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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xbox 360 Official Dev Kit vs. "the XNA thing"

  Here goes, The official dev kits intergrate within Visual Studio and compile on PC and send the executable to the machine and launch it via remote debugging. This also allows for breakpoints, steping thru code, etc. Will this new XNA subscription and Game Studio Express be similar to this idea I'm dreading things like relying on Windows support and burning it to a CD to play it on the 360. (For example) Well, I understood that you pay 99$ for 1 year, they make you a FTP account on the XBOX live site or another site where you upload the build. You connect with your XBOX360 there and you dload the game and play it. If I understood wrong please correct me. Egomancer ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VFP9 applications running much slower than VFP6 and VFP8

  I have same vfp application program. But I found that it run much slower than previous version when loading a form in vfp9 compiled application. Anybody have same problem Are you using any collation sequences other than the default If so, make sure to SET COLLATE to the same sequence you're using. Tamar ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting a Variable in a Foreach ADO Enumerator

  Hi, im using a Foreach ADO Enumerator in my SSIS Package, which iterate on a DataSet from a SQL Task. I use the "Variable Mappings" on my Foreach Loop to retrieve the values into User-variables. But what i need is a way to combine a value from the DataSet with a User-variable and assign this new value to a new User-variable. Anybody tried something like this Regards, Martin You can do this without any problem in a script task Accessing a recordset in a script task (Your ADO recordset): http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/01/04/2540.aspx Accessing the package variables in a script task: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.dts.runtime.var ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) UserName authentication

  Hi, I'm trying the sample about 'username authentication'. I have not changed the sources of sample. I receive this error : "An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party. See the inner FaultException for the fault code and detail." InnerException : "At least one security token in the message could not be validated." Server stack trace: at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SecurityChannelFactory`1.SecurityRequestChannel.ProcessReply(Message reply, SecurityProtocolCorrelationState correlationState, TimeSpan timeout) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SecurityChannelFactory`1.SecurityRequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout) at System.ServiceModel.Security.S ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to connect

  We've been using Integration Services for a while, but last night all of a sudden we find ourselves unable to connect to it. If I try to connect to it from the server using the machine name I get the message: Connect to SSIS Service on machine "xxxx" failed: Class not register If I try to connect to it from the server using (local) I get the message: Connect to SSIS Service on machine "(local)" failed: The RPC server is unavailable If I try to connect to it from any other machine using the server name I get either the message: Class not registered or after a very long pause: Connect to SSIS Service on machine "xxxx" failed: Server execution failed. This started happening after we rebooted the server. I a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development return code values from API call to SetSystemTime()

  I didn't see checking of the return code in the example of calling SetSystemTime() at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172517.aspx . What code values are returned from a call to SetSystemTime on compact framework Thanks. The same as on the Desktop. The return values of the SetSystemTime API is are documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wcekernl/html/cerefsetsystemtime.asp A zero value means success, non zero indicates a failure. To get the 'extended' error code call System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetLastWin32Error (). ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Error -100723 vs. -100732

  Hello Microsoft, The latest adCenterAPI documentation says this about error -100723: Duplicate ad. -100723 This error is returned when a user attempts to add an ad that is identical to an existing ad already associated with an order. The same documentation says this about error -100732: Duplicate ad. -100732 The ad is duplicated. My first question is: what's the difference between these two errors I came across this when I got error -100723 while calling AddOrders to add a new order to one of my campaigns. I think there is a typo in your documentation. The error I got had nothing to do with ad duplication. It turned out to be due to the fact that I put the endDate for the order to be 2106. I change ...Show All

• SQL Server Recover data from .mdf and .ldf file?

  Hello! Hopefully someone can help me with the following (potentially huge) problem: We've got a simple database application running on microsoft sql desktop engine. This database contains two tables. Up until now all worked fine, but probably due to a programma that crashed part of the database seems to be corrupted or broken while today only one table contains/returns data and the other table does not return any values! When I open the .ldf and .mdf files in notepad I see that there is data belonging to both the tables. But how do I recover it The max. size of the database has not been reached by far (it's only 9Mbs), the sql queries are correct. This .ldf file is a log file ( ) I can't find detailed info about the princi ...Show All

• Visual C# C# code to Display the number of days before your active directory password expires.

  I'm trying to find some code (c#) to display the number of days a user has before his/her password expires. We have several users that use OWA and do not log into the network at all. I'd like to create a page that they can hit to find out how long until their password expires. I've already developed an application for them to change their password and account information, I'm stuck on this last part. Does anyone know how or where I can get this code Thanks, Frank Hi Frank, We can retrieve the accountExpires property for the account. Account-Expires The date when the account expires. This value represents the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601 (UTC). A value of 0 or 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFF ...Show All

• Visual Basic MessageBox.Show is Not Displayed Properly!

  I’m using Visual Basic 2005, I have experienced a problem with displaying a message box after opening several windows form in the same project. After the messagebox.show function is executed, the project freezes which is a correct behavior (You can hear a sound if it is a typed message box), but the message box is NOT displayed on screen! You need to open any application with a maximize mode and minimize it again to see the message box! As a wasted effort, I tried to re-install .NET Framework 2 and Visual Basic! Please Help Thank you for your interest and respond, but I have figured out what the problem was! I have a form that I used to display datagridview images column, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) 3D performance in WPF

  Hello I created a simple 3D model (there are two spheres in this model) with 3Ds max, exported it as 3ds file and then converted to XAML by using ZAM 3D. Then I inserted created viewport into a scene. I was using Daniel Lahenbauer's Tracball class for rotating around a model. When a model gets bigger (after zooming in), it starts to be hard to rotate around or to zoom in again, so the performance is bad. By the way, I have watched Daniel Lahenbauer's video about 3D integration into WPF on MSDN TV http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx xml=episodes/en/20060504WPFDL/manifest.xml and there is a 3D globe demo. As I have seen, this demo has a posibility to move around the globe, and the performance is just great! So how to ma ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to use constructors or methods of data object with WCF service

  I have some questions regading how to use of data object using WFC Service. For example I have an object called Student (see codes below), and property IsOver25 this is readOnly property. However, if I do not put set { ;}, it's won't compile . What I need to do here in order to get rid of set { ;} statement. Another problem is using contructors and methods of data object. Since we don't put [ServiceContract] on the data object, I could not use the override ToString() version of Student object on client side. So the question are: 1. What should I do in order to use the constructor of data object 2. What should I do in order to use the methods on data object ( will not many but somes) Regards, John dang using System; using Syste ...Show All

• Visual Studio building solution / projects with project reference

  There seems to be a problem with solutions and project-to-project references. Let's pretend that I have the following structure: Common.csproj SolutionA: Common.csproj (added by add existing project) ProjAA.csproj (project reference to Common) This one is fine then I have another solution SolutionB: ProjectAA.csproj (added by add existing project) ProjectBB.csproj (project reference to ProjectAA) Here, if I build ProjectBB.csproj directly, this works just fine. HOWEVER, if I try to build SolutionB then I get complaints about that project {GUID} missing from solution.. I suppose I can add Common.csproj to SolutionB also, but this does not scale well.. Is there something I'm missing here I mean, after all there is the full/r ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 can't be added Active Directory, but the documentation says it can.

  Hi, I've installed SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003 SP1 Standard Edition. Before I install SQL Server 2005, I've configured Windows to be an domain controller with Active Directory. As the documentation said that using Object Explorer and then selecting Properties, I have the property page of Server Properties. But I still can't find the Active Directory page. When I try to run the system stored procedure sp_ActiveDirectory_SCP, I can't either register or update. Is this an error or bug Using SQL Server 2000, I can easily add it to Active Directory. Now I can't do it in 2005 version. Please help! Eriawan It's been more than 1 month and I still can't get a satisfactory answers. I have dow ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting error while runing a job with SSIS by using SQL server Login

  I am creating a job with SSIS and try to run it by using SQL server Login.Before that i have created Credentials and Proxies pointing to the Sql Login created by me. The issue is in creating a CREDENTIAL pointing to this SQL login. This SQL login does not display in the CHECK NAMES list when trying to select the identity. But All the other Windows logins are geting displayed in the Identity . So the job being created using new Windows Login is also executing fine. And moreover a job usingTransact _SQL step using New SQL server Login is also executing fine. Please provide me some solution on how to "CREATE credentials pointing to SQL SERVER logins" and "creating proxys for SQL server agent pointing to SQL SERV ...Show All