vtortola's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. conection timed out before reaching host

  ok i just purchased the year membership, and i get this error when deploying spacewar, the consoles on "conect to computer" 360s ip is 192.168.0.1 and subnet 255,255,255,0 pc's ip is 192.168.0.9 and subnet 255.255.255.0 any ideas all firewalls disabled for now ...Show All

• Visual C# Attempting to open a "random" .resources OR .resx file in an App

  This is really my first post in here, but what I am trying to do is somewhat different than everyone else. I would like to be able to open either a .resx file or .resources file that is not in my current directory structure (or really different hard drive). I am doing this to be able to open my own resources and alter what I need to alter. I have been trying to read them into a System.Resources.ResourceManager and I keep getting the "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException' occurred in mscorlib.dll" error. I know that I am doing something wrong and there has to be a way to fix it. First, can you open/load a ".resx" file into a ResourceManager Second, can you open either ...Show All

• Windows Forms Make a networked drive appear local?

  Hi everyone, need a bit of info. Here the situation: Client has a 50 PC network, wants to remove access to C: drive but wants to make the networked "Shared (D:)" drive appear as a local drive (i.e not using "map network drive" function). Does anyone know how I can achieve this I have seen it done before. Regards and merry christmas to you all! AJ I don't think making C invisible is the answer, someone always finds away around that ;-) . Just close it down with permissions, and do a combo of couple things. 1) Make there My documents a network drive. 2) Train your users to use the network drive. 3) Enforce a policy against users who try to break policy. 4) Ma ...Show All

• Windows Forms Pushing data into winforms clients.

  Anyone have any advice on pushing data into winforms clients I need winforms clients to listen for changes made to a sql server 2000 database and automatically update itself. Is this possible Perhaps using .net remoting I was thinking about how to do this, and my line of thinking is this: I would write a c# service which would have a list of all connected clients and methods which would be called to update the database. So the client applications wouldn't call sql server directly, It would call methods on the service letting the service know it wants to update something on the database and if successful, notify all connected clients. Does that sound correct How do the big boys make apps like instant messengers, games, etc. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions universal variables

  Okay, I'm not sure if it's possible, but here goes: I know that in VB6, it was possible to declare a variable in the declarations (at least, I always did, and it worked) and then it would be there for the entire program. However, converting one of my projects over into VB2005, I have run into an error. In all of my subs, the variables are now "privately" declared, and I have no idea how or why it doesn't work anymore. My coding resembles this: dim a, b, c, d, e as decimal Private Sub Button_Click( ByVal eventSender As System.Object, ByVal eventArgs As System.EventArgs) Handles Button.Click Call determine_variables(a,b,c,d,e) Call show_variables(a,b,c,d,e) End Sub Sub determine_ ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Creating setup for the add-in

  Hi How can I create a setup file for my Add-in that automatically registers it without the need to manually add it to the messenger Tal Hi james Thanks for the answer Is the registry modification supported by microsoft Do you have documentation for each registry key ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WSS on a different box?

  Hey, A client of mine wants to use their central Sharepoint boxes to host the TFS WSS sites under. I know it is possible to change the urls of the WSS sites through the TFSREG.exe tool, but I was wondering if this is a supported scenario In addition to this question, what security permissions are required on the Sharepoint environment to create TFS sites during the Team Project Wizard It seems from recent documentation updates that you have to be Sharepoint Administrator in order to create sites, while this is not true in basic Sharepoint deployments. Giving away Sharepoint Admin rights to the people that are allowed to create Team Projects on TFS is certainly not an option (the Sharepoint environment is big and administration and ...Show All

• Windows Forms how i an count the datagrid rows if there is 'n' rows

  For counter = 0 To n If Not mJVGrid.Item(counter, 2) = 0 Then debitTotal += Integer .Parse(mJVGrid.Item(counter, 2)) End If next thanks For counter = 0 To mJVGrid.Item(counter, 2) - 1 If Not mJVGrid.Item(counter, 2) Is Nothing Then If Not mJVGrid.Item(counter, 2) = 0 Then debitTotal += Integer .Parse(mJVGrid.Item(counter, 2)) Else debitTotal += Integer .Parse(mJVGrid.Item(counter, 2)) End If End If Next ---------------this is my code------------------------- acctually there is an indexoutOf range problem here because if i insert values in 2 rows the total datagrid rows are automatically 3......and the last row (3) are always empty.... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error While connecting to TFS-version control through ASP.net web application

  All, Greetings! I am writing an ASP.net web application which is supposed to connect to Team Foundation Server’s (TFS) version control services and do certain operations 1. create a workspace 2. check-in a file and 3. check-out a file These operations are to be performed with the credentials of the user who logs in to the web application to enable auditing at later point of time. The environment set up is as follows: 1. I have TFS server available at http://tfsserver:8080 2. I have my web application hosted on (IIS) http://webserver/TFSWeb 3. I have clients machines and servers are authenticated through a domain c ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF and HTTP Get

  Hi all, I've spent a very frustrating few days trying to figure out how to do HTTP GET calls to WCF services. In particular, I eventually want to be able to have a javascript call a URL, passing parameters and getting results in JSON format for a WCF AJAX service. I know I'll need to write a custom encoder for my message format, and I don't _think_ I'll have trouble there. So all I want to be able to do at this point is make a GET call to the method, and see the raw soap packet for now (ala the old ASMX webservice support for GET) 1) I've read that "WCF HTTPTransport supports GET out of the box" but I can't find an example of how to actually do this or format the URL to call one of my service operations. 2) I've read the " ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Sharepoint site migeration

  hi We had designed a sharepoint site on WSS v3 beta, now we have to migrate that site to WSS v3 release version. can some one suggest on how can i approch the situation. i tryed using stsadm.exe tool which dose not work because there is a difference in the version. thanks karthik Recently, I've got the same task. We have been probing the new SharePoint Server 2007 final relese and it's time to move on to fully deployed platform. So I have to solve the next task : How can I move all the data from one share point farm server to another server farm the way it resemles the old data structure, site collections, PWA e t.c. The first server farm (consisting of 1 server with all the s ...Show All

• SQL Server How to find Carriage Return CHAR(13)?

  I've been looking for this online and on MSDN but no luck. I simply want to find all my CR in specific columns and later Replace them with a string (ie. --THIS-IS-A-CR--). The problem is I cannot even find/search CHAR(13) by using variations of the query below. SELECT * FROM Incident WHERE (description LIKE '%CHAR(13)%') --I know this is incorrect This is what I am trying, it says that all rows have been updated, but when I do a find for the string I cannot find any changes to the table. update Incident set description = replace(cast(description AS varchar(8000)), '%'+char(13)+'%', '--THIS-WAS-CR--') where description like '%'+char(13)+'%' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Web Site Application

  I have successfully installed visual web developer and also installed ASPAJAXExtSetup, I excepted that when I would create a new web application project there would the ASP.NET AJAX. Enabled Web Site, However it was not there. The application present are the ff: ASP.NET Web Site,ASP.NET web service,personal Web starter kit, and Empty Website. Why is this so Is still there something that I have to configure I have tried in Microsoft Visual Studio and the ASP.net AJAX Enabled Web Site application was there however the other 4 application was lost. Could you me insights regarding this behavior according to the tutorial I've read its just okay to either used visual web developer or microsoft visual studio. Hope anyone could give me idea why ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance difference

  Hello, i'm running 7 same HW&SW configured servers with the same load with SQL Ex 2005 SP1 installed. I'm executing SP over 200.000 times a day. And here comes the problem, every server got different average response time, the quickest executes the SP in 1 ms, the slowlest in 50 ms, that's 50x slower! Have you any performance hint, please Thank you. In all version of SQL 2005 (including express) you can get the execution plan for any query that has run, providing it's still in cache. This query will return the statement text, average reads, avg cpu, avg duration and query plan in xml format. select SUBSTRING ( text , statement_start_offset / 2 , ( CASE WHEN statement_ ...Show All

• Visual Basic Maximize my screen

  On my small application that I am writing, I have turned the Maximize & Minimize buttons off and was wondering how I could set the Main Form to fit the entire screen whenever the Main_Load occurs. Can anyone help me here Thanks, QWERTYtech SJWhiteley wrote: I'm really at a loss to what is needed here - perhaps the OP can show an example of what they mean Another commonly used program, perhaps 2nd that motion ...Show All