Biju S Melayil's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions hackproof program

  Hi, I'm making a game and so I write statistics and general data into txt files to make sure they don't have to restart over and over again. But when a player will find out those files he can just open it with notepad and adjust it without any dificulties and just change some parameters and then he can go to the highest level from 1 time. Is their any way to make sure they can't open it, but making sure I can I noticed other games made an own extension , and they can only open it. Like : aFile.myext yes i think encryption is best a few years back i played DAVE2 or DAVE3 that game had its highscore .txt fil i edited it and changed it to all my name and highest score i showed it to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Zero-byte Files After Performing "Get Latest Version"

  Has anyone encountered zero-byte files after performing a "Get Latest Version" recursively Actually it sounds like #1. "Get Latest" is obviously not the same as "Get the version that was checked in during migration." The final test to rule out #2 is to get the old file version via changeset # instead of label. If you get a 0-byte file then it's definitely #1. ...Show All

• .NET Development Getting protected controls using reflection

  Hi, I am inspecting an assembly that has a form, and this form has some controls that are inherited from a BaseForm class. Using GetFields I get to know its controls. However, the inherited controls do not show. I have set BindingFlags as follows: BindingFlags flags = BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic; Am I missing something, any ideas Thanks in advance. Yeah but I would need to create an instance of the form to do that, and I would like to avoid that whenever possible since it may be quite a performance hit. My bad for not saying it in the first post. Would it be possible to inspect inherited controls without creating an instance of the form ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System building web projects

  Is there a way to build a web project to simulate the same structure as the "Publish Web Site" building in Visual Studio Or would I have to create custom tasks to handle the files after compilation I have tried that, but for some reason it only puts the log in the build directory, everything else is stored normally in the Sources directory, even though it "Completed Successfully".. This happens with Web Sites and Web Services using Debug/.Net and Release/.Net ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem After Migration From VS2003 To VS2005 ... Report dosent see the Passing Values

  Hi All I Have aSerious Problem with Crystal Report in Visual Studio 2005 I Developed aProject with Visual Studio 2003 , and i have aFull reporting system in the Project Made By Crystal Report 9.0 .. More than 50 Report the Problem Occurred After Converting to Visual Studio 2005 My Problem Is >> the Report dosent Pass the Values which i send in Code Report ReportObj = new Report(); ReportObj.setParameterValue("ParameterName",Value); it pass the code and it didnt Give me any exception. i dont know it is couse of Different Version of Crystal Report or whats happened if i Miss anything , So Plz draw my attention to it thnx for ur Time Can you give us some more information. Like, are you just displayi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista XPSViewer does not print with XPSDrvSmpl

  We have installed XPSDrvSmpl(WDK 5384) on Vista Beta2. We are able to print from WindowsPhotoGallery (which is a WinFX application), but we are not able to print from XPSViewer using XPSDrvSmpl (but it prints through a GDI-based driver). Why isn't XPSViewer prining through XPSDrvSmpl are you getting a 0 byte file when you print to file Upgrade your WDK to build 5456 (get it from https://connect.microsoft.com) (the XPSDrv sample on WDK 5456 running on a Vista build 5384 works fine) ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading/Writing INI Files

  I Add this code in a Module And i wrote this file that i called "Italian.lng": [DATA] Field1 = Speaker <DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _ Public Function WritePrivateProfileString _ (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _ ByVal lpKeyName As String, _ ByVal lpString As String, _ ByVal lpFileName As String) _ As Integer End Function <DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _ Public Function GetPrivateProfileString( _ ByVal lpAppName As String, _ ByVal lpKeyName As String, _ ByVal lpDefault As String, _ ByVal lpReturnedString As StringBuilder, _ ByVal nSize As Integer, _ ByVal ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA - Microsoft lack of vision

  Its real sad that Microsoft, once again, shows this lack of vision for a games development tool: 1: Get visual: Don't force users to write such a lot of code to do just very little. It reminds the Charles Petzold's "Hello Window" hell of code days. 2: Provide visual tools: Let users choose the components, change their properties and write just the required code for the events. 3: Quick development means quick prototype and minimum learning curve. XNA has a lot of things to learn. Definetively it is NOT for students and hobbists. We will have to wait until someone encapsulates XNA framework into a group of visual components, that can be easily drag & dropped, inspected and tested very easily without having to learn lots of n ...Show All

• SQL Server Is 100'000 x 1 == 1 x 100'000 ?

  Is processing 100'000 rows x 1 at a time == 1 time x 100'000 rows at once TheViewMaster wrote: Why I am asking is because it seems to me that processing 100'000 rows x 1 at a time is exactly how SSIS data flow OLE DB Update command works - and it causes ***load of problems to us like deadlocking and web page timeouts. So how can i setup a test to prove that 100'000 rows x 1 at a time != 1 time x 100'000 rows That seems correct. You are pushing a row into the OLE DB Command where you are performing an update, presumably with parameters, correct Can you jump out of the data flow and perform your update there ...Show All

• SQL Server How to extract dates from text string?

  We have a CRM application used for trouble ticketing. It doesn't have a field for the start date/time of the ticket or last action. Instead I have a text field which looks like this: Ticket created. Assigned to user davidp -- Friday 10th November 2006 12:36:41 PM by davidp--//-- -- Friday 10th November 2006 12:37:01 PM by davidp--//-- Transferred to group Support Group\. -- Monday 13th November 2006 02:06:39 PM by davidp--//-- -- Thursday 16th November 2006 10:47:40 AM by davidp--//-- Status Changed to Wait For Response\. Priority Changed to Normal\. Category Changed to Other Problem\. -- Thursday 16th November 2006 10:49:46 AM by davidp--//-- Priority Changed to 3 - Minor\. Category Changed to PC - Software\. -- Monday 04th December 20 ...Show All

• .NET Development Do I need the Microsoft Jet OLE DB Provider on XP SP2 (MDAC 2.8) via VB?

  Windows XP SP2 implements MDAC 2.8 - which does not include the Microsoft Jet OLE DB Provider. So what will the connection string look like without the provider eg: PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=mydatabase.mdb;Jet OLEDB:Database Password=<pwd> What is the equivalent without the Microsoft Jet OLE DB Provider and without ODBC Yes, the Jet Database Engine Components are installed with SP2 on Windows XP. See the following MS KB article: Information about Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 The version installed with XP SP2 is 4.0.8618.0. It's a slightly later version than Jet 4.0 SP8. If the user is having problems connecting I think we would need to know some more details, such a ...Show All

• SQL Server Data script task - how to generate multiple rows from one row ? (string splitter)

  Hi in input we have a set of rows, each one with a column containing a string (eg: "AAOOOOAAAOOA"). We'd like to split this string (using a vb.net data script task) into tokens (eg: "AA", then "OOOO","AAA","OO","A"), and to output one line per token. How can we achieve that with a vb.net data script task (Or anything else ) best regards Thibaut DarrenSQLIS wrote: Phil, I agree in principal, the native stock components should be faster as a rule, but have you got any references Yep, no problem... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=857796&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms File part MD5 Checksum

  Hi all, I've done the upload system with recovery with a VB6 client and a c# Webservice. The client begin by ask to the server the file infos (size and MD5). Then, he was able to read the local file from the begin to the server file size and calculate the MD5 to compare and determine if he could continu the upload or if he must re download from the begin. To calculate a MD5 checksum file part in VB6, I found a DLL with three methods: Init, Update and Finish. I could read the file in a buffer and stop at the correct position and retreive the MD5 witch was the same than the MD5 server file that was not finish. The system works perfectly. I'm trying to make the same system, but for download. In this system, it is the ser ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Per-application customization of Favorite Links

  Hi, In Windows2003 and older, the common dialog for OpenFile display 5 place-icons in the tray. The list was customizable with some hacks (per-user by adding registry keys and per-application through the use of RegOverridePredefKey() API, as described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/03/CuttingEdge ) In Vista the OpenFile dialog was redesigned and it looks like instead of the places icons it displays now the icons/shortcuts from Links folder (e.g. C:\Users\Username\Links). The list is by default customizable per-user by adding more shortcuts into that folder. Is it possible somehow to customize the Favorite Links in Vista per-application E.g. Is is possible to build a custom application that will display icons in ...Show All

• Visual C# how to check and change content of a text file?

  hello, Ihave a problem with reading and changing the content of a text file. what I want to do is, to open a text file, and check it from the beginning until I find the line "x-x-x-x-x" and when I find this line, I want to write a "x-x-x-x-x found" string just under that line. I tried but couldnt be successful::: it wrote the "x-x-x-x-x found" line not under "x-x-x-x-x", it wrote it in the end of the text file. I mean, I dont want to add lines in the end of that text file, I want to add lines when I found the mentioned line above. ("x-x-x-x-x") can someone help thanks in advance. Hi the problem is that you can't write into the ...Show All