Joel Parmer's Q&A profile
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XACT Beta?
How does one get on the XACT beta program I went to https://connect.microsoft.com/availableprograms.aspx and it is not listed there. I signed up for the DX beta program, but it apparently does not let you access the XACT beta newsgroup, which is where I would like to ask questions. I also tried going to http://beta.microsoft.com/ and using the Guest ID: XACTBeta, but once I was logged in no beta programs were available for signup. ...Show All
.NET Development Run ConfigSamples.exe failed on IIS not installed
This is the cofigSamplesLog file. I am having problem installing IIS with XP Pro SP2. I did the following after installed .NET 2.0 - installed SQL Express - having trouble to install IIS using XP CD (the IIS service is not showing any where) after installation halted a couple of times. any suggestions Thanks in advance, Hong 1:39:06 AM Friday, July 08, 2005: [Begin Samples Configuration] 1:39:06 AM Friday, July 08, 2005: [Info] ConfigSamplesDll_DoTasks: Starting 1:39:06 AM Friday, July 08, 2005: [Info] ConfigSamplesDll_DoTasksWithGUI: Starting 1:39:08 AM Friday, July 08, 2005: [Info] Config_ASPNET_Detect: ASP.NET installation (detecting): I ...Show All
Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Installing Business Scorecard Manager 2005 on a SQL Server 2005 instance.
I'm trying to install BSM 2005 into a Win/2003 Server running SQL Server 2005 (everything) and the Web Service won't install because it reports the following: Failed Microsoft OLE DB Provider for OLAP Service (MSOLAP) 2000 SP4 (8.00.2039) as well, the Alerts won't install because of the message: Failed Microsoft SQL Server 200 Notification Services 2.0 SP1 Engine Components I understood that this version was compatible with SQL 2005. Any idea how to bypass these checks and install the software properly I got past this hurdle by uninstalling Analysis Services, going through the PTS installation, and reinstalling AS plus SP4. ...Show All
Visual Basic [vb .net 2005] sending a string through a serial port rs232
Hi friends ! A workstation is connected, using serial port rs232, to a device. On that workstation my application, when an event (decided by user) occurs, must send a string to the device (through rs232). That's all. Should I use MSCOMM also with VB .net 2005 beta 2 or do I need to use something else If we suppose that my output port on workstation is com1 and that the string that must be sent is "order" and [enter], how should I proceed Can you show some example to me Excuse me if my questions are too simple but I have little experience with VB (and with MSCOMM in particular). Thank you in advance for any tip! Bye! ...Show All
SQL Server SQL 2005 left join not working via OLEDB
Hi After chasing around a problem I have closed it down to just the following - I have two simple tables in my database linkme linkme2 both of which have one column called [catalog-no] I have put one record in linkme select * from linkme -- pulls back one record correctly via .asp page and management studio select * from linkme left join linkme2 on linkme.[catalog-no] = linkme2.[catalog-no] -- pulls back one record in management studio and 0 records in .asp page connection !!! Connection string in .ASP page Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=192.168.0.5;Initial Catalog=DVD;User Id=XXXXXX;Password=XXXXXX; I can point the same page to a SQL 20 ...Show All
Windows Forms Windows Forms Book
Hi I am looking to purchase a book on Windows GUI in C# as I start learning how to program in this new environment. And I was wondering if any one has any suggestions Neil FWIW, I am really loving all four books: Petzold, Prosise, Richter, and Balena (and I'm sure I would like Dino Esposito's book, too, if I had it) ...Show All
Windows Forms Win Form & ASP.NET
Hi, I have a question: how can I, if it's possible, add a winform to an asp.net page Hi greath78, you are missing something. You should write "http:Test.dll#Test.Test". eg. <object id="MyTestCtl" classid="http:MyCustomControl.dll#MyCustomControl.MyCtl" height="800" width="800" VIEWASTEXT> </object> Regards, ...Show All
.NET Development Associating XSD schema with XML document
I have multiple XML documents included in a Visual Studio project. I also have an XSD schema for each type of these XML documents. I want to associate the XML documents with its appropriate XSD schema. When I do this it adds my schema to a hard-coded central repository of schemas. What I want is to specify a relative path, so that when I check my Visual Studio project in, the associations and xsds are checked in and versioned along with it. Is there a way to specify within the XML file which XSD it should use, with a relative path Thanks in advance. Yes ...Show All
Visual C++ Tab Order???
Hi, I like to arrange tab order of the user interface in order. I am writing an MFC program in VS 2003 Net. Can you please help me Thanks, vcboy You can use SetWindowPos to change the Z-Order of the windows/controls. Most easier is to create the windows in the sequence you want to have them. ...Show All
Windows Forms Bonehead question
I have a MDI Parent form. I just want to change the background color (it defaulted to a control and controltext). Why can't I change it I mean I can change the forecolor and backcolor properties, but they have no effect. Do I have to create an image as the background in order to change it (this works, I've tried it). What ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. HLSL Syntax Highlighting in Visual Studio Express
Does anybody know how I can activate syntax highlighting for fx files in Visual Studio Express Hey, anybody out there, nobody of you uses VS Express (I'm a poor student. :)) Or does the HLSL syntax highlighting workes for all of you as expected Or don't you author hlsl shaders with VS ...Show All
Windows Forms Custom Prerequisite packages for IE6, Win2k Sp4, JET 4.0 Sp8
Hello I'm deploying a winforms app to multiple operating systems, and they might be in various stages of service packs etc, they may also not have an internet connection. So my distributed CD must contain and install ALL the prerequisites it might need, as I have 1000's of non-IT literate users spread all over the world. So I have no guarantees about the state of the environments it's being installed on. Unless I'm mistaken (please correct me if I'm wrong) this means I need to include the prerequisite packages for: - .Net framework 2.0 (which includes Windows Installer 3.1.) - MDAC 2.8 (for windows 98 - 2000) And I need to ...Show All
Visual Studio VS Beta2 crashes and restarts when I try and run it in debug mode.
When I try and run my web application in debug mode, the IDE will build my application, but when it comes time to display it using the IDE's development server, the IDE displays a warning message, that I should save everything and VS will shutdown and restart. If I just do a build of my application it builds successfully. Is anyone else having this issue Does anyone know of a fix Thanks Found the solution. It seems to be a problem with the window layout in the IDE. I was able to run the debugger after I went to the Window Menu and selected Reset Window Layout. Hope this helps. ...Show All
SQL Server Partition Index Probelm when Switching a partition in
There are three non-unique indexes in my partition table,one cluster and two non-cluster. The cluster one just has the partition key column, and the non-cluster don't include the partition key column. I use " ON [SchemeName] ([KeyColumnName])" to create these index to force aligned. Now ,I need to switche a staging table in the partition table just like the article written by Kimberly L. Tripp in the MSDN LIB. I create the staging table with same column structure as the partition table on the certain filegroup. Then how about these indexes, just create index on the appropriate ...Show All
Windows Forms Validating serial number while installling
Hi all I've created setup file for my project am using vb.net & asp.net while installing the setup i need to validate the serial number am using orca tool,but i need to create one dll to validate i dont know to create dll,can anyone help me how to create dll using vb.net thanx in advance If you're trying to create a Win32 Custom Action Dll for the setup to call, you can't do that with Visual Basic. I suspect you're using Orca because you're using this article, and that's also why you're asking about a Dll: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253683/en-us You can't do this in VB. That example in the kb article requ ...Show All