Jourdan's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. kW X-port for 3ds Max 9 (X file exporter with XNA support)

  I have made a preliminary version of the kW X-port plug-in available for Max 9. The full Max 9 download from Autodesk is almost 3 GB and is still going, so I haven't been able to test it yet -- it's just re-compiled with their new SDK. I give it a good 90% chance of working fine, though :-) The version for Max 8 has been tested, of course, and is still available. It might work as far back as Max 6, because they are apparently version compatible from 6 through 8, but I have only tested on 8. kW has some features that might help with XNA usage, such as support for the Max Direct3D9 material with shader parameters; support for mirroring along Z and mirroring the V coordinate ; support for properly exported skinned meshes even if ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. problem with "your first game: Microsoft XNA game studio express in 2d" tutorial

  Hey, i just started using the xna game studio express beta 2 today and i decided to try out the tutorial. I thought i did everything correctly but when i debug it, it gives me an error for the line " spritebatch = new SpriteBatch (graphics.GraphicsDevice);" it says "InvalidOperationException was unhandled" and im not really sure what to do. any help with fixing this would be greatly appreciated, thanks. I am having the exact same problem with my game I am working on. and i have absolutely no idea how to check my graphics card. can you help me out here Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development Best way to create multiline T-SQL in .NET?

  Hello, What is the best way to create multiline T-SQL commands in .NET besides just concatenating a bunch of strings together Thanks Tom Hi Matt, Thanks for taking time to reply to this question. Yes, I was hoping that there was some way of using multi-line SQL that I had overlooked. I looked briefly at LINQ, but it did not seem to have a way to support multi-line SQL either. I guess I will have to do the hard way for now. Thanks, Tom ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office "the supplied application manifest is not valid"

  Everything was working perfectly on my server and then all of a sudden (after installing Microsft's hotfix for VSTO), things starting to screw up. When i publish a VSTO doc to a folder on the desktop or on C:/ drive - with full trust permissions, it works fine. But when i publish it in other places it doesn't work (messagebox no longer appears) - note that i always give full trust permissions to each & every folder that i publish to. and then when i create a virtual directory for my desktop folder and attempt to browse to my VSTO doc from there, it says: "the supplied application manifest is not valid". anybody have an idea how to get over this thank you Hi, Have you gone through ...Show All

• .NET Development Appending data to a XML file

  I would like to update a current XML file with updated data. I want it to look like this: < xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='ErrorLog.xsl' > <ErrorLog> <HeaderText>Error Handling Log</HeaderText> <Mapping> <DateTime>7/1/2006 2:31:07 AM</DateTime> <ErrorLocation>cmdTest_Click()</ErrorLocation> <ErrorDescription>Error in here</ErrorDescription> <ErrorNumber>429</ErrorNumber> </Mapping> <Mapping> <DateTime>7/1/2006 2:31:07 AM</DateTime> <ErrorLocation>cmdTest_Click()</ErrorLocation> <ErrorDescription>Error in here</ErrorDescription> <ErrorNumber>429</ErrorNumber> < ...Show All

• SQL Server Different file save location when used as a scheduled job than in VS2005

  I have an SSIS package that I created that looks like the following: Execute SQL Task [Determines the file name] Data Flow Task Source - Query [Grabs the data] Destination [Saves data to file on network drive] Send Mail Task [Tells user to get file from network] When I run this package inside Microsoft Visual Studio I get the results I want. It sends the file to the network drive and because there are SSN's in the file, it doesn't actually e-mail the file but puts it in a secure location for the person to get the file. When I schedule this in SQL Server 2005 I get the file saved to: c:\windows\system32\dynamicfilename.csv So somehow it is still able to determine what the file name should be, but instead of sending the f ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Device Disposed? (Multiple-Monitors)

  When I drag my game window across from one monitor to another it seems as though this is disposing and recreating a new device (and playing havoc with all my code). Is this supposed to happen How do I handle this Yes this is correct. When you move between monitors the device needs to be disposed and recreated. If you are interested in hooking when that happens, look at the GraphicsComponent.DeviceDisposing and GraphicsComponent.DeviceCreated events. The pattern is that you should load your resources (or at least your graphics resources) in a function and calling that function from the handlers for Game.Starting and GraphicsComponent.DeviceCreated. If you are using default pool resources, you might be ...Show All

• SQL Server Switching Databases in ADO.NET

  Hi If I have a connection open which is in database master, can I switch to another database within that connection without having to close the connection and recreating it Thanks Steve Hi, if the connection is open you can issue the USE <Databasename> command to change the database. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO Recordset Getting Closed in C#

  Hi, I am working with ADO / C# and am encountering a problem where I get an error: "Operation is Not Allowed When Object is Closed", when trying to access a recordset. I am making a stored procedure call ("GetNextCustNo"). The stored procedure updates a key table and then returns the next unique key value. The code below calls the stored procedure. If I change the stored procedure so it doesn't update the table, ie it's a straight select query there is no error in the following code. But as soon as I change the value in the stored procedure via either an update,insert, or delete it seems to close the connection. The same code was working fine in VB. Has any one encountered a similar problem. Thank you. ADODB. C ...Show All

• Visual Studio Group execution bug

  Hi I had put a similar post earlier but need to put it again as the first one failed to produce any response. In my reportviewer webform, when I have a "Group" (in a table) then the group execution sequence of the group is Header - Footer - Detail. Shouldnt it be Header-Detail-Footer Since my group footer executes before the group details I have no data in to do the footer calculations !! Has anyone encountered this issue regards mqs so if I have to calculate a sum and print it in the group footer, then I need to keep adding and updating the footer for each detail row Would'nt it be better if we first filled the detail rows and then when we get to the footer do the adding ...Show All

• SQL Server AMO: Looping to delete partitions

  Hi I am trying - in AMO code - to loop over the partitions in my different measure groups and drop these. But apparently I am not allowed to do it with the following code, since I am modifying the collection which I am looping (because I drop the partitions which exist in the collection). .... For Each oMeasuregroup in oCube.MeasureGroups For Each oPartition in oMeasureGroup.Partitions oPartition.Drop() Next Next ... Can anyone help me with a solution Thanks. Hi, You need to iterate over the partitions collection with integer index. PartitionCollection partitions = ...; for( int i=partitions.Count-1; i>=0; --i )     partitions[ i ].Drop(); Adrian Dumitrascu ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WPF Media Player, Video Control or Active Movie?

  In the following code, I select a dvr-ms File and then play it using ActiveMovie (RunAM), VideoContol (RunVC) or WPF MediaPlayer. With ActiveMovie I get both video and audio, with VideoControl I get video and no sound and with WPF MediaPlayer I get sound and no Video. What am I doing wrong I am using vb express. Imports System.Windows Imports MSVidCtlLib Imports QuartzTypeLib Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form Dim FileName As Object Dim FGM As FilgraphManager Dim MP As Media.MediaPlayer Dim VD As Media.VideoDrawing Private Sub FileToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FileToolStripMen ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem with File.Copy() - Skipping files?

  I have an application that I want to use for copying files. My goal is to copy a files, if a file is in use or not accessible because of security reasons I want to make note of that file then continue with the file copy process. For some reason when my app is copying the C:\Windows\System32\Config folder it will fail on the first non-accessible file then ends the copy process. It only seems to happen on this folder (folder contains registry and eventvwr files, thus they are in use). Can someone give me some help here, I am at a lost. This chuck of code runs in a BackgroundWorker thread. [code] private void FileCopy( string srcdir, string destdir, bool recursive, ref DoWorkEventArgs e) { Directo ...Show All

• SQL Server Hr=80004005 ERR:OpenDB failed getting pub version 28627

  I am getting the error " Hr=80004005 ERR:OpenDB failed getting pub version 28627 " in the SQLCESA30.LOG log file in the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition\Server\SqlMobileReplication" directory - the directory set up as the Virtual Directory in Internet Explorer. This occurs when I try to set up a .sdf file to be replicated to a SQL Server 2005 Mobile database (I'm following the instructions from the Microsoft Tutorial - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/med302_msdn_sql_mobile.asp ). In the UI, when I attempt to set up a new Subscription (setting up my publication goes without any problems), I get an error. It occurs at the last step of the "New Subscription" step on ...Show All

• SQL Server wmi error when I open management sutdio

  Am running a SQL Server 2005 Ent with SP1, 2 node (active/active) cluster on Windows 2003 Server Ent with SP1 . Everything working ok, but everytime I launch the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, the following is logged in the Application Log: also all was ok until I ran the remote debugger wizard in visual sutdio. There were no errors prior to this. I did not select anything, open the wizard, click next and finish, I did not select anything. Event Type: Error Event Source: WinMgmt Event Category: None Event ID: 10 Date: 04.06.2006 Time: 07:32:04 User: N/A Description: Event filter with query "select * from __InstanceModificationEvent within 10 where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_Service'" could not be (re)activated in namespace &q ...Show All