Steve Brennan's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is there a simple way to flip a Sprite?

  It's been a while since I've posted here (last question I asked was about scrolling a 2D background) and now I'm back with another 2D question. Is there a simple way to flip a sprite horizontally and vertically I started to just make new textures for each of the positions, but then I thought somebody has to know how to do this the right way for 2D games. From what I'm gathering, typically you do some kind of World transformations to flip y ...Show All

• .NET Development source code protection options

  Hi all, Could somebody give me any resources that discuss options on how to protect source code from any efforts to reverse engineer it from the built executable I've read about the Dotfuscator utility that comes with the visual studio 2005 beta... I'd like to learn about how to encrypt the exe, and any other techniques out there. Can anybody help me Thanks, cope22 Hey try my software http://www.pelock.com it's ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Authenticating users

  Hi there, In our application when a user logs in, he receives an security token that is valid for his session. This token is a Guid. When he calls a service i have to validate to token of the user. What is the best way to implement this I thought i should implement a membership provider, and pass the token as the user name using the credentials passed to the service by channel factory. I have also an example of implementing a cust ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I use Excel from VB2005?

  I am currently attempting to port data from my VB2005 application into Excel but am unable to attain a connection from my program to Excel... I added the COM references "Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library" and "Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library" and have declared the following under "Public Class frmMain" (for my program's main form): Dim Excel As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application I have tried declaring other namespaces ...Show All

• Visual C# Get resource without knowing absolute path

  Hi all, I'm working on a C# windows application. I want to get access to a file in my application. This file is in my project and I want to access it without having to put the hard-coded full path. So, I want to do something like : <code> Assembly a = Assembly .GetExecutingAssembly(); Stream stream = a.GetManifestResourceStream( "KwenTest.resources" ); </code> But after this, I want to know ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XPath replacement?

  I saw in the channel9 a video with Anders H.  talking about Linq, DLinq, and XLinq and how these are able to query anything that implements ienumerable. This looks really great, but at some point in the video Anders talking about XLinq said that this may become the next generation of XPath (or something like that, don't recall the exact comment). Could anybody explain how exactly this is going to work All the examples w ...Show All

• .NET Development Return list of Group Roles that a user is a member of

  Im trying to get a list of groups that a user is a member of. I have tried the Groups property of WindowsIdentity, but it returns results like this: S-1-5-21-139623.... I was expecting to get a result of "administrator" or some kind of english result, not just numbers. Any idea of what method I should be using. I am using VS 2005 with .NET 2.0... Thanks, Your getting the SecurityIden ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services not working

  Hi, I'm tearing my hair out with this problem, hopefully someone can help me. When I try to access the Report Manager (http://server/reports/), I get this error: The attempt to connect to the report server failed.  Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. When I try to access the report server (http://server/reportserver/), I get this error message: The permissions granted to user 'SERVE ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with textbox and databinding

  I have a winform in c# with several textbox and grids in a several tabpages bound to a dataset by databinding, my problem is that the text property of the non visible controls is empty. When I navigate through the tab pages and the controls are visible the text property is set with the value. I don't know what is the problem, can anyone help me please Thanks. hector Andrew, When I created the fu ...Show All

• Windows Forms resizing constituent controls within an instance of a userCtrl

  hiya I have a userCtrl that contains: 1) a label 2) a combobox   I want to be able to resize the label, making it a different size on  different forms.   So, I:   1) drag an instance of the userCtrl onto my form 2) make the userCtrl modif ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding new property to project using IVsBuildPropertyStorage

  Hey. I'm writing an IDE plug-in and I would like to use to IVsBuildPropertyStorage in order to create a new property group. A bug is already open ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=f017d132-0802-4e78-bb00-399aec8a748b ) Any thoughts Thanks, Oren. Hey Rusty Thanks for quick and helpful answer. Oreng. ...Show All

• Windows Forms SQL Database item is not updateable

  within visual studio windows project i added a new SQL Database Item to the project. added a table.I then added a datasource that pointed to this and dragged from the table from the datasource window to the form. When running the app i can see my populated rows in the the DataGridView control on the form. but if i modify or add new rows and then click on the save button on the bindingnavigator control nothing happens. relaunch the app and the o ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem in creating RAS -VPN Connection Class

  Hi everybody,    I found this code but unable to make it work. I like to create a Remote access service using VPN Network connection in order I could interact with remote database. I like to created a fixed link to a remote server with default username and password.  With this code, still unable to connect to remote server as verified if internet connection is ok. Is there anyone who can help me fixed thia problem I need help. Tha ...Show All

• .NET Development Make a Project Management Forum

  I wanted to ask if anyone else runs into the problem of not having a skilled project manager as I posted in this Blog here , but couldn't find a forum here for it. I have reported the bug here. It has happened three times now. Bug Post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=214839&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Anyone know a free tree control that allows you to set node images?

  Hi, Has anyone come across a free windows forms tree control that allows you to set images on a per node basis Thanks, Alex Oh duh! for some reason I thought you couldnt do that.  Thanks Mick.  Alex ...Show All