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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is there much to download on the Creator's Club yet ?

  Think this is the best place to ask, apologies if not. I've been interested in XNA for a couple of months now, plan on starting to learn to code myself pretty soon, before signing up for the Creators Club subsciption I just wanted to check if there is much on there to download at present or if I'd be better off joining in a couple of months time. Thanks. PS. Is there a site where available content is listed This question and answer is what I've been looking for. I asked it myself on other forums, didnt get any straight answers. But finally, now I know... theres nothing. Thats pretty lame. The main thing all the Microsoft videos show and talk about is that you can download other club membe ...Show All

• SQL Server Issues with removing replication

  SQL Server 2005 Standard replicating to an identical server. My issue: When we go into the database to remove a large number of rows, it says we are unable to delete since the database is in replication. Is there a way to pause, or stop replication temporarily I stopped the log reader but it still gave me the same error. The only way I have found around this is to delete the publication and re-create it when I'm ready. Now though, I'm unable to delete the publication. SQL Server Management Studio will freeze if I either try to delete something from the UI or command line. This happens with objects in SQL Server as well as rows and such. It will just freeze and I have to kill the process. Please Help! i don ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridViewButtonColumn Text

  Hi, I'm a bit puzzled as my datagridview isn't following documentation. private void AddButtonColumn() { DataGridViewButtonColumn buttons = new DataGridViewButtonColumn(); { buttons.HeaderText = "Sales"; buttons.Text = "Sales"; buttons.UseColumnTextForButtonValue = true ; buttons.AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.AllCells; buttons.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Standard; buttons.CellTemplate.Style.BackColor = Color.Honeydew; buttons.DisplayIndex = 0; } DataGridView1.Columns.Add(buttons); } I want all DataGridViewButtonColumn's button text to read the same thing. However, I have tried this example and cannot get the DataGridViewButtonColumn to display any text at all ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista invoke a form from WF

  Hello everybody , could anyone please tell me, how can i invoke a form from an activity of Workflow Thanks in advance Would the solution proposed on this post help Look at the bottom portion for how to do UI callbacks. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1069464&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Source - Generated XSD or XML Problem?

  Trouble with using the XML Source Adapter and generated XSD. The XML source is from a file. The XML file that, due to its origin I can not modify, has the following on each line (I've formatted it for readability): < xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" > <Merge ActionType="M">     <OldID>23677451</OldID>     <NewID>25116562</NewID> </Merge> They are messages from a queue. That's it, very simple. Is something wrong with its structure I'm not a message guy and this is what I have to work with. So far, 6GB worth. I'm testing with a file containing the single XML example shown above. The SSIS generated XSD from this XML file is: < xml version="1.0" > <xs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Vb.Net[2003] Remoting/Inheritance Question

  I am deving a remoting solution and have hit a wall. here is what I am doing [Code] Public mustinherit class A Inherits MarshalByRefObject Private objects_ As ArrayList Public ReadOnly Property Objects() As ArrayList Get If (objects_ Is Nothing) Then objects_ = New ArrayList End If Return objects_ End Get End Property Public Function findByID(ByVal id As Integer) As BusinessObject Dim match As BusinessObject Dim possibleMatch As BusinessObject For Each possibleMatch In Objects() If possibleMatch.ID = id Then match = possibleMatch Exit For End If Next Return match End Function end class Public Class B inherits A #Region "Singleton Implementation" Private Shared Singleton_ As B Public Shared Property SINGLE ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with creating Team project on TFS

  Hi, I am trying to create a new team project for past 3-4 days. It gives the error as: Unable to connect to the specified SQL Server Reporting Services at SERVER. Note: SERVER is the machine where TFS is installed. Here is the stack trace: Stack Trace: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFou... data, String projectName, ProjectCreationContext context) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFou... context) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFou... template, PcwPluginCollection pluginCollection) -- Inner Exception -- Exception Type: System.Net.WebException Exception Message: The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found. WebException: Response Status Code: NotFound WebException: Response Status Message: Not Found WebException: Status : ProtocolError Tha ...Show All

• Visual C++ How does code find correct VTBL?

  I know there are so many questions about virtual funcion.And sorry for this question but i really don't understand how code finds correct VTable(not function) I read here : http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/virtual-functions.html#faq-20.4 t says:"The idea is to change each Der object's v-pointer so it points at its class's v-table. (This is not a second v-pointer; it's the same v-pointer that was defined in the base class, Base; remember, the compiler does not repeat step #2 in class Der" I confused here. How many are vtables created amount of base+derived class.One VTABLE for each.But all of them has one VPTR.IS this right So if there is a VTABLE for each class but one VPTR; How can code find the ...Show All

• Windows Forms reusable menus

  Hi I'd like to create a menustrip that I can reuse in different forms and different projects. My idea was to create a controls library and put it in there, but I can't seem to be able to create a control that inherits from MenuStrip. Any ideas Federico You can create a control which inherits from MenuStrip by using Add -> New item... and choosing "Custom Control", then changing the base class from Control to MenuStrip. However, you won't be able to design the menu using the Designer; you'll have to hand-code the instantiation. The easiest way might be to design the menu in a dummy Form and then copy the relevant code from the Form.Designer.cs to your Custom Control. ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE Interoperability

  Hi We have a web service running WSE 2.0 SP3, which works well with many clients using X.509 certificates. However one client's digital signature contains a " X509IssuerName " and a " X509SerialNumber " but not a " KeyIdentifier " (This appears to be an OK way of signing albeit not the Microsoft norm.) The WSE security filter throws an error "Referenced security token could not be retrieved" although the client's certificate is correctly installed with the correct permissions. The useRFC3280 configuration makes no difference. The client is unwilling to change and upgrading to WSE 3.0 would be a bigger job than is currently practical. Is this a known problem And if so is there a way ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Test does not support namespace with '.'

  Hi, I have created an Xlinq library having a namespace in the format of 'x.LINQLibrary'. When I tried to create a unit test for one of the functions, the selection window for the create unit test do not transverse to the function as it would usually do. I also notice that the namespace display in the window became 'x' instead of 'x.LINQLibrary'. I did some experimentation and realise that by removing the 'x.' hence ending up with 'LINQLibrary' as the namespace, there would be no problem. Can I know how I could resolve this Regards chionh I'm going to take a guess that you are actually using a CTP of Visual Studio and not the 'shipped' Visual Studio 2005. At a minimum I'm guess you added in som ...Show All

• SQL Server Graceful Exit...

  I need to exit from an entire package if a data pump task fails in a sequence container. I thought I'd use a script task to do this but I'd be glad to learn of any way to do this. Thanks! Enantiodrom Hi Enantiodrom: I had to do exactly this same thing in my packages. I first set up a boolean variable named Go_NoGo and used it as a ReadWriteVariable in a Script Task. Then, within the Script Task I set the variable to either True or False, depending on conditions determined by the Script Task. Then, on the constraint (the line connecting between tasks) between the Script Task and the next task, I put a "Precedence Constraint" that allows execution to continue to the next task only when Go_No ...Show All

• Visual Studio another export to pdf thread

  I have a vb windows form with a crystalreport viewer. I also have a pre-made crystal report that i've set as the report source for the viewer. The report refreshes on form load and after that i would like to add code to export to pdf after the refresh. I've tried to follow msdn's guide to export to different formats but it is just too complex for what i am doing. All i need is to export to pdf. Im fairly new to programming and would appreciate any help. Thank you. Dim mRep As New ReportDocument mRep.Load( "C:myreport.rpt" ) mRep.Refresh() mRep.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, "C:\Exported Reports\myreport " + DateString + ".pdf ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System domain administrator password lock automatically.

  Dear all, i am system admin of corporate firm .yesterday i have chnage the password of my admin account and after that my account locked out intermediately with 2-3 min. senario of my site. I have exchnage server 2k3,2 ADC with win 2k3 server, 1 ISA 2000 server,1 EPO server(antivirus updation),1 application server .sql server loaded on EO and Application server. i think that due to change in password some of the application running on the server need authentication of old password so theu locked the account so i will restart all the servers and login with new password but the proplem was not solved. now iwill change the account name so that proplem is solved but if i again want to chanage the password of ...Show All

• Visual C# com interop - calling unmanged C++ method with an array, of a class, via COM from C#

  I posted a question regarding this previously, but the suggestions didn't help, so I'm trying again. I'll include more code this time. I have existing unmanaged C++ code. There is a class that I am using. I can access it via COM. For methods that just take primative data types everything works find. For methods of the class that take arrays things don't work so well because the C# code that is generated expects a ref to a single value, not an array. The problem is that the generated C# code only wants a reference, not an actual array. This is what I am doing: 1. build the C++ class in one solution 2. goto my C# solution, reference the C++ dll, and make it isolated COM reference 3 instantiate the COM class 4. try and pass an array to a met ...Show All