IrishLadd's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How to set cursor for a control from a file

  Hi How can I set cursor for a control from a "cur" file in VB2005 Thanks Button1.Cursor = New Cursor( "path_to_cursor.cur" ) ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Predelivery of license for the DRM Protected media files on Pocket PC

  Hi I am writing an application for downloading the media files on the Pocket PC Device. I download a wmv media file on to Pocket PC using my application. C an you help me on how to do the predelivery of DRM licence on Pocket PC prog ramatically. Is there any component or api's available which i can use for d oing predelivery of licencecing for the DRM Protected media files on a pocke t pc running windows media player10. There is one article on MSDN mention be low My understanding of using interfaces describe in the below link is not d eep so if anyone can help me out it will be great. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...acquisition.a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Pixel Perfect collision Detection

  Hi, Do anyone Know how to realize the pixel perfect collision detection in vb.net Direct3d Sprite class (2d game) I tried to use lockrectangle but i can't find any example of usage. I have this code for dx7 but i cannot translate to vb.net directx9 Anyone can help me Thank you dx7 code (not mine) Public Function CheckForPPCollision(DDSurf1 As DirectDrawSurface7, DDSurf2 As DirectDrawSurface7, RECT1 As RECT, RECT2 As RECT, BlitCOLORKEY As Integer) As Boolean Dim RECTOverlap As RECT 'Used to record the overlap from RECT1 and RECT2 Dim RECT1Overlap As RECT 'Overlaped portions of RECT1 Dim RECT2Overlap As RECT 'Overlap ...Show All

• Visual C# ContextSwitchDeadlock

  I have an API that i use to extract the image data from an IP camera. I convert the data into a byte array then process it. After processing i display it in a picture box then repeat the process again and again. I always get this message after it has iterated 450(approx) times in the debug mode and 800(approx) otherwise. First a message box (warning) with the follow No symbols are loaded for any call stack frame. The source code can not be displayed Then a message in the debug window. ContextSwitchDeadloack was detected followed by " The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1a1420 to COM context 0x1a1 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista A couple of questions regarding WF...

  I've just recently begun researching WF and I am very excited about the possibilities it offers for making Workflow applications. I have looked at all of the examples I can find, and I have just started looking through the samples included with the SDK, but I cannot find an answer to something that I would consider pretty simple. Let's say I have a helpdesk state machine workflow defined for dealing with incoming help requests. How would I present a view of all of the pending requests Do I have to instantiate that many workflow objects Do I simply query the store myself and populate a datagridview How have other people dealt with this My ot ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to declare a style for a border?

  Hi, I would like to translate the style attributes in CSS, like: "dashed , dotted, double, groove, inset, outset and ridge" to my border in XAML. I couldn't find a property in the border class for this, only the Tchickness property and the BorderBrush. Is there an easier way to translate this Thank you!!! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Access or SQL Which one is better

  Hi I'm wondering, which one would be better, i'm creating 2 medical programs, that are going to be running on a local machine, I Use visual Basic 2005 express and don't know if I should develop with access or SQL 2005 express. Which one is better and faster Any suggestions or comments will come in handy. PS. Future versions might have network connections, like for a secretary or interoffice connections. So should i work on access or SQL express SQLE is *better* in that it does more. The real question is, which is the appropriate tool fo hte job. If you expect to run the database on a seperate ma ...Show All

• Visual Basic imageformat conversion..

  sorry for asking a sillly question.. i want to know how to convert a jpeg format file to bmp file.. without changing the bit depth of the image...if anybody can give the code too.. it would be great.. ashtified_85 http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp ID=5799 -- Teemu Keiski ASP.NET MVP, AspInsider Finland, EU http://blogs.aspadvice.com/joteke ...Show All

• Visual Basic Anomalous Access Database Results.....

  I have a test database... the Table called Bluish is filled with the following data: Bluish RecordNo RecordType OwningCategory Name Author DateCreated DateModified Descriptor Document 0 SubCategory Bluish Puppies 2/7/2006 9:32:40 PM 2/7/2006 9:32:40 PM 1 1 SubCategory Bluish Sweeties 2/7/2006 9:32:58 PM 2/7/2006 9:32:58 PM 1 2 Topic Puppies ...Show All

• SQL Server Column Mapping in a Custom Component

  Does anyone know how to get destination coulmns to show up in the advanced editor for a custom component I have a custom flat file destination component that builds the output based on a specific layout. It works as long as the upstream column names match my output names. What I want is to allow non-matching columns to be mapped by the user as they can in a stock flat file destination. The closest that I have been able to come is to get the "column mappings" tab to show up and populate the "Available Input Columns" by setting ExternalmetadataColumnCollection.IsUsed to true on the input. The problem is that the "Avai ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable item in listbox

  Does anybody know how to disable a particular item in a listbox   I know how to disable every single item but have a need to disable certain items only to display them (greyed out) but not let the user select them. Any suggestions would be appreciated. C Thanks so much for your reply.  I will definitely try this. C ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista hosting WWF inside a Com+ application

  Hi! We are thinking about hositng the WWF runtime in a Com+ ServiceComponent, but first I would like to read you thougths about this, possible issues, or if is even possible. thanks a lot! Hi! Thank you very much for your response We have dicarded the Com+ option and I'm focusing on the Windows Service with MSMQ and correlating messages for synchronously functionality ... wich is good and It seems to be recommended in other threads in this forum... About WCF and Indigo, we will be researching in the comming months that option, but for the current project (it’s a medium size distribuited project) we will be using current techno ...Show All

• Visual C++ WORKABLE VERSION OF VC++

  Can anyone direct me to the lastest workable version of vc++. Obviously Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 is useless. Even their hello world has build problems. Converting older versions always gives some error & When one generates a new program it doesn't even see it! I'm going back to my old disk version of Visual C++ from years ago but maybe someone knows of a more contemporary version which works. Is 2003 valid 2002 Any comments would be appreciated -Thank you Please try to be precise in some way. I can' see any error's when trying to build a helllo world project. I am owrking productive with VS 2003 an ...Show All

• SQL Server Table views over multiple databases

  Hi champs! Is it possible to make a database View over two different database installations on different machines Many thanks kurlan Yes. It ispossible in SQL 2000. You can drag a table from another database to a view in the current database you are using. example select query is: SELECT * FROM dbo.Table1A INNER JOIN [Database2].dbo.Table1 ON dbo.Table1A.Key= [Database2].dbo.Table1.Key Where Table1A is a table from current database And Table1 is another table from another database named Database2 ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Flow Execution Phases

  Hi guys, I would like to know what happens during the different phases when executing a data flow task. I noticed that there are the validation, prepare for execute, pre-execute, execute, post-execute, and cleanup phases. We all know that the execute phase is the actual execution of the desired data flow (source to destination) but I was wondering what the other phases do. Knowing what happens during those phases will help me optimize the whole execution. 1 question raised by someone here is "what is the difference between the Prepare for Execute phase and the Pre-Execute phase and what does the validation phase do Thanks ...Show All