Mudasser's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. SDK Error when running (Debugging) application

  Howdy All, Upfront Info : Windows XP Pro SP2, DirectX 9.0c (w /August SDK) C# 2005 Express IDE I have created a simple little DX app using the MS tutorials and other information that I have found on the internet. All works well until I add a Dialog to the app. private Dialog myDialog = null; myDialog = new Dialog(framework) There are no controls added to the Dialog only the creation of the initial instance. The app compiles without complaint, but when I start debugging to see it run, I receive the following error. "Could not find required media. Ensure that the DirectX SDK is correctly installed." I'll admit I am stumped. The error does ...Show All

• Windows Forms opening windows explorer with vb.net

  hi all, how can i open say a "containing folder"   or just an folder for that matter.....i would like to open windows explorer to any given path from within my vb.net program.... any ideas -Andy Moyer, thanks in advance. Use the System.Diagnostics.Process class. System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\MyDir") ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect

  How do I solve this : Error Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at 192.168.1.12  Explanation The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at 192.168.1.12. The reason for the failed connection cannot be determined at this time. Because the connection failed, the wizard was not able to complete creating the Windows SharePoint Services site.  User Action Contact the administrator for the Windows SharePoint Services at 192.168.1.12 to confirm that the server is available on the network. Also, you might find additional helpful information in the project creation log. The lo ...Show All

• SQL Server Is an output parm needed?

  I have a simple stored proc with one input parm that gets first and last name based on an ID#. There will be a connection established to this database and sproc from a VB 2005 front end. Do I need output parms for the name fields Thanks. No, see the following samples to see how you could achieve it, you need some sort of container to retrieve your data, if you only want to read you can use the fast SQLDatareader. string ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager .ConnectionStrings[ "SpringField" ].ToString(); SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection (ConnectionString); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand ( & ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute a package on a remote server

  I want to execute a package that's found on a remote server as MSDB. The execute package task locally is not allowing me because i don't have a login permission i guess because i'm not on the same domain and my user account doesn't have the neccessary privelages to access the server. However i can execute sql statements and data flow tasks on the same server. Isn't it possible to use the login and password of the sql server in away or another to execute the package Thanks Thanks for your comments. I fail to understand the following comments - can you please elaborate the following ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trying to Save VSExpress Programs _ Thanks

  Hello All, Have been searching for a way to reinstall VS Express Editions after reformatting drive, without having to re-register. I believe I found the answer on this site at one time but have since lost it ( forgive me for asking a quest'n that's already been answered ) . Something about saving a file as .old or something, Thank You for any help. <<< " Man I Love This Stuff ! Programming _ The NEW Drug ! " >>> Your registration is per installation, so if it is a new installation because you reformatted you can just reregister. I did that for my new computer. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deployment Issues in VS2k5 with ActiveSync 4.0.0

  Trying to deploy an app to my PocketPC2002 device using ActiveSync 4.0.0 and VS2k5. Maybe 1 in 5 times I deploy it fails with error: Deployment and/or registration failed with error: 0x8973190e. Error writing file x Error 0x8007274c: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. This always happens with the same file which is an image library dll which is about 1mb in size. Is there a reason it fails about 20% of the time And is there a way to fix it Thanks for your help. ...Show All

• Visual Studio login Failed

  I have a windows app that connects to a sql database.  I now want to do reporting from it.  I have created a CR report (from the buit-in VS2003 version of CR) that is going to be used to display the information.  When I run the app I get a login prompt for the database.  No matter what I enter into the prompt CR returns "Login Failed".  Searching the web the only references to try and solve the problem deal with using CR for reports on the web which are of no use to me.  Searching Business Objects website I find references to webpages using CR and unless there is an option I'm missing I can only ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista custom SequenceActivity - howto execute multiple times

  Can someone give me a hint how to execute the child activitites of a custom sequence activity multiple times to implement a kind of custom loop actvity What I came up with by now looks too complicated to me somehow, in short pseudo code: Execute: ExecuteNextIteration ExecuteNextIteration: iteration++ if (iteration<max) ExecuteChildActivity (first enabled child, hook to closed event) else CloseActivity OnChildClosed: nextChildActiviy = FindNextEnabledChildActivity if (nextChildActivity != null) ExecuteChildActivity(nextChildActivity, hook to closed event) else ExecuteNextIteration Isn't it somehow possible to USE th ...Show All

• Visual C# Reflection

  Hi, Can someone provice me a code snippet on the following: Using Reflection to instantiate an object with a constructor taking one or more parameters Thanks The following instantiates a class (type) who's constructor takes a single int parameter. object [] paramItems = new object [] { 1 }; object o = type.InvokeMember( null , BindingFlags .DeclaredOnly | BindingFlags .Public | BindingFlags .Instance | BindingFlags .CreateInstance, null , type, paramItems); ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) xaml in IE6 only animates on startup screen on multimonitor

  I'm wondering if this is just a problem with my setup or if others have this problem. If you have a multi-monitor setup Take a xaml file like this: < StackPanel xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " TextBlock.FontSize = " 18pt " > < UniformGrid Rows = " 3 " Columns = " 3 " Width = " 450 " > < Button Content = " Button 1234 " /> < Button Content = " Button 1234 " /> < Button ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application Locks Up

  I am developing an application using VB .NET and Remoting.  When the application is not used for a few minutes it seems to lock up.  In Task Manager is shows as running.  Any ideas are appreciated!      I did some additional research and found some scalability issues with the HTTP Keep-Alive setting in IIS.  I had& ...Show All

• .NET Development System.Transactions.Transaction promoting to DTC (illogically)? Why?

  That is my code. I have a defined common transaction. In my call path, I use: using (IDbConnection connection = GetConnection ()) { retval = q.Find (connection, out DataParticleList); connection.Close (); } DetermineDataParticles ((DataParticle[]) DataParticleList.ToArray (typeof(DataParticle))); And then, in Determine DataParticles, I do: using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope (_Transaction)) { using (IDbConnection connection = GetConnection ()){ again. As both are using a TransactionScope that - uses the same transaction, and as the first connection has been closed - should the whole thing not reuse the same c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Beta 3 Shipping in Nov and TF Not Shipping Until Q1 2006

  Now that the cat is out of the bag: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1850411,00.asp 1. Can you tell us what level of support we will get with Beta 3   2. Will our Beta 3 DBs be migratable to the RTM version    3. What does "Go Live" really mean for TF 4. Will the Visual Studio Team System editions also be held back until Q1 2006   5. Will TF be in the August CTP I'm fairly certain the upgrade scripts will need to be run on a working Beta3 machine.  Once you've run them, you can move the data to another machine using the normal DB backup/restore process. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. LoaderLock was detected

  Hi, I have installed DirectX 9 SDK (October 2005) and Visual Studio 2005 RC1. When I try using directx classes for capture audio, I have a problem. The code i have wrote is: Dim d As DirectSound.Device Dim ds As DirectSound.CaptureDevicesCollection ds = New CaptureDevicesCollection For Each d In ds           Me .ListBox1.Items.Add(d.ToString) Next When I run the application I get error when creating new instance of CaptureDevicesCollection. The error is : LoaderLock is detected. The MDA message is: LoaderLock was detected Message: DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC\Microsoft.DirectX ...Show All