cisfreak2's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Buttermilk Game Engine / Gui Engine

  I've submitted for a project at CodePlex. I've officially named it the Buttermilk Game Engine! The GUI portion is named the Buttermilk Gui Engine. Both are acronymed BGE, which is the same as the initials in my name. Pretty clever eh  ;) Hehehe... I typed up the current features list like so - Buttermilk is the game engine I'm building for the 2D XNA game "Rogue Bishop". It's a very easy to use 2D engine which additionally supports 3D objects in the 2D scene graph. It currently includes the beginnings of an advanced but simple to use dynamically skinned GUI system. The GUI system is completely separated from the 2D game engine in its own project module, and can be used in any XNA application, 2D or 3D. Current fe ...Show All

• .NET Development WS-I18N, Web Services Internationalization

  Has anyone done any work implementing the WS-I18N header enhancements with an ASP.NET Web Service, or similar I did actually implemented it using WSE for ASP.Net, 2.0 bellow are some code snippets that I hope help. Some notes: I just implemented the locale element, you could take the rest from Pablo's article. The output filter grabs the culture from the UI Thread and puts this on the header, the service input filter sets the requested culture in the servies main thread. doing this, you don't have to worry about setting the header every single time you call the service. I derived the InternationalHeader class from SOAP header so you can use it explicitly as a SoapHeader attribute if you don't want to use WSE (you will nee ...Show All

• Visual C# C# and SQL Query

  Ok... Ive started learning C#. I have loaded a datasource odbc connection and dropped 1 of my tables onto my form. Now I also have a textbox and button on my form. The text box takes the current date and converts it to excel serial date and stores that into a variable 'serial'. Now I need to make a query on my table. I can create a query comparing 2 columns without a problem. My problem is that I cannot use my variable 'serial' in my query. Here is what it looks like: SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE WHERE TranDetail.EndDateTime = TranHeader.EndDateTime AND (TranDetail.EndDateTime >= @serial) I am using the query builder. I cannot get the TranDetail.EndDateTime >= @serial to work. I know its not able to use my variable ...Show All

• Visual Basic Automatic Generation

  hi, i need automatic generation of numbers of the Format : 0001S. i tried with the following codings. it works with MSAccess as BackEnd and not with SQL. Hi 'it works with MSAccess as BackEnd and not with SQL' .... do I presume you mean you are now using SQL Server 200x If so, Val is an Access specific function name. Take a look at this document ... it details the difference and there is also an example on how to use pattern matching to accomplish the same thing http://sqlserver2000.databases.aspfaq.com/what-are-the-main-differences-between-access-and-sql-server.html Do take the opportunity to consider that pattern matching is a slow process for sql server and that you might be better off storing the numeric port ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies MOSS2007 standalone no search results

  Hi I have done a standalone install and added a couple of users, a couple of sites and a couple of documents. Searcing for any of these returns nothing. The default content access account (NT authority\local service) has Full read permissions to all zones under 'Policy for web application' in Central admin. A crawl has been completed but the following warnings are in the crawler log: " http://csciisris2 The object was not found. (the item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it) Local Office Sharepoint Server Sites". Similarly for sps://csciisris2 and sts://csciisris2 Additionally there are some gatherer warnings in the event logs: "The start address < ht ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA - Microsoft lack of vision

  Its real sad that Microsoft, once again, shows this lack of vision for a games development tool: 1: Get visual: Don't force users to write such a lot of code to do just very little. It reminds the Charles Petzold's "Hello Window" hell of code days. 2: Provide visual tools: Let users choose the components, change their properties and write just the required code for the events. 3: Quick development means quick prototype and minimum learning curve. XNA has a lot of things to learn. Definetively it is NOT for students and hobbists. We will have to wait until someone encapsulates XNA framework into a group of visual components, that can be easily drag & dropped, inspected and tested very easily without having to learn lots of n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team System DB Professionals CTP 6 - Error loading at studio 2005 startup -why so ?

  I have installed professional edition, installed SQL Server 2005 developer edition, than - DB studio CTP 6 - and at each studio load I have error loading this package . (it is first package of DB pro that I install) Why this happens I also installed Visual studio Team suite from MSDN, above initial installation but have same error. what is most probable reason of this error how to eliminate it ____________ I working under some company security politics, but have some admin rights. may this affect thanks you. Can you please run the following diagnostics script http://SQLDev.Net/VSDBProDiag.zip And send me the results file which will get created in %TEMP%\VSDBPro.log Please send it to g ...Show All

• Architecture M/ Security UPdates for Internet explorer

  Hai All, Microsoft has recently released security updates MS06-021( KB916281) for internet explorer. It says that this patch affects Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2. Please let me know whether this Patch is only for Internet Explorer 6 for WIN XP SP2 or this can be installed for Internet Explorer 6 SP2 for WIN XP SP2 also. I downloaded this patch and installed in two differnent set of PC's which is having Internet Explorer 6 SP 2 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. In one type of PC's there is a problem in loading a portal page. Please let me know, whether this patch is meant only for Internet Explorer 6 on WIN XP SP2 only. Regards, Basha. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop throwing error

  Hi all, I just ran an compilation of FxCop rules. It's giving 2 error message: CA0001: Rule=Design Rules#CA5035, Target=Welcome.Page_Load(System.Object,System.EventArgs):System.Void: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. FxCopCmd.exe returned error code 2. The above rule CA5035 when run independently doesn't throw this error but when I ran it with a combination of some 10 rules. It's giving the above error messages. Can anyone tell me what to do with this Please note that the 1st error message is not being thrown when I run the rule CA5035 independently and I've rectified the conditions too. There is no cases of object no being set to an instance( I guess). Kindly advice somebody. Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check Constraints ignored by the data generator

  I am using VSDBPro to generate test data, my table has a check constraint defined in a column such as ( [Field1] = 'A' OR [Field1] = 'C' ), but it was ignored by the data generator and tried to populate some random values and terminated the entire process... Any workaround for that.... Henry, Thanks for the reply I couldn't see the regular expression in the generator properties for the char field. I have installed the trial version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Version 2.0.50727.251. I imported the schema which has the check constraints on the column. But the data gererator ignored that... Is a the limitation of the trial version ... ...Show All

• Visual C# Need CCW to support [hidden] and helpcontext

  I have a C# project that exports part of its API into COM using regasm. I need the API to include features that don't seem to be well documented. These are: [hidden] - I need to mark certain properties/methods hidden in COM. I realize that no such concept exists in C#, but it does on COM. [helpcontext] - How do I support context-sensitive help This includes helpcontext, helpstring and helpfile. Note that this is not a graphical API or GUI control. It is a library implementing a set of interfaces. Searches around MSDN and Google have revealed no answers so far. Hi Mattias, I like using MIDL too. Not just to make it hard to change the COM interfaces but also to allow MSFT interfaces to be used that ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Outlook 2007 Beta 2 and EntryID Futures?

  there is also a problem when you try to install the WDS with the office 2007 during the installation at the end you get a error saying Access Denied and the installation fails. is microsoft aware of this problem James I am having problems with this workaround. First, when enabling verbose logging there was no LogLevels key or folder. Only AppLogLevels and no DWORD to value to edit. Is there something I am missing ...Show All

• SQL Server Error on Associative Rules Viewer

  Hello, I don't know if this is the correct forum or if it would perhaps be the server setup & upgrade, however, I'll ask here first. I am going through the SQL 2005 data mining tutorials and have encountered an error that states: Query (1,6) The '[System].[Microsoft].[AnalysisServices].[System].[DataMining].[AssociationRules].[GetStatistics]' function does not exist. After looking around for a bit it appeared that this function is generally used in a stored procedure run from the server. Is this correct What do I need to do to either correctly import the function into the project or to make sure that it is installed on the server We are running the Ent Ed. now, however, we just upgraded to this after I had already starte ...Show All

• .NET Development starting winxp app before user loggs into winxp

  any idea on how i can start an app before the user actually logs in I have a number of computers that just sit there for about 10 minutes before the user actually logs in and throughout the day the users constantly log in and out. I need my app to stay running as is needs to keep a tcplistener connection open. just to clear things up a service will have access to network resources and acts just like a regular app but starts at boot time i thought a service was my answer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Need a silent mode for MSTest to run unattended.

  Is there some (undocumented ) way to run mstest silently from the command line Currently if a test raises an unhandled exception, mstest will open up an "Unhandled Exception" dialog box. This essentially prevents me from being able to run unattended through a list of tests via the command line. There is no dialog box coming from the test or app under test. Upon further inspection, the dialog appears to be coming from vstesthost and not mstest: =-=-=-=-=- VSTestHost.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Sorry for the inconvenience Debug | Close =-=-=-=-=- This still has the effect of preventing unattended test execution. If I catch these exceptions, then Visual Stud ...Show All