Jon Abbott's Q&A profile
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I'm confused...
Why aren't the vertex positions in loaded models the same as they are in the file from which they are loaded It seems that some coordinate transformation occurs in the importing step. Can anyone please tell me what this transformation is Total guess, and I haven't looked at this myself, but what you describe could be a conversion from left handed to right handed coordinates (DirectX defaults to LH, XNA is RH). Andy. ...Show All
Visual Basic System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
Hi, I run an online Railroad simulation with a Community of some 60-70 players. Just recently 2 of the players have had to re-install Windows and hence the Simulation and now when they attempt to load it they get " System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)" No others are affected and indeed a couple of new players who have installed the game in the same period have had no problems. I have sent the affected players a list of the loaded Assemblies and both have confirmed all are present and correct. I am using VB Express with .NET Framework V2.0 and the DirectX Redistribution from October 2005 (ie Direct3DX 1.0.2908 with the other DirectX Assemblies ...Show All
Gadgets Apply CSS file to xml/rss link?
Hi I'm still struggling with my first gadget production and need some help for the last problem (at least for this gadget). I'm developing Wikipedia gadget: searchbox and flyout that display the result. Well, it's works, almost... My Flyout opens xml link like this: http://www.blinkbits.com/en_wikifeeds_rss/Derek_Jeter It's doesn't looks so good since it has no stylesheet, so I have to provide someone. Question is, how can I apply css file to the content I don't have (it's just a link) There are my main.html and flyout.html files: main.html <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> ----------- some style --------- </style> <script language="javascript"> System.Gadge ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Capture a picturebox
I am trying to capture the contents of a picturebox. The picturebox's location property is 0, 0 Only the upper left corner of the picturebox and part of whatever is in the background, is captured. Dim b As Bitmap Private Sub CapturePictureBox1() Dim myGraphics As Graphics = PictureBox1.CreateGraphics() Dim s As Size = PictureBox1.Size b = New Bitmap(s.Width, s.Height, myGraphics) Dim capturedGraphics As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(b) capturedGraphics.CopyFromScreen(PictureBox1.Location.X, PictureBox1.Location.Y, 0, 0, s) End Sub Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click CapturePictureBox1() End Sub ...Show All
Visual Studio Bizaare Animation
Has anyone by any chance ever seen a small animation of the Visual Studio logo exploding over and over again in the bottom, right-hand corner of the Visual Studio screen It would be to the right of where the current line number is displayed on the info bar. I have no idea what it is. It doesn't seem to be causing any errors, but I am a curious fellow and would love to know what it means. Thank you. ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions commands
where do i go to learn about all the vb commands, as i read these posts i am learning about commands that m books dont tell me about. how can do somethhing if i dont know the commands. things like accept and so on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/03c7a3zb.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c8aebh9k.aspx Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All
Visual Studio Tools for Office How can i extract my OLE Object(.xml file) from Excel and save as a file xml file programmatically?
Hello, I have a one OLE Object(XML file) embed in Excel file. now how can i programmatically extract that OLE Object from excel and save as a .xml file. Any idea... I think you're misunderstanding my response. You first need to find out which file formats the OLE object containing the XML puts on the Clipboard, and whether any of them expose the XML. For me, the simplest way to do this is to check Word's paste special list. But you can also check it programmatically, if you know how. In any case, you will need to follow-up on this question in the VB.NET group I pointed you to. Access the Clipboard programmatically is not something the VSTO technology covers. It's something you do with your programming language, using ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Timer is not firing sometimes when handling multithreaded Application
I am facing a problem that the timer is not getting fired when the application runs for some minutes. I a using Windows XP SP2 for running the application with .NET framework 2.0 The objective of using the timer is to send a cyclic message to the hardware at periodic interval I am using the System.Timers which fires every 2 seconds and the processing time involved in the elapsed event is around 700 milliseconds only. The same is tried with Threading Timer also and the behaviour is the same. Kindly clarify if there is a solution for this Thanks , Sangeetha Your question do not seem to be related to Windows Workflow Foundation, which is what this forum is for questions about ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Troubles with D3DXSaveTextureToFile
When i'm trying to save dxt texture to already existing dds file, D3DXSaveTextureToFile function call fails. DX debug runtime says that it cannot create RT with DXT5 format. I'm using June 2005 SDK and switching to newer one is not an option. Any thoughts I'm not generating dxt data. I'm just trying to save already created texture back to already existing dds file. and D3DXSaveTextureToFile call fails when trying to create RT with that dxt format. ...Show All
SQL Server Reporting serive not displaying graph
Hi All, i have a software which using reporting service enterprise edition for reports. i have two environment for my software. one for testing and one in production. in testing i have deployed SQL ,IIS and software under one system and i production i have installed SQL and IIS separatly. i am able to see my reports on both these environment. but graph is not displaying in my producton server. i can also able to see graph in test enviorment. please help me to solve this issue. Thanks in advance, RR. ...Show All
SQL Server Transmission queue ?
Hi There I have sent messages and they are all sitting in the transmission queue with a blank status, why is service broker not trying to send them They are no errors in the sql log. BOL says this is blank when it has not tried to send the message Service broker is definately activated in the database. How do i force sql server to send anything in the transmission que I have no idea what is wrong or where to check Thanx Dietz wrote: Also i find it odd that these valid erros do not display in the transmission queue The status is just blank in the transmission queue, is this correct The transmission queue can only display errors than happen locally, before the messag ...Show All
Smart Device Development want to capture Outlook Message before MS Outlook gets it.
Hi, I am writing an addin for MS Outlook 2003 using .Net 2003 I want to capture message which come form Exchange Server when we click Send/Receive button before it goes to MS Outlook, and want to perform some task related to attachment, subject,etc..How can I capture this message. And one more thing is it can be achieved by using EDK(Exchange Development Kit) which provide all sort of Interfaces but it would be a dependency if some body is using Linux or some thing else at server for exchange. Im using .Net 2003 and MS Outlook 2003 and also using CDO Library to achieve my goal. First of all this is a wrong forum for you. Second of all you should be able to achieve what you need by creating an Add-in for Outlook. And you'd better off ...Show All
SQL Server Can I link the data mining Results to any front end or CRM system
Hi I am using association alogorythm for market bsket and I want to publish this results to the CRM system or to any Front end application is it possible and if yes pl let us now how to go head with the same Thanks In advance Rajesh Ladda In general the answer is yes - there are many ways to accomplish this. You can use Integration Services to export query results, you can use DMX in code to perform predictions, you can use Reporting Services to create data mining reports in your applications as well. There are many examples at www.sqlserverdatamining.com on how to use data mining in a variety of scenarios. ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) When will Cider be available for C++ developement?
ever --Andreas Hi Andreas, "Cider", and the Expression Interactive Designer (“Sparkle”), are fundamentally XAML design tools. XAML is an asset of WPF applications and will work with WPF regardless what language is used to add functionality behind the markup & UI. That said, the Visual C++ product in the next release ("Orcas") is foremost aimed at developers taking advantage of new native Windows Vista capabilities. Any additional tool integration between Visual C++ and WPF is at a lower priority than the core mission of Windows Vista development, and hasn’t been announced at this time. Visual C++ developers can, as always, access the new .NET Framework 3.0 technologies ...Show All
.NET Development Interop layer throws System Exception (cast) when accessing unmanaged COM code
I would appreciate help/comments on the following... I am trying to access a COM component written in Fujitsu NetCOBOL from C#. I have spent many hours (days...) reading the docs, trying various combinations, and looking at the samples but my attempts are failing miserably. The COM .dll is called "AVSCOMSVR" and the embedded TypeLib has been picked up and converted to an Interop Assembly by VS 2005. Here's a picture of the generated interfaces and Classes: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dashwood/dashwood/AVSProject2.jpg I find this a little puzzling... VS2005 seems to have duplicated the interfaces, some above the Class entry and some subordinate to it, but that may be OK and just reflect my limited understandin ...Show All