Andy Kerr's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Controling Characters

  hi., Could some one please tell me how to code visualbasic so that i can controle a cheracter on the screen. If you can i'll be real greatful. Thanks, jjjames Your question is a very large subject, far too much to be answered in a forum I suggest you read How to ask questions the smart way and try again with something more specific. Otherwise start at the ZBuffer Managed DirectX Tutorials and lo ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums BlogID

  Hi, can tell me anybody where I find BlogID of my blog at my MSNspace Thanks -jregent- If you look at the documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msnspaces/MetaWeblogAPI_newPost_Method.asp frame=true it states that the blog ID should be the string "MyBlog" ...Show All

• SQL Server Exporting data from a merge join from one data flow to another

  Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to point data that underwent the "merge join" transformation (in one data flow) to the following data flow I don't want to recreate all that merging, sorting and calling the same sources again in the following data flow if the data that I am using exists in the previous data flow. The merged data is simply too big to export to an excel file, so does anyone have any ideas Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Basic getting application data folder!!

  i want to know if there is a api for getting application data folder in windows xp!! like getsystemdirectory or getcurrentdirectory n does the path like( c:\documents and settings\"username"\local setings\.. )does this type of path varies for different windows versions!!:) Hi, The getcurrentdirectory would be in System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(). You'll just have to parse the result coz it returns the location of your exe... c ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) define indigo transaction for netMsmqBinding

  How is possible to define using of wcf transaction with netMsmqBinding Does TransactionFlow exist thanks, Bojan netMsmqBinding is not exposing transactionflow setting, if we want, we can create custom binding with MSMQ transport and we can add transactionflow setting to custom binding. from SDK samples, I think, If client initiates the transaction,MSMQ binding also participating in tran ...Show All

• SQL Server bug with "slowly changing dimension" task and nvarchar(max)

  Hello I use SSIS to load a Unicode file into a single table I Use a "slowly changing dimension" task to load the destination table and when i map a column (DT_WSTR) to a column with the datatype nvarchar(max) i have an error message that say that i can't map theses columns because there have not the same datatype. I find a workaround : i map all my cols except the colums that must fill the cols with datatype nvarchar(max) , and after i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I change the location of the working copies?

  The location of working copies seems to be established from the beginning. How can I change it so that I can perform a "get" to put them in a different location Can I do this with command line too Please see: Working with Source Control Workspaces The cmdline commands that affect workspaces are: tf workfold - add/remove mappings; add/remove cloaks tf workspace - create/delete workspaces; change a work ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions sql express database

  Hi, I've created databases using sql 2000 etc, but how do you create databases and tables on sql express There is no Enterprise Manager or query analyser that I can see Do you have to create them through Visual Studio intead As far as I know there is no Enterprise manager for SQL Express (as there was no for MSDE). You can manage the SQL2005 via command prompt, using the VisualStudio IDE or with the Microsoft S ...Show All

• Windows Forms MS Office COntrols

  Hi I always dream of controls like those in MS Office like the commandbar, commandbuttons and dockable menues with their endless customization options. I enjoy working with these objects in Addins but I want to use them in my applications .Romke Soldaat called them (Forbidden fruits of the Office Paradise) in Nov 1999 issue of Microsoft Office and VBA developer (Informant Communications Group) Will Microsoft ship these controls with any vers ...Show All

• Visual Basic getting HTML from a website

  Hi guys, I'm making a project that requires getting the HTML source from a website. I'm not at all sure about how to go about doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much in advance! -Robert Robert.... There are women here too. The other two identical questions you asked are in VBE and you marked your question as answered here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=414318&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual Studio .NET framework version

  I have VS.NET and have just installed framework version 1.1.  When I create a new project now, it is still creating the project with framework version 1.0.  In the Help/About dialog of VS it is still reporting framework version 1.0.  How&n ...Show All

• Windows Forms One or more error occured while loading the designer... why?

  I've a problem with a solution (the only one that I've started since the VS2005 has come into my hand). The solution comprehends a webservice and a windowsform, in the windows form area, there are several form, all empty by source point, and with some controls placed on. The control are, for instance, in one form all MS 2005, and for another just one third part control and nothing else. If I leave the designer area opened and close the solution ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Runtime

  I have an application that I distributed to a windows 2000 server machine with only the .net runtime on it.  The application would not even start.  I created a quick form program with a label where the text was just "Hi".  Built the installation, installed it on the server and it wouldn't start.  I downloaded the .NET SDK to the windows 2k machine, installed it and the aplications ran fine.  What am I missing in the inst ...Show All

• Visual Basic Verify my functions

  I made three functions that deal with bits. I want to know if they are good or if they can be improved. Thank You. Private Function extractBit(ByVal value As Byte, ByVal bit As Byte) As Boolean If bit = 7 Then bit = 128 If bit = 6 Then bit = 64 If bit = 5 Then bit = 32 If bit = 4 Then bit = 16 If bit = 3 Then bit = 8 If bit = 2 Then bit = 4 If bit = 1 Then bit = 2 If bit = 0 Then bit = 1 If (value ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating Error Output for Custom Components

  Hi, I have a 2 custom components - source and destination. I want to create an error output for each, to allow the users of my component to handle errors the way they choose. I only found a property in IDTSOuptut90 named isErrorOut - a boolean property indicating whether this output is an error output or not. Does anyone have additional documentation / articles / code samples regarding how to really populate the rows in the error out ...Show All