G. Dean Blakely's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Connection string for SqlCeConnection

  Which format is assumed for connection string for SqlCeConnection In help topics there are only examples like this:  ... Data Source = 'SalesData.sdf'; ... But this example is intended for SQL Server 2005 Mobile database located on desktop computer... I need to custom data load from desktop to device and vice versa, so I did this: string SqlMobileConnString = "Persist Security Info = False; Data Source = Mobile Device\CF Card\mBase.sdf ; File Mode = 'shared read';" ; SqlCeConnection SqlMobileConn; SqlMobileConn = new SqlCeConnection (SqlMobileConnString); SqlMobileConn.Open(); // Exception!!! Invalid path... I tried to set path like this: " Data Source = My Computer\Mobile Device\..." and old variant with slash: " Data Sou ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D game sample/tutorial

  Has anyone released any samples/tutorials/simple games that are 3D for XNA I am really not interested at all in doing anything 2D. I have made some progress making a game with MDX, though I haven't completed it yet. However, I am still having a mental hurdle with how to structure things in XNA. Not having the fixed pipeline isn't helping much either. I'm not 100% sure myself, however I think that the content pipeline is a container that you can add models, sounds, etc to. The framework will support alot of different import formats so you can use whatever 3d modelling package you want to create content :) Here is a site that explains it a little bit: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/ Scroll down till ...Show All

• Visual Basic using/calling/importing a vb.net function to vb6

  just curious, is there anyway to use/access/call a function made in vb 2005 to vb6 there are some functions are are only available in vb.net and the old app i'm adding a function for is in vb6 so migrating immediately is not an option. i found stuff regarding this on msdn Article ID: 817248 but this was only for .net 2002 & 2003 and .net framework 1.0. if there is anyway then i'd appreciate the info dave. KB article 817248 applies to VB 2005 as well. You can find a bunch of other articles on the subject here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788241.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C# C# DLL from Javascript?

  Is it possible to call a C# DLL from server-side Javascript Or would that be too much of a security issue Thanks in advance, Chris This is possible. The DLL needs to be marked as COM visible though. It will then run in the security context of the browser. -Tom ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Error Message on Bootup

  I searched for answers to this error, but didn't see anything. I use Windows Server 2003 with SQL 2000 installed. Lately I've been getting the error below when booting up at login. "SQL Dumper library failed initialization. Your installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with. Please uninstall then re-run setup to conrrect this problem" Anyone seen this before Will I have to really uninstall and reinstall SQL again Thanks. Do one thng, Run the installer for the sql server 2000 ,now it will ask for repair or uninstll, select repair and first repair it, if th problem still persists ,then there is no other option than reinstalling it....Let me know what happened ...Show All

• Windows Forms Outputting characters where I want them

  I'm looking for a way to put a character (of a color of my choice) at a certain spot on the screen. It can be a windows app or just the console. I'm new to C# so I'm not sure how this can be done. The only thing I can think of is slapping an array of textboxes on a window in a 20x20 grid, but that seems mighty inefficient (or is c# capable of handling 400+ textbox objects without slowing to a crawl ) If you've ever played Moria or Angband, you know exactly what I'm trying to accomplish here, any help would be most appreciated. Thanks! Moria.NET sounds great! And you will be delighted to know that the Console has been massively revamped in .NET 2.0, so you can achieve what you want very easily. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VS2003 with TFS MSSCCI shows the wrong file status

  Hi, I'm using VS.NET 2003 SP1 with TFS MSSCCI provider 1.1. In the Solution Explorer, some of the resx files are shown as "checked out" status (with the red icon). However I don't have anything checked out. It seems to only happen to some of the language resx files (i.e., Form.de.resx and Form.fr.resx), but not regular code .cs files. How do I clear the checkout status in VS.NET Thanks, Heng-yi Hello, in step 6 just after the project is loaded, VS is prompting me to checkout csproj file. It also regenerates the Form1.de-DE.resx and shows it in Pending Changes window. I can checkin checkout for csproj (with re-added de-DE file) and add de-DE file itself. Is it the behavior you see or ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to Add New Objects

  I'm having a problem adding new objects from Solution Explorer. When I right click on Tables and select Add New Item the Categories / Templates are blank. Therefore I can't add a table. I've tried re-installing CTP4 but to no avail. Not sure what's changed as I was able to do this before. How do I fix I'm trying to remember if I had to go somewhere and enalbe it or it was just there when I created my first DB Project, I looked through the "View" menu and did not see it anywhere. ............................ I found it now (very intuitive), at the top of the "Solution Explorer" window you have 3 buttons, the one on the right says "Toggle Schema View", that's the one. ...Show All

• .NET Development Strange XmlSerializer error

  Dear all, I am programming in VB.NET , using the .NET Framework 2.0 on a Windows Vista machine running VS 2005 with the SP1 beta applied. I have a VB class which was derived from an .XSD schema using the XSD.exe tool. I am able to instantiate objects from this class and build by "XML" object up using it, without too much difficulty. However, when I come to serialize the output to an XML stream, it fails, with a FileNotFoundException on the serialize line, e.g.: Dim serializer As New XmlSerializer( GetType (eGov.IRenvelope)) Where eGov is my class namespace, and the IRenvelope is the class within the namespace that corresponds to my object which I am attempting to serialize. The interesting thing is, tha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Use filter for BuildCompletionEvent in Bissubscribe

  Hello all, I want to add a filter to the BuildCompletionEvent in the Bissubscribe command to be able to send mail when the build is a Failure. I tried doing this: BisSubscribe.exe /eventType BuildCompletionEvent /address myemail @domain.com /deliveryType EmailPlaintext /server myserver1 /filter "TeamProject = 'MailTestProj' AND Build='Failure' but this did not help. Can someone suggest how to apply the filter I appreciate a response in this regard. Thanks, Intern What is the error you are getting I tried this and it created a subscription with no error. I do not see the field named "Build" you use in the filter though, so you will not get mails.Probably you are l ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Autocomplete combobox autocompletesource bug?

  I have included steps to reconstruct the error I am getting while databinding an access database and trying to get the combobox to autocomplete. I added the datasource using Data | Add new datasource. From the datasource window I changed the field to combobox and dragdropped the combobox onto my form. Using combobox tasks, I used databinding and set the combobox's data source, display member and value member. From combobox properties I set autocomplete mode to Suggest. I set autocompletesource to ListItems When I run the form it loads fine and does exactly what I want. When I close the form I get the error(codeline in red) from autogenerated code: Cannot bind to the property or column Country on the DataSource. Paramet ...Show All

• SQL Server Remote Connection

  Could someone tell me how to remote connect to other server . Everytime when I try to connect to other server, I get an error message . Eventhough I have opened the 1433 port, allow the remote connection using both TCP/IP and named pipes, and open the firewall for connection. The following is the error message "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connection to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default setting SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error:26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)(Microsoft SQL Sever)" Thank you How are you trying to connect, Management Studio or a custom applica ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# forms loading and saving

  Hi i want to produce a app for testing different devices connect to the computer, and each device has different user interface. Im thinking the best way is to have a MDI form, then load a child form for each different device. Im thinking the best way to do this would be to be able to "save" a form to the HD, then load it when a user selects the device in the MDI. Is there a way to save a form, with all its buttons and executable events and load it as required, for each device, or do forms have to compiled into the executeable. Or is there a better way Sounds good, not an approach i would have considered. i will try this, thanks for your help ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Depth Testing (Z Buffer) not working, tried everything.. HELP !

  Reading pages and pages of documentation, and the only info i can find on getting depth testing to work correctly is not working ! I've tried everything, and am almost ready to give up, please oh please someone tell me / give me a decent link on how to work this. i have set the D3Dpp ( D3D present properties up as shown on msdn. [code] d3dpp.Windowed = TRUE; d3dpp.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_COPY; d3dpp.BackBufferFormat = displayMode.Format; d3dpp.EnableAutoDepthStencil = TRUE; d3dpp.AutoDepthStencilFormat = D3DFMT_D16; [/code] I have set the render states as descibed on MSDN [code] g_D3DDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZENABLE, TRUE); g_D3DDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_ZWRITEENABLE, TRUE); g_D3DDevice->SetRenderState( ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLXML3.0 BulkLoad Whitespace stripping problem

  Hi, I am trying to import an XML file into a SQL2000(SP4) database, using the SQLXML(3.0 SP3) bulkload facility. The problem I am having is that SQL is stripping the LF and CR characters from the data on import. I have been trawling google groups and also other resources to try and fix the problem. Unfortunatly nothing I try seems to do gets me round this problem. I understand that the MSXML parser (which bulkload uses) does not recognise some special charaters including LF and CR, so converts these to whitespaces. The methods I have tried so far, are as follows: 1. Set Reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer \Client\SQLXML3\SQL2000Co-mpatMode' (String value) to 0. 2. CDATA - This converts CR LF to LF. 3. xml ...Show All