JDAnthony's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Content Builder - Build you content without Game Studio!

  I've made simple framework and app to build content without Game Studio, find it here . Thanks to Shawn about hint how to do it and thanks RSDN Magazine about great article about how MSBuild works. wow, great work. This is exactly what I need. A friend of me wants to help with creating some assets (anims/models) for my little game, but he shouldn't have to install GSE, get my whole source project, and build everything by hand each time just to do some testing/evaluating. If I understand correctly I can either have him use your XCB GUI, or with a bit of effor I can even create a standalone, easy to use, tool myself using your XCB framework. That's really cool, and flexible. Good job :) ...Show All

• SQL Server Database master key

  Hi For encytion in database, the following statement is correct I found it in msdn book. The database master key is not mandatory if you want to encrypt data. If you don't have a database master key, you will need to specify password encryption. You can use the following to create the certificate: create certificate <cert_name> encryption by password = '<your_password>' with subject = '<subject>' For symmetric keys, asymmetric keys, and certificates, you can always optionally specify and use a password for encryption instead of using the encryption hierarchy. Please check BOL for the proper syntax. They should be similar to " ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = '<password>' ". This is very useful ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Project type is not supported by this installation

  I have been struggling with this the entire day. I just installed for the first time: WinFX Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2_2 Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime Components Beta 2_2(EN) for x86 WorkflowTemplates - 2006-03-07 If I try to create any WWF project based on the new templates, I receive an error stating that "the project type is not supported by this installation". I have uninstalled everything and installed the Beta 2 version (instead of the Beta 2.2) and I get the same error. I then uninstalled everything again and reinstalled the Beta 2.2 version hoping that it would have worked, but no luck. Has anybody had this problem Any help will be appreciated. P.S. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XACT Audio / Minor Rant

  <minor-rant> Can you please, *please* consider supporting a more low level way to play sounds than XACT. The Microsoft Cross Platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT) is a pain to use. I mean seriously how many devs do you have budget for to maintain this so called "IDE" It might be okay for professional game studios but I don't think it's that simple for the XNA GS crowd. Then again having looked in the XACT forum it doesn't look like a lot of professional studios are using it either. So then you have to ask why are we having it forced on us since this audio content creation tool has so far fallen on deaf ears ;). Perhaps it's a secret plot to get the XACT folk to make it better in future perhaps (hmm bite my tongue) A ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Attempting to load a 2D Texture from the core framework

  This is the first time I've ever used XNA. I saw a demo of it and it seemed really easy and writing the code, I was quite impressed. However, running the code is another story. Here's where I am. I created a new Spacewars project to see if it would run and see what the game looked like. It runs great. So, I created a new "Windows Game" project (via Beta 2) and looked at the core framework. I opened the help files and went to: "XNA Game Studio Express / Getting Started / Your First Game. I had previously looked over Step 1-3 and today I looked at Step 4, adding a sprite. That should be easy enough. I follow it, step by step. I took the B1_stars.tga image from Spacewars and copied it into my own content/te ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE 7 Uninstall/Install Issues

  This is not the common inability to uninstall IE 7. I have read through many of the problems other peoples have been having trying to uninstall certain versions of IE 7 to get the newest version. This is not what I am trying to do. What first started the issue was that I had installed IE 7. (Bad choice to begin with. I am a firm supporter of Mozilla FireFox.) After installing IE 7, I attempted to use the program for a website that is IE specific. However, after double clicking the IE 7 desktop icon that had been created, IE 7 had created an immediate error and had to be closed. I couldn't tell what error had been created but I know its on a different line and with a different code every time when I read the "detail ...Show All

• Visual C++ Managed vs Unmanaged C++

  How do you tell if a code is managed or unmanaged C++ if you build you code using /CLR:* switch then the code generated is a mixed (managed). If you already have a binary and you need a quick way of seeing if it is managed or not, just run ildasm.exe against it, the tool will fail to open the binary if it is native (unmanaged). Hope this helps! Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development window handle for active tab

  hi folks, when a document completes loading in a new tab, my bho gets notified via DISPID_DOCUMENTCOMPLETE. how can i get the window handle for the tab window i've tried the EnumChildWindows/IsWindowVisible combo but it's not always reliable. it would seem IE7 has the handle but how to get it any ideas per my previous comments, i'm using john's code above to get the tab window handle, find its child window via EnumChildWindows for the handle to the docObjView, and finally get its child window which is the tab. for what it's worth, here's my code snippet: ::EnumChildWindows(htabwnd, cTabWndEnumProc, reinterpret_cast <LPARAM>(&hsdovwnd)); if (hsdovwnd) { hbwnd = ::GetWindow( ...Show All

• .NET Development OleDbDataAdapter.UpdateCommand without CommandBuilder

  Hello, I just tried to create a UpdateCommand for a table that has no primary key by myself. This is not as easy as it sounds, because I only know the name of one column that is used to identify the rows that have to be updated. All other columns (the columns that might have been changed) can be very different in name and number from case to case. Here my unfinished code: dataAdapter.UpdateCommand = new OleDbCommand( "UPDATE tMyTable SET ", connection); foreach (DataColumn column in m_tMyTable.Columns) { // dont update Nr-column because its used to identify the rows if( column.ColumnName == "Nr" ) continue; dataAdapter.UpdateCommand.CommandText += column.ColumnName + "= "; dataAdapter.Upd ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ActivityTrackingPoint / ActivityDataTrackingExtract

  I have created a very simple Tracking Profile for my workflow as attached below. I am trying to track on Public properties from my Activity, yet when I run an instance I get an error saying it is unable to find this property on the actualy Workflow instance. eg. it will say cannot find "SampleWorkflow.Property" when I expected it to look in the current activity for the properties, not at the Workflow instance level - Does this make sense to anyone else < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" standalone="yes" > <TrackingProfile xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/workflow/trackingprofile " version="1.0.0.0"> <TrackPoints> <ActivityTrack ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE> not valid for System.Reason

  Can anyone explain why <ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE> is not allowed for System.Reason. I would think this is just an ordinary string field. Thanks. Here is the section of one of my WorkItem types that has the new field and the WorkFlow. I also use GlobalLists alot so I included these also. Hope this helps. < FIELD name = " DashReason " refname = " Nowcom.Dash.Reason " type = " String " > < WHEN field = " System.State " value = " Active " > < DEFAULT from = " value " value = " New " /> < REQUIRED /> < ALLOWEDVALUES > < GLOBALLIST name = " Bug.Rea ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express, Simultaneous ,Multiple Application Access?

  Hi Everyone, I have a software solution that consists of two separate applications that share a SQL Server Express database on a single computer. Everything is working great, except when both of the applications want to access the database at the same time. All I can find is information on configuring multi-user access in a distributed system. I'd appreciate any information on configuring multi-application access on a single computer. Thanks, Mike For what it's worth, in the connection string I had to include the ".mdf" extension for the AttachDbFilename attribute. E.g., ...AttachDbFilename=C:\src\LocalDataCache\DB\MyLocalCache.mdf; ...Show All

• SQL Server BUG: UPDATE updates not listed fields

  Hi Everybody, I am in this forum for a first time. Today, I think, I found a bug in SQL Server 2000. I tried it on SQL Server 2005 and it is alive yet. Before I explain exact the problem I have a stupid question. Is there any type of award if I have found a real bug. It is about a situation when I try to update some fields in a table and I get updated some other wrong fields. There aren't any triggers ot something else. Create a new table, insert one row, update some fields but other ones get changed too. Is there something known about this Thanks, Hristo. Obviously, it was fixed. That version you are using is the original SQL 2000 released over 3 years ago. The solution is update. There are many m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions what code do i use for key change

  ok i have this much i know if gose inbetween this Private Sub Form1_KeyDown( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me .KeyDown End Sub but what code is it i use so that is i press the "a" key it will show "y" because you didnt read the code previously carefully ;-) you want the code to execute within the IF statement... If e.KeyCode = System.Windows.Forms.Keys.A Then Me .TextBox1.Text = "y" End If "if condition is true then execute the code" ...Show All

• SQL Server SUM returns incorrect value in SQL Server Mobile Query ... Bug??

  Hi all, I am a newcomer to Microsoft Database Technology and have appeared to come across an issue with the SUM function in SQL Server Mobile Edition. I am running Visual Studio 2005 and have created 2 tables: Orders and OrderLines which are set up in master detail fashion. The SQL Statement I create in the Query Builder is as follows: SELECT     Orders.OrderNo, Orders.OrderDate, Orders.Priority, Orders.Address, SUM(OrderLines.Quantity * OrderLines.QualityReference) AS Total FROM         Orders, OrderLines WHERE     Orders.OrderNo = OrderLines.OrderNo GROUP BY Orders.OrderNo, Orders.OrderDate, Orders.Priority, Orders.Address Now, the SUM ...Show All