JawKnee's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Help! How can I make it check for updates? (MSI, non ClickOnce)

  Hello all, Is there some documentation or walk through somewhere for programming the application to automaticlly check a specified location on the internet for updates every time the app if fired up I have a very simple program I have to deploy with MSI, so I loose the extremely important auto-update feature of ClickOnce. Any help is appreciated as I am just fumbling my way thru all this and feel slightly overwhelmed. AFAIK you can't do it in the VS setup and deployment projects without using the clickonce. Perhaps using the more "professional" but "over complicated" installer products like InstallShield may have such a feature. I personally create a webservice which then applications hook up to t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I would like to Dev With XNA but already have Visual Studio 2005 Prof, Do I have to Install Express?

  Where do I download the framework See this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1062419&SiteID=1 Bottom line, you need to install Express to get the necessary libs. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Plain ContentTypeReader

  Hi I have been reading through the forum for hours now and there is something I do not quite understand: Any class that is required for readers comes from Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline. This library is not available for the Xbox 360, thus leading me to the conclusion that it is currently not possible to write a custom ContentTypeReader for the Xbox 360. Is that correct My other problem is that I do not want to write an importer as I use an application to compile my models. I only want to write a ContentTypeReader to load it into XNA at runtime. Is that possible without utilising the ContentTypeWriter.GetRuntimeReader function cheers Daniel So I have to add all files I want to use to the projec ...Show All

• Visual Basic Date. IsDate instead of IsNumeric .

  hi all how can i write Date (dd/mm/yyyy)  in textbox without using Date and Time picker in vb.net in other words how can i use textbox in date format...... and ofcouse the date must be valid. Vimal Vimal_Rupera wrote: Thank you very much for your help. it shows me the date exactly in the format i wanted, but i am unable to enter/edit any date in that textbox. can you please give me solution for that.. thanks vimal Hi, When you get the date in the textbox, click in it and then don't delete all of a single number if you can ( else you get my error message i thought you wanted date checking anyway ) , and keep the day in the range for that month. Don't try deleting the forward slas ...Show All

• .NET Development What type of collection to use

  I am going to be doing 2 for loops.  One cycles through one set of ProductIDs and another cycles through a different set of ProductIDs. I want to add Each Product ID, ProductID to a collection.  I'm not sure what I should use, a hashtable example: foreach(Product p in myvariable1) {     add p.ProductID to collection and call it ParentProductID } foreach(Product p in myvariable2) {     add p.ProductID to collection and call it RelatedProductID } I will retrieve the hash table later and use it in a call to my method which insert each Pair into a Relationship table and so I'm gonna want to cycle through that collection and do something like this: foreach (value pair in my collection of ProductIDs) {     ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista issuedTokenAuthentication\knownCerticates Validation Problem

  Hi, I am in the midst of porting over the Remote STS samples (from here) to the July CTP. I am faced with an issue that I totally have no idea how to solve. My Service config behaviour config looks like this:    <serviceBehaviors>     <behavior name="serviceBehavior">      <serviceCredentials>       <serviceCertificate findValue="Fabrikam" x509FindType="FindBySubjectName"  storeLocation="LocalMachine" storeName="My"/>       <clientCertificate>        <authentication certificateValidationMode="None"  revocationMode="NoCheck" />       </ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Confused about install requirements.

  Hi, I have been reading the posts w.r.t install requirements for VSTE DBPro RTM. I have a MSDN Universal subscription and hence have VSTE SP1 installed. That is what came in my MSDN subscription. My understanding is that I can't install VSTE DBPro RTM. Is this right I suppose my first thought is how can this be Then my second thought is how can I get VSTE DBPro RTM installed without changing my install of VSTE (because I need it work, i.e. no trial jazz). There seems to be some confusion between what the read me states and CTP6 -> CTP7 changes. Can someone clarify the install requirements for MSDN folks Thanks, -Allen Alle (and Mickey), Thanks for all your help! I re-read the readme.h ...Show All

• Windows Forms Tab Contol Help...

  I posted this in another part of the forums and didnt get much replies about my first question so i will past the first half of my question here. Hi everyone, some of you have helped me with opening a new form NewEvent neform = new NewEvent(); neform.Show(); which i understand just fine but i was wondering how do i open up and new form with the tab control on it, and make it so that when it open it will open straight to that tab instead of click on the tab for example say you have 2 tabs "tab1=Meeting, tab2= Things to do". and then you go to File>New>Meeting or File>New>Things to do, and it will go straight to that tab, how do i make OpenMode enum public p ...Show All

• Windows Forms access components of a derived form from the base form

  Suppose a base form and a derived one. Controls added on base form and controls added on derived form are added in the same collection. However components are added in seperate collections. Is there a way for the base form to access the components of the derived form ...Show All

• SQL Server move the database file to another location

  I have the database on the SQLDBSRV server but the sapec is not enough for the data and I want to move the file to another server SQLFILESRV without moving the whole server.. I mean just the data file.. Is that possible then is it possible to map the network drive so it will be D or E on the server and move the file to it another questions plz: what files should i move just the mdf file ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Problem with WDS Filter

  Hi - I recently upgraded to the most recent version of WDS (2.6.5 ) and Windows Live toolbar. Maybe not a good thing to do at once, but I now get the following error message literally dozens of times a day: " Windows Desktop Search Filter has encountered a problem and needs to close. " I select the "Send Error Report" button (Microsoft should have received a few hundred from me by now) and continue with what I'm doing. I notice that it happens only after I start Outlook 2003. If I leave my computer alone (eg. not start Outlook), it indexes quietly in the background without a problem. I haven't noticed whether it occurs after I open some other ap, such as Internet Explorer, which I'm currently using IE 7, Beta 2. O ...Show All

• SQL Server help me!beginner create database password

  I've learn DotNetNuke.I don't know how to create passID and userID for database sqlserver2005 express.someone help me.Thanks!thanks! I've created new users name"dnnusers" and set some permissions but I've recieved some instructions: "Grant failed for Database 'DotNetNuke'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)"why ...Show All

• SQL Server Setting SQL server Express maximum memory usage

  Hi All, How can we set the maximum memory usage for SQL server Express I have tried setting it in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express - Memory option, but it didn't have any effect.A problem I'm facing now is that the sqlservr memory usage keeps increasing and eventually slows down my application. Is there a way to set the upper limit or clear the unused memory Thank you. Regards, Lawrence Hi all, thanks for the reply. Well, by setting the max server memory doesn't seem to be the solution because this will only influence the memory from buffer pool, and there are still a lot of other memories holding up, like the query execution cache, transaction log buffer, etc where you can find the ...Show All

• Windows Forms Interrupt BeginInvoke

  Hello, in the last two hours I tried to understand if it is possible to terminate from the calling thread a method called asynchronously using the BeginInvoke pattern, but I was not able to find any solutions. Can you help me to get an answer to this question Thanks in advance, Marco No. All you got is an IAsyncResult, not enough to get a reference to the thread pool thread. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Compilers: Visual Studio Vs Turbo C++ for DOS version 1.01

  Hi I have a code that compiles using Turbo C++ for DOS version 1.01 from http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,21751,00.html What is that I need to do so that it cmpiles on Visual Studio as well When I tried it needed some *.h files. I copied them (from the Turbo C environment) and put it in there - now it says "no compiler tool is associated with the file extension" I am not happy with the Turbo C++ for DOS version 1.01. That is why I am trying it on Visual Studio - could someone offer help so that I can make it to work Thanks What is the correct interpretation of "no compiler tool is associated with the file extension" ...Show All