AlucardHellSing's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later is required to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.

  I attempted to install the Windows app that I developed on another computer from a CD. I got this error message: Prerequisite check for system component SQL Server 2005 Express Edition failed with the following error message: "Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later is required to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition." Does this mean that users running an older Windows version would not be able to run my app I have 3 prerequisites: SqlExpress, dotnetfx and WindowsInstaller3_1. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D game - The Camera

  How exactly do I move the camera when developing a 2D game for backgrounds that extend out of view So when the player moves the camera follows him. Is there even a camera lol When I used a 2D engine, I used a rectangle to describe the camera's view. Then I moved the player in world's coordinates and then render only the part in the camera rectangle. So I had to move only player and camera rectangle (to fellow the player). Then if you haven't performance's problem, I think tha you shouldn''t use 3D to emule 2D. --- elsamma --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express edition vs. "the real thing"

  Hi folks, I am currently working on a program that I intend to use at our company. Since VBE is free, I thought I start with that to see if I can manage to get the job done. Now it appears that it might work, so I think about purchasing the VB Studio 2005 package (VS). I bought Evangelos Petroutsos book "Visual Basic 2005" (recommended!), and from what I can see everything applies to both the VB part of VS, and to the VBE edition. I have a few questions however, just to make sure: - can any solution written in |the Express edition be imported / opened in VS or does it need to be re-written - will an application compiled in VS run faster (more optimized code) - is there anything else different that I should know Greetings, Th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Inet?

  Can console apps have an Inet If so whats code to add and use, or if there is none whats an alternative I would highly suggest you redesign your update system using webservices but I guess this may not be a solution for you so I will try to explain how to use the requested methods to do your task: connect to the website get data from the page shown/navigated to if text matches "Version 5.0" then display "No new updates available" else display "There is an update"   Dim theRequest as WebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://goat-spirit.com/Files/VER.VER") Dim theWebResponse as WebResponse = theRequest.GetResponse()   using theStreamReader as new StreamReader(theRe ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums VBA and Access Noobie Questions

  1. Our software developer created a software using VBA as a module in Access, We would like to let people use our software for 30 days then disable it until they enter in the right key code. Is there a way to do this We currently use a key generator to give them key codes but it only limits the number of records our software imports. I don't know how to give them full access for a time period. Is that possible If so please share! :) 2. We had another software company tell us they would like to get information from our software using an API but they said we need to migrate our VBA app to VB.Net or something like that so we can create an API. They use Java and netbeans I think. Is this true, It this the only way What program do you suggest w ...Show All

• Visual C# VS 2005: "Key not valid for use in specified state"

  Hi all- I'm running VS 2005 final release version.  I have a solution with two projects in it; an ASP.NET website in C# and a VB project which is my data access layer. Yesterday, this code was working fine.  I can compile and run the solution, and all the code works. But when I try to access or add a new datasource through the VS 2005 Data Sources Explorer, I get a popup which says: "An unexpected error has occurred.  Error message: key not valid for use in specified state." This message pops up after I select database as the source of my new datasource.  The wizard does NOT fail if I use a Web Service as my new datasource. Any ideas on what is happening, and how to clear up the problem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Empty directories in ASP.NET 2.0 web projects

  Hi, I don't know if this applies *only* to web projects, but I'm having a stupid problem. I want the application to write some files server-side, and I'd like to keep these files in a directory of their own. These files are part of the systems data, not its logic, so in my solution and in VSS I would like only to include the empty directory. However, when I add the new directory it's only created locally, not in the source control system. Hence the application crashes when it tries to use the directory that does not exist. I do not want to make the application check for the existence of the directory and create it. I know this is a possible solution, and I know it is fairly low overhead, but it is just too stupid. Adding a file ...Show All

• Visual C++ Class error for CustomizeProject

  Hello all, With the following class idenified as follows: class CMsappwizAppWiz : public CCustomAppWiz { public : virtual CAppWizStepDlg* Next(CAppWizStepDlg* pDlg); virtual void InitCustomAppWiz(); virtual void ExitCustomAppWiz(); virtual void CustomizeProject(IBuildProject* pProject); }; The compiler gives me the following errors: msappwiz\msappwizaw.h(20) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'IBuildProject' .\msappwizAw.cpp(65) : error C2065: 'IBuildProject' : undeclared identifier .\msappwizAw.cpp(65) : error C2065: 'pProject' : undeclared identifier .\msappwizAw.cpp(66) : error C2448: 'CMsappwizAppWiz::CustomizeProject' : function-style initializer appears to be ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using wimgapi.dll with VB6 - WimApplyImage causes VB6 IDE to freeze?

  I'm writing some code to use the wim imaging api wimgapi.dll with VB6. The code works 100% on capture, with the callback function correctly getting progress information and updating my form with progress bar etc. This works fine when run from within the IDE or from the compiled .exe. The apply image code is a problem though - the WimApplyImage code locks up the IDE part way through. When run from the compiled exe, I get no progress messages to the callback - I do get all the process messages though, and it actually works in that it correctly applies the image, but it stops updating my form until it exits the WIMApplyImage function. Anyone have any ideas I've tried registering the callback both immediately before the WimApplyIma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I bind listbox to the db table column

  Hi, I am trying to create application that will be accessing data from database and populating listboxes with information retreived from it. So far, I have db, db connection , dataset with tables that I need and couple dialog windows that are build by dragging tables from datasource wizard onto dialog. Also I set display member, data source and value member through the listbox property window with appropriet columns of the table. When run, program is correctly populating listbox with data from db. However, after scrolling through the listbox, each item that is visited will display valueMember (customerID) rather then displaymember (CustomerName) column that i specified . I also tryed to fix this problem by specifaing dataS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions vanishing main menu mystery?

  A windows application project had an main menu Friend WithEvents MainMenu1 As System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu I said had because it is no longer visible both in designer mode and when the application is run. Instead there is a blank area that is not a panel but the form itself. The code and codes for the subitems are still in the form1.vb when I veiw it with notepad. there is no menustrip whatsover How do I go about making the mainMenu1 visible again Sounds like something bad happened to the designer generated code. To take a look at it, click the Show All Files icon in Solution Explorer, open the node next to the form and double-click the Designer.vb file. If it doesn't make a l ...Show All

• SQL Server Matrix Percentage Column ( Column 2 vs Column 1)

  Need help with calculating percentage column in a matrix. 2005 2006 Jan 10 15 Feb 20 25 Need to add column showing variance : Var Var Jan 10 15 50% Feb 20 25 25% Any help would be appreciated.... ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Text file search, return data from line other than search string line

  Hi all, I am trying to pull information from a text (.txt) file and input it into an excel spreadsheet. With the "instr" and "mid" statements, I can pull any information from the line that the searched text is on, however, I want to pull information from the two or three text lines after the searched line. The reason I want the lines after the search string line is because the search string line is always the same, but the information on the lines afterwards are never the same. Here's an example of one series of lines in the text file: Case 1005 1 35 66 90 4 22 5 99 What I want to do is search the file for "Case" and then extract the two lines of data beneath it and place them on individual cells in ...Show All

• Visual Basic DataSet Thread-Safety?

  I have a multi-threaded application with several datasets that are read/written to from a couple threads. I have read that datasets can handle multiple readers and one writer. I have synclocks around all dataset writes and no synchronization around reads. I am experiencing random "Index was outside the bounds of the array." exceptions where a dataset item is in a conditional statement, for example: If CInt (CMPDAT.Tables(0).Rows(i).Item("ID")) = 0 Then Do I need to synchronize read operations as well Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi, I Think use more thant thread to read/write collections (here collections are tables, rows and columns) is not a nice idea. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF53008: The authentication type Negotiate is not supported

  i have rebooted my server, and now TFS web site not functioning eventlog is full off errors & warmings (each 10 secs) with such messages TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 7/19/2006 5:39:20 PM Machine: MAGADAN Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/2/Root/services-2-127978043597803756 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727 Process Details: Process Name: w3wp Process Id: 2128 Thread Id: 2104 Account name: CYBERSOFT\TFSService Detailed Message: TF53008: The authenti ...Show All