Andrei Belogortseff's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Tutorials?? Where!?

  I was wondering where I could find some DirectX Tutorials.. For DirectInput, DirectPlay, Direct3d, and pretty much anythign about DirectX! Myabe there could be a sticky with tutorial links on it So most begginers coudl get a starting hand at a few things, instead of having to ask lots of basic questions one after the another, like me! :) So, if anyone could at least show me some links for it Personally I need for VB.NET, but other links are also ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Event Viewer Strange Event

  Hi There! I was taking a walk through event viewer and noticed this <Information > message: Process Details: Process Name: w3wp Process Id: 1888 Thread Id: 4500 Account name: VISABEIRA\tfsservice Detailed Message: Unable to obtain registration data for application VersionControl. Exception Message: TF30055: Visual Studio could not find or read the Team Foundation Server server name in the configuration file. Contac ...Show All

• Visual C++ Justification for forcing 'virtual' for overridden virtual functions

  Since C++ does not force a programmer to specify the 'virtual' keyword when overriding a virtual function in a base class, what was the justification for forcing not only 'virtual' but also an after the parameter list 'override' when overriding virtual functions of a base ref class or interface class. For normal C++ programmers this bifurcation from C++ seems both a PITA and absolutely unnecessary. There must have been some practical reason for ...Show All

• Visual Basic "_"

  can anyone tell me what this character does in VB i have seen many examples of code where this is used, i would guess that it almost means to extend the arguments to the next line. any idea It means that the instruction is continued on the next line. For Example : MessageBox.show("This is the text of your message box", _ "And this is the text of the caption of your message box") ...Show All

• SQL Server Showing server status in SSMS

  I'm using ssms to connect to a few sql 2000 servers and one 2005 server. I see the status of each 2000 server (the green arrow) but can't get the status of the 2005 server. I can connect to the server and work with the objects so I think i'm probably not running all the services I need or I need to open a port... thanks. If you can connect to the server and look at objects then you should be running all t ...Show All

• SQL Server search char in String

  Hi Is there any function to seperate a sting (VARCHAR) into two based on a character in the string (e.g. '-'). In short is there "InStr" or "split" type function in T-SQL If not what is the alternative I have a column called "Range" (VarChar) in the table which has ranges like 1-14 or 15-49 etc. I need to select records by compare a variable (numeric) against these ranges.   So for instace if the variable has 15 its in range ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Increase the Pocket PC 2003 Emulator Device Memory ?

  I am running out of memory when deploying a vb 2005 application (with sql ce). So I want to increase the emulator memory Using VS 2005 I have gone into tools>options>device tools>devices>Pocket PC 2003 SE Emulator>Properties>Emulator Options> .. tick Specify RAM Size, and put 64, 128 or 256 in the ram size box. Then I kick off the emulator either by running the vb project or by running it from "Device Emulator Manager" ...Show All

• SQL Server AttachDatabase and Click Once

  I am using Click Once to deploy SQL Express as well as the dbf files. The dbf files will be deployed to the data directory. When my application start up I am using the Server.AttachDatabase method to attach 4 database files to the SQL Express engine. Since the dbf files gets deployed to the below folder that is read only, I am geting the error message below. How do I get around this problem Please help. C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Sett ...Show All

• .NET Development Replace a string Using Regular Expression

  HI , Since i am very new to regular expression can anyone explaing how to replace a string in an INPUT String using Regular Expression my pattern of replacing is as below the numeric characters (0-9) present in an input string must be replaced as ","prefixed and suffixed with the characters ex: if the input string is ABC1234DEF then the output string after replacement should be ABC,1234,DEF Thanks in Advanc ...Show All

• .NET Development Help with ODBC Connection from Windows App

  Hi, I have some code which works perfectly from an asp.net 2.0 application to connect to a database create a command/dataadapter, and return the dataset.  But when I try to run this same code, with the same libraries referenced I get this error:   "ERROR [IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified"  Here is the code from the windows app, I actually get it when I ...Show All

• SQL Server What does error code 0x80004005 mean?

  What does error code 0x80004005 mean At random places in my packages, I randomly (not always) get this general netwrok error (I am including the first line just to show the line right above the error line): Information: 0x400490F4 at Data Flow Task - my task 1, Lookup - my lookup task 1 [234]: component "Lookup - my lookup task 1" (234) has cached 13312 rows. Error: 0xC0202009 at Data Flow Task - my task 1, Lookup - my lookup task 1 [234 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Retrieve data from listbox

  hi, here i have one listBox1 and populated it (using listBox1.Items.Add()) with data from two columns (name and email address) inside a datagridview. There are about hundreds rows of data and the listbox is meant for displaying whatever user has selected inside DGV. Now, with a click of a button, I want only data from one column (email address) to be inside a textbox, separated by commas. My code cannot call up all email addresses ins ...Show All

• .NET Development ExecuteNonQuery hangs

  Hi All, I posted a question some days ago, but didnt get any response. I guess I didnt word it properly. I'll try my best this time.... This is what I did: Create Command(connection, myTransaction) Set TimeOut property Try myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() myTransaction.Commit() Catch ex as Exception myTransaction.Rollback() End try But the app hangs at myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() statement. So, I tried to do it differently: I try to run the Exe ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to Capture Initials or Signature and save as file?

  I am using VS 2003 C#, and would like to capture initials on a form. any ideas thanks, Dan This is very popular question and you have options ranging from Microsoft's sample ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/PPCSignatureApp.asp ) to commercial controls. Please take a look: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework/search group=microsoft.publ ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Model Deployment Problem (DataSource)

  I created a new Report Model project and specified folders for both the model and the datasources.  For some reason, every time I deploy the model I get an error stating the datasource cannot be found. I've tried changing the project properties to no end.  Here's the specific output Deploying to http://localhost/ReportServer %2f Deploying data source '/Data Sources/CRM Database Conection'. Deploying model 'CRM Filtered View Model'. ...Show All