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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Studio Installation Error (on windows vista ultimate)

  I'm having trouble installing XNA Game Studio Express. I just upgraded my computer to Windows Vista Ultimate from Windows XP Pro and after I reinstalled Visual C# Express and then tried to install XNA Game Studio Express it gives me an error saying: "Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition has stopped working" then below that it says: "A problem caused the program to stop operating correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." and it gives me one option, "Close Program." THEN when I click close program it gives another error message saying: "This installation package is corrupt or damaged." I don't know what to do besides re-install XNA from Microsoft. I hope ...Show All

• .NET Development Installation of .Net 1.1 on Vista

  I am facing issues while installing .Net 1.1 on vista OS 5372 or 5384. Following are the errors I am not able to attach the error message so below is the text Regsvcs.exe - Common language runtime debugging services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Application has generated an exception which could not be handled Process id = 0xeac(3756) Thread id = 0xe34(3636) Click Ok to terminate the application ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please suggest if someone else have seen the same issue and pointers for resolution. Hi all, I want to clarify one thing - one of the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hyperlink capture MS Access VBA

  Hi All, I've been doing some VBA stuff for a while and have run into a problem and I'm not sure if there is a simple answer, maybe I'm just going blind on this. I have a database system that logs a serires of quality assesments, and so far all is good, but the problem I have is with the automated link geraneration response capture. To explain; The system held in Access XP will automatically score each record on a set of rules, and is they fail the pass mark, the person checking the scoring will click the button to send an email to the person whom will need to deal with this. There are two disticnt way I can deal with this, the first is to create a shortcut, embed this in the email along with /CMD open arguments, though the creatio ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express Edition silently at command prompt

  I want to install the SQL Server Express Edition silently at command prompt (but want the dialog boxes, I mean with /qb option), locally, with no network options. I want to install it with following options i) In the Feature Selection, I need a) Data file (Database Services) b) Shared tools (Database Services) c) Connectivity Components (Client Components) d) Management Studio Express (Client Components) ii) Instance name as “Default Instance” iii) Service Account as “Use Built-in service account a Local System” iv) Authentication Mode as “Mix mode” with sa password as ‘sysadm’ v) Collate Settings as “Latin1_General_CS_AI How c ...Show All

• Smart Device Development add new property for contact?

  hi I have seen that contact class has much property, such as contact's name, birthday, and so on. Can I add new property to a contact using c# .net cf 2.0 thanks This forum is intended to deal with issues directly related to the .NET Compact Framework. It appears that this question can better be answered by someone on one of the newsgroups for Windows Mobile or Windows CE. In order to get a quicker and more accurate response, please consider reposting this question to one of the following newsgroups: Windows Mobile API : microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer microsoft.public.smartphone.developer Windows CE API : microsoft.public.windowsce.embedded Gene ...Show All

• SQL Server connection string for xml file in ssrs

  we receive XML files, before adding them into OLTP database, we want to check contents. I was thinking that it would be very fast to develop some reports in SSRS; and, it really was, i had them ready in no time BUT, all was done on one file i want to change connection string so that people can enter the file name found some info but everythng i tried (like URL="http://localhost/"&Parameters.Filename.Value&".xml" ) fails at runtime with following message: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'DataSet1'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) Failed to prepare web request for the specified URL. (rsXmlDataProviderError) Inva ...Show All

• Visual Studio Calling a recipe inside another recipe???

  Hi All, I wanted to know whether it is possible to call a recipe inside another recipe. Say for example, I have 1 recipe each to create a business entity project, data access layer project etc., Now, say for creating a solution, is there any way where I can say my CreateSolution recipe will call BusinessEntity recipe, DAL recipe etc. .. Or the only way is to specify as individual actions grouped together .. Any help is appreciated.. Regards, - Santhoo Morning :) I've tried the suggestions you've made above and I still get exactly the same error ( The element 'Recipes' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-core' has invalid child element 'Recipe' in namespace 'http://schemas.mic ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL-most sold

  Hi! How do a express an sql query which selects only the top-salesperson who sold the most from each shop.Using max Select MAX(SUM(Cd.price)) as Sales, Shop.name, Personnel.name FROM Shop, Personnel, CD, Purchase Order by Sales SELECT TOP (1) SUM( Cd.price ) AS Sales , Personnel.name AS Salesperson, Shop.name AS Shop FROM Purchase RIGHT OUTER JOIN Personnel ON Purchase .Sales_id = Personnel.Personnel_id LEFT OUTER JOIN Cd ON Purchase .Cd_id = Cd.Cd_id RIGHT OUTER JOIN Shop ON Personnel.workplace_id = Shop.Shop_id AND Personnel.Personnel_id = Shop.Shop_manager GROUP BY Shop.Name, Personnel.Namn ORDER BY Sales DESC The result gives me One single line... one shop, one salesperson, one ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2005 IDE: No MRU List

  Hi all This is really starting to bug me now and despite a few hours of searching I can find no solution! I installed 2005 IDE and all is working fine except for the fact that whenever a project is created, loaded or saved the Project MRU list on the start page remains empty. I have seen much about the lack of being able to remove them and checked that the appropriate registry key was created, i.e: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList This key exists and yet using RegMon the IDE never seems to attempt a write to that location. What worries me is that if this is not working, there may be a few other "foibles" I have not yet found. For info: The desktop on which it was installed was instal ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Making a static library to work across different solutions

  I’m trying to make a Solution that contains various functions and classes that I use regularly and compile it to a static lib file which could be then used in other projects and solutions. I got the example static lib project described in help working, but for that both the maker and user projects were in the same solution. He is the process I used to make it. Steps: Created a new console project in solution “Solution A” called LibMaker set as a static library set use no pre-compiled header create a new item called LibTest.h This class contained the code: void testFunction( int a, int b, double c); create a new item called LibTest.cpp This class contained the code: ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Removing '~0' from resultant file names

  Hi there, I am using a MSBuild project file to build some XNA content files. The files generated work perfectly fine. However, every single resultant .xnb file gets appended with '~0'. For example 'spark.bmp' generates a 'spark~0.xnb' file. How can I either: prevent the MSBuild task from appending the file name, or to remove the '~0' after the file has been created. By the way, is everyone else having this same thing happen Thank you for your time I am not using the typical 'Solution Explorer' method of building this .xnb files. I am using a MSBuild script, which is called from an editor, to take a user specified list of image files and generate .xnb files. These resultant .xnb files are ne ...Show All

• Visual C# how do you put a license key in your project

  How can you put a license key in your project so when run the application you have to intewr the product key before the application can be installed Sorta like how microsoft windows does or any of microsoft products has! Thanks There is a simple solution that will somewhat improve the security of your code without requiring a connection. 1) Ask the licence key from the user. 2) Extract a hash from the key (for instance SHA1). 3) Check if the computed hash matches some known hash. Your code will still contain the value to match, but instead of the licence key, it will be the hash code and it is quite hard to find a string that would produce any given hash. HTH --mc ...Show All

• Community Chat Windows Vista Gaming Performance

  I just read over on Neowin that gaming performance in Vista will be 10-15% slower in Vista. Can someone tell me whether or not this is true Thanks! - James Are you sure you have updated your drivers Maybe your ammount of RAM or processor speed is low If not, it's a serious problem! I think they must fix in the final version or Vista will not mean anyhting for most of the users. ...Show All

• .NET Development SQLDataSource update using parameters not working

  I'm passing a parameter to a stored procedure stored on my sqlserver, or trying to atleast. And then firing off the update command that contains that parameter from a button. But it's not changing my data on my server when I do so. I'm filling a dropdown list from a stored procedure and I have a little loop run another sp that grabs what the selected value should be in the dropdown list when the page loads/refreshes. All this works fine, just not sp that should update my data when I hit the submit button. It's supposed to update one of my tables to whatever the selected value is from my drop down list. But it doesn't even change anything. It just refreshes the page and goes back to the original value for my drop down list. Just to ...Show All

• SQL Server Record navigation

  I have created a one-page client summary report. My problem is that I can only get the report to show one client and there are many. How do I add record navigation functionality to my report Ham, Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunatly, I'm still having problems. The report is a free-form and I am unable to get the grouping to work. Any other suggestions ...Show All