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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is NET 3.0 only for new OS?

  Is the new NET 3.0 only for new OS excluding Windows XP Thanks, Lorenzo .NET 3.0 is avaialble for windows xp,windows 2003+sp1,vista,you can find more info here http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/support/relnotes/netfxjunectp/default.aspx ...Show All

• .NET Development Lightweight Activation method like Windows XP

  Windows XP activation checks following things in computer and is activated The following 10 hardware characteristics are used to determine the hardware hash: Display adapter SCSI adapter IDE adapter Network adapter media access control address RAM amount range (for example, 0-64MB or 64-128MB) Processor type Processor serial number Hard disk device Hard disk volume serial number CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive i want to use similar technique like this but a lightweight version. Idea is that once a user logs in my program(custom authentication), it will detect all or some of these and associate login with that computer. That way, that user will only be allowed to login from t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Fbx File Format ?

  is the fbx file format closed format or do microsoft provide doc on the file format in the xna framework link to article that i have read http://www.3d-test.com/interviews/collada_1.htm why i am asking that is that we can adopt our own mesh format to xna framework example: our mesh format onlye ned one matrix for doing mesh animations the is bone and joint in our mesh cunstructor but when you save the final format out to xml there is one set of vertex data and one set of faces data and the magic one matrix for bone and joint and animations of keyframe per frame so if you have a mesh animation that runs 700 frame total you have to store one set of vertex and faces and 700 deffecnt matrix in a array the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Create and Set Environment variables

  I would like to create and set a system environment variable from a vb application. The environment variable will hold a path (c:\Program Files). I know that it has to do with Environ$, but i'm not sure how. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance quick question, sorry to jump on this post. While creating ASP code I put all of my varibles in a separate file then included them on the pages that I wanted that code in. Is including varibles possible in Visual Basic Like my person Permisions and such ...Show All

• .NET Development Scripting an ACCESS Database

  I need to create an ACCESS database in an application. I have the code working that creates the blank database file. Now I need to build the structure (e.g. tables). I have a prototype of the database that I need to create that I manually created in ACCESS. Is there any way to automatically generate the T-SQL CREATE TABLE statements based on this existing database Thanks, GTNovosel. To expand on what ahmedilyas said, you can use the GetSchema method to do this in .NET 2.0, or you can also use the GetOleDbSchemaTable method that exists in 1.x as well. If you are using 2.0, I would recommend using GetSchema, as it's easier to use and doesn't require as much native OLE DB knowledge like the older method does. I don't know ...Show All

• Visual C# Loading AppSettings from a given path

  Hi, it seems as if classes derived from ApplicationSettingsBase always load from the same path (Application Data under the user's profile directory). I was trying to add a feature to my application that would allow the user to import some of the app settings from a given file and so merge these settings in with the ones loaded from the profile directory. Could someone please clarify if this is possible with the ApplicationSettingsBase class. Thanks Kris ...Show All

• Visual Basic Trying to use a variable for the name of a file

  I have 30 files that I have to perform the same operation on them. Instead of writing every one of them out I want to be able to substitute a variable that contains the name of the file that I want to look at instead of using the exact file name. Example: Dim DimGoalMethod As String DimGoalMethod = CCADPDataSet._Dimension1_Goal1.Rows(RowX).Item(ItemX).ToString() Want to do something like this instead: Public FileX As String FileX = "_Dimension1_Goal1" Dim DimGoalMethod As String DimGoalMethod = CCADPDataSet.FileX.Rows(RowX).Item(ItemX).ToString() Does anyone know if this is possible and if so HOW Thanks pretty easy.... I noticed my code from last night helped to, right on. An ...Show All

• SQL Server Trouble installing Business Intelligence Development studio

  Hi, I have installed SQL Server 2005(Express edition) and Visual Basic 2005(Express edition) along with the SQL ServerBusiness Intelligence Development Studio and SQL Server Management Studio Express. However when I open BIDS, VS2005 opens instead and there are only 2 templates for new projects. I dont find the other templates for creating new projects that should be present in BIDS . Could some one please tell me how to get the other new project templates Cheers -kk I am not quite sure what your are missing Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What machine is more practice to generate the builds?

  Hi What machine is the best candidate to generate the night builds A specifically machine dedicated to builds or a developer machine Which is the best practice Thanks in advance Javier Hi Javier, I would recommend that you have a dedicated machine for nightly builds. You could probably get by for a while using a developers machine, but if someone else needed to investigate a compilation error or test failure on the build machine, the developer would lose some of his resources. There's also the problem of time. Once compilation and tests start taking hours instead of minutes, the build might be pushed into the normal working schedule. There's also the problem of space. Currently, team bui ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Simple password comparison vs. Access

  Hi guys, I have a very simple question for you but that i can't seem to figure out how to do it. I need to compare a value that a user enters on a textbox in a form vs. a value from a database. I'm creating both from scratch but i'm not sure how to pass values and compare to a database item. For example: Form1.aspx txtUser: Admin txtPW: 1234 ---------------- *********** ---------------- db1.mdb / Table: Users User:Admin PW: 1234 Level: Admin Addres: Here Department: Computers It DOESN'T need to be super secure nor encrypted since i'm just doing something simple. I searched all over here but all the answers are way beyond of what i need to do here. Any help or ...Show All

• Visual Basic Printing a Treeview

  I work a lot with trees in vb.net 2003 and have a need to print out complex tree structures. I recursively iterate thru a tree and use a streamwriter.writeline command to a filestream for each node name. This produces a list of all the nodes but is missing the hierarchy information. To address this issue, I added a subprogram that I could pass each tree node for determining its logical position in the tree. This is done by recursively determining the parent of each node until I hit the top node name of the tree. This gives me an integer value representing the number of indentions necessary to represent the node. Now, I need to be able to use the steamwriter.writeline command to write the node name with the proper number of spac ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Extending Context menu for Windows mobile 5.0 Samrtphone Contacts

  I have a Cab project which extends contact's contextmenu items. But When I installed the same cab file on smartphone it installed successfully but contextmenu items remains same Could there be any change in the installation file. this is my ini file to built the cab file [Version] Signature   = "$Windows NT$"        Provider    = "MyProject"            CESignature = "$Windows CE$"        [CEStrings] AppName     = "MyWireless"     InstallDir  = %CE1%\%AppName%       [Strings] NOW_PPC_Dir     = D:\Projects\MyOffice\OriginalPocketPC\ ...Show All

• SQL Server Error in sending mails !

  I am trying to send email thro DTS using Activex Script. Here is the code : ' ********************************************************************** ' Visual Basic ActiveX Script '************************************************************************ Function Main() const SMTP_SERVER = "MPBAKOREX01.corp.mphasis.com" set iMsg = CreateObject("CDO.Message") set iConf = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") Set Flds = iConf.Fields With Flds .Item(" http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing ") = cdoSendUsingPickup .Item(" http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver ") = SMTP_SERVER .Item(" http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configura ...Show All

• Visual C# Any Suggestion for Developing Simulator for MCU?

  I need to develop a simulator for MCU. However, I have no idea at all how to program it. I even do not know to use which language to develop it. Does anyone have this kind of experience Would you please recommend any book or related material Is there any similar open source simulator from which I can learn and code... Thanks a lot! Thank you very much! Actually, I did not know much about the simulator, my supervisor wants me to fist have an overview of how to developing such thing and then he will give me the datasheet. My task is similar to the simulation in Keil C, like a debug environment. User can see what's going on in the IC board, what the values in the registers and so on. So I need to make a simula ...Show All

• SQL Server Triggers fire when no records are affected?

  Why is it that SQL triggers fire when the result of the insert/update/delete query returns nothing. I have found that I have to make special coding effort in my triggers to detect that condition or they will exceed nesting limits. This problem, IMO, is wasteful of the DBA's time, and the server's overhead! The same case could be made for not firing the update trigger if no data has changed. The engine has to know this, as it is constructing the insert/delete virtual tables. Is this something that the SQL engine designers are considering changing If not, why not You shouldn't see much effect if you begin each trigger with if @@rowcount = 0 return Since triggers are sensible solutions to lo ...Show All