billg51's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Graphics "filters"

  Is there any easy way to achieve "distortions" in your rendering... ie, water ripple/distortion effects, blurring, etc... http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/postprocessing/postprocessing.html ...Show All

• Visual C# Printable Version of .NET Class Library

  Hi, I am looking for .NET class library with descriptions that can be printed out on paper. MSDN offers a great reference but somehow i have trouble printing it out properly. Can someone please tell me where else i can find something similar thanks very much Ah! Gotcha, thanks for that. If you have MSDN installed on your computer, you can print the pages you like in the help file. I'm not sure there is a paper back version of the entire doc, not AFAIK - everything is online and you have the MSDN documentation too (if you have it installed) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Converting to and from a view matrix.

  Hello everybody. I am trying to convert back and forth between a view matrix (created with matrix. CreateLookAt ) and a position, rotation and scale. I believe I have figured out how to convert into a view matrix from a position, rotation and scale like this: Matrix sc = Matrix.CreateScale(_scale); Matrix rot = Matrix.CreateRotationX(_rotation.X) * Matrix.CreateRotationY(_rotation.Y) * Matrix.CreateRotationZ(_rotation.Z); Matrix trans = Matrix.CreateTranslation(_position); Matrix transformation = sc * rot * trans; Vector3 orig = Vector3.Transform(Vector3.Zero, transformation); Vector3 target = Vector3.Transform(Vector3.Forward, transformation); Vector3 upPoint = Vector3.Transform(Vector3.Up, transformation); v ...Show All

• Windows Networking Development Weird one - Router Death by Vista

  Here's a weird one. It seems that Vista RC2 is routinely killing my ADSL router I have a dual boot system (patched up XP Pro vs Vista RC2). Vista seems to be killing my D-Link DSL-500 like...., several times a day while Vista is running. Has anyone else noticed this I'm thinking.... some sort of weird network plug and play thing (which is disabled - by the way) RickW I have been having problems with my DLink DI-624 rev C. Whenever Vista is booted I cannot connect to the wireless side from my XP tablet. It works fine when Vista is shut down, or I'm running XP. I tried turning off UPnP in the router, and then the router just keeps rebooting. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Cannot add table adapter to datatable

  If I have a dataset in my project, and I've added a datatable to it, when I right click on it the option to add a tableadapter is greyed out. It seems as though I have to add a tableadapter to get a datatable with tableadapter connected to it. What if you already have a datatable in your project and want to add a tableadapter to it I had a recommendation to install SP1, and I did, but it did not fix the problem. No response since then. You can add a table to a typed dataset without a table adapter easily. Just right click on your dataset Add->DataTable. I don't like what they did with the designer either. You used to be able to see all of the column types right next to the datatable itself. Now you hav ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can't deploy to Xbox 360 from GSE

  All Apologies but this is a repeat post from 31-Jan buried inside another thread that appears to have died. I can't push code to my Xbox 360 from GSE.  This issue has been reported by other people and their problems boil down to either having entered the 25-digit code incorrectly or, in one case, that their router didn't properly support UPnP. I've regenerated, accepted and reconfigured the key *many* times, making sure I don't have any 0's, 1's, 5's or 8's in the generated key to avoid confusion.  I understand this is a one-time key so I'm not reusing an old key.  I am most definitely getting the key right and choosing accept, not cancel. I have downloaded and installed Windows Media Connect (I'm running Windows ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server

  Hi, 1) I would like to know that whether the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider will use Visual Studio Team Foundation Server database which is installed at other place 2) Can Team Foundation Server be merged/used with .net 1.1/1.0 framework also 3) What is the best suited Hardware configuration for a Team Foundation Server with a team size of around 25 Regards Hi there! 1) The MSSCCI provider will talk directly to your Team Foundation Server using a set web services based calls. It has been optimised to work well over remote networks. 2) Using the MSSCCI provider, you can edit Visual Studio.NET and Visual Studio 2003 projects with built in IDE integration ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clickonce updates

  Hello, I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to help me I have published my application with Clickonce and specified an update location. How do I save or publish the update files necessary for updating the application after I have mad changes to it Is the .NET 2 SDK required for this Many thanks CPS I haven't done any publishing to CD, so I'm probably not the best person to help you out here. I've moved the thread to the ClickOnce forum - hopefully someone here will be able to help you more. Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• Visual Basic Printform questions

  I'm having some problems with the scrollable printoption. First it seems to only print one page. Is there a way to get it to print multiple pages Second, it doesn't work correctly for me if the form is an MDIChildForm. It cuts off both the bottom and the top of the area in the scrollable form. Bob W. Hi Bob, The current version of the PrintForm component can only print one page. You could have however; submit two or more print jobs. Simply change focus to a control on the form that would be considered on page 1 call PrintForm1.Print, change focus to a control that would be on page 2 and again call PrintForm1.Print. Then reset focus back to the last control that had been in focus. For Example: TextBox1.Focus() ...Show All

• Commerce Server Site Refresh not working for Business Apps

  Hello everyone, I can't seem to refresh the site cache from the BizApps on CS2007 RTM. I have the BizApps installed on a dedicated server and even with the hotfix KB 922068 applied I can't get the sitecache refresh feature working This is the error I get. System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Instance validation error: '0' is not a valid value for System.Net.HttpStatusCode. at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterList1.Write1_HttpStatusCode(HttpStatusCode v) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterList1.Write3_CacheRefreshFailureInformation(String n, String ns, CacheRefreshFailureInfo ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I specify an Icon file from args of Mage.exe and how do I create 2 entries in the start menu?

  Hi everybody, I am attempting to automate a little bit our usage of the ClickOnce technology. Using MageUI.exe, I was able to successfully build a ClickOnce application that installs itself on the user's workstation, with the Icon File specified like if I did everything using Visual Studio 2005's publishing wizard (shortcut in the start/programs menus and all). Here in our project, it is not an option to use Visual Studio's wizards and msbuild to automate deployment of iterative builds. I am trying to do the same as I did with MageUI.exe but at the command line, using Mage.exe . In MageUI.exe I could specify an EntryPoint, and an IconFile, in the Files section of the application manifest tab. I see no documentation and n ...Show All

• SQL Server Interaction between tables of local and remote SQL databases

  Hi all, I would be very glad if someone can suggest me what techniques I should use in the following scenario: I have 2 SQL Server databases : DB1 and DB2. DB 1 is on a remote server (hosting server) and DB 2 is on a local server. Some tables of each db contain tables that are polulated and changed by the appropriate application, i.e.: DB1.users, DB1.orders,... etc are managed by "webapplication" DB1.products ... are not managed by "webapplication" : in fact only used to read from DB2.products, DB2.customers, .... etc are managed by "winapplication" DB2.orders,....are partially managed by "winapplication" Since the amount of data can go over 100000 records i'm wondering what w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions What the difference between VB 2005 express and VB 2005 Pro?

  I mean only the defference between the visual basic. Best Regards, Yaniv I am having difficulty using VB Express to do a VB 6.0 tutorial. It seems like there are some very basic differences. For example, I was doing an exercise that told me to change the Caption property of a command button, but Caption wasn't in the list of properties in VB Express - I think it was called Title. These little things are confusing. Why are such basic things different in the two versions Or is the problem that my tutorial is inaccurate The instructions in the tutorial match the demo though. ...Show All

• SQL Server Rounding error when summing 4 numbers to 0

  When I sum the 4 numbers (-550.83, 1690.65, 550.83, -1690.65), it should add up to zero. It displays correctly to 2 decimal places. I know that they are stored internally as a double. However, I use the number as a denominator in a calculated member and the test for zero fails. I have to use bounds such as > -00000001 and <0.00000001 . The result is a very large number in billions if the filter is not used in the calculation. Has anyone come across this or got a better suggestion I can also use the VBA round function. Thanks If these are always going to be decimal numbers, as in the example above, does the changing the data type to "Currency" help http://msdn2.microsoft.com/e ...Show All

• Visual C# How to always force rebuild C# project?

  Hey I have this C# project (.csproj extension).  I want to have it always rebuild every time, regardless.  How do I do that   Is there a flag or something I can manually throw into the project file (xml tag) One project is overwriting another one's binaries. I think you get what I want here, even if you don't understand why I want it.  Really though is there a way to accomplish this with some kind of flag in the .csproj xml file Think of it as a challenge! ...Show All