deanhully's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic UltraNumericEditor - SpinWrap

  Hey Guys, This relates to a 3rd party control which I am using, but wondered if anyone had had something similar regardless (Infragistics). Using an UltraNumerEditor control, when I use the spin buttons on the right to move the numeric value up or down (decimal) it will spin the #.00 portion of the value but not the 0.##. For example, selecting value down on 0.00 results in 0.99. Any ideas how I can get it to spin the first digit also Any help would be greatly appreciated. Andy How about trying infragistics newsgroups. http://devcenter.infragistics.com/DevCom/NewsGroups.Aspx If its anyt ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I need some spiritual DirectX guidance.

  I've been learning from a book titled Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus by Andre' Lamothe. It's outdated using DirectX 7.0a SDK, and I believe his second volume creates software rasterization with DirectX 8.0 SDK. I really enjoy his books because it is very in depth and low leveled. My question is should I continue reading it if I'm geared on becoming a professional in graphics Since 60% of our life is maintaining and upgrading previous games/multimedia, especially MMORPG games that have a long life, you'd be working with older SDK versions, no matter if it's DirectX or not. The idea is to learn this now and migrate over to D ...Show All

• SQL Server NameColumn

  Hi all, I've got a little problem.  In one of my dimensions I have a date value. This field ddate has as NameColumn my source field, but with datatype wchar.  When I change it to date datatype he gives me an error. Now the wchar is no problem, till I want ot use this field in a report in reporting services.  When I browse my dimension in SSAS I see 2005-02-25. When I put it in my report I see: 2005-02-25 0:00:00:00. What I want to see is 25-02-2005.  And I can do this by using the CDATE() function in my report.  But I don't SSAS to give me the date value with time information... Anyone an idea Regards, Nico ...Show All

• Visual Studio Custom coloring using MPF

  The documentation mentions the following for creating custom colorable items: - Set RequestStockColors to 0 or leave it untouched (Left it untouched) - Define your own ColorableItems in the constructor of LanguageService - Override GetItemCount and GetColorableItem methods of LanguageService I followed the above steps and still the custom colorable items do not show up in Fonts and Colors property page on Options dialog box. I made sure that the names of the colorable items are different from the existing ones. I am using October RTM version of SDK. What else needs to be done Thanks in advance.   ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't connect to custom device in VS2005

  hi i have the same exact problem like the one reported under MSDN product fedback http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx feedbackid=d080dedf-2da7-481e-a34f-c1c4ae3d66e9 could not find a solution for it. please advice. Hi Ehab, There is an issue with VS 2005 Beta in connecting to WinCE5.0 devices over ActiveSync.  This has something to do with correctly mapping the CPU while bootstrapping a device over ActiveSync.  Later this bug was fixed.  So please use released VS 2005 to connect to your device. thanks Siva ...Show All

• .NET Development Registering a new user from the site does not work

  Why woould my page come back and confirm the account was created and when I look in the ASP.net configuration there is no account there that has been requested or created. THe page also gives the user the message the requerst has been sent to the administrator, me, for authorization, but I get nothing as far as a request goes. WHat am I missing Doug Hi cassman, I'm not sure I understand the context of your question. Try to resend it on the ASP.NET newsgroup: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet ...Show All

• .NET Development a javascript error when transforming xml using xslt

  deployed on different IIS servers, results are different if using IE as browser. On one server it is totally correct, on the other IE will give an error message when transforming xml to html. " The stylesheet does not contain a document element. The stylesheet may be empty or it may not be a well-formed xml document ." And the response HTTP headers are different in Content-Type -- the correct one is " application/xml ", the other is " application/octet-stream ". While on firefox, both are right. I think there must be some different between two servers, but I can't figure it out. ===================== ...Show All

• Windows Forms Representing Database Table Inheritance in a DataSet

  I am sure you've all run across the idea of 'required' duplication of information in your databases. This is the idea of for instance, a person in the employees table can also be a customer but you must enter the information twice, once in the employees table and once in the customers table. Not 'really' a big deal, but we are investigating methods to automatically handle this without entry duplication. In this simple example, we see unique information as a 'Person' so we have a Persons table Persons PersonId LastName FirstName Then we have an Employees table Employees PersonId SocialSecurityNumber And ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista A question of Winfx SDK

  Hi to All I just installed WinFx beta 2.2, asd we know, the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation installation package contains the extensions, runtime components, and an SDK. Where is SDK How can I find it I need to see same samples or tools. There is a "window workflow foundation help" on Start --> All programs, is that what I want Also, I found some information at http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/ . but which one is Winfx SDK I'm new to the Winfx, Could somebody help me out Thanks and have a great one Brian If you need samples you can l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 and SourceSafe 5

  Is it possible to use SourceSafe 5 with Visual Studio 05 B2.  Currently I get a binding error when trying to use it. Thanks, It is likely that official support for VSS 5.0 will end when VSS 2005 is released. Microsoft's standard policy is to support the latest release and the previous release. You may want to consider upgrading to at least 6.0. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Programatically select items in LitBox

  I know this is a complete newbee question, this is becuase I am new to VB, how would I go about programatically selecting items in a litsbox I need a quick way for the user to be able to select all items in the list. Thanks in advance To select all items and keep selected item focused and visible try this: void SelectAll() { //do whole operation within one update lb.BeginUpdate(); int topIndex = lb.IndexFromPoint(0, 0); int selectedIndex = lb.SelectedIndex; for (int i = 0; i < lb.Items.Count; i++) lb.SelectedIndex = i; // scroll back to first visible item lb.TopIndex = topIndex; ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin Thank you for sharing the solution to this msvcr80.dll problem.  I had the exact same problem as everyone else and when I followed your instructions, my Norton Win Doctor found no more probems, and my machine is back to normal. You have really ...Show All

• Visual C++ link error 2019 with template class in dll

  Hello there, i have a class of custom implementation of the famous linklist using templates in a custom DLL (called A) i made. all worked out perfectly, i exported the class and everything was fine there. in another DLL, i instansiated that linkedlist class i did over in first DLL (called B) and started using, all went there. i Compiled! i was struck with "error lnk2019" in the functions that i called linklist in. supprisingly i already included that lib file in my second DLL B. and included the main header file, that has included all headers in DLL A. so technically it has no excuse in lnk2019-ing. here is my linklist class header ...Show All

• Visual Studio Package "Visual Studio Common IDE Package" failed to load

  I just installed the VS 2005 Beta 2, including the MSDN documentation.  I can look at topics via the Index and Contents just fine; however, when I tried to click on the Search icon on the toolbar, I get a message that reads... Package "Visual Studio Common IDE Package" failed to load ...and then nothing happens.  The same thing happens if I click on the How Do I icon.  Also, if I click on the little arrow next to the How Do I icon, MSDN--or, more specifically, Microsoft Document Explorer--crashes. Any ideas Thanks in advance, Jeff WTH: If you had beta 2 installed on this same machine, try unin ...Show All

• .NET Development advise with .net remoting

  the client (which is a server too) check if the server has a task for him if there is avaliable task then the client operate a function in the server that return a class named (TaskClass). on the client side i wrote a class that contain 2 variables - one is clientID and the other one is instance of TaskClass. i put the class "TaskClass" in a class library as a dll ,this class is serializable. is it reasonable is it a "good programming" im not sure about what i did...it seems a little bit clumsy.  thanks in advanced Hi, There are quite a few options. One is to have the ClientId as a parameter to a ...Show All