Tom Janssen's Q&A profile

• .NET Development .dll problems in net framework 2.0?

  Hi Everybody, Last Saturday I downloaded/installed Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 , because the "nLite" autostreamer program required net 2.0 to run correctly. Everything went good, "nLite" worked and I had no computer problems. However, when I run Norton Windoctor, or norton one button check up I recieve program error messages such as "net framework\v 2.0.5o727\vbc.exe cannot access a necessary file "Msvcr80.dll". There are also 9 other messages saying other net 2.0 .exe files cannot access the Msver80.dll file. When I attempt to have norton repair these problems, norton fails to fix them. I went to a microsoft web page about net 2.0 (kbtshoot kbhowtomaster KB908077) and I used 2 of the listed repair ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Earth Invaders 360 (including source)

  Hi ! :) I love XNA Game Studio express, it's just great ! Thanks to the team ;) If i'm posting this topic here now, it's to present you my first (far from being complete) XNA creation. It's named "Earth Invaders 360" :p How to play : Left stick : move your ship Right stick : aim Right trigger : shoot Image : http://jvteamds.free.fr/ship1.PNG (note that the downloadable version has a background ;) ) Here's the file : http://jvteamds.free.fr/EI360_0.2.rar http://jvteamds.free.fr/EI360/EI360_0.1_source.rar For the ones doubting, I made the particle engine myself ! I didn't steal it from spacewar ! :) Please also note that this game will not simply be made of shooting asteroids, there will be ennemies....someday there will... Have fun ;) PS ...Show All

• .NET Development Using XML to select a user

  Hello all, I am trying to create a program that presents the user with a text box where they enter a number it logs them into a system where they have specific things they can do and some they (possibly) can't. I would like to use an XML file to do this. For example Number 0000 Logs in the user Jane. Jane has admin privileges Number 1111 Logs in Dick Dick can only access the Sales portion of the program. I'm not sure if XML is the way to go with this but it seemed to be the best choice. If you need a copy of my XML file I can post it. I think it is done correctly. Thanks Thomas I guess the most likely cause is that the XML isn't well formed, e.g. a <User> tag is missing the closing </User> one ...Show All

• Visual Studio When will VS 2005 and VSS 6.0 work?

  Open vs 2005, select "pending checkin window" for about 10,000 files wait 45 min to 1 hour.. I think you misunderstood me Barry.. "I was only in charge of testing the fix for the pending checkins window for the SP1 which was a regression from VS 2005 RTM. BTW, what breaking problems are you encountering which is a regression besides the bug that was introduced by SP1 Beta and fixed for final SP1 " Please read the original thead, the "pending checkin" problem existed with the release of vs 2005.. "The last time I remember talking to the person in charge of Performance, I recall that VS 2005 has better or equivalent Perf numbers than VS 2003." T ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. First XNA project & a question regarding pink outlining

  I am creating a old-style RPG with added bells and whistles and it uses XNA. I threw a character in the game and he has a pink outline around him which is actually what I use for the transparent color. Do I need to do anything in code to remove this I thought I did something similar in Direct3D before when I was first creating the texture. Since GSE does it all for me, I'm getting an unwanted result. Screenshot: http://lh5.google.com/image/philvaira/RZ2EQXve37I/AAAAAAAAAAs/rx381x00kQA/Nral_Alpha_Screenshot_1.PNG.jpg imgmax=800 At any rate, this is my first project using XNA. I have a local team and we are finally putting it into production as commercial-based PC game. Using XNA has really boosted our productivity. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Problem with Connection Strings

  Hi All, I have an excel spreadsheet, which I want to use like a database table and access using ADO from another spreadsheet, but whenever I attempt to assign my connection string to the ActiveConnection property of my ADODB Recordset, I get the following error: Could not find installable ISAM. Below is the connection string: Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=\\Le09\kpl_biskra\personal_biskra\ksmith\Reporting\Weekly\Christmas Analysis\DataFile.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes; Can anyone help Many thanks! Keith Keith, I ran into this exact issue a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately I don't remember off the top of my head what I did to fix it. Let me dig through some ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista Cd-Key

  ok, so i dont have my vista cdkey i deleted the email in which i got it from, could anyone tell me if there is a microsoft support site or anything that i could get the email resent I want CD-KEY for Microsoft Windows Vista Pre-RC1 which I download from http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/prerc1/en/download.html . Can anyone tell me how to get CD-KEY ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel & C/C++

  Hi People! I have developed at some time ago an application that runs as windows service. Now i've to integrate this application with Excel... Until here no problem... The problem begin when i try to access the Excel application object Activex, when the application is running as service. The excel runs the installation wizard, as if it need some plugin or library that is not installed. The observation is that the Office (2000/ XP/ 2003) is installed seted up as complete (all the software possible). And the wizard belongs to appear ever time i use the integration from the software (in service mode). Any ideia how i can mitigate the problem, maintainning the application as windows service and accessing the Excel ...Show All

• SQL Server Programming SSIS - Exception 0xC0204006

  Hello. I am attempting to use SSIS to import a table from MS Access in to SQL Server. However, when i set the destination component properties I get the following error: Exception from HRESULT: 0xC0204006 The table exists within the destination database and if I comment the line out, it is able to acquire the connection.Anyone have any ideas Thanks ConnectionManager connMgr; ConnectionManager connMgr1; //Create the package Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Package package = new Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Package(); //Create to connections to the package Connections packageConns = package.Connections; connMgr1 = package.Connections.Add("OLEDB"); connMgr1.Con ...Show All

• SQL Server Copy data in Sql Server table A to B on same server - Identical schemas

  Greetings, I have two SQL Server tables on the same server and in the same database. I'll call them table A and table B. They have identical schemas. I need to insert all rows in table A into table B. (Don't laugh - this is just for testing and long run the tables will reside on different servers.) Can someone please tell me the correct task to use for this and the connection type I need for both the source and destination Thanks, Black Cat Bone You could use the SQL Server destination provided that the package is being executed on the SQL Server itself, as my understanding is that the SQL Server destination is really an in-memory hook to SQL Server. ...Show All

• SQL Server System.Data.SqlClient.ConnectionPool.CreateConnection

  Hi, I had make one Desktop application in VB.net, having 6 threads simultaneously running. And each thread connect to sql server and stored the value in DB at every one second. Now my problem is that when I start the application its working fine but after 20-30 minutes exception is occuring. Login failed for user 'sa'. Exception StackTrace: at System.Data.SqlClient.ConnectionPool.CreateConnection() at System.Data.SqlClient.ConnectionPool.PoolCreateRequest(Object state) can anybody help me - Hiren ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I query data from sql server database?

  as title thank you string connectionString = "Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=test;User Id=sa;Password=test;"; string queryString = "select * from tblscuser"; using (SqlConnection connection =new SqlConnection(connectionString)) { SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(queryString, connection); connection.Open(); SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader(); // Call Read before accessing data. while (reader.Read()) { Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}, {1}",reader[0], reader[1])); } // Call Close when done reading. reader.Close(); } ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Question regarding best way to design my engine

  Currently I have a system (quite basic) with a character moved by a 360 pad, a level with about 10 objects in and I'm wondering the best way to handle my game logic. My Question is really this - I like the way that in Xna the Update and the Draw are seperated - however to use them as I would *assume* they are intended, draw *should* only really draw things, and Update should be where the game logic is updated: To use what i think Xna wants me to do is //Pseudo code void Update() { foreach (LevelObject lo in LevelObjects) { CheckForCollisionWithMainCharacter(lo) } } void Draw() { foreach (LevelObject lo in LevelObjects) { Draw(lo); } } Which seems slightly innefficient to repeat the same loop twic ...Show All

• SQL Server Sorting Vs Indexing

  what is the difference between sorting and indexing.. It depends. It is a performance and diskspace issue. The general answer for a database that is constantly being modified is never sort it, and always index it. Sorting is only valid with a fixed or read only database. Once you add a record the data file is no longer sorted. The time to read a sorted file also grows with the number of records. A indexed file has a finite maximum access time, typically around 4 disk reads to find the record needed. Think about a name and address data file that you will constantly access in alphabetic order but you are constantly adding new names as needed. This is a perfect canidate to index on the name field. If you relied on a sort it would ...Show All

• .NET Development AVOID THE ?DO YOU WANTO TO REPLACE IT?? QUESTION

  AVOID THE REPLACE FILE QUESTION I`ve export the data of a data grid to an excel file, but everytime that i run the app the question doyo wan to replace it (the file shows, con anyone help me Sub entrar() 'Start a new workbook in Excel. oExcel = CreateObject( "Excel.Application" ) oBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Add 'Create an array with 4 columns and 100 rows. Dim DataArray(99, 3) As Object For r = 0 To 99 DataArray(r, 0) = "ID" & Format(r + 1, "000" ) DataArray(r, 1) = blu(r) DataArray(r, 2) = bla(r) DataArray(r, 3) = fecha.Text Next 'Add headers to the worksheet on r ...Show All