Mzladybug's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XZN for 360

  Unless microsoft hasn't updated their site recently, they say you cannot yet release your game for the 360. Does anyone know if you will have to buy the new version (suppose to be released soon) to release games, or if you will be able to download a patch allowing previous titles to be released on the 360 P.S. I can't seem to find any recommended system requirements for your PC for either programs. Could anyone help me out in this department Thanks to all I'm not sure if the rumors of an XNA Arcade type area would require a Creator's Club membership or not. If someone just wanted to buy XNA games I wouldn't think they want to pay another yearly fee. Maybe a one-time fee of 100 points for downloading the XNA game launcher or so ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow with ASP.NET application

  Hi, Our application is an ASP.NET application and using WF. Each link in index page will start a workflow and further communication will happen through local services through other web pages. Can any body tell, what happens if I close the brower. Will the workflow instance be finalised or not Is there any mechanism to implicitly finalise the workflow instance after certain time Kruthi. see Matt's reply ...Show All

• SQL Server "Synchronize Connection Strings" Dialog box with XML Config file

  Hello, This has been happening to me since I started using Configuration files.  I use one XML config file that stores Machine Specific settings and one connection string to my Metadata database.  The problem is the database connection. When I set the conection in the Configuation file, save, close and reopen the package, a dialog box opens with the title "Synchronize Connection Strings". To reproduce the problem: 1. Ceate New SSIS Project 2. New Data Source Localhost.Adventureworks 3. In Package.dtsx  create an New Connection from Data Source... 4. Choose AdventureWorks 5. Save Package 6. Close Package 7. Open Package There is no problem at this point. 8. Enable Package Configurations 9. Create a new XML C ...Show All

• Windows Forms Access Data Export to Excel spreadsheet

  Hello everybody, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Development Tool: Visual Studio .NET 2005 Programming Language: Visual Basic .NET Application Type: Windows Form based Issue: Take Access data (maybe even data from forms controls) and export to an Excel file ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have created a windows forms application that interacts with a Microsoft Access database. This database collects tons of statistical information on trainees and what we call solutions. It also tracks user login and logout times and dates, as well as other information. I presented the alpha version of the software to a large group ...Show All

• SQL Server Kick all Users?

  Is there a T-SQL command to kick all users out of a database while I run an update One other thing, and this is probably  a network issue, is there any way to pass a  message to the users prior to kicking them out, so they can complete what they were doing Thanks Melt Thanks a lot for the replies and the code, I don't have to worry abour my users running critical processes, they're all just "SELECT" users. How would I send the NET SEND message Regards Melt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SOAP Exception while connecting to TFS project through another workstation

  Someone is trying to connect to TFS project that I created from his workstation and getting this error: Server did not recognize the value of HTTP header SOAPAction. http://schemas.microsoft.com/TeamFoundation/2005/06/Services/ServerStatus/02/CheckAuthentication I have looked up this error at many places. But have not seen this specific to TFS client. This workstation has team suite installed with TFS client installed. Naren, Chris As you both rightly suggested, after installing the latest TF client, this problem got resolved. Thanks. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to use rules for xoml only workflows which use instance properties?

  I want to put a rule condition which checks value of a dynamic property of an activity inside the workflow. I don't have the code beside file i.e. workflow is only xoml based. When I specify such rule with this workflow the rule is invalidated. But i can use the static propeties in the rule. For code-xoml workflows this works fine. Is there a way to implement this pls let me know...  the xoml is < SequentialWorkflowActivity x:Class = " WorkflowLibrary1.Workflow3 " x:Name = " Workflow3 " xmlns:ns0 = " clr-namespace:WorkflowLibrary1 " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/workflow " > < ns0:MyActivity x:Name = " myActivity1 " T ...Show All

• SQL Server Stored procedure issue. a bridge too far for me

  i have a query that i need to extend but just dont have the knowledge to do so, so hoping someone here could help me this is my current query:- SELECT ES.PatientID, DATEDIFF(day, EP.DateofBirth, GetDate())/365 AS Age, CASE EP.SexCode WHEN 'M' THEN 'MALE' ELSE 'FEMALE'END AS Gender, COUNT(H.HRDID)AS HRD, ES.FourRegularDrugs, isnull(ES.FourRegularDrugsNo,0) as NoOfDrugs, ES.ReadmissSixMonths, PCE.[Primary diagnosis] FROM tblStudyServices ES INNER JOIN tblPatient EP ON EP.PatientID = ES.PatientID INNER JOIN PAS.dbo.[PAS Patient Details] PP ON PP.[PAS key] = EP.PatientInternalNumber INNER JOIN PAS.dbo.[PAS Admission Details] [PAD] ON [PAD].[PAS key 1] = PP.[PAS key] INNER JOIN PAS.dbo.[PAS Consultant Episode] PCE ON PCE.[PAS key 1] = PA ...Show All

• .NET Development tracing

  Hi I would like to trace my application and put all messages in a text file. I use Trace.TraceError(""); Trace.TraceInformation(""); Trace.TraceWarning(""); methods and when TraceSwitch level is set to for instance Error all messages are put in a file Why I thought when I set TraceSwitch (ts) to Error only TraceError messages would be sent. I would like to change only trace level and certain messages should autmatically be put in a file. Should I use Trace.WriteIf(ts.TraceError == true,"..."); What for if TraceError, TraceWarning etc. When TraceLevel is set in config file everything is fine however when in the code it doesn't work. Ela You are confusing the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Viz rebuilding unnecessarily?

  Ever since I moved to C# express 2005 for XNA, every project in my solution gets rebuilt every time I build, even if nothing has changed. If I build and then immediately build again without changing anything, it still rebuilds the entire project. Why is this happening, and how do I stop it If it's of any significance, this project was migrated from Visual Studio 2003. Before the conversion it was fine. I'm not sure.... I deleted the obj directories in each of 3 projects in a single solution. I don't see the status line indicating that multiple builds are being done, but it appears that at least one is....without any changes since the last build....only hitting run (debug run) arrow. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Retrieve cell value

  Hello, I would think this would be a rather easy task but it has thoroughly confused me. I am trying to take the value in cell[1,10], which is the result of a formula, and assign it to a variable in my code. So far, I have been unable to do this. I am using Excel 2003, C#. This is my code: If (dbConnection.Open != null) { Cells[1,10] = "Success"; } //Below is what does not work. string aString = (string)cells[1,10]; I have also tried, string aString = Cells.get_Value(Cells[1,10]); Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, ds I have also tried this code, I can't say that it doesn't work or not, because it doesn't get to the code. I've tried to create an Excel Add-in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Retrive MAC-ID using Visual Basic 2005

  Hi All, I have a Button and a text box in a form.On Button click it should retrive the MAC-ID of the system and should display the value in the text box.How can this be done http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=845110&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error loading project

  Just tried to reload my (very large) database project I had just saved, and after churning away for while I got the old 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object' messagebox, and then the project in solution explorer just says 'The project file cannot be loaded'. Anyone seen this before We are aware of the problem and we think we fixed these problems in CTP5. I do not know of a work-around in CTP4. Please check-out the CTP5 release which was released today. http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/8/b6888e6b-8305-4616-a2d1-a11953404b09/TeamDataCTP5.exe -GertD "DataDude" Development Manager ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Floating UI Elements in a FlowDocument

  Okay, so this time last year I was playing a bit with Avalon.. Now I'm writing up an architecture review of WPF and doing a couple of POCs. Read the book by Chris Sells and co. and Implemented some nice XAML with some controls floated in a TextFlow... Unfortunately Chris and co wrote that the same time I was playing with Avalon and the FlowDocument is now it. Problem is that I can't seem to find a way to float the controls in it. I did, finally manage to find a combination of Figure, FlowDocumentViewer (FlowDocumentScrollViewer seems to prevent the figure flowing) that would flow a paragraph, but when I stuck in a TextBlock or Button populated BlockUIContainer then all the flow went. Seems that unless I hardcoded the width of the contained ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA IDE

  hello, The installation instructions for XNA sort of infer in the download you get a modified CLR and an ide based on visual studio express. I use the full version of visual studio 2005 professional, can I use this instead or do I need to have two IDE's running thanks. Neil. Better asked over in the GSE forum... It is probably already answered there. I think you can just reference the XNA libraries in Pro and use it. But there's no tutorials or templates built for Pro, yet. ...Show All