DarkProphet's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C++ or C#

  Hello, I am currently taking a class in C++ and I've always wanted to make games. I downloaded the c# XNA software. My question is: Can I use visual C++ instead of learning a new language (C#) to make games for the XBOX 360 and PC Or would it be better to go ahead and dive in to the new XNA software, and why is one better for gamming applications and / or learning to write games OK, thank you....so it seems I wouldnt be 'making a mistake' by learning C# and getting to it. Although I have created simple bussiness applications in C++, I've never made a game and deaalt with graphics and animation and such..is there any books or starter material youm would recomend that would step you through simpl ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ListViewItemSorter :)

  Error 1 'System.Windows.Forms.ListView' does not contain a definition for 'ListViewItemSorter' Strange on msd it says this is provvied in the framework! No, it does not: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.listviewitemsorter.aspx Version Information .NET Framework Supported in: 2.0, 1.1, 1.0 As you could see it's only supported on desktop. Should it be supported, it would look like this: .NET Compact Framework Supported in: 2.0, 1.0 ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) WPF/E VS2005 Template (ASP.NET Version)

  Hi, I have created a new VS.NET 2005 project template that will use a ASP.NET web form instead the default.html file. I have created two folders for JavaScript and XAML files like they are in the samples. http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2006/12/07/wpf-e-vs2005-template-asp-net-version.aspx Michael ...Show All

• Visual C# HELP! circular assembly reference

  Hi, I have a custom text box control that fires rules on the text leave event. To fire the rules I need the ruleset and rules execution parameters to be passed from the form. I was doing this using the following code private void TextEditor_Leave( object sender, EventArgs e) { BaseForm FindForm =( BaseForm ) this .FindForm(); if ( null != FindForm.ruleExecution) { try { FindForm.ruleSetDataSet.RuleSet.Execute(FindForm.ruleExecution); } catch ( Exception ex) { //MessageBox.Show("Exception thrown \n" + ex.Message); } ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) .NET 3.0 Installation Problem

  Hi There, I have a problem installing the .NET 3.0 framework. I downloaded the July CTP but half way through it fails with this: [08/25/06,19:59:04] Windows Communication Foundation: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Windows Communication Foundation. MSI returned error code 1603 [08/25/06,19:59:09] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Communication Foundation is not installed. [08/25/06,19:59:09] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 was not attempted to be installed. Any ideas Working with Microsoft Support after several attempts to find the root cause of the problem described here, we performed the following. Start->Run, type msconfig. Choose start the mac ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) 12/12/2006 chat script

  i tried finding the chat script for the last chat on dlinq but cant find it, could someone point me to the chat script thanks Charlie has a copy here . ...Show All

• .NET Development Loading words from text file in an array

  Hi, How do i load a bunch of words from a text file into an array. And how can i randomly show them in a label with a sleep thread of 3000 milliseconds This is how the words in the document look like: test; west; coast; east; I tried using the for and foreach statement. Without luck! Hope you guys could help me out. Thanks in advance! Hi, I have small problem. I have 2 forms one with the some buttons where you have to press one to start the corresponding test which is Form1. Form1 starts another form, in this case Form3. But when i say Form3.ShowDialog(); It hangs there and waits till i close it and then it will continue with executing code. Is there another way to show the Form3 without hanging the appli ...Show All

• Visual Basic Printing alignment vb2005

  I am printing a schedule containing currency. I can set the x coordinate but my problem is aligning the values of differing lengths i.e. 123.33 4563.21 Is there a built in alignment method Fixed Fonts: The fixed font I like is ' Lucida Console ' Or there's ' MS Gothic ' ...Show All

• Visual C# Iterations through a Dataset/datagrid

  I am new to C# and dataset/datagrid processing. When saving any changes, I need to know how to iterate through changed rows to evaluate column contents for validation. The information I have at my disposal does not show any examples. Any help would be greatly appreciated. yes my fault, it should have been DataColumn! Ive modified the post now. how are you checking against DBNull Tried this foreach(DataRow currentRow in theModifiedRows.Rows) { foreach(DataColumn currentColumn in theModifiedRows.Columns) { if (currentRow[currentColumn] != DBNull.Value) { object currentColumnValue = currentRow[currentColumn] } } } ...Show All

• Visual Basic Correctly exit application

  Which is the right way of exiting an application by clicking on an exit button I used the following code but someone is complaining that my application hangs out when he clicks the exit button. Private Sub btnExit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExit.Click End End Sub Use the Close method of your form, or the Exit method of Application static object. Example: Private Sub btnExit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExit.Click Me.Close() ' Closes the current form, if is the starting form the application exit. End Sub or will be: Private Sub btnExit_Click(ByVal sender As Syste ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista PerformTimerCallback called on cancelled task - bug?

  I have a ListenNamedEventActivity that executes its childs in Execute(): foreach ( Activity branch in this .EnabledActivities) { branch.RegisterForStatusChange( Activity .ClosedEvent, this ); executionContext.ExecuteActivity(branch); } (each branch is a sequence activity) It cancels all other childs as soon as one completes: foreach ( Activity branch in this .EnabledActivities) { if (branch.ExecutionStatus== ActivityExecutionStatus .Initialized || branch.ExecutionStatus== ActivityExecutionStatus .Executing) executionContext.CancelActivity(branch); } executionContext.CloseActivity(); However one activity is a DelayActivity and I get the following exception after the workflow completes: Unhandled ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Outlook 2007 Questions

  i have been tasked with developing a VSTO Outlook 2007 add-in application. The company wants me to start developing this right away, despite both Outlook and the VSTO still being at a Beta stage. They are doing this because they want to launch this product as soon as possible after the launch of Office 2007, in order to maximise sales. Where can I find out about further improvements planned for forthcoming releases of the VSTO and Outlook 2007 suites, in order that I may better plan this project Does anybody have any release dates - ish Also, would anybody from Microsoft be interested in liaising with me from time to time as I embark on this project, so that we can mutually benefit I could perhaps tap you for knowledge from time t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO on server

  Is it possible to deploy VSTO on a webserver, or server farm, in order to import uploaded Excel spreadsheets in a richer manner than allowed by OLE DB or ODBC I ask this in the context of working for a major corporation with a strong MS relationship and just about unlimited quantities of all, or nearly all, MS licensed products under the sun. We use Excel spreadsheets to allow users to bulk import data they would otherwise enter, record by record, through the UI. The spreadsheets consists of columns of text, no objects. I need to get data from the user's spreadsheet, uploaded via server farm, into the DB. ODBC is presenting a number of issues working against this scenario. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Get client's local physical port number for net.tcp binding?

  Hi, I have a simple net.tcp, sessionful, client-server WCF system with both sides in separate WinForms apps.  After the client calls Open on the proxy to talk to the service I wanted to get the physical TCP local port number the client had connected on (for debugging).  In a conventional Winsock app the client could call getsockname on the socket to find this out.  Is there something similar in WCF The place I would have expected to get this from is LocalAddress, but that produces somewhat odd results. When I run this code on the client side... oLA = ClientSideProxy . InnerChannel . LocalAddress; oRA = ClientSideProxy . InnerChannel . RemoteAddress; ... RemoteAddress.Uri.Port returns the e ...Show All

• .NET Development XMLTextWriter Encode Attribute

  When I use the xmltextwriter in .net with the encode (utf-8) parameter in the constructor, the result is an xml file with encode attribute in small letters (utf-8 in place of UTF-8). Some validations systems expect "UFT-8" in upper case. How can I force the encoding attribute in upper case. Hello Marc, I am afraid there is no easy way to enforce writing the encoding name in upper case. (Of course, you may implement trivial post-processing.) The XML specification says the 'encoding' pseudo-attribute is case-insensitive, so using lower case is considered valid. The XmlTextWriter class calls System.Text. Encoding .GetEncoding( "UTF-8" ).WebName , which always returns the lower-cased nam ...Show All