Darius R's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DIrectX April 2006 ERROR

  Ok, I installed the April 2006 version of DirectX. Then I downloaded a sample tutorial from the Sample browser. The project compiled correctly without any errors, but then when I executed the project it said: "Cannot start because d3d10.dll was not found" Why is this happening I believe I followed the correct means of installation. Just on a side note, I was running this in VS 2005. I believe VS 2005 came with the platform SDK, so the problem may not lie there. But I am using Windows xp sp 2. Is there anyone that can help me fix this issue Are you trying to run the DX10 samples, th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Debug problem with web-services in VS2005

  In VS2003 you could debug from a calling application into a web-service.  Now it won't do it.  How do you debug a web-service now   I even tried to attach to this new micro-IIS thing they have built in but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. I have the same problem now. I used to have a VS2003 installed on my machine, then I uninstalled it, and installed a VS2005 now. I created a web project locally (File System), I added a web service project (File System as well) to this solution. I made web site to reference this web service within the same solution. I launched the web site, set break point, it worked. B ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Deployment problem

  Hi all, I create an application using combination of direct show and windows media format video images v2. My application run well in windows xp. But i can't run the program in windows 2000 server. I can't install windows media format redistribution kit on windows 2000 server. anyone can help or any tricky idea to solve the problem Hi, Great thanks for all help LGS (or what ever ur name). And thanks again. ...Show All

• Visual Basic ISSHELLVERSION conversion to VB.NET

  I inherited this code from a predecessor. It determines the shell version to display the correct notifyicondata size. As you can see by the code highlighted in red, that I am having problems with the "As Any" for the conversion to .NET. Is there an easier way to do this or do I even need this code in .NET for displaying the NotifyIcondata     Private Const NOTIFYICONDATA_V1_SIZE As Long = 88 'pre-5.0 structure size Private Const NOTIFYICONDATA_V2_SIZE As Long = 488 'pre-6.0 structure size Private Const NOTIFYICONDATA_V3_SIZE As Long = 504 '6.0+ structure size Private NOTIFYICONDATA_SIZE As Long Private Decl ...Show All

• .NET Development MDX + .NET Framework 2.0 + VCS Express Edition + Win XP x64

  Hi, For any CS code that uses managed D3D : everytime I try to compile an app. w/VCS Express Edition under the 64-bit edition of Win XP, the app. compiles ok but as soon as it is executed an exception message appears telling that the app. is not a real 32-bit native one. As far as I'm concerned, after installing .NET Framework 2.0 under a x64 OS, both versions -32 bits and 64 bits- are installed on the machine. So, it seems that, by default, compilation of the code a/o execution is hooked to the 64-bit assemblies of the Framework. Is there any workaround for this issue (if I use .NET Framework 1.1 instead with VS 2003 the app. com ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorflowCompiler, rules and parameters

  1. Let's say I have a .xoml workflow definition which references a .rules file. If I compile it in runtime using the WorkflowCompiler, will the WorkflowCompiler include the rules in the generated workflow class 2. If this workflow definition includes a couple of input parameters, will the WorkflowCompiler generate the appropriate properties in the workflow class, so the rules I defined in .rules file will be able to use their values 3. Is it possible to develop a custom rules engine (or should I say a condition engine) which could be used instead of the RuleExpressionCondition I'd like to use our existing rule engine which has some ex ...Show All

• Windows Forms 'Back' Button gets disabled on the Installation Folder dialog

  I have a Windows Installer Setup project as part of my VS2005 solution, and it includes the 'Select Installation Folder' dialog. Using the User Interface Editor in the VS2005 IDE, I added a new dialog that has a check-box, and positioned this new dialog after the Installation Folder dialog. When I do this, the 'Back' button on the Installation Folder dialog gets disabled when I run the install. This button was enabled before, and it allowed me to navigate to the previous dialog, which is the License Agreement dialog. Changing the order of the dialogs doesn't seem to help. The only way to re-enable the 'Back' button seems to b ...Show All

• .NET Development SerialPort Class Help DataReceived

  I'm using the DataReceived from the V.2 .NET SerialPort class. I'm communicating with a microprocessor board and i can write to it fine. I'm having trouble reading from it. It sends a single byte at a time without an EndCharacter. I can see the byte being sent on my oscope and with an older Turbo Basic program it does read the byte. My problem is that my DataReceived event isn't being thrown. I have my ReceivedBytesThreshold set to 1 and i still can't see anything. Here is my code just see if the event can be thrown: Private Sub SerialPort1_DataReceived( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEve ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating a custom transformation component Walkthrough

  Microsoft published a "Creating a custom transformation component Walkthrough" published on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=1c2a7dd2-3ec3-4641-9407-a5a337bea7d3&DisplayLang=en Does anyone know where to get the Hands-On Lab Files mentioned Thanks Alex I could not see any mention of files over and above the word document. There are plenty of samples available separately on MS Downloads, just search for SSIS. ...Show All

• Windows Forms What happened to the beta 2 Profile menu in the Settings project property page?

  One of THE coolest features I learned to facilitate deployment in beta 2 was the Profiles menu in the Settings project properties page.  I created a profile for Development, Staging and Production.  Within each profile, I defined different applicationSettings for things that change in each environment in lock-step like SMTP server, application URL and support email addresses.  Changing the profile would automatically update the <applicationSettings> element in the App. config file.  And by referencing its keys in C# like {projectNameSpace}.Properties. Settings.{applicationSettingsKey}, the code would autom ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista design

  Can I get somewhere the Windows Vista Aero design. (I want to use it in Windows XP) This is the wrong group for this post - try the UI design forum. Also, what do you mean by "get anywhere" ...Show All

• Visual Basic [vb 2005 expr] Synchronizing folder's content

  Hi guys! I must do something really "simple" using Visual Basic 2005 express (on a windows 2000 or xp system): I have 2 folders: hansel (remote folder connected as a net unit) and gretel (local folder) I want, when user clicks on a button, to synchronize gretel folder's content to that of hansel folder (NOT viceversa: I want to add or delete NOTHING in hansel folder). In other words: gretel must be an exact backup copy of hansel. (of course I don't want to copy every time ALL the content, but just differences) Is there a simple way to do this Moreover I'd like to know if there's a way to suspend my application's execution til ...Show All

• Visual Basic Windows Media Player Control not working as it did with VB .NET Express

  I just learned how to use the Windows Media Player control and I had a Windows form working that would connect to a URL and play the video. When I tried to add the control to an ASP .NET website, there were two options for WMP...a dll file and an ocx file. I added the dll file to my toolbox items, but it doesn't show up in the toolbox like it did in VB. I managed to write code without errors that is supposed to do the same thing as my Windows form, but I can't drop the WMP control on the page, so nothing happens. Can someone help me figure out how to put the control on the form so I can see it I'll show you the code that I have which worked ...Show All

• Windows Forms Environment.UserDomainName

  One of my colleagues asked this question recently and I was wondering if anybody here had any ideas "We are using Environment.UserDomainName in the new Corporate System for some of the security checking. An interesting point arose today. If you are on a machine logged onto a domain, Environment.UserDomainName will return the name of the domain, UNLESS there is a ...Show All

• .NET Development can you programatically change a WebReference at run time?

  Is it possible to programatically change where a web service points to at run-time i.e. I have a Webreference pointing to "http://localhost/MAS/xfer/xfer.asmx", can I change this to e.g. "http://localhost/MAS/xfer/xfer_NEW.asmx" with a setting read in from a INI file thanks thanks Sergey ...Show All