Satal Keto's Q&A profile
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Video Tutorials
Dear, Where Can I Found Video Tutorials For MDX, DirectX and XNA Like That Found On www.learnxna.com Yes, I've not even seen paid for video tutorials. http://www.gameinstitute.com does paid tutorials, though nothing managed or XNA http://www.gametutorials.com/ has a CD you can buy with tutorials - no videos though. Also http://www.vicampus.com/ which used to be GameVersity - again I don't think any videos ...Show All
Audio and Video Development The clock about Presenter of EVR
Hi, all: I wrote a presenter to overwrite the composition of evr. In vista beta 2, I get a clock in InitServicePointers function. I use the clock to syncronize video frame, but the video and audio is not syncronized. But when I try again with Vista RC1, the clock always return 0. I am very confused. So 1. Should I use IMFPresentationClock or IMFClock for syncronization 2. Why the clock is freezed in vista RC1 Thanks Thanks for Becky. My problem is caused by we do not send any video samples at start time. That is because the first scene is a menu. When users click a item then we will start sending sample to evr. But without first video frame, it looks like the clock will not be fired. so I always get a 0 time. If ...Show All
SQL Server DW partitioning advice needed by lost soul
We are putting our first DW together. One of the consultants, not familiar with the MS SQL database, suggested we consider "parititioning" our data for ease or reloading, distaster recovery etc. His idea was that we could parition the data based on, say, year, and that way, in case of a disaster, we would only need to reload that year's worth of data from our backups. (So I guess he is talking about software partitioning, not hardware partitioning ) I can't imagine how this approach wll work with our nightly backup strategy or the changes the need to be made to the DW import code to to handle these partitons. Furthermore, in case of a disaster how is one to even know what parititon(s) to reload. (I'd be incliined to reload the ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XLinq: Get XElement Line Number
Hi, Does anyone knows how I could read the line number of a particular XElement read from a XML file Regards chionhhm Dear Mike, I have tried your solution and submitted my comment in the blog. Not sure if you have received it. Let me know if you don't. Thanks. Regards chionhhm ...Show All
SQL Server Update temp table with stored procedure joined with table
Hello Is it possible to insert data into a temp table with data returned from a stored procedure joined with data from another table insert #MyTempTable exec [dbo] . [MyStoredProcedure] @Par1 , @Par2 , @Par3 JOIN dbo.OtherTable... I'm missing something before the JOIN command. The temp table needs to know which fields need be updated. I just can't figure it out Many Thanks! Worf You can't join a stored procedure to another table but you can insert into a temp table from a stored procedure then join another table to the temp table..something like this. insert into #MyTempTable(X,Y,Z) exec [dbo] . [MyStoredProcedure] @Par1 , @Par2 , @Par3 select tmp. X,tmp.Y, ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums MSR MapCruncher v3.0 released
We've just released v3.0 of MSR MapCruncher for Virtual Earth, which allows you to quickly & easily overlay your own custom tile-sets for Virtual Earth from PDF, JPEG, TIFF and other image files. You can find it here: http://research.microsoft.com/mapcruncher. For a list of changes, see: http://research.microsoft.com/mapcruncher/changes.html Cheers, the MSR MapCruncher Team I found http://local.live.com/ (window live search) very informative and quite user accessible. I can think of few features that can be added to make more informative. If you want me to post those features, please contact me at this mail id: adha2331@yahoo.com . ...Show All
SQL Server Help with first steps into Service Broker
Hello, I am putting my first steps into the new Service Broker. I (think i) undestand what it can do, so i execute some example sript i found on the Internet. But with none om them i receive any message into a queue. Can somebody help me. The undeneath example i use. ---------------------------------------- USE AdventureWorksDW GO CREATE MESSAGE TYPE HelloMessage VALIDATION = NONE GO CREATE CONTRACT HelloContract (HelloMessage SENT BY INITIATOR) GO CREATE QUEUE SenderQueue CREATE QUEUE ReceiverQueue GO CREATE SERVICE Sender ON QUEUE SenderQueue CREATE SERVICE Receiver ON QUEUE ReceiverQueue (HelloContract) GO DECLARE @conversationHandle UNIQUEIDENTIFIER DECLARE @message NVARCHAR(100) BEGIN BEGIN TRANSACTION; BEGIN DIALOG @co ...Show All
SQL Server Problems on connection during mirroring (Error 1418)
Hi everyone, I am a newbie on setting up database mirroring and right now I am facing the connection problem during mirroring which is Error 1418 which kinda common problem. I just view through all the threads regarding this problems and BOL also. However, I just based on all the guide to setting it up and the result are still the same. I did tried on both instance names in my server for mirroring and displayed the same results as well. When I type this t-sql on mirror server : ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks SET PARTNER = 'TCP://TSUYOSHI:5022' -- which is the principal server It shows connection ok to me. However, when I type this t-sql on the principal server : ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks SET PARTNER = 'TCP://H ...Show All
.NET Development Windows Service gives "5: Access is denied" on startup.
I am writing a Windows service I intend to host a TCP server and communicate with TCP client equipped applications. I used the Windows Service template to start, and wrote some code I knew I'd need to get started. I added the server installation components as described in the help, and set it to run in the LocalService account. I compiled the code as an .exe and used the installutil <servicename.exe> to install it for testing. When I attempted to start it through the service manager, it came back with 5: Access is denied. I originally attempted to start it under the LocalService account, then retried it under the NetworkService account. Same issue. Just as a sanity check, I created a bare Windows Service with no code other than ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA - Microsoft lack of vision
Its real sad that Microsoft, once again, shows this lack of vision for a games development tool: 1: Get visual: Don't force users to write such a lot of code to do just very little. It reminds the Charles Petzold's "Hello Window" hell of code days. 2: Provide visual tools: Let users choose the components, change their properties and write just the required code for the events. 3: Quick development means quick prototype and minimum learning curve. XNA has a lot of things to learn. Definetively it is NOT for students and hobbists. We will have to wait until someone encapsulates XNA framework into a group of visual components, that can be easily drag & dropped, inspected and tested very easily without having to learn lots of n ...Show All
SQL Server tablediff utility bug?!?
In my transactional push replication I had differences, which were reported correctly by the utility tbalediff. I created with the tablediff utility all necessary statements to correct them. Afterwards I ran tablediff again to check if everything is ok. It wasn't, I got a lot of mismatches. The reason for those mismatches are columns from type "float". It looks like that float values are not generated correctly in insert statements. We had differences in the values and from that point on we have mismatches. Does anyone has an idea how to get rid of those reported mismatches ! ! I will report this also as a bug. Regards Norbert tahnks Norbert, we tried to reproduce ...Show All
Smart Device Development Saving State...
When I try to 'save state and exit' from file menu, the message SAVING STATE... is displayed but nothing seems to happen. SAVING STATE... does not disappear and nothing is saved. I have tried device emulator V1 and V2. NK.bin is made using device emulator bsp, but I also tried SMDK2410 bsp - with the same result. Any ideas It says "Device Emulator BSP for Windows CE 5.0". I have downloaded it yesterday from Microsoft (DeviceEmulatorBSP.msi, lesize 1.135.04 Bytes). ...Show All
.NET Development Help for TcpClient on PocketPC
Hallo I have this code: private void readCommand( object stateInfo) { int bytesRead = 0; String clientData = "" ; String xml = "" ; try { while ((( TcpClient )stateInfo).Client.Connected) { bytesRead = (( TcpClient )stateInfo).Client.Available; if (bytesRead > 0) { byte [] bytes = new byte [bytesRead]; (( TcpClient )stateInfo).Client.Receive(bytes); clientData = Encoding .ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, bytesRead); SystemController .proccessObject( ( ArrayList ) ServerResponse .getInstance().getObjectType(clientData)); } Thread .Sleep(500); } } catch ( Exception e) { MessageBox .Show(e.Message); } } thi ...Show All
Visual Studio Problems installing VS2005 Professional
I have been tring to install VS2005 Professional Edition to my home PC for over a week and have run into 2 problems. First, I get a message box at the end of the setup screen stating "There is no disk in the drive." and the Cancel, Try Again, Continue buttons. No matter what I do, the message box continues to re-appear. The only option I have is to press the Continue button. Yes, I have tried removing the CD from the drive and re-inserting it, I have put the second CD in, and I have even copied all the setup CD's to my hard drive and tried to install from there with no success. The second issue is during the install of Visual Studio 2005. The install continually fails and when I look at the log generated, it states the &q ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Let's go 3d engine
sorry about my typos i am word blind , but the math thing is in place Hello i like to share some info width you mabye you have seen crytek 2 engine and my is how do we make a aaa 3d engine here is a link to a paper about the crytek 2 engine http://ati.amd.com/developer/siggraph06/Wenzel-Real-time_Atmospheric_Effects_in_Games.pdf well the 3d evolution game engine(my engine) is based on the paper and alot of other info found on the net and i will soon realease the full source code the engine + a 3d fps game here is a video shot (big file) of the engine it runs in xna beta 1 so it a bit old video http://www.3devolution.net/Portals/0/Gameshot.wmv more video is comming before realease date so you can pla ...Show All