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• Visual Studio Team System Overwrite Drop Location and keep output from project files!!

  Hi All, Is there anyway that I could by pass drop location and keep the output as I set in the project files Best Regards, I tried it but it gives error . I have to build codebase every hour just to check sanity of it , the drop is useless for me as I dont need to deploy the build so I tried it to reduce the time taken by build but it does not work . you can edit tfsbuild.proj file to change drop location . but if you remove that TFS build will give you error in starting the build . < DropLocation > \\server\location </ DropLocation > . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installation of SP1 Vs.NET 2005 on woodcrest x64 fails

  I'm trying to update VS 2005 with SP1 and cannot get it to work. Anyone have any ideas on what I can do I have Visual Studio 2005 installed on Windows Server 2003 x64 SP1 running on a woodcrest cpu box. When I try to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 the installation fails with an unhandled exception. The result is that Visual Studio can no longer build using x64 configuration SP1 File: VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe Error: An unhandled win32 exception occurred in MSI36.tmp [584] There is nothing funny in the wrapper.log file. - Should I not be using the X86 version of SP1 according to the release notes, this SP is compatible with Win Srv 2003 x64 I didn't see an x64 version of the SP1 Any help would be greatly appreciated.... ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Trouble using Asteroid Models

  I'm trying to use the asteroid model from the SpaceWar template, but when I try and render the model, it comes out being mostly transparent. I've copied all the content over from SpaceWar, but it still doesn't work. I used almost the exact same code on one of the spaceships, and it worked fine. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong Here's all of unfinished code for the asteroid...  #region Using Statements using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input; using Microsoft.Xna ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) System.BadImageFormatException ?

  First off: THANK YOU for releasing this incredible project! I'm totally excited to put this to use. I think you guys have really done a superior job in answering this most complex problem in application development. Secondly, I appear to be getting the following exception when trying to run the CTP samples: An unhandled exception of type 'System.BadImageFormatException' occurred in WinAppSample.exe Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.Entity, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Funny thing is, the version of System.Data.Entity is v2.0.50727, not 2.0.0.0 I'm running this on ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Where are the BitmapEffects?

  A while back I read that there were 48 different BitmapEffects in development for v1... As of RC1, it doesn't appear that any more have been added. Are these 48 still planned for v1 Even better, is there a list of BitmapEffects in development somewhere I've scoured the web with no results. Thanks, F. Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing (since I think I was the one who originally blogged about that). They were there in one of the early builds, but they've never released them. Being that we're in the RC phases now, it would seem that have been axed. :( I'm just hoping that they will be released as some sort of non-supported "add-on" pack. It would be a shame to have to wait for thi ...Show All

• Visual C# reducing image size

  Hi.. im building an application to distribute the desktop image to other clients... when i capture the desktop the image size is approximatly 55KB.. in a Jpeg format.. is there a routine or a method to reduce the size ! thnx Hello.  I recently ran into this same problem while trying to resize images.  While I know of no .NET easy solution to the problem, I modified an image library I found online to fit my needs.  I have tested this following code somewhat, but it may contain some bugs as I have not tested it extensively.  I made several changes to the code to give different options for scaling an image and a rework of the basic way it resized images.  At any rate, I hope that it at least helps to push yo ...Show All

• Windows Forms I need to add an exe and set a registry key to my clickonce installation

  we have an application that runs some audio files on a certain way, to make it run correctly we have two requirment 1- an audio reader exe must be available on a certain path 2- this path should be specified in a certain registry key in order for my application to find it currently what I do is that I take a copy of this required exe, and put it on each machine over my client's network, I specify the registry key also for each of them, then finally publish my application. Is there a way to include these steps with my published application or can anyone suggest a better way, this has been insufficient for me as I have to update this exe on each machine each time I have a new version. thanks alot lama two options ...Show All

• Visual Studio Dynamic Property names in the property windows

  Hi. Im developing an editor for a XML-based language (kinda like XAML) in VS2005 using the MPF. Currently, im working on the properties window. The window is supposed to show properties related to spesific xml elements at the caret. Different elements have different sets of properties, so what i would like is to dynamically change the names (and descriptions) of the properties shown in the grid. The way i name the parameters now is by adding "attribute-tags" to the properties like this: [ DescriptionAttribute ( "The identificator of the Element" )] [ DisplayNameAttribute ( "ID" )] public string Property1 { get { return property1; } set { property1 = value ; } } } I know that i can solv ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 RC1 Installation error

  Hello, I had previously installed IE7 to try (I think it was Beta 1, but am not sure). I recently tried IE7 RC1, but something was freezing my computer. I unistalled it, properly, I think, everything has been working fine. I wanted to reinstall to try it for longer than an hour. Upon attempting to reinstall I get an error message where the whole screen changes to a DOS appearance but gigger an with a blue shade to it rather than black. The message say something like: If this is the first time you have seen this message, reboot and try again. If not, there may be a driver error, if there is a driver listed in the stop message, disable it the try to install, or update the driver and try again. It also talks of rebooting in safe mode ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Random Integers for Game

  Hey, I've made a game and I wanted to add more chance to it by making the damage you do random, so for instance, I want it so that instead of your guys attack to be set at just 15, it'd be set to randomly select a number 13 - 17. Thanks, hope you guys can help. not sure if I understand, please do explain if you need to, but to randomly select a number: Dim theRandom as new Random() Dim theNumberChosen as Integer = theRandom.Next( min, max ) and it will automatically generate the number between the values supplied. Is this what you are after ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. SpaceWars - can you work around Shader limitations?

  Two days ago I started working on the XNA framework. This is also the first time I've had any dealings with C# or DirectX. I got the first game tutorial working pretty easily, but I couldn't get the SpaceWars starter kit to run properly. Firstly, I had to set AllowMultiSampling to false (this is a known, and widely discussed problem), and also switch to keyboard mode. With this done, the game ran, but I could not see some of the graphics (ships, backdrop & bullets) in either retro or evolved mode. Score and explosions appeared ok. As far as I can tell, this is because the missing graphics are using CompiledEffect shader objects which are loaded from the FX files. My poor graphics card (Nvidia GeForce 440MX) doesn't support any shader ...Show All

• Visual C++ can some on help me

  Here is picture of my error. Can u help me fast plz. http://img341.imageshack.us/my.php image=untitledvk0.png This does not look like a development issue. The forums are specific for dev issues only. Please feel free to unmark this post if you have more details. Thanks Damien ...Show All

• Visual C# How to force VS2005 to NOT load a .CS file in design view.

  Hi All, I have a standard run of the mill CS file, which contains a couple of classes. Actually the project has several CS files and all of them open perfectly normal except this one, which VS05 wants to open in design view. The offending item is that this particular class is based on the system timer. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Text; namespace MyNameSpace {     public class MyOrdinaryClass : System.Windows.Forms. Timer     {     } } As you can see this class is super ordinary with the exception that I based it on the system timer, which is fine. I just want VS05 to open this file in ord ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Scrolling via mouse wheel pressed down and mouse dragged

  Sorry for the long, cryptic title :) My question is: does WPF support scrolling if the mouse wheel is pressed down and the mouse is dragged This is the same behavior as in Internet Explorer, except I want to mimic it in my WPF window. thanks for all the help. I ended up pretty much using the class you provided, although just to let you know there's an odd behavior when implemented (seems that once the user presses down the scroll wheel to scroll in "IE mode", you can't release from it to go back to normal scrolling. It'll get "stuck" in IE scrolling and pretty much handicap the user). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System List of change sets already checked in

  How can I get a list of change sets already checked into the system Sure. Open Source Control Explorer. Rightclick on $/ -> History. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181415(VS.80).aspx ...Show All