cgraus's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. making graphics for ur games?

  will XNA come with a graphics maker like MAYA If not, can someone give me links to what software to download to make graphics for my games thank you XNA Game Studio Express does not include any tools to create graphics for your game, it will ship with the XNA Framework Content Pipeline which helps you consume those in your games. There are some tools listed on theZBuffer at http://www.thezbuffer.com/categories/tools.aspx and you can use just about anything to create your 2D art. Thanks! ...Show All

• SQL Server Understanding update statistcs

  Hi, i'm study the static updates resource for improve plan queries... About seletivity, for example: a table with a column salary: $ 1000,00 $ 1000,00 $ 1000,00 $ 5000,00 $ 3500,00 $ 3500,00 In the histogram: the frequency of $1000 is 3 and 3500 is 2 5000 is 1 And then if a predicate is table.salary > 500 the sort of tests with this predicate is the first the columns equals to 1000 thus frequency is 3, and after the rows with salary = 3500 and so on... It's is correct Hello, R. I think you're on the right track. The idea is that the optimizer can find a spot in that histogram to try to approximate how many rows will be returned by data, even accounting for the effects of the ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro _Genxtab Reporting (My mistake - Not Genxref)

  This is the corrected post... I have mistaken _Genxtab with _Genxref - Sorry. Hi all; I am planning some repoting on cursors generated with _genxtab. Obviously the generated cursor is dynamic and the number of fields is unknown during design time. I was wondering if there are any ideas out there to handle this. Right now all I can think of is to generate a single report where in the detail band I put a single field with "thisform.makeline()" which is a function generating a single line out of the multiple fields. There are some problems with that including problems with having report totals. I have a feeling that VFP9 offers better solutions to this problem, and I would love to know the secret if any. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions key confused

  I am trying to make a project in which when i press a key on my keyboard ( let's say the z key ) it adds plus 1 to a variable ( lets say the variable's name is runningCount ). Can someone help me. Thanks. well it depends on which control you wish to monitor this key. Generally speaking, you would implement the keydown event. The keydown event will be fired when the key has been pressed on the control that implements this keyevent. Then check to see if key z was pressed, if so, increment the variable. for simplicity sake, lets implement the keydown event on the form. View the form in designer view and view its events (lightning symbol in properties) and double click the KeyDown event. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XmlDataProvider.Document = null does not unwire internal XmlNodeChange events

  I keep getting NullReference exceptions after setting my XmlDataProvider.Document = null while still accessing the XmlDocument. The stack trace points at an Unhook() method of the XmlDataProvider as being the cause of the problem. It looks like XmlNodeChanged events are still firing inside the XmlDataProvider even though the Document property has been set to null. How do I workaround this problem Is there a way to get rid of the wire node changed events dotnetfx 3.0 July CTP ...Show All

• SQL Server Anyone written an end user guide to using the Reportbuilder?

  For those using the ReportBuilder, has anyone put together any sort of end-user guides to getting started with the tool I'm not referring to articles and docs written from the perspective of introducing the tool and feature set to developers and DBAs but rather something we could all then give our end users when they first start using the tool to build and run reports. I realize there's lots (and lots) of online help within the tool, but we all know that some users never read that. Again, I'm thinking of something ranging from a 1-2 page quick intro to the use and features, to perhaps even a several page guide. Even if someone's written one for their company and so it's branded as such, if you're open to sharing it, I won't mind rebr ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro CHM Help in VFP9

  Hi All, We have an application that we recently upgraded from VFP 8 to VFP 9. The transition was smooth except that the help file of the application is not working in VFP 9. I have made sure that FOXHHELP9.exe and FOXHHELPPS9.dll are included in the installer. After doing some research on the web, I read a comment on http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll Wiki~VFP9RuntimeFiles which only says: foxhhelp9.exe /regserver When we type thi command at the cmd prompt, it fixes the problem. However, this is not the solution our users want to see. Can you please let me know the reason for having to type this command, and is there a way I can avoid going this route Thanx, Bini You could also use the free Inno Installer to ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL my final Straw

  I am having a bad time with a join, what I am trying to do is get the details of a customer into a data grid. The problem is that the on info available is a booking ID which is linked to the customer table. "SELECT tblCustomer.[customerID], tblCustomer.[firstname], tblCustomer.[surname] FROM tblCustomer WHERE tblBooking.[bookingID] =" & bookingref, myConnection) This is what I have so far. Please any help you may be able to give I would be great full for. Kind Regards Graham Field which you put in the where clause, should also appear in the FROM clause. So you should at least mention the tblBooking in the FROM clause. There are 2 ways af making a join between 2 tables. Select * from table1, table2 where table1.ID = tab ...Show All

• Windows Forms saving values and refreshing in datagridview

  I have a datagridview in which I am 1) changing values 2) I want these changed values to show in the datagridview 3) use these changed values from the grid to go back and perform 1) and 2) again on other values in the gridview but do not save the changes to db yet. when do i need to endedit on the underlying binding source how often would I need to refresh the gridview, and endedit on the datagridview   Thanks Nik   I found the answer kinda: Anytime I make changes to the datagridview, and want to use the changed cell values for another operation; I have to focus on another cell, and then come back to focus on the current cell. This refreshes the datagridview(I could ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Several simple questions from a beginner

  hi there: I am a beginner in the visual c++ 2005 and in visual c++ 6.0, and i would like some help in the following questions: 1.- If in the express edition of visual c++ 2005 you don't have support for MFC,ATL. Then how do you work with databases . In the program you can connect to access and sql database. Then what about the other drivers like dBase,VisualFox,Text files etc. that in the ODBC Administrator of may machine I have . How can i use them 2.- I see that the Tool Box has the Masked Edit Control. Does anybody knows how to make this control behave like a calculator . What i mean is that in the calculator you click the numbers and display from rigth to left; until that point no problem, next in the calculator, you click th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO and AVG...HEEELP!

  Hi, today I've installed the AVG antivirus...I knew that it used to install a plugin for Outlook, but I choosed to not install it... However...my plugin stopped to work! And I've no idea why!! I tried to disable the Personal Email Scanner, reinstall the plugin, anything, ANYTHING...nothing works anymore :((((((( None of my Outlook plugins works...has anyone experienced something like that ! ! Has anyone solved it! ! ! Please, I cannot work anymore without my plugin...even starting it through VS doesn't work! I've already written top the AVG forum, but I'm hoping to find here anyone with my same experience...and maybe someone who has solved this problem :(((((((((( Thank you LastHope Solved, but the solution is in this thread...I hope ...Show All

• .NET Development Merging custom config files

  I am loading a custom configuration file at runtime using ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration. I would like to be able to specify a MachineConfigFilename as well as the ExeConfiguration filename. This is so my client can create a "machine" config with most of the fixed settings and then specify a custom config at the command line. I know that when using a normal app.config settings from machine.config get effectively "merged" - with potentially app.config overriding some. Is it possible to achieve a similar behaviour using OpenMappedExeConfiguration or OpenMappedMachineConfiguration I've tried both but can't seem to get the "merge" to happen... OK - I manage ...Show All

• .NET Development How to identify stack unwind due to an exception?

  I would like to know in a Dispose() method of a stack allocated object whether it is being disposed due to an exception that is unhandled in that stack-frame or from normal stack deallocation. e.g. class T : IDisposable { void Dispose() { if (IsException()) System.Console.WriteLine("Exception"); else System.Console.WriteLine("Return"); } } which can distinguish between: using (T t = new T()) { return; } and using (T t = new T()) { throw new Exception(); } I have looked in StackFrame, StackTrace, AppDomain, GC, CurrentThread, ExecutionContext for relavent state information but I just can't find any. Help! Many thanks, Duncan ...Show All

• SQL Server need help with taking data from a card reader and storing it into SQL Server 2005

  I'm using a Hemisphere West MSR-152 card reader. I need to take data from the reader and store it into SQL Server 2005 Express. Can anyone give ideas on how to do this (sample code recommendations). I'm using visual studio 2005 express and I code with VB.NET. Hi, you wil either have to use the nedors API for accessing the reader or code the adressing of the reader on your own. After getting the data it should be quite easy for you sending the data to SQL Server. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista running the workflow designer multiple times.

  I'va build an application that is based on the workflow designer lab. in the original sample, and so is in my code, once the user has clicked the run button (which executes the workflow) the button goes disabled. I've been trying to go pass this constraint, but it seems to be a difficult task because once you have run the workflow instance, the dll is held up in the current process and executing the compile() method again, results with the exeption that the customworkflow.dll is is use and can not be written to. I think this feature is a must in the designer user interface, but i cant get it to work. i've tried to seperate the execution into two threads but the dll was still on the air. did somebody encouter this issue ca ...Show All