Danklord's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problems putting a game on another PC

  Hi I've searched through some threads where people have the same problem, but none of the responses I've seen seem to work for me while trying to run a game on another PC in my home. While working fine on my programming computer, the game will crash (when I try to run it on my other computer. I have done the following so far: Installed the latest version of DX9.0c on that PC Installed the .net framework 2.0 (not to mention some security fixes and such for it) on that PC Installed the xna framework (1.0) on that PC Made sure that when publishing, under the prerequisites, I have the two xna framework dlls set to 'include' instead of 'prerequisite' The only thing I can think of as a possible problem is that the computer I'd like to put it ...Show All

• .NET Development There was an error while trying to serialize parameter

  I tried to write a simple WCF example: With datacontract: <DataContract(Namespace:= "http://MyPhoneBook" )> _ Public Class LE <DataMember()> _ Public m_name As String Public Sub New ( ByVal name As String ) m_name = name End Sub End Class and servicecontract <ServiceContract(Namespace:= "http://MyPhoneBook" )> _ Public Interface IPhoneBook <OperationContract()> _ Function getLE() End Interface The implementation of the server returns a simple Test-LE: Public Function getLE() As Object Implements PhoneBookContract.IPhoneBook.getLE Return New LE( "Test" ) End Function I generated the client proxy with svcutil. So, when I start server ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can we host DSL designer in a custom host application?

  Is it possible to create a designer host to host DSL diagramming This way we can create a designer host using Visual Studio but won't need Visual Studio to create a diagram. If it's feasible, would it be allowed per license/distribution agreement Hi Santabo, I believe Alan was suggesting that you could generate your own graphical application from your DSL model. Unfortunately, in V1, using our graphical design surface outside of Visual Studio is not supported. ...Show All

• .NET Development Determine either Remote File Size or Time Stamp of remote file over HTTP

  Is there a way I can use the System.net namespace to determine either the time stamp of a ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How do I open CSV using Excel without deleting leading zeros?

  Hello, Whenever I open up a CSV file or a Text file, Excel treats string like 05710 as a number and turn it into 5710. How do I open up a CSV file and still keep the leading zeros Thank you very much. Thank you very much. That sounds like a good idea because it skips the screen refresh slowness. Maybe I can create a Range object and then swap that with Cells. That will be so fast. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can Visual Studio 2005 proffesional coexist with Visual Studio 2005 Developer?

  Hello I would like to know if anyone have tried to install and run different Visual Studio 2005 editions on the same machine Thank you Kind Regards Mikael Olesen To be honest I have never tried this out but as far as I know you can only install the following side-by-side: One of the Visual Studio 2005 editions side-by-side with one of the Express Editions; Visual Studio 2005 with different languages but the same edition and feature set; Visual Studio 2005 and previous versions of Visual Studio with the same language; ...Show All

• Visual C# Controling Controls from other Forms

  Hello! I have to Windows Forms - Main.cs and Menu.cs I would like to control the richTextBox control from the Menu.cs Windows Form. The richTextBox control is located on Main.cs. How can I do that: For example how can I execute the "copy" method of the richTextBox which is on Main.cs from Menu.cs. Please help! Thx Matt When you create the form its create a partial class for that now go to the form right click on its Initialize() and go to defination at the end of file there will declaration of all controls you can find your richtext box there now modify it to be static. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Help me snap to device pixels...

  Why can't I get SnapsToDevicePixels to work <Window x:Class="WindowsApplication1.Window1" xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " Title="WindowsApplication1" Height="300" Width="300" SnapsToDevicePixels="True"> <Grid SnapsToDevicePixels="True"> <ScrollViewer Background="Black" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" SnapsToDevicePixels="True"> <Image Source="checkerboard.bmp" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center&qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Animating A Polygon?

  Hi I have a polygon made up of a PointCollection...Is there any way to animate the points as a group I tried to name the points and animated them individually, but naming points is not allowed. You can either dot down to the points using TargetPath, or convert the Polygon over to a Path containing a PathGeometry: <Canvas xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml "> <Canvas.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Canvas.Loaded"> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <PointAnimation By="-20,-20" Duration="0:0:2" RepeatB ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What is the upper limit of user numbers in VSTS during load testing?

  Hi, We are try to perform some load testing with a number of users and have discovered that when we run our load test from Visual Studio it seems to really hog CPU... even if we are only running 1-2 users it runs at a constant 100%. This result in numerous threshold errors in the test results as out of the box the Agent processor has a threshold of 95% (from memory). The test still executes OK if we increase the number of users and of course the processor sits on 100% which is fine until we get to about 25 users. Once we get past this point it is almost as thought the test machine is so overwelmed that it can't actually run the tests. In other words the processor is still at 100% but we don't really see any activity on the machine we ar ...Show All

• Visual Basic Online SQL-Express database

  Hi everyone, I'm working with Visual Basic 2005 express edition for a while now, and I've recently started working with databases (using SQL Express). I figured the 'offline' part out now, so the end-users can now log in, and save high scores etc. Now my question is: is there a way to export this database to the internet (using a mySQL host like www.serverheaven.net ) so my program can access the database through internet and store things in it etc. These hosting providers work with mySQL though. I understand there is a significant difference between mySQL and SQL Express. Regards, Francois mySQL and SQL Express - completely different products. SQL express is designed to be a local databa ...Show All

• Architecture I want to know some good website for software architecture.

  I want to know some good website for software architecture. thanks not only ms sites http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/ ...Show All

• SQL Server can't find Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer after setup

  I downloaded the trial version of sql server 2005. but after installation, I couldnt find the Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. Any idea about that Thanks. Hi zhishan, I believe those services can be configured from control panel (turn windows features on or off). Check the boxes next to enterprise manager services and query analyzer, then ok, and windows wil configure and update for those services. ...Show All

• SQL Server problem when installing SQL 2005 Reporting services

  Dear all, i have a problem on installing SQL 2005,when i was installing SQL 2005,i select to install all components (DB services,Reporting Services,...etc) except SQL Notification services. the whole components were intalled properly except the reportingservices it was failed and it gave me Error # : 1603 Machine : Machine Name #### Product : Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Product Version : 9.00.1399.06 Install : Failed Log File : C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\Files\SQLSetup0004_XXX_RS.log Error Number : 1603 when i run the Reporting Configuration manager to try to get the problem,i got this error message : "The version of DB is in a format is that is not va ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I set Form's position to most behind?

  I want to do this: When I leave Form1, it should go to behind of other all forms. How can I do this Thanks and regards... When the form is deactivated call SendToBack to send it to the bottom of the Z-order. Determining when the form is deactivated is a separate story. You could do that when the form loses focus or when it is truly deactivated. Michael Taylor - 2/1/07 http://p3net.mvps.org ...Show All