Davidjr1's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Breaking changes from MDX?

  Hello there, I have a question: when will we learn what kind of breaking changes will XNA bring if compared to MDX Also, what will be the extent of those changes Will they mostly be refactoring changes or will there be serious changes in the coding way compared to MDX Also I read soomewhere that XNA will have font and UI features. What kind of UI features are we talking about :) Widgets and the like Thanks in advance! We will provide a migration guide specifically for those that want to migrate their code from MDX 1.1 to the XNA Framework. I would categorize the changes more towards the refactoring side of things. There will be some concepts that are a bit different; they will be covered in this guide and we'll be blogging about th ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Acheive fast bevel effect

  I am trying to build a custom button template to emulate the bevel bitmap effect.  I need to do this because the bitmap effect does not use HW acceleration and is very slow.  Using 2 rectangles and a linear gradient on the back rectangle, I can acheive the look I am going for.  The problem is when resizing the button, I need to dynamically change the angle of the gradient.  Here is the button as it looks before being resized. Button before resizing     So, as you can see, the linear gradient needs to change as the button changes size. Button after resizing   The desired result is: Desired Button look after resizing (Note the difference in gradient angle around the edge) &nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Trasfer of data through XML Mapping

  Hi, Can any one tell the best approach for XML to XML Mapping and Data Validation with out using Tools I am using XML mapping for Data transfer from Source database to Destination Database. How can I map the table column and constraints How can I validate the Data - shashikumar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. System Requirements for XNA

  What are the minimum system requirements for the XNA Game Studio Express What configuration do you recomend me (please be extended, like video card), also what other software do you recommend me (like 3d modelers) From the documentation that comes with XNA Notes Windows XP requires Service Pack 2 XNA Game Studio Express is supported for all user languages that are available on these operating systems. Administrative privilege is not required to run XNA Game Studio Express. However, administrative privilege, or administrative elevation on Windows Vista, is required in order to install XNA Game Studio Express. The 64-bit versions of these operating systems are not supported. T ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reflection file only reading one class

  I'm building documentation from a single project exe that has multiple classes. The xml comments file VS2005 generates has all the comments in it for all my classes and such, but once reflection.org is generated, all the information about everything but one class disappears, and so I Sandcastle then only generates documentation for that single class. This is a Windows Forms application. Any tips would by greatly appreciated. Thanks. Hey Anand, It's been 11 days now since your last post on this thread, I hope it's tomorrow now. I would jsut like to know if you had any infomation for me yet I think it may be just a problem with that project, or some property of that project, because I've made another ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2005 Intellisense Problem

  Almost every time i want to use intellisense, i have to wait 30 seg, or close and open VS. I tried installing SP1, recreating my MFC project, but nothing so far... intellisense worked fine in VS2003, or should i call "intellidumb", kidding :P... It only happens in MFC/C++ projects, C# didn't happen so far. I took an image to picture how it works: http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/7683/intellidumbyy2.jpg Any suggestions Tks a lot I didn't see any strange process during this... And i don't think that might be a virus, because the intellisense works, just takes too much time to. And i tried to delete NCB files, the way you said it, many times... Still the same problem.... Tks for the help ...Show All

• .NET Development Can Someone Help me With this ?

  hi all ------------------------------------------------------------- using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; public partial class Personal : System.Web.UI. Page { ITS . Learner_PersonalDataTable Personal_Info; string STUDENT_NAME = "name" ; protected void Page_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) { ITSTableAdapters. Learner_PersonalTableAdapter adapter = new ITSTableAdapters. Learner_PersonalTableAdapter ( ...Show All

• Windows Forms CollectionEditor questions Names in left pane

  Hello all, CustomItem is a class which inherits Component. I then created a strongly typed CustomItemCollection which inherits CollectionBase. Next, I wrote a custom editor which inherits from CollectionEditor. It works well except that I can't figure out how to access the (Name) property in the PropertyGrid. I would like to change the names in the left pane away from Class0, Class1, Class2, etc. based on one of the properties in my CustomItem class. Thanks in advance for any ideas and/or suggestions. Hello mangelp, I believe GetDisplayText is VS2005, we are still using VS2003. I can't use the default because I need to change it after one of my properties has been set. Thanks for the response, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration Benefits

  Where is the web site I go to read E-Books and Articles and Corbis Image Pack, IconBuffet Studio Edition Icon Suite you can email at kc8pdr@kc8pdr.info I can't really help because I was having the same problem as you (and everybody else) and then one day I tried to get in and I was successful. Well, at least partially because what I really wanted was the ebook. ...Show All

• SQL Server URGNET: Report Builder with Forms Authentication

  We have successfully implemented forms authentication using the sample provided with SQL Server 2005. The ReportServer and Report Manager both are working fine with the following url. http://<server-name>/Reports http://<server-name>/ReportServer However, when we launch the ReportBuilder using the following url http://<server-name>/ReportServer/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder.application or from the Report Manager it prompts for user name and password. On entering the valid user-name and password, it gives the following error. The attempt to connect to the report server failed. Check your connection information and that the report server is a compatible version. This error is when we are trying to access ...Show All

• Visual Basic Intellisense Selection

  Ok this is for the ide experts. Is there any way to bind the "enter" key so select the highlighted member in the intellisense dropdown Right now it's the "Tab" to select but I just can't get used to it. Same goes for html source. The enter will select it, but it adds a carrage return. Thanks. One easy way is, if instead of using tab, or enter, use the next key you would type if you had typed the Intellisense entry yourself.  In other words, if you are picking an item that would have properites, and you want to open the Intellisense list for the next level, just type a period rather than enter.  If you want to continue with more code on the same line, use the space bar ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET framework

  How .NET framework is usefull in system development or computing Sorry. What do you mean about that The .NET Framework is a sum of classes that allows you to do the daily tasks of a dev in an easy way. You can see it as a class library holding tons and tons of classes for different needs. It's very usable and easy to handle. ...Show All

• SQL Server PERSISTED Column In View

  I have a view that calls a User Defined Function. I want to index this calculated column if possible, but trying to do so gives me an error saying that I have to mark the column PERSISTED. I see how it's possible to do this when creating tables with calculated columns, but is it possible to do this from within the view itself Thanks for the reply, Adam. Yes. I do have a clusterred index on the view already. Adding a non-clustered index on the calculated non-key column isn't working, though. It gives a message about the column: "Cannot create index or statistics '[Index Name]' on view '[View Name]' because key column '[Column Name I Want To Index]' is imprecise, computed and not persist ...Show All

• Visual C# Working With DirectoryInfo to Move Files

  Im trying to use MoveTo and a generic way to rename the files. but i need a way of iterating through the list, i had somthing the other night and it got lost but it was somthing like this DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo("FILE PATH"); foreach (FileInfo fi in di.FileInfo) { do stuff } but i know that doesnt work, does anyone have a way of getting the list of files, then iterating though that list heres what i got private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { DirectoryInfo DI = new DirectoryInfo ( "C:\\Roms" ); StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter ( "C:\\txt.txt" ); foreach ( FileInfo file in DI.GetFiles()) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Graphic Card Questions

  I am wanting to start messing around with the XNA Game Studio Express to try and learn how to make Xbox 360 games. I am getting a Dell from my sister that is a couple of years old to use for this. It has an Intel 82865G graphics chip so I figure I will need to get a video card for it but I really don't keep very up-to-date when it comes to PC hardware. The system is a Dell Dimension 3000 P4 2.8GHz which doesn't have PCIe or AGP so I will need a plain-jane PCI graphics card. I don't plan to join the Creators Club until I have something worth deploying to the Xbox 360 so the PC will be the main thing I will be running any games on for the time being. I know it would be better to get a system with PCIe (or even AGP) but I basically want to i ...Show All