DavidR100's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. really really need help

  ya... umm, about that, I have no idea what im doing. It just seems so... complicated. I understand how to modify games but i'm pretty new at C# considering ive had it for a week. I thought making my own games would be awesome but now im lost sooo....... Can somebody either send me like links where you can download games and modify em or just help to explain it to me If ya can it greatly appreiciated. Thanks again! Hi, one good place to start is the new XNA framework: http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/XNA/default.aspx It has a sample game which you can check and modify. You also have lots of C# and DirectX tutorials in the net to get you started. Just search for C# DirectX or C# DirectX games. It will ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Z-order

  Is z-order (relative to canvas) something I should set explicitly in this version of FW as well The inquery is why z-order to setted itself by object or it's parent. E.g. while adding childs into some element I'd expect that z-order of those childs will update accoring it's position in child's array ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What does Build and Deploy Mean?

  Can anyone tell me what it means to 1) Build a project Building say a C# app means to rebuild all the source files to create an executable. It's not clear to me what it means to rebuild my database project. 2) Deploy a project I suspect this means more than just synchronizing my database project to some target database. Thanks - Amos. Howard, I would say that if your process works for you - then you are using the product correctly. I've been using DBPro as long as anyone and I'm a firm believer that having a proper process in place is integral to the proper use of DBPro. Its up to you what that process is. -Jamie ...Show All

• Visual Basic searching for & highlighting text

  hi, i am trying to make my application search for text (in a combobox called "comboboxfind") in a listbox ("showbox") when i click on a button (called "findnow") can someone help me Public Class Form1 Dim search As String = "" Private Sub ComboBox1_SelectionChangeCommitted( ByVal sender _ As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _ Handles ComboBox1.SelectionChangeCommitted loc.Clear() index = 0 search = CStr (ComboBox1.SelectedItem).ToUpper FindNext.Enabled = False Dim line As String For Each line In ListBox1.Items If InStr(line.ToUpper, search) <> 0 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get additional browser choices for VSTS 2005?

  My copy of VSTS 2005 allows me to select IE 6.0 as my browser choice when running my automated/load tests. How do I get additional browser choices (Firefox 2 or 1.5, IE7, and Opera if possible) for VSTS 2005 when running my automated/load tests Thank you guys for your help! This is discussed in the following post. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=167611&SiteID=1 The post refers to Firefox, but the steps apply to any type of browser you would like to add. Thanks, Rick ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to access a Pervasive database from Win CE 5.0-device?

  Im about to begin develop an application for a device running Win CE 5.0. My developing environment is VS 2005. I would like the application to access a Pervasive database. The problem is that Pervasive doesnt have a client for Win CE. What options do I have ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting SharePoint security in sub-folders

  In Team Explorer we can add folders to the Documents folder. Each of these folders that are immediate children of Documents are considered Document Libraries. Security can be configured for these document libraries. Is there a way to setup security in SharePoint for sub-folders within a document library It seems that whenever we try to do just that we are directed to setup security for the parent document library and not the sub-folder. If this is possible for Document Library sub-folders, can security be set for Reports and Team Builds sub-folders Thanks for the response. Hopefully this will be supported soon. Having too many folders at the root level begins to become cluttered. We wanted to implement a document structure to s ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) No appropriate XAML tags for inline code

  According to the documentation (...), in an XAML document one can have inline code which contains, say, C# code for event handlers. Is it possible to insert such code in an XAML created with Visual Studio If yes, what is the correct tag which should contain the CDATA element In the articles that I consulted, either <def:Code> or <x:Code> is used; however, these tags always generate errors when I try to compile the project. This is what I did: - I created a new project (WPF or XAML browser); - in the XAML editor, I added some controls - say, a <Button>; - I added a handler for the button, with ' Click="OnClick" ' - I wanted to have the code of the handler in the XAML file. For this I tried to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Programmatically editing rows in bound DataGridView

  I have a DataGridView which I have bound to a datasource. bindSource = new BindingSource(); bindSource.DataSource = eventList; bindSource.DataMember = "Events"; eventsGrid.AutoGenerateColumns = false; eventsGrid.DataSource = bindSource; The user can enter data only through a form, which is displayed as a modal dialog. After he fills it in and clicks OK, the data he entered should be added to the DGV as a new row. eventsGrid.EditMode = DataGridViewEditMode.EditProgrammatically; eventsGrid.BeginEdit(false); eventList.Events.Add(tempEvent); this.BindingContext[eventsGrid.DataSource].EndCurrentEdit(); The problem is that when I do this, I get the following error message : "Operation ...Show All

• Visual Basic Intercept/Detect File Modifications (Create, Delete, Modify)

  I've checked out the FileSystemWatcher sample from MSDN. It works perfectly to notify you that a file was deleted/modified. But only after the fact. My question is, how can VB intercept a file operation I'm trying to create an application that protects files from being modified or deleted. Or at least display a dialog that a file is going to be modified/deleted. Similar to these applications... http://www.syssafety.com/product.html http://winpooch.free.fr/page/home.php lang=en&page=home It can watch folders. The problem is VB cant halt/pause/freeze the write activity. Only notify you after the activity has been completed. So really from what I gather the FileSystemWatcher is only an FYI typ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Designer Error - Could not find type 'System.Collections.Generic.List>'

  I'm fairly lost on why I can't get designer to work again. It apparently can't find a 'System.Collections.Generic.List>' type which is slightly off. I don't know why there's the '>' at the very end but the list that it is referring to is a List<SortableBindingList<BindingCommandData>>. This all works correctly and the application is fine, but designer can't start. Any ideas Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic Code to set "manager can update membership list" in ADUC

  I am having a problem getting some code to work in vbscript and vb.net 2005. I have a need to programmatically setup groups with a manager and set that manager with the "manager can update membership list". I have a small script I have put together in vbscript that does set the proper permission, but it doe NOT check the box when you look in ADUC. Here is the vbscript to start: [code] Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://CN=tst1,OU=Groups,DC=my,DC=domain") Set objSecDescriptor = objGroup.Get("ntSecurityDescriptor") Set objDACL = objSecDescriptor.discretionaryAcl Set objACE3 = CreateObject("AccessControlEntry") objACE3.Trustee = "domain\user" objACE3.AceFlags = 0 objACE3.AceType = 5 objACE3.Fl ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development There seems to be an error with this layer

  Hay gays!! I have installed the IE7 on my machine and when I run one of my web site it pop the follwoing message "There seems to be an error with this layer Frame:[Object] Layer.*..." Any body have any idea what to do Thanks in advance Thanks! I encountered this issue at work today and was able to fix it in minutes! Now it will just take 2 weeks to go through DEV, QA and Production! LOL! Very helpful. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)

  Hi, I've been working with VIsual Studio 2005 for a good few months now, and i've been working on macro's in Outlook to perform a task. I've now come to try it out more professionally with the VSTO SE and now, whenever i attempt to open a 'New Project' Outlook Add-in, and everytime as it attempts to load, i get the following error with no other information: Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)) I read another post of someone with the same error, but not in the same situation - and the solution was to re-install the 'Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components' but i had no such luck with this re-installation, Thanks a lot! well i thought that at first, but just to test what th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error ActiveDS in COM+

  Hi, Iam still confused that VB General is the correct space where I can submit my request. Anyways, since my language of programming is VB.NET, I believe that this space can help me in resolving my issue. Scenario: Since COM+ mut be strong named, so activeds.tlb has assigned a strong name key pair by command "tlbimp". However, when an application get access the function of a COM+ class, it returns an error. The error number is 5; description is "The format of the file 'ActiveDs' is invalid.". The code of the class is shown below: Option Strict Off Option Explicit On <EventTrackingEnabled(), JustInTimeActivation()> _ Public Class objLogonServer ...Show All