Bravo2007's Q&A profile

• Visual C++ VC++ and SQL Compact Edition

  I am looking at developeing an application using the VC++ Express 2005 edition or VS VC++ 2005. I am looking for guidance or maybe project samples on working with the SQL Compact database engine. I know the OLE DB exposes an interface to SQLCe but the web is lacking on C++ examples. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. FizzVaders - 360/PC Demo With Full Source

  Hello   Not sure of the best place to post this but I thought best to share some code with you all.   It's a simple space invaders game that will run on the PC as well as the 360 - it uses the two projects in one method.  You'll have to excuse the coding, it's the first thing I've written in C#, previously I used C so it's a bit of a jump.  I always go for something simple to begin with.    It runs in 1280x720 and you can switch between windows and fullscreen using alt-enter.    PC will work with a 360 pad (not sure about others as that's the one I tried). There's a co-op mode as well, just hit Start when in game to join in.  PC keys are...    & ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Retrieving all device icons

  Hi, I need your help. I have developed sample application for listing files and directories like File Explorer. Files and Directories are displayed in the ListView control. For that application, I need all device icons (gif icons, jpeg icon, exe icons, dll icon...) to display in the ListView for files. I think all icons are in dlls like windows (Shell32.dll). How do i get that icons Please send your suggestion or links. Thanx. M. GANESAN I found this, searching on the OpenNetCF archives. http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp TOPIC_ID=4386&SearchTerms=Icon.FromHandle ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System BUG - VS crashes when comparing db schema

  I am trying to compare schema from my db project to an existing database.  My user account has limited privileges on the SQL Server ( I do have dbo rights, but no superuser rights on the server level).  The VS crashes at the step when it tries to read filegroup information from the server.  It did not do this in CTP4 - everything worked smoothly. Are there any workarounds/what privileges to i have to have on the sql server I have the same issue, using the RTM product, on Vista. I'm comparing a local source database to a remote database. My user account has limited permissions to the remote database server. What are the minimum permissions required to utilize the schema compare feature ...Show All

• Visual Basic ? Textbox

  I am probably doing this wrong BUT I put a form together with the following: Datagrid - all read-only and most of the cells hidden for a reason 3 textboxes from the same datasource as the datagrid Now when I select a record from the datagrid, the textboxes change accordingly to match the record that was selected in the datagrid, I can change a value in the textbox and update the datasource and it changes(everythings fine) but when I change the visible property to false, I run into a little snag. I cannot reference the textboxes content. I change change it back and its fine. How can you hide the textbox I changed the color of the box and text to the background color and you can still see the text. I also tri ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies MOSS 2007 Single Sign on Error

  I turned on Single Sign on Service on MOSS 2007 Server. In my environment, I have medium server farm with 2 front-end web servers, App server, index server and cluster SQL backend. When I tried to configure single sign on, I got this error "The sql server specified is either invalid or is an unsupported version" Under the server name, I entered SQL Cluster name instead of the SQL Server name because my SQL server is set up as cluster. Have anyone sucessfully set up SSO on MOSS 2007 Thanks, Thusinh I am getting this error as well. I have the environment as a server farm with one frontend server and one SQL backend server running SQL Server 2000 SP4. I will continue working ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Dependent Content Builds with Custom ContentProcessor

  So I'm trying to understand how to customize the content pipeline by building my own content processor for a fictional filetype (.tlf). This filetype is merely a list of relative paths to textures separated by newlines. Unfortunately, the sample in the docs only shows how to make a custom processor for something with no dependencies. However, thanks to our good friend reflector, I came across the BuildContent api in the ContentProcessorContext class. According to the docs, it can be used to (for example) "replac e the original TGA file references with new references to the converted texture files". This seems like the perfect candidate ... however, I'm not really sure what to do with the returned ExternalReference object which ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Retrieving effects and textures

  Assuming that I have a model in 3DS Max that I export into a FBX file, which goes through the content pipeline, and is then loaded into the runtime as a Model, how do I go about getting the 3DS texture and effects bindings from my C# code Looking at the Model class all I can see hanging off it is an Effect class, but no texture references - are the textures supposed to be embedded in the effect files If so, how should I set the effects in 3DS so that they are imported via the content pipeline Sorry if there is an obvious answer to this, but I'm more used to dealing with pure HLSL/ASM files rather than effects files.. Andy. The answer to your second question is yes.  As Shawn said, it is a pro ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development WebBrowser Control not loading java applet (xp sp2)

  Hi, I am having a mfc exe with webbrowser control in a dialog. when i navigate to a page containing a java applet, it doesnt download/activate the applet. I'm just wondering if someone has encountered this issue my machine config is as follows: Win XP Pro SP2 IE 6 JRE 1.5 points of interest: 1) When I open navigate to the page using IE, navigation bar appears.. if i allow the applet to run, it works fine 2) Firefox can also download and render the applet successfully 3) I have removed ms jvm from my machine 4) i have tried to load pages( having applet) from internet, intranet and local machine but it doesnt work for any page having applet this gives an impression that the java runtime is working fine but there is something that i need to ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to return a List<T> using WCF

  I have an application that reads lots of small blocks of records from a data store primarily to supply the application's numerous lists (drop-down etc.) I have been returning DataSets using web services in .NET 2. Now I would like to implement the same functionallity in WCF. I have already got methods that return DataSets in WCF that duplicate the functionallity. However it occurs to me that I could make a list of the rows represented as class objects and return a list instead. The idea being that the server is doing some of the work for me and that I could more easily port a web version of the service if the result is in List<T> form from the service. At this point I take a DataSet and create the List<T> at the client which ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Collision Detection With Bezier Curves

  Hi, I'm currently making a small 2D game in XNA Game Studio Express. It involves a player moving around a terrain and being able to collide with it. Nearly all the graphics and settings in my game are user generated so this allows for everything to be quite customisable. For collision detection the user specifies paths made of Bezier curves which are stored in a file. The game reads this file and stores a number of points on the curves in an array. The player is also made of Bezier curves that are converted into points: This shows how I want collision detection to happen; if any of the lines that make up the player intersect with any of the lines that make up the terrain, then a collision has occurred. Once a collision has occurred two t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Update DB/Please review my code

  I have an XML file that I have put into a datagrid. (The grid is loading the XML perfectly!) I am now looping through my datagrid to update my SQL 2005 DB. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here (One thing that may look odd is that I am querying the Inventory record first to count the current inventory then adding the column total to that count. That is because the XML file shows inventory at 3 different locations and I only need to know the TOTAL) Thanks in advance! visual basic code: Private Sub btnGetData_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnGetData.Click dsAvailableBatch. Clear () dgBatch.Refresh() txtStatus.Text = DateTime. Now & " - Getting batch please wait..." ...Show All

• Visual Basic Command line not shell

  Hi, How can I execute a command like executing it from the command prompt through VB. I try "Shell" but it doesn't work. Hi,   I try the next two and they didn’t work, what I see in both of them is mysqldump (like a console) running the backup in side but they doesn’t create the file:   Process.Start( "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqldump.exe" , "--user=admin --password=a9078564 --host=localhost --databases MySQL VideoDB> C:\VideoDB5.dmp" )   Process.Start( "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqldump.exe" , "--user=admin --password=a9078564 --host=localhost --databases MySQL VideoDB> ""C:\VideoDB5.dmp""" ) &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions combobox selectedIndex help

  Hi.. I am having problem having value selected in the combobox and show on datagrid. so far my combobox can fill data from access database when form loads but I dont know how can i select item from my combobox to show on datagrid or textbox as a result each time and I want to show results more than one. Please help me... I add a button so that after i select an item, i click "search" button and i added a message box to test it came with this message box "System.Data.DataRowView" What does it mean ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Developing for both 2003 & 2007 with VSTO 2005 SE

  Okay, maybe this is a stunned question, but I want to make sure I'm crystal clear before I head too far down the wrong path. I did a search, and I understand all but one thing... I want to make an add-in for both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. I *do* understand that the best (only ) approach is to make a "stub" add-in for 2003 and another "stub" for 2007, and have them each call into common assemblies. No problem there. On my development machine, I have Office 2007 installed. That means I don't have the Office 2003 PIAs (since you can't have both Outlooks installed at once). So if I make a new VSTO 2005SE project for an Outlook 2003 add-in, it obviously bitches that it can't find the Office 2003 PIAs. My question is: is ...Show All