andys987's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Unit Test Wizard doesn't let me select certain projects.

  When adding a new unit test to my test project, the Unit Test Wizard jumps back to the "Add New Test" dialog when I select certain projects.  If I try to click either the '+' sign for the tree structure of the project or try to click on the project's CheckBox, the dialog returns to "Add New Test".  Is this because test units cannot be auto-generated for this project, and if so why do I not see some form of message dialog --Edit-- I also attempted to create a test unit directly from the class that is to be tested.  I received the error: "The source code cannot be sufficiently parsed for Code Generation.  Please ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet Location

  where is the dataSet been saved is it on the client's computer thanks in advanced. ya.. thats rite... i rily mess up with windows and web forms... the dataset is created in web server memory...and we can pull data even if our database server goes down.. sory for the misguidance happend.. bye ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C# - DirectX 9.0c - Creating a Basic Hexagon

  I was wondering if someone could walk me through drawing a basic hexagon using DirectX 9.0c in C#. I've been using the Vector3 structure, and I am having problems understanding how to initialize the view transformation matrix for a hexagon, as well as what input vectors will represent the hexagon (understandably 6). Thank you in advance, Owen If I were you I would not purchase the book by Wendy Stahler. The book by Eric Lengyel is very good ( although I do only have the first edition) it provides enough of mathematics and physics to play with for a long time. ...Show All

• Visual C# When is a VS Express due that runs on the released .NET 2.0?

  Title says it all. We now have .NET 2.0, on which VSE beta 2 will not run, so we need an update asap. Regards,   Guido Guido  - Yes, you should absolutely be able to run your Beta 2 Express applications on the released version of express. HTH, Karen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Class Designer in VS2005 Beta2

  How do I create one I just can't find the Class Diagram template under the New Item.. menu in solution explorer for a Project Howe do I go about adding this in . Thanks in advance Balram Can`t find class designer in VS 8.0.50727.42. How can i install it ...Show All

• Visual C# C# equivalent to C "union"?

  Is there a C# equivalent to the C union typedef I have a 64 byte array that can either be byte or int (USB data packet). I would like to be able to access these bytes as either type. In C I would declare: typedef union byte_array { struct { byte byte1; byte byte2; byte byte3; byte byte4;}; struct { int int1; int int2;}; };byte_array   ...and access them by: byte_array myarray; mybyte = myarray.byte1; myint = myarray.int1;   How would I accomplish this in C# There is no union in C#. Other options are necessary, such as unsafe code, or a class like this public class U { shor ...Show All

• .NET Development Is there a way to force derived classes to implement serializable?

     I have a base class which is serializable. When I distribute this class I need to ensure that any derived classes will have to implement serializable or throw an error.  After looking through the documentation I added the [Serializable] attribute, will this do it Not by using attributes The SerializableAttribute 's i nherited property is set to false, so the attribute is not added to any derived classes. I haven't tried this, but if you're working with .Net 2.0 beta 2, the following topic may be useful: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/3z3z5s6h(en-us,vs.80).aspx ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS and COM

  Dear all, Does anyone know if exists any COM wrapper provider for SSIS TIA SSIS is exposed as a series of COM interfaces that have managed wrappers. Are you looking to use SSIS from a COM environment or a managed environment ...Show All

• SQL Server Can we toggle the database status between recovery and nonrecovery?

  Hi, 1) We will setup logshipping for a large database. 2) 2 systems are located at different city 3) Instead of use 'backup from primary and restore with norecovery to secondary ', we planned to use SAN disk clone to get a second set of disks for related database files and log files. 4) We will mount the disk to the secondary server, however, how can we put the database on the new server as 'norecovery' mode so that we can setup logshipping to this server Another easy example is: 1) detach database 2) Copy database files to another disk 3) bring the disk to another city and attached to the new server ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problems with Vibrate API

  Hi, I am using the Vibrate API is C# after PInvoking the native API. [ DllImport ( "aygshell" )] extern public static int Vibrate( uint cvn /*0*/ , IntPtr rgvn /*null*/ , uint fRepeat, uint dwTimeout); This is my call: int result = VibrateAPI .Vibrate(0, IntPtr .Zero, 1 , 10*1000); For some reason I cannot get it to work. Thanks, Piali I've been unable to find the vibrate API working code mentioned in your message ( www.opennetcf.org/sdf/ ).  I have not been able to find it in the vault either.  Could you be more specific or e-mail me a copy at mikew@adelphia.net   I a ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Networking...

  I've just been reading "C# Network Programming" by Richard Blum in order to get up to speed with networking (non-http, most of my C# experience is in ASP.NET). Now, he shows many examples of how to network in the book, and I've learnt some great things, but after reading Tom Miller's book, it's left me wondering how much is going on in the background of .NET and which approach is better for an MMO style game. In Richard's book he shows firstly blocking sockets, followed by non-blocking, then asynchronus sockets, then threading using blocking sockets. I thought the last option was going to be the best until I saw that there are on ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Does FontStretch work

  I don't see any difference after FontStretch is applied Any clue <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" > <StackPanel> <TextBlock>Hello</TextBlock> <TextBlock FontStretch='Condensed'>Hello</TextBlock> </StackPanel> </Page> Try this: <Page xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " > <StackPanel> <TextBlock FontFamily="Arial" ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to load conditions from a .rules file in a designer hosting application?

  I want to let my designer hosting application be able to read conditions from a .rules file after it reads a workflow from a .xoml file. What can I do The rule editors and related classes use the WorkflowDesignerLoader. They call the FileName property to get the "name" of your workflow file (I put name is quotes since you don't really have to have a file - you might be storing your workflow in a database. Then they call GetFileReader - passing in that name with .xoml or .cs with .rules (so if you pass back foo.xoml - they will pass foo.rules to GetFileReader). You return a TextReader. They they ...Show All

• .NET Development Hashtable and XmlSerializer

  Just a quick one for you; In Vs 2005 Beta 2 is it possible yet to serialize a hashtable property using the XmlSerializer. Thanks Graham You can always implement IXmlSerializable (now supported in .NET 2) and process the XML serialization actions yourself. Perhaps not what you'd want to do but I've used it to good effect. ...Show All

• SQL Server RDA oleDBConnectionString problem

  hi there, can anyone please show me an example of RDA oleDBConnectionString i was playing around with RDA, but i cant pull data with my connection string, with an error message failure to open SQL Server with given connct string. [ connect string = Data Source = JUN; Initial Catalog = SmartShopper; Integrated Security =True ] i need a sample of connection string to connect to SQL server 2005, i was using VB 2005 to deploy my project You need to specify a provider in the OleDb connection string. See http://www.connectionstrings.com/  for examples. But if you want to connect ...Show All