KitWest's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Payment procedure for XNA Creators Club for resident not from supported locales

  Hello everyone, Here is the excerpt from e-mail I have sent to XBOX Live Support in order to receive information about my problem: BEGIN_QUOTE I want to get 4-month XNA Creators Club account, but a number of obstacles has been stopping me for doing so: - The country in which I live is not in the supported locales from the XBOX 360 settings. My country is Bulgaria. - As a consequence, I was unable to register XBOX Live account with the e-mail address "rosen_petrov@hotmail.com", so I changed the country in my personal settings in the e-mail to the country from the supported locales list, so I've choose United Kingdom. - When I finally register my XBOX Live account, then I was trying to pay through XBOX Marketplace for the XNA Creato ...Show All

• SQL Server Protect Data and Schema SQL SERVER 2005 EXPRESS

  We have a commercial VB.NET winforms client/server application that utilizes SQL Server 2005 express edition. The schema and data that the application utilizes is proprietary and could be very damaging if it got into a competitors hands. Is there any way to protect the data and schema of a sql server 2005 express edition database Will this functionality ever be added Thanks As long as youhand over the database to someone, he will have full control over the database, attaching it to its own server and reading the schema from the database. What you can do is to encrypt data as well as stored procedures with certificates. But the schema won’t be hideable as the database will be given to the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to start a project with MS Team System

  I am all new to MS visual studio and the Team System. I have sucessfully installed MS Team System (server and client). I am just trying to test the system on Visual Studio. I was able to connect to the Team server though MS V Studio, but I do not know how to proceed from here to create a c# file to to test the Team System, and how it works. Could some one help thanks Mike Hmm I think there is not enough space here to explain you everything you need, so I will suggest you to check before this resources on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/learning/ to get started with the product Anyway for a very very first start, you will need to create Team Project, you can do it from the Team Expl ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Automatic resize of texture?

  Hi, i’m trying draw on screen a Texture2D of 6830x2500 pixels, but when i load the texture and gets the size of image i get 2048x2048, cutting the image. I have tried 2 methods, getting the Texture2D only with graphicdevice and name of image parameters, and getting graphicdevice, name of image parameters, and size but i get the same size always 2048x2048 ( i see this putting a breakpoint ). What happen with this Thnx, and sorry for this poor english. Yes, you need to split up any very large textures into 2048x2048 chunks. On Xbox you will be able to create very big textures (up to 8192 if I remember right), but on Windows, 2048 is the largest size you can rely on to work across different gr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF50612 Couldn't Remove Permissions for Group

  Hi, I can't remove a user from Team foundation Server Security Setting (Team -> Team Foundation Server Settings -> Security). I get: Couldn't Remove Permissions for Group TF50612: Failure creating access control entry, one of the specified actions don't exist Regards DDressel Indeed we made an upgrade from Beta3 to RC. I tried the ACL option and got: [-] ADMINISTER_WAREHOUSE DSSTG\sadminddressel [+] ADMINISTER_WAREHOUSE [SERVER]\Service Accounts [-] CREATE_PROJECTS DSSTG\sadminddressel [-] DIAGNOSTIC_TRACE DSSTG\sadminddressel [+] FIRE_EVENT DSSTG\ddresselts [+] FIRE_EVENT DSSTG\sadminddressel [+] FIRE_EVENT ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to get a font family with GDI LOGFONT structure?

  I am a new programer using c#. In my project, i want to get a font's font family just like"Script, Swiss, Roman, Modern, Decorative". I have found some useful information in this forum. I use the LOGFONT structure in GDI to achieve my purpose. The following theads is very helpful to me. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=228259&SiteID=1 . http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=123889&SiteID=1 So I face the same issue with nielsena. The IfPitchAndFamily field always return zero no matter which font i select in my system. Does anyone know what is problem, and how to fix it or some new solution for this. Anther question is : I get some infomation that the .net framwork only su ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS App tier eventLog error TF53010 & TF53013 AddStoredQuery

  Hi Forum, we got this error in the EventLog of our TFS app-tier today: Apparently we are the only ones in the world (according to Google) that has problems with TFS & AddStoredQuery. Any suggestions other than reporting to connect.microsoft.com Tia., /Gert TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 10/20/2006 7:22:14 AM Machine: <MachineName> Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/Root/WorkItemTracking-5-128057913939574318 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista MS Office with vista rc1

  I got windows vista rc1 (build 5600) that I downloaded freely from microsoft website.. now the question is: "What version of Office - and how can I get it - that works with this copy of windows " I downloaded Office Technical Refresh but it didn't work. It gave a message which didn't look like an error one, but after then nothing else happend, but anyway it didn't install the programs of office suite is there a beta release that is available in the present time and compatible I can't tell you how much I need to install the Office applications.. please help yea, that's it, apparently.. things never been so clear, why didn't they just make it a bit more clear TR is an update and not an inde ...Show All

• Windows Forms dos window question

  I am developing a vb.net app that does a variety of functions. One of these functions creates a .cmd file that executes certain commands like copy files from folder to folder and a few other tasks. This file .cmd file is executed after a system reboot (in the startup folder). The problem is that the dos screen shows up during the execution of these commands. Since there can be up to 1gb of data in the folder to copy the screen shows for a while. How can I either hide the dos window or minimize the window during this time in my dos code I am just looking for a cleaner method rather than having dos screens poping up Create a short-cut (.lnk) for the .cmd file in the Startup folder. Set the Run value for th ...Show All

• SQL Server How do you continue the process after data viewer stops it

  Hi, These are couple of simple questions. When I set the data viewers and start the package, data viewer windows pop up but data download process stops. How do you resume the process Also if I press "hide" for a data viewer window it disappears. How can I get it shown again Thanks for your help Gulden wrote: Hi, These are couple of simple questions. When I set the data viewers and start the package, data viewer windows pop up but data download process stops. How do you resume the process Also if I press "hide" for a data viewer window it disappears. How can I get it shown again Thanks for your help Without sitting in front of SSIS, I can answer only your first ques ...Show All

• SQL Server ArrayList -> System.Object-Variable

  Hi, I have a custom task to execute a package. This task sets dynamically the values of the child package at runtime before execution of the child. Everything works fine, as long as Im not trying to use an Object Variable in the child package, trying to fill with an ArrayList. Then, during package validation at runtime, the Properties of the custom task have NULL-Values. I don't know why all Properties got NULL or 0 (int), only adding an ArrayList-Property to the Task-Code. The ArrayList gets initialized in the constructor of the Task. Values to add in execute(). But the process never gets to the execute()-Method, due to my check in validate() for null Values. So the List is initialized but empty. Anyone an idea, maybe I'm doin ...Show All

• Visual C# Good Guide to C# Syntax ??

  I have begun using C# in VS 2005, but am a little puzzled with the syntax. Searching on the web to solve a problem, I came up with the line: GridViewRow currRow = (GridViewRow)((Button)e.CommandSource).NamingContainer; It works, returning the row index # of the selected row. But both the (GridViewRow) and (Button) syntax are strange to me. They work, but I would never have come up with it myself. Moreover, I am not sure where the weak spots of using this command are. Does anyone know of a good summary of C# syntax, preferably on the web, which might explain this kind of thing Thanks MIke Thomas (Button)e.CommandSource make TypeCasting of object e.CommandSource to a custom class called Button. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debug Windows CE 5.0 Service with VS2005

  Hello, I've written a Windows CE 5.0 service using VS2005. If i deploy the service and load/start it, the service is running fine (aside from some bugs i'd like to use the debugger to fix). If i try to debug this service, none of my breakpoints ever get loaded. I'm using ConmanClient2 and CMAAccept to connect VS2005 to the target device. Then I attach to the Services.exe process. Then I load and start my service. I've tried manually copying my pdb files over to the \windows folder with the service dll but that doesn't seem to help either. I'm sure it's a simple mistake but does anyone know what i'm doing wrong Thanks, Chris Hi, The pdb for the device dll shall not be picked up from the device. Here is wh ...Show All

• Windows Forms Convert SQLDMO._Table to System.Data.Datatable

  Hello there, does anyone know how to sipmle convert SQLDMO's table to an System.Data.Datatable THX for any help... ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with tracking profile

  Hello I work on the Beta 2.2 release of WF development kit and I use the WF to model a Asp.NET Application. I use the SQLTracking service and I have encountered some strange behaviour:  The database went offline for a short periode and the first workflow started after the database went online again crashed. The WFs started later worked again fine. After half an hour the Tracking service stopped tracking the Data extraction members specified in the Tracking Profile. All the other information was tracked as usual. I use the default tracking profile and I have only added some data extraction members. Today the data extraction works again fine. Are there known bugs in the Tracking Service Has anybody encountered problems like this ...Show All