SogetiScott's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 480i/720p

  If we make our games at 1280x720 res, switch over to the XBox, and the player only has a 480i TV (which I'd imagine is still pretty common - I personally only know a handful of people with HD), will our game automatically be scaled down or will it... crash hard Cheers, --Brian Nobody really knows yet... the 360 will do some scaling but I'm not sure if it will automatically add letterboxing or clip or what for aspect ratio changes. Its probably sensible to make sure your game looks good in 4:3 and 16:9 Also if you have small detail at 1280x720 and you let the 360 scale that to a letterboxed 480i you are going to lose a lot of the small detail. Big game studios have a lot of testing adn art rules to ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista cardSpace

  Hi whoever, running a VM with Vista Beta 2 x86 English (don't know the build), trying to get cardSpace working, well have coz Vista has it on it, thing is is says its called "Microsoft code name "InfoCard"", this must be out of date as this is not the same for my host PC and it doesn't seem to work on any sites, how do I upgrade or what do I have to do. InfoCard on my host doesn't work ether. Luke Unfortunatly, Vista Beta 2 is, like you say, out of date. The newer builds of .NET framework 3 do not install on Vista Beta 2, you must get a newer version of Vista. The current version that I recommend is the July CTP Release, if you have an MSDN subscription, you will find the J ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can't Display XML file in Frame

  I have a frame control. I execute: FrameControl.Navigate(new Uri(@" http://www.microsoft.com ")); *it works!* FrameControl.Navigate(new Uri(@" c:\temp\myfile.htm" )); *it works!* FrameControl.Navigate(new Uri(@"c:\temp\myfile.xml")); *EXCEPTION* "Failed to convert resource into object." ....now it gets stranger....the Frame control is on a form we'll call TheModalForm. This form is being displayed by a form we'll call ParentForm. Parentform contains the following... TheModalForm tmf=new TheModalForm(); try{ tmf.ShowDialog(); }catch(....){ } so, ParentForm creates an instance of TheModalForm and calls ShowDialog. The other form shows up. The user happily interacts with different ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions error trying program on other pc

  Hi I've got a program. It has 1 source file (.cpp) and 1 header file(.h). When I compile on my local machine the program works just fine, but when I try it on another pc I get the error that somethings wrong with the configuration of the program and that it can't be run. I have .net framework 1 till 2 installed and the microsoft visual C++ 2005 redistibutable on the other pc. Anyone know what I need to do to make it work (and is it normal that my compiles program is smaller then my source code (.cpp and .h file together) ) Thanks in advance. Are you trying to run a debug or release version of the program If a debug... try a release. Debug builds rely on the debug versions of some ...Show All

• Visual C# Extensive Generics Problem

  Hi, I'm really finished. Please help me. I don't have much time. Here's the code (simplified): public class Mammal { } public class Cat: Mammal { } public class Cage<T> where T : Mammal { } public class CatCage : Cage<Cat> { } Here's the application with the error public U[] getCages<U, V>() where U : Cage<V> where V : Mammal { return new U[] { new CatCage() }; } The error message Cannot implicitly convert type 'GenericsIssue.CatCage' to 'U' In Java it's possible to get the cages like that public Cage< extends Mammal> getCages() {} If I've done something wrong, please tell me. Thank you so much Marcel Thanx, I think I'll can use it. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to pass the command to the other executable file?

  Hi, I'd like to make a gnuplot to load a file and do some commands in the file. I would like to use C#. I found that I could use in C#: Process.Start("wgnuplot.exe"); to call and run gnuplot, but I don't know how to pass the command for the gnuplot. The command I'd like to pass to gnuplot is: load 'command.gp' where command.gp contains some commands for the gnuplot. There are qestions: Is it possible to pass the command to the other executable file If it is possible, how to do it Thank you very much, Komomomo I think the original poster is trying to get command input from a file. GNUPLOT when executed has its own command line for input so from a dos prompt it might look like this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Trouble loading Baml using LoadComponent

  Hello, I'm trying to load some baml from resource assemblies using Application.LoadComponent. As a parameter I use Uri that contains full name of assembly with culture: "en". But LoadComponent gives me IOException, that same assembly, but with culture: "neutral", was not found. here is a sample that first loads PresentationFramework Luna baml, and then tries to load mainwindow.baml from Sparkle. Luna baml is loading as expected, but Sparkle baml throws exception: static readonly string PROGRAMFILES= Environment .GetFolderPath( Environment . SpecialFolder .ProgramFiles); static readonly string PRESENTATION = Path .Combine(PROGRAMFILES, "Reference Assemblies\\Microsoft\\WinFx\\v3.0\\Presentati ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Source: string types lose length attributes in XML Schema?

  I'm having a problem with the XML Source data flow component not transferring the length attributes from an XML Schema to the column attributes of the output table. An example schema that I have is: < xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' > <data xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'> <xsd:schema> <xsd:simpleType name='NameType'> <xsd:restriction base='xsd:string'> <xsd:minLength value='0'/> <xsd:maxLength value='50'/> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> <xsd:element name='Name' type='NameType' nillable='true'/> <xsd:simpleType name='FamilyType'> <xsd:restriction base='xsd:string'> <xs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Disable page input during asynchronous process

  This is the scenario: user clicks on a button; the button handler starts an asynchronous process and changes the page cursor to an hourglass; after the async process finishes, a callback function changes the cursor back to default. The problem I see is that changing the page cursor does not propagate to some controls which are still displaying the default cursor. Also, I don't know how to stop user's input while my async process is still running (short of disabling all the controls). The only solution I can think of is to show a modal dialog with a progress bar, but that's not what I want. So, these are my questions: 1. How can I change the cursor on the page and all the controls contained in it 2. How can I disable user's input o ...Show All

• Visual C# try / catch question

  Is it a good pratice to do the following void foo() { try{ ..... } catch(FileNotFoundException ex) { throw new FileNotFoundException(); } } void foo2() { try { foo(); } catch(FileNotFoundException ex) { .... } } In general, it's a really bad idea, mainly due to a problem whch Mario hinted at. Basically, when an exception is throw, stored within it is a listing of the current stack (which includes the list of methods called). If you catch the exception and them throw a new exception, you replace the one which contains the location of the actual problem with one which just contains the location of your catch block. So, you are basically going through a lot of effort at both coding-time & run-tim ...Show All

• Smart Device Development My SDK database does not refresh in IPAQ and How do I insert/edit/delete the data on the SDK database from the IPAQ?

  Hi, I have created a database on the desktop and deployed it to the IPAQ. From the IPAQ, using Query Analyzer, I can see the database. Great!! If I made changes on the database on the desktop, save all files and then deploy it again onto the IPAQ, the changes are not on the IPAQ. I would have to physically delete the database off the IPAQ and do a deploy for the new changes to reflect. I made sure the properties of the database "Copy to Output Directory" is set to "Copy if newer". Still cannot update. Also, when I open the database on the IPAQ with Query Analyzer, I cannot edit the data. Is the Query Analyzer read only and how can I make changes to the database from the IPAQ Thanks, Tangster ...Show All

• SQL Server VB.NET and Reporting services

  From my machine I want to create a data source on the reportserver. So referring reportingservices2005 and using rs.CreateDataSource method, but I get the error "The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found." I am using the following credentails : rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks Coudl you please post the whole code you are using to connect to the service HTH, Jens SUessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. kW X-port for 3ds Max 9 (X file exporter with XNA support)

  I have made a preliminary version of the kW X-port plug-in available for Max 9. The full Max 9 download from Autodesk is almost 3 GB and is still going, so I haven't been able to test it yet -- it's just re-compiled with their new SDK. I give it a good 90% chance of working fine, though :-) The version for Max 8 has been tested, of course, and is still available. It might work as far back as Max 6, because they are apparently version compatible from 6 through 8, but I have only tested on 8. kW has some features that might help with XNA usage, such as support for the Max Direct3D9 material with shader parameters; support for mirroring along Z and mirroring the V coordinate ; support for properly exported skinned meshes even if ...Show All

• SQL Server Developer v/s Enterprise (SSIS)

  Hell assuming your asking about the differences between the 2 versions. The following link gives an overview. The Integration services section is in the middle. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx hope that helps ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Game Development On Pocket PCS

  What I Have To Do To Buil 3D Applications For Pocket PCs I have posted a few BLOGs describing how to get started writing MD3DM applications. See http://blogs.msdn.com/markprenticems/ ...Show All