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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Help With Vista Instalation

  When ever I try installing Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express It stops installing when it says "Registering project templates". This is what it looks like: http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a275/keeepout/Untitled.jpg I am on Windows Vista RC2. I have allready installed Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition but the XNA part wont install. Their website says it should work with Vista but it doesnt for me. Can please someone help me You first have to run the windows command prompt as Administrator (right-click on start menu item), then run the setup from the command prompt. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Sharing common components across projects ?

  Hi, we are currently moving to TeamSystem and are wondering how to set up our projects with regards to source control and workspaces Currently we have a solution that groups around 20 projects to make up the application. There are also some common projects (used with other applications) in the solution. What is the best way to set up a Team Project in terms of source control Is it a case of adding the solution to the team project What about the common projects Do we add those to the team project also or set up separate team projects for them If so, how will work items be tracked across the separate team projects WIll code changes in the common team project be reflected in the main team project Many people have asked s ...Show All

• Visual C++ CreateFileA("COM1", ...)

  Sometimes I obtained ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when I attempted to open a serial port using the CreateFile function. I need to reboot the computer before I could open the serial port again. What should I do so that I could open the serial port without rebooting the computer ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserControl custom properties

  Hi! I've looked a lot of time for the solution of the problem I came across developing custom control. Perhaps some one here could help me. I'm developing the control inherited from UserControl class. This control will have some custom properties. The problem is next: I need that the one of the custom properties of the future control supported following behaviour. If we find this property in the Properties window it should allow to developer select the possible values from the combobox, just like it done for other default properties (for example AccessibleRole, ForeColor, (DataBindings).Tag and so on). How it could be implemented I guess there is should be some attribute, but I could find it... Note: The property will takes the ob ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Branching from a labeled version after a move

  Our problem is that when we were importing stuff from VSS into TFS we had to move some folders around to get a coherent folder strucutre for our source. Now, we need to branch from a labeled version that was labeled in VSS. We can find the label, but the contents of the label are the old file locations. When I try branching from the current location in the GUI, it can't find anything matching the label. When I try with the command line like so f:\newtest\tal\trading\oms\Tradesrv3>tf branch f:\newtest\TAL\trading\oms\tradesrv3 f:\newtest\tal\trading\branches\tradesrv3-v1.0.82.0 /version:L1.0.82.0 I get the error TF14064: Could not find label 1.0.82.0@$/TAL/trading/oms/tradesrv3 . When I try branching from the old loca ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Building XACT project has failed error when building Spacewar

  Building XACT project has failed error when building Spacewar Starter Kit i have latest version XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework, DirectX SDK any tips thanks =) Tutorial in documentation got some bug...maybe there's a problem: when loading settings, wave bank, and save bank...that's not really true that you should give same name as project and different extension. From my experience...(hour to solve this one). project will build into and create names it have in properties(default for audioEngine is sound, not your project's name) To make it clear - do everything as in tutorial, do not change anything in properties in Xact:...and change...this one: audioEngine = new AudioEngine("Content\\Audio\\MyGameA ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprice Architect

  Hi, I'm trying to install MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect. There is a setup window that requires "Windows Component Update" which I've done, but then it asks for the 'Windows Component Update disk for Visual Studio .NET' - which I have no idea what it is. XP Pro Any ideas or advice jonveale I've wondered this too, you can ignore it really as its just a component disk that you get in some way which contains the updates on this disk, instead you can use Windows Update to see if it picks up any updates for the .NET Framework. In terms of Visual Studio 2003 itself, SP1 was released: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/ http://www.microsoft.com/ ...Show All

• SQL Server Transferring data from read-only source to destination.

  Hi, I have read only permission in the source (OLTP) database. The source database is running in SQL Server 2000 and the size is more than 200 GB. I need to pull data from source and load target which is running in SQL server 2005. Following are the objectives I want to achieve. Data should be loaded on incremental basis. Whatever changes take place (Update/Delete) in source, that should be replicated to already uploaded data. Here I want to mention that, the source database does not have any identification key or timestamp column like Updated_Date by which I can filter the data which are recently inserted or updated into the source and upload the same. The source does not maintain any history data also. So I do not h ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to uninstall Outlook Addin

  Hi, I have created one outlook addin project in which I have created one button named "Update database" which get added to outlook toolbar after installing. Now I have also created installer file for this project. When I install this installer to my system, I get the respected button into my outlook But when i uninstall this addin, Still I have the same button into outlook. I want this button should disappear after uninstalling. Thank you Well, if your Add-in has created the button, it can also remove the button, right Just reverse the process, which basically would look like: CommandBars("Index").Controls("Index").delete ...Show All

• Windows Forms TreeView fails to display icons, why?

  **also posted to VSTO form...no replies ** My VSTO Outlook add-in shows a form with a TreeView control. The tree works properly, showing the data I expect it to, but not the icon images. When I add a default root node in VS Designer and assign it an image from my ImageList, it appears correctly in the designer. When I run the add-in, the default node appears, but without icon. There was a related thread MSDN Forums Windows Forms Windows Forms General Icons not showing up on Treview on VSTO beta, but no real answer posted. Anyone have any ideas The debugger shows that the TreeView object does have the ImageList, and that the ImageList has the right number of images, and that the nodes have ImageIndex values in the prop ...Show All

• SQL Server how unique is the uniqueidentifier?

  I wanted to know how unique is the uniqueidentifier field is it per daabase or per table i found this on Microsoft's website: The uniqueidentifier data type stores 16-byte binary values that operate as globally unique identifiers (GUIDs). A GUID is a unique binary number; no other computer in the world will generate a duplicate of that GUID value. The main use for a GUID is for assigning an identifier that must be unique in a network that has many computers at many sites. and here is the link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190215.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions from here

  Hi renee this wmp could be finished now.....but I wonder how far do I take it. it looks like I want it to look....it talks like I want it to talk....(almost) it does things that the standard wmp does not..... now I am thinking....about radio.... I could have a link to a web radio.site....but i wonder is it possible to link to radio without opening a web page.....or is that stupid... any ideas.. ok....it all seems to be about up streaming, I dont want to create a radio station,all I want to do is listen to internet radio on my media player.... if you know anything about this, just give me 10% and I will add 2% ...Show All

• Windows Forms UI hangs when updating data

  HI, I am using listview to update data.I was getting "Cross-thread operation not valid:......" . Hence, to update the data i am using now listview.Invoke(delegateObject, new object[] { parameters }); The delegate object makes call on the method to update the listview.Now I am not getting the above exception. However, the object[] parameters I am passing is too large( about 1000).So while updating the listview the listview hangs. The listview is on a tabcontrol I cannot do anything until the listview is completely updated.I tried updating in small chunk size, even that didn't helped Any help is greatly appreciable Regards nhd Ohhh, don't do that. This is perh ...Show All

• SQL Server Type of format export.

  Hello : There is a means to limit the list of the format to the export. That is limit the list. (XML, CSV, PDF, …..) Thank's. Are you wanting to remove an option from the export list If so, you can comment out the extension in the rsreportserver.config file. It should be in this location: X :\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL. x \Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config Open it in Notepad and search for "<Render>", you will see all of the current options. Whichever ones you want to exclude, just comment them out. For example, if I wanted to exclude Excel export: <!-- <Extension Name="EXCEL" ... .ExcelRendering"/> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Automatic Branching on work item change event

  I would like to create an extra property for a Work Item "Environment" which I will use to indicate a target branch for which the Work Item is used. I have managed to add this property. However now I would like to initiate a merge event when the "Environment" property of the Work Item is changed that merges the source changes under that Work Item to the target branch. Could you give me some pointers how to proceed on this. Can I programmatically initiate a merge Hi , I have a scenario where i want to implement build with branching in TFS. we have 3 environments Development ,System Test and User Test. my requirments are : Development env is where all the developer will do ...Show All