BrianXL's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Urgent! I am absolutely stuck!

  Help- Please see thread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=234772&SiteID=1 My reports in VS Pro 2005 are blank! I've spent almost a week on this problem. My client is NOT amused. Doesn't anyone from BO monitor these posts Thanks G. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Vertically center a drawn string

  Hi, Is there an easy way to vertically center a string drawn with the DrawString method The following code will center the text horizontally, but I haven't found how to center it vertically (apart from calculating the position myself, of course...): Dim StringFormat As StringFormat = New StringFormat() StringFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center e.Graphics.DrawString("Some text"1, New Font( "Arial" , 10), New SolidBrush(Color.Black), New Rectangle(10, 10, 100, 100), StringFormat) Thanks, Patrick Hi, Perfect ! That was easy, but I could not find it !! Thank you. Patrick ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista Multimedia architecture?

  I hear Vista will feature a new multimedia architecture to replace DirectShow, supposedly by the name of Windows Media Foundation (WMF).   However, I see no sign at all of this from Microsoft. All the presentations go about Avalon and Indigo as if multimedia wasn't supposed to be a feature of this platform. Where is Vista's multimedia architecture, and when do we get to work with it, please It's amazing what a little research can do. A few minutes' searching on microsoft.com reveals that Media Foundation was covered at WinHEC 2005 in the category Media Advances for the Windows PC Architecture . The presentation can be downloaded f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Intellisence in Skin files

  Hi, Is there any way to get intellisence capability in skin files I am strugling a lot to apply skin properties for different controls through skin file. when ever I need to apply properites to control through skin file am going through the properties window and copying property names and relavant values( very hard know) in skin files. I don't know how many people are looking for this feature. Thanks, Anjee Hi All, I found a good blog post about enabling intellisence in skin files. How to enable IntelliSense in .skin files Here is the link http://vladimir.bychkov.info/blog/PermaLink,guid,be76b3bf-c524-456c-9c8f-a258 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Global Run Time Variable

  Is there a global variable that I can use across all the workflows in my workflows I am loooking for what the application variable is to asp.net, but within the workflow runtime. Thanks,. Marty Mardo - AFAIK there isn't anything in Wf that has those sematics - but it is pretty easy to add with your own WF service. First - define an interface (or abstract base class if you need common functionality) public interface IWFCachingService { void CacheObject(string key,object o); object GetCachedObject(string key); } Then provide an implementation of this service (pretty easy to do with hashtable - although if you need any cac ...Show All

• Visual Studio End-to-end samples and updated customization guide available

  We now have samples available for the November CTP .  The samples illustrate the use of the new validation and deployment features together with a variety of advanced features of the DSL Tools, and are accompanied by detailed guides. They include: 1. A new End-to-End sample showing how to use a DSL to generate much of the code within a project, and how to deploy it to your colleagues.  The sample generates code for a wizard, the sequence of pages being defined in a DSL. The accompanying guide explains the scenario in which a DSL author creates the wizard-sequence DSL, and the framework that generates wizards from it. S/he dep ...Show All

• SQL Server Query Designer in SQL 2005 Mgmt Studio a let-down?

  Greetings, all. Thanks for all of the great postings in this community. However, one question I have doesn't seem to have been addressed. In SQL 2000 Enterprise Manager, a user could right-click on a table, and choose Open Table>>Query. This option brings the user directly to a query designer very similar to the query designer available in SQL 2005 Management Studio. However, I have been frustrated by the following: - The Open Table option in SQL 2005 returns data immediately where the SQL 2000 Query option did not, meaning it opened faster and did not risk locking any records in the table - In SQL 2005 the user needs to click ...Show All

• SQL Server DM Windows Forms Controls in November Feature Pack for SS2005

  Hello, There is a download in the Feature Pack For Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - November 2005 for the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Datamining Viewer Controls. Unfortunately I cannot find a shred of documentation for said controls. It would be nice to know what their names are, where they are installed, how you add them to your toolbox. Sample apps would be of great benefit as well (but I don't want to ask for too much). Here is the description for the controls which I find somewhat confusing. Are they Web Controls or Windows Forms Controls The Data Mining Web Controls Library is a set of Microsoft Windows Forms controls that enable sof ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Error in loading BETA

  I have recieved an invite, installed the program, however, when I come to load it i reviece the following error:http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7180/error4oc.pngI have tried uninstalling, and deleting the msn directory in Program Files.I have uninstalled all plugins to my origninal msn, but this error still occurs.Can someone please help me. The purpose of this forum is to discuss MSN and Windows Live application development using the Messenger Activity API, and Windows Live Bots. If you have technical support questions about using MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, please check the following res ...Show All

• SQL Server Error Uninstalling CTP

  I am trying to uninstall SQL Server 2005 CTP version before installing Beta version and keep getting an ARP Wrapper Error message that states "Registry Enumeration Failed".  I ran Registry Mechanic, etc, but there are no indications of a problem. Any ideas Thanks in advance, dinzana See "If you experience problems" section of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967 . Rgrds, Alex Pinsker http://alexpinsker.blogspot.com ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Computer reboot issue

  Hi! I've made a game as a school project using VB and DirectX 8. The game is a side-scrolling platform game and it has some very confusing (for me) problems. When I tested the game on some of the computers at my school, they rebooted (instantly) at a particular point of the game. This problem occurs only on some computers. A similar problem came up a while ago, but that time the similarity was all computers with the problem had ATI graphic cards, and the computer didn’t reboot, the graphic driver just crashed. I solved this by creating the device with software vertex processing, not hardware. Another question: When you’re using D ...Show All

• Windows Forms App.config problem on windows 2003 server and xp

  Hi all Im wondering if anyone has come across this problem we have a client that is useing a piece of software on a windows 2003 server. the software is installed on this server and a shortcut is then placed to the software on the users desktop boxes which can be windows 2000 or xp. When the user clicks that shortcut the programme runs from&n ...Show All

• Visual C# Stop function execution

  Hi, I am developing a small program that resizes one or more images at the same time.  I want to implement a function that allows users to stop the program when it is processing images by clicking a "Cancel" Button. But I don't know how to do that properly. Can anyone help me    Thanks     Ran www.inklass.com/imageresizerv2.zip Check the source on that for background threading for image resizing.  It's VERY old, and needs a lot more work that I just don't care to spend on it.  However, it does effectively start/stop, and all that with a behind the scenes thread. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Strange behavior of release executable

  I have an application that I built in release version. When I start debugging the application from the Visual C++ IDE (in release mode), I get an output. Now I shutdown VC++ and used the same release exe outside of VC++ and it produces a different result. Infact, when I ran the exe multiple times outside of VC++, I get random results. I looked at the code and I figured out that there was an uninitialized boolean variable in the code which was casuing the random results. But the thing that bothers me is that when I run the same release exe within the VC++ debugger, I get the same consistent result always. Can anyone please help me out w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Backup Problems

  I am trying to backup the SQL server on my TFS B3 Refresh server (single server install with the DEV version of SQL 2005 RTM).  I am getting the following error trying to set up a Maintenance plan using the Wizard: TITLE: Maintenance Plan Wizard Progress ------------------------------ Create maintenance plan failed. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Create failed for JobStep 'Subplan'.  (Microsoft.SqlServer.MaintenancePlanTasks) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.Fai ...Show All