TSCR's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDXInfo Tutorials

  Hi, I posted this same list on a couple other forums without any replies. Eventually I ended up submitting my own first example and of course it gets marked as resolved. Plegh! Like a number of other beginner's to game programming, I am having a difficult time deconstructing the Microsoft examples. They always throw in the whole kitchen sink! I would like to see some very rudimentary code samples which each do one simple thing. The Di ...Show All

• .NET Development Question about Timer in VB 2005 Express

  I had attempted to write a simple timer program which would start counting up from 0 to infinity grouping the time spent in Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, and Tenths of Seconds.  After coding a program that I had thought worked fine, I tested it against the Windows clock.  Unfortunately, I've noticed that timer I coded using the Timer1_Tick event seemed to running slowly compared to the Windows Timer.  I would attribute this to t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Great article, but a question to David Guyer

  Read this rticle on sql express and Click once it should be an anouncement i believe http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/EmSQLExCustApp.asp I believe you did not write that article but maybe you can answer this question: assume that on version 1.0.1 i publish the application and the user install it and create the db as in the article. Then i publish a version 1.0.2 with db changes, but the user ...Show All

• .NET Development How is performance affected by calling a 1.1 assembly from 2.0 service?

  When / how frequently does the 1.1 runtime have to load Surely not with each call to the service Hi Brad, I'm going to move this post to the Common Language Runtime web forum where I think they will be able to better answer your question. Daniel Roth ...Show All

• Visual Studio adding new colum without affecting existing report

  hi, Already i've prepared crystal report for my apps. working good. Now i added new column into the database table and want to show it in a crystal report. If i use report expert again, then whatever the format that i've designed (boxes,lines..)before r collapsed. I could able to update with "Verify database".it was successful. but i don't see the new column in the report.Ofcourse i need to add it. How to add a new column into the c ...Show All

• Windows Forms combobx in data grid

  hi how can i add combobx to my data grid  i have grid with data on customer so for 1 customer i need to show: name  phone list of point in the state that CITY that he have (the combobx in the grid) do you have a ready grid that t ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error C2659

  Is nobody else besides me getting the error c2659 either I've looked all over Microsoft.com and Msn.com and I can't find any support on it! The Forums are the only place now that can help me with this error. Why would Microsoft create an error code and not have any support on it at all Take a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8t03ksxc.aspx Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005RC Fails to Install

  I'm having a problem getting to install the RC.  First problem is the uninstall tool failed to uninstall my VS2005Beta2.  The log file is filled with "Product {GUID} is not installed" followed by a failure.  When reading through the log it states it's "Starting fix for {BB69B4AB-619E-487f-B0C2-5ACD1AE5A9A0}.... Issue name is Uninstall Visual Studio Components" MSIEXEC /x {BB69B4AB-619E-487f-B0C2-5ACD1AE5A9A0} also fails due to pro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Invisible text in MessageBox (using VB .NET 2003)

  I am using VB .NET 2003 to do my developing.  Over the past year or so as i have honed my skills, one thing is getting incresingly annoying.  Sometimes when I am testing a theory and want a message box to show the error text or a success message, the message text allocates the right amount of space, it is just invisible. The text on the MessageBox's OK button is invisible too. The caption on the MessageBox shows fin ...Show All

• SQL Server Configuration for SQL 2000

  Hi, What configuration steps should I do to enable my .NET web application to access my SQL 2000 database I have SQL Server 2000 SP3, SQL 2005 Express, SQL 2005 and VS 2005 installed on the same machine. Is it anything to do with the NT Authority\Network Service or ASPNET account that I need to allow access to or what Kinda lost here... been banging my server for the past week. Cheers! There are several o ...Show All

• Windows Forms deploying j# runtime quietly

  Hello, i want to create a deployment project in vs2003 for a j# project which automaticaly installs the j#-runtime if it isn't installed on the clients mashine. i already done this with a launch condition. the launch condition forces to run a .bat file which starts the j#-runtimeinstallation and at finish, restarts the .msi again. i want to get rid of the uggly dos-window which pop up when running the .bat file. it would b ...Show All

• Visual C++ Resource editor bug?

  Hello everybody! This is my first post here (sorry for my english) I have resource file shared in more than one solution. I VC++6, and VS2003 there was no problem to edit this file in resource editor. In VS2005 I cannot save this file, and there is no Dialog Editor items in Toolbox also. Any ideas Marek Hello Brian, I also have the same problem in a C++ solution. The solution was migrated from VC++ 6.0 to VS ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading a string from binary file results in "string

  I sure hope I can get help with this. I seem to have a simple problem. I wrote an entire program without a single problem with Visual Basic 2005 Express but now I'm having a little trouble. When I read string data from a binary file I get "string (no closing quote) This presents a problem when I do a string comparison or when I try to put string1 and string2 on the same index line of a listbox. (You only see string1). I've tried so many di ...Show All

• SQL Server cant access report manager options

  Hi friends i installed sql server 2005 standard edi with reporting services on win2003 server. i can open report manager page in IE but i cant access anything i mean report builder,upload file link option etc., they are disabled for some reason. Yes i went to site settings(interestingly i can access this !!) and gave all rights i see there to the user but no avail. interestingly i can access all options from IIS manager ! any ideas how to fix th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Possible 32000 and 26105 error solutions

  During multiple attempts to install the Team Foundation Server we encountered the 32000 and the 26105 errors repeatedly.   In the end our problems were trivial and may help some of you encountering these same errors.   1)       Problem : Using WinIso to extract the DVD image files :   We were downloading the ISO images from MSDN and were extracting them for the install.   D uring the S ...Show All