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CCs are never written to the hard drive. If your local law enforcment wants to follow up and make a request for information on the box in question that may help locate the thief if they hook up the box and turn it on. Sadly, it's often difficult to get law enforcment to make such a request...

Direct from the owner of Xbox Live policy: Here is the to do: If your Xbox 360 is stolen you should first consider recovering your Gamertag to another Xbox 360. This will prevent the thieves (or the people the thieves sell the Xbox to) from using your account. You will be able to recover...

Find another xbox and recover your live accounts onto that; it'll prevent the thief from purchasing things on your account. File a police report. There is a point of contact that the police can use for requesting information on a stolen Xbox, but IIRC, such information can only be released...

FYI, the support guys are doing some retraining to try and prevent this type of social engineering: http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/03/23/xbox-live-security-update.aspx

Just don't give out your personal information. and after reading their quote, remember take thing you read on the web with a bit of salt http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/03/21/543163.aspx

We're still in the process of putting together a new resource site (http://creators.xna.com/) but there is already some useful info there. As far as languages go, there's only one supported language, C#. I've seen people get code up and running in F# and managed C++, on both the PC and...

Frank was running that on a dev kit, and those have always come with 60GB drives. BTW, the final 1.0 release was put up on live and MSDN a couple hours ago: http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/xna/gse/ :)

Works for me:string str = "dobedobedo... Title=\"Test Page\" huh?"; Console.WriteLine(Regex.Match(str, "Title=\"(.*)\"").Groups[1]); So, lets look at what you're doing: this: Regex.Match(S, @"Title="".*""") means: find a substring in S bounded on the left by Title=" followed by any...

So you have something like: MyAspNetApp calls MyAspNetHelperlibrary calls MyDbWrapperLibrary It's just a matter of creating a StackTrace and walking that, looking at the Assembly that each stack frame comes from. Why are you trying to do this though? Changing behavior based on the...

Yup, references tell the compiler what to bind the code against. The using statements just import namespaces, but a given namespace can span multiple libraries, or there can be multiple alternate implementations of a given namespace.

I haven't used web\load tests within VSTT, but normally when tests are added to a solution, a vsmdi file is automatically added to the solution. The vsmdi file is a list of tests that you want to run, so you can enable\disable them or keep them organized in different lists. So check the...

Finally got a chance to play, and I'd have to say I like it. For me it's somewhere between FF7 (linear story, shared tech\magic, artistic world), and Gladius (grid combat). It's running @720 on my display, and it looks nice to me. There are plenty of active effects on the walls and other...

Been following this one for a while, as it's supposed to be a bit of a throwback to older RPGs, just what I've been looking for. Just haven't gotten a chance to pick it up and try it. :|

No prob... CAS is a real thing of beauty to paranoid computer security people everywhere :). But it does require some reading to use it properly.

That’s the standard disclaimer, Microsoft shouldn't be liable for information and help that I provide on my own time. In this case though, it’s not personal opinion, many of my coworkers are at http://www.microsoftgamefest.com/ right now doing presentations on the XNA Framework and Express...

Windows has user permissions (like the permission to debug other users processes); The file system has ACL\ACE permissions (like read\write\delete), which are separate; .NET has CAS which is an additional security layer beyond user or file system permissions. Code Access Security (CAS)...

This first release is to get things started, and as such it's really focused on getting the basic tools in place for creating cross Xbox\PC games with managed code. That also means this first release has no way to publish games up on Xbox Live, so don't worry about the quality of Arcade games...

.NET has a partial trust system that can restrict the actions a program can take (like spawning off a new process or calling into native libraries that can alter the OS environment). The default security policy is to only fully trust applications that are on the local computer. So when an app...

Indeed. The only requirement is that the PC or device have a UPnP server running that can serve up the media. I use the Windows XP Media Connect from the Xbox site, but if you are running a different OS (like linux\Mac) there are other UPnP implementations out there...

For ASPX, shared connection strings should be handled a bit differently... A couple quick links that should help: http://www.asp.net/QuickStart/aspnet/doc/management/retrieve.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/05/ExtremeASPNET/default.aspx...

The cost isn't for a key, there's no way to "buy" another key, beta OSes expire after a while. The cost is for the media and shipping, if you don't need the media, you can download the disk image and burn it onto a dvd. All time limited demo\trials\betas have the expiration info listed...

Only one MCE system is need. One MCE system can connect to many (5?) displays systems through extenders. When it comes to extenders, there are three options, a standalone device that can be purchased, an extender add-on to the original Xbox, or an Xbox 360 (which has it built in). So you...

You already know what an ArrayList looks like. It stores a list of objects. While that's useful, it also means converting objects once you take them out of the List. What if you could say you wanted an ArrayList to work only with objects of a certain type, like a Record, and have the...

The picture and music streaming doesn't require any particular OS, it only requires that the sharing machine have UPnP. While its easiest on Windows, there's no reason you can't install a third party UPnP system on another OS.

I would like to point out one more thing, cheating in competitive gaming; on the PC it is impossible to prevent someone from examining \ altering game state to their advantage. While games are designed to make this type of thing difficult, it’s always going to be possible.

Alternatively, E3 is next week, so if you wait a few days, you'll be able to make a more informed decision based on what's comming out.

You might check the built in reg command, it allows you to add entries into the registry of remote machines that you have admin rights to. > reg add /?

Nope, I'll be hard at work back at HQ, but i'm sure plenty of my coworkers are going :P

Level 53 it would seem Each major skill starts at 25 (if you avoid specializing in any of them), meaning you can earn 75*7= 525 skill points in major skills. So you can gain 52 levels, and if you start at level 1...

Right after using the arrow of extrication and walking through the door, I find 15 guards that are running around killing each other. I just sat there in the corner and watched... That was an odd sight.

I hit the stuck skill issue as well, but it;s not really an issue. From all indications the skill appears stuck, but it really isn't. I know I got a +5 merchantile and then that skill was seemingly stuck for a long time. After I earned those five levels normally, the skill un-stuck and...

As said above, this isn't the case, it;s 128GB. reference: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/overviews/tech_benefits.mspx However, even that isn't the whole story. Internally, the system can use 256TB of virtual memory, however there is a hardware reason as to why user...

I think this is it: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\user.dmp

IIRC, there is some interaction between a web part and a web part zone, so no container can be placed between them unless it's a web part itself (and I don't know that one web part can host another web part). Making a web part that is a panel, and having dynamic child controls that emulate...

Which line throws the exception? (turn on first chance exception traping in the debug menu, and if required, remove the debugger attribute or disable "Just my code" from tools->options->debugger) I assume it's the point or size constructor, but knowing which one might be of use. Which...

There is still something doing bad things though, but I'm not sure I could get more info without trying to debug the dump file (and I'm no expert in that). If you really need to figure out what's going, Ranma_Sao might be willing to help. He's another user here on the forums that is better at...

To expand on that... The easiest option is to compile the app as managed C++ and directly call int the framework like "new System::Windows::Forms::Form()" and so one. This also means your resulting binary has a direct dependency on the .NET framework. Alternatives would be to expose an...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314482

Try trading out drivers for different versions. That error means that execution jumped to a part of memory that was data, not executable instructions. It's a feature in most CPUs and OSes (but was absent from x86) to prevent buffer\heap overrun attacks against a system. Getting that error...

While I see it the other way around (many plugins don't support 64bit), I can offer a bit more info. 32bit mode is a per-process thing. Either a process is native 64bit, or it's 32bit and runs on WoW. Plugins are loaded into the IE process... So 64bit IE can load 64bit plugins and 32bit IE...