SylvirCoder's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to get XNA Game Studio for VS2005 Team Suite Edition????

  Where to download it If you want to develope XNA games/apps for Windows, you can install XGSE to get the XNA stuff onto your system. You can then add the XNA as references in your own C# projects. You can uninstall XGSE afterwards and continue to dev XNA games for Windows. If you want to develope XNA games/apps for Xbox, you *have* to use XGSE. If you want MS to support using XNA Game Studio with other versions of Visual Studio 2005, please cast your vote here: https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=190037&SiteID=226 ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Assigning a unique number to all documents

  Hello,   I want to store a unique ID to use in a webpart. In a aspx page I would do it with a database field and a stored procedure, but with webparts i don't know. I want to give all my documents a unique ID, but not use the ID from sharepoint itself. A web part is a piece of code, the same as an aspx page. It does have storage, but it is not a database management system, and does not offer protection from concurrency or locks etc. Why not do the method that you allready know how to do (use a database field and a stored proc) to create these IDs ...Show All

• Visual Basic Programming Languages

  Hi, I'm relatively new to programming, and Visual Basic doesn't seem to be that good of a language, and not that much used in real applications. I want to move onto a different language, one that is very popular, can do almost anything, and can be and IS used in professional applications. Another important factor is platform compatibility. Java provides that, but Java isn't that popular for Windows, and Windows is my primary target. C++ works, but I have a couple of questions: 1) Can C++ be used on any OS Is it a good language to use as my primary language 2) Is C# going to replace C++ Does that work on other OS's C# is newer, and so I'm thinking maybe its the new version of C++ that's going to replace it, as xhtml is probably going to do ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there an option to make a big exe file that contain my program and all the things from the frameworks the my program need?

  When I write program in VB express the .exe file is lean on the frameworks and when I want to run my program in other computer sometimes I need to downloads the frameworks. So I want to know if there an option to make a .exe file that contain all the things that my program need to run on any computer and if it can't done in VB express maybe it can done in VB pro Best Regards, Yaniv It may be help U http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/NETVBdev08.asp ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Questions on WPF/E

  Hi, I have been reading blogs on WPF/E and it's has got me pretty excited: I had a few questions on it: 1) I plan to use WPF/E to design a kind of user input form (WPF/E to get better user interaction - do something funky) - Can this be done 2) Can I make call to webServices from WPF/E application to process data, Is there any built in support 3) What are the things I could do in WPF/E which cannot be done in Flash - i.e. what is it that would drive people to migrate from Flash to WPF/E. Thanks in advance. Regard - A..K A..K wrote: I plan to use WPF/E to design a kind of user input form (WPF/E to get better user interaction - do something funky) - Can this be done ...Show All

• Windows Forms Particular question about a Setup and Deployment project.

  Hello everybody! I'm quite new to Visual Studio and I'm having a hard time finding out this. I have a working project right now, which installs perfectly. It installs some application files and some help files. What I need now is the help files, instead of being inside the .msi package, to be outside, just in a folder. For example, in the installation folder I have the setup.exe, the .msi package, and the Help folder. So, when I run the setup, I need it to perform as usual, with the only difference that the help files are copied from that folder and not from inside the .msi file. The destination folder of the help files is not changed, so the shortcuts must remain as they are now. In other words, I need the installer to take the files of t ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot connect to SQL Server

  Recently, I installed a fresh copy of Windows Vista Business. Then, I installed SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. Upon completion I get a message saying that I should update my SQL Server with SQL Server SP1. Good. Go to Microsoft.com, download and installed it. Update succesful. Then I get another message telling me that I need to update to SQL Server 2005 SP2 because that one is also need it for compatibility with Windows Vista. Good. Go again to Microsoft.com and install SP2. Trying to connect to the server is imposible. When I try I get the folowing message: Cannot connect to Val-PC ( the server name ) Login failed for for user 'Val-Pc\Val' (Microsoft SQL Server, Error 18456 ) Can anyone help It would ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Simple Video Frame Capture

  I haven’t spent much time with DirectShow (and don’t particularly want to at the moment), so please forgive some beginner’s questions. My objective is to periodically (1 – 10fps) capture video frames from a USB camera to a memory buffer (preferably a DIB). I’ve found a way to do that using DirectShow. However, I’m not certain that this is the easiest/best/most efficient way to do things. Microsoft offers several video APIs (WIA, multimedia, …). Most of these APIs either want to save things to a file, or display things to a window. Since I don’t want to do either of these things (and in many cases it seems impossible to avoid them) it appears that DirectShow is the way to go Anyway, assuming that DirectShow is the way to g ...Show All

• SQL Server CPAN for SSIS?

  Perl has CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive network, where you can download everything under the sun. What about CSAN, a comprehensive SSIS archive network, with an archive of Script Transforms, Script Tasks, CLR Tasks and CLR Transforms, not forgetting package metadata programs either I realize sqlis.com exists, as does this forum, but neither are repositories, and the blogs tend to be rather evanescent in nature. I don't believe there is a site/service with the ability to post SSIS transforms similar to that facility within the Perl, python and ruby communities. I started http://wiki.sqlis.com because it allows others to contribute easily. A step in the right direction from the fixed sqlis site ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce publish problem for Remote Site

  Hi. I want to use ClickOnce so that I can install a WinForms application from a web site. I have two questions: 1) What do I need to do in IIS to support ClickOnce I think it needs FrontPage Server Extensions. I have also tried creating a Virtual Directory etc. So far I have been unable to publish into the Virtual Directory and I get errors like... Error 3 Failed to connect to 'http://<domainname>/ClickOnceTestInternal/' with the following error: Unable to create the Web 'http://<domainname>/ClickOnceTestInternal/'. Server error: 'ClickOnceTestInternal' does not refer to a page or folder in this web. It may be a page or folder in a subweb, or it could be a badly formed URL. What else do I need to do 2) I need to ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Require help accessing CF RFid Reader in Compact Framework

  Hi, I've recently started a project developing an application for a PDA that reads RFID tags (tags that emit a radio signal containing a unique id number, and that can be picked up by a reader). I have been supplied with a reader and tags but unfortunately very little information on how to actually program it. All I've been told is: This reader has a standard CF interface. To get the bits into your PC or PDA, you must use the same part of your development system as for reading other data from a CF card. The meaning of the bits you can find in John's e-mail. Please do not forget that different processors might need different versions. The email they're referring to contains the following information: Data format for reading the tags is as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Drillthrough Report shows no data

  Hello, I am trying to get a drillthrough report working in Visual Web Developer Express 2005, using the Report Viewer. I have created a report that is the parent report. I have created the report that is the report that is being "drilled to". There are no parameters for the report that is being "drilled to". I set the Jump to Report to the "drill to" report in the parent report. I added the listed code to the Load and Drillthrough events in the ParentReport.aspx.vb file. When I run the ParentReport.aspx.vb file the data appears fine. When I click on one of the values that sends me to the "drill to" report, the report header appears and there is no data. I have tested the "drill to" repor ...Show All

• SQL Server Beginners

  I have just started learning SQL server. Where from I start. I have downloaded SQL Management Studio & SQL Express Edition. Now What should I do now hi, hard to say... at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=be6a2c5d-00df-4220-b133-29c1e0b6585f&DisplayLang=en you can find the downloadable version of Books OnLine, the on line help for SQL Server... it both contains "insides" about the engine and architecture, as SQL dialect tutorials as well.. it really is a valuable (the best) source of information about SQL Server.. but perhaps the understanding of what a DBMS is, is not included as these are "pre-requisites" to all the fun.. so here all depends on your actual skill a ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to create irregular window from PNG image with WPF

  Hello, I am trying to create an irregular window as the main UI of an application from a PNG file. While I encounter some problems during the efforts. I am using codes below in WPF (using UpdateLayeredWindow in Win32): ----------------------------------------------------------------- public void SetBackground() { System.Drawing.Image img1 = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile("Background.png"); System.Drawing.Bitmap bmpFrmBack = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(img1); // Set our control's size to be the same as the bitmap this.Width = bmpFrmBack.Width; this.Height = bmpFrmBack.Height; if (bmpFrmBack.PixelFormat != System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb) { thro ...Show All

• .NET Development Extra three bytes prepended to XML File

  I have an XML FIle that I'm doing an XSLT tranform on, to RTF. The XML file is written with an XMLTextWriter. When I open the beginnings of my RTF file with word it always ask me for an encoding and it doesn't treated the RTF file as RTF just a straight text file. I looked at the RTF with a hex dump utility and I notice there are three bytes preepending the RTF. 00000000 EF BB BF 3C 3F 78 6D 6C-20 76 65 72 73 69 6F 6E ...< xml version 00000010 3D 22 31 2E 30 22 20 65-6E 63 6F 64 69 6E 67 3D ="1.0" encoding= 00000020 22 75 74 66 2D 38 22 20-73 74 61 6E 64 61 6C 6F "utf-8" standalo 00000030 6E 65 3D 22 79 65 73 22-3F 3E 0D 0A 3C 44 69 72 ne="yes" >..<Dir I notice the same three bytes pr ...Show All