RandyK's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Extensions Problem for Visual Studio 2006

  Hello,      I have tried to find an answer for my problem for the past week, and I am not sure if this is the right thread for it.  I have installed DirectX SDK April 2006 with the DirectX Extensions, and I am running VS2006.  When I start VS2006 I don't see the DX extension icon on the intro Splash Screen, but I am able to see it in the About Box for VS2006.  The problem is not that it is justnot loading - ...Show All

• Visual Basic Tabbed Browsing in VB .Net

  Hi, I have a question regarding tabbed browsing. I am writing my own custom web browser in vb .net studio 2005. I can create, dynamically at runtime, additonal tabs on a tab control, which will - in each - have a dedicated webbrowser control. So what will happen is 5 search engines will be searched and the results be placed in seperate webbrowsers under 5 dynamically-created tabs. The user can then tab throw each set of results. The pro ...Show All

• SQL Server Transition from Crystal Reports

  I am being asked to evaluate different reporting technologies , currently we are using Crystal Reports 9. I have taken one of our simple reports, and attempted to design it in VS 2005 (SQL 2005 Report). Is there an equivalent to a Report Header and Report Footer Report Header meaning, the first page displays information only once, regardless of how many pages of data is displayed following. Thanks in advance for any help anyone has.   ...Show All

• Windows Forms listBox

  Ok. I actually have two questions. My first question is as follows: In my listView, I have many number items with three digits (ex 396, 965, 945) and I check the list to see if it contains a certain number and to increment a variable if the item contains that number. Lets set I have 3 items (969, 659, 459) and lets say I was checking to see if the items contain a 9. My variable would only increment to . What I need to know is how to get the vari ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS thinks I am TFSETUP

  When I connect to our TFSServer for some reason it thinks I am TFSSetup.   I cannot find anything in the registry to tell it otherwise and it appears that it is only happening to me.  Any ideas Gary A. Bushey That's the first I've ever heard of that.  TFS picks up "who you are" by examining your Windows credentials (who the IIS server sees you as).  Here is some sample code that you can build into a tool to ch ...Show All

• SQL Server Default Mobile Database Application

  Dear All, I am trying to build a simple mobile application. I am very new to this. Thus I am trying to access the build in database in the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition\Device\Mobile\v3.0\Northwind.sdf. I am following the steps in the wizard to help me. When I press test connection is say Test Connection Succeeded. But when I press the ok button I get this error as "Unable to find the requested .N ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with recording web pages with user control

  I have a web page in .net 2.0/C# that includes a user control, which in turn includes a form with several fields and a submit button. The submit button is handled by an onclick handler that does database inserts, etc. I am using Visual Studio 2005 RTM (details at the end of this message.) I record the page in question, entering values in the form fields repeastedly, but when I play back the recording I get failures with the error 'context ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Visual C++ Express and DirectX

  I am trying to learn how to program with DirectX, but all of the sample projects refuse to run under Visual C++ Express 2005. I understand that there are limitations to VC++ Express that prevent the use of MFC and ATL (naturally, I don't know what they are), and I think I am supposed to be using something else called CLR. I was wondering...are there any tutorials yet specifically designed for doing DirectX Programming with Visual C++ 2005 Expres ...Show All

• .NET Development SqlDataSourceEnumerator.GetDataSources can't return the Instance name and Version information on firewalled computers

  Using SqlDataSourceEnumerator.GetDataSources Method, I can search the available SQL Server instances on my intranet. On the MSDN help, it says that this method will return a DataTable object that has information about visible/available SQL Server instances, and this includes the SQL Server's Version information. If the instances of SQL Server is on a firewalled computers that have Windows XP SP2 firewall or Windows Server 2003 SP1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Show multiple order records in single row

  I have two tables CompanyTab and OrderTab .CompanyTab table contain one record for each client while OrderTab table contain multiple orders for clients. I have data in both table like CompanyTable ID Name 1 name1 2 name2 OrderTable OrderId CompanyTabID 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 In my query I want to show all orders in single row. ID Name Orders 1 name1 1,2,3,4 2 name2 null Is anybody can help on it. Thanks Arvind There is no ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Trigger runtime exception

  Hi, What's wrong with this XAML that throws an exception at runtime <StackPanel.Triggers> <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True"> <Setter Property="Cursor" Value="Hand" /> </Trigger> </StackPanel.Triggers> Thanks, Fernando Only EventTriggers are supported in this case - Property triggers are not, and hence the exce ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions RS232 (Comm Port) Cant read the line HELP

  Hi, I was trying to read the text from comm poert w/ new SerialPOrt object but for some reson it dosnt work. But I can write everything though. I'm using all defult seetings for the port object. And here is the code that I have. Also when I chnded read timeout, I got an error in time out. Public Class PORTs Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click sp.Op ...Show All

• SQL Server Win CE 4.2 and Smart Dev Application question

  I'm a bit stuck with this one... hope someone can help. I'm trying to develop an application that will run on a pocket PC with Windows CE 4.2 I'm using .Net 2003 and the application is in VB.Net. I can run the application on the pocket pc fine (ie. form paints, buttons work) , until I need to connect to Sql DB on the server. When I try to create a connection object ( Dim dbconnection As New SqlClient.SqlConnection) I get an erro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Downloading CVS

  Hi all, I am trying to find a good and working version of CVS. Does anyone know where I can find CVS to download for free Thanks! l.walt CVS is free software; you should always be able to download it freely. A quick search turned up plenty of sources. There are also lots of places offering free CVS hosting, if that's what you meant. However, this is a Team Foundation forum. Not sure how you got here. Good luck. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WASHost?

  Hello, Wondering if anyone has any information on 'WAS Hosting' I've found a sample in the SDK but it doesn't look complete. Is this technology alive yet Thanks, Scott. Is WAS Hosting functionality available in Windows Vista (client) Or, if I am a developer using Vista, how can I test my WCF Services using WAS Host functionality like non-http hosted endpoints Thanks, Scott. ...Show All