 2005, the dexplore help is showing help on help only, not any documentation from MSDN Library 10/2005 version. So, I Launched the help seperately, still not seeing anything related to MSDN. But I did see options to install additional help libraries from third-party component makers (Infragistics to be exact). I dont understand why there are all these variations in the way HELP is installed between versions of devel ...Show All

• Visual Basic Running an external application.

  Hi all, I have the following problem. When I try to run a certain external application from within my application, it won't start. No errors, nothing. However, when I replace the executable with notepad.exe or winword.exe or something simular it does work! The external application I want to start, does work when I start it manually.... What could that be I tried: shell(" C:\Program Files\G2Speech\Bin\G2Dictation.exe ") And: ' Declare and instantiate a new process component. Dim myproc As System.Diagnostics.Process myproc = New System.Diagnostics.Process ' Do not receive an event when the process exits. myproc.EnableRaisingEvent ...Show All

• Visual C++ including atlbase

  Hello, i am currently working on porting a lib project from VC6 to VC2005. in one of my h files, i include <atlbase.h> in order to use CComBSTR class. while compiling the project i get the following error, regarding this include: c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\atlmfc\include\atlbase.h(4360) : error C3861: '_beginthreadex': identifier not found i tried to enable _ATL_MIN_CRT in the project definitions, but it did not help. any idea how to solve it Thanks! I am not sure if this is correct for what the previous poster said, but...: There are supposedly numerious compile ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewImageCell, host custom control

  Hi all, Again i lack the knowledge and documentation to achieve what i want. The new DataGridView allow us to add custom controls in each cell. I already found the DateTimePicker Example on thos forum, great example and it works smoothly, however i wanted to create a Image Edit control which could be used in the DataGridView. The problem is that the DataGridViewImageCell is readonly by default and has no EditableControl. So following the DateTimePicker example didn't work, however changing the base class from DataGridViewImageCell to DataGridViewTextBoxCell did show the control when entering the cell's edit mode. I probably need to call some ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Web Client for WIT

  Hi! Do anyone know about any 3rd party web client to WIT Or do VSTS contain anything in this area Something similar to Outlooks Web Client... Rgds, /AnE Hi Anders, You may want to take a look at TeamPlain Web Access for Team System - it's a web interface for Team Foundation Server that allows managing work items, documents, reports and source control repositories. Regards. Sinc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Linking the Menu/Toolbar/Tabs and the Statusbar

  Maybe I'm just missing the right property, or maybe it doesn't exist, but what I'd like to do is link the Menu and Toolbars to the Status bar so that the status bar will reflect the text value of the menu item or toolstrip button that the mouse is hovering over. In other words, if I move my mouse over the open folder icon in my toolbar, the status bar should read "Open". I'm sure I could link this up the hard way with lots of code, but I was hoping some enterprising soul predicted this need and built in the functionality in the first place. Hi, as far as I know you'll have to do it by code but it's not that much code. J ...Show All

• Visual C# Get resource without knowing absolute path

  Hi all, I'm working on a C# windows application. I want to get access to a file in my application. This file is in my project and I want to access it without having to put the hard-coded full path. So, I want to do something like : <code> Assembly a = Assembly .GetExecutingAssembly(); Stream stream = a.GetManifestResourceStream( "KwenTest.resources" ); </code> But after this, I want to know the absolute path. But I think that the class Stream does not provide any information about this. So, what can I do hi, i asked question close to this one http://forums.microsoft.com/M ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problems with VSS (Internet) ... cannot check-in (on RTM version)

  So I setup my repository correctly and I have my plug-in working (seemingly fine) in VS.NET 2005. I can download the project via VSS (Internet) and I can even check-out files. I just cannot check in. I get a 'Cannot upload file guid.guid .bin' error message. I checked permissions on all of the directories and in IIS and they seem fine.  Certainly not having an issue downloading or check-ing out. The server is running on Win2000 Server with IIS 5 (fully patched up). Ideas anyone Hi Joseph, VSS Internet uses WebDAV's PUT verb to upload files. I'd check the server configuration whether Webdav is not blo ...Show All

• SQL Server Backuping up multiple databases at once

  I'm going through the docs and I can't find a way to backup multiple databases at once, rather than them individually. I see you can create a backup device, but you have to select every individual database. I know in 2000 you could do it .... Are you referring to using a maintanence plan or t-sql I assume a maintanence plan Regardless, you can't backup multiple db's in a single backup operation...what you can do is create multiple backup statements, one for each database (which is what would happen in SQL 2000 if you chose multiple db's from the GUI), then each database will be backed up serially (i ...Show All