kawing0510's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Migration from Express to Pro.

  First, I think this is a good approach by MS to get more games out there. I have a couple of questions though. Maybe someone from Microsoft will be able to answer these. 1. What will the upgrade path be from the Express version to the Pro version As the Pro edition comes much later, it's likely many independent development companies will start with the express version to get something going, then migrate up to the Pro when that is released. 2. There are people like me that are in the middle of the pack. I create commercial games for the PC and wish to get into the console market. This solution sounds like the answer. I'm not a hobbyist. I put food on the table selling my PC based games. Yet I'm not Electronic Arts either with ...Show All

• .NET Development 1607 error

  im trying to install my ipod on my comp but when i try and install the disc i get the message '1607: Unable to install Installshield Scripting Runtime.' Does anyone have any solutions it happened when i forst got the ipod but i managed to install an update which solved it but i had to reboot my comp n now i ahve the problem again n cant remember what i did last time! Please someone help Thanks, Ash Thanks for the help! I'll give it a try! I wasnt sure where about to post this topic, sorry if this is the wrong one! Bye the way im a girl, not a guy Ash x ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA with C# Professional version

  I can find any of this in the FAQ so I'll ask: Is there a way to get/install and use the XNA framework with the professional version of C# My Visual Studio Professional already as C# installed. I'd like to be able to play with XNA without playing to many installation games Thanks, Gary This will not be true moving forward, things like the XNA Framework Content Pipeline and the Xbox interface will all be part of the system is C# Express. Thanks! ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies "Unable to display preview." on network share results

  I'm using Desktop Search 3.0 RTW along with the UNC/FAT add-in, and I'm getting an "Unable to display preview" message on every result that's not on my local machine (e.g., my R: or Z: drive over the network). Is there a problem or am I doing something wrong Thanks, Tim Ed, Thanks for your response. It is better to get a response with a target date rather than silence. I'll be patient. BTW, I've now tried the latest Copernic, X1, and WDS, and I keep coming back to WDS. You guys have a winner here, from many aspects including search performance and UI. Keep it up! Tim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System BuildType download additional (unspecified) project

  I am trying to use Team Build to automate builds on a server. My team project source control has two version of the source code (v5 and v6 - with v6 branched from v5). I created a build type for the team project and in it, I specify to only build the v6 solution. When I execute the build type, the server is downloading and building both the v5 and v6 project (v5 doesn't build because it was imported code). In the <SolutionToBuildInclude> element in the build type's proj file, I see that it correctly list only the project that i had specified so I have no idea why it's trying to download and build the v5 code. Any idea what I am doing wrong Thanks Thanks! After modifying the Workspace ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is this legal for me to do this?

  If not, i will happily stop, but right now, i am having a blast with Terrarium in .Net 2.0. http://tanderson.cbs-posi.com/MyTerrarium/checkmeout.jpg Do we reckon this guy is for real Not just because of the effort involved in reverse engineering (since I do notice we're provided with pdb's) but because he appears to be connected to a public server on his screenshot that presumably wouldn't accept 2.0 bugs. That server is maintained by MS, so if he's installed a 2.0 server on it then presumably he wouldn't need to ask if it was legal. /\/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clickonce project depending on unmanaged c++ dll.

  Project 'A' to be deployed using ClickOnce references another .NET project 'B''s assembly. This project 'B' interops to an unmanaged c++ dll. How do we tell clickonce deployment about this unmanaged c++ dll dependency using Visual Studio 2005 publish wizard   ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista CreateInstance failed

  Here's the situation. I have a XAML only workflow in a C# project (A). The workflow references custom activities (derived from Activity etc) that are built in a separate project (B) in the same solution. The reference is via a namespace reference in the workflow XAML. (...... xmlns:ns0 = " http://ABC/ActivityLibrary ....) Project (A) has a reference to the dll generated by Project (B). It's a direct reference - the reference is created by pointing to ProjectB.dll in a common directory. One of the types in (B) contains the following directive to map the namespace identifier to the assembly [assembly: XmlnsDefinition ( "http://ABC/ActivityLibrary" , "ABC.UI.ActivityLibrary" )] I open Visual St ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Creating Local Reporting Services Reports With Express

  Is it possible to use Visual Web Developer 2005 with reporting services I don’t see the reports object when I try to add a new item nor do I see the viewer web control. Do I need to download is separately Thanks for any advice or help. I may have answered my own questions: I'm going to give it a try. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transparent label Control in VB 2005

  I am trying VB 2005. The label control has no transparent (backstyle) option. The help says that this is so and to overcome it by setting the background color to transparent. I tried this but still get error that backcolor transparent is not supported. This is very annoying as I use transparent labels and text boxes all the time. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or an alternative. The transparent property for the label control actually works quite interestingly. When you set a labels back color to transparent, it IS transparent to other controls on the form, but it will take on the back color of the form itself. For example, if I have a label on top of a picture box. Say the picture box is white, and the labels background is s ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS Takes too much harddisk space?

  WDS Takes up more than 4 GB of harddisk already and it has only indexed 4022 items and missing 3271 on a 80 GB harddisk. Sounds crazy to me. I saw that 500 Gb of free space was recommended. Google DS did not take up so much space. What do you say Version 02.06.5000.5378 Hello Six, Sorry it has taken so long to get you a reply. The size of the WDS index is difficult to predict. There are a number of factors that come into play with index size. Here is some basic information that may help us determine if this is a bug or expected behavior. WDS indexes textual content of files. It does not index media (though it does index media metadata). It should also be noted that WDS indexes the first 2MB of the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Feedback on Prototype Style in Sandcastle

  I am looking for customer feedback on the "Prototype" style in Sandcastle. It will be great if you provide me with input on redisign of member pages with tabs and our use of language filers in this style. Also should we adopt this "Prototype" style for our official documentation shipped in future versions of Visual studio Waht do you think I will blog about the details on "Prototype" style seperately. Cheers. Anand.. Hi Anand, I think the current presentation.css stylesheet needs some changes. I didn't like the font size (too big), it uses bold in too many places, didn't underline hyperlinks when the mouse hovers over them, and the spacing on many of the elements just didn't look right t ...Show All

• Visual C# Does C# 2005 support coding RS232 serial communications?

  It seems VS.NET does not support RS232 serial communications, many people choose to use VB MSComm to do serial communications. Besides, we can also get " Use P/Invoke to Develop a .NET Base Class Library for Serial Device Communications " source code and to apply it in our application from : John Hind's CommBase( http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/netserialcomm/ ) However, to get VB MSComm means to buy another software. Does VS 2005 has solved this problem and has some built-in functions to support RS232 serial communication Is there any example about this Thank you! Of course you can! I used it with C#... But there could be a problem. I was getting some garbage data when I read from the stream continu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How can I get position and size of all cell borders in MS Word table?

  I tryed something like this: foreach (Cell cell in table.Range.Cells) { cell.Select(); x = (float)_application.Selection.get_Information(WdInformation.wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage); y = (float)_application.Selection.get_Information(WdInformation.wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage); width = cell.Width; height = cell.Height; } But this code returns correct X position only for cells in first column. Also it is not position of Borders, It is text position (cursor). Also there are problems with height for merged cells (Incorect height of merged cell). I use this information for manual rendering of Word document in my application. It is so hard to draw table correctly. Hi Eugene ...Show All

• SQL Server BIDS - Error on design surface of Calculation tab in Cube

  Has anyone seen this Within 'Business Intelligence Development Studio' (BIDS) with a cube opened and the calculations tab selected, the design surface displays a message that reads: Unexpected error occurred: 'Error in the application.' This occurs in any project I open and it still occurs when I restart BIDS or the computer itself. Any ideas Can anyone suggest a remedy Seems like it because it worked perfectly fine before I refreshed it with Office 2007 TR, that must have upgraded the dll's on the oledb folder to the 3009 release making it out of sync with the dll's on the tools / SQL Server. ...Show All