Kardi's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Leftovers from object pool

  Hi all, Hopefully I can explain this one properly - the title is the closest match i could get. Question: I am drawing Primitives (stored in a GeometricObject class that has a draw method) on screen via the DrawPrimitives method. But as each new object is created I get a split second flicker in the center of the screen of the object with no size (just a pixel point) and then it is drawn correctly. Its like the draw is happening while the object is being created. This wasn't really much of a problem as no-one would really notice a tiny pixel flicker. But the problem now is that I an using a GeometricObject Pool to maintain a list of objects (List<GeometricObject> _pool) for reuse and hopefully not involve the GC much. But this shows ...Show All

• .NET Development Vista "The web server does not appear to have the FrontPage server extension installed"

  I have Vista and office 2003 installed on my pc and IIS. Everytime I try creating a web site on Visual Studio 2005, it gives me the following error. "The web server does not appear to have the FrontPage server extension installed" PLease advice... Thanks Malik You're getting that error because IIS7 on Vista doesn't use Frontpage extensions. I assume you're developing on the same machine. I spent a long time trying to work out how to solve this. If you open it up locally via the file server, it won't allow you to debug the code. So, here's what you need to do... When you open Visual Studio, but just left click the link to start it, instead, right click and select 'Run as Admini ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Dream Build Play today?

  Well it's just gone 9am UK time and as it's the last day of January I assume that the Dream Build Play website will go live today I can't wait to see more details. Of course, I keep working on my game even if the contest didn't start yet, but I'm awfully curious about everything. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Randomly Empties Out Column Data While Using Flat File Source

  I'm having a problem using the Flat File Source while using the underlying .Net classes to execute SSIS Packages. The issue is that for some reason when I load a flat file it Empty's out columns randomly. Its happening in the Flat File Source Task. By random I mean that most of the times all the data gets loaded but sometimes it doesnt and it empty's out column data. Interestingly enough this is random and even the emptying out of columns isnt a complete empty, its more like a 90% emtpying. Now you'll ask that is the file different everytime and the answer is NO. Its the same file everytime. If I run the same file everytime for 10 times it would empty out various columns maybe 1 of those times. This doesnt seem to be a problem while workin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hopefully simple question

  Hi, I'm trying to make my first brain dead windows form. All I want to do is to print some text when a button is clicked. How do I get a unicode character to print in a textbox I thought I should be able to just include "\u2265" in the text string, but it only shows up as a question mark. I tried changing to many different fonts, but this doesn't help. Is there some simple way to do this Thanks. look at this article in MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zs0350fy.aspx good luck :) ...Show All

• Visual Basic convert datagridviewtextcolumn to strings(window applications)

  Using VB2005 Can anyone help me with this How to convert the datagridviewtextcolumn to strings but if i need to clone to a data-bind table with the above code and some more rite pls reply asap ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Excessive Load and response time

  Hi, We are trying to run a load test on 6 web pages over a period for 48hrs for 7 days(with an interval of 1hr between each cycle).Some of the pages have missing CSS and as a result the HTTP errors that are being gathered are huge and they are consuming a lot of memory in the machine,Hence the test is being aborted in a span of 2-3hrs. Can somone please help us as to how this test can be carried out Thanks Probably the best option would be to set the ParseDependentRequests option to false on the page(s) with the problem so we won't automatically try to get dependent requests. If there are any you actually care about, you would have to explicitly add them back to the web test. Josh ...Show All

• SQL Server Database save and restore

  Hello, A database EntryForm has a MenuStrip. How could the Menustrip implemented that it would have a Save and Restore data to the database for backup purposes What is the Menustrip for None of the standard Items seems to work. What can be printed or previewed This question is NOT about how to save the data into the database from the EntryForm. Thanks for any answer, Hi Cesar, If i understand properly, you may use SQL DMO to restore/backup database, their is a sample directory from where your SQL Server folder resides in your installation drive, refer http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/SQLDBBackup.asp Hemantgiri S. Goswami ...Show All

• Visual Basic Application has failed to start

  Hello, I was hoping someone could help me out with an error message that I am getting in the following scenario: We use Syncfusion controls and I upgraded from an old version of Syncfusion to the latest and greatest version. Was a long process because I had to go into each of the 11 projects comprising my application and delete the old references to the old Syncfusion assemblies, and add new references to the new Syncfusion assemblies. That being done, I created a Wise Installer for my application, which I have done successfully many times before, but after the application is installed, I get the following message when I double click on the .exe to launch the application: The application has failed to start because the applicati ...Show All

• Visual C++ recv won't return on socket close

  Sorry to make my first post a cry for help but I'm running out of places to look. I have a TCP server that accepts connections and than handles the new client sock in a new thread. Everything is working fine except when the client closes ungracefully the socket stays open and my recv is still blocking instead of returning SOCKET_ERROR. I've shutdown the remote client box but my recv won't return and netstat still shows the TCP socket to be ESTABLISHED. It's not a huge deal but I'm leaving threads laying around and not realeasing my socket handles. Any ideas Thanks. Martin, Unfortunatly I can't change the client/server interface so I can't implement a heartbeat. Timeout isn't an option because ...Show All

• .NET Development What does the grave signify?

  Took my best shot at finding the right forum... I'm curious as to what the grave (`) means. Sometimes in a stack trace I'll see something like "at Csla.BusinessListBase`2.get_IsValid() in" What's the grave and number mean Thanks, Mike The tick/grave/single quote denotes that you are dealing with a generic type and that the number following it is the type’s arity which is the number of type parameters required to create the type. ...Show All

• SQL Server Flat File Data Source

  Is there away to use wild card in the file name for the flat file data source Like //servername/directory/*.txt Your best bet is going to be to create a ForEach Loop Enumerator and then place any logic that you'd like to use inside the loop. The collection enumerator you'll use is the For Each File enumerator. Inside that container, you can use your wild card. I have a video that shows you how to do this here if you'd like to see a step-by-step instruction: http://www.jumpstarttv.com/Media.aspx vid=34 -- Brian Knight ...Show All

• Visual C++ HowTo add a Timer in Visual C++ .NET 2003 ??

  Hello everbody, In Visual C++ 6.0, we could use ClassView -> Right-Click on the desired class -> Add Windows Message Handler....to create a Timer. Can any one advice how to add a Timer in Visual C++ .NET 2003 I suppose you mean how you can use a timer into an MFC project (by using VS 2003). You must first appear "Class View" Property Window (View->Class View). After that go to the CWnd based class (in the "Class View" Window) that you want to add the timer and right click to it. From th poppup window select the last option, "properties". Then go to the top of "Class View" Window and press the "Messages" button. Then you see all t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista All WorkflowRuntimeServices running in the same thread?

  Hi, If I add three services to WorkflowRuntime, does the services will run in the same thread (3 services inside only one thread) Regards RL In WF - the WorkflowRuntime uses a SchedulerService to "schedule" pieces of work. These work items might be workflows that need to run - or services that need to be invoked. In the case of a service - whether it runs on the same thread that invoked the workflow or on a CLR thread pool thread is determined by the ScheduleService that is used by your WorkflowRuntime. If you do nothing - you get the DefaultSchedulerService. ...Show All

• SQL Server Active Directory Sql Servers

  Hi everyone, how to retrieve programatically the list of the AD's Sql Servers You've been looking at SMO classes but it seems that it depends of your own workstation. Thanks in advance Hi, what about using the SmoApplication .EnumAvailableSqlServers() HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All