Hi
I am building an XNA 3.1 project in C# 2008 express.
The program is modified to open winforms, as it's a school application and offers lessons. Some of the lessons will be a little game (hence the XNA part).
The games are opened from the forms, in a new thread, and returns control to the form after the thread finishes.
Problem is that I store info for the students in an Access 2007 database file, which I added to the project using the "Add new data source" link.
If it's a normal winforms project, VS gives you the option to copy the file from the directory where it lies into the local project, and then it is part of the project. (LOCAL vs remote database).
Unfortunately, Microsoft thought it best to make this as difficult as possible when coding an XNA project, even if you CAN add winforms to your project.
Instead of just keeping the same functionality when you add a data source, it now only creates a schema for you, and still refer to the file in it's original position.
So obviously when I take my program to my workplace, the program crashes when I try to run it in debug mode, as it cannot find the file in the remote location. (which is my PC at home, of course)
How can I manually "force" the file to be part of the project?
This may be easy for you to solve, but the more I read up on .NET, VS and XNA, the more confused I become, LOL!
Please assist me!
I am building an XNA 3.1 project in C# 2008 express.
The program is modified to open winforms, as it's a school application and offers lessons. Some of the lessons will be a little game (hence the XNA part).
The games are opened from the forms, in a new thread, and returns control to the form after the thread finishes.
Problem is that I store info for the students in an Access 2007 database file, which I added to the project using the "Add new data source" link.
If it's a normal winforms project, VS gives you the option to copy the file from the directory where it lies into the local project, and then it is part of the project. (LOCAL vs remote database).
Unfortunately, Microsoft thought it best to make this as difficult as possible when coding an XNA project, even if you CAN add winforms to your project.
Instead of just keeping the same functionality when you add a data source, it now only creates a schema for you, and still refer to the file in it's original position.
So obviously when I take my program to my workplace, the program crashes when I try to run it in debug mode, as it cannot find the file in the remote location. (which is my PC at home, of course)
How can I manually "force" the file to be part of the project?
This may be easy for you to solve, but the more I read up on .NET, VS and XNA, the more confused I become, LOL!
Please assist me!
