KirkAtCenterstance's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Running XBox360 games made with XNA GSE without XBox Live subscription

  Will it be possible to run games we make using XNA Game Studio Express on our own XBox360 without signing up for the XBox Live $99 yearly subscription Jim Perry wrote: It's probably a bit more complicated than that, but yeah, that's the basic idea I think. Requiring an XBOX 360 dev kit for commercial development does not exclude the possibility(which has been talked about by Microsoft) of an unrated area(if your 360 has any parental settings set, you will be unable to see it) on XBOX Live that would allow XNA Creator's Club members to post their creations for other people to download and play. Microsoft is only saying that an XNA Creator's Club membership is required to run things developed by ot ...Show All

• Visual C# How do you define a method with optional parameter

  Hi, I know that there is no optional parameter in C#. but I need it!!! I need to add parameter to a method but I can't change it's signature. The method was already written in an API that was delivered for many customers. So changing the calling to the method (Adding the parameter to the calling) is impossible. Any suggestions thanks, Eitan Hi again, At this moment I can't see any solution to my problem without optional parameters and default value parameters. I need to change my method in a way to support backward compatibility. I need to change the context of the method in a way that "old" calls remain the same and the method will provide the same functionality. ...Show All

• .NET Development RijndaelManaged and Base64 - overflow characters after decryption.

  Hello fellow developers! I have a problem in two routines for encrypting and decrypting text files, it works fine except the decrypted file contains 3 extra characters " i ". Is there anyone out there that has experienced the same problem or has an idea for a solution I have tried using different PaddingMode settings but without getting closer to a solution. PaddingMode.None - Exception during encryption, "Length of the data to encrypt is invalid." PaddingMode.ANSIX923 - Ok but "i " at end of file. PaddingMode.ISO10126 - Ok but "i " at end of file. PaddingMode.PKCS7 - Ok but "i " at end of file. PaddingMode.Zeroz - Exception during decryption, "Invalid character in a Base-64 st ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Visual Basic 6 Runtime Error -2 (fffffffe)

  I am developing a VB6 application having a Web Browser control named web1. A simple statement such as web1.navigate http://www.hotmail.com returns Runtime Error -2 (fffffffe). I have IE7 installed on the computer. Application developed on a computer having IE6 installed does not give any such error even when its run in debug mode on computer with IE7. In both cases, OS is WinXP Pro. I have already rectified the problem of ieframe.dll/1 and referenced it to shdocvw.dll Please help. Regards, Vibhu Bansal. Hello Qing Lin, There are 2 solutions for GDI+ problem: 1. Use new VS2005 instead of old 2003 2. The only workaround I know is manual double buffering: Create a temporary in-mem ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 Lates patches

  Hi All, Please can anyone provide me the link where we always can check and download latest Patches released for SQL 2005 Database server. Thanks in advance. the official place to check for download is at http://microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005 you also might want to subscribe to kbalertz.com to get notified of new KBs. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can Fxcop realize to analysis unmanaged Code?

  Hi All: May I ask tow questions about Fxcop 1.Now I want to realize the function that i want to analysis the unmanaged code such as DLLImportAttibute.SetLastError . I want to check if SetLastError is set 'true'. 2.I want to check whether there is hard code in the codes can you give me some suggestions Thanks for your reply. I managed to realize it . thanks . The Second question i mean that for example string str1 = "sammy"; "sammy" is called hard code in our country. the right statement should be like that string str1 = CosntClass.Sammy; ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Navigation

  Hi Freinds, We have written some code to navigate row in DataGridView using CurrentRow.Index but when we try to increase the value of (++this.DataGridView.CurrentRow.Index) is not working like in vs2003 (++this.DataGrid.CurrentRowIndex is working), anyone can help us to achieve solution of the problem Thanks & Regards Shambhu Sharan shahu     ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Table spanning multiple pages in XPS

  Hi. I’m trying to create a table in an XPS document that can span several pages. On each new page the table heading should be repeated. Does anyone have any ideas how this can be done in C# Regards Tor Oyvind Fluor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Print problem

  When i hit the print button in the report, it does'nt print the first time, or it prints the document after a few minutes. Need help, pls... I found an answer, and it did the job, 10x! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PageIndex=2&SiteID=1&PostID=177732&PageID=2 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a way to edit/modified changeset?

  Hi all, Is it possible that we could update changeset using commandline/UI I remember somebody already post this but I couldn't find. Best Regards, Thanks for your responded. You meant there is no way that I could update changeset. For an example: I've changeset 1 which contain file1.cs, file2.cs Now I want to update changeset 1 to add 1 more file, file3.cs Best Regards, ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Mining

  Wat is the difference between SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 Wat are all the advantages in SQL 2005 Thanks & Regards, Mani A good place to start is http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/dm/default.mspx http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Some items in HoL don't match GAT

  I finally made HoL work with June 2006 version of GAT (don't ask me how, it just happened). However, I observe the following issues with HoL and it's documentation: 1. The XML snippets are not exactly right. for instance, XML namespaces are wrong ("igt-wizards" instead of "gax-wizards", or "igt-template" instead of "gax-template"); 2. "Exploring the GAT" document makes reference to ".t3" templates instead of ".t4"; 3. The template syntax in the document is wrong (for example <#= connectionSettings.Name #/> does not exist and ending slash is wrong, apparently - old syntax); 4. Getting a warning for this entry in the Recipe definition: < xi:include href = " TypeAlias.xml " xmlns:xi = " http://www.w3.org/2001/XInc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compiler Error C2659

  For my program, im making a highlighter rich text box. Its a multy-tab programers editor. Since I have to define my rich text boxes at realtime, I decided to create a class that automaticaly sets all default settings and allows easy changing (font, color, highlighter, events, etc). Everything works fine, except when I try to define event functions. The code I entered is a replica of what VCPP .Net generates when assigning functions via the visual interface, changed to fit my context, but it complains that im trying to set a value to a function. [code] using namespace System; using namespace System::Windows::Forms; ref class HighlighterTextBox { public: HighlighterTextBox(RichTextBox^richtextbox) { this->textbox=richtextbo ...Show All

• .NET Development Native Object Created by C# Custom Marshaler does not Arrive at VB6 COM-Client

  Hi all, I have a custom marshaler written in C# that should marshal between .Net-Streams and COM-IStreams. The marshaler is based on a custom marshaler presented by Adam Nathan in his book ".NET and COM - The Complete Interoperability Guide". When the custom marshaler is asked to return the native object an IntPtr is created and returned. I verified that by the message box in the code bellow. Yet, the calling VB6 code reports "Run-time error '424': Object required". The custom marshalling should take place when a .NET-Stream is returned as the return value of a method. Here are some code snippets: // Method of the custom marshaler (StreamMarshaler): public IntPtr MarshalManagedToNative( object Mana ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with loading the data in Datatables

  Hi - I have a problem with loading the data in Datatables. I am using vs.net 2003 environment. I have 10 Tables in my database. I am loading 10 tables in one dataset and creating relations for those Tables. Out of 10 tables one table have millions of records and takes so much time to load the data. Is there any possiblity to load this data quickly or create a thread which will load this data in to data table background once the thread is done i can assign and bind this data to my datagrid. I tried this scenario but it's not working for me. It's failing. I'll appreciate if some one can help me with the solution or Any working alternative solutions. Thanks Reddy reddy4all@gmail.com Hi- Thanks for the response. My main intension is loa ...Show All