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• Visual Studio How do I KeepTogether rows from one record?

  I have a report table that spans many pages, each database record is presented on several rows. How do I "Keep Together" the rows of a record The "KeepTogether" attribute of the table seems to relate to the whole table rather than the rows that make up a record. Any ideas anyone Thanks John You can try Grouping by using the following expression: =RowNumber(Nothing) This should be able to keep the rows together on paging. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. More camera rotation issues

  Can anyone see what I've done wrong in the code below When I run it, moving the Right thumbstick left and right correctly rotates the camera around playerLocation (which is always 0,0,0). However, moving up and down causes the camera to move in weird circles, and not as I'd expect. The code for both is *identcal* except for the axis being different :-( Whoops, you can't really run that code in its own, because it has my grid etc. Here's my full project source: http://www.dannytuppeny.plus.com/CameraTesting.zip  (182kb) Duh! There's an article in the help called "How to: Make a Third-Person Camera"!! There should be a How To section in the contents, because I can't see how to ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Camera turn / pitch

  I'm trying to move where my camera is pointing at. I read somewhere that you have to do: device.Transform.View *= Matrix .RotationY(angle); But, that only seems to orbit the camera target -- do I have to use LookAtLH or something to move the camera target around Ah, I figured it out... My projection matrix was all wrong; using the following code, the view rotation is now applied to the camera target. device.Transform.Projection = Matrix .PerspectiveFovLH(( float ) Math .PI / 4, this .Width / this .Height, 1f, 20000f); It's probably not neccecary to have such a massive farplane, but my meshes are quite large. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to get the service's X.509 certificate over Metadata exchange

  Hi, I have a client that wants to consume a service after obtaining the right SAML token from the STS. The only piece of information the client has is the service's metadata endpoint. I'm using a WsFederationHttpBinding and I would like to know if there is a way to provide the service's certificate to the client over metadata exchange. Thanks, Anna. I assume you mean the identity of the endpoint. So your ServiceEndpoint config would look something like this: <endpoint address=" http://localhost:8000/MyTest/ " binding="wsFederationHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="FederationBinding" name="MyTest" contract="Server.ITest"> <identity&g ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE 7 opening to Run Once page with error on it.

  I downloaded updates last week. I have been using IE7 for a while with no problem. I dwnloaded the updates. Now when I open my browser the page tries to go to http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx . There is an error reported for this page and it will not open up I get a blue screen. How do I eliminate this I have my home page set in the tools section but when opening it won't go to my home page until I hit the home button on the tool bar. Hello i had the same problem but i do know the answer on how to fix it you will not need to reinstall anything, go to start then click run, in the box type gpedit.msc once this is open you should find a window comes up with a menu down the left hand side, clic ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. NEED SERIOUS HELP WITH XNA, SOME PROBLEMS

  DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I COULD LOOK AT SOME XNA 1.0 TUTORIALS THAT ARE MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR 1.0 OF XNA PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!! Ouch, first, please consider turning off the "CAP LOCK" key. It hurts to read your post. :) A quick Google search will find lots of stuff on XNA. Some possibilities include the help files inside Game Studio Express itself, which include several tutorials. In addition, some others include: http://www.xnatutorial.com/ http://xna101.spaces.live.com/ http://www.riemers.net/eng/Tutorials/XNA/Csharp/series1.php http://www.thehazymind.com/XNAEngine.htm http://www.xnaresources.com/blog.asp I'm not sure what you mean by "serious" help, but t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My 2D game layer Editor and XNA to PictureBox question

  I started to build my "2D game layer editor", if you want you can see the interface of the application at this link: http://www.tonigreco.it/_XNA_/Editor.jpg The question is: can I draw to PictureBox area using XNA framework And if yes, how Feel free also to post here your general ideas about how to making this kind of editor. Thank you, Toni Yes, this is a very good tutorial. But, if I understand right, it don't use .NET control for user interface, but it draw control like sprite. With my editor I want to use control like treeview, propertygrid and more. These controls work fine with little code to write. I don't have a time to write also my classes to draw and manage this kind of user interfaces. Bye Toni ...Show All

• SQL Server Recovery of dropped data that was never back up

  Hi I am trying to recover a set of tables with data that was dropped. This data was not backed up. Please advice, is there any way this data can be recovered. With SQL, the way to go back in time is to restore backups. You really can't recover dropped tables without any backups. Depending on how valuable and critical the information is (which begs the obvious question of why it wasn't backed up if it was valuable), you may be able to do some forensic data mining on the files themselves. The data is not actually overwritten, just marked as free mujch as the filesystem does. So as long as the space has not been reused, there may still be information out there. SQL has no utilities for this, however. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) More Image Problems

  I upgraded to the June CTP and I can no longer point my image source to a resource. What I've did: 1) Added "go.gif" to my project as an existing item, verified the .csproj and it has the following item group: <ItemGroup> <Resource Include="go.gif" /> </ItemGroup 2) Added the following XAML code to use the image: < Button Width = " 22 " Height = " 22 " Click = " OnGenerate " > < StackPanel Orientation = " Horizontal " > < Image Source = " go.gif " Width = " 14 " Height = " 14 " /> </ StackPanel > </ Button > I'm sure I've just done something dumb, but i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Can ContentControls be bound to a collection of Nodes?

  I need to implement the following functionality in Word 2007: I have created a ContentControl in a Word document. Also I have a button on the Ribbon Control. When I click on the button, the ContentControl needs to be replaced by a Word Table. The data for table would come from database. Another functionality which is required is the ability to right click the content control and choose the columns to be displayed for the table using a context menu. So far I have seen content controls being bound to a single node using CustomXMLPart. However I haven't found anything which shows how to bind it to a collection of nodes. So I have 2 questions. 1. Can content controls be bound to a collection of nodes If not what is the best way ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to set the scrollbar?

  Hi.. I have a problem with scrollbars. The right scrollbar in a panel is sitting at the bottom of the window when the application starts up. Is there anyway set it to be at the topmost when the application start up Thanks, tdcntt I don't get it. Describe "sitting at the bottom of the window". A screenshot through www.imageshack.com would help... ...Show All

• .NET Development Accessing XML file from a folder

  hi i am developing a c# window application which is using xml for storing Data. i have added a folder called Data to the project which contains these files. I am unable to get the equivalent of "app.path" that we used in VB6.0 to get the exact path of the application. To access these folders i am using ds.readXml("..\\..\\Data\\user.xml"); this code is working fine in both debug and release mode but when i am deploying my application it is not finding the data folder. Please suggest. with Thanx Daman In .NET 2.0 the equivalent of App.Path is My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath . For .NET 1.1 use Application.StartupPath as Kareem suggested. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Out-of-process client-side provider

  Hi Thomas, It's been almost a year since you started this thread but I happened to bump into this one only now - hope you're still around :-) We're evaluating the UIA framework capabilities from the test automation angle. We started with server-side implementation of UIA providers for our guinea pig, the .NET MenuStrip control, and met with success there. However, while trying to develop a Client-side UIA provider, we have run into what looks like a design issue. Here goes: We have a target form hosted in Host Process that houses a menu strip that we need to access using UIA from another, Test Driver process. This Test Driver process is a GUI test driver that wants to automate operations on the MenuStrip control in the Hos ...Show All

• SQL Server Composite primary key or not?

  This is really not a T_SQL question but there's no good category for it so I thought I'd just put it here.   I have a table that will contain a large amoutn of data in one field, and every piece of this data is uniquely identitied by six other attributes, that is, six other fields (e.g. user_ID, type_ID, year, country, state, item_ID).  I can either make these six fields into a composite primary key, or add an additonal field (say an identity column) as the primary key and add a unique constraint on these six fields.  What are the pros and cons of both designs   The one data field is of nvarchar(2000) type and the table is likely to have 50 million+ rows in a couple of years of real use.   Thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio IE7 causes script error in MSDN Library Oct 2001

  After installing IE7 my local MSDN Library (October 2001) nows gets a script error when accessing a help page.  The error is "Invalid character". I uninstalled IE7 to confirm that this was the problem. Without IE7, the MSDN Library behaved correctly. This only seems to happen for the htm files that I access over a UNC path.  If I try the same path within IE7, I do not get any errors.  I have tried applying the settings that tell it to ignore & prevent display of script errors, but it does not make any difference.  The error messages pop up as if I had not set any settings. I appreciate any and all help to resolve this. Thank you Mark Seradex, Inc Mark. Have you ch ...Show All