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• Gadgets Refresh HTML only if new

  Hi, i write a Gadget that show me a Shoutbox, and he refreshed all 10 sec. (have found all information here thx at all) but now i will only refresh the Gatget if the .../shoutbox.php is wirte new how can i do that thx I came up with an easy way to do this - simply create a php page which returns the time stamp of the last refresh (or an increasing int to keep size even smaller). If it has a greater value than you, refresh the contents. :) Ross ...Show All

• SQL Server Display date in reports

  How to display only the date part on reports from DateTime fields Thanks I got it. For Short form : =FormatDateTime(Fields!InputDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate) For Long form : =FormatDateTime(Fields!InputDate.Value, DateFormat.LongDate) For complete Date and Time : =FormatDateTime(Now, DateFormat.LongDate) & " " & FormatDateTime(Now,DateFormat.LongTime) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Pix fails to capture single F12 frame, for debug project

  I can do three of four experiements on my application in debug mode. However, if I try to capture single frame at the press of f12, my app launches and imidiately crashes with an unhandled win32 exception. No further info. When connecting debugger and looking at it, it is not in my project the crash occures. The exception is at 0x0048c4b8. It is an access violation trying to read 0x03c19fe8. That is all the info I can get. Is there a known problem which sometimes affects debug projects built with vs2005 and pix In release mode it works just fine. By debug and release, I mean my projects. I use retail d3d right now. ...Show All

• Windows Forms problem with DataGridView control

  Is there a way to restrict the number of rows a user can add in a datagridview control e.g when the user had entered 2 records in the grid, a message should popup saying "You can't add more than 2 records". Please help. Check the RowState property of GridViewRow to if it was Inserted. Iterate the GridView rows and check the RowState of each row. Maintain a counter ( and increment ) when the row has Inserted state. When counter has reached 2 then you can disable adding more rows. HTH ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multicore and vector unit access

  Hi, I am considering using XNA Game Studio Express and have a pair of technical questions that I couldn't find an answer for when I searched the forum. 1. Is it possible for my C# code to operate on more than 1 of the X-Box360 CPU cores I'm not even sure if there is a multi-threading library that will work on X-Box360. 2. Is it possible for my C# code to use the PowerPC Vector Units (I think they are called Altivec) I'm interested in working on some bleeding edge algorithms to see if real performance can be tapped using C# on X-Box. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Create New Website option missing

  I install VS 2005 without problems. On the Start Page i have 2 options on the left when creating a project open: Project Website Create: Project Website So i have create/open a project and create/open a website. Few days later the option for website disappears even though all ive been doing is creating and opening websites. Why does it do that or is it some bug This happens on 2 machines - any ideas to resolve this Thanks see if you can reboot IIS however this shouldnt be the problem. you should still see that error even if IIS is not installed for example but the error will come as soon as you hit ok to create the solution. VS 2005 has its own "IIS" or mini server and does not rely much ...Show All

• .NET Development Errors creating new data source

  I've been writing OOP code for 10+ years, and am now excited to learn C#. To help me get going, I recently installed Visual Studio 2005 b2, and have been studying ADO.NET & working through some MS Access projects. I've followed several tutorials on the Data Source Config Wizard, searched MSDN and other online sources, but have come up dry trying to figure out why, whenever I click the Wizard's FINISH button, I get this error: "An error occurred while creating the new data source: Could not get type information for 'MyProject.MyProjectDataSet'." I can add the Access file to the Server Explorer, but can't drag a table to a form. It's behaving differently than the tutorials show, and I've spent three days now trying to determine why. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot use TFS Team Explorer and VSS2005 alongside

  We are unable to use VSS2005 alongside TFS Team Explorer. If we change source control plug-in in Tools to VSS2005, and then try to load a VSS2005-controled solution, it automatically switches to TFS and cannot connect to VSS2005. If we try to switch source control again to VSS2005, after the solution is loaded, it thinks it's a new solution and tries to add it anew into VSS2005. Basically, it gives preference to TFS whatever ways of loading VSS2005 solutions we try. If we uninsall TFS Team Explorer, VSS2005 works again ... not good enough ... You're right, the solution file had the old bindings for TFS. We had the following scenario with this solution: 1. Was checked into VSS6 2. Was checked into TFS 3. Was checked into V ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Source Control Explorer server path browsing and usability

  Warning, ranting ahead. When I'm using the Source Control Explorer to browse server paths ("$/..."), I've found lots of frustration in that I can't usually cut and paste the paths. Instead, I have to navigate around the directories. My current example is in selecting directories using the Apply Label dialog. I really just want to paste each line from my workspace mapping to the "Item n ame:" control. But I can't. The worst part is that the navigation hides my hierarchy location in the "Look i n:" drop box, so I get lost easily. I'm going to solve it by creating yet another batch file using tf, but that's just admitting that I'm beaten. Please, better file browser for the server repository. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to increase attachment upload limits for defects

  Does anyone know how to change the default upload limit of 4MB for adding attachments to defects I've got a need to upload files that are up to 10MB. Here is link with information on how to change attachment limit http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400780.aspx . Thanks, Mohammad ...Show All

• Visual C++ iostream does not work in combination with another program

  am trying to modify the program CaptureSound (C++) that I got out of the DirectX sample browser. I want to insert some code that would open and read a text file where I have something stored. I built a separate free-standing testing program which works, and begins with #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <string> #include <AtlBase.h> #include <AtlConv.h> #include <tchar.h> using namespace std; This program works fine, opening and reading a file. I can see that it is doing the right thing by using cout. But when I try to implant this in the larger DirectX program it gives errors such as "namespace std does not exist", plus it does not recog ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions combo box problem

  hi all.... i am having a problem regarding combo box......hopefully someone out there can help me.....this is the problem i would like to add items to the combo box by using the code below Dim cust As Customer = Customer.RetrieveScalar("Name = '" & sltCustomer.SelectedItem & "'") Dim con As IList = Contact.RetrieveQuery("OwnerID = '" & cust.Id.ToString & "'", "Name") For Each c As Contact In con sltContact.Items.Add(c.Name) Next but the informations that i need is Name and also its ID..........so how can i get its by using this method.... i know there is another method by using the datasource.........but this method does not fix my problem du ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Music

  Does anybody know how to play a mp3 file ALso does anyone know of a way to trigger an event after a songf is done playing Maybe get access to its length and time it or something Steve well you can hide the plugin UI or just reduce the size of it or set its properties appropriately. http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/downloads/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/platform/sdk.aspx documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/windowsmediaplayer10sdk.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/playercontrolguide.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wm ...Show All

• SQL Server Transfer table from Microsoft Sql Server to Microsoft Excel

  Hi Folks I hope you doing fine. I want to transfer table from Microsoft Sql Server to Microsoft Excel but the column the table like that: Create Table xTable ( xDate DateTime , xStatus Bit ) Now I want to convert data using Import/Export Wizard because when I move xDate to Excel file it looks like ####### that and I want to convert xStatus = 1 e In xStatus = 0 e Out Using Case Statement like: Case xStatus When 0 Then 'Out' When 1 Then 'In' End How can I do this in Import/Export Wizard Thank you In the Excel menu: Data -> Import External ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help,Start Button Thing

  Well,i recently "edited" explorer.exe and changed my start menu text,and (im 14) everyone at school wanted one...so...i need help,i already have a code,but it wont work,Just in Case,the program is supposed to display an input box with a max of 5 chars,and  when you ok the input box,it will change the text of the start(instead of start,something else) i do have a code,but it simply will not work,it does not limit input box to 5 chars and it does not change text,heres the code, Please if you have a better code,simpler or otherplease put it...anyways,here's the code ' Public Class Form1 Dim jeff As String Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" ( ByVal hwnd As Lo ...Show All