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• Windows Forms webbrowser remove frame

  is it posible to remove the 3d borde of the webbrowser i understand that that can be done with an active x or soemthing like thta.. and there is an article about this on codeproject.. but right now their site doesnt work for me.. any help i`m more than glad to do that Code Project and the error is: An invalid VARIANT was detected during a conversion from an unmanaged VARIANT to a managed object. Passing invalid VARIANTs to the CLR can cause unexpected exceptions, corruption or data loss. this is when i try to navigate somewhere.. ...Show All

• .NET Development Timer doesn't seem to last forever

  Hello. I have a timer in my app that fires every 15 seconds calling a function. It appears that after about 8 hours of running the timer stops calling the function even though the program continues to run. I define the timer in my main class like this: private System.Timers.Timer timer = new System.Timers.Timer(); Then in one of my init functions I set it like this: timer.Interval = 15000; timer.Enabled = true; timer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(UpdateStats); timer.Start(); The function UpdateStats is called for about the first 8 hours. Then it isn't called anymore. To confirm that it isn't called anymore I have a a file being written to in the function that appends the current to the file. After 8 hours the f ...Show All

• .NET Development Visual Studio.NET 2003 loses &#169 and &#174

  When I edit the HTML of an ASPX page in Visual Studio.NET 2003, I put in &#169 and &#174 for the copyright and trademark marks, respectively. When I switch back to the Design tab, then immediately back to HTML, the &#169 and &#174 are replaced with the copyright and trademark marks in the HTML. The problem is web pages aren't rendered properly with these inline characters. Is it possible to tell VS.NET (or a setting somewhere) to KEEP the &#169 and &#174 in HTML ...Show All

• SQL Server Automation Error

  Hello, Last night was the first night we used Sql Server Agent to run our Warehouse ETL packages. We use the built in logging of SSIS as well as our own event logging mechanism as it goes through all of the packages. Unfortunately, when we checked this morning the agent showed failure but in both logs from the packages no errors were reported. I checked the Windows event log and the Sql Server logs but found nothing that would appear to report an error. Does anyone have any ideas what I might be missing, any recommendations on things to check, we have manually been running these packages for weeks with no problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance! In reviewing all of the logs it made it through the e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Saving decimal in SQL Data Base

  Hi, When I save a decimal number, forexample 1.23, the database is rounding it to the nearest whole number 1. I need the DB to retain the value sent 1.23. Ron interesting. I've just done a test, before replying, and it works fine by giving a simple insert statement: INSERT INTO [table] ( fieldname) VALUES(1.23) and it inserted 1.23 like that, in the SQL table. Could be something to do with the datagridview but I am not entirely sure. Will investigate. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game completed and posted online. Have a look...

  I recently developed a 3D game using XNA and have posted the binary and source on www.threesixbox.com . The game's name is Snake and it can be found at http://www.threesixbox.com/project/ id=f580fc1536 I've been developing games since the early 80's but just downloaded XNA last week. During the course of the project I went through several iterations of optimizations and learned quite a bit about XNA.  I know that whenever I'm learning a new development language or library, working examples are very helpful to me.  If nothing else, this project can be used as another source of information for anyone interested in XNA development. Let me know what you think...   Just to let yo ...Show All

• Windows Forms toggling images in a toolStrip button

  I have noticed how the undo and redo buttons in most apps have an inactive state image (gray) and an active state image (usually blue). The images swap interactively as you reach the start or end of the current levels of undo. The next and back buttons on this browser are an example. I have looked for information on how to do this with a toolStrip button and have found only the reference to toggle buttons which concerns causing a single image to looked depressed until the control is clicked again. Can someone point me to information on how to associate 2 images to a toolStrip button so I can toggle them between 2 states of the button You can just set the enabled property to false. if ( t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Demos Released

  Hi All, I've just started a new series of XNA demos on my website. So far I have 3 demos: XNA Per-Pixel Lighting Demo, XNA Normal Mapping Demo, and XNA Parallax Normal Mapping Demo. I haven't included any pre built executables with the demos, so you'll have to build them yourself from the source provided with each demo. The demos target the Windows platform, but should run with little or no modifications for the Xbox 360. I chose to only target Windows to reduce the complexity of the source code. The per-pixel lighting demo implements per-pixel Blinn-Phong lighting (including specular lighting). The normal mapping demo implements tangent-space normal mapping. The demo also shows you how to calculate the tangent space basis vectors ...Show All

• Visual Basic Synchronize settings button isn't working

  Using VS2005 version 8.0.50727.42 RTM, I am experimenting with application settings to add some persistance to a VB windows app. Changing the scope of a setting from User to Application leads to a Configuration system failed to initialize exception at run time. I eventually realized that the Synchronize button on the Settings tab isn't working. It always gives me a dialog No user.config files were found in any of the following locations: [OK] No locations appear to have been searched, even though an out-of-date user.config file does exist in ...\Local Settings\Application Data\... Of course I can manually delete the user.config file to work around this but it would be nice if I could get the Synchronize button to do it for me. Do ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Error 0x8004D00E on SQL Server 2000 + Windows 2000 SP4

  We have an ASP.NET application running on Windows Server 2003 whose database backend lives in a different machine which runs SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 Server SP4. Whenever we try to use System.Transactions we get errors. We are almost sure that the problem is related to MSDTC refusing network connections. We tried to run the same thing using Windows Server 2003 in the backend server, and we were able to make it work by configuring MSDTC security using the COM+ console. However, we still need to support Windows 2000 for the backend. There is apparently no GUI for MSDTC security on Windows 2000, and the registry settings we have tried so far did not work. We think this should be a very common issue, but we have ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Direct X10 and Vista - Compatibility

  Simple question, will Direct X10 only be compatible with Vista theAntiELVIS wrote: That being the case, DX9 will certainly run under Vista. DX10 will operate on XP in a "fallback" mode, similar to how DX9 operates on older DX8 cards. You won't get all the new features. And if the game developer didn't make allowances for this scenario, their game probably WON'T run under XP. -tAE- I am sorry but this is not true. Direct3D 10 has no concept of a “Fallback” mode. The Direct3D 10 runtime needs a Direct3D 10 driver that is based on WDDM. WDDM is only supported by Windows Vista. If you want to write a game that supports Shader Model 4 and the older models too you have to write code for Direct3D 9 and Dire ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Game Studio Pro

  I just wanted to know if anyone had any info on the cost of XNA GSP, cause i've been surfin on google and found that some rumors are goin around about MS selling new dev kits for 360 for only $100.. The price point for the Xbox XNA developer set-up will be around $99 from what we have seen. Do not believe rumors, unless you have heard lots of previously true rumors from the same source. It is quite likely that they are confusing the XNA kit with the real developer kit (which is a lot harder to get at than just plunking down $100). ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute SSIS Package from ASP.net 2 Application?

  Hello, is it posssible to execute SSIS packages from ASP.NET Which code should I Use Hi Luis, There's an example of this in the Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services book - chapter 17. You can grab the sample code from the Wrox site. Hope this helps, Andy ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem: The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document

  Hi, I've run into a problem that seems to defy a solution. Bottom line: When I'm attempting to debug with VS 2005, I cannot set an effective breakpoint in one of the source files. The breakpoint is the hollowed-out reddish/yellow circle, and VS says that the breakpoint won't work because the symbols are not loaded. I've found several discussions in this forum about this type of problem, but there's no concensus that I could find on how to solve the problem. Some background might be in order. I have been developing a "data binder" for use in a forms UI application that has multiple threads. There are three projects/classes in the solution, one for a test mainline, using forms, one for a general-purpose "dump" routi ...Show All

• SQL Server How to specify input parameters?

  I'm very new to SQL Server so please forgive me if this question is ridiculously simple. I have to upgrade the report engine from one that was used in a legacy VB6 app to a C#.net app. In doing so, I'm looking at assorted reports that came out of the old app. Here is the SQL code for one of them: SELECT (LTRIM(STR(From_To,10,0)) + '-' + LTRIM(STR(From_To + 49,10,0))) AS Bonus_Earned, COUNT (Empl_ID) AS Men, round(SUM (SumDollars),2) AS Group_Earn, round((SUM (SumDollars) / COUNT (Empl_ID)),2) AS Calc0 FROM (SELECT CONVERT (int, round (SumDollars / 50, 2)) * 50 AS From_To, SumDollars, Empl_ID FROM (SELECT round(SUM (Actual_Hours_Dollars.Incentivedollars * Contract_History.Bonus_Pct / 100), 2) AS SumDollars, employees.Empl_ID FROM ((Employe ...Show All