B Letts's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Full multi-tier ASP.NET code generator recommendations?

  A bit off topic but ...I'm thinking that many people who are interesting in ADO.NET vNext/MS EDM will also have experience with some of the better ASP.NET code generators on the market. Any recommendations ...for a full multi-tier code generation solution Thank you, Michael. Anyone looked at Iron Speed Designer   http://www.ironspeed.com/products/ This is one product we're seriously evaluating (i.e. this isn't a plug in disguise). Michael. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installed vb6 app on vista - but won't run

  Hi All, I have a VB6 desktop application, packaged as a .MSI file using Visual Studio Installer (VSI). This successfully runs on win2000, XP 2003 etc, and I thought to start testing on Vista. I have installed Vista RTM, and was able to succeffully install and run the MSI file to install the VB6 app. It as normal, places a shortcut icon on the desktop. I attempt to run the installed VB6 app, and receive this error message: Could not initialize application. Error 42 (IPM) Please contact technical support. OK Can anyone please advise what this might be and how to correct Thanks Could not initialize application. Error 42 (IPM) Does anyone else have this issue, is there anothe ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Visual Studio 2005 Pro and XNA

  For whatever reason, I can't get XNA of any flavor to run with Visual Studio 2005 Professional. (A legal copy, before you ask.) I'm told when I try to install XNA that I need Express Edition. Surely XNA won't lock me out because I have a better program than the required edition Anyone If you uninstall C# Express and use VS Pro instead, you won't have the project templates (no big deal) and you won't be able to use the content pipeline (big deal). Also, if you care about developing for and deploying to XBox, you won't be able to do that either. As others have stated, you can install both with no problems. Just use C# Express for your XNA development and VS Pro for anything else. It's not that big a deal. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot connect to sites web service for team foundation

  When right clicking on my team project the 'Show Project Portal link is grayed out'. I have tried to access it through 'http://tfsserver/sites' url but recieve this error: HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. Internet Information Services (IIS) I do have administrative rights for tfs so I don't believe it is a permission issue. It was working previously after I first installed vsts but during the process of getting everything configured for the team I somehow screwed it up along the way and it is no longer accessible. Thanks Joe, I downloaded the TFS Admin Tool, but when I select the project, I recieve this error: Unhandled exception has occured in your applicaiton. If you click Continu ...Show All

• Visual Basic COM assembly registered, but still get COM error Class not registered

  I've been beating my head on my desk for a couple of hours now, so if anyone knows how to fix this, I'll be eternally grateful! I have a COM assembly created, used regasm to register and create the type library with no problems. When I try to access my object, I keep getting 80040154 Class not registered. I checked out the registry and the .tlh file. Both show same CLSID for the object. Any ideas what I'm missing I too am having this problem. The COM assembly is registered, and I can see it's GUID in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. I am calling a .NET assembly from a legacy C++ app that is not managed. The call gets the GUID using as follows: LPSTR lpolestr; StringFromCLSID(__uuidof(OrderEditUI), &lp ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Component properties

  So I've created a game component. I've setup the properties like MitchW did in his nice little video tutorial, and finally I've successfully been able to drag the component from my toolbox to the Visual Designer. The next logical step would be to link the graphics object into the component so that my component has access to the GraphicsDevice which I'll get from the GraphicsComponent that XNA gives you to start out with. The problem I'm running into is that the property that I'd like to edit isn't showing up in my list of editable properties for the compnent I've written. I've saved, compiled, nothing will work at this point. Please help me! I've been having similar problems... after i created a game compo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio .Net 2003 Installation Problem - Component Failure

  I recently purchased a laptop with Windows Vista as the Operating System. I am trying to install my copy of Visual Studio . Net 2003 Professional Edition onto it, but it cannot install all of the pre-requsites. It fails when trying to install: Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Web Extensions Client I ahve tried enabling all of the Internet Information Services in Windows Components, but no difference seems to be made. Where can I get this pre-requisite in order to install VS It's really annoying that I cannot use my laptop for the reason why I purchased it! Unfortunately Vista officialy does not support VS 2003, though i haven't tried it on my machine, i strongly feel there will be a lot of problems using ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to change areas and iterations (MSF Agile)

  Hello there, I have just successfully set up a new Team Project using the MSF Agile template, and everything is fine. Except that I can't change the areas or iterations. That is, I can change them (by right-clicking my Team Project -> Team Project Settings -> Areas and Iterations...), but the changes aren't reflected in the corresponding fields in Work Items or Bugs. They still display the old (out-of-the-box) iterations (Iteration 0, Iteration 1, ...) and areas. What have I done wrong, or what do I have to do more in order to get the iterations and areas into the right forms I first thought of some caching problems, but closing Visual Studio and reopening did not help, unfortunately. Best regards, Martin ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Texture creation fails on XBox 360

  Can someone tell me why the following piece of code won't work on the XBox 360 I don't have an XBox 360 myself (and it will be at least 6 more months before I plan to afford one), so I can't test this at home. If anyone could tell me what's needed to make this snippet working, I'd be very happy :) // Look up the maximum texture size supported by the device Point textureResolution = new Point ( graphicsDevice.GraphicsDeviceCapabilities.MaxTextureWidth, graphicsDevice.GraphicsDeviceCapabilities.MaxTextureHeight ); // No larger than 1024 to avoid becoming a memory hog on systems // supporting insanely large textures :) textureResolution.X = Math .Min(textureResolution.X, 1024); textureResolution.Y = Math .Min(textureResolution.Y, 102 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Two things: Shadows and Animated Meshes

  I have two different questions. I'm a C# newbie (been doing coding in various languages for quite sometime, so must of my C# issues are syntax related usually), and a 3D graphics programming newbie (though I've been doing 3D modelling etc for quite a while...up until now the apps have been doing my pictures for me) First off I made a very simple animated FBX, just using recorded keyframes and basic transformations (not going to start out trying to mess with a skinned mesh or anything!). I can load it into the content manager and view it using the basic tutorial model viewer. How would I go about cycling through the animation frames Is there an easy way to do it in GSE or is this a complicated process Also I have another little project wit ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET TCP/IP

  can someone please show me how me to create a very simple tcplistener app and tcpclient app here's my sample code on TCP Listener: Imports System.Net.Sockets Imports System.Net Imports System.Threading Public Class Form1 Dim server As TcpListener Delegate Sub DelegateServer() Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim thdServer As New Thread(AddressOf ServerStart) thdServer.Start() End Sub Sub ServerStart() If server Is Nothing Then server = New TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, 3030) server.Start() End If RunServer() End Sub Sub RunServer() Dim done As Boolean = False Dim client As New TcpClient() W ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Processor Parameters

  I am using a model processor to produce a path finding network. It is working quite well! http://sharpx.blogspot.com/2007/01/first-steps-along-path.html The green nodes are some offset away from the corners that were detected as significant to the path network. I would like that offset to be configurable; preferably as a property of the file in Visual Studio. How do I provide custom parameters to a processor Thanks, Brandon Bloom User defined parameters on processors are something we'd like to do someday, but they didn't make it in for version 1. The best workarounds I'm aware of are either to make your processor look up the value you want to tweak through a virtual property, so yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Linux SQL Server Client

  Hi, Does Microsoft provide SQL Server Client for Linux, specifically SLES 9 64 bit If none from Microsoft, any suggestion for third party package of SQL Server Client for SLES9 64bit Thanks Weidong Microsoft provides a JDBC driver that will allow you to connect from a variety of operating systems - you can find the home page at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937724.aspx . Note that from the system requirements page at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms378422.aspx , it's stated that Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Windows 2000 or later are the officially supported operating systems. ...Show All

• Visual C# Object reference not set to an instance of object

  Hi all, I had created an array of labels and intend to add it to a panel. But I am receiving the above error once I compile it. Can anyone please explain Thanks for ( int nodes = 0; nodes < op_node.Count; nodes++) { op_node_name[nodes] = op_node[nodes].Name; Label [] lbl_arr = new Label [op_node.Count]; lbl_arr[nodes].Text = "Sample Label" ; Panel1.Controls.Add(lbl_arr[nodes]); } What he means is your code should look like the following: for ( int nodes = 0; nodes < op_node.Count; nodes++) {   op_node_name[nodes] = op_node[nodes].Name;   Label [] lbl_arr = new Label [op_node.Count];   lbl_arr[nod ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to create a share on the remote PC????????????

  how to create a share on the remote PC IP of remote PC = 192.168.54.106 Data Source=C:\software\software.mdb are you talking about programmatically you could use net use and make a share, or simply on the remote computer, enable sharing of folders, and right click the folder you wish to share and go to Sharing and Security then enable the sharing and specify the share name, which then any other computer on the same network would be able to access using the UNC path for example: \\computer\sharename ...Show All