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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. The COM-based CORE engine (a lot of questions)

  I'd like to discuss a creation of the core engine for our future projects. I chose this forum not accidentally, I hope that professionals (especially from Microsoft) will help me in my questions. First, I'll say a few words about the core engine. It provides system, input, video and audio core techniques. Also, it has a pluggable system. The main COMponent 'MWCore' (from 'MWCore.dll' server) is only the bridge which connects the parts listed ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista workflow and web apps

  How do you go about utilizing WWF in a web application I'm currently looking into building a workflow system for publishing web pages in a cms. I've got a basic workflow built and have been testing it using a console application. I need to port this workflow to the web application where users would interact with it using webforms instead of a console app. I'm a little confused on how this would be done in a stateless environment. The workflow ...Show All

• SQL Server How-to execute SSIS package with input parameter?

  Hi all. we have SSIS package which runs under SQL Job. Now we need to modify this package in order to have input parameter which we want to setup in the "Set Value" Tab of SQL Server 2005 SQL Job |Edit Step |Option window. Could anybody give me in details how-to setup Global Variable (or something else) inside SSIS Package in order to create input parameter of the package I also appreciate an advice how exactly we sho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions 2 questions...?

  hi everyone... i got 2 questions: 1) can i display the datagrid in my program in a better way ..cuz what I've seen that it displays it like a table in the database 2) I've used the listbox and i would like to clear the items displayed in it....for an example i have a button search which will search in the database then displays the result in the listbox....and i have a button Clear which should clear the listbox....so how can i Clea ...Show All

• .NET Development How to send mail from a Windows Application??

  I am attempting to write an application which will send a mail message with an attachment. Here's code: using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Data; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Mail; string filename = "c:\\stuff.xls" MailMessage send = new MailMessage(); send.To = " validmail@mymailserver.com "; s ...Show All

• Visual Basic alternative to SelectedIndex in ComboBox

  hi im having a slight problem ...  i have a combobox1 populated from database and has both displaymember & valuemembers ..  now when i select certain other list or combobox then i need it to select a certain display member in combobox1 by giving a certain value in the 'valuemembers' list .. i'm only familiar by changing SelectedIndex method ... how do i do this ... ...Show All

• Windows Forms Slow processing for Databound Combobox

  Hi, My application is terribly slow loading. After starting at the top and working my way down to find the bottleneck, I determined the real slowdown is after I retrieve my data and set the datasource for my combobox. Here is the code.     ...Show All

• Visual C# How to create a windows services using C#?

  Hi, I'm trying to develop a windows services in Visual Studio 2005. When I chose File | New | Project, if the Visual C# is chosed as Project types, there is no Windows Service templates there. The template only appears when you use VC++. Is there anybody that can tell me why and how Thanks. Regards, Chris Hi there, When you go to create a project, in the "New Project" window there will ...Show All

• Visual Basic failed to load database information

  pls help me I am using Vs 2005 and crystal report 11.5 when i run the set up and try to view the Crystal report below error Come .when run this code in my machine it works fine when i run the setup and try view the report then error come like failed to load database information error in file:"C:\doument\..\\... .rpt") pls help its very urgent code is like Private Function GenerateReport() As Boolean ...Show All

• SQL Server Change "Report is being generated"

  Hello, I develop some application using SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 to Russian customers. They usually don't know English well. That's why I really want to change phrase "Report is being generated" to Russian words. How can I do it I tried to fing this phrase in configuration files or registry but there wasn't success. Thank you, Hi, If I change the language of the browser, the language of the "Report is being gener ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PPC 6700 Sprint -- FileName Problem

  I have Dell Axim X51V with CF2.0 C# application. In my device if I create filename programatically like 123.txt it works great with no problem. One of my customer has complained that if he enters 123 for filename, his device (PPC 6700 Sprint) is not creating the file. But if he enters characters like abc then abc.txt is getting created fine. In the previous case he is not getting any error message. If somebody has this type of phone can yo ...Show All

• SQL Server Time Dimension error

  Hi, I've created a cube and now i'm trying a add a time dimension, it gives me an error. the time dimension i've created is using server time dimensions which has year, quarter, month and date attributes, when browse the dimension it looks fine but i'm trying to add this to cube and try to process cube it give a me this error Warning 1 Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found: Table: dbo_Ticket, Column: ...Show All

• SQL Server Service Pack 1 Database Services Installation Failure

  Hi - using SQL Server Standard Edition (64Bit). All of items of the service pack will install execpt for the Database Services. The Details are: "Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file" Log Details Below 05/04/2006 08:18:42.327 ================================================================================ 05/04/2006 08:18:42.327 Hotfix package launched 05/04/2006 08:18:43.827 Product discovery successfully compl ...Show All

• .NET Development Writing to a custom sink

  Hi all, I'm using a modified version of Stephen Toub's secure channel to add compression to the sink along with encryption. Thanks to Stephen I have a very good base to build my sink on and I had no problem adding compression to the sink. Now I want to have compression feature enabled only if the user asks for it. I did'nt know how to send client request to the server. I know that I should write the boolean to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System HTTP code 503: Service unavailable

  We have TF B3 Refresh set up on a server and locally it seems to be working fine.  However we have a team in Beijing that is having occasional errors like this: c:\Foo\Main\Src\Bitmaps\bar.bmp: Please contact your administrator.   There was an error contacting the server. Technical information (for administrator):   HTTP code 503: Service Unavailable Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this error ...Show All