Bijay Mandal's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to ensure that XNA succeeds

  fostering the non-commercial game developer community is a great idea. however I think it would be more effective if you: 1) allow sharing of binary versions of the games. 2) provide a place on XBL where developers can publish their games (in binary and/or source form, possibly with gotdotnet-style source control). build a community around the games: high-scores, forums, multiplayer, etc... 3) prodive a cheaper 'read-only' membership to the XNA club so non-developers can enjoy these homebrew games. I'm pretty sure the System.IO won't be available in the form it exists in the regular Framework. I've had a reply about writing data to the HDD and there are limitations on what you can do. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. My XNA Game 'iFACTOR'

  Believe it or not, this time it's not a question :) I appreciate all the help I've been getting on this forum and I'd like to share some media of my first game. The media was taken from a Windows build but the game is designed for Xbox360. http://www.vector2games.com/ Thanks, Dave I used FRAPS and mixed it using Windows Movie Maker . To capture the video, I compiled a Windows version of the game (I have an Xbox360 controller that works in Windows) ...Show All

• SQL Server Getting Column Name on Error Redirect

  In SSIS packages, records which do not get processed successfully can be re-directed to different destination for logging or correcting purposes. With 2 additional fields ERROR_CODE and ERROR_COLUMN appended to the dirty row values. To indicate the specific error that has occurred and on which column the error has occurred, I have certain doubts on this error reporting mechanism in SSIS packages. The ERROR_COLUMN that is reported is not the column name but a number identifying that column uniquely. how can we at run time remap this column number to the exact column name Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, S Suresh Try using this: http://sqlblogcas ...Show All

• Visual Studio wrong file version on 1 user machine, all others correct

  I have vss 6 client loaded on 2 of my machines and loaded and used on several others machines. On both of my machines I log on with the same user id. On 1 machine it shows an older version of files. All the other machines in the company are showing the correct version. I have tried removing and reloading vss6 on the machine, the same old version of files show up. Thank you for any help DW What do you mean "it shows an older version" If you do a History on a file, does it not include all the revisions Are you sure you're connecting to the same database ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Loading a window on Button Click

  How would I load a pre-existing window on button click Thanks do you mean an existing form You would need to have a reference of it some place in order to access it. example, setting a property in Form2, to have a reference of the first form, Form1, will allow you to access it: Form2: Dim mainForm as Form1 public property TheMainForm As Form1 Get return Me.mainForm end get set(byval value as Form1) Me.mainForm = value end set end property .. .. 'Button click event: if Me.mainForm is not nothing then Me.mainForm.Show() 'Or Focus() or BringToFront() or Visible = true end if from the first form: Dim theSecondForm as new ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert String to DateTime Object

  Hi All I am new to this forum... I am storing string "21-07-2006" (21 July 2006) in a string variable and want to store this value in a DateTime Object. As it takes value in format #MM-dd-yyyy# i have to convert this value into this format. I have tried this string Objdate = "21-07-2006"; Response.Write(Convert.ToDateTime(Objdate ).ToString("mm-dd-yyyy").ToString()); But It generate Errors "String is not n correct date time format" ...something..2 Pls help Sachin Thanks for help...It Works I have one more queries regarding Deserialize Classes that inherits from DictionaryBase Class I have Customer Class that Con ...Show All

• SQL Server report exported in Excel shows an extra empty page

  Hi We are working on sql server reporting services 2000. We designed a report and exported the same into excel. The original report has lets say one page information, then before printing when we see print preview it shows up an extra blank page and similarly if the there are two pages in the report ,in the preview we are seeing 4 pages ie two extra blank pages. Any help to solve this issue would be appreciated. The same thing we are exporting in PDF format also and here to same issue. We have SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000 Reporting services and Microsoft Office 2003 Thanks in Advance DnetMgr It sounds like the (report body width + page margin left + page margin right) > page width. Reduce ...Show All

• Visual Studio disable asp.net development server

  Hi, I wan't when building a website that I debug on my IIS localhost and not on the asp.net development server. Is there a way to do that Grtz, Dennis ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Help writing source filter

  Please help me: I wrote a very simple source filter that just creates a stream of "hard-coded" bitmaps using the very handy "fill buffer" function. Now I want to implement a similar filter but i want this filter to create a stream based on an avi file stored on disk, but i dont have any clue about how this works. There's no explanation avaiable for newbie programmers, and microsoft documentation is really dry. So i thanks you in advance for any direction you could guive me. DirectShow already has filters/samples for playing avi files. Is there some reason you need to create your own Check out the players folders. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Problem with MmAllocateContiguousMemorySpecifyCache

  Currently i'm porting an 1394 device driver to x64. But the following problem occured when building the source code: isochapi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_MmGetPhysicalAddress referenced in function ..... isochapi.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_MmAllocateMemorySpecifyCache referenced in function ..... This is what happens when i build it with the latest ddk. I've included the ntddk.h file as described in the documentation. Has someone an solution for this problem I've founded the solution for this problem. But I want to share the solution, because you can have this problem when you're porting an 32 bits driver to 64 bit. When you want to use library's the l ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Creating a single route with multiple destination points

  I have a starting point and ending point but between the two are multiple points of interest that I want to include in my route. Is there any way to allow a user to build a route based on multiple intrest points ...Show All

• Visual C++ Upgrade to VS2005 gives problem with atlcom.h

  Hi all, I have been assigned a task to upgrade a solution to VS2005.The solution is originally written in VS2003 and Compile with 0 error and 0 warning in VS2003. This solution contains 48 Projects. When I build this Solution in VS2005 than it gives following error Error 5 error C2664: 'ATL::_CopyInterface<T>::copy' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'ISTDBResource **' to 'ISTPlayListEvent **' C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include\atlcom.h 5114 Error 1 error C2664: '_CopyBSTRtoBSTR::copy' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'ISTDBResource **' to '_bstr_t *' C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include\atlcom.h 5114 Error 6 error C2065: 'ISTDBResource' : undecla ...Show All

• Windows Forms doubt regarding panel location at runtime

  My UI is like below........................... it has two panels................. one left and one right in right panel there is one tabcontrol, one toolbar,one panel But here my question is for the tab control its name is tabBooks. now in tabBooks there are 4 tab pages . in first tab page there is a panel. in seond tab page there is one more tabcontrol and panel. in third tab page there are 2 tab controls My question here is for second tab page Currently tabcontrol and panel is side by side. I want to put panel below the tabcontrol. I am changing the location of panel at runtime. but it's not changing............ Can anybody please tell me what may be the reason for that. I have tried ...Show All

• Visual C++ Adding components and controls in VC2005

  Hi everybody. I want to add an Communication control on my dialog based project in VC2005. In VC6.0 I was using Project->Add to project->Add Components and controls etc In 2005 under the project menu I do not have Add to project :( When I created new MFC project I selected Dialog based and made sure ActiveX control radio was checked. Under Tools->Customize (Commands tab) I have Rearrange Commands->(Menu bar checked) select Project pressed Add, under categories select again Project and I can see "Add component" and "Add user control". However even if I added them they are greyish under Project menu. Any ideas how can I get "Add to project" for VC2005 Thanks Marian ok, found if I click ...Show All

• Visual C# events for array of buttons.

  dear all I have an array of buttons pbuttons (nearly 40 of them). I want to have click events for these buttons can someone tell me how to do that for a array of buttons thanks in advance, prasad.. you could make 1 event handler and do it that way. Example: Button[] myButtons = new Button[10]; for(int counter = 0; counter < myButtons.Length; counter++) {    myButtons[counter] = new Button();    myButtons[counter].Name = "btn" + counter.ToString();    myButtons[counter] += new EventHandler(MyButton_Click); }   private void MyButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {    if (sender != null)    {    ...Show All