LeRoi's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What happens when your subscription ends?

  Does the XNA game launcher stop working completely after your subscription to the Creators' Club ends This is a thing that has been bothering me for a while. Basically, if I pay for a year of subscription, write a bunch of games, but then after a year notice that I won't have enough time to write games for a while, will I still need to pay for a new subscription just to play my games on my XBox 360, or will just the deployment of new games be disabled For now, you must have an active subscription to the XNA Creators Club in order to deploy, debug or play your games created with XNA Game Studio Express. We are working on solutions to enable sharing and distribution outside of the Club. As details become av ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Recreating a Project

  Can anyone assist me in duplicating the Teacher Kit I would like to recreate this project from scratch. If anyone knows of a step by step for recreating this project I would be grateful. Its a download that can be found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/starterkit/default.aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server Package Variables Not Available at Runtime

  Hello, I have three package variables that I need to have access to at runtime. All three variables have package scope. The first two, 'StartDate' and 'EndDate' are DateTime variables. The third is called FilePath and is a String variable. I have taken the following steps; 1. Enabled package configurations 2. Set up all three variables as Parent Package Variables, and have targeted the 'Value' property for each. 3. In the properties of the solution, I have set AllowConfigurationChanges to True. 4. After the package was built, I ran the Package Installation Wizard from the Manifest. I have done both File System and SQL Server installations. When I go to run the package, none of the three package variables are available for modifica ...Show All

• Visual Basic Updating Report Links in MS-Access database.

    Hi,   I am a new bee to .NET.   I have a Ms-Acess Database which is protected by password. This table contains tables, queries and reports. One more database contains links(references to the first database). If any table structure is changed in the first table, in order to update links I need to manually open database and Tools->Database Utilities -> Link Table Manager from the second database.  I want a solution which automatically updates all these links by using either VC#.NET or VB.NET or VB6.0 Please help me, it is urgent.   Thank you..,     You still need to use ADO/ADOX (or DAO) to refresh table links. See the following: How To Use ADO to Refresh ...Show All

• Visual Basic Primary Key error when reading XML

  I have backed up a database into XML and trying to import it back in. I am positive the structure is correct, it was done using writexml. I simplified the code down to the bare minimum and still having the exact same issue. What happens is the update gets to the first duplicate in the ID field and pops up a "Violation of Primary Key" error showing the offending row. It is almost as if the primary key is not correct anymore, but I can load the original database just fine, with all the same data. I have tried to write the schema when writing the XML, then importing the schema back in when reading, I also got the same error. I checked the schema in the XML against the dataset's schema and they match. I even recrea ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 communcations errors through ODBC

  I am the DBA for a product development company with an application currently connected to and running fine on SQL Server 2000. I have recently installed our product on 2005 sql server with compatability version of 90 and some folks have begun testing. Apparently, there are a lot of strange things happening and ODBC errors are frequent. The more they move around in the app, the more errors appear. Sometimes, they appear, sometimes they don't. The most common occurence is an error such as, x table is missing the following columns. Then the user does it again and does not receive the error. Another issues is "Application Terminating Due to Severe Database Error" and when we look at the logs our app generates: 08/10/2006 08:57:0 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Extracting Cell information from Dataset or DataTable

  Hello, in .NET Framework you can extract the Exact cell info using the following ds.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item("columnName") In .NET Compact Framework there isn't an option you can get as far as ds.Tables(0).Rows(0) or ds.Tables(0).Columns("columnName") but there is no way to specify the Item or row... how can I extract the exact Cell from a Datatable in Compact Framework... The second line is the correct anser, Compact Framework doesn't have the option to specify ds.Table(0).Rows(0).Item("columnName") you have to you the second option, which I didn't know about. Thanks.. ...Show All

• SQL Server Export to Excel -multiple sheets

  Hi, I am using .rdlc report in ASP.NET 2.0. My report consists of 10 subreport and 1 main report. I want to export each subreport in separate sheets like Shee1 is Subreport1 and Sheet2 is Subreport2 etc... How can i do this. Thanks. This works for me. However, what does not work, is using a subreport in a cell of a table and export that to Excel. Regards, Jeroen ...Show All

• Smart Device Development run app on power on or at a specific time

  hi is there a way for my application to open/run either when the user turns on the device or at specific time every day i currently have another program doing a "soft reset" every day and my program running from the /startup folder. Thank you Michael i wish not to use the startup folder because the device will only use this folder upon a "warm reset"/"soft reset" not when the device is simply turned off then back on. thank you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installation error

  ***EndOfSession***[09/27/06,19 :19:17] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ITA: [2] ERROR:Si e verificato un errore imprevisto durante l'installazione di questo pacchetto. Probabile problema con questo pacchetto. Il codice errore e 2350. [09/27/06,19:32:50] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post /Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHe lper() with HRESULT -2147023293. [09/27/06,19:32:50] setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResul tCollection() [09/27/06,19:34:09] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ITA is not installed. [09/27/06,19:34:09] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status for.NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP ...Show All

• Visual Studio There is no source code available for the current location. (Why???)

  I have a VC++ solution configured as follows: a.exe b.dll c.dll All 3 projects are part of the solution, with a being the startup project, and running in debug configuration. All 3 projects output their .pdb files as expected. a is dependent upon b, and b is dependent upon c. I set a breakpoint in b at a point where the code is in c. When I do that, VS complains that "There is no source code available for the current location." There is source code, and current .pdb. Any ideas why this happens Thanks, -HS One thing I have noticed, is that if you have switched your project that contains the dll to build in Release mode only, and then make a change, you may get this error. Make ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Listbox Itemtemplate width...

  Hi, I've got a window with a listbox filling it. And in the listbox itemtemplate i have a textbox that fills the width. But what i cant seem to do is to have the textbox wrap instead of growing past the width of the listbox. The textbox gets wider and the listbox gets a horizontal scrollbar. Is there an easy way to do this Here is my XAML so far: < ListBox Name = " list " ItemsSource = " {Binding Path=SimonData} " Margin = " 0,0,0,0 " HorizontalContentAlignment = " Stretch " > < ListBox.ItemTemplate > < DataTemplate > < StackPanel Margin = " 0,0,0,0 " > < TextBlock Text = " {Binding Path=id} " /> < TextBox Name ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005: Disabled SQL Login

  Is there something that would cause a SQL Login to get disabled automatically The login was used successfully yesterday but today we were getting an error: Login failed for user '<sql login>'. Reason: The account is disabled. [CLIENT: ipaddress] Perhaps someone accidentally disabled this but that sounds unlikely. I didn't see anything in the log about the account getting disabled. Michelle I had already enabled the login - the 'disabled' checkbox was checked so I'm fairly certain that it really was disabled. The log file that showed the error when the login was used to log in to the database was the SQL Server error log. I'm just trying to figure out how it got disabled ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Script INSERT statements for static data?

  Hi, Following scenario - after importing database schema to VSTS4DB, I want to create a new static table called Countries with some data inside. I create a Table script (CREATE TABLE Countries ...) without a problem, and when I build I see the CREATE TABLE statement in the generated build script. I would like, however, to include also some INSERT statements, so that the static table can be filled with data as well. I tried to add a Script file to the solution, but whatever I write inside does not get included into the generated build script. If I include the INSERT statements directly in the Table script, they get ignored. How can I include INSERT statements into the generated build script It would be nice if there is a poss ...Show All

• .NET Development Only some web service functions working - others connection refused on

  I have a web service and it workes great when accessed on a local machine. If I put it on my dev server, I then can access some methods, but others do not work. I get a connection actively refused message. Where am I going wrong ...Show All