naiad's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Licensing

  What is needed to license VSTO Is it a free download on top of VS 2005 Standard Edition I and running one of the Team Editions and I know that I can download it as part of my MSDN subscription but I have some co-workers that want to start developing using VSTO and I am trying to put together the lowest cost option to get them into it. Thanks, -Andy Besides the Team Suite license, the only other option for Visual Studio 2005 is to purchase the VSTO-standalone package. There is no free download option or any other purchase option for other Visual Studio versions. This isn't painfully obvious on the product comparison page, but it can be seen in the row "Office development support" h ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Scenario\Federation Sample fails

  Folks, July CTP - all the works installed with IE7 B3. In the SDK - The Scenario\Federation Sample doesnt seem to work. I ran the setup scripts and imported the certs in the cert store. When I ran the bookstore client - I would load the books for browsing with no problems. However, when I tried to buy any of the books - I get this error (as with all the wsFederationHttpBinding samples, including Cardspace): - --------------------------- BookStore Client --------------------------- Exception while trying to purchase the selected book: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationObjectFaultedException: The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state. ...Show All

• .NET Development Control datatable and row events programatically

  I want to turn off events on several tables in a datset, which I know I can do using BeginLoadData. The problem is that I want to raise update events on specific rows after I call EndLoadData. Specific example: I have a datatable Data, and a datatable Summary. I update rows in the Data table but do not want events raised regarding the changes in Data until I've also updated Summary. Basically I need transactions, but applied to updates of a dataset. Any ideas I suppose I could lock the individual rows, but then I have to make sure to attempt a lock before accessing a row every time. Hi, One way to do this is to call SetModified for every row that you need to generate the RowUpdated event: foreach ( Dat ...Show All

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

  First off, let me say that this news about being able to develop and test my code on my 360 for an amazingly low price sounds excellent. I do have a quick question though. Will there be some established way to go about trying to get a game on Live Arcade that was developed with Express I know that I will definitely grab Express as soon as it's available and also have the subscription to be able to test my games on the 360, but I'm curious what my options would be if/when I write a great game :) Will there be some way to use the completed game as a pitch, or would it first be necessary for me to buy the Pro version If I had some sort of confirmation that the game would be put on Live Arcade then expenses for the Pro version wouldn't be a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Serial Port multithreading

  Is it possible for YourCOMPort.BytesToRead and YourCOMPort.DataReceived to change while the subroutine, which handles YourCOMPort.DataReceived is still in progress At very high data rates, the data may come in so fast that for example while previous data is being send to display by means of BeginInvoke new data are received. Depending on how Windows and .NET is build this may or may not course BytesToRead to change and/or a new DataReceived event, while the routine which handles this event is still in progress. If events are just boolean signals - not a queue - there may be a risk that if a new event occur while the subroutine, which handles this event is still in progress, the subroutine will not be reactivated (event cleared at exit). ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2005 linker error with typeid

  Hi, I have the following code: _pReturnValue = (typeid (*pDevice)).name (); This piece of code used to compile and run fine on VC2003 and VC 6.1, but in VS2005 it gives the following error: error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: char const * __thiscall type_info::name(void)const " (__imp_ name@type_info@@QBEPBDXZ) referenced in function "protected: char const * __thiscall CNiDeviceSpyAutoLogger::_GetDerivedClassName(class C4882Device const *)" ( _GetDerivedClassName@CNiDeviceSpyAutoLogger@@IAEPBDPBVC4882Device@@@Z ) Can someone tell me what I need to do to get this code compiling and linking again Thank you, Anand You c ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Framework 2.0 question

  I appologize in advance if some of my  questions to the forum is a little out of place. I am not a programmer or developer, just a gamer, system builder, and network administrator of a home network. After installing .NET Framework 2.0, Direct X9.0c's Diagnostic shows that one of the two system.dll files is missing. The one that is listed belongs to 1.1, so logic dictates that it is the one for 2.0 that is missing. However it is in the .NET 2.0 folder! Some other symptoms are that logging into .NET sites must be done manually (being signed in with MSN Messenger does no good), and Auto-Scroll function for IntelliPoint 5.2 does not function. The computer this is on is a new install of all software, updated. This may be ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums is msn beta good?

  hey i have a couple questions to ask! i had installed msn beta a while back and got a hole bunch of spyware with it so i deleted it and formatted my computer! now i am wandering if you guys have fixed the problem and put out a newer version so i can try it again and if you could tell me where the safest place is to download the software it would be greatly apreciated thanks richard I downloaded MSN Beta from Microsoft but no spyware were intalled on my computer. You can download it from http://ideas.live.com or I can send an invitation if u want. Paul ...Show All

• Visual Basic Date and Time Format Problem

  Question one May i know is there any time picker in VB.NET 2005 which allows user to enter a time The DateTimePicker can only retrieve current time and i think of using few combo boxes to form the format like hour,sec and AM or PM. Apart from that, is there any other way of doing it If i use the combo boxes method, how to parse the concatenation string as time and store in database   Question two I allowed user to select a date from DateTimePicker and format the date as the below and store it in database.   FormatDateTime(join_date.Text, DateFormat.ShortDate)   The datatype of that column i set it to string in order to prevent any format error. One problem is that the time format (DD/MM/YY) appea ...Show All

• SQL Server Error installing SQL Server 2005 editions on Windows VISTA

  There are numerous posts regarding this error when installing SQL Server 2005 on Windows Vista RTM thus I am starting a new thread in order to get resolution one way or another: SQL Server Setup failed to execute a command for server configuration. The error was [SQL Native Client]Windows user or group "\USERNAME\SQLServer2005MSFTEUser$USERNAME$MSSQLSERVER" not found. Check the name again... The error occurs when installing SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, SQL Server Express SP1, SQL Server Express SP2 CTR (with or without the SP2 Toolkit package installed beforehand). The error occurs with or without UAC. The installation then fails. Please advise if you have any insights. SQL Server Express SP2 CTR was announced as a workable v ...Show All

• Windows Forms deployment not work on different machine please help

  Dear All I have very bad bug in my program as when i run it on where full visual studio 2003 then project work ok and deployment kit also work ok. when i change machine where .net not load i load first framework then deployment kit then i run project.exe then it shown error message trayed error Just-in-time debugging anexeception 'System.Runtime.interopservices.comexception' has occured in project.exe An unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in system.windows.forms.dll Additional information: Class not registered please tell me in what is this and how deployed windows application different ...Show All

• SQL Server Commonlity?

  Okay, here is my scenario: The information used in this description will be considered sample data, as the actual dataset is much larger. We have 3 products: F, M, and Z. Each product has several derivatives based on customization. We have one central list of parts that these products are built from, depending on the specs given. We have a number that represents the percentage of that part's occurrence in a given product ordered last year. It would look like this: PART PRODUCT FREQUENCY P1 F 1 P1 M 0.2 P2 F 0.15 P3 Z 1 P4 M 0.7 P4 F 0.34 P5 Z 0.17 P6 F 0.24 P6 M 1 P6 Z ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Udder Assault XNA Warmup Submission

  When you get done with you game and sumbit it, crow about it here. A little over 24 hours left until the deadline and I'm so amazed I'm done, so much better than college Thanks to ZMan for his help, good luck all. I'll post the source code for my submission once the deadline hits. Bill Almost done with mine but I'll have to wait until tomorrow night to upload it. It's pass midnight right now and I need sleep. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Content Pipeline Bug?

  I created a Media subdirectory in my project for links to content as suggested by many of the content pipeline articles in the documentation. The items in the Media subdirectory linked to files in a MediaFiles folder. The MediaFiles folder was in the same project folder as the Media folder, but I did not add to the project in Visual Studio. When I built the application, the links in the Media subdirectory were removed and replaced by the actual files in the MediaFiles folder, which was subsequently added to the project. This made my calls to content.Load fail, as they were looking for content in the Media subdirectory. I could of course move the MediaFiles folder somewhere else and it should work, but I still believe this is a bug in th ...Show All

• .NET Development Detecting implemented locales

  Hey all, Is there a way to dynamically detect which locales have been implemented in my application I want to present a list where the user can choose which UI culture they want the app to choose at next startup. I understand that as long as I have a default culture set up in the main assembly, then the user can choose any culture they want and it will be considered valid -- it just won't get them resources from anything other than the default culture. I just want to help narrow down the list to the cultures that will actually provide something I've implemented. The three ideas I have currently are: - Modify the registry whenever a new locale is installed for my app, and just present the values that are registered to the user. ...Show All