MR123's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms wildcard in table adaptor problem

    Hello  I have come across a problem today when working with data sets/table adapter in vs05 for use in ASP.net. SELECT  ws_Agent.Telephone, ws_Agent.Email, ws_Agent.Name, ws_Agent.AgentId, ws_Agent.forename, ws_Agent.surname, ws_Agent.Acc_PcentreID, ws_ProfitCentre.ShortCode, ws_Branch.Name AS branchname, ws_Branch.ManagerId,             ws_Branch.Fax AS branchFax, ws_Branch.Telephone AS branchtelephone, ws_Branch.Address1, ws_Branch.Address4, ws_Branch.Postcode, ws_ProfitCentre.Telephone AS PCentreTelephone,             ws_ProfitCentre.Status AS PCentreStatus, ws_ProfitCentre.Fax AS PCentreFax, ws_Pr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel Chart: How to change chart data source formula when object "Series.Formula" is too short?

  How to change chart data source when Formula object is too short I know that: I can assign data source 1) Series.Values=Range(...) - suitable 2) Chart.SetSourceData souce:=range(...)... - suitable 3) Series.Formula/FormulaLocal="" - not suitable because string is too short I can read data source 1) x = Series.Formula/FormulaLocal - not suitable because string is too short The question is: How to read data source not using Formula object Greg - You need to set up dynamic ranges, which in turn are used as the chart series' data source: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Dynamics.html - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Sol ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) I don't like xaml :-)

  Everything that I can do using xaml I can do from C# code, right And I am not sure whether this is true also other way round. I know people are saying that xaml is great because tools used by designers can generate xaml files and whole UI can be created by them independently of programming language (C# or VB) and so on... But I know C# and I don’t have designer and I am going to create whole application alone and I don’t want to learn some kind of new language (xaml) only to use it because it is cool. Also when I am writing xaml I feel like doing web page and not implementing standalone application. And I have some feeling (maybe wrong) that doing things in code runs faster then when using xaml. A ...Show All

• Smart Device Development file opened?

  <deleted> NETCF enforces that behavior per design guide lines on WM. It is important since user interface is not designed to handle it differently. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio Developer News Start Page news channel URL

  I recently installed Visual Studio 2005. My preferred language is C#. The Start Page initially displayed the message "The current news channel might not be valid or your Internet connection might be unavailable. To change the news channel, on the Tools menu click Options, then expand Environment and click Startup." All good stuff, but didn't help me get a valid Developer News connection. Unfortunately I tried to put in a URL from a microsoft website, overwriting the default URL. AND I didn't write down the default. So now I can't get Developer News and can't set the Start page news channel URL back to the original value. Anyone know the original value Here is the link mine is set to ...Show All

• SQL Server How to install Windows Application(C#) with SQLExpress in a system which is having SQLExpress already?

  Hi All, I have created an installation application which will install the application with SQL Express and .NET Framework 2.0. If i install this application in a Fresh system(i.e which is not having SQL Express), it is installing the application with new database instance successfully. But if i try to install the same in a system which is already having SQL Express, throwing "Object reference exception" because it is not able to create the new database instance. Can anybody help me out . Regards, Doppalapudi. Hi, why don’t you use the already existing SQL Server Exress instance HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server Dialog pooling sample

  Hello, Can someone provide a sample code for pooling service broker dialogs demonstrating some of the best practices to do so. I remember reading about in one of Roger's blog posts It need not be complete. Just a basic code to jump start implementation. Thanks, Ram ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. how to draw other language type in the XNA?

  i want to create a 3d chat room, player can write type to send my server, but!~how to draw other language type in the XNA i am a chinese~~thx~ no,use "IME" and normal keyboard for example:in the forum textbox.i use "IME" to write "zhong guo" then show "中 " in the dx.i can draw a string,is unicode,and set a font style can ok~~but how to draw font in the XNA~THX for your reply PS:my english is very poor ...Show All

• SQL Server How to set ASP.NET Service Account to NT Authority\NetworkService.

  I am receiving the following error when i try to build the report project. The current identity (NT Authority\Network Service) doea not have write access to c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\temporary asp.net files. Can you please tell me how i can the asp.net with NT authority\NetworkService. Thank you very much for the information. Reddy, I would suggest either adding the ASP.NET to the security of the above mention folder, so going to my computer, right click, manage, select the local users and group. You can check the Network service level of security for this machine and then adjust it accordingly to your company security policies. Ham ...Show All

• Visual Basic Startup Items? & Hiding / showing forms?

  Basicly I'am requesting this: How does one create a 2 forms that you can move back and forth from though each form your NOT using will hide, on top of this, how do I dispose of one form and then come back to the form as a new instance. My theory was that i use 3 classess two as forms and one as a main class, the main class controls the instances on what is shown and what is not, though im unable to adchieve this. Has anyone got some sample code that can help me out .... Please keep things simple and straight forwards im repeat im currently a rook at this language. Thank you. if you do Me.Close() on the main form then it will close the form but the application will be running in the background, you should use Application.Ex ...Show All

• Visual Basic Application Settings

  Visual Studio 2005 Casual VB.Net User I try to understand Application Settings.... I create a project: WindowsApplication1 with one form and one button. I go to the Solution Property & Settings Tab and add two settings. One is string type named xxxxx and the other one is System.Drawing.Color type named ccccc. In the properties window for Button1 I assign Button1.Text to xxxxx and Button1.BackColor ccccc in the Application Set entry. In the Form1.Load subroutine I add the following: Button1.Text = My .Settings.xxxxx Button1.BackColor = My .Settings.ccccc I build and save and exit Visual Studio. Next I navigate to the release or debig folder where I find the executable WindowsApplication1.exe and the co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Deployment of runtime dsl

  Hi, How can i deploy the runtime DSL (i.e. the one that currently gets launched into an experimental instance of VS2005) into VS2005 Obrigado. Hi Carlos, You can add a Domain Specific Language Setup project to your DSL solution. File / New / Project... / Other Project Types / Extensibility Update: Forgot to tell one thing. You will need a Package Load Key (PLK) to deploy your model on a VS instance without the SDK installed. You can have more info here . Affilliate membership is free. Once you got your PLK, add a key for it in VSPackage.resx and provide ProvideLoadKey attribute for your package, pointing to the key. Check Package.tt in DslPackage project. Gokhan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Issues with customizing Work Item "Assigned To" field

  I've tried to customize MSF for Agile Software Development - v4.0\WorkItem Tracking\TypeDefinitions\task.xml as follows: From: <FIELD name="Assigned To" refname="System.AssignedTo" type="String"> <VALIDUSER/> </FIELD> To: <FIELD name="Assigned To" refname="System.AssignedTo" type="String" reportable="dimension"> <HELPTEXT>The person assigned to do the work</HELPTEXT> <ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true"> <LISTITEM value="[Project]\Project Administrators" /> <LISTITEM value="[Project]\Contributors" /> <LISTITEM ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What are the recommended books and sites for learning C# so I can then make a game using XNA?

  XNA has made game development easy, but to use the XNA framework you still have to be able to develop with C#. You don't have to be an expert, but you do need to understand the basics of Object Oriented development and the general syntax for the C# language. That's great for those of us who are already developers, but there are a lot of people interested in XNA, that are not already developers (and some of them are developers who just haven't given C# a try yet). Every time a new game developer hopeful comes into the forums frustrated because they don't understand the code or where to start, we give them a generic answer about taking some development classes, find some books on C#, check out some C# tutorial sites or point them towards To ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My shadow maps work on Windows, not Xbox 360

  I'm having some problems getting my shadow maps to work on the Xbox 360, but they work great under Windows. There seems to be some weird SetRenderTarget and ResolveRenderTarget behaviors I don't really understand on the Xbox 360. I’ve got too much code to post here, so some pseudocode is at the bottom. I realize it may be hard to help without seeing the actual code, so if more information is needed, I’d be happy to provide it. Any advice on what I might be doing wrong is greatly appreciated. Thanks! clear render target to ambient light color for each light { set render target to light's depth map clear render target draw scene depth from light's perspective resolve render target } for each light { set render targe ...Show All