Jessica Alba's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Managed Direct3D 10

  Since XNA only supports DirectX 9.0 Where is Managed Direct3D 10 I hope there will be Managed wrapper for Direct3D 10 thanks Thanks Michael, That was the answer I was looking for. (Official MDX10 way cool). I already did check out XNA it is awesome, But XNA is partially crippled because it had to make so many compromises in order to be multiplatform. That is why pure PC managed DX API is imperative in order for PC to remain competitive gaming platform. When creating MDX10 1- making close mapping between DX10 and MDX10 will considerably ease up migration from C++ to C#. 2- following .net design pattern make it much easier for .net programmer to use MDX10 sinc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Visual Studio 2003 hangs on Vista Build 5472

  If I try to use the "Find in Files" feature of VS 2003, it just hangs VS and you can only kill the process. This happens when you select search in Entire Solution or Current Project. Note: I have launched VS to run using Administrator. This did not happen on Vista Builds 5342 or 5308. Is there any workaround Use "Replace in Files" instead to step through matches - it's a poor substitute, but at least it works until there exists a proper patch (if ever) ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Runtime platform determination?

  What's the suggested way of determining, at runtime, whether we're on Windows or the 360 Getting the PlatformID & if WinCE then we're on the 360 That seems funny. I'm not actually sure what that will give back on Xbox. There isn't a specific define for Xbox in the CLR system platform enum, because that was defined long before the CLR guys even knew Xbox was going have .NET on it! ...Show All

• .NET Development Remoting/Pipes/Events: Chicken and Egg

  Hi Everyone, Visual Studio 2005; SQL Server Express 2005; Enterprise Data Access Application Block; Single computer hosts all elements and applications. GOAL: To have one application nudge another one on the same computer so it will update its view of data in a shared database. I have a GUI application in a namespace called "guispace".  This namespace also contains a class hierarchy for doing all data access operations (my Data Access Layer (DAL) for this application).  There is also a non-GUI application that runs in the Scheduler and exists in its own namespace, "noguispace".  These two applications share a SQL Express 2005 database file, which is using DAAB.  The nonGUI application  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development listening ok button in PPC

  Hi, I am newbie, developing my application in Pocket PC 2005. MFC C++.net 2005. I want to listen the ok button that appear on the right top corner. I havent use domodal. How i listen this system menu. because when i press this OK button this hangs ny light pen detection. Please give me ur suggestions and tips. Thanks -Ayaz Have you looked at the OnOK() method http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms922312.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms IContainer needed or not?

  Question I am creating a stand alone class library to centralize the processing of a Notify Icon and message system in a manager class to provide value added services to the operations. My question is this, one of the constructors for NotifyIcon has the option of using IContainer object. What are the pro's and con's of using the IContainer object Platform .Net 2 C# advTHANKSance The only thing that NotifyIcon(IContainer container) does is to add the component to the specified container. The result is that when the container will be disposed the NotifyIcon object will be disposed also. There's nothig really special about using IContainer... except that you don't need to call dispose for the component (assuming the container ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Find() error message

  hello everyone, when I use Find() to search an address that is not exsit, it will return a pop up error message, does any one know how to get rid of the message box Yuki Hi Yuki chen, If u dont want any of the messages to be popuped. then use < style type ="text/css"> #myMap_vemessagepanel { visibility : hidden ;} </ style > < style type ="text/css"> #myMap_vemessagepanel , #threeDNotification { visibility : hidden ;} </ style > And user your own messagediv to display the results. ...Show All

• Visual C# Pull Quotes from my string

  I am trying to convert this function that pulls the single quotes out my string before sending it to the database, i got it working in VB.Net with this code here Public Function PrepareStr(ByVal strValue As String) As String strValue = strValue.Replace("'", "''") If strValue.Trim() = "" Then Return "NULL" Else Return "'" & strValue.Trim() & "'" End If End Function But I want to convert it to C# code and i got this far can anyone help me out on what i need to do, for the & operator this where i started but i getting an error though any help ! ! public string prepareStr( string str) { str = str.Replace("'", " ' '& ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom Installer and MSI Installer

  Hello Everyone, I created MSI Installer and in that installer asked the user to enter the IP Address for the web service.I am able to get the value entered by the user while installing the application in the custom installer class by using Context.Parameteres collection.The problem is, I want to pass this value from my custom installer to my actual PDA project so that users of this application will be connecting to the webservice with the IP Address entered by them while installing the application. Currently we include a .config file which contains static IP Address for the web service.If the user wants to point to a different server he will change the config file in the desktop and copy it over to PDA.but they want the entered IP Ad ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to "publish" my own IGameService

  I've read Mitch Walkers article on the IGraphicsDeviceService and I understood it for the most part. Where I'm a little unclear is on the actual mechanics of creating my own GameService. The article says that the Graphics Component "publishes" an interface as a service. Does this mean the GameComponent internally actually creates a concrete instance of IGameDeviceServices and calls Game.AddService Here is an example: Lets say I'm creating a 2D Physics component that relies on an undelying "Physics" object (this object does all the simulation for rigid bodies). I want to allow others to either use my PhysicsComponent or create there own component that would could still interact with any other higher level physic ...Show All

• .NET Development Modem Communication project

  Please help guys, I'm working on a project that requires communication thru a Modem. I need to write code that reads a phone field in a table and then places a call to that number via my modem and delivers a pre-recorded voice message. I have no clue where to start, please help. Please see this forum post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=169106&SiteID=1 There is not currently support for the RAS api or telephony APIs in the System.Net namespace.  If you would like to see such support in a future release, please email nclasks@microsoft.com and describe your scenario.  We look forward to your feedback.  ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to print a document that should extend beyond 1 page

  Here is my question, I would like to print a richtextbox onto multiple pages...now the situation is like this... I have a richtextbox and i already set it up so that you can print it, although by the time i would like to print it, there is too much text for 1 page alone, So i was wondering how i can print the richtextbox in portions...or...if theres a way for VB.NET to detect that Page1 is full, and to print a new page while continuing off from the last page. Any help would be appreciated. =) thanks I looked again and the 'CharactersFitted' part of the Graphics.MeasureString Method is discussed but not explained very well in this VB help: ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.NETFramework.v20.en/cpref8/html/M_ ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies SharePoint Webcasts for March

  TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 200) Friday, March 16, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Blain Barton, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx EventID=1032330088&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Security for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Level 200) Monday, March 19, 2007 - 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Michael Murphy, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx EventID=1032330328&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Installing and Configuring Search in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 300) Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Karl Kuhnhausen ...Show All

• SQL Server uninstall SQL server 2005

  Hello after uninstall SQL server 2005 by tools (vs_uninst_betas) still exist in program menu. How can uninstall definetly. Thanks you. See this post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=554589&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installation Question

  I am a little unclear. I will be upgrading to XP Professional soon. Will Visual Studio 2005 professional install on the 32-bit version of XP Pro Thanks. yes of course, it can install on any platform (Windows) starting from Windows 98, excluding Windows ME. Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows 98 - some features will not be available in the .NET Framework for you to use but yes, if you upgrade to XP, it will be fine and will work   ...Show All