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• Software Development for Windows Vista Visual Studio 6.0 SP5 setup on Vista Beta 2 (5384)?

  Does anyone know how to get around the MDAC check in the Service Pack 5 setup of Visual Studio 6.0 For some reason it doesn't detect MDAC 2.5 or higher which it requires (even though Vista obviously has a later version - 6.0) and the setup will not continue from that point. I've tried every registry key I could think of to trick it into thinking MDAC is installed. Thanks Ted. Yes, I did - I even went so far as to file a Vista bug with the Microsoft Beta Client utility (you should do the same: get it at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=43655  ) See: http://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=82726&SiteID=4 (note: you must be a member of the Vis ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) MSMQ and service accounts - internal certificate not found

  We're running some web apps that use MSMQ. They run as a custom service account (DOMAIN\UserX). We're using WCF and the netMsmq binding (net.msmq://queuemachine/queuex). I read that you have to logon to each server with the service account to create the MSMQ certificate. So, we did that, verified that the MSMQ cert is in Active Directory, everything looks good. However, as soon as we close our interactive session (our RDP session) that we opened with the user, then restart IIS, we get this error: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: An error occurred while sending to the queue: No internal Message Queuing certificate exists for the user. (-1072824273, 0xc00e002f).Ensure that MSMQ is installed and running. If you are sending to a ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB6 Image control in VB2005 used as feedback device in a picture

  In VB6 I used Image controls to give visible feedback when the mouse moves over a 'sensitive' area in a picture: set the borderstyle to fixedsingle and set it back to none when it's outside. I am looking for a simple equivalent in VB2005. VB6 Image controls are transparent, but anything I can find in VB2005 in the form of (user-) controls is opaque (right ) and requires a lot of hassle with the underlying image. So the functionality I am looking for is to let the user know where on a picture he can click, for further info and whatever. Without ruining the picture (a bitmap in a picturebox on a panel). Should be easy, but can't find any help in the help. Help! A transparent control isn't really trans ...Show All

• .NET Development How to remove empty element from xml file

  Hi How do I remove the empty elemet (coloured in blue) from the xml below and save as xml file only with the element has value .I pasted only a portion of xml. I need a CODE to iterate through the document and remove all empty elements and leave only the START ELEMENT and ELEMENT with values                                 FROM (the xml below) - < LeaseDetails > <                <LeaseType > <                 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Gridview elements

  I have a gridview, and i would like in the code, when i check the NO radio button for it to display a text box in the next column. I am new at this and i do not know exactly how to do it. I set up a postback event on the radio buttons. I would appreciate your help Thank you I did some reading on handling on the checkbox cell and it turned out not very straightforward Quote MS help "For clicks in a DataGridViewCheckBoxCell , this event occurs before the check box changes value, so if you do not want to calculate the expected value based on the current value, you will typically handle the DataGridView.CellValueChanged event instead. Because that event occurs only when the user-specified value is co ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Converting Windows project to 360 project

  Is there a nice automated way to convert a windows project to a 360 project And by windows project, I mean using Visual Studio 05, where I've just included the xna dlls myself. Thanks. -Nick I'm using Visual Studio Pro because there is a plug-in I use that doesn't work on express. Plus, I started building this with the first beta, and 360 wasn't really an option. Until VisualAssistX works with Express, I plan to code on Pro, and then copy the files into express to debug on the 360. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Collision Detection

  Ok, i know this has already been posted on but after going through that i still couldn't get it to work. So here's my code and plz tell me what's wrong. Texture2D _paddle1; Texture2D _paddle2; Texture2D _ball; Vector2 _paddle1pos; Vector2 _paddle2pos; Vector2 _ballpos; Vector3 _p1box; Vector3 _p1box2; Vector3 _p2box; Vector3 _p2box2; Vector3 _bbox; Vector3 _bbox2; BoundingBox bb1 = new BoundingBox (); BoundingBox bb2 = new BoundingBox (); BoundingBox bb3 = new BoundingBox (); SpriteBatch spriteBatch; _paddle1pos = new Vector2 (50, 300); _paddle2pos = new Vector2 (1000, 300); _ballpos = new Vector2 (400, 300); _p1box = new Vector3 (_paddle1pos.X, _paddle1pos.Y,0); _p1box2 = new V ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can you use C++ dll files in C#?

  The title probobly isn't very descriptive, but that was the best I could think of :\ I've noticed that the 3 managed languages (VB, C#, J#) can all "assimlate" eachother. That meaning, you can, say, create a .dll file in any language, and reference it in any of the other languges (which I know at compile-time or whatever, it converts the .dll to the native language instead). But, is this possible with Visual C++ I've seen a few threads of how people can use C++ .dlls, and then use them in their C# applications. So, how would you go about this Do you have to create a managed C++ application And/or have to tinker with the .dll's assembly, or something Thanks. EDIT: Also, is using a, say, C# .dll file in a C++ application possi ...Show All

• .NET Development writing to XML and VSTO in windows mobile 2005.

  hey there...       I am new to visual studio and programming in general and was wondering how i might accomplish these tasks. any help is greatly appreciated...             1. How do I make a button that when pressed writes its value to an xml or excel xls file             2. How do I make a button that when pressed runs another program             3. Does VSTO work on "windows mobile 2005" and "pocket excel"              Also, does anybody know any good beginner tutorials that could help me o ...Show All

• Visual C# Deriving from a hierarchy of abstract classes

  Hi there, I'm designing a system in which I have an abstract class that hosts properties that point to instances of abstract classes as well, so I have a hierarchy of abstract classes. Let's say I have a base class Vehicle , with a property named Properties of the abstract type VehicleProperties . Now, I have a Car class that derives from Vehicle . I derive CarProperties from VehicleProperties ... Ok, fine, but now when I program against the deriven Car class, I would like to see Car.Properties as CarProperties , not as VehicleProperties . Of course I can do that by hiding: public new VehicleProperties Properties{ get { return (VehicleProperties)this._properties; } } But is this the preferred way Anyone Marc E ...Show All

• SQL Server Oracle REF CURSOR

  Good day! Does SQL Server has aby analog of ORACLE's Ref Cursors ex: "type [name] is ref cursor" Thanks you! You could use the output cursors for your scenario. But there are more efficient ways to do this in SQL Server using temporary tables for example. In most cases you don't really need a cursor. So if you want to retain the exact logic, you could use output cursors but there are so many differences between PL/SQL (more richer programming language) & TSQL that it is not going to be a simple conversion. And there is no package object in TSQL so you will have to either create a schema instead of package but this just provides a namespace mechanism. You will have to handle permissions ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB2005 Multi Develpoers working on one project at the same time

  We are new to vb 2005, and we have several developers that need to open the same source code and run the program, but when we do the first delveloper is ok and the rest get an error trying to copy the exe to the bin folder. Is there anyway this can be done (no error and more then one developer in a project at the same time running the program) I would strongly recommend that you look into using a source code control system, such Visual Source Safe . The way that you normally have multiple developers working on a project is to have a central repository of the sources (the source code control system) and have the developers get the project from there. When you want to open the project, you basically ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to connect to sql server 2005 express edition

  Hi, I have installed SQL Server 2005 express edition on Windows 2003 Server, but i am unable to make a connection using sqlcmd -S <servname\instancename> -U <loginID> -P <pwd> -d <dbname> but i am able to make the connection using sqlcmd -S <servname\instancename>,<portnumber> -U <loginID> -P <pwd> -d <dbname> What could be the possible reason for this and how can i configure sql server 2005 express edition to make connections without specifying any portnumber in the connection string. Both the sqlserver database service and browser services are running. Regards Salil Hi Salil, It looks like UDP port 1434 is blocked between ...Show All

• SQL Server How to get a list of all dimensions within a cube in MDX?

  hi guys, i need to get a list of all dimensions within a cube in mdx any ideas What for Could you please give an example of MDX, which would benefit from this If you need to show the list of dimensions somewhere why not to use metadata related classes from AdomdClient and not send MDX requests ...Show All

• SQL Server Replicating DDL from multiple publishers to one subscriber

  In my situation I have multiple transactional publishers replicating to a single subscriber in SQL2005. When making table changes (like adding a column) I want to be able to add the column to one publisher, let it replicate and then add the column to the remaining publishers and have it not replicate (because it would error trying to add a column that already exists on the subscriber). So I thought I could set the first publisher to "Replicate Schema Changes = True" and the remaining to False. Then add the column to each publisher and then insert new rows in each publisher table. It works for the first publisher, but the remaining publishers fail with "stored procedure sp_MSins_dboMYTABLE expects parameter @c3 which was not ...Show All