Idanle's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My new game running on Beta 2 (Dr. Popper)

  Just wanted to let everyone know now that I have migrated my game to XNA Beta 2, and have put it up for download at http://www.bluerosegames.com . It's called Dr. Popper and it's a puzzle game similar to Pop'em, Jawbreaker, and Bubblet. I will post full source code for the game in a few days, but for now if you have any questions feel free to ask. Thanks, Bill Hi Bill, I thought you might be interested in this thread that mentions a download link for the XNA runtimes. Bit less of a download than what you mention on your website. Cheers, Leaf. ...Show All

• .NET Development Building a Windows App to Access Outlook 2003

  hi all: I want to build an application using C# that will download the attachments from the outlook (a custom folder like 'MyOfficeMails') to some other folder (like C:\MyOfficeEmails). The application must run in the background, so I used windows service instead of a windows application. I used the Microsoft Interop library for accessing my mails. I started with a simple windows application for accessing the outlook (which worked perfectly ) and then tunred the app into the windows service, which didn't work . I have then used a different approach. i.e. i made a windows application and a scheduler service (windows service) that will start the application after a certain period of time, the application will then perform the tasks i.e ...Show All

• .NET Development TCP Listener issues .. Please help..

  I've tried to make a simple TCP Listener, but keep running into a few problems that I don't know howto resolve.. First the code: Private Sub StartListener() 'Dim ipAddress As IPAddress = Dns.GetHostEntry("localhost").AddressList(0) 'Dim ipAddress As IPAddress = Dns.GetHostEntry("localhost").AddressList(0) 'Dim myListener As New TcpListener(ipAddress, portNumber) 'myListener.Start() myListener = New TcpListener(ipAddress.Any, portNumber) myListener.Start() AddMainChat( "*** Ready for connection on Port " & portNumber & "..." ) isConnected = "yes" StartButton.Text = "Stop Server" While True Try Dim tcpClient As TcpClient = myListener.AcceptTcpClient() AddMainC ...Show All

• .NET Development Behavior of LinkedList.Find method?

  I want to use a LinkedList<MyClass> collection, where MyClass is a non-trivial class (multiple properties, etc.). I need the LinkedList.Find method to return the correct node based on how MyClass determines if an object matches the item being searched for. I can't see anything in the docs on what LinkedList.Find uses to determine equality between the item being searched for and the items in the list. Is it as simple as overriding MyClass.Equals() It seems like there should be a way to specify a delegate to the Find method which handles checking for equality for that particular invocation of the Find method (as a number of the other generic classes support). Thanks, Donnie A surprisingly obscure top ...Show All

• SQL Server VS.NET debug website gives connection error to SQL Database

  Hi all, I've got a little problem. I'm working on a ASP.NET project. The applications has 4-layers. When I look in the Data Access Layer and test the typed dataset, then the "Preview Data" works fine. I see the right records from SQL Server 2005. But when I run the app (default.aspx) in debug-mode, then the system gives the following error: "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)" Please help..... What is ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Find a bug about obj.children.add/remove with Canvas.Triggers

  When it is a Canvas.Triggers in a Canvas, and I bind a javascript function on this Canvas, if this function made this Canvas removed from it's parent object, and add into this parent object after removed ( just for the z-index effect ), the Canvas WILL BE run out of the eye <Canvas x:Name="desktop_tokei" Opacity="0" MouseLeftButtonUp=ui_move_up" MouseLeftButtonDown=ui_move_down" MouseMove=ui_move_moving"> <Image x:Name="tokei_back" Source="pic/parts/tokei/tokei_back.png" Opacity="0.7"/> <Image x:Name="tokei_long" Source="pic/parts/tokei/tokei_long.png"> <Image.RenderTr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is it Possible ObjectDataSource and datagridview

  I have an objectdatasource bound to a datagridview in a Windows forms app. The datasource object has a boolean field. I can load and display the data ok. If there are 20 are so rows and the AddRow row (*) is not visible  everything is ok. However if the addrow row comes into view or the mouse hovers over the boolean field then I get the error in the DataError event:  "System.FormatException: Formatted value of the cell has a wrong type".  I tried setting the CellStyle Null Value to false and 0. I tried setting the true and false values. I tried putting default values into the ObjectDataSource's constructor. I can't seem to get rid of the error or figure out what datatype the cell is expecting and what datatype is ge ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Breaking Point

  I need to take this slow. 1. I have created a sql database that will allow me to input user info. 2. I have used the detail view of the database to create a form. 3. I have inserted a dataviewgrid and linked it to my datasource. 4. I have added a radio button to my form. 5. I have added two text boxes ( 1 is text the other is numeric) Now what I need to know how to do (in detail) is the following: 1. The text that I put into my first textbox to appear in my datagridview as a title 2. I need the numeric value that I enter into my second textbox to appear below it. This is a good start towards resolving my larger issue. I will ask other questions as they arrive but I have to start somewhere. Stupid! I just ...Show All

• Smart Device Development UDP Client mobile Client For Communicating to desktop pc

  Hi, I developed the socket client application on mobile and socket server application on the desktop pc using the SOCK_STREAM both application commnunicating through active sync . But when i am creating same application for UDP using SOCK_DGRAM the application can not communicate through active sync . in client app sendto function of the winsock is succeeded (not returning any error ) but data not receive at the server end . Whats reasons is active sync not supporting the UDP socket communication how this can achieve Give me any details to make this possible . Thanks in advance This is "by design" - ActiveSync over serial connections like emulator ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Reducing Browser Memory Leaks

  I spotted this in the google API documentation and wonder if it has been address in VE Reducing Browser Memory Leaks The Google Maps API encourages the use of function closures , and the API event handling system GEvent attaches events to DOM nodes in such a way that almost inevitably causes some browsers to leak memory, particularly Internet Explorer . Version 2 of the Maps API introduces a new method, GUnload() , that will remove most of the circular references that cause these leaks. You should call GUnload() in the unload event of your page to reduce the potential that your application leaks memory: Hi John, Isn't this a casing problem Hafi: .onunload You: .onUnload Maarten ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Is it possible to use wpf/e over html?

  I have some html content and i'd like to write wpf/e control over html content. Code like: <div style="position: absolute; left: 10px; top: 10px;">...here some html ...</div> <div id="wpfContainer"></div> But wpf/e content always override html, any ideas If you make the "WFP/E" control windowless you can make the HTML be on top of the "WPF/E" content. To enable windowless, set the eighth parameter (where you call the agHost function) to true.   function agHost(hostElementID, id, width, height, backgroundcolor, sourceelement, source, windowlessmode, framerate, errorhandler)   This is what Mike Harsh does for his "WPF/E" Pad application: ...Show All

• Visual Basic Write/Read data: comma seperated file

  I need to create a comma separated file as output for numerical data and I also would like to read numerical data from a comma separated text file as input. Data output should write out data of type double, string and integer and separate them with a comma into a human-readable text file. It should also be possible to start a new line in the output file. Data input would be the reversed processes, reading comma seperated numbers from a text file. Can you give newbie advice how to do that most efficiently in vb.net Thanks! for writing the file take a look at the streamwriter... Dim MyFile As String = "C:\MyTextFile.csv" Dim sw As StreamWriter = My . Computer . FileSyst ...Show All

• .NET Development Need a way to sniff DLL API calls

  Hi all, I have a Software that's based of two components (it's based on much more components than that but i will do my best to simplefy my query) an EXE file and a DLL. The Exe file is referenced to the DLL file (it has classes there and all sort of data types...) and it create classes and uses the functions that are stored in this dll. What i want to do is to have some kind of an outsider DLL that will basically sniff what the EXE file is doing (when the EXE file will create a class X for example - i want that this sniffer will throw a messsage about it, when it calls a function of X.Function() i want the sniffer to catch this call also and throw a message about it too). my question is: is this thing can be made without implemen ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating shortcuts

  I am trying to create a shortcut on my desktop and also in my startmenu. I have looked over the internet and could not get any of the examples I found to work. Is it really this difficult Thank you, Troy L. Here's some more code I found. I quickly tested it and it seemed to work except the shortcut icon was not what I expected. Option Strict Off Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim a As Object , y As String , NwShrt As Object a = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" ) y = a.SpecialFolders( "Desktop" ) NwShrt = a.CreateShortcut(y & "\File ...Show All

• Visual Basic Computer info?

  How would I show PC info as in CPU(Name/GHz) RAM(total in MB) Sound(card name) Video(card name) Thanks, That was simple surprised I didn't no that already. But now the first line is coming up unhandled System.Management.ManagementException was unhandled Message="Invalid parameter " Source="System.Management" ...Show All