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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Help with Help

  When I open the help contents, and goto Visual C# Express Edition I don't see an XNA category, just MSDN, DirectX and Help on Help. How do I get this to appear, as I want to go through the starting tutorial. I cannot say why, but it appears that the help system needs to be merged again with Visual Studio. If you repair XNA Game Studio Express, it should run the merge process to return the help files to the table of contents. Could you try this for me If you go to your "Add or Remove Programs" screen and select "Change" next to "Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express", the installer will pop up and give you an option to repair XNA Game Studio. ...Show All

• SQL Server ETL: DTS/TSQL vs SSIS

  Now that SSIS has been out for a year, how is SSIS helping the data warehouse developers in the real world. I have seen etl projects done in terms of TSQL where data is ELTL in stead of ETL. The entire data is written into some staging database, transformed and then loaded in to the datawarehouse. Are there any real success stories out there where SSIS really made a huge difference over DTS or TSQL. I really like the product but just wanted to hear from the experts out in the field. Also, do you see IT industry being eager to start using SSIS in their production applications So far my opinion is SSIS is much better than DTS. It did solve many of the problems wtih DTS packages. However, it does have a ways ...Show All

• Gadgets I need some one to make me a gadget because im a total n00b :)

  what i want is i need a generator to use these 2 images : http://i9.tinypic.com/400bfvo.jpg and http://i5.tinypic.com/44ubss3.png except obviously only one at a time and without the name and code number. I need just to type in the name and the Wii code and to save it as an image file. (in .png) thats pretty much it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Passing Parameters to a crystal report???

  Hi, I Wanna know how to pass paameters to crystal report where I have a missing something. I built my report and I gave names to the fields that I want to pass to them values, then I write these lines of code that suppose pass parameters but I got an excepetion that told me that index is not valid Can Anyone Help me I will appreciate ur efforts DataDefinition DataDef = LeavesCR.DataDefinition; ParameterFieldDefinitions Defs = DataDef.ParameterFields; ParameterDiscreteValue paramDiscreteValue; ParameterValues currentValue; ParameterFields fields; currentValue = new ParameterValues (); paramDiscreteValue = new ParameterDiscreteValue (); fields = new ParameterFields (); paramDiscreteValue ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista What happened to the HelpDeskSupport sample app in .NET RC1 and WinWF CTP5?

  Dear all, The HelpDeskSupport sample was in the SDK up until Beta 2.2, but it seems to have vanished. It looks like it exists on the web, but the links to the source code from the documentation are broken. I used it to obtain classes for "simple" communication between asp.net and a state machine workflow. This seemed to work ok, so I didn't look into it to any degree, but under RC1, using manual scheduling, it crashes because the communication interface uses a class global static to keep track of the DataPipeList and this does not persist across re-starts. The idea of a class that abstracts to data pipes with defined message formats is a good one, although the implementation of it here is a bit clumsy. Is there a samp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System explanation of fix category, level and certainty?

  Hi there, can anyone help I downloaded Fxcopy ... it looks very good but i tried searching the docks and can't find an explanation what the following are : Fix Category: breaking - i presume it means if i fix the problem then it will break my code Level: 3 icons, what do they mean Certainty: I have no idea what the percentage value indicates. Any help or ideas would be really appreciated Thanks ian Hi Ian, MessageLevel is the importance of the message, e.g. if you had thousands of messages, it probably would be a good idea to start addressing the Critical (the exclamation mark) Errors first. Certainty is the number the Rule writer assigns to each rule, it is the likelyhood that a message leads to ...Show All

• SQL Server Images are not showing...

  Hi, I have two different reports and in these two reports one contains images which is working fine at development site as well as server site but when same report is called from another report using linking facility given in sql report images disappears on server site at development site it is working fine. Can any one help me out. Thanks in advance. Wasim. ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Performance of Internet WCM Publishing Site

  I have a client that would like to use the MOSS Platform to build both internal and external web sites. While this is certanly possible, I am a bit concerned about the performance externally. The size of the CSS and JavaScript files that are included with SharePoint are vary large and I am concerned that this will lead to a slow experience for lower bandwidth users. While Microsoft has done an excellent job reducing the page size between version 2 and this version, the core,js and default style sheets are still quite large. My question is this, Is there any guidance for producing a style sheet / js file that has the minimum amount of information to run a publically facing site. We would not need everything since these folks would ...Show All

• Visual Basic Alternate method for executing query

  My app. is in VB.NET 2003. I am using following code to execute a query and fill the DataSet to display the records on the Data Grid. The problem is that as the data retrieved gets bulky, the performance of the dataset degrades so much that even simple queries take long time for records to be retrieved on the datagrid. I previously used "DataReader" to fetch records and show on screen, but DataReader displays and error for large amount of data to be shown on Data Grid. Is there any fast approach that supports any amount of data to be show on data grid. ------------------------------------------- Try ds.Tables("table1").Clear() Catch ex As Exception End Try Try Dim da As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapte ...Show All

• Visual Basic Setting the start routine in VB 2005 winforms

  Hi, I am using VB2005 winforms. I am modifying an existing application, which has a start page of modJobMain.vb I need it to be frmJobSearch_Load I cant seem to set it to the frmJobSearch_Load at the properties page. When I "leave out of project" modJobMain, I get an error "No accessible 'Main' method with an appropriate signature was found in 'JobSearch.JobSearch' " Any advice Thanks Or just a module with a sub main in and in this method call you simply call the Class/Method you want to execute. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Computer info?

  How would I show PC info as in CPU(Name/GHz) RAM(total in MB) Sound(card name) Video(card name) Hi, try WMI. You will find script samples on MSDN script center, e.g. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/hardware/devices/default.mspx .Net has some WMI functionality in the System.Management namespace -- SvenC ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how can we save the conent of rich textbox to an xml file

  hi there, i am wondering how can we save the conent of rich textbox to an xml file. i have many richtextboxes but i need to save all those to one file. thanks prasanth http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/Default.aspx p=2 ...Show All

• Visual Basic visual basic 2005 help

  since i am using computer from 5 to 6 years.i have good command over computers internet etc. now i want to start to learn programming from basic to advance. i dont have any knowledge of language fundamentals. i have seen VB 2005 i have designed some basic interfaces in it. but later i came to know that i must have good concept of OOPS or C or c++. few told me you cant learn VB2005 without learning vb 6 or Vb .net 2003. if i will start learning that it will take 6 or more months and than VB2005. its not look great for me. i dont want develop hardcore giant and multinetwork applications. i am planning to develop midrange of applications relating to inventory accounts etc. my question is it is possible to learn directly VB 2005 or i have ...Show All

• Windows Forms HI!!! well is there any way to load a custormise bitmap on a form!!!!!!!!!!how to make its background transparent!!!

  hi.. well it is a problem here that i have loaded a bitmap on a form ....now the problem is that my bitmap is a polygon type ....means it has a artistic look...which has not squared cornors....means that how and that cornor are white....and they are also coming on the screen..............now i make u undertand that by a direct x example in direct x we make a image a racing car but the racing car....is a design not a squared image.....so how can i have the left background of image of racing car transparent so that only the racing car comes on the screen not the other left image....... plz tell that u understood my problem,.... well thx....but can u tell me how to make it transparent in photoshop i not so much native to photo ...Show All

• Visual C# Setting reference conditions in Build configurations

  Does anyone know how to configure a project or solution build to conditionally pick up specific copies of DLLs maintianed in other solutions I'm referencing several DLLs which are built in other solutions as class libraries. When I build in DEBUG configuration mode, I want to pick up the debug copies of the DLLs. When I build in RELEASE mode I want to pick up the release copies. I'm using VS2005 C#. All my solutions maintain built projects in the standard VS paths. Example ..\MyProject\bin\Debug ..\MyProject\bin\Release I appreciate any advice or pointers. Thanks. Peter, Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I have different DLLs for DEBUG and RELEASE, since RELEASE is performance ...Show All