GStevens's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. cloud of dust like in battlefield 2 : mc

  does anybody know how the developers from battlefield 2 : modern combat did the cloud of dust effects did you know what i mean hello what you need is this keep on reading http://www.markmark.net/clouds/ my game engine use simelar consepts ...Show All

• Windows Forms runtime error while running the setup on vista

  Hi everybody, I am getting the following runtime error while running the setup on vista. If anybody has faced similar error, Pls help me. The error is as follows: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: propglue.exe Application Version: 12.0.1.161 Application Timestamp: 452c8925 Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll Fault Module Version: 6.0.5744.16384 Fault Module Timestamp: 452358e5 Exception Code: c0150002 Exception Offset: 000089f3 OS Version: 6.0.5744.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 9d13 Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8 Additional Information 3: 9d13 Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8 Read our privacy statement: http:// ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) HierarchicalDataTemplate and multiple ItemSources

  Hi I have a class structure conceptually similar to the following that I'd like to be able to display in a treeView using an ObjectDataProvider and HierarchicalDataTemplates public class MyContainer { private ObservableCollectionWithPropertyChanged<Person> m_Contributors = new ObservableCollectionWithPropertyChanged<Person>(); public ObservableCollectionWithPropertyChanged<Person> Contributors { get { return m_Contributors; } set { m_Contributors = value; } } private ObservableCollectionWithPropertyChanged<KeyQuestion> m_KeyQuestions = new ObservableCollectionWithPropertyChanged<KeyQuestion>(); public ObservableCollectionWithPropertyChanged<KeyQuestion> KeyQuestio ...Show All

• Architecture architecture guidance.

  hi everyone, iam planning to do a project and iam in analysis phase of the project. desc: it is a very simple project. lang: asp.net ,C#,oracle9i. i completed all the ui related parts.the project is very simple get the datas from the database,update those data or insert new data.uploading and downloading of files.excel uploads and downloads.user administration. now iam going to design the business logic and data access logic. i need to implement form based authentication. can any one provide me guidance for desiging the data access logic ,security logic thanks for your valuable information If you're using .NET 2.0, you should look into a membershipprovider for your security. It basicly handles all oper ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can we add advance search/filter capabilities to a DataGridView???

  Hi! I would like to use an Advanced search dialog in order to provide the final user with advance searching capabilities in my DataGridView...For example to select only those customers names (from the Customer column) that live in a certain city (from the city column)... The BindingSource.Filter method doesn't support this capability...Any help Thanks in advance... if you have a dataset/datatable you can perform a Filter/Select on this giving you back the results in the form of a DataRow[]   is this what you are after Example:   DataRow[] theFilteredResults = theDataSet.Tables [Index] .Select("[ ColumnName ] LIKE '" + this.theName.Text + "');   does this help is this wh ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Possible that Update() is multi-threaded?

  I'm getting a REALLY strange exception. It only occurs when I run my game via Ctrl-F5 (rather than F5) and even then I can't always reproduce it. It's in a bit of code that is simply a foreach-loop on a List<> of Particles and calling Update(elapsed) on each of them. The error occurs on the first line of Particle.Update() which is "base.Update(elapsed)" which calls the Sprite class' Update()... which has no indexes in it. At the end of the loop I look for any particles that need to be removed from the list and do so. Based on what little debug information I can get, it looks like it's an internal error in System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal... Count is zero, which pretty much should never be the case... there's alw ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reinstalling TFS

  It all started with having a working environment of single server VSTS installed. I created 2 test projects in it and was able to give users access to them. Due to prioritization, the work was held up for few weeks.The only change, that I know of in between in trhe server is that WSS was upgraded in this server. So I started this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=640894&SiteID=1 I also referred to this one: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=147772&SiteID=1 But the problem remained unresolved. Pressure of delivering mountains. One thing is going on for me. All the team projects that I have created so far are test and no one cares if I delete them. So, I decide to reinstall VS ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Model class vb woes

  Is there anyway to specify creation parameters for vertex buffers that are created by ContentManager.Load<Model>, i.e.: I want to be able to read back from those buffers. I suspect (from 20 mins of googling and reading bits and bobs) that there is not. Just wanted to double check. If not, does anyone know if there is a good reason why not Cheers, and thanks, Ste I don't know what you mean by "specify". If you load a Model, you can access its vertex declarations and vertex buffer like so: VertexElement[] ve = myModel.Meshes[0].MeshParts[0].VertexDeclaration.GetVertexElements(); myModel.Meshes[0].VertexBuffer.GetData(); There are several overloads for GetData() and you have to sele ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Hide Waypoints icons?

  Hi. I'm just getting into Virtual Earth for a project to track exercise mileage. As such I want to generate a route, which I can do. One of the first things I noticed is that I'd like to hide the waypoint icons on the route so that the participant's status pushpin on the route is more easily noticeable. Can this be done Thanks You beat me to it John. That was my code. I'm happy to see it has been useful. I'm going to be posting a DrawCircle function later today that accepts a starting lat/long and radius (in miles) and draws a circle on the map. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office what is best way to develop add-in in Excel-2003 & C# (.NET 2.0)

  We are re-writing add-ins which were written in C++ and VBA(xla). The new add-ins we are developing using c# (.NET 2.0) for Excel 2003. Some of the these add-in contains "menu buttons " and "customized formula" in same add-in. now after searching couple of documents it says 1. COM- Addin : good for only if you have command bar button action required in you add-in. not good for if you have customized formula. 2. Automation-addin: good if you have formula and also you can have command bar buttons. But problem with this add-in it doesn't launch automatically with excel and also doesn't refresh all formulas in proper sequence when excel start. So I have created com-addin which creates command bar button menu when ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Unable to install VS Extensions for .NET 3.0 , November 2006 CTP when SP1 installed

  I have installed VS Team Suite for Software Developers and SP1 for VS. When try install VS Extensions for .NET 3.0 , November 2006 CTP, the installation failed because valid VS version required. How to resolve this issue Marking this thread as answered because it is 7 months old. If this is still an issue, please mark the thread as unanswered. Thanks, Karen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Overwrite Drop Location and keep output from project files!!

  Hi All, Is there anyway that I could by pass drop location and keep the output as I set in the project files Best Regards, Andy, Let's see if I have this straight. I am assuming that you wish to have builds occur but you want the output binaries to be staged in the folders defined in the project build configuration's Output path If this is the case you have to do some significant spelunking and modification in the Microsoft.Common.targets file. I wouldn't recommend doing this. If you can give some insight as to why you need to override the drop location with the location set in the project files, I'm sure we can find a way to help you. ...Show All

• Visual C++ WEBService calling problem in VC++ application

  I have developed an application in VC++ 2005. This application calling a webservice developed in C#. This application can not execute in Windows 2000 machines. How to solve this issue I have checked this Application using depends watcher in windows 2000 machine. I have noticed one problem is there is version conflict in WS2_32.dll. Some functions not in this WS2_32 dll. How to correct this execution problem in windows 2000 machines pls help me..... Jefy I am new to VC++. I wanted a sample program as to how to access the web services which is developed in C# in VC++. Can you please provide me a sample program or any link where I can find the samples ...Show All

• Windows Forms error trying to publish from vs2005

  I try to publish my application using VS2005, and below is the warnings I receive in the IDE.. Warning 1 Files could not be downloaded from http://dnbl291/TestForm/ . The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. 1 1 TestForm Warning 2 Unable to view published application at http://dnbl291/TestForm/publish.htm . 1 1 TestForm The problem for me was that I was not using the Fully qualified domain name of the server. ie server.domain.net etc so it was trying to go through the proxy server therefore the problem. Make sure you use the FQDN, and ensure you don't have to use the proxy. If you are forced to go through a proxy server you have a bigger issue.. ...Show All

• SQL Server NOD32 - SQL 2000 connection error - DNS?

  Well its always developer vs administrators, and for the life of me why wont they listen... However now I must and hopefully someone can help. My need for this resolve is not to change the software which works, but to enlighten the administrators as to possible NOD32 conflicts, or perhaps another issue which I've missed. In the following scenario I am stumped, and have never heard of anything like it. The server (DNS (win2003) & sql 2000 sp3) has NOD32 enterprise running, my apps have been running on this environment for the last 3 years, however, for the last year and since NOD32 has been installed, a few very strange incidents have occurred. 1. Whenever this error occurs, users fail to connect to SQL server, the server conne ...Show All