TechedRonan's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Learning a programming language AND game programming concepts simultaneously a pipe dream?

  I'm tryig to learn C# programming with the aim of creating games, but boy is it a struggle. I think the stumbling block for most people (and I include myself in this group) whose primary interest in programming is games related, is that a large conceptual leap is required between document-based programming and real-time programming - and there simply isn't any sufficient discussion or tutorials explaining the fundamentals of the concept to ease the transition. The basic problem is anyone who starts out learning a language like C# pretty much finds themself with nothing but books teaching the language from the perspective of programming forms, event-handlers, interacting with controls  and basically looking at exer ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies How to install additional CA site?

  Hi, there. I 'm playing with Best Practice Analyzer recently releaseed. When I run it on my farm, following advice was there. Is it really possible to install additional CA sites other than that created on farm creation If yes, great! then how to do it (I think technet should mention that if that is one of best practices...) Thanks in advance/ ---- Title: Highly Available Central Administration Capability Severity: 3 Description: Only one instance of the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration Web site exists in your installation. To make sure that you can administer the farm in the case of a failure of a server hosting SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, you should ...Show All

• Smart Device Development DateTimePicker Navigation problem on the form

  I am developing for Treo 700w windows mobile 5.0 device. I am developing my application in C# and CF 2.0 My application should work fully without stylus.In treo device there is no tab button either. I am having problem when there is a datetimepicker in the form after I come to datetimepicker control I can't move to next or previous control by the help of navigation keys. What can I do ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem installing from publish location after using application blocks

  I have been using click-once deployment without issue until I installed 2006 Enterprise Library and tried to use the data applications blocks. Here is my error log when I try and install the app now. PLATFORM VERSION INFO Windows : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT) Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.42 System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) SOURCES Deployment url : file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/jstorti/Start%20Menu/Programs/GTECH/lmdb.appref-ms Server : Microsoft-IIS/5.1 X-Powered-By : ASP.NET Deployment Provider url : http://hqjstorti3/lmdb/lmdb.application Application ...Show All

• SQL Server Newbie looking for direction

  Happy Friday afternoon, all, My task is seemingly simple. I have data on the server in MS Excel Files. I need to get the data into multiple tables in a SQL Server db on the same server. I have been only working with SSIS for a bit, so please bear with me. I can load the data directly from the Excel worksheet to one table, but I need to run an already defined stored procedure on the data from Excel before putting it into tables. I need to loop over all the rows and run the data from each row through the stored procedure. So, I think I need an Execute SQL Task withing a For Each Loop, but neither is available on the Data Flow page, and I don't see how to use them in the control flow page. I don't see that any of the Data Flow tr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Running external app in ms access 2003

  Hi, I have installed a utility application on my system which process credit cards information. This application installed in a folder named 'cp' I have developed a program in ms access 2003, which has a Tab layout. Now, I need to create a new tab which incorporate this credit card program in access 2003 and execute it from there. As a test, I used a command button to which I write following event procedure Dim stExtfile as String stExtfile="C:\CP\Credit.exe" Call Shell(stExtfile,1) But there is one problem; this application needs a driver to run which is installed in its folder (i.e. C:\CP\). So, clicking over command button to run this application returns an error msg. saying 'driver is needed to run this app ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Consistant but inexplicable error when using where clause.

  I have the following code: var q = from m in db.Vms select m; which compiles and runs as expected. However as soon as I introduce a where clause, e.g. var q = from m in db.Vms where m.VmName.Contains( "tttt" ) select m; I get the following error: The type arguments for method 'System.Data.TypedTableBaseExtensions.Where<T>(System.Data.TypedTableBase<T>, System.Query.Func<T,bool>)' cannot be inferred from the usage. Try specifying the type arguments explicitly. All of the correct references are established, i.e. System.Query.dll System.Data.DLinq.dll System.Data.Extensions.dll as well as CSharp3CodeDomProvider.dll I used SQLMetal.exe to pr ...Show All

• .NET Development New request is not allowed to start because it should come with valid transaction descriptor.

  I have a C# windows service that uses MSMQ, DTC Transactions, SQL server 2005 and Notification services. I am doing the following in the service: OnStart Create the queue set the Peek Complete event call Begin Peek PeekComplete WaitHandle[] waitHandle = new WaitHandle[] { new AutoResetEvent(false) }; ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(ProcessMessage, waitHandle[0]) Call End Peek WaitHandle.WaiteAll(waitHandle) queue.BeginPeek ProcessMessage(object stateInfo) AutoResetEvent are = (AutoResetEvent)stateInfo; Create DTC Transaction try Message msg = callResultQueue.Receive(MessageQueueTransactionType.Automatic); are.Set(); retreive Message Body Using (SQLConnection conn = new SQLConnection(connectionStr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newb Needs help

  In visual basic 2005 express edition.... what line of code do you use to read and write to a text file.... I have the older book and it says to use StreamWriter(File.Open _ ("Filename", Filemode OpenOrCreate)) And my visual basic keeps giving me an error... what is thew correct line of code to use Greatly appreciated Newb Sorry the code i ended up using was: Dim theStreamWriter As New IO.StreamWriter(Application.StartupPath & "\test.txt" ) For Each currentControl As Control In Me .Controls If currentControl.GetType() Is GetType (TextBox) Then theStreamWriter.WriteLine(currentControl.Text) End If Next theStreamWriter.Close() End Sub ...Show All

• SQL Server Total hours calculation

  Hi, I'm new to Reporting Services, and I have to make a sort of timesheet-report out of a sharepoint list. The sharepoint list works great, employees give in their start, stop and lunch times, and the project they are working for. Now, on my report, everything looks great, except, I can not get the grand total of the worked hours. I think I need some function in my totalHours field, but I don't know how to write this. So I am looking for someone to help me write this, and I am willing to pay for it. Can anyone help me out Thanks in advance, Natascha Hi, this helped me forward, now I get the total hours and minutes, but my line totals (totalhours.value) gives an error ' [rsRuntimeEr ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem:long running validation when pointing OLEDB Source to a view.

  One of our developers has written a view which will execute completely (returns ~38,000 rows) in approx 1 min out of SQLMS (results start at 20 sec and completes by 1:10 consistently). However, if he adds a data flow task in SSIS, adds an OLEDB Data Source and selects Data Access Mode to "Table or view" and then selects the same view, it is consistently taking over 30 minutes (at which point we've been killing it). I can see the activity in the Activity Monitor, it is doing a SELECT * from that view and is runnable the whole time. If we modify the view to SELECT TOP 10, it returns in a short time. Has anyone run into this problem Any suggestions It is very problematic, as if the views change we have to hack around this problem. Thanks for ...Show All

• Visual C++ Writing a Text of a Textbox with [ ofstream ]

  Hello, i want to write a text of a textbox into a textfile. But everytime i get an error while compiling. private: System::Void Senden_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { ofstream outfile; outfile.open("Protokoll.txt", ofstream::out); outfile << textBox1->Text->g();//<< " " << textBox2->Text->ToString() << " " << textBox3->Text->ToString(); outfile.close(); } Errorcode: [dir]namensliste\Form1.h(173) : error C2064: Ausdruck ergibt keine Funktion, die 0 Argumente ubernimmt -> Expression got no Function, with 0 Arguments (or something)   Christopher P. wrote:   outfile << textBox1-&g ...Show All

• Visual Basic Please Help me in converting VB6 DataGrid usage to VB2005 DataGridView.

  Hi, I am a newbie VB6 programmer looking for assistance in converting the following code into VB2005 code. No matter what I seem to do I cannot get an equivalent that will run using VB2005. I have to stay with the existing file format due to legacy issues. I would like to read and write randomly as shown. I'm also confused on how to get the data into the VB2005 DataGridView. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks PaulZ --- A snippet of my VB6 code ---- Private Type DiskFileLayout dAccount As Integer dActivity As String * 10 dCurrency As Integer dDate As Date dTotal As Currency dContainers As Double dPrice As Currency dCommission As Currency dNote As String * 33 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Restricting my editor/designer to certain Xml files.

  Hi, On the one hand I would like to create a custom designer for specific Xml files, not all the Xml files. For exemple I need to check the name or the xsd of the file. Maybe I can open all the Xml files with my EditorFactory and create the default editor for the files I do not want to open in my custom editor. However I do not know how to return the default Xml editor. On the other hand I would need to have the same behavior as the xsd file editor, i.e. the user can hit F7/ Shift+F7 to switch between the default editor and the custom editor. I wonder to tell VS that my View/Editor is a design view and that it should not replace the default view. Are you using the Managed Package Framework If so, creat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Trouble passing report parameters via reportviewer

  Hello. I have designed and deployed a report that accepts a single parameter called ProjectName. I can preview it in Report Server without any problems. However, when attempting to call the same reports in c# using the ReportViewer I recieve the following error. An error has occurred during report processing. Query execution failed for data set 'FI_Analysis_Server'. For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors I should mention that I can see that the parameter is filled in in the parametere area. Also, the report runs fine if I dont pass any parameters. My c# code follows. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. if (!IsPostBack) ...Show All