Wout's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Jellies A Plenty - new XNA game with source code available

  I've made a new game developed using XNA. I wrote this game for my son who just entered the 1st grade and loves playing with numbers (geek in the making I believe....) The game is called "Jellies A Plenty" and consists of a little Jelly guy hopping around a board answering simple math questions. Getting an answer right, rewards him with a Jelly Bean, answering a question wrong releases the Shark creature. Here's a screenshot of the game Seems to be a hit with my son and making it was relatively simple. Only two days of actual development was needed. XNA continues to just simply amaze me. I've provided the source at my site for people interested and I plan on beginning work on tutorials walking through how I made it. Definitely not a prize ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataGridView's DefaultValuesNeeded Event and ESC.

  Hi, I would like to clarify if there's a better solution fixing this scenario: I placed a code that automatically provides the default values in DGV's DefaultValuesNeeded event. When I run the program and tried creating a new record on a Blank DGV, I pressed ESC to cancel my entry. I've noticed that the grid also clears the default values automatically. When I tried to attempt to add a record again, the default values is no longer provided. I created some codes on the CellBeginEdit by copying the same procedure in DefaultValuesNeeded and it works ok. But I still want to know if there are other ways dealing with this. Thanks in advance, rikimaru I used the same codes from CellBeginEdit to RowsAdded event. Commented the existing codes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Out of memory

  I have made a powerpoint like application that forever loops through a lits of pages. A page can be a movie, a plain text page, or a web-page. The purpose is just like Powerpoint presentation that should run by itself withouth user interaction. I have a function that is grabbed each time a page has been displayed, or a movie is finished. It grabs the next slide/page and does a sql query that grabs the slide higher than the just shown. In addition, there is information in sql that desides when the slide should be shown (date/clock). When the time has been reached, and one page should not be displayed, the application throws "out of memory" exception. Eveh if the program has looped through for almost an hour, when the time ha ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection Error

  Error Message: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.) The error occurs in Visual Studio 2005 v 8.0.50725.42. I have my string in my web.config file. In Visual Studio it doesn't work. When you upload the page it connects and shows the data. Now, I have been several places and been asked, "So what's the issue " The problem is that I want Visual Studio 2005 to connect so that I can use it to create Gridviews, use the Server Explorer and so on. Is there an upgrade to VS2005 Is this a known bug Is there a work-around - a configuration that needs to be set ...Show All

• Visual C++ EVC++ unicode problem

  hi, im building an application with evc++ and i want to get rid of unicode because it causes me problems. i ve read the first sticky post but says only how to disable unicode support in MVS2005.. how can i do that in evc++ 4.0 thanx in advance You can just as easily use _stprintf, the non-secure version, if available for CE. Like I said, it's a matter of seeing which "parts" are available and piecing them together. ...Show All

• Visual C++ LINK ERROR _errno

  hi, i've got a linker error :( my project is /MTD additionnal dependency " libcp.lib" ------ Build started: Project: romustrike, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Linking... Searching libraries Searching C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib\x86\Dxerr8.lib: Searching C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib\x86\dplayx.lib: Searching C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib\x86\dxguid.lib: Searching C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib\winmm.lib: Searching C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib\wininet.lib: Searching C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)\Lib\x86\dsound.lib: Searching C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib\use ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2000 not starting.

  Installed evaluation copy a while ago. Yesterday got a new server and wanted to detach and move the database from old server. However, SQL server will not start on old server. New server runs SQL 2000 Enterprise edition. How do I get my old database detached and moved Your advise is appreciated. ...Show All

• SQL Server Error message running a SSIS package in a Job

  Hello, I'm having problems when I try to run a package from a job in SQL Server Agent. I have the same package in a server and it works fine,but when I try to install it in a different server I keep getting this error: Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version 9.00.1399.06 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 01:19:10 p.m. Progress: 2007-01-30 13:19:10.40 Source: Delete scripts Execute Process Task Operation Complete: 0% complete End Progress Error: 2007-01-30 13:19:10.57 Code: 0xC0029151 Source: Delete scripts Execute Process Task Description: In Executing "C:\Project_SSIS\Delete_Items.bat" "" at "", The process exit code was "1&quo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) M:N Relationships

  Where (link, samples) can i find documentation about implement a M:N relationship I supoose that i need an intermediate table, isnt it Something Like that ... A(IdA, ......) Key = IdA B(IdB,.......) Key =IdB AB(IdA,IdB) Key = IdA,IdB Ive had read "Hand-On Lab Visual Basic document" and page 5 says "DLINQ allows uou to express 1-to-1 and 1-to-many rel. using EntytyRef and EntySet types" ok What about M:N Thanks.And sorry if this question is available in the doc. but i couldnt find it M:N relationships are more a factor of relational data than object oriented. Since LINQ works primiarily in the object space and maps to the relational store, it only works on the 1:N model. For M:N, you need to work with a nested 1 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Get g_hInstance In CustomForm

  Hello, Everyone: Does anyone know how to get g_hInstance value in CustomForm sample(or Tv_inbox sample) In this sample, the g_hInstance value is setted by LibMain( ), HINSTANCE g_hInstance = NULL; /****************************************************************************** LibMain - Entry to dll ******************************************************************************/ BOOL WINAPI LibMain(HINSTANCE hinst, DWORD dwReason, LPVOID lpv) { switch (dwReason) { case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH: { g_hInstance = hinst; break; } } return TRUE; } But, in this DLL was called, the function LibMain() was never called, so the value of g_hInstance is always NULL. I want to use g_hInstan ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SAT errors (in legacy application)

  While testing my windows based application through Setup analysis tool on Windows server 2003 platform , to mitigate the application to Windows vista I came across errors messages saying that my application is trying to alter some WRP files and keys of Windows vista , like ,wbemcons.dll and a long list of registry keys mainly of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID or Interface family. Since we can't have control on WRP functioning in Vista , what should be the solution or workaround to this situation 1)How these errors( errors shown in SAT about WRP files and keys) are going to effect my application , since , my application is installing fine on Vista.(while running as an administrator) The automatic midigation for applying the ship for an ...Show All

• Windows Forms Property Page control

  Can anyone tell me what kind of control is used in the Property Pages in Visual Studio 2005 (Its the same control you see when you select Tools --> Options --> Windows Forms Designer.) I would like to use a control like that for some data entry in my windows apps - is it a standard control (though I don't see anything like it in my standard toolbox) or do I need to download it somewhere Is it perhaps just a clever implementation of the listview control Please advise. Thanks, Shawn. ...Show All

• Windows Forms MDI - First Child delay

  I have an application that consists of a prent MDI form. There is a menu tree in which each item equates to a seperate child form. The child forms are seperate assemblies. The problem I am having is that after loading the parent application (warm/cold) the first child form takes alot longer to load than the subsiquent ones. It does not matter which child form is opened first. I am not so much concerned with the start time of the entire application, but the load time of the first child form that is loaded. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brad I used ngen.exe, and that did not speed the loading of the first form up any. All the child forms are database driven (bound grids, ect...). ...Show All

• SQL Server Connecting to Oracle on 64-bit (x64) machine

  Hi, Has anyone received the following error when trying to create a connection to an Oracle database using SSIS installed on a 64-bit (x64) machine "Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider. ORA-06413: Connection not open" The reason this is funny to me is because I have the same Oracle/SSIS setup on a 32-bit (x86) machine and I can connect successfully. On both machines I have SSIS RTM, Oracle 9.2 and using the Microsoft Ole Db Provider for Oracle. Thanks, - Joel We are also facing the same problem with Oracle. Btw, if you guys are looking at high speed data loading into Oracle using SSIS, we have built a high speed connector. More details - please visit http://www.p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cant compile when using ImageLocation

  I want to move an image whitin an imagebox, using this code i get an compile error; " Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Drawing.Point' to 'string' ", i don't get it! This works fine if i for example replace " pictureBox1.ImageLocation " witch "this.Location" or "pictureBox1.Location" private void pictureBox1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { mouseOffset = new Point(-e.X, -e.Y); } private void pictureBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left) { Point mousePos = Control.MousePosition; mousePos.Offset(mouseOffset.X, mouseOffset.Y); pictureBox1.ImageLocation = mousePos; ...Show All