koder monkey's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Boing v.0.5

  My first "real" game. Just a pong game but I used a different way than just having on or two files. I'll show the source after I clean up the code and summarize it for others to follow. I'll keep adding onto the game to learn other things. Rate/Comment. Boing Version 0.5 i was planning on a speed increment thing like you have for my pong game, i was just gonna do it slightly slower. though your speed increments did keep the games nice and fast paced which is always good ...Show All

• SQL Server MDX - Filter by one date dimension and report on another date dimension

  Hi, I have a fact table in which i have more than one date dimension. The fact table is a periodic snapshot fact table. The Fact table looks like this FactInvoice PeriodKey InvoiceRaisedDtKey InvoiceUpdatedDtKey InvoiceClosedDtKey InvoiceAmount A weekly snapshot of all the invoices are maintained. I need a measure which will give me the number of invoices raised(created) during a given Period. Lexically, count of invoices created in the period to be reported against the Period. Both PeriodKey and InvoiceRaisedDate have hierarchies as follows: Year->Quarter->Month->Week I understand given the nature of the fact table i need to implement a custom rollup to produce the correct count as the count ...Show All

• Visual C# How to design a class which can be used as "Enum"?

  Example: public Enum Type{T1, T2, T3}; Type myType = Type.T1; string typeFromDatabase = "T1"; myType = typeFromDatabase; // This is a obvious error!! Can I design a class whose functionality is just like "Enum" and much more powerful I think that Enum.Parse is more efficient...anyway it is easier. In this case you have to adapt your own logic. On Example: Switch(stringLetter) { Case "A" myLetter = Alphabet.Aplle; break; Case "B" myLetter = Alphabet.Boy; break; } etc. Best Regards! Misa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Sound Problem

  I dont know if this is being posted in the right forum or not...I can't find any Vista Tech Support forums....but I installed Vista brand new on a computer i bought and I installed a Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound Card and for a little while everything worked fine...I installed the drivers and everything. Now when I play music in Itunes or Windows Media Player the song plays for a little then starts sounding like its lagging, a skipping quality....I noticed its not just the music, but its all sounds on the computer....and then after a minute it just won't play music anymore....furthermore NO sound will play on the computer...if i restart the computer the sound comes back, but then after a minute or two the problem happens again. Any ideas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Multiple check boxes in a listview

  How can I have multiple check boxes in a listview entry I need a listview like the one used when right clicking a folder in Windows Explorer > Security tab. Possibly something like an icon in the frst column, text in the second and check boxes in the next 3 columns. Thanks for any help. Iain Have you tried accomplishing this with a DataGridView If not, add one to the form, right click it and select "add column". You should then be able to add bound/unbound columns with images, checkboxes etc. Let me know if it works for you... ...Show All

• SQL Server Default value for multi select parameter

  Hi I am generating this report which has ten parameters. All parameters are multi value parameter. Now is there any way to set all parameters to "Select All" by default What I mean is that user dont have to go each an every parameter and click 'Select All' option to view report. Regards I am using RS2005 sp1 hotfix applied (which put back in the <Select All> option that sp1 took out ). I am using queries for my parameter lists. I do not see a way to pick a default of the <Select All> option that RS adds into the list. Under default you specify the dataset and the value field (which is a drop down of the field names - not values). ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with running Continuous Integration

  I am going to be running CI, and I forsee some problems that are going to arise. I am going to be having approximately 26 team build projects that are going to be running on CI. If each of those are run say 3 times a day - that will leave me with almost 80 entries in the "integration build", "found in build", "resolved in build" fields. I would like to have these builds ignored, as I have a main build which will "sweep up" all of the work items and change sets. What is the best way to do this fyi, I tried to rename my build to CI but you can't overwrite one with the same name once it has built... The build numbers are currently stuffed in by a web service which is ...Show All

• SQL Server Giving permission to view CERTAIN records

  I've been looking through permissions to see if it's possible to grant a user permission to see only certain records from a table. For example: I'm granting users to view records in the table 'Sales', but I only want the users to see their respective data. User A should only be able to see Sales where Sales.Location = 1 User B should only be able to see Sales where Sales.Location = 2 ... and so on. I believe I've read this is possible, but in looking through the permissions you can define, I've only found where you can limit the columns a user sees, not records. Anyone have any ideas or did I just remember something wrong This cannot be done through permissions today. This topic is kn ...Show All

• SQL Server Error: The component has inconsistent metadata

  I have a Source Query with this sql set as a property expression: "SELECT Category, Server_Name, Entitle_UserID,User_SubID,Start_Time,End_Time,Entitle_User_Name,Stat_Name,Stat_Count,Stat_Type,pk,create_date,run_num,Average,Median,Maximim FROM tbl_ws_stats WHERE pk > " + (DT_STR, 100, 1252)@[pk_var] There is a message : 'The component has inconsistent metadata.' Then when I click on the Source Query: 'The component is not in a valid state. Do you want the component to fix itself automatically ' I also notice that there are no columns on the Column Mappings tab and no way to add columns. How can I correct Thanks Compare each column's source datatype with the target datatyp ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET 2.0 runtime error

  Hello Everybody, Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Event Category: None Event ID: 5000 Date: 2/11/2007 Time: 5:46:04 PM User: N/A Computer: PDOCOWNER Description: EventType clr20r3, P1 patientdocapplication.exe, P2 1.0.2537.30758, P3 458fe3e6, P4 patientdocapplication, P5 1.0.2537.30758, P6 458fe3e6, P7 47, P8 c6, P9 system.invalidoperationexception, P10 NIL. I get the above error in my event log when i try to run Windows Application on client machine which has Framework 2.0 installed. It works fine in my dev machine which has VS2005 installed but bombs when i try to run the app with a Microsoft report a problem dialog box. The app was frist started in .NET 1.1 and then was migrated in middle o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System New TFS VersionTree addin

  All, I just wanted to let people know that a new TFS version tree addin for Visual Studio is available from the wesite below http://www.cupithome.com/foundationtree/home.html Please feel free to download and try it out. Jem Steve, Can you please uninstall FoundationTree and re-download again from the website. Re-install the newly downloaded install and try again. If it isn't working can you paste the Product Code and any License Code from the license dialog into a post here, and I will find out what the problem is. Thanks, Jem ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Applying custom effects to an imported model

  Hi everybody! I'm playing around with my shiny new Beta2, and I'm loving it. :) I've hit a bit of a stumbling block, though: I have a .x model that I've imported, which was pretty elementary.... What I've not been able to do is find the proper methodology for associating a custom, imported effect with the meshes in my model. How exactly do I do that And what if I want different material effects applied to different meshes in the model Thanks, and I appreciate the help! This would be easier if ModelMeshPart.Draw() was public instead of internal. I wrote my own Draw(ModelMeshPart) which looks like this .GraphicsDevice.VertexDeclaration = part.VertexDeclaration; device1.Vertices[0].SetSource(mesh. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Pop up second listbox when certain criteria met

  On my form I have a listbox that I have linked to my suppliers table in my sql database. I want to create a second listbox (linked to another table - supplierlocations) that will pop up beside the first if a user clicks on a supplier that has more than one location/branch. Sort of like when you click on all programs on the computer and the additional programs pop up out the side to be selected. I can create the listbox etc and bind it, I will probably use the visible property to have it appear when required, but what Im not sure about is how do I code the items (suppliers) in the first listbox (listbox1) to look through the second table (supplierlocations) and if the supplier has more than one location open the second listbox for the us ...Show All

• SQL Server Export to a Text file in SQL Server Express

  I have a table in a database has the same filed with a text file: RBW_AR_BOT_REC Size Comment Justification Padding record_id 1 'R' None None date 6 MMDDYY None None time 4 HHMM (24 hour time) None None cust_num 8 1 - 9999999 Right Zero odometer 6 0 - 999999 Right Zero receipt 8 1 - 99999999 Right Zero exception_customer 1 '0' = No '1' = Yes None None valid_void 1 '0' = valid 'v' = void None None Justification Padding ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to create a non resizbale tool window on vs add In

  Hi there, I'm developing an add in for my client and I'm creating a tool window using the createtoolwindow function.The tool window is actually an ATL activex control. I'm interested in making the toolwindow non-resizbale .Anyone has any ideas on how to do that Thanks, Ron ...Show All