Quilnux's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Vertex Animation help

  Hi, I'd like to do some simple vertex animation on a model using a vertex shader, but I'm having an extremely difficult and frustrating time figuring this out. I've been looking at the content pipeline documentation, I've found the tutorial about the BBox processor and done that a couple times, I've written a C# converter for a custom mesh format I have to X and still I can't work out how to accomplish this. I guess conceptually I understand how the content pipeline works. I ran the X processor DLL that ships with XNA through reflector and just about had a nervous breakdown looking at all the classes in there. I write geometry exporters, importers, and deformers for Maya at my day job, so I like to think I should be able to do this, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can I show icons in the combobox (for every item in it).

  I'm working on C# - VS 2005. Best Regards Trinadh P. You will need to create a combobox control that overrides the on paint message to place an icon in the list item followed by text. One good resource for windows forms / control work is Windows Forms FAQ . ...Show All

• Smart Device Development User Control data binding

  Hi! I am trying to bind a UserControl Text property to SqlCeResultSet: Binding b = new Binding("Text", myResultSet, "DateDataEntered"); b.Parse += new ConvertEventHandler(ParseCtrlValueToDate); b.Format += new ConvertEventHandler(FormatToDateCtrlValue); myUserControl.DataBindings.Add(b); I overridden Text property fro my UserControl, but could not specify [Bindable(true)] attribute - it looks like it is not supported by compact framework (yaks...). It looks like my control displays value from the first row in the data table, but not parsing value back to database.All other bound controls on the form transfer data back and force without problems. How can I properly bind UserControl I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Mail merge \* OrdText switch

  hi all, I need to convert a mail merge documnet in to VSTO solution and in one of the merge field there is a \* OrdText switch. How could i implement \* OrdText mail merge switch in c# any help in this regard is highly appreciated Thanx in advance. Ummm. Can you be more specific about what you need to do Basically, you have two possible approaches available 1. You insert the information into a Word field, then convert the field to plain text. In other words, you let Word do all the work for you. 2. You really "re-invent the wheel". Basically, create a "switch" construct that literally converts every possible number into a text equivalent. As far as I know, there aren't any shortcuts. On the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting error on Validation rule at run time.

  Hello Everybody, I am very new to the Visual Studio Team System for testers. Currently, I am working with Web Test. Still trying to figure out various things. I am working with the 'Validation rule' which has been added to the http link. In the 'Form Post Parameters' of this link the field name 'IX_BOX_NUMBER' is equal to '3'. However, if i add a validation rule for the field name 'IX_BOX_NUMBER', whose expected value is supposed to be '3', i get run time error. I can't understand why I am getting this error. In the 'Test Results' under the Error Message i get that '1 primary requests and 0 dependant requests failed'. In the details of this error the 'Result' description displays that "Form field 'IX_BOX_NUMBER' was not ...Show All

• Gadgets Help test the screensaver gadget

  Before releasing this to the masses, I was wondering if a few of you could go ahead and install my gadget and see if it works. It works on my machine but may not on someone else's if things don't register correctly. The gadget is a simple screensaver gadget that embeds a screensaver that you choose into its window (see http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/markhsch/picture1718045.aspx for a screenshot of it using the Ribbons screensaver). If you install it and it displays a white window with a red x, remove the gadget and re-add it to the sidebar to see if it goes. If you do test, please post on this thread with your results (either positive or negative). Thanks and here's the link: http://www.schmidt6.com/blogfiles/ScreenSaverGadget. ...Show All

• Visual Basic User Control problem

  I have a UserControl which basically shows in a textbox the content of a row in a table relationally linked to another table in a database and also a combobox containing the contents of that second table. This mean that as you travel through the main table you can see what the linked text entries are and have a combobox when entering a new record. I started the table in VB.NET 2002 and upgraded it to VB2005 Express and have been using it successfully for some months.So, it has saved considerable code and added to my VB skills. However, having recently discovered the MaxDropDown size property for the combobox I wanted to add a line to the UserControl to fix the MaxDropDown size to be the size of the records in the table it accesses. T ...Show All

• SQL Server Why select top 100 percent was disabled in SQL Server 2k5 views

  And how to get it work And by the way why Sql Server 2k5 became slower then 2k How to get to query planes in the management studio >>It is used in this case to determine which rows satisfy the TOP clause only.<< This is probably the most confusing thing to people, and I understand why. It looks like you should get the rows in the right order, but by the same token, the TOP 100 percent implies that it can get all rows, so no need to bother with the order by. A better implementation of TOP would probably be to include the order by in the TOP like they do with ROW_NUMBER and this confusion would go away. Plus you could sort the output in a different order, even if you arent using it in a view or derived table. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Adding Additional Content to Sandcastle and the TOC

  I have three questions: 1. How do you add additional content to Sandcastle NDoc has RootPageFileName and AdditionalContentResourceDirectory parameters for this. Is there an equivalent in Sandcastle 2. Can you add your own pages to the Sandcastle TOC NDoc has a RootPageTOCName parameter. Is there an equivalent for Sandcastle 3. Even better, is it possible to add more than one entry to the TOC This was a feature we were hoping to contribute to NDoc and we would really like to see this in Sandcastle. Thanks, Richard Richard, I have answers below: 1. How do you add additional content to Sandcastle Not in an atomated fashion but we will be happy to take this as a feature and deliver it for our RTW ...Show All

• Visual Basic txt files

  How can I access text files in VS2005 and display them in Arrays   Any help or websites containing a "How to" would be greatly appreciated.   Thanks! Also, more information on split() method of the string class Yes, that should give me a pretty good start on what I need to do. In the case if something pops up that I do not want which is in the txt file, do I need to do something special for that In addition, how would I go about entering a period after the first initial in the first name This does help and gives me a good start. Thanks for your help. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server agent logs some communication link failure errors during a backup job run

  Hey. Whenever I try to run backups at night or in the morning, my backups are failing. Actually, these backups are run through scheduled jobs. The errors I'm getting are BackupMedium::ReportIoError: write failure on backup device 'SQLBACKUP_6DB433E2-4F6C-4BD9-953C-5E3740BCD268'. Operating system error 995(The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.). The above is from the SQL Server log. I get some errors on the Agent side also at the same time. The errors are: [298] SQLServer Error: 121, Named Pipes Provider: The semaphore timeout period has expired. [SQLSTATE 08S01] [298] SQLServer Error: 121, Communication link failure [SQLSTATE 08S01] [298] SQLServer Error: 10004, Communi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Compiler Warning (level 4) C4428

  I am getting the C4428 warning with this line of code: /************************************************************************************* *To include any Unicode character in a string, locate the character in * *http://www.unicode.org/charts. The standard encoding of characters from large * *character sets into the smaller set supported directly by C++ is presented as * *sequences of four or eight hexadecimal digits: * * \UXXXXXXXX * * \uXXXX * *Here, X represents a hexadecimal digit; e.g., \u1e2b. The shorter notation \uXXXX is* *equivalent to \U0000XXXX. A number of hexadecimal digits different f ...Show All

• SQL Server Any ideas how to connect to an Informix DB?

  I need to use the an OLE DB Provider to create a Linked Server using a ODBC-Connection (Informix). I know that I cannot see many things in the Providers drop-down list. Has anyone created a linked server like this one I mean SQL 2005 (Standard Edition) x64 and Informix. 10x in advance. Of course I'll provide any useful news as soon as they will arive. I want this solved and shared with the rest of us, so we don't have to be at Microsoft's mercy; or any other giant for that matter ...Show All

• Windows Forms help ToolStripDropDounButton

  hi all. on my toolstrip i have a ToolStripDropDounButton, with one sub menu. when i click on the small arrow, for getting the sub menu, the click event of the ToolStripDropDounButton is fired and the sub menu is shown also. how can i make it drop down it's sub items when clicking on the arrow, and fire the click event only when clicked on the button itself Check this thread for code that can do this. ...Show All

• SQL Server Deployment of analysis services on windows 2003(Very urgent Please)

  I have window 2000 as my development machine. I am using visual studio 2003 and sql server 2000. I was able to develop a web application which uses the pivot table componant. Every thing was working fine with out any problem. I deployed my Project to windows 2003. I am able to see the pivot table control. I am not able to get any data into my pivot table. I am not sure what is going wrong. Is there anything I need to take care in windows 2003 specifically. I don't have microsoft office on windows 2003. Does it make a difference Please help!!! Anil i am not sure how to disable the SSAS Olap connection and publish an excel OWC OLAP- report in a folder on your IIS machine. Yes I am member in administrat ...Show All