Venksys's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Xml Literals in C#

  Hi, I dont know if someone already answered this question but, how come c#'s version of xlinq (, or c#3.0, or c# orcas, or whatever it's called now) does not include xml literals! I cant imagine a reason not to include thins functionality beyond being too hard to do in c# or something like than. The C# design team has prioritized language changes like XML literals down quite a bit, believing that the XLinq c ...Show All

• 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

• Visual Studio Express Editions ListView sorting question

  Hi I have a ListView control called HSlist on a form which has 3 columns. The adding data seems to work OK, but the sorting is weird to say the least. Initially, I thought that the list would be sorted on the contents in the first column, so I added to the ListView with the Item containing the data that I wanted the list to be sorted on (numerical). Then I found that the list was being sorted on the second column (strings), so I swapped th ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem in overriding or adding methods in Collections .Can you help?

  First of all ,please be patient with me as I am trying to learn c#(moving from vb) + use of generics Collections and I am problems in trying to improve my collections I have created a set of collection all inheriting from the original ones. I would like to extend the collections that MS gives us by either overriding or adding my own methods etc.However I seem to have all sorts of problems   1)Trying to override Contains to give my own im ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with updating a specific record in database

  I am trying to pass the changes made by a user back to an sql database on clicking a button. The update should be applied to the specific record that the user is currently viewing. My problem is that the updates are getting applied to the first record in the database. The code is below: Public Class frmPart 'Declare global variables and objects... Dim objConnection As New SqlConnection( "Server=YUK1PCG124;Database=PSW;Integ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XBAP and default browser

  Hi, I got the following problem since I uninstalled the February CTP and installed the May CTP instead: When I press Ctrl-F5 in Visual Studio for a XBAP application, Firefox is started instead of IE. Since Firefox doesn't understand XBAP, I cannot run or debug the application as easily as before. I know how to change the default browser for a HTML application, but I didn't find such a setting for XBAP applications. Any hint welcomed! Greetings, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Does tfsSetup have to be licensed user

  Hi, with Workgroup edition you only have 5 users max. So, is it necessary for one of these is TFSSETUP as its taking a valuable user. Thanks. Thanks, I've followed your advice now - which works (thanks), and I have had to make the other users windows admin on the server before they can access the portal page. I'm wondering what the minimal user access rights they should need - can anyone advise plea ...Show All

• Windows Forms Form Distortion

  I have three VB.net forms on my desktop - One program only runs Monarch which opens it's form on top of the forms. This causes distortion in the other forms.(part of the Monarch Form imprints on the vb.net forms) Is there a way to prevent this from happening Make sure when Monarch is ran that it doesn't suspend the thread. Can you post the part where Monarch is launched ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro creating tables programmatically-some questions

  I have decided to create some tables programmatically since they most likely will be used temporarily. I do have a number of questions pertainint to CREATE TABLE paramaters. I could not find any explanations so far to figure out what they meant. First I assumed that CODEPAGE should be 1252 (Windows ANSI). Is it the right choice I want to create tables FROM ARRAY arrName I understand that arrName is a 2-dimensional array with the same numb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Counting Letters in a string

  Hello,  I am trying to get VB to count how many A's B's C's D's E's etc... that are in a  declared string, can someone tell me how to do this. thanks Ray RFeather[AT][NOSPAM]chstaffing.com Just in case you need it. . .  sorted list  add this function to CharacterCount: ==============     Private Function Sort() As Dictionary(Of Char, Int32)  &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Buying Visual Basic 2005

  Am I able to buy just VB 2005 or do I have to buy the Visual Studio suite Thanks in advance! I just looked, again. I didn't see anything in the way of a Standard edition. There hasn't been a pro edition since VB6 (So I'm told) So basically the answer is no. But you can still get just VB by way of an express version. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/ And it's free and downloadable. Ran ...Show All

• Visual Basic new to crystal reports

  hi friends, i am just new to crystal report . i want to know that crystal reports is part of vb or third party control. how i can use this in vb.net . thanks khaleel I believe Crystal Reports is a third-party control. This link gives some info about Crystal Reports for .NET http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/net/default.asp ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Request for ink replies

  Started by Lora at 02-20-2005 12:00 AM. Topic has 0 replies. 02-20-2005, 12:00 AM Lora Joined on 02-20-2005 Posts 2 Request for ink replies It would be nice if there could be ink posts and replies. An example is on ArcsofFire.com . ...Show All

• SQL Server Combining text data rows

  I am working with a database derived from text documents. One of the tables (TEXT001) contains the text of the documents with each paragraph of each document assigned to its own row with a paragraph number in a SectionNo column. I want the entire text of each document in a single row with its own unique number (so that I can do a full text search with SQL Server 2005 that will search and return the entire document as a result). How do I comb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating a subclass

  Hi, I have a class, named "yehidote", that has a lot of functions. I want, that to call the functions, I'll need to call them like: YehidoteObject.MassFunctions.Function Instead of: YehidoteObject.Function How can I do that Thanks, Ofir. You can do like this: Public Class Main Public Shared Sub Main() Dim YehidoteObject As New yehidote ...Show All