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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D

  Hi there, i found in the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX Assembly. A quik review to the sdk i made a simple 3D application for a Windows Mobile 2005 pda. I can test this with the emulator of the Visual Studio .NET 2005 IDE, but on my Windows Mobile 2003 SE with installed .NET 2.0 i get an exception by the DirectX Assembly. Where in hell i can get a Pocket PC, PDA or Smartphone where i can test Mobile DirectX I found the chips NVidia GForce 5500, Gforce 4800 and a Intel 2700G with 3d capabalities. Does thouse chip run with Mobile DirectX And who manufactor produce a device with that chips Thanks, Dodo502b I think that you should read this article: http://www.mperfect.net/cfMDX/ (Mobile Direc ...Show All

• SQL Server Job Hang

  Hi, I am running the following TSQL command and it hangs. These commands are running from SQL 2000 server and it is querying information for SQL20005 database. Running simple EXEC command work fine but running using Insert hangs. Set @Cmd = @ServerName + '.' + @dbname + '.dbo.sp_helpntgroup' Print @Cmd Insert into dbo.DBSecurity ( NTGroupName, NTGroupID, SID, HasDbAccess) Exec (@Cmd) Any idea, Is the SQL Server 2005 server configured as a linked server or remote server If the SQL Server 2005 server is configured as a remote server and SET REMOTE_PROC_TRANSACTIONS is ON/the option is set then the insert...exec will start a distributed transaction automatically. So depending on your network configuration a ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft report builder is a very BAD product

  This product can't make a report selectin measures from more then on cube at the same time crossed by to shared dimensions, it's a shame. Please don't say you have a web base ad-hoc query if you can’t even do same basic stuff like this. So may be you would use a view with UNION strategy or a (select subquery) as Column strategy instead I am sure you can do it. No matter what. I did lot of these apparently impossible to merge things, there is always a way around, it just take more from the developer. Philippe ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Can I intialize DelayActivity.InitializeTimeoutDuration from the data Base

  Hello, Mu question is how to intialize the DelayActivity.InitializeTimeoutDuration from a data Base value InitializeTimeoutDuration is an event that is fired just prior to the Delay activity executing. This allows you to add an event handler in the workflow / custom activity where you can do things like set the TimeoutDuration to a new value. After adding a delay activity double click on it and the handler will be generated for you. To change the length of the TimeoutDuration to 5 minutes your VB code to set the value would look like: Private Sub delayActivity1_InitializeTimeoutDuration( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) CType (sender, DelayActivity).Timeo ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Convert ADO recordset to a Foxpro DBF free table

  Hi,     I currently have a need to convert an ADO recordset to a DBF. I've seen some posts here on how to create and write to a DBF using C# in conjunction with the VFPOLEDB provider. I mocked some code up in VB6 similar to the example and I am able to open the dbf in VFP6 no problem. However, I'd like to find out what ADO to Foxpro field type conversions would work. The ADO recordset comes as a result of a query from SQL Server 2000, so there are bound to be some datatypes that will not convert natively. I've come up with this matrix so far based on some MSDN Library materials.     SQL DataType              ADO DataType   &nb ...Show All

• Community Chat IE 6 problem

  I have installed IE 6 ( xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 ) and do not obtain to load paginas that need flash to player. I have the flash to player 9 installed. Also I can not install IE 7. Any help, I am thankful This is not the right place for IE support, start looking there : http://support.microsoft.com/ph/2073 ...Show All

• .NET Development VISTA - aspnet user is missing

  Has the security model changed so much that there's no longer an 'aspnet' user What does the ASP.NET process now run under I have Anonymous and Windows Authentication enabled, and everything else is disabled. I need to allow ASP.NET to write to xml files in my app_data directory, but at the moment, the correct permissions aren't set, and I can't work out what I need to do. Do I need to fiddle with the ASP.NET impersonation I realise I could enable this, create a user and give that user rights to read/write to the directory. Is that what I need to do If I do that, I'll need to know all the rights of the default settings. Hoping someone can help, Bruce bluedash wrote: Has the secur ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista XAML Based WF Linked to Assembly

  I am trying to set up an XAML based workflow where all of the activities are either common activites or defined in a custom assembly. I am loading the xoml file at runtime using an XMLReader to load the xoml file, then calling CreateWorkflow with the XMLReader. After working with this a bit I was finally able to get the workflow to load correctly. The workflow starts with a While Activity. The While activity calls a member of my custom SequentialWorkflowActivity class named 'ContinueLooping'. 'ContinueLooping' sets args.Result = true; This should result in a continuous loop, however, the workflow always completes right away. If I put a message box in the 'ContinueLooping', I never see the message box. If I change the name of the 'ContinueL ...Show All

• SQL Server How to import word documents into SQL Server

  Hi All, I need to import multiple word documents of same structure into SQL Server table. Could anyone suggest the way of doing this Thanks, What do you mean, "the same structure" Do you want to extract informaiton from the documents or just store each one as a BLOB If the latter, the 'Import Column' component should work for you. -Jamie ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get \n into a listview

  I am trying to get a listview to display strings that look like this: This\nis a string that\nchanges lines. I need to have the \n show up as a string in the listview and not a funky char. Thanks Hi Ted The problem is that the list view's paint / item draw routines don't know how to lay out multiple lines of text. The way around these kinds of deficiencies is to override the control's drawing to make it do what you want. The ListView is not a GDI+ based control, so there's no Paint or ItemDraw to over-ride; you have to catch the WM_PAINT message in a WndProc override (If you inherit from ListView you'll get a Paint event but it will never get called). I Googled for "owner drawn li ...Show All

• Visual C# Datagridview bound to two related tables?

  This is probably a silly question, but is possible to create a datagridview that is bound to two related tables When viewing the orders in a datagridview, i want to quickly see (and edit) the name of the customer who placed the order - not only see the customerID which is a column in the orders table... How can i achieve this Edit: I noticed there was a better suited category for this. Maybe a moderator could move the this thread to "Windows Forms Data Controls and Databinding" Really noone I was thinking of take advantage of the "great" new ADO.NET "Drag once" features, where you can use the designer to do database stuff. But so far this turned out to be A LOT harder than working with ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LINQ to SQL: Bugs and desperately wanted features

  We have been using the LINQ May 2006 CTP (VS2005) for some time now, and we are very eager to get our hands on the upcoming Orcas March 2007 CTP. However, after reading blog posts and chat transcripts, I've found out that the next Orcas CTP is going to be " on par " with the May 2006 CTP. This sent a cold chill down my spine, since the May CTP is so buggy that we cannot use it for even the most simple tasks... Will the Orcas March CTP include lots of DLINQ bugfixes, or just the codebase from May 2006 CTP Things we desperatly need fixes for include: 1. The @@IDENTITY bug. When inserting rows into a table with a trigger the wrong identity is returned, and thus LINQ gets out of sync. Use SCOPE_IDENTITY() instead! 2 . The ColumnAttribute ...Show All

• Visual Studio How can I configure Resharper on Visual Studio 2005 on windows 64 bit version ?

  Hey, I am using Visual Studio 2005 Windows XP 64 bit edition and I am trying to install resharper on the machine. Once installed, Resharper does not seem to be working. the Add-in Manager is disabled in the tools option for visual studio and when I check the "About Visual Studio" in help, it shows Resharper as one of the tools installed. How can I get the resharper to work on this machine Thanks, Abhilasha ...Show All

• SQL Server how to create a sql database in the server?

  Hi, I want to create a new database in the server using SQL express,not in the local machine. so what can I do Thank you thank you. but I want to know where the location is after performing this statement: CREATE DATABASE dbName. in the server Do I need to connect to the server using express first ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can you digitaly sign your program?

  hey i was wondering can you digitaly sign your program and also make to be able to install into C:\Program Files is this possible thank you. There are a lot of free install creation programs. I personally like NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page ...Show All