Binu Jeesman's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How much of a 3D engine will be included in the XNA Framework?

  In the DX samples there are the samples framework. Will that be built upon or will there be a separate 3D engine included or downloadable - What I am looking for is some kind of scene graph - Lighting and materials - Shader loader, constant setter etc. I am guessing since Torque are releasing their engine for this we will not see a full featured engine included but will there be an embryo that is more than the DX sample framework Regards Joachim We don't have an out-of-the-box packaging system for version 1, but would appreciate feedback if this is something you would find useful in future. To roll your own, you'd need to do two things. Write a build task to create the package ...Show All

• Visual C# C# - How to set value of (Default) in the registry?

  Hi! How can I set the value of the (Default) key Somehow registryKey.SetValue("(Default)", "value"); Doesnt work. ~Matt you don't need to use "(Default)", instead just leave it empty like this registryKey.SetValue("", "value"); /Jocke ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Creating data with a loop based on current info in worksheet

  I have an excel file (.xls) that already has data in it. I have already got my VB app to open the source XML file and change it to a XLS file and delete the top row (blank and not needed) and add a new column in for my new data. The new column needs to have data that will loop down until the other rows have no info. The naming will be generated based on a number. vp0001.jpg vp0002.jpg vp0003.jpg vp0004.jpg and so on until it comes to the last row. This data will be put into column A and it will check column B for the last row. Thanks! I have this almost done but I just need to know how to find the last row number so I can use it for the loop. I have it working now but you have to manually tell the program how many row to loop. Thanks ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Using VB program to open file on a CDMA device - PPC6700

  I'm trying to use the Shell command to run a .exe file on a mobile Pocket PC, but when I run/debug the program on the phone it keeps coming up with the FileNotFound error. I'm thinking it is the path that is wrong, but I can't find anywhere as to how to address the path on a mobile device.. i.e. Shell("c:\program files\calc.exe"). I have tried every combination i can think of, from My Device, to C: to just \... but nothing seems to work and I know I'm missing something. Any help would be appreciated. its a \ (backslash) that indicates the root directory. be sure that you specify the correct full path to the file you wish to execute. So if my file was in [ Root ]\test\test1.exe then.... \test\test1.exe would be my p ...Show All

• SQL Server multi value param limit???

  Is there a limit to how many items you can have in a multi value param list. I have 20 items in an activity type param and when I chose "Select All" and run the report, it doesn't return. I opened profiler and picked up the following statement sent to SQL: exec sp_executesql N 'SELECT de.employeenumber as Employee_Id,de.employeelastname + '', '' + de.employeefirstname + '', '' + case when de.employeemiddlename=''N/A'' then '''' else de.employeemiddlename end as Employee_Name,da.activitytype as Activity_Type,da.activitycode as Activity_Code,da.activityname as Activity_Name,dd.fulldate as Completion_Date,das.currentattemptstatus as Current_Attempt,das.successstatus as Success_Status,das.completionstatus as Completion_Status,d ...Show All

• Windows Forms WebBrowser Control - CSS

  Hello, I want to use WebBrowser Control to retrieve and display a web page. I can easily accomplish this. However, I would like to apply my own CSS to the page. I can't find a property for this. Should I modify the incomming HTML and replace the existing CSS with the location of my own CSS file Thanks Houman Hi, Houman b Both the following statement may meet your need: private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted( object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e) { //this.webBrowser1.Document.All.GetElementsByName("link")[0].SetAttribute("href", "d:\\test.css"); this .webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName( "link" )[0] ...Show All

• Visual Basic Deployment without .NET

  Hi there, I'm new to the forum and new to Visual Basic so please forgive my ignorance! I just downloaded Visual Basic Express for free, and made my hello world program. I burned a CD with the results of the publish command, and installed the program on my other machine. My installation package was less than 1 Megabyte, but it forced me to download .NET 2.0 which took about half an hour to download and install! Now I understand how .NET is great and all that, but I think it will seriously annoy my website users if they download a tiny little program from my website but then find they have to spend 30 minutes updating their system for the honour of messing around with my trivial program! Firefox is a complex browser and that installs in less ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can i use a Batch file in a Custom Action?

  Hi, I have made a setup project for a windows C# project. I want to know can i use a batch file as a custom action Please guide me as soon as possible... Regards, Wasif Ehsan. I am trying to add batch file in the way you have mention but it is giving the error message "Not a valid file type for custom actions" ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB & MODBUS TCP/IP, I need some help

  Hi, I have remote I/O which communicate with MODBUS TCP/IP. Now I want to control (write and read the status of the i/O) the remote I/O with VB. Now is my question do I need a extra OPC Server Or is this not necessary and can I directly control the I/O in VB. Regards Marc For what it is worth, I have recently dealt with the same issues with limited success. First, I haven't found anything pre-build into .net to deal with this. I suppose that you could make your own driver of sorts but you would neet to do a lot of research with respect to modbus protocol. There are several 3rd party vendors that sale modbus interface controls, but the number gets really small if you narrow the search to tcp/ip - .ne ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions BackGroundWorker

  I am trying out the background worker object to run time consuming procedures in the background. If, however, these procedures instantiate new windows forms these forms seem to "hang" and dont respond at all. I dont have experience in multi thread programming, and would like to know how to solve the problem or approach it in another way. Thanx Hi stanjo, If you feel the issue is resolved to your liking...mark the post(s) that helped you as the answer(s), so when others search the forums, they might be more inclined to look at a successful post than a non successful one... in the search results the Answered posts are bubbled to the top before the unanswered . Or post if you need more help! Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server Programatically adding a Timeout value for BulkInsertTask?

  I've searched around for a while and can't seem to find out how/where I set the timeout on a bulk insert task programmatically. Here is a snippet of code that works as long as the input file is pretty small....when I attempted to pump 1.3 million rows through the default timeout value was not big enough and a timeout exception occurred. Package loadPackage = new Package (); Stopwatch timer = new Stopwatch (); timer.Start(); ConnectionManager conMgr = loadPackage.Connections.Add( "FLATFILE" ); conMgr.ConnectionString = @"C:\BWR.txt" ; conMgr.Name = "FileInput" ; conMgr = loadPackage.Connections.Add( "ADO.NET:ODBC" ); ...Show All

• Visual C# Start.process Issue

  I am running into a bit of a roadblock with my current project. I am attemtping to create a program that allows user to pick from a selection of software title they want to install, after selecting the software, a vbs script file launches and installs the software with all appropirate switchs (E.G. silent installations etc). Problem: When the program executes, it finds the VBS file and executes, however, it immediately closes without installing the software. (On a side not, when I double click the .vbs file, everthing works fine) Any help would be much appreciated. Thank You Here is my Main (); static void Main() { // Get the path that stores favorite links. string pathtoscript = Environment .GetFolderPat ...Show All

• .NET Development error: stored proc expects param @xxxxx not supplied

  I created a stored proc with 2 insert queries. Both queries have parameters. The first query inserts a row in first table and second query inserts a row in the second query. In addition, the first query gets the scope_id from the first table and inserts this same scope_identity in the second table along with the other supplied params. Here is the stored proc: (accountNumber gets the scope_identity) ALTER       PROCEDURE dbo.InsertAccount @AccRisAsse bit, @AccHldBll bit, @accountNumber bigint output, @prpDateBir datetime, @prpSinNmbr char(15) AS insert into TblAccount(AccRisAsse,AccHldBll)              values(@AccRisAsse,@AccHldBll) set ...Show All

• .NET Development Convert.ToString(Object,IFormatProvider)

  Hi Guys.. Please help me on this.. What's the difference between Convert.ToString(Object) method and Convert.ToString(Object,IFormatProvider). And how to implement the method Convert.ToString(Object,IFormatProvider) in my code. I get the following error when testing my code with FxCop: " MyClass makes a call to System.Convert. ToInt32 (System.Object) that does not explicitly provide an IFormatProvider. This should be replaced with a call to System.Convert.ToInt32( System.Object,System.IFormatProvider) " Ex: This is how I've implemented my code. Id= Convert.ToInt32(dataRowItem["FlPlnCmpntDefID"]); Thanks in Advance. Yogi hope this gets you started ...Show All

• Visual C# suppress the enter key for certain controls

  I have a set of asp:ImageButton's that I am using to provide a collapsable navigation system. Some of my pages also have a login / signup page. The problem that I am having is that once the page loads, if I click anywhere on the page and then hit the enter key, the first ImageButton is firing it's onClick event handler. I have put a causes validation = false. On the pages with a submit / login button, I have created a panel with the default button set to the submit button. For some reason, the validation being performed is different when hitting the enter key than it is when clicking on the submit button. Is it possible to suppress the enter key for the asp:ImageButtons the url for my dev site is at: http://208.109.32.134/ just c ...Show All