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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What program would be good to start making games using direct X?

  What program would be good to start making games using direct X Ive looked but not sure what to use. Do you have any programming experience If not -- and I'm sure folks will have other opinions -- I think you'll find VB.NET to be the easiest place to start. There's really no "right" answer to a question like this; the best language for you is whichever one you can use comfortably and efficiently to do what you need to do. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Print without preview

  I have copied the code in msdn ms252091 and it works find as long as the rdlc file doen't reference any outside data. I know the code works as many others have it working, so I guess it's me (I'm lost) I have added a writexml up front to create the xml data but I always get {"A data source instance has not been supplied for the data source "test_additional_optionsDataSet_blend_sheet"."} on the render statement here is the code I used Public Class Demo Implements IDisposable Private m_currentPageIndex As Integer Private m_streams As IList( Of Stream) Private Function xmldata() As DataTable Dim dataSet As New DataSet() dataSet.ReadXml( "c:\data.xml" ) Return dataSet.Tabl ...Show All

• SQL Server Updating Dimensions and Cube Data

  I need to create a package that updates the dimensions and cube data from a data warehouse on daily basis. I was going to create a Data Flow that takes the data from the DW source then put it as input to a Process Dimension destination to update the dimensions and use a Process Partition destination in the same manner to update the cube, but then I came across the Analysis Services Processing Task which seems to do the job as well. I am kinda confused which way to go. Any recommendations I prefer to split these in to 2 separate paths: 1) ETL package(s) 2) Cube metadata and or processing packages These 2 paths serve different purposes, getting the base tables updated then processing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to create new mail account in Outlook2003

  Hi, I need to setup a new Outlook mail account programmatically and add new folders to that account. I am able to add new folder dynamically but, not able to set up a new mail account dynamically. Can you suggest any way to setup new mail Account I am using VSTO and VisualStudio.NET 2005 Any help appriciated... Thanks in Advance Rama Hi Rama - If you want to create a new outlook mail profile to connect to an existing account in Exchange server, for example, you will need to use MAPI or some tools built using MAPI ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306962 ) If you are talking about creating new mail account on Exchange server, you can use ADSI (Active Directory Service Interface API) together wit ...Show All

• SQL Server AS2005: write a cube to a local .cub via xmla?

  Hi, i wonder if it is possible to write a cube (in AS2005) to a local .CUB file using xmla instead of the "old" CREATE GLOBAL CUBE statement ... I haven't found anything in the msdn ... perhaps I've been blind background of this question: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx postid=463952&siteid=1 Thanks for your answers and for tolerating my bad english best regards, Sven Thanks for your quick reply! We used the Profiler before and found the xmla-statement that is used to create the new cube ... no problem so far; it creates a new database with the cube as we want it to be. But we didn't find the xmla-statement that writes the cube into the .cub file. The ...Show All

• .NET Development Fill dataset

  Hi! I need to fill a dataset from lines of text that I pull from a tab-delimited text file. I think I need to first create a datatable to define what gets loaded into the dataset. Eventually, this data will have to go into a pre-existing database. How do I iterate each line from the streamreader into my datatable Thanks! sure no worries. To go from the dataset into the database, I'm unsure about this as I have not done it but have you tried doing an update I guess you would have to create an INSERT stored procedure on the database or basically create an INSERT command. I personally would use a stored procedure. (performance and security) Now, when you are adding columns when populating data into the dataset/datatable f ...Show All

• Visual C++ XML file operations in MFC

  Hi , I have to write data such as names into an xml file. can anyone tell me how to open and write data in an XML file using MFC . Thanks   Adithi wrote: Thank u both for replying. Can u plz shw me hw to write a small program to add data to the xml file. have alook on the Following Link http://www.codeguru.com/forum/search.php searchid=1765516 Thanx ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Adding data to the same workbook

  I have a macro that copy the content of the current worksheet to another "target" workbook. This works fine: n1 = ActiveWorkbook.Name Selection.Copy Workbooks.Add Template:="MyTemplate.xlt" Workbooks(Workbooks.Count).Activate n2 = ActiveWorkbook.Name ActiveSheet.Paste ' return to the source workbook Workbooks(n1).Activate Now, I would like to modify this macro so that if the user execute it more times from the same workbook, the content of the current sheet must be appended at the end of the same target n2 workbook, "collecting" all the contents. The questions I can't answer are.. 1 - How can I be sure to create the new target workbook only the first time the macro executes 2- How can I append the content at the en ...Show All

• .NET Development XmlSerializer deadlock/timeout in .NET 2.0

  I have experienced problems with the XmlSerializer in my application. Instantiating it causes a 10 minute timeout because the csc process seems to be deadlocked. The error is new since .NET 2.0. The problem only occurs in a slave process, not in any of the main processes which are started directly as services or from the shell. So what special about the slave process It's a .NET console application started fom a .NET service with Process.Start(), ShellExecute = false and RedirectStandardInput = true. The slave process reads commands from the master process in a background thread with Console.ReadLine(). In another background thread an XmlSerializer is instantiated and it fails. The error seems to be certain on machines with only on ...Show All

• SQL Server Open Source DB Structures

  I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good site to find open source database structures (such as ERD's, scripts, or something of that nature) I think I have a pretty good handle on database design, but it would be nice to have a resource like that so that I can compare the design of my DB to DB's that people (smarter and more experienced than me) have created for similar purposes. What I'm thinking of is a site like Open Source Web Design (www.oswd.org) for Databases. Anyone know of anything You can check out http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/ for a bunch of sample schema. It's a place to start. Mike ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums How to retrive Live contacts if lost

  Is there a way get back all your live contacts, if the get deleted by a misstake There is a way i have figgured out. Under the "Privacy" tab under options, you can rigth click the contacts, and click add If you delete them, or even block them, they will still apere there Thank you for answering me ...Show All

• Visual Basic Notepad program wants to write Fonts and Colors in XML.

  Hello, I have a notepad program which saves file in xml format. It saves current color and font along with all features in FontDialog and ColorDialog like underline etc. Here is the sample of a file i created in the program. < xml version="1.0" > <File> <Format> <Fontface>Tahoma</Fontface> <Fontbold>True</Fontbold> <Fontitalic>False</Fontitalic> <Fontsize>15.75</Fontsize> <Fontunderline>True</Fontunderline> <Fontstrikeout>True</Fontstrikeout> <Fontcolor>Color [Red]</Fontcolor> </Format> <Data>Testing</Data> </File> Now as you can the problem is with Color... coz sometimes the Col ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Animating A Polygon?

  Hi I have a polygon made up of a PointCollection...Is there any way to animate the points as a group I tried to name the points and animated them individually, but naming points is not allowed. You can either dot down to the points using TargetPath, or convert the Polygon over to a Path containing a PathGeometry: <Canvas xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml "> <Canvas.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Canvas.Loaded"> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <PointAnimation By="-20,-20" Duration="0:0:2" RepeatB ...Show All

• Visual C++ bitmap on toolbar button.

  when i disable the button whose image index is associated with a bitmap, it become a shadow,i can not see anyting. but i want to gray it and can still see what it contains. any suggestions thanks very much. you Simply can use SetState() member Function of your CToolbarCtrl with BOOL SetState( int nID , UINT nState ); and to your nState you can Specify TBSTATE_INDETERMINATE (The button is grayed) and TBSTATE_HIDDEN (The button is not visible and cannot receive user input) ...Show All

• Windows Forms shrinking menu width when rendermode = system

  If you set the rendermode for a menu to anything but system you get the blue vertical strip on the left side running from the top to the bottom. If you set the rendermode to system, it disappears but you still have the entire width where the strip was on the menu. How do you get rid of this margin I don't want the strip but without it it makes the menu too wide and ugly. I see no obvious way to remove this. Go with the flow and try to find some images to fill up this space. You can find a bunch of pre-made ones in a .zip archive in the Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary subfolder of the installation directory. ...Show All