Asbj0rn's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C# Marble Blast Ultra Source?

  I noticed in one of the XNA blog posts, that GarageGames had ported their Torque shader engine and Marble Blast Ultra to managed code/C#. Is this source likely to ship with XNA Studio Express (or possibly people with the "creators club" membership), or did they just do it to show off It'd make a pretty cool starting app for people to look at and see how it should be done!(and they have done it with MechCommander2). They ported MBU lock stock and barrel, to prove that Torque X was viable for writing games on 360. The source code is not publicly available and isn't ever likely to be. GarageGames make revenue from MBU after all. The example was basically to show the comunity that they can make su ...Show All

• SQL Server Question about exporting to Excel

  Hi, I have a report with a table that has a few columns that have visibility property set to hidden and other visible columns. I would like to export the report to Excel but I need to be able to export the hidden columns as well and unhide that from Excel file generated if needed. Is this possible to do or only the visible columns can be exported Thank you. Hi I am having trouble with the toggle item functionality being exported to excel. Could you please expand on the point you made about the toggle item functionality being disabled " if the toggle item is not in the previous or next row/column of the toggled item" or even better provide a pointer to some documentation on this. Thank ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom lists into a PropertyGrid dropdown

  Hi, I'm working with a PropertyGrid class, and I want one of the selected object's properties to show as a list of strings. As far as I can tell the naive StringConverter derived class will not do for me since I want the list of strings to be supplied dynamically at runtime. How do I get around this I don't know your application and its design, but can't you use the Instance and optionally the PropertyDescriptor that are passed to you in the ITypeDescriptorContext The instance, which is of the type the TypeConverter understands, could give you a reference to the object that stores the desired strings Best regards, Nicolas Cadilhac Smart PropertyGrid.Net @ VisualHint Microsoft PropertyGrid Resource List Free PropertyGrid for MFC ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Changing Variables At Build or Deploy

  I've finally managed to get the variables to work so that I can add files to the database using $(drive) etc. instead of hard coding. I can't seem to get these variables to change when running from msbuild. I thought I could do something like this: msbuild /t:sqldeploy /p:Configurations="Sandbox";drive="C:";directory="Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA" premium.dbproj. Then, if I wanted to, set it to another configuration and change the drive & directory like this: msbuild /t:sqldeploy /p:Configurations="Development";drive="T:";directory="SQL Server\Data" But it seems to only use the default values that were set when I created this in the XML: ...Show All

• Visual Basic Simple open and close

  Hi all, Just need a bit of help, I'm stuck on a bit of code A user will enter in a file name it will be read and open the appropriate file, a txt file in this case I'm not really sure about the openfiledialog Any help will be much appreicated Cheers almost! I don't need to put the text into the txt box i just need to open the .txt file that i have specified Hope this is a bit clearer Sorry! ...Show All

• SQL Server Changing DataTypes in an Excel Data Source

  Hello. I'm importing some data from an excel file to sql server 2005. I created an Excel Data Source inside my Data Flow Task but it is assuming that the source columns DataType is double-precision float [DT_R8]. It isn't, even though some rows may containg numeric string in the column's cell. If I go to the Data Sources advanded editor, and modify the data type property of the column, SSIS complains the the error output and the source output are not of the same DataType. If I try to change the error output's data type in the advanced editor I get this error: "Property Value". The deailed error states: Error at MOVIM 04 [MOVIM 04 [1]]: The data type for "output "Excel Source Error Output" (10)" can ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Writing an ISO image to disc

  Hello everyone! Thanks to everyone who participated in the Optical Beta chat today! I'm trying to get a better, full-feature sample that we can put up on the forums, but for now here is a sample derived from our WinHEC slides that burn an ISO image to a disc.  The only missing piece is creating a stream over the ISO file.  I cannot get a piece of code that I can release for this in VBScript yet, although a good start is SHCreateStreamOnFile for C++ development.  Even though it does not work without this one function, this sample still shows the necessary steps to burn an ISO image.  Although this is officially unsupported code, I'd be glad to answer any questions about the IMAPIv2 functionality it exhibits... ...Show All

• .NET Development Xml element attributes

  hi, I am getting a return value from a stored procedure like following way <m_allergies import_id="200"allergy_type="1" Code="5763" Name="abcd" Reaction="skin peels" add_date=12/12/2006"/><m_allergies import_id="200" allergy_type="2" Code="57" Name="ab" Reaction="peels" add_date=12/12/2006"/><m_allergies import_id="200"allergy_type="3" Code="763" Name="bcd" Reaction="skin burns" add_date=12/12/2006"/> But i have to update xml document using values allergy type attibute value(ie 1), code attribute value( ie 5763) reaction attibute value ( ie skinp ...Show All

• .NET Development AT Cammand

  this aommand in my program, not response: "ATD123456" why ...Show All

• .NET Development Class serialization problem (with an Assembly as one of the members of the class)

  Hello, We are experiencing problem with binary serialization / deserialization of assembly (as a member of other class). Suppose we have (in C#): [Serializable] public class SomeDataContainer { public List<string> someImportantData; public Assembly dynCompiledAssembly; ... ... } dynCompiledAssembly is created with CSharpCodeProvider, contains a class and several methods. Then we serialize the SomeDataContainer class instance with BinaryFormatter (to disk). Everything's fine so far. While trying to deserialize the saved instance, a FileNotFoundException is thrown, specifying that it is not possible to load an assembly with certain name, version and evidence - in short, the same dynamically created assembly that was supposed (by simple ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Enumerating hardware?

  Is there anything similiar to SetupAPI available on Pocket PC I need to enumerate hardware devices in a specific device class (bluetooth). Regards, Nille Hi , This forum is primarily monitored by Visual Studio for devices group. Please check this link for more appropriate forums for this type of queries. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=286724&SiteID=1 Thanks Srikanth Bogadapati . ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with replicating large batch inserts

  I have transactional replication set up between 2 SQL Server 2005 databases on 2 different boxes. Both the log reader and distribution agent run in continuous mode. The distributor is residing on a third SQL Server box. We are having performance issues with replication when there are large batch deletes/inserts happening on the publisher. There is a batch job that runs for about 8-10 hours everyday on the publisher and deletes/inserts thousands of records as part of transactions. The amount of time to replicate all this data on the subscriber is around 13-15 hours which is not acceptable to our user community. While monitoring I found that the distribution database (MSRepl_commands table) at times has millions of record ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System New Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Available Now!

  I am happy to report we have released an updated TFS MSSCCI provider here . We have been able to address a number of requests (keep them coming) in this release including the following: PowerBuilder support Enterprise Architect support Improved Open from SCC experience Work items can now be modified in the checkinwindow Get latest on checkout support Check-in lock is treated as exclusive Setup works on x64 This is an unsupported "powertoy" like tool. There have been some discussions about the possibility of supporting it, but nothing yet. Keep reporting issues and comments to the forum or by e-mail . I have installed this thing in the hope of using it to manage my VS.NET 2003 projects wi ...Show All

• Visual C# method not firing

  I have a method which is not firing. I use a customValidator control that calls the method onServerValidate I've tested the method on a seperate page using the exact same code and it works fine, so something is preventing the method from firing on my page. Here is the page where the method does not fire: http://dwayne.compasslearning.com/contact.aspx (click on the dropdown menu and select "request product and services information") When you submit the form, the phone number input boxes do not validate, which is where I have a CustomValidator control calling my method. Here is a test page, where it does fire: http://dwayne.compasslearning.com/validate.aspx I'm stumped on what is causing the method to not ex ...Show All

• SQL Server Testing failover

  How do I test failover to point to the mirrored database instead of the principal without having to stop the primary instance I would like to just bring the mirrored database on the primary instance to an offline status and see that the same database on the mirrored instance getting activated as the primary. This does not happen if I try to put the database on the primary server "offline" as it complains that any database that is being mirrored cannot be taken offline. On the Principal server, go into the mirroring properties of your principal database and click on the 'failover' button. This manually initiates a failover, and if it works correctly your mirrored database will assume the role of ...Show All