Puffarbubbole's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Porting a game to the 360

  Ok, so i want to test out this XNA on teh 360 thing. I have a game that i made that all one .exe file. I want to port it over so I can play it on my 360 now. How do I do this Thank you very much to anyoen that helps me. I am new to console developing, but not game developing Check out this new video where they detail everything you need to get your game on the 360: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/ But in short, you need to join the xna creators club. Once you do, you can deploy your game straight from GSE to your 360. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Changing Debug Web Application

  Strage question. I installed Firefox a while ago but have since uninstalled it in favour of IE7 but now I can't debug ASP.NET applications in Visual Studio 2005. I just wondered where I could find the setting for the web application to run so I can change it from Firefox to IE. Cheers this usually isnt a thing set in the browser - what problems are you having when you can't debug Also really, any ASP.NET related questions should be posted over at the appropriate ASP.NET forums: http://forums.asp.net ...Show All

• SQL Server Jump to Url

  I use the "jump to url" in a report that links out to a page on our company intranet. Our internal users have to use http and an external user needs to be routed to the site w/ https. How can I account for this in a report You could use an expression for the URL and look at the global "UserID" Based on that UserID, you should be able to determine if the user is internal or external, and set the URL appropriately. HTH BobP ...Show All

• Visual Basic DateTimePicker Question

  Hello. A question, please. How can I clear a datetimepicker in execution time I'd want to show spaces. Thanks... Hi, Why do you want it to show spaces or nothing, it doesn't then indicate what it should contain. Anyway i think you would need to write a custom control to do it. Ask in this thread or forum how to do this and to override the Value property so that it can show nothing, as yet i don't know how to do custom controls fully. Regards, S_DS ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Why are all the pushpins in the SDK demos misplaced?

  I am curious why the pushpins in all of the Interactive SDK samples are not properly handled. As you zoom in and out on the map, the point that the pushpin is pointing to moves. For example, bring up the Interactive SDK and select Use pushpins->Add a default pushpin from the left menu. A pushpin is placed on the map pointing near the northern border of Nebraska. Now zoom out once. The pushpin is now pointing to the center of Nebraska. Zoom out again and the pushpin is in Kansas! The reason is because it is positioning the center of the pushpin image, not the "point". This is easily fixed with CSS styles, which can be embedded in the HTML sample code. The same occurs on all the other samples I have looked at. I am using Firefox ...Show All

• SQL Server Data Viewers not viewable

  I came back from the weekend and noticed that none of my data viewers pop-up any longer, neither existing nor new ones. The job pauses at the point where the data would be following through the viewer but I cannot make it continue (since I don't have a "play" or Detach button.) The only way to terminate the job is with the "Stop" button on the Toolbar. Anyone know how I can get these back Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Documentation Compiler - Sandcastle

  We did code complete of documentation compiler ( code named "Sandcastle") on June 15th and currently we are testing the tool building our .NetFramework documentation. We would like to release the CTP version of Sandcastle in Microsoft download center by next week. The perf in our testing has been great as we are able to build the entire framework content in less than 1 hour. I am in the process of going through final check and code signing required to post this in our download center. Please expect the CTP in the next week or so and I will provide an update here as soon I post the CTP. Anand.. Well it is the end of that next week that the Sandcastle CTP should be release, where is it I too would love to see sandcastle ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Dataset Not Writing to Database

  Ive set up a small database project. I created it using the wizards, and used the dragging and dropping of the table in the data sources view to get the fields and buttons on to the form. That is all I have done, no custom code or anything. But it doesnt work. The data is written to the dataset as it is all stored while the program is running in VB. However if you close it the data is not written to the database (I did press the save button). I dont understand why this doesnt work as I have touched it myself. Any ideas on how to fix this problem Thanks in advance Code is beneath Public Class Form1 Private Sub Table1BindingNavigatorSaveItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Han ...Show All

• SQL Server How to To transfer SQL server Express to web hosting Provider

  Hello, FYI, I'm using Visual Studion 2005 with SQL server Ex Edition in my developer PC. So the problem now is how i can migrate the database into my web hostin provider . The provider also use the same version of SQl server. What i noticed the express editon dont have function to import or export. Anybody iin here know how to solve Right now, i'm create the databse using my controll panel in my web hosting then i create tables using management studio express, this way i must do twice works, 1st in my developer PC then into my web hosting..please anybody give a hand please I already copy web site include the app_data into my web hosting, but unfortunately i dont know the connections strings when i ask the provider they told m ...Show All

• Visual Basic Button!

  Hello all, I am a total visual studio newbie and need help with a very basic task and was wondering if anybody could help me. I basically need a button on my userform to be able to link to an external application, for example the user presses the button and the alternate application will then open. Thank you if you can help me with this problem I am having I hope to learn much more within visual studio as it seems to be a vast but brilliant program. As Lars pointed out, you can launch a process with teh Process.Start() command. To hook this up to a button Double click on the form or control in solution explorer Drag a button from the toolbox onto your control double click on the butt ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem loading image into ImageObject (WPF)....

  I have an ObeservableCollection of images... Then I add an image to that collection. The image is fetched from the network (internet) and this is sometimes slow... What I tried to achieve is to put an animated gif (stored on a local disk) as the image, and only the image is fetched from the internet to "sustitute" the animated gif with the real image.... My question is, once I add an object to the observable collection, how can I notify the WPF that the object was changed and that it needs to refresh that image object. Also how can I determine that the image was fetched, basically, that it is loaded into memory Thanks, M.V. It is a real pity. As a workaround, you could use WPF's built-i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can asp.net unit tests run asp.net 1x websites?

  We need to have a component run in the old ASP.net 1.x web process. In order for us to test the web site and its supporting components we will need to either create a custom test harness to test in the older version of asp or if there is a way to specify what asp.net host version is used, use VS2005. Is there a registry setting or some other config parameter that can be set to allow asp.net unit tests to run asp. 1x instead of 2.x Thanks in advance, and sorry if this question has been asked already. Dan ...Show All

• .NET Development SIgnedXml, Envelodped signature, .NET 1.1 and WSE 2.0.3.0, .NET 2.0

  Hello All, I have spent some time on this one. Here is what I have learned and would like to know if anyone can confirm or provide proof to the contrary. In .Net 1.1, using direct calls to the CAPICOM dll I can create signed xml with an enveloping signature using the SignedXml class and an X509 certificate. In .Net 1.1, using direct calls to the CAPICOM dll AND using the "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#" transform from WSE 2.0.3.0 I can create signed xml with an enveloping signature using the SignedXml class and an X509 certificate. In .Net 2.0, using only the .NET 2.0 objects, I can create signed xml with an enveloping signature using the SignedXml and X509Certificate2 classe ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) listbox binding issue

  I have a template for a class in which I have the following XAML <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type local:P1}"> . . . <StackPanel Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2"> <ListBox ItemTemplate="{StaticResource dtc}" ItemsSource="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Path= AcrossClues}"></ListBox> <Expander Header="Across" > <ListBox Height="150" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource dtc}" ItemsSource="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Path= AcrossClues}"></ListBox> </Expander> </StackPanel> . . . </ControlTemplate> the lis ...Show All

• SQL Server Scary Problems with User Hierarchies

  In my training (at MS Ascend) and in my readings I was initially lead to believe that user hierarchies were nothing more than a way to "organize attribute hierarchies into user-friendly multilevel structures." (Spofford et al.) However, the more I use SSAS 2005, the more I see that this is not completely true. User hierarchies have more significance. For example, user hierarchies seem to be used more than you might think (or want) in the design of cube aggregations. More recently I discovered a very scary and unintended consequence of building and using user hierarchies. Consider a simple product dimension with three attributes (besides the key): Product Type ([Type]) Product Species ([Species]) Product Size ([Size]) Th ...Show All