andrewkilcer's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX Suggestion for Microsoft

  As a developer, I would like to see Managed DirectX on the web. Without high security issues, Managed DirectX can act like a high-end multimedia tool for user-controls especially on ASP.NET. Is there a need I can think of a few. Java had Java3D, JOGL (opengl for Java), etc. that could be used as games online and the such. A fine example is Runescape at the following url of screenshots: http://www.runescape.com/screenshots/screenshots.ws Si ...Show All

• .NET Development please help..iis 6

  hi everyone, please reply asap if you can help. i'm running windows server 2003 with iis 6.0.  i'm trying to start using asp throughout my website, so i made sure active server pages was allowed.  for testing purposes, i installed iis 6 on my windows xp 64-bit computer.  my pages worked fine.  when i upload them to my 2003 server i get a 500 error telling me there is a problem with the page. the only difference that i ...Show All

• Visual C# Why there is no snippets in c#?

  Hello. Where can I find c# snippets to download. In the final version there will be more Because it doesnt have as many as visual basic. Visual basic has lots of snippets.    Download the C# snippets here ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check for throw or rethrow in a try block

  Thank you David ...I have another question.... How can I check if there is any sentence in a block ... for example i want to check an empty catch and I do this: public override ProblemCollection Check( Member member) { Method method = member as Method ; bool isCatchExists = false ; bool isThrowExists = false ; if (method == null ) return null ; InstructionList iList = method.Instructions; f ...Show All

• Windows Forms restricting Data Grid navigation

  Hi I have a datagrid with two columns.  The left column has been setup to be readonly.  Is there a way to stop the user from tabbing into it   Is there a tabstop option for a DataColumn or does anyone know a devilishly wicke ...Show All

• Visual Basic visual basic Label number as a variable

  Is there a way to assign a variable to a label number for i = 1 to 10 label(i).Text = Name next i or something like that Bruce You can build an array of labels, or use the Controls collection already on your form to look for labels ( you can identify them by name or the Tag property, if you set it ). If label was a list into which you'd passed the 10 labels you want to set, and Name was th ...Show All

• Visual C# generics-based DAL

  I would like to write a generic-based DAL. I am looking for samples! Thanks I would highly recommend reading Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture as much of the book discusses patterns related to designing data access frameworks. Although the book doesn't discuss generics (because it was written before .NET 2.0), it's easy to see where generics could reduce the amount of code requ ...Show All

• .NET Development File Upload To A Shared Folder

  Hi ppl, Is there any way to upload a file to a shared folder on our domain network like \\server\folder\  using vb.net+asp.net   To help debug, try the following 1. The directory should be shared for this user.. Go to sharing and security and set the permissions so that this user has access 2. The user should have write access to the folder. Go to the security tab and add explicit access to the user you are imper ...Show All

• SQL Server Last Cube Process Date/Time

  Is there anyway to programmatically retrieve the last date/time that an SSAS cube was processed I would like to display this date/time in reports. I could add a step to the job that runs the process to add a row to a table upon successful completion, but don't want to re-invent the wheel. Thanks! BobP using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.AnalysisServices; namespace GetCub ...Show All

• SQL Server Virtual Labs - No Connection message

  A couple of us are trying to use the SQL Server 2005 Virtual labs at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/  .  We complete all the prelim steps successfully but when we click on "Start the Lab" we get a blank page with "No Connection" in the middle.  The clock ticks and the system thinks we are doing the lab.  How can we get a connection   or is the server down   or are there no available resources left ...Show All

• SQL Server SSMSE permissions problem when restoring a backup

  Hi all, I'm experiencing a problem with SQL Server Management Studio Express. I have a backup file (.bak file extension) of a SQL database saved in the directory c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\backup When I attempt to restore this file (by r/clicking on the database, selecting Tasks, Restore, Database and selecting File as the backup media), I get the message "Cannot access the specified path or file on the server. Veri ...Show All

• SQL Server problem in Installing SQl Server Management studio express _ (ctp)

  I'm very new to MS SQl Server, i Downloaded MS SQl Server express edition, the problem is i can't deal with it, when i downloaded ( Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express - Community Technical Preview (CTP) November 2005 ) every time i try to install it , it give me error message says "The system administrator has set policies To Prevent this installation" How can i over come this problem and install this interface to be able to deal w ...Show All

• Visual C++ make button invisible?

  Hello I am trying to make a button invisible by using this->button1->Visible(false); this does not work - how should I do this Perhaps someone could explain why I am wrong in expecting the above to work! Cheers Geoff   NNTP User wrote: You can't do this in C# either. Visible is a Control property so you use a setter to set it's value.   C#     Button1.Visible = ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Does Beta3 Refresh support Workgroups?

  After discovering that TFS really needs a separate PC as a domain controller I'm considering reformatting all my hard drives and installing Windows XP SP2 on my machines to give me a Workgroup development environment for a small team (5 developers) containing: 1 x Team Foundation Server (2.2 GHz + 1G RAM + Windows XP SP2) for data and application tier 1 x Build machine (1.5 GHz + 512M RAM + Windows XP - SP2) for continuous in ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL connection problem

  So i installed Vis Studio '05....really awsome. Next I installed SQL express with the CTP Manager all seemed to go well. I could create new databases using the CTP manager, but anytime i try and connect using Vis Studio, i get the same error....can't connect, check remote connections. Both VIS and SQL installed on the same machine and i setup SQL to use Win Auth to connect, I also have TCP and named piplines enabled, although i dont know what na ...Show All