jaczura's Q&A profile

• .NET Development Announcing .NET Framework 3.0

  Just found this on MSDN: Announcing .NET Framework 3.0 Senior Vice President Eric Rudder announced the unveiling of the final release of the .NET Framework 3.0 at a recent keynote at TechEd: Developers conference in Barcelona, Spain.  Download the new release today. Here is the direct link to the download page.  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en One more thing, you can download the entire redist package to use on your local network from the download page.  Here are the direct links: Full Redist package x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=70848   Full Redist package x64: http://go.microsoft.com/f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# Executable distribution?

  The article "How to: Set Debug and Release Configurations", implies that its possible to create a "release" executable for C# programs under all but VS 2005 Express edition. This implies that an application cannot be distributed to and executed by users without Visual Studio to run it with. Is this true - I can't create an applciation and give it to other users Is there another way to do this Another free IDE that might be useful Give your users the .exe that is built in the Debug or Release sub-folder of the project folder. ...Show All

• Visual C# Compiler Error CS1583 (CSC583.tmp is not a vaild Win32 resource file)

  My solution was working just fine and then all of a sudden I get this error "Error 1 'C:\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Nova\Nova\obj\Debug\CSC583.tmp' is not a valid Win32 resource file Nova" and when I click on Show Error Help it just says Error Message 'file' is not a valid Win32 resource file A file was passed to the /win32res compiler option that was not a valid resource file. Well that's not very helpful to me and I have searched Google and any other resource I can think of to resolve this so at least my application will compile. How do you find out what resource file is invalid so I can remove it Any help in resolving this would greatly be appreciated, since I am dead in the water at the moment until it is reso ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException Number property

  Hi The documentation for the SqlException class's Number property states 'This number corresponds to an entry in the master.dbo.sysmessages table.', however, I have encounter a couple values that aren't listed in the sysmessages table. Could someone please provide a list of values for the Number property, which do not appear in the sysmessages tables The reason I need this information is for implementing connection retry support for a Sql Server 2005 database cluster. Thanks Some errors are system level error codes that have nothing to do with SQL Server itself, but are generated by services SQL Server uses. For instance, error 2 is FILE NOT FOUND. Error 53 is "Network path not found" o ...Show All

• SQL Server Current month minus current day

  Beginners question: I am using a calendar table joined to my data table so that it will give me all the dates regardless wether there is data for that day or not. Now, I want it to give me all the data from the current month minus the current day. Right now I am using (MONTH(c.dt) = MONTH(GETDATE())) AND (YEAR(c.dt) = YEAR(GETDATE())) but that also gives me data for the current day which I do not want. Any way I can make this happen Thanks Try: (MONTH(c.dt) = MONTH(GETDATE())) AND (YEAR(c.dt) = YEAR(GETDATE()) AND (DAY(c.dt) != DAY(GETDATE())) Chris ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Just a quickie

  In a previous post I asked how to get a button to stay at the bottom of the form after the form was resized, this question is a follow on . If I place, say, three buttons and a textbox in a panel, then enter the code to keep the panel always at the bottom, would the Buttons and Textbox stay with the panel Panel stay at bottom code I think this would be better than Button One stay at bottom code Button Two stay at bottom code Button Three stay at bottom code Textbox stay at bottom code A longer answer would be that all controls by default stay fixed to the upper left corner of their parent container control. Unless you change that behaviour with changing the anchor property. If you place 4 buttons ...Show All

• Visual C++ "using" in C++

  In C# it is common practice to use the using statement to define a scope outside of which an object or variable will be disposed of. This normally applies to resource intensive objects such as the OleDbConnection I am using in my code. Is there a way to implement this sort of scope-modifying keyword in C++, so that I can release the resources used by the OleDbConnection when I'm done with DB Thanks! Evan In fact, C++/CLI distinguishes between references and objects. Objects with automatic storage duration will have there disposer called when the variable goes out of scope. Instead of writing MyClass^ x = gcnew MyClass; ... x->Dispose(); you'd do MyClass x; ... // automatically invokes ...Show All

• .NET Development What is the easiest way to pass data from the results of a dataset to local tables?

  Hello, I have populated a dataset and wish to pass the results of SQLDataset back to my local table, tblCustomer using the following code: myNetworkConnection = New SqlConnection("NETWORK_CONNECTION_STRING") myNetworkSqlDataAdapter = New SqlDataAdapter("Select * From tblCustomer", myNetworkConnection) 'Read in dataset from network table tblCustomer ConnectionString = NETWORK_CONNECTION_STRING 'establish network connection myNetworkSqlDataAdapter.Fill(SQLDataset) 'pass dataset to local tables I know I could use something like this: myDataRow( "Cust_Number1" ) = myNetworkDataSet.Tables( "tblCustomer" ).Rows(0).Item( "Cust_Number1" ) and then use: myNetworkSqlDataAdapter. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Writing games

  I'm new to writing .net applications and a complete game writing virgin. What are the processes involved in writing games What additional tools would i need to create graphical content I understand that XNA GSE is aimed at the hobbiest but how much knowledge will I really need Josh A wrote: Thanks for the clarification. I just needed to figure out the direction that noob should go. And I'm sure you might have the chance to answer more of my questions. Yeah same here, I also need some newb help, I hope someone creates a good XNA Dev. site, or MS possible expanding their current one, I am sure people will though. ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't Install Express because .Net Framework 2 is installed! I'm going around in circles.

  I'm new to SQL Express and from the SQL Express DOWNLOAD page you need to install .NET Framework 2 then install SQL Express. After installing .NET Framework 2.0 I then attempt to install SQL Express and I get a message that SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework or SQL Server 2005. I used the Visual Studio removal tool and it took out .NET Framwork. I re-installed this and did a reboot and get the SAME ISSUE! CAN ANYONE GET ME OUT OF THIS MS loop nightmare. Thanks! Jeff Thanks Jens but this is a clean Win Pro 2K wkstation that NEVER had any of these products, BETA or live installed. When I ran the removal tool it took .NET 2 off ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Changing the system colors in C#

  This changes the system colors in VC++ PPC: //############################################# // Window elements to change. int aiElements[3] = {COLOR_ACTIVEBORDER, COLOR_ACTIVECAPTION, COLOR_WINDOW}; // Array of RGB values. DWORD aColors[3]; // Define the new colors. aColors[0] = RGB(0x80, 0x00, 0x80); // dark purple aColors[1] = RGB(0x00, 0x80, 0x80); // dark cyan aColors[2] = RGB(0xC0, 0xC0, 0xC0); // light gray // Set the window elements in aiElements to the colors // specified in aColors. SetSysColors(3, aiElements, aColors); //############################################# I've been searching the interne ...Show All

• Windows Forms Date validation in windows form. (Vb)

  Hi I am using Datetime picker in my form(VB visual studio). How can I prevent user not to enter the future date. For example If date today is 2006/09/22 user must not enter future date, the date must be today or earlier but not before 2003/12/01. Thanks in avance After you drag your date time picker control on to the form, in the form load event add the following code Me .DateTimePicker1.MinDate = "12/1/2003" Me .DateTimePicker1.MaxDate = Today ...Show All

• Visual Basic Not Declared Issue With Visual Studio 2005

  Hi there! Recently installed the Visual Studio 2005 180-day-trial to see what it runs like and so-far I like, except I've encountered a rather show-stopping issue. I created a ASP.NET project, added a DropDownList Webcontrol to the page using the Design view, hopped into the Code view and happily wrote the code to connect to the database, create a new datatable from a db table and bind the results to the DropDownList. It worked perfectly and I was very happy. A few compiles later and the IDE says: 'Error "ddl_artists" is not declared'. Hmmm. I thought, checked the code and sure enough the variables were 'intellisensed'. I hadn't deleted the declarations. After a few minutes of pondering, I added Dim ddl_artists As System.Web.UI.W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Drilldown comboboxes

  Hi, Please can someone point me to a C#2005e solution for access-style cascading comboboxes where users drilldown their selection to find what they want. eg: Combo1 : Country -> Combo2: State -> Combo3: City An example is found here : http://www.candace-tripp.com/download/2table_cascadecombo2k.zip or http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/DrillDown.asp Thanks ! OK, I did not understand the difference between display member and value member. So I set the display member as Country and value member as CountryID. So cmbCountry.SelectedValue.ToString() will contain the countryID. Now I get it. I will keep trying and post back. Thanks for your patience. I am still having strange ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What is the meaning of loadAllContent?

  I'm not sure I understand the meaning of the parameter loadAllContent to the function Game.LoadGraphicsContent. According to the documentation it is: "true if all graphics resources need to be loaded; false if only manual resources need to be loaded." But what are manual resources Thanks in advance, Per Rasmussen. So if loadAllContent is false I should only load the graphics resources that haven't been loaded through the ContentManager and was "labeled" as manual. However, if it's true I should also load all resources which is loaded thru the ContentManager. Is this correct If so, what good is a ContentManager if I have to reload the resources myself anyway ...Show All