ToddKitta's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Web based application compliance testing

  I have a web based application and want it to port it on Windows Vista . What are the procedures I must follow to check for its compliance on safe deployment on Vista Hello VikasAgr, Please see the IE Compatibility Evaluator in the Application Compatiblity Toolkit 5.0 which can be found here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx SiteID=81 . The documentation can be found here http://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx SiteID=81&DownloadID=1570 Thanks! Matthew Braun ...Show All

• .NET Development How to: register a .Net assembly by remote

  Hi guys, Could someone please suggest the best way to register a .Net assembly (using Regsvcs.exe) from remote That is I want to call the regsvcs on a machine from another machine. Tanks in advance! Thanks Sean, Remote Desktop and VPN are not a good solution for me, for I need to trigger the registration automatically. Could you (or someone else) please tell me something more about login script Thanks a lot! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to uninstall Outlook Addin

  Hi, I have created one outlook addin project in which I have created one button named "Update database" which get added to outlook toolbar after installing. Now I have also created installer file for this project. When I install this installer to my system, I get the respected button into my outlook But when i uninstall this addin, Still I have the same button into outlook. I want this button should disappear after uninstalling. Thank you Again not clear, How & where can I write this code [ CommandBars("Index").Controls("Index").delete ] at client system where I have installed the addins through installer file. Thank you ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Smaller Exe once Manifest is apply

  Hello, I'd like to know if it is normal than the size of exe decrease once I put a manifest with mt.exe It looks strange to me, and I couldn't find information about this. Thanks in advance for any help, Regards, Okko Most resource editors (including mt.exe) clobber the 'end of file' data - data outside of the declared image sections in the executable.  I assume this is probably a setup or a self-extractor that you've tried to manifest, as these commonly make use of that technique as a place to house their payload. If that's the case, and the utility you're using doesn't have an option to add a custom manifest or have some built-in requestedExecutionLevel functionality, you can try ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to copy generated files using MSBuild Copy task

  This is what I’m trying to do: Generate xml file with doc comments during build (using standard project setting in VS or the /doc param) Take that generated file and copy it to another location. Sounds simple enough. This is how I’m doing it: I’ve added the DocumentationFile tag to my Debug property group in the project file: < PropertyGroup Condition = " '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' " > < DocumentationFile > bin\debug\MyProject.xml </ DocumentationFile > </ PropertyGroup > I’ve added a target containing a copy task to the project file: < Target Name = " AfterBuild " > < Copy Sourc ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Copying between textures

  Hi, I am currently working on a tile map engine and need the ability to build a texture (map) from my tile set which is a texture with all my tiles contained within it. I have been able to create a new texture but cannot see how I can copy sections of my tile set into this texture. If someone could give me some pointers, it would be much appreciated. TIA, Andy Well, not to make your work difficult, but the issue is really that some video cards DO have problems with images not being in a power of two. So you could make your game and it works fine for you and all but one of your friends who has a video card that chokes when an image isn't in powers of 2. Not that you have to support everyone, but it ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF Beginner Question

  our user base currently uses an ASP.NET web application. they are really happy with the 'look and feel' of the web pages. we want to move our users over to a .NET smart client application. however, my main concern is that our users will view the user interface as taking a step back from the existing web page layout. is it possible to build a .NET 3.0 application which has a friendly, scrollable user interface which looks closely akin to our existing web page layout, so that the users will not be put off or is this not recommended practice is this not standard practice where can i look at some demonstrations showing some recommended practice user interfaces for .NET 3.0 apps thanks These links ...Show All

• .NET Development InvalidCastException populating variables with info from MSAccess

  I am writing a web application that is selecting and inserting rows in MS Access. I need to attempt to select back a row of information where a row is equal to that provided by the user. If this row exists I am going write the information from each column into local variables. an example of code is below, as Soon as I hit the line "playerID = dRead1.GetInt32(1);" I get an 'InvalidCastException': The value on the database is a number....Any Ideas int playerID; double finesAccrued =0; double finesPaid =0; double finesOwed =0; try { // Select data for player from database string selCommand = "SELECT PLAYER_ID, PLAYER_NAME, TOTAL_FINES_ACC_07, TOTAL_FINES_OWED, TOTAL_FINES_PAID_07, DATE_OF_LAST_FINE, NUM_OF_FINES " ...Show All

• SQL Server Convert from Number to Text- Exporting to Excel from SQL Reporting services 2000

  I was trying to export a report which contains a number format. When I do that, all the numbers in excel will have a green small tag beside it saying "Convert from Number to Text". Is there anyway that I can change the format to a number when I export it to excel blocked !!! i Used FormatCurrency function in SSRS report. when i export into excel it again converted into text. But if suppose i didn't used FormatCurrency so it's work !!! Any solution for this!!! Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA RSS Feed Broken with 404.

  Not sure where I can put this but since this seems to be the only XNA forum on MSDN, I figured this would be a good place to stick it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/XNA/default.aspx The RSS link in the firefox URL bar goes to a 404 page. If you feel this is in the wrong place, and move it, Please Email me. Thank you. Aha, "mode=1", much better than the "mode=0" from the RSS feed icon on the bottom of the forum entry page. I thought it wasn't very useful to keep getting the sticky threads shown in my RSS feeds... heh. Thanks for the links. It still seems to show only 1st post Is there a way to get latest posts through RSS feeds like other forums ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System webservice testing

  Hi All, I'm trying to test a webservice methods. My question how can i send a requests one after the other for each method. how can i automate these webmethods Dear Peetha, Hope you have your test cases ready!! Check this link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/03/TestRun/default.aspx HTH, Suprotim Agarwal ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem inserting data to SQL

  well here is my code of ISERT in C# =========================================== InitializeComponent(); SqlConnection coneccion; coneccion = new SqlConnection("Data Source=sagara\\sqlexpress;" + "Trusted_Connection=yes;" + "database=Hospital; "); SqlCommand orden; string q = "INSERT INTO prueba (nombre, apellido) VALUES (@txtNOMBRE, @txtAPELLIDO)"; orden = new SqlCommand(q, coneccion); orden.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@txtNOMBRE", SqlDbType.Text)); orden.Parameters["@txtNOMBRE"].Value = this.txtNOMBRE.Text; orden.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("txtAPELLIDO", SqlDbType.Text)); orden.Parameters["@txtAPE ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. LoadGraphicsContent() only safe place to load new resources or just a handy method?

  Hey all, Topic more or less says it all. There's really no reason to be loading say, snow graphics when I'm in a jungle level - is LoadGraphicsContent() the only 100% reliable safe method to load graphics content Or are you able to load graphics as you need them throughout the code The LoadGraphicsContent is called by the Game Class whenever the Graphics Device needs initialising, like when the game starts, when the screen gets resized or if the game switches to full screen. Originally this was a manual task in the BETA but thankfully it is now automated. most of your game assets should be loaded when the game starts but if you have a set of changing assets (i.e. maps or screens for game levels) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Bin Directory

  I have a large solution that contains around 15 projects. One of those projects is a Service Project that has an PostBuild event that copies it's dlls from it's bin\debug folder to a global BIN folder availible to all projects (about 4 directories up). I have a web service that references those dlls in the same solution. I am trying to get this to work with TFS Build and not having any luck. Question: why is the BIN directory non-existant on my build server (where this solution is being built) Should it be there I am only seeing the "obj" directory under the project directory I've been meaning to write a blog post on these issues, but haven't gotten around to it yet... Team Build overr ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS Wizard SQL 2005 - Enable Identity Insert

  I have a large number of Access tables that I need to periodically bring to SQL using the DTS Wizard in SQL 2000 (via Ent. Man). I am only interested in bring over the data from the MS Access tables as I had a separate script (application drive) that would create the SQL tables. The problem is this: with SQL 2000 when bringing over the tables, the check box for 'Enable Identity Insert' for each of the tables was checked , this worked fine. With SQL 2005, this checkbox is not checked hence, I have to click 'edit' for each of the table data being brought over and check the 'Enable Identity Insert' box manualy. My question is whether there is a way to have SQL 2005 have this 'Enable Identity Insert Box' checked by default as it did with SQL ...Show All