abuja's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Starting work on my GUI system

  Well, I've hit a wall with my game's development, and since there was no GUI with XNA 1.0, I've decided to go ahead and make my own GUI system. I implemented a lot of mechanics for my game, but I need greater interaction to proceed development in a sane manner. So far I've just implemented the text drawing stuff from scratch. It uses only monospace fonts generated with BMFontGenerator without using the generated .xml file. It's decidedly minimal to use only monospace fonts, but keep in mind two things - 1) my particular game doesn't require anything more robust than monospace fonts and 2) a game's engine should be designed around the game's specifc requirements. Otherwise you're scope creepin. I remind myself constantly not to let cool ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataTable sorting

  I checked the DataTable.Select methods .. and all i want is to get all the rows in the datatable in an order. I don't need to specify a filterexpression .. since i want all the rows to be sorted .... How can i achieve it you could use a DataView and sort it... DataView theView = new DataView(theDataSet.Tables[0]); theView.Sort = "ColumnName sortOrder "; sortOrder = DESC or ASC. does this help ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Window not attached to rest of the xaml, scale/anchor elements in window

  Hi, i have a window that i want to resize and some elements are anchored and some elements that scale according to the window. I have made a test project in expression Blend that works fine, but when i added the xaml code to my c# project i doesnt work anymore. this is probably because of the way i load the xaml code. I got a frame that contains the top, bottom and a center dockpanel. In the Center dockpanel i load a other xaml source into it. None of the xaml sources got a codebehind files, i got 1 class for all the xaml sources. This class inherage for Window and i add the xaml elements to that window, i think this might be the problem. Or can the problem be that i load a namespace into the window that already got namespace I must have n ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS browser window shows the following message: "To help protect your security..."

  Hi there, I'm using a VS browser window to shows HTML file containing the Flash animation. I have some difficulties with that - when I open this HTML file I see the warning at the top of the VS browser window containing the following message: " To help protect your security, your web browser has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer Click here for option... " I'm interesting how to remove that message from the top of VS browser window I've tried IE options - no results. I've tried both way to show my HTML file described in that post . Any ideas will be much appreciated!!! Thanks! Hi Dmitry, Just to clarify, this particular feature is enabled by defaul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Modifying a Table Column

  What would be the steps to modify a table column The database schema has been imported. The project is under source control. The column of an existing table must be modified. Currently (eg): [ColumnName] [int] NOT NULL, Later: [ColumnName] [int] NULL, If I modify the table in Solution Explorer and save the file, I get an error "An object with name '[Table] dbo.[TableName]' exists in the database project. But I cannot repro the problem on both Schema View and Solution Explorer. Can you please send me the script for the table or the whole database so that I may be able to repro on your database and investigate the cause Thanks, Henry ...Show All

• .NET Development Update statement

  why isit i am still able to get a successful update for a row when there is not such a row. ie try to update a row where id=10, but there is no id10 and im still able to get a success reply. what is wrong LPlate wrote: i shld have found the solution to my problem. but i do need to know how i can perform a check on another table before i perform the update on this table. how will the sql command be like eg. will be reading user input table 1 , table 2 i wanna check on table 1 whether (a and b) exists and if exists, i will den update table 2 user input. Research INSTEAD OF Update triggers Adamus ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problem creating stored procedures using designer in VB2005 Express.

  I am trying to create a stored procedure (using SQL Express 2005) using the designer within VB2005 Express. I have already created one without problem but a second is causing me all kinds of problems. First the SQL: SELECT Customer_Name.Cust_Name_ID, Customer_Name.Cust_Address_ID AS Expr1, Customer_Name.Cust_Name_Family, Customer_Name.Cust_Name_Given_1, Customer_Name.Cust_Name_Given_2, Customer_Name.Cust_Name_Company_ID, Cust_Address.Cust_Address_ID, Cust_Address.Cust_Address_1, Cust_Address.Cust_Address_2, Cust_Address.Cust_Post_Town, Cust_Address.Cust_Address_Post_Code, Post_Town.Post_Town_ID, Post_Town.Post_Town_Name, Post_Town.Post_Town_Priority FROM Customer_Name INNER JOIN ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IGraphBuilder vs FilgraphManager

  I am trying to get a HD mpeg file to play in DirectShow using C++. I have two different applications one in C# and one in C++. The C# application renders the HD mpeg file just fine and the C++ programs gives me the following error "An invalid media type was specified.". I the documentation is said that IGraphBuilder was the same or similiar to the FilgraphManager. Here is the C# code that works: m_objFilterGraph = new FilgraphManager(); m_objFilterGraph.RenderFile(openFileDialog.FileName); m_objBasicAudio = m_objFilterGraph as IBasicAudio; try { m_objVideoWindow = m_objFilterGraph as IVideoWindow; m_objVideoWindow.Owner = (int) panel1.Handle; m_objVi ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies accessing trace information

  when i am developing a web part or custom field control and i deploy it in production. how do i do to troubleshoot a pb. I guess we use tracing by writing trace.write... right How do I access those trace messages that I write 2/and pls is there another way to troubleshoot a pb while in production environnement thank you very much enable trace and or pageoutput in web.config and access either the pages directly or trace.axd in the site like: http://mysite/trace.axd in code add: Trace.Write or Trace.Warn or System.Diagnostics.Trace.Warn(....... Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# Convert .txt file data into a .mdb file data

  Hi... I want to convert a text file data into a access file(.mdb format). Data will be already there in .txt file in a perticular format so i just have to read the data from that text file & i have to make a .mdb file with same data. Can anybody guide me how i can do this... Thanks in adavance, Vinay Thanks for the reaply, Actually i have to read the complete .txt file & then i have to remove the unnecessary data from that text fle to make a .mdb file. Also i have to add some extra comments which are actually not there in text file & at the end i have to make a setup program with my application. So can you suggest anything else... Thanks once again, ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista In July CTP, using StateMachineWorkflowInstance to obtain CurrentState freezes workflows in that State

  Dear all, I have a working StateMachineWorkflow hosted under asp.net 2.0. I have written a simple routine (shown below) to interrogate the current state of a workflowinstance: public string WfCurrentStateDescription(string WorkflowInstanceId) { // Get the workflowRuntime which was started in global.asax WorkflowRuntime wfRuntime = (WorkflowRuntime)Application[WorkflowRuntimeKey]; StateMachineWorkflowInstance wfInst = new StateMachineWorkflowInstance(wfRuntime, new Guid(WorkflowInstanceId)); return wfInst.CurrentState.Description; } I find that, once I have called this on a workflowinstance, that instance gets "stuck" in the current state and never transitions to the next state, even though code appears to get c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions To attach a database to an exe file

  Hi, I've created an application using VB 2005 EE, using MS-Access as backend. I converted the appliaction into an exe file using the clickonce method,but Iam unable to attach the database files and a MS-Word (.doc)file into the exe created. Can anyone help me to proceed further Thanks Bye you could embed the file as a resource, then read it back when you need it, using something like GetManifestResourceStream. Here is a better resource information about it: http://vb-helper.com/howto_net_embedded_resources.html does this give you some pointers you basically add an item into your project, say for example an MS Word Doc file, select that file in the solution explorer ...Show All

• SQL Server How to connect SQL Server 2000?

  i want to connect SQL Server 2000 with remotely how it will work i have a sql server data base on server(domain) in xyz company, they give me following information: database name server IP address database user name database password i can connect the same database using networking internet (proxy) connect internet connection start proxy connection i am using a pc from network which is useing proxy for internet. i open query analyzer enter IP address, user name and password (which is currect) though i can't connect sql server else i can connect the same server which PC is using own internet connection not form network i want to know that how can we connect SQL Server using internet ...Show All

• Visual Basic Is it possible?

  How would I fill a picturebox with an image ramdomly selected from a bank of images whether in a class, or a set of dimensioned images Please give me a piece of code that depicts this idea. Private Sub btnRandom_Click(By Val...etc.) Dim i as integer For i = 1 to 65535 Picturebox1.image = RANDOM IMAGE etc. Next i End Sub . . I think you get what im trying to say! Hi, say you have pictures in your c:\images folder, named from image0.bmp to image99.bmp... You could use the following code to load a random picture in your picture box: Dim pictureCount = 100 Dim selectedPictureIndex = New Random().Next(0, pictureCount) PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile( String .Format( "c:\images\image{0}.bmp" , sel ...Show All

• Visual C++ WINDOWS.H already included

  ------ Build started: Project: testfile, Configuration: Release Win32 ------ Compiling... main.cpp C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include\afxv_w32.h(16) : fatal error C1189: #error : WINDOWS.H already included. MFC apps must not #include <windows.h> How do I fix this problem Yes. I've found the solution, After removing all #include <windows.h> from the files in the project, I've added #include <afxwin.h> instead. Thanks, Yossi ...Show All