hendrik swanepoel's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms DataGridViewImageCell, host custom control

  Hi all, Again i lack the knowledge and documentation to achieve what i want. The new DataGridView allow us to add custom controls in each cell. I already found the DateTimePicker Example on thos forum, great example and it works smoothly, however i wanted to create a Image Edit control which could be used in the DataGridView. The problem is that the DataGridViewImageCell is readonly by default and has no EditableControl. So following the DateTim ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3DXAssembleShaderFromFile function question

  Hi I am looking for a discription about the shader error codes which are generated by this function: hrA = D3DXAssembleShaderFromFile( (LPCWSTR)TCFilename, NULL, NULL, 0, &pCode, &pDebug); As far as I know it is possible to get an error discription if there is any by using ( char *)pDebug->GetBufferPointer() this function. I tried to find more information about these error codes but couldnt find any in the forum a ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Business Scorecard Manager - Deploy to Reporting Services (Report Server)

  So I created a basic scorecard view in BSM and deployed it to SharePoint in order to test that it is working correctly. After I verified this, I then attempted to deploy this same scorecard to a Reporting Services Report Server on a different site than WSS/BSM. It deploys successfully, but when it tries to generate the report, I get the following error message in Reporting Services: An error has occurred during report processing. Cannot creat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't get past the 26204 error

  I cannot seem to get the data tier installed, it keeps failing with a 26204 error but I can't see anything obviously wrong. I've checked the list at http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/archive/2004/09/03/225386.aspx  but everything still seems OK. - The server is a Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition (not SP1) server. - It's a member of a 2003 Active Directory. - I've created a domain account called TFSSETUP and added this to the servers ...Show All

• SQL Server DTSExec and Logging to Windows Event Log

  I am trying to use either DTExec or DTExecUI to run a package while logging to the Windows Event log.  This purports to be supported based on books online.  I have tried passing the CLSID and the ProgId on the command line and always get a message about the logger parameter being invalid. I am using a command line like this: dtexec /FILE "C:\Etl.dtsx" /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF  /REPORTING EW  /LOGGER "DT ...Show All

• Visual C# How Can write and Read to the Setting file in windows Form Programmatically?

  Hi I have been googling without success on how to write to a setting file in c# but cannot find any docs. I only know that I have to create a wrapper class inherit from ApplicationSettingBase but there my knowledge stop. What I would like to do is imitate the connection process when you create a connection in vs 2005. User press a button and connects to the Server/DB and at this point I would like to write to the Setting file program ...Show All

• SQL Server Partition on Value

  I can see lot of documentation on Range Partitioning. Is there any other type of partition supported in SQL Server 2005 For example, I have a Fact table having Billion rows. It has a column called BATCH_ID. A BATCH_ID corresponds to 10-20 Million rows and it is a running sequence number like 1,2,3 etc. (not an identity column). Is there anyway I can specify a partition function with BATCH_ID column as an int value Will the SQL Server automati ...Show All

• Visual C++ After DirectX SDK install, even a simple Windows application will not compile...

  My goal is to use DirectShow with Visual Studio 2005 Pro. The Platform SDK comes with VC 2005, but it doesn't have DirectShow. I put dshow.h and other dependencies in the $(VCInstall)\PlatformSDK\Include folder. I created a new project, included dshow.h (that's the only code I added), and the project needed ddraw.h (from DirectX). I installed the December 2005 DirectX SDK. Now a completely fresh new Win32 Application will not build. I get the er ...Show All

• Windows Forms [Framework 2.0] Permission SQL

  Hello, I have a small problem with permissions management with Framework .Net 2.0. The framework v2.0.50727 is installed on the product server But on this server, there are no developpment environnement installed, So no SDK is installed => I have no settings control by windows / Start / Settings / Control Panel / Administrative Tools / .... So, I must passed by DOS commands. My goal on this server is to run a batch application which was runni ...Show All

• Visual C++ fstream issue in VS 2005

  Hi I had a project in VS 6.0 in which I was using fstream to get and put data into a file. After conversion to VS 2005 there is a problem with the fstream functions. I manage to open the stream once and read something from it, and then I close the stream and reopen it in binary mode and now the get operation returns an empty buffer. is.get( szBuf, 10000, '|' ); Maybe I'm doing something wrong and I would really appreciate your help because it's ...Show All

• .NET Development how to write a schema file with an xml file

  I'm using xmltextwriter to write out an xml file and I need to create the schema file. How would I do this The creation of the schema and the xml instance are different tasks. With XmlTextWriter you will be able to create an xml instance, in order to create a schema you can use VS.NET adding a new file of type Xml Schema to your project and start creating elements and attributes. Hope this helps. ...Show All

• Windows Forms tabing over checkboxes in datagrid...

  Hi, For some unknown reason tabing over the checkboxes(DataGridBoolColumn) on datagrid  make the bound dataset dirty and cause a problem for my program.  I just tabbed a row ( used tab key to travel over the columns in one row)  with no&nb ...Show All

• Visual C# How I can create Secure Folder??

  Hi all.. I want to create a secure folder so i want it to be read only..and cannot be modified.and cannot be renamed..but by using the program who create that folder..it means i want to the program create that folder..and inside that folder a file..that file cannot be changed or deleted or renamed..by any user even administrator..i want to make a file like system file...Do any one have an idea..thanks Best Regards. Bassam Basamad ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista LoadLibrary (regsvr32) fails without Visual Studio 2005

  I've just upgraded from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio 2005. I've got the latest DirectShow stuff (in the platform SDK) and am using it. Everything builds and runs fine on my development machine (which has Visual Studio 2005 installed) but when I try: "regsvr32 "myfilter.ax" on a different machine (without Visual Studio 2005, both machines are WinXP Pro and up to date AFAIK), I get the error: LoadLibrary ("myfilter.ax") failed - ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI Problems

  Am getting the following problems with MDI forms: 1. Child forms set to maximised at design time do not appear maximised when shown. 2. Icons of maximised child forms do not show in the control box menu until the MDI form is resized. 3. I can't get the toolbar buttons of child forms to merge with those of the MDI form. I've set the AllowMerge property of the MDI form toolstrip to True, and MergeAction of the child form toolstrip buttons to Appen ...Show All