flagrant99's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What is the meaning of loadAllContent?

  I'm not sure I understand the meaning of the parameter loadAllContent to the function Game.LoadGraphicsContent. According to the documentation it is: "true if all graphics resources need to be loaded; false if only manual resources need to be loaded." But what are manual resources Thanks in advance, Per Rasmussen. So if loadAllContent is false I should only load the graphics resources that haven't been loaded through the ContentManager and was "labeled" as manual. However, if it's true I should also load all resources which is loaded thru the ContentManager. Is this correct If so, what good is a ContentManager if I have to reload the resources myself anyway ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding a previously deleted directory

  Hi, We've come up with an interesting issue with TFS that I'm hoping to find a workaround for. We had a directory named 'Core' (with a number of sub directories) in source control which was deleted. Sometime after this a directory with the same name, and existing at the same position in the directory structure, was added rather than undeleting the old directory. This has caused the old deleted directory and previous structure to not be viewable in Source Control Explorer - the only way to view them is by syncing back to a change before 'Core' was readded. This causes a number of problems, such as not being able to undelete the old structure (due to the existance of the new directory) and not being able to view the old source without pri ...Show All

• SQL Server Question on Internal Activiation

  Hi Could it be assumed that a stored procedure, activated internally by Service Broker, is executed under the same environmental variables (resource allocation specifically) than when that same stored procedure is executed via an EXEC statement from a non-Service Broker procedure When I have 10 of these procedures running (somewhat concurrently) overall performance is not even close as to when I let Service Broker activate the procedure via 10 messages on the queue. If all variables are equal than I am not sure why this is. Or is it possible that everything is not equal Thanks Paul Thank you for your response Rushi. Makes perfect sense based on what I am seeing. The app is database centric with some limi ...Show All

• .NET Development make an internet dialer in c#.Net

  hello all, I am to make an application using C# .Net which automatically dials the isp(internet service provider) and connects to internet. If the internet disconnects, it redial again automatically and reconnect. It is totally new taks as I am working in web page developement and have almost no idea of such tasks. Please help me and assist me. Thanks to all indeed, Launch app: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=736300&SiteID=1 Ping: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229713.aspx I hope that this help you :) Regards. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions pasting capability in textboxes seems variable, any ideas?

  Hello all, I've written essentially two version of the same application.In the first version, the textboxes allow users to paste text into them (via Ctrl + V). However, I've noticed that in the second version, for some reason, the textboxes don't allow the user to paste information into them. I've written both using the same version of vb.net express, and all of the textboxes have the same preferences selected (to the best of my knowledge). In fact, I've coppied and pasted one of the working textboxes (one that allows pasting) into the second app, and it no logner accepts pasting. Does anyone know what might cause the applications to act in this manner How can I change this! Thanks so much for any input or ideas. -Robert I've not ...Show All

• SQL Server Basic package is causing an error

  I'm getting the following error message on a basic copy from a datareader (using an ODBC datasource) to a sqlnativeclient. There are no transformations or anything. Don't know what is going on. Any insights are appreciated. [SQL Server Destination [361]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E14. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Could not bulk load because SSIS file mapping object 'Global\DTSQLIMPORT ' could not be opened. Operating system error code 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). Make sure you are accessing a local server via Windows security.". Jamie Thomson wrote: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Determine the location of the template

  Hi, I have started to create an add-in that will interact with a SharePoint list when the a new document is created from a SharePoint document library. The add-in is created and reacts on the NewDocument event, but I can not find any property on the Word application object (or in ActiveDocument) that tells me from which location the template was loaded/started. What I want to know is: Which document library have the user used for creating this new document Regards, // Henrik Hi Henrik Just renaming a file from doc to dot won't turn it into a real template. A template contains structures a document does not. To create a template from an existing document it must be opened in Word ...Show All

• Windows Forms EndcurrendEdit and datagrid in vb.net 2003

  Hi i have a datagrid and textboxes bound to a dataview. (dvdatasource) i got a save routine in a sub like this: BindingContext( Me .DvDatasource).EndCurrentEdit() If DvDatasource.Table.DataSet.HasChanges Then      SqladADMVormen.Update(DvDatasource.Table.DataSet) End If When i change a value in a textbox and calling the routine without tab o moving to an other control the haschanges results true and the update ix executed But when i edit a cel on the datagrid and doing the same the haschanges results in false It looks like the endcurrendedit does nothing in these curcumstances. Remco     Hi You could use a BindingSource, assin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Showing "1 000" instead of "1000" in textbox.

  OIkai, this might be very simple, but I have a textbox with "1000000" in it. And I want it to be shown as "1 000 000". There must be a way to get the data out and change it, and then put it back in the textbox again. Anyone know how And question 2, I found a old vb6 code: If KeyAscii > 26 Then If InStr("0123456789", Chr(KeyAscii)) = 0 Then KeyAscii = 0 Its for making a texbox accept numbers only, but it keeps giving me error on KeyAscii. How can I make it work in vb exp DMan1 wrote: Use a masked textbox to setup the format that you want displayed in the textbox... You can also use the following in a textbox to restrict user input to numeric values: Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress ( ByVal sender As Object , ...Show All

• .NET Development Creating a Search using VB.NET and SQL

  Okay, I have ran into a problem with my Search engine for my database i created in VS.NET (phonelist.mdf). I have an <asp:GridView> setup for the results. I have been trying to read up on SQL and implement my own search but here is what i am running into. I launch the program and it runs fine until it gets to MyCommand.Connection.Open() . The error is InvalidOperationException was unhandled by user , The ConnectionString property has not been initialized. Here is my code for the search. <% @ Page Language ="VB" AutoEventWireup ="false" CodeFile ="phonelist_search.aspx.vb" Inherits ="phonelist_search" %> <! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 T ...Show All

• Visual Basic Bound Form Dirty

  This should be fall off the log simple for a brand new development environment, but... In VS2005 b2 I have a bound windows form. How do I determine if the user has made changes to the data TIA What events This issue is exactly the issue i am trying to get an answer for in my current post at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=696784&SiteID=1 If you have any insight i would be very happy. Jerry Cicierega ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office OLE err in VST2003 Startup Wizard

  I purchased Visual Studio Tools(2003) mainly for the Developer Extentions so I could package my Access DB's. I have now finally ( ) have a had a need to give them a try. What I am running into is in the "Startup Wizard". When I check the "Startup" and the other "Checking" features( VBA etc.) I get the "on-click" OLE registration error. The message doesn't identify the OCX/OLE name and I know there is a way to register the OLE's at the command prompt but have forgotten how. I can access the startup options via the wizard, but, as soon as I return to the wizard is when I get the "on-click" OLE registration error. The Find VBA....., Find expressions.... and Find potiential missing...all ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Image Search

  The Image Search in live.com is very interesting. How can I search images in my computer hard drive using live.com Is there a SDK for Image Search I believe the "smart scroll" is "just" a virtualization of the scrollbar metaphor. When you start to get towards the end of the list, the control asks the server for more data. The downside is you don't know how much data is really in the entire set - the scrollbar thumbnail position no longer represents the view's relative position in the dataset. For finite data sets, this is annoying (seen it lots of times in SQL result set data grids, because it's usually difficult/expensive to get the total number of rows in the result set from the SQL server). But for virtually in ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiple render targets and multisampling

  Hi, I have this little problem you see. I want to render to multiple render targets (I'm going for Windows only. No xbox 360). Works fine and everyone is happy and the world is a pretty place. Until I turn on multisampling on my graphics device (PreferMultiSampling=true). Then I get nothing (or whatever was left in the video memory). If I only use one render target it works fine. Two, not so much. I have created the render targets using the same SurfaceFormat and multisampling as my device uses since I read somewhere that you can't have different multisample types on the rendertargets and the depthbuffer. Anyone got a clue on how to solve it In my case I can live without multisampling. I might even, at then end, decide it is ...Show All

• Windows Forms floating point control register

  I am having a problem with floating point exceptions after creating an instance of a COM object within in a Windows form application. The result of the floating point error is to stop a graph control (Component one .NET graph control) working - crashing the entire application - when the graph redraws. Using the standard fix - _controlfp(_CW_DEFAULT, 0xfffff) after the call sorts out the problem. My concern is how the problem occured in the first place. I have traced through the COM code, and everywhere I check eg in FinalConstruct the current word value is correct (0x9001F). It is immediately after the call has returned that the value has become 0x80003. How I don't know, but I would like to find out. int n1 = controlfp(_CW_DEFAULT, ...Show All