Calebs Garage's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Latest DirectX SDK Update for Windows 2000?

  Hi guys, I wanted to update my SDK to the February update but it seems support for it has been dropped from Windows 2000. Is there plans to change this or is it going the way of the XP now Cheers. Thanks David, That's a shame, as I much prefer developing in a Windows 2000 environment, but no problem. Cheers for getting back to me so quickly. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Suprising performance increase

  Hello, I recently stumbled across a huge performance difference involving writing out a large hash table to a file.  The hashtable is holding a very simple object called Token, that holds a string value called token and a couple counters.  ToS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Sound player in VB.NET Compiler Beta2 2005 Express Edition

  Hi. Can someone tell me how to put a working sound player into the VB.NET 2005 Express Edition Beta2 I am having a little trouble, and I can't really figure out what it is. Is it a control If so, why isn't it in the Designer's Toolbox It wont work for me, it keeps asking to Convert the Files using Conversion Wizard. Do i need somthing, or am i missing somthing ...Show All

• Visual Basic Web Services...Really need help

  I have a VS.Net 2K5 project. I need to know if it is possible to add a webservice to an application at run time. If it's not possible how do you change a web references URL and tell it to re-connect. Any examples for 2K5 would be a great healp. I've found lots and lots of samples for 2K3, but web references have changed a lot since then. Hi!  Generating a web service proxy - even in asp.net 2.0, requires a ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS service does not start

  Hi I recently installed SQL 2005 . The install proceeded well, but Analysis services service cannot be started on to the machine. When i try to start the service via Configuration manager I recieve and error "An error occured while performing this operation" I have tried to reinstall the product , but that did not help Thanks Sumeet **I'm moving this thread to the AS forum. Take a look ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report Server Windows Service login failed

  Hello all, I am trying to install TFS application tier and it keeps failing because of "cannot connect to report server database" I have dual server setup and TFS database installed fine on sql server. I tried couple of times with different accounts and it still keeps failing and saying that it cannot connect to report server database. During the installation setup I get the following error message: Error 29105. Team Foundat ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to support Exception Assistant

  I want to support an exception assistant to COBOL Exceptions. How can it support It seems that it has realized by putting an XML file on the   ExceptionAssistantContent folder of an IDE folder about the standard exception for Visual Studio. Best Regards. Hi Shinya, it appears that ExceptionAssistant is supported for VB.NET, C#, and J#.  I do not see any extensibility points to add languages. ...Show All

• SQL Server equivalent of SQL Server 2000 full-text search service in SQL 2005?

  What is the equivalent of the SQL Server 2000 Full-Text Search Service in SQL 2005 I need to know cos i got a forum app implementing this in SQL 2000 but my company is using SQL 2005 Enterprise.  cos i cannot find this option in sql 2005..... Looks like this slipped through the cracks - apologies. Yes, Full-Text Search is in SQL Server 2005. from SP1 onwards, its also in SQL Server 2005 Express Ed ...Show All

• Visual C++ cfiledialog

  How can I use in cfiledialog only the network without the other buttons hide all of them So you mean the places bar on the left side Search in google for "places bar" and AFAIK customizing this by a program is a mess. Also I heard roumours that the behaviour and managment of this places bar will change in future versions of windows, so any program that uses the current hacks will be incompatible in furture. AFAIK there are ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Location of Perforator tool?

  I can 't seem to find the Perforator tool in the WinFX September CTP.  It is not "under the Tools submenu of the main SDK Start menu item" as mentioned in the WinFX SDK Documentation .  Is it available for download somewhere Thanks,  Dan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bottommost window

  I know there is an option to make the window the toppmost but not bottommost. Is there a way to keep the window at the bottom throught the API or something I am not sure what more details to give. All I have right now is a plain form designer project, I haven't added anything to it yet and my first step is getting it to stay behind all other windows. Please tell me if there is something else you need to know. ...Show All

• .NET Development Convert Web services to COM+

  Hi Guys,  I have an exisiting web services, now i need to convert it into COM+, meaning this COM+ will expose the webservices. How to do that  Is there any work around for this Does anyone have the detailed steps to achieve this. Thank You regards... Please consider using the APIs in the System.EnterpriseServices namespace:     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconwriti ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error Created when opening beta 1 file in beta 2

  How to solve this error i have save the file in beta 1 and when i upgrade to beta 2 I have this following error can some one please help me on this Error 1 Type 'System.Windows.Forms.WindowsFormsApplicationBase' is not defined.  Error 2 'AuthenticationMode' is not a member of 'Forms'.  Error 3 'ShutdownMode' is not a member of 'Forms'.  Option Strict On Option Explicit On Namespace My ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding ComboBox and DataTable including a None entry.

  Hello. We would like our customers to select a country, but it is not required. Thus, the top-most entry shall be "<None>". We read the countries from our database and bind the DataTable to the ComboBox. How do we go about adding a None entry to the ComboBox We can't add a None row to the DataTable or DataView. Is there a property on the ComboBox I'm missing or something Cheers, Chris ...Show All

• Smart Device Development some question of datagrid in .netCF.

  I have three question of datagrid in .net compact framework. first, How do I freeze the first colum of a datagrid when I scroll HScrollBar of the datagrid Just like Excel do work second,How do I use AlternatingBackColor of DataGridTableStyle in datagrid in .net compact framework third, How do I specify each colum width of datagrid according the maximal length of the colum That's all. Can anyone help me Thank you very much. Than ...Show All