Leonardo Cantelmo's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rotation about the z-axis...

  I have a square on screen (2 triangles), and I'm experimenting with rotating the thing. Rotating about the x and y axis works as expected (the thing spins horizontally and vertically), but when I rotate it about the z-axis, it goes up and down, deforms a bit, and just looks weird. As for how I'm doing it right now, I'm using Matrix.RotationYawPitchRoll(x, y, z) to get my rotation matrix. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Live Communications Server tab does not show up

  I have just installed Live Communications Server 2005 Standard in my test enviroment. I have a seperate server as a Domain Controller (all servers are Virtual Servers on one physical machine). When I followed all the steps during installation, no errors show up. Also, the HTML log files only display green 'success' items. However, when I open the User Properties window on my DC, there is no Live Communications Server tab. It should show u ...Show All

• Windows Forms how can I retrieve a newly added autoincremented key index?

  how can I retrieve a newly added autoincremented key index I created an insertquery in my .xsd designer.  It worked perfectly. Dim AT As String = Me.AuthorTypeTextBox.Text Dim Active As Boolean = Me.ActiveCheckBox.Checked Me.AuthorTypeTableAdapter.InsertQuery(AT, Active) Unfortunately I  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Has anyone changed IssuVision?

  Is anyone that has a changed verion of IssuVision running Is there really no documentation for this product Can someone explain what I need to change if I want the staff list to read different datatable. Hakon you have to look into the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Search Returns 0 results

  Hi, I tried searching for a keyword in the Documentation. There was no results found. But when I Tried Typing it in the Index Tab I could clearly see it... Is this a known Bug BTW, Im using VC++ Express Beta 2 Note: no filters are active during the search... cheers, Paul June A. Domag Hi Paul, MSDN and MSDN Express Libraries do indeed use a stoplist to weed out common words from search results. This wouldn't explain the bad resul ...Show All

• SQL Server "Failed to acquire connection" when running a package from within another package.

  I am receiving an error on my master package that executes a number of other packages. The individual packages work fine when executed by themselves. However, I am getting the following error when I attempt to execute it from another package: Error: Failed to acquire connection " conneciton ". Connection may not be configured correctly or you may not have the right permissions on this connection. Thanks in advance for your help. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Manual Test Case Migration PS to VSTS

  Is there an automated way to migrate manual test cases from product studio to VSTF We have a huge library of manual test cases in MSWord. Thanks. Hi Pablo, Take a look at my reply to a single question here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=210417&SiteID=1 " They need to be in .mht format -- specifically, They need to be MHT format wiht some specific additional custom word properties. Take a look at a ...Show All

• .NET Development How to call a web service without adding a web reference...

  Hi Guys, Hopefully this is a fairly simple one... I need to call a web service from a c# class without actually added a web reference to the project. Obviously I need to handcraft some HttpRequests and interpret the responses manually, just want to know the best way to achieve this. Is there any base class in the framework that'll have a URL property and a method such as CallWebMethod(methodName, param object[] parameters) Did do a search ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Re-opening message after MessageClass changed

  Hi, I need some help with this: when I'm closing a mailItem I change the messageClass and the new messageClass appear in Outlook explorer and the new icon too, BUT when I re-open this mailItem and check for the messageClass it still being the old messageClass...... So if I try to do some operation I will have an Outlook error. If I close Outlook the next time that I open it the mailItem has the correct messageClass. Thanks, Mauricio ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 as standalone?

  Does anyone know if it's possible to get Reporting Services 2005 as a standalone installation (without having to purchase a full license of Sql Server 2005) Or do you get RS2005 with Sql Server 2005 Express Thanks! What is not clear to me is how to purchase Reporting Services to use with an Oracle SQL Server. Reporting Services adds value to us, but SQL Server does not (we have a Enterprise wide licensing arra ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Managed C++ Smart Device Applications

  From my understanding you are only able to create native C++ smart device applications for VS2005. Is this possible just unsupported It's not possible because C++/CLI is not supported on devices. Essential functionality is not present in device runtime, so even if you manage to compile C++/CLI for device outside of VS, it won’t run properly. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions A Tall Form Opens in the Middle

  I have a vb.net form that's relatively tall (about 800). When I open that form, instead of opening at the top of the page, its opened towards the middle and the user would have to scroll up to get to the top. Does anyone know why that happens and what to do about it When you say scroll up, what do you mean What is the 'page' Are you saying the form appears in the middle of the screen and doesn't fit You can ...Show All

• Visual Studio Emailing from PDF emails webpage.aspx not the pdf!

  Hi, I have a webproject with a Crystal Reports report which I created in VS2005. This report works fine. My problem is that if a user prints to a PDF (this works fine) and then clicks the email button in adpbe PDF viewer, it attaches the webpage.aspx file and not the actuall PDF you are viewing. Can anyone give me any assistance on what I should be looking at many thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with Extern Linkage

  Hi Everyone, I am new to visual c/c++ and i am using visual studio. I am working on a project that compiles with C. Now, i have to use some header files which have structures, templates, etc which are written in C++. I have no idea how to link these two languages together. The command that i give to run the compiler for my project (Ethereal) is "nmake -f makefile.nmake" and it compiles the file i have for C, but gives errors since the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Express 2005 activation

  I don't have Internet access in the computer where I have installed VB2005 express, any one knows how can I get an activation key offline Mine just keeps asking me to register. I did register and got my confirmation email from Microsoft. What I didn't get is an activation key for visual Basic Express. How do I get this program to recognize the registration Robb Feldhege ...Show All