Bruce Bukovics's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiple Cores, etc... on the 360

  Hello everyone, Like practically everyone here, I'm truly excited about the idea of being able to run my own games on the 360! I've long been interested in the concept of running my own code on a console and it's always annoyed me that systems needed to be locked down so heavily because of the pirates who spoil the fun for all of us. So I just want to say thanks to Microsoft for giving us hobbyist/one-guy game developers the chance to develop for the console like this! It's like my prayers have been answered! Now for a couple of questions: 1) I'm just wondering how the multiple cores in the 360 will work Will the managed code automatically utilize all three (well, in effect, six) cores or w ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setting up OpenGL with Visual C++ 2005

  Okay, so basically I tried to write a simple OpenGL program in Visual C++. I'm using the Win32 Application Template, and I have everything linked correctly. However, when I try to run the program, I get many compile errors. This is my first experience with OpenGL (not with C++, though), and I copied a sample program from a book. #include <gl\glut.h> #include "stdafx.h" void Initialize(); void MouseHandler(int button, int state, int x, int y); void KeyboardHandler(unsigned char key, int x, int y); void MainMenuHandler(int option); void Animate(); void Reshape(int width, int height); void Display(); /**************************************************************************** main() Setup GLUT and OpenGL, drop into the event loop *** ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development JavaScript - same image, over and over...

  Hey All... I'm implementing a custom treecontrol in JavaScript. Nodes are added dynamically via ajax returns. When this happens, certain images that are displayed on each node arent being displayed. Upon further investigation, I see that as the same image is being used on node after node, we're going back to the server each time to get the same image over and over again... For each node, I'm including an <img src=images/...jpg /> tag in the innerHtml property of an appropriate element. As I say, I keep seeing the server hit over and over for each node - I hope somehow this is related to why I dont see the image at all on new nodes. Me thinks this image should somehow be cached - is this something I have to make happen explicitl ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista getting an error when creating XOML based workflow

  I must be stupid and am missing something, but I made a simple workflow using the code separation file with .xoml extension. When I try to create an instance of the workflow using a XmlReader, I get the following error: Cannot create workflow definition...Input markup is invalid. The calling code is simple like so... WorkflowInstance instance2 = workflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow(new XmlTextReader("Workflow1.xoml")); instance2.Start(); and my XOML only contains the default bare minimum <SequentialWorkflowActivity x:Class="CompositeActivitySample.Workflow1" x:Name="Workflow1" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql server 2000 Reporting service error

  Hi at all, I am working on a w2k3 server using sql server sp4 and reporting services sp2. The problem that I have from 2 days is : An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Get Online Help Query execution failed for data set 'BrandDestination'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) Get Online Help Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. Questions: 1. If you run the query for the report in Query Analyzer, how many rows are come back 2. Is reporting services and the data source(s) on the same machine or is SRS on a web server and hitting a remote database server 3. If you are using parameters in your query, are there index( ...Show All

• .NET Development streaming video

  hi, how can i make streaming video using asp.net & C#. instead of dowloading the content, user should be able to watch the video or the live content in the website itself. You don't even need C# or ASP.NET coding to do this. Just add a media player object into your HTML code of your webpage and set the URL property of the medial player object to the streaming media. Something like this: <script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript"> var g_bNetscape = ( -1 != navigator.appName.indexOf( "Netscape" ) ); if( g_bNetscape ) { document.writeln( "<APPLET mayscript code=WMPNS.WMP name=WMP1 width=300 height=200 MAYSCRIPT >" ); } </script&g ...Show All

• .NET Development Prevent file changes?

  Is there a way to allow or deny file access when another program needs or wants to use it For example, if I use FileSystemWatcher and the Changed event(s), can i stop the file changes Thanks, would this file be the file that your application is using or what some other application would be using Are you trying to deny access to a file which another application is trying to access ...Show All

• Visual Basic My.Resources is being weird.

  This is what I do. Click the Resources tab of My Project and add a new text file. The text file is called velocity. The text file contains the text "Common Velocity". When I use My.Resources.velocity, the tooltip for velocity says the following: Friend ReadOnly Property velocity() as String Looks up a localized string similar to . As if it thinks the file is empty. I have another textfile with only one line and it is interpreted perfectly. It is weird. I have tried making the file numerous times and even renaming it. Any idea what the problem could be. I am using vb8. That's the thing, it isn't reading the file correctly. So, instead of getting a string() with one element the string() has no elements. I just started a new p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Export to PDF in Report with expand collapse buttons

  I have Report with expand collapse buttons within Group in table. When i am collapsing the group in reportviewer and exporting the document to PDF my exported report is coming up in collpased format. Is it possible to export the report to PDF in Expanded form irrespective of expand/collapse in Reportviewer control. Thanks Vaneet Kumar The built in export menu will use the current report session, which always has the current expand/collapse state. But you could get the functionality you are looking for by exporting to PDF on your own. You could create a second, non-visible instance of the report viewer and initialize it with the same report. Then call Render on the hidden one to perform the export, using ReportViewer.ServerRepor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office subreport's report header and report footer cannot display in master report

  hi, anyone know how to display subreport's report header and report footer at master report i know reporting services 2005 do not have this function,but what should i do so my master report can display the subreport's report header and report footer. or anyone have idea to display few layout of report and rending in 1 pdf file beside using subreport thanks in advance penny Hi Penny It's unclear what you're trying to use, but it appears your question is not related to the VSTO technology or any of the Office applications that VSTO works with. If you don't know the appropriate place to ask, post in the following forum for assistance. Please specify which Visual Studio environment y ...Show All

• Windows Forms Composite UI Blocks & ClickOnce deployment

  I'm currently exploring the hands-on labs of the Composite UI Block Applications. I'm stuck at "Lab 5: Building the End-to-End Global Bank Application" When I Publish my application the dll's of the modules don't get published although I have them pointed to Include and Required. When I look at the file list in the Application Files property window the dll's have a yellow exclamation mark telling me that "the item is not referenced in the project. If it is no longer needed, it can be removed by right clicking on it." But these dll's have to be published because the applications needs them. Is there a way to force click-once to deploy them regards, Filip >... Is there a way ...Show All

• Visual C++ Change from wmp 6.4 to wmp 9 series in my ocx

  Hi, Really hope someone here can help me out . I have a nice old ActiveX in one of our ActiveXes, namely the wmp 6.4. Sadly there's seems to have occured some problems with the compability layer in the 9 series. Videos doesn't behave as expected anymore, so I'm thinking switching to wmp 9 in the code might help, but I can't find any good documentation on how to fo this. I've tried the exampl in the SDK: AtlAxWinInit(); CComPtr<IAxWinHostWindow> spHost; HRESULT hr; m_wndView = new CAxWindow; m_wndView->Create(pParent->m_hWnd, m_rcWnd, NULL, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CLIPCHILDREN, WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE); if (NULL == m_wndView->m_hWnd) return 0;//goto FAILURE; // load OCX in window hr = m_wn ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add and remove data from file

  Is t possible to: Add data to a certain offset in a file without overwriting original data from that offset, thus expanding the file Remove data from a certain offset and length in a file, instead of making a new file of the two desired parts of data from the original file Thanks! Sure performance may be an issue with files this size and the stringbuilder class may be the best option. Also remember windows uses virtual memory, so it will page items in an out of memory if you dont physically have 100Mb free in your machine at the time. Are we talking like a batch process to update this file or are you talking about an interactive application - Is it possible that you could use a database to do interactive parts of ...Show All

• SQL Server Precision and Scale in a calulated column

  How do I set Precision and Scale in a calulated column I'm trying to limit the decimal points returned in a calculated column but can't find where to set the scale. What am I missing please Thanks, Scott You need to first DROP the computed column, then ADD it back, and you MUST include the computation formula. Do something like this: USE SIR; ALTER TABLE dbo.Table_1 DROP COLUMN Results; ALTER TABLE dbo.Table_1 ADD COLUMN Results cast( ( [put formula here] ) AS decimal(6,2))); ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Bug: Autoplay cancellation fails in Vista

  Our application needs to cancel the Autoplay for USB flash devices in order to update the device firmware and format the media. In XP, the cancellation works fine, but in Vista you have to be logged in as Administrator to be able to reject the Autoplay for MSC devices. Even being a user in the Administrator group doesn't do it; the Autoplay handler is never called. It only works if logged in to the Administrator account. The same issue is present in x64 Vista as well. Our customers do not want their users to have to close the Explorer window or anything else, and are complaining about this. If they don't close it, the app will fail by not being able to lock the drive. Logging in as Administrator is not a good solution to this p ...Show All