Chimme's Q&A profile

• Commerce Server Biztalk Catalog Integration

  Is it possible to setup the Biztalk integration with the Catalog Manager to delete variants when importing with Incremental changes. I have tried creating the XML file with the variant I no longer want not present in the file but if I go into catalog manager I can still the variant after import. Please Advise. The format you used to represent the deleted variants might be an issue. One thing I would suggest is delete a variant from catalog manager, export the catalog and choose the "Export deleted items" checkbox Check the format of the deleted variants and create your xml which confirms to this format ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Skinned Animation Tutorial

  I have released a tutorial set that covers the following topics: creating a file tokenizer, creating a content importer, creating a content processor, creating a content writer, creating a content reader, creating your own vertex format, creating a bone pose table, creating a skinned animation controller, and using the controller to view a skinned animation. It is available here: http://dastle.spaces.live.com/ You have to add the dll to the content pipeline in that specific build by using properties->content pipeleine assemblies. Please post further questions/feedback on the codeplex site. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Opening a form in a DLL

  Hi all, I'm pretty new to VB 2005 and DLL-files, so please excuse me for asking a probably stupid question... What I am trying to do is create a dll-file, with a matching exe-file and an Excel add-in (.xla)-file. That way one and the same program (contained in the dll) should be able to run as both a stand-alone version and from within Excel (with added functionality). The dll-file contains a form, which should be called from either the .xla- or .exe-file. Up until now, the form only contains one button which makes a messagebox pop up that say "OK". Somehow I always had bigger things in mind for it though... To go about this, I tried the following code inside a Class Library Project (in the Class1.cls-file). Please note ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Convert PC Game To 360 Game

  if anyone knows what kind of changes will need to be made, i would appreciate it. heres my Premise, its set in the year 2020 and i want to make a sort of perfect dark sequel, not perfect dark zero. joanna ends up getting into another fight with another corporation. i havent devised any weapons, or characters yet.           please help PLEASE REPLY!!! hey thanks man, some other people had told me the same thing, i just wanted to confirm. \ Thanks Again ...Show All

• .NET Development DataReader Close() Issue

  *This is also Posted in the .NET Framework Data Access and Storage Well, I'm just pulling hairs trying to figure out the following issue. This example performs the same way with SqlConnection/OdbcConnection/OleDbConnection etc. I'm connecting to A SQL Server 2000 Server. My development is done remotely so I have a PPTP VPN connection between my development box and my DB Server. I'm running .NET aspx code C#. This code is being run against a very large table (I tried various other large tables with same result) I've isolated the problem with the DataReader.Close() function. It just takes a VERY long time to return. The more data is in the Result Set of the SELECT statem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using Sharepoint Server 2007 with TFS

  Hello, all! I have just downloaded Office 2007 beta 2 and find that I need to run the sharepoint server that comes with it. I already have a dedicated server for TFS with sharepoint server 2003 on it; can I replace that with the 2007 beta (both are test machines, the beta part isn't a worry) or do I need to get a different server box Also, in the readme for TFS is a comment that using Exchance server with TFS isn't supported. Does this mean you cannot do it, or that it just isn't a good idea in a production environment TIA! Al K Hi, What is the best version of Sharepoint Server to use with TFS, and where can I obtain it Thanks, JonS ...Show All

• .NET Development using the output from a DataReader to insert in another DB

  Here's my situation. I have two tables with the same structure but residing in different databases (and different machines). I need to read a set of records from one table/database and insert the records (as is) into the other table/database. I don't want to loop through each record and column. Is there a way to do this in "one shot" What I have is a DataTable that I created by overriding the DbDataAdapter class to allow for a FillFromReader eg: public int FillFromReader(DataTable dataTable, IDataReader dataReader) { return this .Fill(dataTable, dataReader); } Any ideas Thanks, gagis. Hi, Could you then post it So that people having the same problems co ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Texture Surface Level

  I am encountering problems sizing using the following code: textureA = TextureLoader.FromFile(device, filename); SurfaceA = textureA.GetSurfaceLevel(0); the file that I am using for textureA has dimensions of 549 x 710 yet the SurfaceA is coming up with dimensions of 1024 x 1024. What am I missing Thanks! Yeah indeed you're right. I tried changing it back into Rectangle.Emtpy and it still works. Seems like the Transparent did it for me ...Show All

• SQL Server Createing New Triggers in SQL Server Management Studio Express

  Is it possible to create a new trigger for a SQL 2000 Database using SQL Server Management Studio Express hi, yes... connect to the desired instance.. select the required database and navigate to the "table" node.. expand the desired table/view object and select the Triggers node.. right click and write your trigger.. a template is presented as well.. or just open a new query window, select the desired database and type the trigger code.. regards ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DIPROP_KEYNAME language

  How does DirectInput determine which keyboard layout / language is in use when returning key names for the DIPROP_KEYNAME property i.e. What system/user settings affect this ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums [Activity] How to make so that an IM is not display in WLM window?

  Hello, with this function (thanks to J-Thread ;) ): function Channel_OnIMReceived() { // Instant message was received; inspect the value of Channel.IM // If application has ReplaceIM permission, Channel.IM can be written to before it is displayed. alert(window.external.Channel.IM); } i "catch" an incoming text message. But i'd like that it is not displayed in WLM window. Like if no message has been posted at all. I tried this: function Channel_OnIMReceived() { window.external.Channel.IM = ""; } And i get an error with that code. With this: function Channel_OnIMReceived() { window.external.Channel.IM = " "; //blank space } I dont get an error, and the displa ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Any "Team BritBot" winners?

  The Team BritBot competition ended 2 weeks ago, and according to the rules, the winners should be notified by e-mail: "18. Prize winners will be notified by e-mail by 15th September, 2006." I didn't participate (I'm not from the UK unfortunatly) so I don't know if the e-mails were indeed send out. Any participants here, or maybe even winners I am pleased to announce that we (Inside C) were contacted by Thin Martian, the agency who ran the site britbot.co.uk on behalf of Microsoft UK, who told us that InsideMessenger (chat@insidemessenger.com) won the Britbot competition. Thanks for all the support / kind comments! Riaan @ Inside C Creators of InsideMessenger ...Show All

• Gadgets Getting a local file path/name

  I'm currently trying to set the URL property of Windows Media Player in a Gadget. I can set it to remote URLs such as: Player.URL = " http://www.myexample.com/my.mp3 "; however just setting it to: Player.URL = "my.mp3"; doesn't work. I assume this is because it needs to have a full path such as: Player.URL = "C:\Files\my.mp3"; However the mp3 file is located in the gadget and the gadget is of course located in: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets which would require the JS to know the <username>. There must be a quick and simple way around this I'm missing, but so far I'm racking my brains and Google has returned nothing. To add insult to injury the gadget is returning ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions about dbase path in a connectionstring!?

  hi there i have a problem regarding dbase path (i used dbase wizard) where can i find it because dbase wizard is the easiest and fastest the connect to the dbase and u can choose either detailed or gridview....but my problem is where can i edit the dbase path (C:\Windows\dbase\mydbase.mdb) because when i install my program to another PC the path of dbase was in (C:\windows\dbase\mydbase.mdb) i want is to share a folder in my PC(where my dbase is) and change the dbase path of my program and so that when i install it again to another PC(s) they can acces to my dbase ( \\mypc\dbase\mydbase.mdb )... or there is any way to bound the items of the database thru textboxes, rich textbox, masked textbox, and combobox.....using code There a ...Show All

• SQL Server Absolute Beginner in SQL 2005 EE, needs help.

  Hi everyone. Using C# 2005 EE with SQL 2005 EE I am really new to SQL, got qns here. Can my program with SQL database run correctly on another com using win xp home edition, with only C# 2005 EE installed Is it compulsory for every table in a database to have a primary key Can I extract a data from a specific cell in a database table(click button get data) How do I go about doing it (the simplest n straight forward method) Many Thanks in advance. Regards, dragoncells.     Additionally info about me: I am also Absolute Beginner in C# 2005 EE.   when you wrote "YOu compiled application (The actual exe you produce with compiling) will work on every computer which has the ...Show All