Elmer_927's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. SampleFramework Camera

  I have a small problem with the sampleframework. I just create a world with one mesh and manipulate the view with the mouse / keyboard. Most works well, i.e. key movements, mouse wheel and the camera-movement with the right mousebutton. The problem is, that I can't move the world with the left mouse button. In onFrameMove there is the following code: camera.framemove(elapsedTime) device.transform.projection = camera.projectionmatrix device.trans ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamic Combo box problem

  Hi, I am trying to get a ComboBox(Drop Down List) to populate according to what is selected in a previous ComboBox.  Here is the code I am using to do this but for some reason it is not working. Any ideas  This worked on some AS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using the platform sdk

  Hello, I tried to follow the instructions for using the platform sdk but I am unable to accomplish step 3: Step 3. Update the the Visual C++ Directories in the Projects and Solutions section in the Options dialog box. In that section, you'll want to add the paths to the appropriate subsection: Executable files - C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\Bin Include files - C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\include Library files - C:\Program Files\Microso ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTime picker problems

  Hi, I am not sure how to go about explaining my problem. I believe there should be an easy fix. How can I set value to a "DateTimePicker" control that is bound to a database field. My objective is to default the value in a "DateTimePicker" to "Now" in the code when the user adds a new record. I could see the date displayed on the UI, however when I click on "Save", the database field that corresponds ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Change delay Activity of State Machine Workflow dynamically

  Hi I have following problem. My state machine workflow contains a state in which three EventDriven activities are contained. One of them contains a DelayActivity, to escalated the Workflow if a certain amount of time is exceeded. I would like to disable the EventDriven Activity or the Delay activity. No matter which. I just want to disable the whole delay process. I would also like to enable it again, if certain properties get set in the m ...Show All

• Visual C# Saving A MDI Child Form From Its MDI Parent's Toolstrip

  I have searched the web and I cannot seem to find out how to call a public save function in an mdi child from its mdi parent’s toolstrip. I’m basically after the same functionality as you get in something like Word. You can have several documents open, but when you click on save from the toolstrip it only saves the active document. How do I get this to work   Either: a) create a save event on you ...Show All

• Smart Device Development debugging problems with Activesync/visual Studio .NET 2003

  I have a recurring problem debugging on my device with Visual Studio .NET, and I'm beyond desperate to get it resolved. I am able to connect to my device using Activesync. I can copy files back and forth. I have put the appropriate toolhelp.dll file in the windows directory. I have set the appropriate CPU type, and gone through every Microsoft tutorial I could find. No matter what I do, when I try to connect to the device it says the device is n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office plz help me

  when i execute my excel application from vs2005 IDE, it runs properly but when i save the executed excel application to different location and run it, it gives me an error what might been the problem plz let me know There are a number of possibilities. Read these articles and papers for information about moving your Excel application to a new location (deployment). VSTO Help Documentation: http://msdn ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to Launch a new Webbrowser from a smart client.

  I have a very logical and simple problem : I am creating a smart client Application for my website. (e.g http://Dwaal.net/SomeCoolSmartClient.exe) I want it to have Links, which are opened in the default webbrowser. (Like you normally do on a website, when you&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server merge agent error

  Hi We are using HTTPS merge replication. One of my subscribers is getting this error: Error messages: The Merge Agent failed after detecting that retention-based metadata cleanup has deleted metadata at the Publisher for changes not yet sent to the Subscriber. You must reinitialize the subscription (without upload). (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199402)   This is a bit surprising - it has been w ...Show All

• Windows Forms missing storage-class or type specifiers error

  i have declared a child form in the parent form 'Form1' . ' public: static Form2* childform; ' but in the line of ' public: static Form2* childform; ' where i ve defined the pointer, i receive the error 'missing storage-class or type specifiers' . i ve already included Form2.h in Form1.h and i create an instance of Form2 in Form1's constructor with 'new' operator... so why i receive this error... regards. ...Show All

• .NET Development WebClient and ports other than 80

  How do i get WebClient functions to work with web pages that are not port 80 Nothing is even sent CheckFinalStatus() of WebClient throws the error, thus nothing is sent I checked with netmon and nothing was sent I already said in a previous message that CheckFinalStatus() was throwing the error have never tryed port 8080 but as one guy said 8080 seams to work, but none of the sites i want to scan are po ...Show All

• SQL Server Load time of packages? Turn off validation while loading?

  Nitesh, Loading packages can be a looong process in September CTP too, unfortunately. Andrew Watt MVP - InfoPath wrote in message news:b795f68f-0c7c-4263-a698-e572902def57@discussions.microsoft.com... > My solution contains 28-30 packages in one solution. > Each time I try to open a package (which was closed earlier), it takes a > loooooooooong time to load. Is it only june CTP or thats typical. > > Is there a way I can disab ...Show All

• Visual C++ sprintf depreciated... so what do we use?

    Now I know that print formatting is available through stream operators, but how can this be used when printing to strings- i cant find anything in std::string (or am I missing something) and I presume there is no inherent method of using string << int etc. Any ideas Thanks Johan, here is my "problem" with string formatting:  sprintf(sv, "as[0],as[1],naf,vr,burst=%.5lf,%.5lf,%d,%.5lf,%d\n",    &nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Media Center

  I have just bought a new laptop (Dell E5105) from QVC and it comes with the Windows Media Center OS. Am I going to have to replace the OS with XP Professional I am a web designer and VB Programmer and I need to have IIS and want NTFS. Does the Media Center OS support these two items Thanks, The base platform for Windows Media Center is, surprisingly enough, XP Pro not XP Home like you would think. It is a superset of XP Professi ...Show All