Thomahawk's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System SQL Server requirement

  The following is listed as a requirement Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express, Developer, or Enterprise Edition installed and running for design-time validation on the same computer as Visual Studio. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkID=78582 . It seems to suggest that a locally installed database is only required for design-time validation. If this is correct does this mean either that a) SQL Server is not used for any of the other features or b) SQL Server is used for other features but doesn't have to be installed locally If b) how do I set up DB Pro to use a remote instance This is what I want to do and is something I pointed out in one of the survey's during the CTP. And annoyingl ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Help me on How to fire a sprite to a mouse position from another Sprite

  Hi again, this time i need some major help. I'm creating a shooter arcade, and the biggest problem i ran into so far was getting the sprite to fire towards my mouse positioned reticule. Could I please get some information on how to tell the game code that i want the sprite to move towards the mouse x,y from it's fixed positions. Thx for your help. Ok when i put this into my code it gives me tons of errors. So i converted all the objects into wut i had already. But still i get errors like "Cannot implicitly convert type float to Microsoft.XNA.Framework.Vector2"." Plz help ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) LocBaml Namespace

  After running: msbuild /t:updateuid The x:Uid is added to my XAML file correctly, but VS Express doesn't like them. Apparently they aren't in the correct namespace. What namespace needs to be added, or how do I remove this warnings -- June CTP Visual Express C# I just verified that Rob's fix works. Are you sure you followed the steps above Did you replace all the instances in XamlPresentation2006.xsd ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Authoring software

  Hi guys.  Please excuse my more basic question that is not about advanced content. I have a SD DVD I need to convert to HD DVD.  I've used the now defunct DVD Maestro to do all my authoring and I am proficient with it.  I need a tool, preferably XP compatible, that will allow me to do some HD DVD authoring with that level of flexibility.  The only thing I know of is Scenarist and that may be a stretch for my pocketbook. Are there any other options   It is important that the authoring process does not do any recompression of the content. Thanks, Scott A good HD video source for simulating in the iHD Sim is "IMAX - AMAZON" the WMV-HD version (fantastic 1080p). You can j ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Disbale read and write access to USB devices

  I am having problem with my FYP.Can somebody send me the code to restrict users to access USB devices. I want to disable the read and write feature of USB devices (not with the help of registry) with the help of some classes available in .NET framework. If somebody can make it, I will be highly obliged to him. its not possible I'm afraid. This all comes down to Windows and security and its probably better to use the Group policy in Windows to restrict access. Doing it from within .NET is not possible as no API exists (or classes) for this. You could probably do it via registry in some way but of course you are not after this approach, which makes it harder. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal Report Error??Help,plz

  Hi Everybody I am beginner in Crystal Report Plz,Could u help me 1.What this Eroor means "Fail to open rowset" 2.& How Can i Solve it Thanks in advance ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. .X features supported in XNA?

  Hi, I'm currently working on a .x exporter for XSI with shader support. However I have some questions regarding exactly what features are supported in XNA. Setting the technique in the .x file does not seem to work: EffectParamDWord { "technique"; 3; } XNA always renders using the first technique in the shader, unless you manually set it with Effect.CurrentTechnique :( Also what part and version of DXSAS is supported It would be nice if semantics used in e.g. FxComposer just worked with XNA, e.g things like: float4x4 WorldIT : WorldInverseTranspose; float4x4 WorldViewProj : WorldViewProjection; float4x4 World : World ; float4x4 ViewI : ViewInverse ; Or do you have to manually parse all effect param ...Show All

• Visual C# Windows service connecting to UNC path on another domain.

  Hi all, here's my problem: I am writting a windows service application in C# (It must be a service not a normal app) that will be running on a web server. This service will then need to connect to data stored on a machine in a different domain (but on the same LAN). The UNC path, domain name, user name and password are all known to the application. Here's what I've tried so far: 1) Using WNetAddConnection2 to map the UNC path to a drive letter. Works to some extent, the drive seems to map ok but when trying to actually do anything (like access the files) on the drive I get an access denied error. Also I have problems with this method because drives that are already mapped do not show up in DriveInfo.GetDrives(). 2) My service was running u ...Show All

• Community Chat Vista WoW, but I got problem with Vista's IE7

  I runnning dual OS, XP and Vista, both I running IE7, which on Vista side, is ship together with OS. While the IE7 on my XP behave very good, on Vista, whenever I using IE to download the attachment on Hotmail, Yahoo, or whatever, that normally not using download manager, which using IE's built in downloader, and yes, my IE7 will stop responding, everytime will be like that whenever I try to download some small attachment, what might cause the problem I don't want to reinstall or do restore or something, just hope to fix my IE7 on my Vista, thanks. p.s. Vista really really Wow! Check out the windows vista help and support site, better place to get help about any problems like that. http://windowshelp.m ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Black Screen Window1.xaml and App.xaml

  I get a Black Screen on the Window1.xaml and App.xaml, No Form is showing up except for when i run the Debugger... Running VS 2005,Vista Build 5472...Orcas Installed,WWF Installed,Windows SDK (Documention,Vista headers and Libs, Win32 and .NET 3.0 Desktop Tools).. Cant see the Form,Cant drag and drop any objects from the toolbar onto either .xaml ,Also produces an error right off the bat:: Error 1 Could create an instance of type 'Window'. I am having the same problem. Any solutions as of yet I have a intel core 2 duo e6600. ati x800gto graphics card. Just installed July Windows SDK. VS2005. And the Orcas July ctp I believe. I am on Vista build 5536. ...Show All

• SQL Server BUG: UPDATE updates not listed fields

  Hi Everybody, I am in this forum for a first time. Today, I think, I found a bug in SQL Server 2000. I tried it on SQL Server 2005 and it is alive yet. Before I explain exact the problem I have a stupid question. Is there any type of award if I have found a real bug. It is about a situation when I try to update some fields in a table and I get updated some other wrong fields. There aren't any triggers ot something else. Create a new table, insert one row, update some fields but other ones get changed too. Is there something known about this Thanks, Hristo. Mike, This is a simple example what happens: ************************************************************************ CREATE TABLE [db ...Show All

• .NET Development read xml from internet

  Hi, I want to read an xml file from the internet. The file is provided by a web site and is a result of a query. More precisely, this link http://www.localcallingguide.com/xmlprefix.php npa=250&nxx=423 produce an xml file. How can i get it in .net I have tried a webrequest and I always get a timeout exception. Thanks the @ symbol only applies for C#, its for escaping escape characters. the firewall is the most likely cause you are not being able to retrieve the data from the site (Timeout) and wanted to suggest this well before but wanted to make sure I knew for certain. ...Show All

• SQL Server How to export report to separate excel sheet by different parameter

  How to export report to separate excel sheet Does reporting service support it Can I export report to separate sheet by parameter Thank you! I do not believe this is supported in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services; however, it is supported in Softartician's office writer software that works with reporting services. You may check it out at the url below: http://officewriter.softartisans.com/officewriter-250.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Datagridview combobox after update

  All, I have a datagridview bound to a datatable with a combo box column and a text box column. When the user selects a value from the combo box I need to update the text box column with a value based on the selection from the combo box. Can anyone help Thanks in advance Here is one more piece of code that seems helpful when working with dgvcbc's object objFormattedValue = cboc.DataGridView.CurrentCell.EditedFormattedValue; object objValue = cboc.DataGridView.CurrentCell.ParseFormattedValue(objFormattedValue, cboc.DataGridView.CurrentCell.Style, null, null); In the previous post example you could probably use sender from the event arguments. Happy coding. ;)~ ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Service Broker : "Task Scheduler"

  Hi, I'm looking to run a "job" on a SQL database regularly (like scheduled by a "task scheduler") to updated my database. It appears I can use SQL Service broker to run such a job. Can I embed a "task scheduler" inside my SQL Server database to trigger this job each X seconds Hi Gerald, I put together an test app based on your suggested design, and works nicely! After running " BEGIN CONVERSATION TIMER ( @conversationHandle ) TIMEOUT = @queueSeconds ;", I see the message in the queue @queueSeconds later (great!). One additional feature that I'm trying to accomplish... There are many variants of the "job" I need to run (these jo ...Show All