francedic's Q&A profile

• Smart Device Development Can somebody help me please ? !

  I am trying tu run Tom Tom navigator ( navigation software )from the emulator but the emulator doesn't detect my gps device wich is connected to my pc via usb but through a bridge on com 1 (or whatever com i want it to be) In Device Emulator, you can bind Serial Ports on Device Emulator with the COM ports on the PC. May be you want to try to bind to one of the Serial Port on Device Emulator to COM port on PC and then try. (Use Device Emulator->File->Config->Peripherals for binding it). Hope this helps. -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Confused about transformation pipeline...

  Hi, I'm writing a simple 3D engine. It's my first attempt at this so I apologize in advance if I seem new at this. ( I am. ) I'm having trouble understanding the order of things when transforming the vertex buffers. I read some articles about frames (frame of reference), but I'm not able to grasp how a single frame (screen buffer) is rendered in terms of the order that each frames (frame of reference) is transformed. Say I have a simple planetary system involving a sun and another planet orbiting around it. Both the sun and the planet rotates on it's own axis with the planet also moving around the sun in a circular motion. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is the 2.0 Framework required on the deployment server?

  I'm in the process of deploying a Smart Client application via our Windows 2003 servers.  Are we required to install the 2.0 Framework on the servers from which the application will be installed   I believe the answer is "yes", but I just want to make sure. TIA D'oh!  Figured it out.  Stupid mistake.  I had been adding the MIME types to the Default website.  I needed to go down to the lowest level application and add them at that level.  That fixed it.  For those of you who still need this information though, the answer is here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=17026&Site ...Show All

• Windows Forms Messaging.asmx

  Setup a new server on a win2k Box with MSSQL2k but can't seem to get it functioning. First install blew with system.io.exception File not found so I had to do a manual config. Stumbled around and finally found the very helpful previous thread about manual instal steps Thankyou Garth. Anyway currently the client is stating "Unable to Verify this Version is E ...Show All

• .NET Development simple udp client sample C# code

  Dear all, Can anyone please send me a code for simple udp client in C# using without asynchronous blocking mtds So that I can check if mine is wrongly written.. Thanks so much. Regards, sieweng totally cant pinpoint error in my program.. This is a good place to start : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconsocketcodeexamples.asp I beleive it only has TCP samples, but modifying them to use UDP should not be too much work.  If you have any questions about how to do that, please let us know. ...Show All

• .NET Development Windows App Not working over Network

  I've got a windows app that connects to a DB and copies a few files from a network share to the local PC. The app is ran on the network share because everybody in our company uses it and when modifications are made, we don't want to have to redistribute 50 or so copies of the .exe. Every time I run the program from the network, I get a standard Windows error and Microsoft wants me to send them the information, it doesn't get too involved other than that. BUT if I run the app from the desktop of the Network box then it runs fine. The network share can see the database and connect to it, so I know it's not that. It must have something to d ...Show All

• SQL Server Nulls when summing a group in an expression

  Hi guys, I know this has been discussed before, but not in a way that solves this particular problem. I have some data in a table that is grouped by rows, but when i sum the fields in the group i am getting an error because one of the grouped rows contains a null. Now when i have a one to one relationship between a dataset field and a table cell, checking for a null is easy. But how do you do it when you have several fields that are being summed for that table cell In this particular case, i have a work around - there are only two data rows per row group (paid revenue, and unpaid revenue), so i can check them individually for nulls ...Show All

• Visual C# Process

  Ok. In a button_click event, I start a Process to run a program on my desktop. And in another click event the Process method is supposed to start a different program on my desktop. But when I try to run it, I get the error message saying that the Process is already in use. Can someone tell me how to fix this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) the Distinct method puzzle me so much!

  hi all. first see below code please: Northwind _nt = new Northwind (_connectionstring); var _custs = ( from _c in _nt. Customers ,_e in _nt. Employees where _c.City == _e.City select _e.EmployeeID).Distinct(); According to Intellisense , the Distinct method is form as IEnumerable<T> Distinct<T>(), not exists a Disinct() form ,why i can invoke the Distinct method in not generic form thank. Distinct is an Extension Method (a new construct in C# 3.0). The extension methods take a type as the first parameter. The interesting thing about them is that the type can be omitted and the ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error of calling web service from pocket pc 2003 emulator in VS 2005!!!

  I just migrated a smart device(pocket pc 2003) solution from VS 2003 to VS 2005. After converted and built successfully, the web service could be access directly by viewing in IE. there are several oeprations inside the web service and I tested each of them by accessing from local machine. No problem at all. But when I run the pocket PC project on emulator, a web exception comes out. The error is "Could not establish connection to network." I did several tests and found out that I can't even call the "HelloWorld" operation(which comes by default in every web service) from my pocket PC project. Initially i th ...Show All

• Windows Forms where can I find Microsoft.Office Namespace?

  Hi I am trying to outputting some data stored in a grid to a file,  I tried to put them in CSV put it did not work the way I wanted,  I looked for a different solution and I found some samples using Microsoft.Office namespace to output data into MS-Office format files,  I tried to locate this namespace in order to use it but&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server access SQL2005 MOBILE database in a VS2003 mobile app

  It is possible to access a Sql Server 2005 Mobile database in a VS2003 application (compact framework) Thanks Robson Not via managed provider, no. You might be able to P/Invoke, but that’s not an easy task. ...Show All

• Visual C# move to c#

  Hi, I have been asked to convince the IT director that we should really be moving to c# instead of vb.net Any tips on this particular topic please Thanks Hi! Wrong idea from the start - C# & VB.NET is the same things. Just different syntax (personally I like C# much more). So technically they are the same. Also .NET is environment where C# & VB & C++ & J# programmers can work together, just in separate assemblies. For me, C# is preferrable. Most people in VB or newbies in C# do not know what is behind designers or copy/paste programming, but they believe they can do great stuff. Most professi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Evil Error Link 2005 problem on release configuration; Debug config works great!?!

  Hey everyone, I have the following issue: I am not able to build a release version of my app, although building a debug one works great. So I looked up error 2005 and it said to put libcmt.lib & nafxcw.lib in the ignore directive... WHICH i DID (results of ignoring libcmt.lib & nafcw.lib, but still adding them to additioanl linker depdendcies) Here a choice selection of the more than 200 errors: LIBCMT.lib(invarg.obj) : error LNK2005: __initp_misc_invarg already defined in Libcmtd.lib(invarg.obj) LIBCMT.lib(invarg.obj) : error LNK2005: __invoke_watson already defined in Libcmtd.lib(invarg.obj) LIBCMT.lib(invarg.obj) : error LNK2005: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual C++ crashes on exit

  Visual C++ express edition always crashes when I exit the IDE under certain conditions. Does anyone sees this It might be related that I have a solution containing 46 projects The only thing I installed with VC++ is the platform SDK, so this is a pretty clean install. I think the mininum thing I can do is: * start the IDE. * run "build", waits for it to be finished. * click on the "X" to close the window (exit the IDE) ==> the IDE crashes. this is on Windows XP pro SP2 with all updates. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 ...Show All