BillFugina's Q&A profile

• Visual C# C# DirectX help

  Am trying to make a 2d and i ran in to a lil problem how to go about doing this http://img107.echo.cx/img107/9109/untitled17tu.png If you are using tiles you would basicly be able to turn them on or off each frame if you like but leave the position defined, this would simulate turning them invisible. Mykre www.ircomm.net - Managed DirectX Game Programming ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot install SQL Server Express, keep getting errors

  I am trying to install SQL Server 2005 Express, but it fails. SQL Server Setup has detected incompatible components from Beta version of Visual Studio, .NETFramework or SQL Server 2005. Use Add or Remove to I had earlier installed Beta 2 Version of Dev Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2. I also had DevStudio 2003 and SQL Server installed. I have gone through and un-installed everything, but I keep getting this error. I have also tried msiexe ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms tip: use Spy++!

  I wanted to share a great little tip with all of you on how to debunk the inner workings of Windows controls. While .NET Windows Forms is a great library that makes creating forms very easy, there are limits to what you can do with Windows Forms. Luckily, it is just a wrapper around ancient technology, and we can still have a lot more control over the controls than you might think at first glance. Windows messages are still in the core of the . ...Show All

• System Center Multi-tiered enviroments planning for MOM 2005

  Will you be adding support for modeling multi-tiered environments thanks andy Hi Andy - we thought about it for v1, but it didn't make the cut. Here's my thinking on the pros and cons: Pro: It would be a great demo. I'm not aware of any other tools that can easily model multi-tiered environments. Con: It might require significant UI coding effort, since we'd probably have to add a "top-level" view that showed the tiers. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF Team question

  Hi Team, The current 'WCF documents' isn't good to create real application, so I don't know if it is possible, but .... I think that WCF Team create 'unit test' for code validation. Does WCF Team can 'share' your unit test Isn't necessary a 'compiled' version. With 'unit test' we don't need many documents to understand how to use WCF. It's better than 'examples'. Without it, we have two options : 1) Wait the final release of do ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Templates

  Hi Am I missing something here. In the last CTP I had access to both Agile and Formal templates, plus I could build my own. Having just installed Beta2 I only seem to have the option of Agile. I know that there are new things around CMMI due in the July CTP but wanted to check that I should only see Agile in Beta 2 Yes, that is correct. We have several partners that have stuff under development, so keep an eye out for third-party MSF ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Package Configurations with SQL Table

  Using package configurations, How can I use the configuration Type Sql Server and migrate the configuration from one database and server to another ...Show All

• Visual Basic Ordinary users can't update MDB files installed in same directory as app

  I'm using Windows Installer 3.1 to put my VB 2005 application on user machines. The destination folder is C:\Program Files\my company\my app\. The application uses an Access DB that I have been putting in the same folder. The application and data are to be accessible to all users and the DB needs to be able to accept new data and modifications. All is well as long as the user is a power user or administrator. Ordinary users sometimes find tha ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Pricing

     What are the price level on this product going to be Hi Nicolas, Windows Workflow Foundation is not a product. It's a technology which will be part of WinFX. WinFX is the managed code developer platform Windows Vista (the next version of Windows) and there is no additional charge for WinFX. Windows Workflow Foundation will also be available as the WinFX Runtime Components ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB6 Generating Lots of Network Traffic

  Hello all. I have a software written in VB6, running in about 80 machines at the same time. The EXEs are located in a file server, and all the machines run the software via a network share. The main EXE is about 3MB, and it uses a couple of ActiveX EXEs having about 200kb each. The problem is that anyone using this program is generating a massive network traffic. I've put a network sniffer and found out that the traffic is going through port 139 ...Show All

• .NET Development Data Access Application Block newbie question

  Hi, I have just downloaded the Enterprise Application Block library and been playing around with it. The part of this application that I am really interested in is the Data Access Application Block. Here is the question I have: I would like to connect to a database "on the fly". In other words, I have a database which holds connection information to different databases. Depending on the ApplicationID that is passed to my application, I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Publishing File Name Conventions

  Is it possible to alter the name of the being uploaded to my FTP site   I'm getting the following when I try to publish a simple program: Failed to copy file 'C:\VB\PrairieView 2005\PrairieView\bin\PrairieView.publish\PrairieView_1_0_0_0\My Project\Application.myapp.deploy' to 'ftp://upload.comcast.net/pv2005/PrairieView_1_0_0_0/My Project/Application.myapp.deploy'. Unable to add 'PrairieView_1_0_0_0/My Project/Application.myapp.de ...Show All

• SQL Server Report task?

  Hello, I'm not sure if this one should be in this forum. Anyway... I need to build some reports in MS Word format. Is there are any way to do that It can probably can be done in Reporting Services, but how I can merge these two tools in one project (solution) for example Thanks. Seems too complicated and there is definately lack of info how to do that on practice. But thanks anyway.  ...Show All

• SQL Server help me....

  hi everyone i got 2 questions plz 1- how to use the datadiff function ....plz write the code 2- is there a Trim function or statment that cuts the unneeded spaces before and after the word thanx ... Hi there, 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_da-db_5vxi.asp frame=true samples imcluded :-) 2. What do you mean by unneeded You can trail characters, by using the function which I wrote some time ago: CRE ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating custom prerequisite with ClickOnce

  I am creating a custom prerequisite. It has one setup.exe file (bootstrapper) and multiple MSIs. Setup.exe installs the MSI s from a different folder. So I can't just specify all the MSIs as package files in the package.xml file. I need to create the same folder structure with ClickOnce namely create a custom folder by the package.xml and put the MSI s under that specific file. Can I create custom folder using Package.xml and put the MSIs ...Show All