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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE while build of first example in help how to do

  I used to code in pascal, cobol, assembly, basic, etc, but not C. From: Your First Game: Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express in 2D following along and doing the first build, I get the error above. I did not think I was calling the 3d engine only the 2d. I cannot find any help on the error, where to look, etc, except what is in the error window when you cursor over it. I cannot figure out how to copy the error in that popup window to look at it further. I know some dislike nubies, but please help if you know the answer. Its disheartening to type in only 6 lines of code and not be able to debug it! To say the least. Thanks OH OH OH, I figured out how to copy the error: Error 1 Building content threw InvalidOperationExcept ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XOR pen

  Hi, how can I draw a XOR line It is of course for rubber band, but I don't want to use black and white dashing and I don't want to use any fill... so I do not see any other solution than painting XOR... is there Thanks for any idea. PS: Or if I could make a custom pen which will get the underlaying color and provide it's own function of output color... take a look at the following thread. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1070247&SiteID=1 And there are several other threads out there that talk about various techniques. ( Search on xor, or rubber band ) Paul ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to record from 'Wave' or 'Stereo Mix' in Vista?

  Hi all, I wrote the following question in other forum space but some MSFT guy told me to try this forum for my question. I hope I could get right answer as soon as possible here. On Windows XP or earlier, I could capture the audio stream to the speacker not from the external device (maybe endpoint device in Vista) like the microphone. In other words, D irectSoundCapture was able to capture from the selected recording device/source line in the Windows record control utility or mixerXXX APIs. And if "Wave Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix" or something similar was selected as recording source line, D irectSoundCapture was able to record the audio stream to the speacker. However, I could not find the way to do tha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions NotifyIcon's will not show

  I have a NotifyIcon and i put this code in to make it show but it will not show... NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(1234567890) NotifyIcon1.Visible = True Any help If you are talking about the 'showballoontip' not showing, see my second post in http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=947171&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• .NET Development How Can I Navigating Through A Database In ADO.NET

  Hi, I am rewriting a VB6 application that is using ADO to C# using ADO.NET. What I would like to do seems simple enough, I have a form with several textboxes, comboboxes, and checkboxes. I would like to open a Access database, read its contents, then populate the form. I also need to go to the next record, go to the previous record etc. Here is the code for the current VB6 application: Set cnn1 = New Connection cnn1.CursorLocation = adUseClient strCnn = "Provider=sqloledb;" & "Data Source=g-32488;Initial Catalog=uwdb;User Id=;Password=; " strCnn = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\test.mdb" cnn1.Open strCnn Set adoPrimaryRS = New Recordset adoPrimaryRS.CursorLocation ...Show All

• Windows Forms Seeking sample code for DataGridView

  All, I am quite familiar with ASP.NET but am struggling with WindowForms.NET. I am hoping you can help. The application is very simple: I have a database with two tables that are related: TABLE 1 - tbl1_ID tbl1_col1 tbl1_col2 tbl1_tbl2_ID TABLE 2 - tbl2_ID tbl2_col1 What I would like to do is to display a DataGrid with the following columns: tbl1_col1 | tbl1_col2 | tbl2_col1 where tbl2_col1 is in a ComboBox column. The user should be able to edit any row and add new rows. If a new value is typed into the ComboBox, this should create a new row in TABLE 2. I know exactly how to do this under ASP.NET 2.0, but am really struggling with WindowForms. Would you please point me to an e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Excel VBA code to Visual Studio Express

  I am working with a programme in Excel, with a lot of code. Is it possible to in any way use this code Thanks in advance The structure and logic can be used in .Net, however the syntax and keywords used in VBA are not the same as VB .NET. You also have the capability of using VSTO, which will enable you to use Excel's classes and objects through VB: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/tool/vsto/default.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio SourceSafe integration and "Show Differences" dialog

  Having successfully developed a C#-usercontrol "VSSBrowser" using VSS OLE Automation, I was sad to see that it's impossible to invoke "Show Differences", "View/Edit" and "Properties" dialogs via OLE. And that's the last thing left to get a fully functional control. I googled a bit and found out that "Microsoft SourceSafe SCC Provider" (SSSCC.DLL) should be used to invoke those dialogs. I examined this DLL with "Dependency Walker" and seems I even found the necessary functions; at least two of them - SccDiff ans SccProperties. The problem is that I have no idea of how to use this API in my C# project. I couldn't find any samples or articles in the Net; at the same time I remember t ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies sharepoint 2003 little bug versus 2007

  You know that little message displayed on sharepoint pages when we want to add new item. Add New item page. I am talking about the message: ''* INDICATES A REQUIRED FIELD'' When I checked the rendered html of the page, sharepont renders the page as: <BR><font>&nbp;* indicates a required field... and the BR tag is NOT closed with </BR> Whereas in 2007 there is no: <BR> tag. 2007 renders as <span>&nbp;* indicates a required field </span> in 2003 the <BR> tag is not closed and that creates a problem for me while programming based on the context html of the rendred html. My question: how do I get rid of the <BR> tag when sharepoint 2003 renders the add new item You might consider this qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 automatically checks out all c++ projects (but not C# projects), when working offline

  Hi all, I use VS2005 and clearcase on my notebook. I have a snapshot view so that I am able to work when I'm not in the office. When I open a solution in this snapshot view, when I'm not connected to the company network, VS2006 tells me that it can't connect to Source Control and asks me if I want to 1. Work temporarily offline 2. Remove all Source Control information 3. Manually change Source Control   I choose "work temporarily offline". I have a solution that contains several c++ projects and several c# projects (all converted from VS2003) and when I choose to work temporarily offline, VS2005 automatically checks out all the c++ project files, although there is no change for these files. I always have to undo t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow doesn't return always current state

  I am using Window workflow foundation Beta 2. I am using workflow in web application. I have created workflow containing following states and activities. 1) UnSubmitted (Initial State) Submitted - State Changed to Awaiting Apporoval 2) Awaiting_Apporoval Approve - State Changed to Apporved Disapporve - State Changed to Disapporved 3) Apporved (Final State) 4) Disapporved Resubmit - State Changed to Awaiting_Apporoval When i fire event to call submitted activity of UnSubmiited state. it runs without error but when i try to fetch current state after firing event below is my code if ( this .SubmittedPAF != null ) { this .SubmittedPAF( this , args); } StateMachineWorkflowInstance sta ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS XML Configuration updating at runtime

  How can I update a variable in the XML configuration file. Can I use the configuration object for it or do I need to use XML objects and do it just like any other XML file Another problem I have is, I know I can reference the same XML config file from 2 different packages. But every time I do that through the wizard, only the last package configurations are placed in the XML file. Any help is appreciated!   Hi Jamie, Right on the spot. That is exactly why I need this. I will pull records delta from a vendor and I need to persist the date somewhere. I've seen code with LoadPckage and app.LoadFromSQL etc. It seems not logical to load the same package while still in the package script ta ...Show All

• SQL Server Where to define KPI's - in SSAS or not?

  Hi there, Newbie question. We are building a BI module for our application, where we hope to define our KPI's in SSAS 2005, and then let the customer hook up their BI front-end of choice. The problem is - there are not many BI front-end tools out there that leverage SSAS 2005 KPI's. So what is the recommended long term strategy - will most vendors eventually support the SSAS 2005 KPI's, or will SSAS KPI's just fade away What is MIcrosoft telling its ISV partners - start support the KPI"S in SSAS 2005, or wait till PerformancePoint Server Thanks! Keeping in mind that Excel 2007 supports AS 2005 KPI's "out of the box", and that Sharepoint 2007 comes with a KPI Web Part, KPI' ...Show All

• SQL Server Not able to initialize scripting engine

    I have a DTS package that is running under SQL 2005 (64-bit Itanium).  It has a data driven query in it and I receive the following error: ActiveX Scripting Transform 'DTSTransformation__1' was not able to initialize the script execution engine I don't want to have to re-register any DLLs if I don't have to.  Shouldn't this work out of the box Any ideas I think the SSIS forum can better field this question. Paul A. Mestemaker II Program Manager Microsoft SQL Server Manageability http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlrem/ ...Show All

• .NET Development Anti-XSS Library errors

  After many long hours of trying to get a precoded service connector to work properly on a shared host, I came across some findings: - Directory access capability sucks/is impossible/is nil - Doing anything that requires elevated security priveledges means your screwed, and have to rewrite your code - Special string parsing requires elevated security priveledges It makes sense for the first two, and they are almost common sense, however the third one threw me. I was using the antixsslibrary.dll written by Microsoft in the local environment, where security priveledges are defaulted. When I switched over to the shared hosting, I came across multiple errors, namely the string parsing error. (this was done a while ago, curiosity is bringi ...Show All