Nihal Chand's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to create a level editor

  I was wondering if anyone out there has written a level editor for their XNA game If so, how did you write it and did you use XNA to write it I am mostly interested in 3D games. I am trying to decide whether I should create the level in a modeling program and inport that for the enviroment, but this seems like it would be far to resource consuming. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :) Thanks. Do you think that it would be easier for me to make a "game" in XNA and really make it act like a level editor Like load in the objects that I want to position and then put them in their places and after I have everything in place, I can save the file with all positions. After that I guess ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Overwrite Drop Location and keep output from project files!!

  Hi All, Is there anyway that I could by pass drop location and keep the output as I set in the project files Best Regards, Hi You could also use the following to copy your binaries to the proper location <Target Name="AfterDropBuild"> <CreateItem Include="$(BinariesRoot)\**\*.*" > <Output ItemName="FilesToCopy" TaskParameter="Include" /> </CreateItem> <Copy SourceFiles="@(FilesToCopy)" DestinationFolder=" \\machineA\TeamBuildDeploy\Testers " /> </Target> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Rational Clearcase plug-in for MV 2005

  Can any body give me the link to rational clearcase plugin for microsoft visual studio 2005. The problem is: when i open any c++ project in visual studion 2003.net and when I right click on any source/header files, I get the "Check out/ check in" option from clearcase but when i do the same in visual studio 2005, I don't get any "check out/ check in" option on right click. Does anybody know what's going on and how to solve it. Thanks Jimi Try looking at the Clear Case web site http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearcase/ Could it be that the project you are working with in VS 2005 is not under SCC Did you "Add project to Source Control" ...Show All

• Architecture Office Automation in .NET

  Hi, We have a Documentation system which generates some output documents based upon some pre-defined templates in MS Word. What we did in the past was, we designed these templates in Word. We had a Visual Basic dll which dynamically merge the data into these templates using Mail Merge feature. Now we are enhancing/upgrading this application. I was wondering if we can get rid of this Mail Merge some way because using MS Word on server with COM+ causes many unwanted scenarios, like Word instances remain open and eats memory, Some unwanted data appears in Mail Merge fields and Word opens a pop up etc. Can anyone suggest something more useful Thanks, Well Our existing solution works as well. My po ...Show All

• SQL Server I may just have to kill myself....Oracle

  I have a stored procedure in Oracle. I build the sql beautifully to call it with Openquery "select * from OPENQUERY(MYLink,'DECLARE P_DATE VARCHAR2(20); BEGIN P_DATE := ''15-Sep-2006 17:26:09''; EXEC poPT (P_DATE); COMMIT; End;') "Server: Msg 7357, Level 16, State 2, Line 1" "Could not process object 'DECLARE P_DATE VARCHAR2(20); BEGIN P_DATE := '15-Sep-2006 17:26:09'; EXEC poPT(P_DATE); COMMIT; End;'. The OLE DB provider 'MSDAORA' indicates that the object has no columns." I cannot seem to find away to make this work. I wanted to return just the record count to make it happy but that did not work either. The linked server is fine, the grants are fine. I even tried this as a function in orac ...Show All

• SQL Server scheduling maintenance activities

  Am I able to do this in SS Express -like a backup or something or do I need to purhcase a SQL Server Agent (I believe I saw a 3rd party company always advertising this in SQL Server Central.com). It's cheap -- just curious if I really need it. SQL Express does not contain any specific scheduling tools. You can schedule T-SQL scripts to be run using Windows Task Scheduler and SQLCmd, which is a free solution as Task Scheduler is part of Windows. For more complex needs, a third party scheduling tool is an option. Regards, Mike Wachal SQL Express team ---- Mark the best posts as Answers! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem using ObjectContext with MapConnection

  Hi, I am trying the code samples in the The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview document (August 2006) that came with the CTP. I ran this code succesfully. using ( MapConnection con = new MapConnection ( Settings .Default.AdventureWorks)) { con.Open(); MapCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = "SELECT VALUE sp " + "FROM AdventureWorks.AdventureWorksDB.SalesPeople AS sp " + "WHERE sp.HireDate > @date" ; cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue( "@date" , hireDate); DbDataReader r = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (r.Read()) { Console .WriteLine( "{0}\t{1}" , r[ "FirstName" ...Show All

• SQL Server Placing Database under Visual Source Safe Source Control

  I have been trying to evaluate how SQL Server 2005 integrates with VSS. The only thing I can find is the ability to place a database 'solution' under source conrtol and that basically puts create scripts and change scripts under source control. Ultimately that is nearly worthless. What I would really rather do is place the DATABASE under source control so that a user would have to check out a table if they wanted to make a change. I would love it if SQL Management Studio worked like this product (and maybe it does but there is squat for documentation about placing SQL Server 2005 under source control): http://www.skilledsoftware.com/features_sourcecontrol.htm I fully understand that 'in the background' the above product is simpl ...Show All

• Community Chat Wireless Speaker System

  Hi I like to design many things and im wondering if its possible (and if its already been made) a speaker system where you can keep adding more to your system. Basically you have the transmitters, these will be plugged into anything that plays sound from a PC to a TV or Hi-Fi system. There can be only one channel where all these play to so you can have either one thing playing or more than one thing Then you have the speaker which recieve the audio from all the transmitters, the speakers can be added in any number so you can have a few in each room of the house. Awesome for a party! Im stuck on the power for the speakers becuase the transmitters can be plugged in but haveing ever speaker plugged in to the wall or every speaker ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dataset does not update more than once during runtime.

  Hi there, I have a dataset that i am updating during runtime of my program. To do this, I first delete all of the data in a datatable using "DELETE * FROM Table1" command, and then update the dataset. To initiate this process, i double click on a datagrid. The first time i double-click on the data grid, the program works exactly as planned--i step through the code and verify that first all the records in the datatable delete, and then is updated with all the new records. The problem i'm having is that the next time i double-click on the datagrid, the table doesn't delete! And then i get an error that i am updating a table with a non-unique record. If my table deletes like its supposed to, i shouldn't ever get this error...why ...Show All

• .NET Development streaming video

  hi, how can i make streaming video using asp.net & C#. instead of dowloading the content, user should be able to watch the video or the live content in the website itself. You don't even need C# or ASP.NET coding to do this. Just add a media player object into your HTML code of your webpage and set the URL property of the medial player object to the streaming media. Something like this: <script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript"> var g_bNetscape = ( -1 != navigator.appName.indexOf( "Netscape" ) ); if( g_bNetscape ) { document.writeln( "<APPLET mayscript code=WMPNS.WMP name=WMP1 width=300 height=200 MAYSCRIPT >" ); } </script&g ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't disable a button

  I am programming in c#. I have a button on my form that when clicked, it plays a wav file using the PlaySound method from winmm.dll. The wav is about 3 seconds long. The problem is that if I keep clicking the button during the 3 seconds the sound is playing, it queues all of the clicks, and plays the wav over and over. My Button is named btn. So I tried: this.btn.Enabled = false; PlaySound(...); this.btn.Enabled = true; Doing this successfully greyed out the button while the sound is playing, but it still accepts clicks, so it didn't fix my original problem. Is there some way to clear the event queue Or is there something else I'm doing wrong. I just want the button to not work while the sound is playing. I have also tried ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) sweet!

  Hi... could someone tell me where i can find the Microsoft.Synchronization.Data and Microsoft.Synchronization.Data.Client dlls for the Demo III: Offline Application – WebService Thanks, BillB Hi, The Microsoft.Synchronization.Data.Client.dll is part of the Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADo.NET CTP. Download the CTP: Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET CTP release ...Show All

• SQL Server DMX from Java

  My preferred programming language is Java (sorry Microsoft). I've searched for examples of running DMX queries into an Analysis Services database from Java but failed to locate any. I've seen suggestions that XMLA could be used but again, I can't locate any examples (in any language). For my current project I ran up the white flag and used C# instead but this wouldn't be an option in other cases. It would be possible to make the DMX calls from C# objects and call those from Java but that's pretty labourious to code. Suggestions have you tried the XMLA Thin Client sample at http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/DMCommunity/LiveSamples/124.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Tcp error 10048: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted

  I have developped an application that call a WCF service Two ChannelFactory<T> has been opened in try block and they are close in finally block. This operation is carried out in a while condition and it's executed 30000 times. while (i<30000) { try { OPen ChannelFactory<T> OPen ChannelFactory<T1> } finally { Close ChannelFactory<T> Close ChannelFactory<T1> } } When i arrive at 2000 calls i have this error : System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: Could not connect to net.tcp://srv-mpl-int12:4151/ISupplier. Tcp error 10048: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Only one usage of each socket add ...Show All