VGautham's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Orcas Development Tools for WinFX

  Just downloaded and installed the May release. When right clicking project and selecting Add Service Reference... I previously got a dialog box up but now nothing happens. Can anyone tell me whether this has been disabled in this release or whether this I've just got a dodgy install on this machine Thanks BenW This feature is not disabled in May release (Beta 2), may be orcas development tools didn't inst ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DirectX SDK and Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta

  I have Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta installed and I wish to learn DirectX graphics and game programming. My installation of the DirectX SDK goes smoothly, but whe I attempt to debug a DirectX code i get an error in the using Microsoft.DirectX and using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D, Visual Studio doesn't recognise the DirectX namespace and refuses to compile and run. How do I solve this problem I checke ...Show All

• SQL Server Measures to columns in Excel

  Dear anyone I am transfering the information from the cube to Excel. My wizard places all measures in the pivot table to one column. I am using Excel 2003. I would like to place the measures to different columns to get a result which is easy to read and copy. Could anyone advice me how this can be done Thanks ! Matti   Thanks for kind help Remi ! This is a question of the layou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Backgroundworker problem

  Hi, I'm new to c# language. I'm trying to make a simple app that reads an xml file and display it in a datagridview. I want to put the reading of the xml file proceses in a seperate thread. I build the simple app without the backgroundworker and it works like I expected. But when I use the backgroundworker component the well known error accurs. Cross thread issue. I thought I used the backgroundworker component in the good way. Here ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX7 SDK Lost Forever?

  I am very distressed at the moment. I simply cannot find the last release of the DX7 SDK anywhere ! I may just be ignorant as to where to find it on MSDN Downloads but I just can't find it anywhere. Anyone who knows where I could find a download of that priceless treasure please let me know. Please consider making older SDK's available at least back to DX7 even if by request and shipping fee. There are 3 versions of the DirectX8 SDK ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clickonce can't find System.deployment assembly

  I am uning .NET framwork 1.1 and try to do the clickonce deployment as described in the walkthrough below link http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_fxdeploy/html/6ff5691f-6768-4b1e-aeb2-b1272341bc55.asp Select your Windows Forms project in Solution Explorer . Add a reference to the System.Deployment assembly, and a project reference to the OnDemandAssembly project. I can't find the reference for System.d ...Show All

• Visual C++ Use of HTREEITEM in /Clr

  HI, When compiling an app that uses HTREEITEM i get an error complaining about _TREEITEM - _TREEITEM does not seem to be defined. I am currently trying to see if this will work: typedef struct TVITEM *HTREEITEM; Any hints on how to get around this I can confirm that the use of typedef _TREEITEM {}; solved that problem. I have not tried fiddling with the Lean and Mean def's as it seems inconsistent to do so. If afxcmn.h is included then ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to change the sendemail activity property at run time?

  Hi, All, I want to use the SendEmail sample activity for my workflow and looked through the EmailActivities Example. But how can I change the From, To, ect properties at run time My state machine workflow will send email to different perpole based on the selection from the dropdown list. I try to set these properties inside the activity at function sendEmail1_SendingEmail(object sender, EventArgs e), like, this.sendEmail1.To = " A ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services viewed print layout is NOT the Printed output

  I have setup my report to be landscape ( 11in by 8.5IN ) and when the report is run it shows 4 list box elements per page when viewing the report in the browser HOWEVER when you click on the print button to print say page 182 - 185 the physical print ( also landscape mode ) is only allowing 2 elements per page and the page count is now doubled Some how the viewed page should be the same and the printed page... Never had a problem like this b ...Show All

• Visual Studio LocalReport.Render() - Returning a zero length byte[]

  Hello.  We're trying to get the WinForms viewer to export to Excel (and eventually to other formats).  As a test, we set up a project with a ReportViewer pointing to a simple report.  It views fine, but when we try: string MimeType; string Encoding; string[] Streams; Warning[] Warnings; byte[] Result = reportViewer1.LocalReport.Render(        "Excel",        "<Device ...Show All

• Visual Basic linking forms

  ok heres an easy one i'm sure how do i go about linking one form to another, i.e. on form1 i have 2 textboxes. on form 2 i have a label how do i write the coding so that the label.text is the sum of the 2 text boxes. ALSO How do i open a form, as a form, from a form and have the first form close, without my whole program closing with it ie. button1_click (blah blah blah) Dim frmForm2 as New form2 Form2.show ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to tell when a form's minimized?

  Is there any way of telling when a form's been minimized I want it to redisplay data on another form, but can't find an "OnWindowStyleChanged" event or similar to trigger it. Override the Form.OnResize method or handle the Form.Resize event, for example: protected override void OnResize(EventArgs e) {     base .OnResize (e);     if (WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized) & ...Show All

• Visual Basic Read & change user settings that created by another vb.net project

  Hi, How can I read & change user settings that created by another vb.net project If the solution contains more than one executable, is it the better way to share the application or user data by using windows registry ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridBoolColumn

  Am I overlooking something here   All I want is a simple true/false checkbox in the grid, but I can't seem to find any properties to make this not be a tristate checkbox. Thanks, Scott Interesting enough, I couldn't get this to wor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Power management

  I’m trying to make a power management program that can turn off and on the monitor at given times. I'm struggling with setting the power state. Does anyone have a code snippet that works Check out the MSDN article at http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/tpcsdk10/html/df410a93-d3f1-480c-8542-1c78eb44339a.asp as a starting point. Thanks, Luke Hoban Visual C# IDE ...Show All