zdrae's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Content Builder - Build you content without Game Studio!

  I've made simple framework and app to build content without Game Studio, find it here . Thanks to Shawn about hint how to do it and thanks RSDN Magazine about great article about how MSBuild works. wow, great work. This is exactly what I need. A friend of me wants to help with creating some assets (anims/models) for my little game, but he shouldn't have to install GSE, get my whole source project, and build everything by hand each time just to do some testing/evaluating. If I understand correctly I can either have him use your XCB GUI, or with a bit of effor I can even create a standalone, easy to use, tool myself using your XCB framework. That's really cool, and flexible. Good job :) ...Show All

• Visual Basic SQL Express and VB.NET 2006

  Hello everyone. I have a login form which has a username, password, and login type (i.e. user,admin) fields and I want to add the code in the LOGIN button. I am still pretty new to SQL Express and VB.NET, so how would I go about making a connection to the SQL database called Users.mdf I want it to check whats in the username, password, login type fields to what is in the Users.mdf. If they select admin and have admin priv then they can go into either admin or the system and if not admin priv. then they can only login to the system. okay, I was stepping through the debugger and I came across something.... Here is the part of the code that confused me.   Dim theConnectionString As ...Show All

• Visual Basic Class Question

  if i create a class, eg. mask, which inherits from another, eg. general, if i put a constructor in the mask class, is it correct i need to copy the rest of the constructor from the general class. cos i thought i don't need to do this as i is inherited from the general one. Public Class General Private _firstOct As Integer Private _secOct As Integer Private _thirdOct As Integer Private _fourthOct As Integer ' CONSTRUCTORS Public Sub New () ... End Sub Public Sub New (ByVal one As Integer, ByVal ...) ... End Sub ... Public Class mask Inherits General Private _slashNotation As String Public Sub New (ByVal slashNotationVal As String) ... End Sub Public Sub New (ByVal one As Integer, ByVal two As Integer, ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smart Device CAB Project will not rebuild after closing and reopening

  Hello, I created a VS 2005 .NET CF application that uses some third party controls and additional assembly DLLs that I created, some are in the GAC and some are not. When I add a Smart Device CAB Project to my solution and add the primary output of the application project the list of referenced assemblies is properly included into the File System Editor in the CAB project. Then if I close and reopen the solution and look at the CAB projects File System Editor the referenced assemblies will be missing from the list of files to deploy. At this point I can not remove or re-add the primary output of the application project to the CAB project. I have to delete the entire CAB project and create a new one from scratch. If I view the deployment ...Show All

• Community Chat I like a reply...you like a reply....who doen't like a reply?

  Please reply to this...... I like feedback to reply to. I looked out the window and guess what..... I saw potentual for a new kind of game sys that is awsome in the true sense of the word...... And the name of that Sys is the: R.W.V.W. (Real World Virtral War)or R.W.C.W. (Real World Cyber War) Which ever you perferr.  Ok think of the real world then think of how many times you wanted to atualy to hit the jerk that killed you on a online game.....or go on the rampage killing all other players in your path.....Get the idea yet   If you haven't then think of the real world as the ultamat game world but all the trees, buildings, and any thing elce you can think of is real, you a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Animation Component Problem

  I am having problem going beyond the tutorials for the Animation Components a CodePlex. I am a newbie so I guess this is more like a general problem then a problem with the Animation Component. I want to create a Player, PlayerManager, and a Camera class. This is because I can then write methods like RenderPlayers and so on. When I am nesting the ModelAnimator inside my Player class and trying to instantiate it I get an error: 'ShooterExperiment.Game1' is a 'type', which is not valid in the given context I don't know how to fix it. Plz help. Cheers Alfons I change Program.cs to this and it works. Is this a stupid solution public static Game1 game; /// <summary> /// The main entry p ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to play Ogg files in DirectSound with C++??

  How to play Ogg files in DirectSound with C++ There's no built-in mechanism in DirectSound to play Ogg or other compressed files. But if you have an Ogg decoder, you can stream the output directly into a DirectSound buffer. -Brian ...Show All

• Windows Forms Create a Strong Name for Com DLL so ClickOnce will work

  I'm having a heck of a time tryin to get this stuff working. Here's my problem: We have a 2.0 VB.NET desktop app that uses Com components from our phone system. When you make references to the COM components for the project, they create the Interop.xxx.dll files in the project's bin folder. Well, I'd like to figure out how to get them into the GAC or how to some how make them strong named so that they'll work when I try to deploy them with ClickOnce. I've tried to use regfree com to deploy them and that doesn't work (I can provide the error if it will help). I've also tried to drop the Interop.XXX.dlls into the GAC and that won't work because they're not strongly named. Now, maybe if I could figure out how to name them strongly it would wo ...Show All

• .NET Development E-business

  I'm doing on e-business application (E-shop that uses payment gateway) and I need to post some filelds to page through SSL, page name is https://secure.sample.com/payment/transact.php fields are: mch_code, order_id... and then server is returning to me some code like 200 if transaction is ok or 250 if transaction is whong. My question is how I can setup asp.net script that I will send these fields and receive response code from secured web site. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System MSFv4 Essentials Book is Now Available

  For those interested in the fundamentals and underpinnings of MSF Agile and MSF CMMI, MS Press just released a book called Microsoft Solutions Framework Essentials (generally available as of today). <Randy Miller@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:7174aa91-7137-45fa-926d-a77c6d11cdc3@discussions.microsoft.com ... I have read a good deal of it and it is very good. Cheers, Randy I want to buy both your books!!! -- Lorenzo Barbieri MVP Windows - Virtual Machines, MCT, MCPD EA,Web,Win, MCITPro DBA IT: http://www.geniodelmale.info EN: http://www.lorenzobarbieri.info VSTS: http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/barbilor/default.aspx ...Show All

• Gadgets Question: using activex controls on a gadget

  Hi, i am leroy (spydaz) i have recently read the tutorial on windows sidebar gadgets. and the tutorial on sidebar gadgets... Firstly i use VB6 and Ms.Office.2003. i would like to begin building gadgets.. Is it possible to use activex controls on a sidebar gadget. As with regular WebDesign / HTML. ie design the control in VB6 Mycontrol.OCX and use it in a sidebar gadjet. ie: mini Database Form Project... as i saw with the templates available as samples the were all refferenceing then new architecture .net *ExpressEditions. hi i have a problem in registering the com component can any one send me how to register .dll file if it is different of the previose version thanks Fathi S. Elashery ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft Ole db provider for Olap services 8.0

  Hello Folks, I am desperately trying to connect to AS using this provider. But when i attempt to connect to it using the UDL file i get the error message - "Provider is no longer available. Ensure that the provider is installed properly." I have tried re-registering the files msolap80.dll and msmddo80.dll, but to no success. thanks and have a great day! Try installing " Microsoft SQL Server 2000 PivotTable Services " from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=d09c1d60-a13c-4479-9b91-9e8b9d835cdc&displaylang=en Edward. -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't execute Team Build - TF30063 error

  Hi, I'm trying to execute a Build on my local machine, but I am getting the following error: TF42056: The build service could not connect to the Team Foundation Server: TF30063: You are not authorized to access http://buildServerName:8080/ I have Team Foundation for Testers installed on my machine. I know that I actually can access port 8080 on the build server because that's where our code lives, and I can access and modify the code. I'm really stuck as to how to get builds working. Can builds only be done on machines that have Team Foundation for Developers on it I hope not, because it wouldn't make any sense that a tester couldn't launch a build so they could run their tests. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I am at a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to control input from textbox?

  please help how can i control inputs from textbox so that user can only type letters and number no ascii and symbol in the textbox keypress event, check to see that the input (keychar) is a letter or number and if it is NOT a letter or digit, "handle" it, so it does not to Windows for it to handle the input. Example: select the textbox properties in designer view click on the Events icon (lightning symbol) double click the "KeyPress" event to create the event handler. Then you will be taken to code view. Type this in for that event:   if (!Char.IsLetterOrDigit(e.KeyChar)) {    e.Handled = true; }   does this help ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with merge replication publication

  How can I go about solving this error Your help is kindly appreciated Thank you Creating Publication - Creating Publication 'SQLMobile' (Error) Messages * SQL Server could not create publication 'SQLMobile'. (New Publication Wizard) ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) ------------------------------ Invalid object name 'dbo.sysmergepublications'. Publication 'SQLMobile' does not exist. Changed database context to 'SQLMobile'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 208) thks for the reply, I have overcome the problems. However do you have any ideas why couldn't I retrieve i ...Show All