ScottyWakefield's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Unable to share a windows game - Followed the instructions on the manual

  Okay, so I finished my first game using XNA Game Studio Express, it has been only a few days since I installed it, and it has been quite easy, having experience at making games. Now, I want to show this game to my friends, so I send it to a couple of them (both of them have XNA Game Studio Express installed), and it works great. Now I want to show it to some other friends, these who do not know what making games is about, these who do not have XNA Game Studio Express. I ensure they follow these instructions, from the manual: Sharing a Windows game On Windows you need to distribute your game executable and any content required by your game. In addition you need to ensure that the user has the following redistributables installed ...Show All

• Windows Forms Rescale Form

  Hello, How I can rescale one form (change the size of the form and magnify/shrink the content inside). Especially if on the form are multiple PictureBox. Thank you Best regards luben, Have a look at the Anchor and Dock properties. The anchor property 'anchors' an edge of your control to the edge of the form, so it will always be the same distance between them. If you anchor one edge, the control will move with that edge. If you anchor opposing edges, it will stretch the control. The dock property makes the control take up the whole side that you dock it to, and if you docked it to the left or right, you can adjust the width, or top/bottom you can adjust the height. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions expecting more than 1 datarow returned from query

  OK here's my question. I want to retrieve from my database employee table all those employees with the name eg. Smith and display them in a list. Can anyone give me any pointers please. I'm using VB 2005 Express Edition. So far this is what I have but it only seems to return 1 row when I know there are more than one entries with the name I am inputting Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim searchString As String searchString = Me .SearchStringBox.Text Try Dim filter As String filter = "LastName LIKE '" & searchString & "'" Dim search() As System.Data.DataRow search = myCDD ...Show All

• SQL Server RSReportServer.config Read Failure

  I am trying to work through the SSRS 2005 Forms Authentication sample and have the form up and running on a W2K3 server. I am able to connect to my SQL Server and enter a username and password for the admin user, but when I return to the form to login, I receive an error on my report server. When I check my server's event log, I see the following alert: The Forms extension failed to read its configuration settings from the RSReportServer.config configuration file. The extension is not available to users. My question is: do I have a permissions problem where some user cannot read the RSReportServer.config If so, what user do I grant read access ...Show All

• Smart Device Development pocket pc 2002 emulator webservices

  I developed a directory service authentication smartdevice application in C#(visual studio 2003). As there is no support for directory services i used it in the webservice and called it in my application. Its works fine on my sytem where the web service is there. But when i try to run the application from other system it doesnt work. can u plz help me. Hmmmmmmm I used server name only for accesing the web service. I changed the directory security settings in inetmgr-webservice-properties for working with my active directory, is this stoping my web service to access from other systems. Or is there any particular way for smart device applications for calling webservices. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Search and Replace Inside of a Text File

  Does anyone know how to replace a variable inside of a text file instead of just writing a new one with all of the text I want the user to write the variable inside of a text box on a form a it replace the variable in my text. So for example, if I had a three page text file, and everytime the word "VARIABLE" appears in it, I want the code to replace "VARIABLE" with the contents of the user's text box. It's kind of like a search and replace. Thanks Its not really that difficult to do even when re-writing the file. Public Class Form1 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim st ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Robot Question

  I have started 50 robots in my robot service.When I will to start more(maybe 60 robots,70 robots and more) robots,my log service will receive the error ‘ Authentication failed ’ . I never heard of that one, so I guess it isn't an official platform right We can give you help for these 3 SDK's , not for unsupported ones... ...Show All

• .NET Development Show Select User or Group Dialog

  Hi, How can I show Select User or Group Dialog that allow user to list and select users or groups on Active Directory Thanks, Pound ...Show All

• Community Chat true

  True, but It would be easier to make an account that already has the settings down so you don't have to do it everytime you game. Greetz, Tyrael No worries, happens to the best of us. On other forums I use, when you hit Reply, the reply doesn't allow you to type a subject for the post. This is handy because if you're replying and you ever find yourself trying to think of a title, you know you clicked the wrong button. I don't know if that would be useful here, or if it happens infrequently enough that it's not worth it. Certainly not a priority for the forums team I'm sure! ...Show All

• SQL Server deleting a data viewer causes BI Studio to crash

  Is there any way I can remove the data viewer (or even the whole data flow task) so that BIDS doesn't crash. Whenever I delete the data viewer, or the objects that the flow is linking to, or the data flow task, or even the sequence the data flow task is contained in, BIDs crashes. thanks See! Crazy stuff. Do you get results in the data viewer If you can identify where it thinks it is, add one there and delete it. It seems to me that when that has happened to me there was no data displaying in it. The problem is that you can't replicate the scenario that causes this problem, so you can't open a ticket with Microsoft because they won't be able to reproduce it, even though many of us have had this problem ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual Studio is acting weird

  I am having some trouble with the Visual Studio IDE. I have a solution sol.sln and I have some projects under it. All the project files and solution file are under source control. I have added the projects to source control using Visual Studio itself, so I couldn't have gone wrong there. When I open the solution and build it, it tries to save every project that is in the solution. Since the .csproj files are under source control, it says 'Access denied' when it tries to save. I have been using this solution from more than 2 months now and this weird behavior has started recently. Another behavior is that when I open the solution and try to close it (without any edits/changes) it asks me if I want to save the following files and the list o ...Show All

• Visual Basic Master-Detail User Input Form...

  Hi, I am quite new to VB in general. I am trying to build a database application using Access tables and create a user interface for it using VB2005. The first form I am strugeling with is the Input form that should allow the users to input invoice type records into the two tables, lets say, Invoices and Items. The form shouls use simple forms elements like TextBoxes, ComboBoxes, CheckBoxes and Buttons that will insert the records into the tables when pressed. Could any of you give me a best practice example that would allow me to acomplishe this (Since I am new to VB, I would prefere to do everything as "visual" as possible, I mean during design time.) Thanks a lot in advance, Regards, Gep. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unbound Datagridview

  Hi all, I am new to using this control (datagridview), in fact I am new to VB.Net. I have created a datagrid view control that has a textbox (col1), a checkbox (col2) and a combobox(col3). How do I populate the grid My only issue is the combobox column. here's what I did. dim comboData as datagridviewcomboboxcell comboData.add("Data1") comboData.add("Data2") dim dgvData(2) as object dgvData(0) = "Data" dgvData(1) = TRUE dgvData(2) = combodata Datagridview1.rows.add(dgvdata) Is this wrong Because I am getting error for on the combobox.. Yes, it should be comboData.items.add() but all I want to do is to add data into the combobox column of my datag ...Show All

• SQL Server Multiple updates and Identity fields

  I have a table used by multiple applications. One column is an Identify field and is also used as a Primary key. What is\are the best practices to use get the identity value returned after an INSERT made by my code.. I'm worried that if someone does an INSERT into the same table a "zillionth" of a second later than I did, that I could get their Identity value. TIA, Barkingdog Jens, I looked up OUTPUT in sql 2k5 BOL: Here's an example that I found: >>> Copy Code USE AdventureWorks; GO DECLARE @MyTableVar table( ScrapReasonID smallint, Name varchar(50), ModifiedDate datetime); INSERT Production.ScrapReason OUTPUT INSERTED.ScrapReason ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Mail Merge

    I have an interesting dilemma: I work for a hospital and, as a courtsey, we provide "custom lab test profiles" for the doctor's office in the area. Every year we have to send out 'authorization' forms that bascially say which tests are in the profile, what the patient cost will be if they aren't covered by insurance, as well as a few other things. Each test is assigned a number. Here is what I want to do: I want to create a mail merge document that contains each test number, as well as the profile name, but I'm running into trouble. I was curious if there is a way to make an if...then statement that will automatically fill in information based on what test number is ordered. Example: Entering test number '1234' aut ...Show All