Phansu's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ Change "outdir" using VCBuild

  We've converted our app from VS6 to VS2005 and have started using VCBuild instead of NMAKE. For our VS6 projects we would set an environment variable "OutDir" different than what was in the makefile. Programmers use the makefile setting and our server uses different directories for both debug and release than what is in the makefile. Is there a way using vcbuild to change the "outputdirectory" Maybe a different method T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need help with for and pictureboxes

  I'm making a map editor to make maps Every tile is a picurebox. In the menu there is a command "New" wich will load all the default pics into the picturebozes, so you can make a new map i created this for statement dim i as integer For i = 0 To 391 PictureBox(i).image = My.Resources.Image_default Next i But this doesn't work. There is something wrong with the PictureBox(i).image Please help me. I'm using vb2005 Thanks in advance, Radexxio ...Show All

• .NET Development How to start a win16 exe with Process.Start static methode

  In .Net 2003 I can start a .Net executable, a Win32 executable and a Win16 executable (written with VB 3 in 16 bits) with the Start static methode of the Process Class. In .Net 2005 when I try to start a Win16 executable I receive the error : The parameter is incorrect Can somebody help me The code that is making the call to Process.Start() and everything else setting up parameters and what not (if prese ...Show All

• Visual Basic Login Trigger

  I need a way to let my programming (running on a Windows 2003 Server machine) get triggered when a user logs on a computer in the domain controlled by this server. The server is the only DC of the domain. Can you help please you need to create a login script http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx kbid=198642 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/script56/html/5593b353-ef4b-4c ...Show All

• System Center Disk space used

  For the Utilization by resource Simulation result, does the utilization refer to disk throughput utilization or disk space utilization   If it is for disk throughput utilization, how can I find the disk space utilzation It would ben really good to know how big the Exchane databases will grow and how many log files will be produced over a given period. Thanks. Ben .. For a given deployment, SCCP calcul ...Show All

• Smart Device Development GPS sample and Windows Mobile 2005

  hi, i found the GPS example on the SDK for Pocket pc for C#. i have no problem deploying it in my pocket pc - MDA PRO. but when i select menu item 'Start gps' it only says 'StartingUp' and does nothing else. my PocketPC is already paired with the GPS receiver. will really appreciate if anyone can help me with this. will also appreciate if anyone can point to some other sample example to connect to bluetooth gps receivers. regards, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Packaging a DirectX Game

  Hi, I've recently started programming using DirectX and C#. I created a game and it runs fine on my development machine (.Net 1.1,  DX SDK). But when I compile the game for a release, and move it onto a machine that only has the DirectX runtimes, it fails to find any of the neccessary libraries and will not start. I've tried telling to to "include resources" when it compiles, in which case it copies a bunch of .dll's to the release directo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Methods and Events of Forms, text box controls, etc.

  How can I see all available methods & properties of a form or controls on a form such as textboxes within the code window Is there a way In Visual Foxpro, it will show you all available methods and properties within code window. Sorry guys if Im comparing C# with Visual Foxpro, VFP is a Datacentric and RAD tools but I really want to be well versed in C# programming. hi, exposing form objects as public objects you can see and edit fr ...Show All

• Visual C# No clue about arrays, everything fails ...

  I want to fill an array in the constructor of my object, and then use it in in another method. But no matter what I try, I can't get this right. It is too different from how arrays used to be. Either it does not compile, or the array remains null as in the example below. How should I do it class Calendar { private static int day,month; private static int [] daysPerMonth; public Calendar() { day=16; daysPerMonth[1] = 31; daysPerM ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using SplitContainer in MDI parent

  I have an MDI parent winform.  I instanate my MDI children when user press a button. I would like to use the new .NET 2.0 SplitContainer to divide screen area.  However, after adding the SplitContainer, my MDI children always stay behide the SplitContainer, how can I solve this problem Actually, a normal panel control will cause the same problem in MDI form. Thanks.   Kennon2005 wrote: Hi, Mike Berro, if the MDI ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Installing Framework 2.0 over 1.1.

  Hi, It seems that i need to use some classes that are available only in 2.0, but i have 1.1. Is there some articles about reinstalling 2.0 over 1.1 I have lots of development stuff on my comp and i dont want to harm anything uninstalling 1.1 and installing 2.0. Currently i have 1.1. and VS 2003. So, if i take 2.0 Framework and 2.0 SDK and install both of them, not removing 1.1., will everything work fine Will my VS 2003 work with 2.0 sinc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable printscreen key

  I can capture the printscreen key with this function:  Private Sub Form2_KeyUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyUp     If e.KeyCode = Keys.PrintScreen Then     End If   End Sub How do I then discard& ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transparency in imagelist images

  This has been a bugbear of .NET since V1.0 so I hope it has been addressed in .NET 2.0! Do the Windows Forms controls (ImageList and List/TreeView) now fully support images with multiple levels of transparency In my instance I use PNG files with an alpha transparency but also have the option to use 32bpp BMP format files. Our application needs to target Windows 2000 as well as Windows XP. Using Windows 2000 (my development machine), I can s ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CodeDomDesignerLoader

  My problem is getting drag drop of toolbox items when using CodeDomDesignerLoader. I have a designer hosting application that provides the workflow designer and a toolbox allowing for drag drop of toolbox items onto the designer. Everything works fine when using a loader based on WorkflowDesignerLoader and you can drop toolbox items onto the designer and everything updates fine on the display with the activity added. However when I use a loa ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help.

  How do I create a grid of pictureboxes (25 x 25) on Visual Basic 2005 and auto-name them pbx(row)_(column) for the picture boxes It is to slow and hard to manually rename all 625 of them. Ok question answered, thanks. New question: OK, I ran into another problem. I want it be so that if I click the picture box with the person in it, you can move him by clicking on another tile. How do I do this (I tried (got from Dustin_H 's sample code) : ...Show All