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• Software Development for Windows Vista TypeProvider in Designer Hosting SDK Sample and Lab 10

  Hello, I've noticed in both the Designer Hosting SDK sample (WorkflowDesignerRehosting) and in the Beta 2 Hands On Lab # 10 (DesignerHostingApplication) that there is use of the TypeProvider class. In the Designer Hosting SDK Sample, the TypeProvider class is used to add an assembly reference to the assembly containing the string type in the Workflow Design Surface's constructor. The service is added to the design surface's service container. The same thing is done in the WorkflowLoader class (that extends the work flow's designer loader), except the service is removed in Dispose(). In Lab 10, the WorkflowLoader (extends the workflo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Engine Architecture

  Hello everyone, I am new to these forums here. I am wondering if anyone has any good resources (links, etc..) for designing a 3d engine. I do not need links on how to create one (writing the code), but i am trying to explore some different engine architecture's as i am getting ready to create my own personal engine to be used in a product of mine. To help with answering my question it would help to know my experiance / background. I have been programming in java for about 3 years, and have been programming exclusively in C# for the past year. Used to program in other languages a long time ago, "basic" and such. I can say th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Resurrecting the Hive concept

  I've come back after a year of...  well, doing school stuff...  only to be disappointed that no one took the Hive concept any further than when I was here back in Dec 2002. My last post being: http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/messageboard/Thread.aspx id=59120&Page=1 Well...  anyway, if anyone still cares, I've returned to finish some unfinished business...  (lol...  that  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bound DataGridView Sorting: One-shot sorting

  My clients want to sort a bound datagridview on command only, so that adding and editing rows does not change the row positions. The DGV is data-bound. It seems that whether I sort the DataView, the BindingSource, or the column(s), I cannot stop the autosort from happening without losing the existing sorting. One method would be to manage my own collection of DataRows; is there a better way ---Mike This is how we solved the problem with automatic sorting after editing/adding records to a DataGridView. We created a new column on the table, called 'Index', and then added it as a h ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I get data from an XML file in VB.NET Express 2005?

  How do I get data from an XML file in VB.NET Express 2005 I'm making a program that gets data from an XML file when the user clicks a search button. The collected data would be displayed in text boxes. You can also use the System.DAta.DataSet class, and its ReadXml method. Dim myDataSet As System.Data.DataSet myDataSet.ReadXml("c:\xmlfiles\xmlfile.xml") TextBox1.Text = myDataSet.Tables(0).Rows(0)("FirstColumnName") Hope that helps too!  System.XML is good for more complex XML files also. S ...Show All

• SQL Server Interval/Bucket Dimension

  I am trying to find the most efficient way of handelling discreet buckets over continuous/discreet set of values. In english I am looking to have a dimension that says if age is between 0 and 5 they are an infant, 6 to 18 child and > 18 adult. I know I can do this in a case statement but I have similar senarios that require multiple levels of nesting and the ability to easily change the banding criteria with many fact table sharing the same banding information. I have done this in the past by preprocessing the fact table and updating the key value based on between joins, but this is very inefficient on large datasets (upwards of 30 ...Show All

• .NET Development self-completing distributed transaction?

  Please see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=144757  I think I may have originally posted to the wrong forum. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Question about CA1819: PropertiesShouldNotReturnArrays

  Heya folks, i have a property that returns a byte array /// <summary> /// Binary data of the ringtone. /// </summary> public byte [] BinaryData { get { return this ._binaryData; } set { this ._binaryData = this .PropertySetter( value , "BinaryData" ) as byte []; } } now i get a warning saying i shouldn't return arrays from properties. Hmm. ok - the rational (if i have understood it correctly) is becuase the array is not write-protected and therefore not tamper-proof. So, when i make two methods (a getter and a setter) i get asked to make a property! :) haha. so, may ...Show All

• SQL Server Text field problem

  Hi, in MSDN is written reguarding WRITETEXT : data Is the actual text , ntext or image data to store. data can be a literal or a variable. The maximum length of text that can be inserted interactively with WRITETEXT is approximately 120 KB for text , ntext , and image data. I am tring to insert a text which has around 9000 charcters using WRITETEXT which is less then 10KB , but surprise: after the execution of the sql statement my field remains empty. WHY I've tested this command and found out that it only accepts 900 characters, which is 995 bytes. I execute this SQL statements sequence: USE RWIN ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Write in access db on desktop

  Is it possible to insert data from your pocketpc in a access db on your desktop pc (when you have a wireless connection and the ppc has access to the db) How do i solve this   Create a Web service that will do appropriate inserts on a desktop and call it from a device. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Directx Sample Framework GUI

  Hi, I've been coding using the managed directx sample framework and have been trying to use the sample gui. I have created a dialog for my main menu screen which has an options button. I have created another dialog for my options screen and I want to be able to switch between the two screens. The way I am trying to do this is by having a gamestate variable which changes when the options button is clicked. I then have switch statements in both my OnRender event and my OnMsgProc event to switch between the code for rendering and receiving messages for the different dialogs. I pretty much followed the method in the third section Tom Millers "be ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do I delete a task?

  In going through the walkthrough, I accidently created a duplicate of a task. Is there some way to delete it ("Delete" doesn't seem to work.) There is no support for deleting work items in TF. You may want to just change the state of the task. If you truly want to delete the task you will have to remove entries from WorkItemsAre, WorkItemsWere, and WorkItemsLongTexts tables in TfsWorkItemTracking database (I am assuming you did not add any links or attachments to the task). -Mohammad ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using ClickOnce with Window Services

  I created a Windows Service and I want to deploy using ClickOne. Is this possible ClickOnce is targetted towards deploying isolated per-user applications. It cannot be used to deploy Windows Services. You will need to use Windows Installer for this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Get Hostname from IP?

  How can i turn like "67.171.62.83" into "hsd1.wa.comcast.net" In vb.net Use the System.DNS class and the GetHostEntry method to retrieve an IPHostEntry and then use the HostName property. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143998.aspx Dim ipAddress As String = "67.171.62.83" Dim ipHostEntry As IPHostEntry ipHostEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry(ipAddress) Console.WriteLine(ipHostEntry.HostName) You can also use the aliases property to retrieve a list of names associated with the host if there are more than one. ...Show All

• SQL Server Running SSIS Packages in Management Studio

  We are using SQL Server 2005 Standard edition. We have the development studio installed on a developer’s workstation. The SSIS package is accessing network folders using UNC and the tasks in packages are accessing SQL Server with a SQL Server id. The SSIS package runs fine on the workstation. We deploy the SSIS package as a SSIS store on SQL Server. I receive Error 18456 Severity 14 State 8 error when I run the SSIS package as a SQL Agent job. When I run the SSIS package from the Integration Services Management Studio, I get The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "dboSQLabm" failed with erro ...Show All