bradbury9's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Creating Projective Textures

  How the Manual gave me some intro. but not much. Could you give us some more details to work with  - Direct3D 8 or 9 Something else  - What manual you mean the SDK documentation if so, which page  - What effect are you trying to achieve Projective Textures aren't exactly a feature of Direct3D. You can do projective texturing - but that's just a specific use of regular textures. Best regards ...Show All

• SQL Server Calling code outside of SQL

  Hello again, hope this post is not offensive to the newsgroup. I am just wondering what is an efficient method of invoking external code from SQL server. I do not want to load assemblies in SQL, I want to run something outside. So far options considered: 1. Windows Service - loop and check for a specified condition in database. 2. Web Service Listener - use SQL CLR to call the web service. 3. Queueing mechanism. Use MSMQ and widows service (simi ...Show All

• Visual Studio is there any best practice for using sourcesafe 2005 with vs2005 for developing thousands of aspx/ascx?

  any info for best practice using sourcesafe 2005 with thousands of aspx, ascx i need more info rather than how to use it (well it already in help files).. i would be appreciate for some info related to: how to manage files that should be controlled and not-controlled. i have dynamic folders like "/images", "/uploadedfiles". sourcesafe always want to add them if we upload some test files. if we compiled some of non ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Message History

  Ok so here is my issue.. I have installed mostly only Microsoft Products on my computer. Ranging from the XP PRO O/S, office 2003, IE7, Beta Version of Messenger Live. but here is my issue when i goto view Message history it gives me the following message: The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. Hello Jar ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Lost the Create SmartDevice Wizzard

  In VS 2005 Beta 2, when I would go to       File > New Project and select:      Visual C#            Smart Device                   Pocket PC 2003 and then click on Device Application under the installed templates,    it would run a Wizzard where I could c ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with setPassword from a Web Service using Active Directory/System.DirectoryServices

  I have developed a .NET Web service for active directory user management. It contains functions like CreateUser, AddUserToGroup, EnableUser, etc... The domain admin created a 'service account' for me that has authority to do all these things and I am passing in its userid/pw when I construct the DirectoryEntry objects. The Web service has its own security mechanism, so it always runs as either the app pool identity or the identity specified in t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot get leftclick mouse_event to work

  Hi, I hope someone can help - I'm new to vb express and am looking for some code that will let me move the mouse pointer and perform a click of the left mouse button. I use the following code to reposition the cursor and perform a left click - I can get the mouse pointer to where I want, but running the leftclick() function generates a 'mouse_event has unbalanced the stack. This is likely because the managed PI Signature does not match the un ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to get the size and type of images?

  hi i have a windows form . users can send their images , from that. but i want to chek the size and type of that files to be in appropriate formats. for ex. they should be able to send only .jpg files , with a defined sizes, and not else. how can i do that thank u You can load the image using the Image class.  On this class are properties to tell you the format and size of the picture.  You might cons ...Show All

• .NET Development unknown exception - HELP!

  I've been sitting at the computer for the past 9 hours straight (of course with breaks in between) I CANNOT get this error resolved!!!!! It's developing on .NET CF but I thnk it maybe more appropriate posting it here. sometimes it produces this error, sometimes not. The way my app works is that it connects to a server on your PC. You can disconnect from the client application (works fine no problem... i'll check again) or you hit a "stop" button ...Show All

• Visual Studio Integrating help docs with VS2005

  We have a Help system that integrates nicely with VS2003. I now want to make sure that our VS2005 customers will get the docs integrated, too. I want to make sure we cover the following scenarios: 1. User has VS2003, docs integrate as expected. 2. User has VS2005, I want the docs to integrate. What do I need to do 3. User has VS2003, installs docs, then upgrades later to VS2005. We wan the docs carry over to new help system without the using hav ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer - red cross on "documents"-folder

  Since installation of TFS I am unable to see the content of the documents-folder (teamexplorer) on a client-machine. There is always a red cross on the folder! If I start the team explorer on the server the documents folder is shown correctly. I tried to copy the http-url ( http://[servername]/sites/[Project ]) to an IE on a client and there the sharepoint site is shown without any problems. I did the changes required after installation of ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Re-Writing Code?

  Hello How would I go about making a program were It re-writes the code of a button through the text of a textbox. Let me clear this up a little bit more. I'm working on a program that currently has 2 buttons and a textbox. Now when I press Button1 I want it to write TextBox1's Text into Button2's Code. So for example: Lets say I put Msgbox("hello") into textbox1 and then pressed Button1, then pressed button2 and A message ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) FlowDocumentScrollViewer and FlowDocumentReader zoom

  Any way of stopping zoom on these controls from showing Andy FYI, if your using grid layout with these you can get around it by layering a rectangle over the same space as the viewer and setting it to be postioned at the bottom and wide/long enough to cover it. Its not ideal but will let you achieve the above. ...Show All

• Visual C++ left of ->position must point to struct/class etc

  I dont seem to be able to find the error causeing the problen in the title System::Void btnFirst_Click(System::Object ^sender, System::EventArgs ^, e) {     this->BindingContext->Contains(dsDailyOrders, "Workorder")->Position = 0; } thanks in advance for any help. Just a guess! Contains returns usually a bool value. So this->BindingContext->Contains(dsDailyOrders, "Workorder") ret ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions please help to understand a class

  Hi I have class Named List problem is that i cant create a normal instace of it like: List s=new List(); i have to make : List* s=new List(); can someonw explain why =============================================================== code: List.cpp #include "StdAfx.h" #include "List.h" #include<iostream> using namespace std; // Creaza lista si primul elemnt din ea List::List(int value) { first=new nod(); f ...Show All