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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Questions Beta 2 and future versions...?

  Okay, I just downloaded and installed Beta 2. I had previously written a pretty decent game shell with input routines that work exactly the way I want them to. Naturally, my old code no longer works with Beta 2 and I will have to rewrite considerable sections of my code. (Only half joking, it seems this is how Microsoft always does things.) Will the changes made for Beta 2 be applied to future versions of XNA In other words, will I have to rewrite my code from the beginning again when the next version of XNA (whether beta or gold) ships Will there be drastic differences between the current version of XNA and the planned release version I know the short answer is, "Probably." I have been a professional developer fo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating a Custom MaskedTextBoxColumn for a DataGridView

  I am trying to create a MaskedTextBoxColumn to be used in a DataGridView control on a windows form in vb2005. I am working off the article http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7tas5c80.aspx which describes how to do a calendar control in a datagridview. The two issues I have run into are setting the 'Mask' property of the MaskedTextBox control by setting parameters on my Cell & Control classes. It works fine if I hard code the mask into the default constructor (New()) but not when I create a parameterized constuctor (New(mask as string). When debugging, it appears to call my parameterized constructor, then it calls the default constructor essentially nullifying my 'Mask' property. I've overridden the 'Clone' function on my Cel ...Show All

• .NET Development Creating MDB from MDF

  I have a mdf file that contains a few tables, but I only need one table from it. I have created the tableadapter and I can view it fine in the DataGridView. What I want to be able to do is output that specific table into a MDB. Is there a simple way to do this programatically I am using VB.NET 2005 If you're using SQL Server 2005 then you probably need to specify the native client. See if the following helps: http://www.connectionstrings.com/ carrier=sqlserver2005 ...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 [C#] file meta informations

  Hello, i am not sure in which section to ask this question, so I'll ask in the most genereal one. I am wondering if is's somehow possible to extract some meta informations from files (like file type for example -- avi, doc, ppt, pdf,...) I read about MIME-type, but i'm not sure if thats what i'm looking for. Thank you for your post. FileInfo class is not the solution I am looking for. Maybe i expressed myself badly. I was wondering, if files (like documents, movies, ... ) have some META informations stored about the file type (i am searching for something more than just the extension check). ...Show All

• SQL Server Best practices for partitions for cubes?

  Hi, all here, Thank you very much for your kind attention. Would please any experts here give me any guidances and advices for what are best practices for partitions for cubes in SQL Server 2005 analysis services I mean like when should we use partitions for cubes And what are the best practices for the partitions memory modes Thanks a lot in advance for any helpful guidances and advices for that. With best regards, Yours sincerely, Hi, This link will give you a good introduction to partitioning http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/projreal.mspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is this forum live?

  Don't see any posts, whatup Hey, I'm here and trying to use it. Finding it very clunky. Would just like to double click a button and fill in code like I used to but no such luck. Have managed to get my 3D object drawn in 3D with lighting etc. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Question about IIf

  I have two lines that, I thought, did the same thing. They are IIf(30 > 30, CbLevel.Checked = True, CbLevel.Checked = False) If 30 > 30 Then CbLevel.Checked = True Else CbLevel.Checked = False I don't use they together. Though, only the second line will uncheck the box. With the first line, the box is still checked. These are CheckBoxes by the way. Any ideas on what the problem is Troy L IIF is a function. If the condition in the first paramter is true, the evaluation of the second paramter is returned, otherwise the evaluation of the third parameter is returned. Therefore, your IIF should be returning True, if cbLevel.Checked = False, or returning False if cbLevel.Checked = True (the evaluation of the third expression). In ot ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Would it be hard to add support for SQL IN (...,...) ?

  i.e. string[] cities = { "London", "Paris", "Seattle" }; var query = dataContext.Customers.Where (c => cities.Contains (c.City)); LINQ to SQL gives this error: NotSupportedException: Queries with local collections are not supported It should instead convert this query to: select * from customers where City in ('London', 'Paris', 'Seattle') Without this kind of support from LINQ to SQL, what it the best way to support what Joe is trying to achieve, where a field is to be compared to a dynamically provided small set of values ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions The Form1_Load event will not occur

  This is very disconcerting. Any new project will not show the main window. I noticed that the Form1_Load event is not happening even though the Form1_Load () sub is clearly specified as the handling procedure for the load event in the events section of the properties window for the Form1 form. Does anyone knows what is going on. I even did a side by side comparison of an older program, stripping it from everything and leaving only one form, called Form1 and a new project containing also one form called Form1 and made sure everything was equal in both instances of the IDE but still…the new project appears to run correctly but exits without every loading Form1 while the old one works as expected. I also uninstalled the net framework 3 ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WM_COPYDATA and manifest.xml?

  Dear all, As the suggestion from the topic " Drag n' Drop files in Vista RC1 " I write another program to support registry-key writing (for HKCR and HKLM) and use WM_COPYDATA to let two programs communicate. However, I find out that if I add "requireAdministrator" in manifest.xml for registry-key writing program, it can't get the WM_COPYDATA message on Vista. Is this another security issue Best regards, Shuyang ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Can't Start New Smart Device Projects

  Please Help....anyone... I have just successfully installed MS Visual Studio 2005 version 8.0.50727.42. When I click FILE - NEW - PROJECT - click on any of the Smart Devices - click Device Application and click OK, I expect to begin a new Smart Device project. But instead, I receive the error ..."error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component". I can successfully begin any other New Projects, just not any of the Smart Device projects. Any ideas Hi guys, I have completely reformatted my hard drive, re-installed Windows XP, re-installed VS 2005 and the .NET Compact Framework, and I am still receiving the " error: HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a c ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL data file encryption

  Is there any way to encrypt the sql server mdf and ldf data files in SQL Server 2005 without using EFS or creating an additional system user Only one application which has the password embedded (i know this is a security risk) should be able to connect to the database and access the mdf and ldf files. Greetings Roland Mayr No. you will have to secure your data files on the OS level for unauthorized access. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• SQL Server General question

  I am currently upgrading my companies database from 6.5 to 2000. Including the replication. I am curious about something. Currently we are using the commands in 6.5 to do the replication instead of stored procedures. (except for one table that requires custome filters). When I reestablished replication on 2000, the default is to create stored procs on the subscribers to hande the replication. (sp_MSins_tablename). My question whether anybody knows why it defaults to using sp's Is there a reason or is that just the way it is. I want to know if using sp's is better than just sing the commands before I change my setup. Thanks for any responses. Johnny stored procedures, in general, will give you muc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need some information from all you smart follks... :)

  Let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Dave Scott Anderson, I am 16 years old and have been programming in C++ for 2 years, C# for a couple months, and HTML for over 5 years. I have become quite addicted to C# programming with Windows Forms. I have finally decided that I want to purchase the full version of Visual Studio...But heres the problem... Where are Windows Forms technology headed Would it be a waste to purchase VS2005 since Microsoft is going to come out with Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0 I need advice on this.... Programming is what I love to do. And I prefer to be up to date with technology... Sorry if this is in the wrong forum... but it is related to Windows Forms, so I posted it here. I have actually cr ...Show All