Michael Giagnocavo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Media Player-Like Application

  I'm trying to throw together a simple media player application. I would like to set the source (URI) of a media file to play and have controls over playback. The MediaPlayer class obviously does all the heavy work. I would like to have Sliders for Position, SpeedRatio and Balance. I can hook these all up in code, but it appears that none of those properties are Dependency properties and therefore Binding doesn't appear to work. I noticed that Sp ...Show All

• Windows Forms SQL Server Bugaboo

  Hi Gang! Here's the skinny: I am working on a simple db app that reads and updates a db on SQL Server 7.  When I ONLY have the connection string in the code, I can connect just fine.  When I add code to manipulate data, I lo ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows Service Not Starting on W2K

  My service seems to work fine on XPPro, but not on W2K Server. I have a Windows Service I created that just sets a timer and writes to EventLog every 10 seconds. It installed fine and it actually starts.  But it says it doesn't.  The progress bar shows the progress fine until it hits about halfway.  It then stops there for about 4 or 5 seconds then goes a little farther.  I then get a message: Could not start the MyService Se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MDI child and Parent.

  Hello, i am trying to learn vb by myself. and i am going good also. i have one form which i have converted in to MDI parent from the properties. but i have few more forms, which i want them to open inside the parent form. now i dont know how to make them child form. can u show me Say MD was the mdi parent window and frmtest was a form. dim n as new frmtest n.parent = md n.show That would ma ...Show All

• Visual C# Console window keeps closing itself

  Hello, I'm a newbie to Visual C# and I am trying to create the dirt simple "Hello World" sample as a Console Application and when I run my program the console window blinks up then disappears...it closes itself. Anyone know what's going on here To debug, I set a breakpoint at my " static void Main()" line and the code starts, a blank console window even appears but as soon as the program executes the " Console .WriteLine( "H ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DependentUpon missing in VS2K5 Extensions beta 2

  Hi, I've installed Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (beta 2) and I have a problem when I add "Sequential Workflow (with code separation)" to a "Sequential Workflow Console Application" project. After adding the item to the project two files appear in the VS Solution Explorer: Workflow.xoml as Workflow.xoml.cs. But the problem is that they aren't related. The .xoml.cs isn’t under the .xoml. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Altering "generate method stub" code snippet...

  Hi, first of all, I think that the "generate method stub" IntelliSense feature is a really great feature. I thought it would be cool, though, if it also generated a "// TODO: ...", so the item would show up in the task list. So far I've modified the /.../MethodStub.snippet file like this (excerpt): <Code Language="csharp"> <![CDATA[$signature$ {     // TODO: Implement $signature$      $end$throw new $ ...Show All

• Visual C# Updating DB Record (Newbie Question)

  Hello all, I'm a newbie and I'm trying to update a record in an MS SQL database. I've searched at length and couldn't find a solution to my problem. Can someone either point me in the right direction of a tutorial, or help me out with what I've missed Here is what I've done: 1. created a Web form with one field and one save button Using the toolbox to drag and drop: 2. created a sqlConnection 3. created a sqlDataAdapter (with only one table ...Show All

• Visual C# Fill a shape

  I have a shape like this shape , and I want to fill it with a color, can someone help me Greets, DIII I don't know why the GDI FloodFill function is not offered in GDI+. You could pinvoke it, or ( assuming you're still working on this drawing program ), you could accumulate an array of points as the user draws, and then use the FillPath function ( from memory ), which takes a Path built on those points and will fill it as well as d ...Show All

• Smart Device Development SaveFileDialog question!

  the Save File Dialog box always display the Main memory (My Documents folder) on Location listbox. How to change it become the SD Card ( or other external storage) as default Or is there any way to disable or invisible the Location listbox i try use SaveFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "\SD Card" but i cannot work! The result still that same. You should be able to use this as a base: http://msdn.microsof ...Show All

• Smart Device Development "ActiveSync cannot recognize this device" error....

  When I connect to the emulator and cradle it,I get the following error: " Microsoft ActiveSync cannot recognize this device for one of two reasons: ... ... " It was ok before but doesnt work now...what is the reason Hello, Please try clear save state and then connect to device emulator again and then try cradling the emulator. Hope this helps. -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Write and read a file in Visual Basic 2005?

  Hello Microsoft. I need to know how to read or write from / to a file with Visual Basic 2005. This is quite hard for me, when I'm used to Visual Basic 6.   Japreja, I really don't think it's advanced. It's just average vb coding. What does it give you good clean text I/O with exception handling. I'd use it as a class and not a snippet. Please inform Mathy that he's a dude and I am a woman.   ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help needed with "error C2784"

  . /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_CONSOLE" /D "_VC80_UPGRADE=0x0710" /D "_MBCS" /FD /EHsc /RTC1 /MDd /GS- /Yu"stdafx.h" /Fp".\Debug/TestConsoleApp.pch" /Fo".\Debug/" /Fd".\Debug/" /W3 /c /ZI /TP .\TestConsoleApp.cpp I usually test the code first in VS.NET 2003 than I convert the project into VS.NET 2005. It was a normal Wizard Win32 Console application. ...Show All

• Visual C# Assigning Vairbles to Zero

  I wanna input two integer and return the sum to the user...but when i assign my varibles to x and y and sum = x + y i get the error saying x and y are not assigned when i assigned them to an int type...how do i assigned them so i can input the numbers and not assigned them to a pacific number Hi, Hold that there! im not that good. My advice would be simple, know what your doing . Don't be contented with what you see, know how a thing wor ...Show All

• SQL Server Cube aggregations stop unexpectedly

  I am trying to design agreegations for all the partitions of my MOLAP cube. The aggregation calculation process starts but stops at 2% performance (about 20MB). I have tried to re-argregate so many times by selecting all the options :- Estimated Storage reaches (100 MB) / Performance gain reaches (30%)/ I click Stop But, in all these cases it just stops at 2%. I cannot understand why And its not one particular partition. Rather all ...Show All