kfindev's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Video/Animation Playback

  Hi, I'm currently writing a library (for XNA/DirectX) for animation/soundless video playback, and I have a few design questions for the pros out there if you don't mind answering them : I'm having my animation class inherit from game component, and update the frame depending on game time in the overriden Update method, and render it in the overidden Draw method, but even when I preload my textures to render, playback is choppy. Not sure exactly why, but I notice this only when I have significant number of frames (I noticed it with 100 frames, but *not* with 10/15). This problem may be linked and solved by the 2nd point, so please read on. When I preload all the textures for the frames in the animation (and the no. of frames ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I'd like to have a game developed...but I need a partner.

  I teach 1st grade. I have an idea for a simple 2D (Phonics) game...but I don't have any skills as a programmer. I wanted to know if any programmers would be interested in a partnership   The game basically involves a little character running around the screen to pick up letters and form words. The character would have to avoid certain obstacles on screen. The game would require a lot of speech to sound out the words that the onscreen character created. Jim Perry wrote: I wish I were like that. My attempts at art makes programmer art look good. I'd love to take a shot at this as my son is in first grade and might benefit from something like this but I don't have the ti ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding a textbox to a database field using TableAdapters

  Hi there, I'm trying to bind a ASP TextBox to a certain field of my database using a TableAdapter. It's quite easy to bind the result to a DadaGrid: ProductsTableAdapter productsAdapter = new ProductsTableAdapter(); GridView1.DataSource = productsAdapter.GetProductsByCategoryID(1); GridView1.DataBind(); But how can I bind a certain Column to a TextBox I thought something like this would be possible: //Get the Adapter ProductsTableAdapter productsAdapter = new ProductsTableAdapter(); //Get the result of the whole query Products.ProductsDataTable data = productsAdapter.GetProductsByCategoryID(1); //Get one Cell out of the result myTextBox.Text = data[0].myProduct.Value; Can anybody asist me on this Thanks, Finch. ...Show All

• .NET Development regex

  can anyone explain about regular expressions the complex patterns that are shown in the previous threads are hard to follow. i need some more explaination how to give a pattern.. Thanks in advance.. (Moderator: Thread moved to the Regular Expression Forum and Title tweaked for better Searching) Check out the announcement section at the top of the new Regular Expressions forum Regex Resource Reference to begin your foray into Regexes. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Can't render the scene

  Hi, Please, help me with my problem. I have a simple app which should render one triangle. But I see a blank screen. Can someone help I am using Managed DirectX for .NET Framework 2.0 (April update). The source code is here: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using Microsoft.DirectX; using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D; using Microsoft.DirectX.Generic; using CV = Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.CustomVertex; namespace dxtest { public partial class Form1 : Form { private VertexBuffer vb; private Device device; public Form1 ...Show All

• SQL Server XML iteration

  I know this problem probably comes up alot, but Im looking for a way to iterate through certain nodes of a given XML variable. Im trying to write a stored procedure that will insert a large number of stock items, these stock items are represented by XML, there is alot of data that associated to a stock item so I need to check many many dependancies before inserting the stock item. So I need to loop through each Stock element, then loop through that particular elements child nodes etc... doing SQL validation, etc... almost like cursors for XML. Can this be done or can someone suggest a better solution Cheers, Mark That sounds like a good solution.here is some sample data: <stockItems> <stock> ...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 Hello, The idea of visualizing branch history is very welcome quite for a while, so I thought to have a quick look, but the trial download from your site does not work; it requests a license. Also, it appears that add-in does not support folders. Is that so Regards, Eugene ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Experience?

  Well, I have done a little C++ but no C# and I'm wondering if it would help having a certain amount of experience. So can you guys tell me how much experience you had programming and if I would need to learn some C# first. If you have a good book or site that can help that would be great too. Hopefully I'll be able to start programming an XNA game right away with what I already know. I had not used C# at all prior to using XNA.  And my only C experience had been back in my BBS days when I wrote a few mods for the WWIV BBS software :)  I have done loads of Pascal, Delphi, and even some Assembly programming on both 6502 and x86 back in the day. In the past, I've mostly used Visual Basic (I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to combine data from two tables into one EntityType?

  Using the vNext August CTP and Linq May CTP LINQtoEntities Sample I would like to include the CategoryName of the Northwind Categories table in the Product EntityType, to be able to do following query: var products = from p in db.Products orderby p.CategoryName select p; foreach ( Product p in products) Console .WriteLine( "{0}\t{1}" , p.CategoryName, p.ProductName); What does the entity model have to look like Thanks! Hi nakrian –   The issue Entity Services has with your scenario, is that in Entity Services, Entities need a unique key to define their identity and trying to define an Entity encompassing tables with different keys is not supported ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do you Send email?

  How do you send email in Visual Basic I don't want to use outlook, but instead be able to send email from an existing email to another existing email. for example.. how would I send email from " hellohello.com " to " hihi@hihi.com " please dont duplicate post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=782853&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. D3D10CreateDeviceAndSwapChain() buffer

  Hi, I can create a device and a swap chain with D3D10CreateDeviceAndSwapChain(). To get a suitable device a render target format can be specified in the buffer description. This seems to be equal to a CreateTexture2D() call. To create the render target view later, we can get the buffer or the buffers we created with GetBuffer() from the SwapChain. As far as I understand it this is/are the so called front buffers that we usually use to double buffer writing to the device. If there is no back buffer we would add to those front buffers one depth buffer.  If these are the front buffers, it seems like I can also specify a render target format other than 8:8:8:8 ... I just use 16:16:16:16 ... I assume that th ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL_SSMEE Failed and trying to repair while lauching our mobile client application.

  Event ID - 1001 and Event ID - 1004. Source - MsiInstaller Error Description for Event ID - 1001: Detection of product '{8670F53C-8AD7-4F34-BDBA-17B38A18CB65}', feature 'SQL_SSMSEE' failed during request for component '{6EC5DFBD-F6B5-4F02-8432-BFB8B03562B8}' Error Description for Event ID - 1004: Detection of product '{8670F53C-8AD7-4F34-BDBA-17B38A18CB65}', feature 'SQL_SSMSEE', component '{180F515D-F56C-40DD-9D71-CC532EA8E286}' failed. The resource '' does not exist. While opening our SAP Mobile Client Application, in the task manager MSIEXEC.EXE is running and trying to repair the application and this will cause our application to take time to lauch. In the Event viewer, whenever we try to lauch our applicati ...Show All

• Windows Forms How Do I port a CF Form to a Windows App?

  Currently I have an app that must look and feel the same way on a PDA as on a normal desktop. The GUI for the PDA part has been finished. Is there a way to host a CompactFramework form on a windows app If not, then how can I redesign the CF code to make it more portable ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is the generated config file helpful?

  Hey! I have generated a output.config file by using: svcutil *.wsdl *.xsd /language:C# The generated config file looks like this: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <configuration> <system.serviceModel> <bindings> <basicHttpBinding> <binding name="DefaultBinding_IChatChangePub" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00" allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageS ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Missing values

  How do you handle missing values in excel vba e.g. i have a macro that creats a chart but sometimes values are missing inside the data series. how do you handle this is there any way of setting a general way of handling this in excel e.g. skip all missing values, set missing value = 0 thanks! You may have better luck getting an answer to this question in the Excel Programming Newsgroup ...Show All