Arachne53's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista render videos on a d3d texture with the VMR9

  hallo, a the moment im trying to develop a program which should play videos. i want to build the menu with d3d sprites and display the videos with the vrm9. until now i've tried to do this with the allocator presenter from the ms samples. rendering the video as a sprite works fine, but theres a problem in the sample. the allocator presenter calls the draw function, when the video stops, the rendering of the sprites stops too. but a menu has to be rendered all time independend if the viedeo is playing or not. i've tried two several ways to solve this problem without any succsess. 1. i tried to call in the allocator presenter ...Show All

• Windows Forms combobox issue

  Hi I have a problem regarding the combobox. I am using the dropdown style as dropdown.The length of the entries in the combobox is more than the length of the combobox.when i select an item in the combobox, the text that is selected is not from the beginning but from the end.  for e.g i have entries abcdefghijk,abcdefghijkaaa,abcdefghijkbcd etc.  I se ...Show All

• Visual Studio Using the Plaform SDK with Visual Studio.Net 2003

  I wish to use the "Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK" with Visual Studio.Net 2003 This is because the DirectShow software has been moved from the DirectX SDK to the Platform SDK (and I wish to use the latest 'august 2005' version of the DirectX SDK and also DirectShow, so I need both SDKs installed) My problem is that having registered the Platform SDK's directories with Visual Studio, a re-compile of my previously working c++ code now generates the following error. c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\atlmfc\include\atlsocket.inl(26): error C3861: 'FreeAddrInfo': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent look ...Show All

• .NET Development Please help...not grasping DataSets

  Sorry people, I'm having trouble grasping the concepts of Datasets/Databinding. I have various tables in my database that i just want to query records on. For example, i have an "Area Code" table which only has 2 fields, Area_Code and Area_Description, a "Dept Code" table etc etc. The user needs to be able to query the table by either/both fields and also using wildcards. Would i create a singular datasource for this table And then, under the query adapter would i include an SQL statement that has to check for the value of the Area_Code and Area_Description parameters and if they are not empty then include them in "Like" comparisons Or would ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to call a B function/method of a MDI parent (Form1)

  How to call a B function/method of a MDI parent (Form1) from a MDI child (Form2) of that parent (Using C++.) I already attempted to use examples of this site but it somehow does not work for me. Please, how can one refer to Form1's method Thanks for any guidance for a beginner. Mr. Graus, kindly, pointed out my errors, corrected them, so the "project" now works just as he recommended earlier. I am thankful for Mr. Graus' work and impressed by his professionalism. ...Show All

• .NET Development restricting network connections?

  For a school project I decided to make a somewhat simple parental control application.  It didn't sound intimidating originally, but after working at it for a bit, I've discovered I'm pretty clueless where to start. I've managed to write some of it - it scans the active users My Documents\Music folder for MP3s and alerts the parental accounts on the machine whenever new music is found (I'll eventually add a few more common music paths here; I obviously don't want to be scanning the entire system though). What I want to do next is create some options to restrict internet/network usage. I'd like to do 3 things - Restore all internet servi ...Show All

• SQL Server Security of Reports

  Hi Investigating SQL Reporting Services, I have set up Reporting Services and have produced reports on web pages via .NET & C#. So far so good. However, in the web pages I use custom Role based security model where each (registered) user has a unique reference number. I want to pass that number to the Stored Procedures that I use to create the data for the reports. This is for 2 reasons. One is to determine whether the user is entitiled to view the  report. The other is that the report criteria are stored in records in a Criteria table and I access each user's critiera using their unique reference number. However, if I put the user' ...Show All

• Visual Basic MDI form startup

  Hi I last used .Net 2002  and in the MDI form used the code below. In the properties of the project you set the compiler to start the main() function first. Where in .Net 2005 do you set this property(i.e. if it's stil there...). I need the app to start my Login form first. Any ideas <System.STAThread()> _ Public Shared Sub Main()  startMyApplication() End Sub Private Shared Sub startMyApplication()   'Login  Dim frm1 As New frmLogin()  If frm1.ShowDialog() = System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then   System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(New frmMDI())  Else   Sys ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can't Run Any Programs On Others Machine

  What I am running: DirectX 9.0c & C# I am trying to run the compiled version of ( http://www.c-unit.com/tutorials/mdirectx/ t=38 ) this tutor on another machine. These tutorials only work in October Version of DirectX I believe. What I downloaded: ---Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en ---DirectX 9.0c Redistributable (October 2005) for Software Developers - Multilingual http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=9930efa6-9f7b-4c8a-aea2-97dd6ab307a2&DisplayLang=en ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Looking for Projectmembers

  Hi all, I'd like to create a virtual-city with avalon and therefore I'm looking for peoples who'd like to work with me on this project. Unfortunatly I can't pay you therefore but I think there's a chance to create money with this project at a later time. And I think too, that this can be very interesting to work at and also a big challenge at the same time! I'm looking for people with different skills like XAML, Webservices and 3D skills. To get some more info, please contact me at: peter.widmer@mail.com Sorry for my post here but it is very difficult to find peoples with good developing skills, that's why I try it here. Thank you for your u ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL ESPREESS 2005 install ERROR

  i tried installing sql server 2005 express... but when i came to installing last part, the database server, it gave me this error SQL Server Setup could not connect to the database service for server configuration. The error was: {Microsoft}{SQL Native Client}SSL Provider: The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted. help anyone ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums a big thank you!

  Hi All, I just wanted to express my thanks to Derek and all of you who have stepped in to help your fellow coders! It takes some time on my end to escalate these questions and I'm so glad that many of you are getting answers to your questions more quickly with the help of other community members. - brenda (ISV Buddy Team) Derek, have you considered becoming a Microsoft MVP If so, I would be a happy to recommend you for the program. -brenda (ISV Buddy Team) ...Show All

• SQL Server Email reports based on a condition

  Hi, Data is fed to our database from 10 different places. We massage the data and then send out reports via email with rs subscriptions. Everything works fine except when at least one of the data feeds does not load properly on time. The reports go out but with uncomplete data generating undesired effect in management. I can create a "Loaded" flag on the database. Is there a way to use this or other method to send out the reports based on a condition Thank you. One more thing, we only have the standard edition of rs, not the enterprise edition where you can use data-driven subscriptio ...Show All

• .NET Development Preserve timestamp

  Hello everyone! Currently I'm working in an application using .NET Framework 1.1. I have to download several files from a server to the client machine, but for security reasons, we would preserve the TimeStamp that the file originally had in the server machine, and have to do this programatically. Do you have some idea about how to achieve this Sorry if this seems a newbie question, but I haven't benn able to find some API or documentation explaining something about this. Thanks in advance! Wow! It has been a long time since I posted to this forum... and was seing that I never came back to tell you what ...Show All

• Visual C++ Importing and exporting functions from DLLs in VC++6.0

  How I can import any function from any DLL file(in VC++ 6.0). Please HELP ME!!!!!! Hi! You can't import/export C++ classes from DLL, but you can import/export C styled functions (like most of Win32 API). You need to read about P/Invoke (Platform Invoke) in MSDN and use DllImportAttribute class. ...Show All