MadGerbil's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance.

  when i tried running personal web page, starter kit provided in Visual Web Developer, I am getting this error : Server Error in '/WebSite6' Application. You can download SQL Server Express (required to run this application) here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Computer problems or XNA problems?

  Ok. I recently just followed "The Wizard" Tutorial found here: http://www.xnadevelopment.com/tutorials/thewizard/theWizard.shtml It's a great tutorial but for some reason, a lot of my code went wrong. Some functions were already defined....in fact a lot of them were. Not only this but code like "Sprite.Sprite" wouldn't work. I eventaully gave up & copied the entire source to my project so it would work. Could any of this have resulted from my computer or simply from XNA No, it doesn't sound like it was XNA or your computer. Just sounds like my tutorial was hard to follow or you're a bit newer to C# than the tutorial expected. I'll re-look through the tutorial to see what I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom rule

  Hi, I wrote a custom rule (MyRule.dll) with an embedded resource xml file (DataRule.xml), I loaded it into FxCop, I saw the rule MyRule.dll was listed on Rules tab, but when I started to analysis, it said no rules available. (I unchecked all default rules) Can someone tell me the detail steps to load it into FxCop after I have MyRule.dll with DataRule.xml Thanks. David, I figured out a part of the problem, now the error message shows: Error loading rule 'xxxxRule': Could not locate 'Owner' node for 'xxxxRule'. Thanks. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. making a map

  Im wondering how to they make maps for the games. I just downloaded the game studio. Is it a program or codes XNA is not a drag-and-drop game maker system. It is a framework for writing games. You have to write the programs yourself. Making maps for games is a very broad topic. It depends on what kind of maps you're talking about. At any rate, it sounds like you're looking for something that XNA is not. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Has the hosting question been resolved?

  The DSL tools seem to be going through another set of changes, do you know if it will be possible to host the DSL designers outside of Visual Studio in a similar way as you can with Workflow Foundation I'd really like to be able to offer users a Software Factory-like experience for extending our own applications without requiring them to purchase Visual Studio. I've seen another thread on licensing but the question was never answered. The plan for the V1 release later this year is as described in this post .  There may be some change for future releases. Alan ...Show All

• Windows Forms SelectionRules and grab handle problem in design mode

  In my control designer, I'm returning these selection rules: SelectionRules .LeftSizeable | SelectionRules .RightSizeable | SelectionRules .Moveable | SelectionRules .Visible The designer is derived from ControlDesigner. I want grab handles to be displayed on the left and right, exactly like the TextBox control. I get no grab handles at all. Does anyone know how to get only the two side grab handles but no others Thanks It appears that the grab handles have trouble being drawn if the control is too short. My control's height was about 15 and the grab handles wouldn't show. At height = 20, the grab handles display properly! ...Show All

• .NET Development Permissions problem running from IIS

  Web application uses old style ASP pages at the front, and a vb.net 2005 DLL at the backend. The IIS web is setup with Integrated authentication, and Anonymous is turned off. One option in the app involves running through the shell command a .NET EXE. That .NET EXE attempts to do some WMI stuff but it doesn't have the permissions to do that. The Shell command is inside the vb.net 2005 DLL. I log into the browser as Administrator, and the winapi username shows up correctly as administrator in debug sessions. So why doesn't my shelled application have all the permissions that administrator has ------------------------------ more info.. ASP Page > x = createobject("mydll.myclass") c = x.shellthatEXE () In My ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TabItems displayed vertically

  Hi all, I want to display my TabItems vertically, like this (bottom pic): Image I've tried to get this effect by using RotateTransform, but that doesn't do the trick. It only rotates the content, not the TabItem-header itself. Thanks in advance for the help, Frances Unni Ravindranathan has been created an XPGadget which shows how to do this kinda stuff, you can download the source from this blog . Sheva ...Show All

• SQL Server Join on subquery with distinct?

  Can someone give me some reasonable explanation why these two queries are performing dramatically different: First (slow): select tableA.column1, tableA.column2 from tableA join (select distinct col1,col2,col3 from myView) vw on vw.col1=tableA.col1 and vw.col2=tableA.col2 and vw.col3=tableA.col3 Second (fast): create table #tempTable (col1 varchar(200),col2 int,col3 varchar(200)) insert into #tempTable select distinct col1,col2,col3 from myView select tableA.column1, tableA.column2 from tableA join #tempTable vw on vw.col1=tableA.col1 and vw.col2=tableA.col2 and vw.col3=tableA.col3 SQL Server 2005 Express Win2K3 Server Regards, Marko Simic When I say 'materialise', I just mean that the engine will create the ta ...Show All

• Smart Device Development New to Visual Studio (Pocket PC Applications)

  I am new to Visual Studio 2005 and I am wanting to develope my first Pocket PC applications. I was wondering is anyone out there has a simple step by step document teaching someone to create a simple application and then have that application download and installed to a Pocket PC If not where could I find one. Also, does anyone have any suggests of a good book for helping developing applications for mobile devices When using the Emulator in VS 2005, I am unable to connect to the internet. What settings would I have to change to have the emulator connect to the internet through my computer. When you first start a new application you must select what type of pocket PC or you can select Windows CE 5.0. Is this the option you would w ...Show All

• Community Chat This Time

  http://members.cox.net/wildman3/thisTime.html Best Effort yet! This Time It Won't Take Long, made in Windows Movie Maker, with special effesx. Comments welcome on SoapBox Thanks Treyt Haltom ...Show All

• Visual C# Excel data in datagridview

  Hi, I am trying to view an excel file in a datagridview control. After using OLEDB to connect to the file and then doing a "Select * ...", the data shows up in the grid view. But heres the problem....theres a column that has results from a test. Some are pure numbers (e.g. 4, 5, 6..), while some have values that say the result was less than a certain value (e.g. <6, <7 ...). The datagridview displays the pure numbers fine, but the cells with the "<" sign shows up blank. I did some debugging and looks like the value of that cell is coming back as DBNull. Has anyone ran into this isssue before. Please advice. Thanks. Hi, This problem will come because, oledb will r ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) PixelFormat: why is the difference?

  Hi Everone, I have a question about the bitmap functions in GDI+ and WPF. I have a jpg file called "photo.jpg" in my E drive. This first line use WPF System.Windows.Media.Imaging BitmapImage bmpimg = new BitmapImage ( new Uri ( "E:\\photo.jpg" )); the bmpimg loaded has a pixelformat of "Bgr32". If you copy the bitmap data to a byte[], you'll see it's in "BGRABGRA..." format, each pixel consists of 4 bytes. This next line uses GDI+ System.Drawing namespace, loading the same jpg file System.Drawing. Bitmap bmp2 = new System.Drawing. Bitmap ( "E:\\photo.jpg" ); the bmp2 loaded has the pixelformat of "Format24bppRgb". If you copy the bitmap data to a by ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error Code: 0x80070643

  I have tried to install Windows and Office updates utilizing the Automatic installation tool; but, the initialization takes place and none of the updates are intalled. I ran WinDoctor and I am told that I am missing file "ORUN32.exe" and it cannot access "learn32.dll" and "pctree32.dll". I have searched my computer and found the orun32 and pctree32 files but not the learn32 file. I don't know how it got deleted and not sure how to get it back in place to use the automatic update. What do I do to get my Automatic updates to run again Please help me! Office Source Engine bull *** solution does not work...no matter how many times you restart this service. This problem was most likely created ...Show All

• SQL Server microsoft visual studio cannot shut down because a modal dialog is active

  if i get this message one more time I am going to put my fist through my monitor I get this a lot, we dont have sourcesafe..... Its a 3 button fix so far but would really appreciate a fix. I get it everytime i try to debug a report using more than 1 param and the report has more than 1 dataset (2 used for Parameters) ...Show All