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Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sprite Doesn't Animate
Alrighty, here we go again with another problem. I used to use a simple sprite sheet, but in recent days I have found I need to add some more functionality. My previous spritesheet class would load a sheet which had all frames have the same height and width. They were laid out horizontally, and the height and width were hardcoded. It worked, but I wanted to make a sprite sheet loader that could load and animate any sprite sheet, provided there was an XML document to explain where to look on the sheet. Thus, the actual frames can be anywhere on the sheet, in any order, just so long as the XML file is correct. So, I wrote that class. Now, come time to test it, the animation part of it doesn't work. Hard coding a frame to use shows that ...Show All
SQL Server Setup replication from 2000 to 2005
Hi, I need to setup replication from 2000 to 2005. Is there any step by step procedure to setup replication either on same versions or mixed versions. I cannot upgrade 2000 to 2005 due to some mgmt restrictions. Thanks ...Show All
SQL Server Creating datasetfilter: Complex situation
With help form some specialist (Jarret, Patrick Burcham) I've made the following statement: SELECT [DatabaseName$Item].No_, [DatabaseName$Item].Description, [DatabaseName$Sales Price HAG].[Unit Price], [DatabaseName$Sales Price HAG].[Starting Date], [DatabaseName$Sales Price HAG].[Starting Time], [DatabaseName$Sales Price HAG].[Sales Code], [DatabaseName$Item].[No_ 2], [DatabaseName$Item].[Description 2], [DatabaseName$Sales Price HAG].[Unit of Measure Code], [DatabaseName$Sales Price HAG].[Unit Price per Piece], [DatabaseName$Sales Price HAG].[Unit Price per KG], [DatabaseName$Item Unit of Measure].[Weight per Collo (KG)], [ ...Show All
Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Outlook Add-In ClickOnce Deployment!
Hey guys, Got my outlook add-in working fine, building and installing works fine on all machines, but its such a pain in the arse when i change the smallest little thing, and a total uninstall is required on all machines, and then a re-install - but it seems so confusing to work the ClickOnce method. Can someone point me in the direction of some really handy articles anywhere, or step by step instructions on how to do it, and any common problem solvings Regards, Jay Have you tried testing it outside of modifying the setup project yet Basically publish your application. Then install it using your setup project then copy the .manifest file from your publish location and replace the one if your local installation's directo ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista CoImpersonateClient() across Integrity Levels
Hello all, I have an app that runs elevated that talks to an unelevated app via COM. I want the COM servers in the unelevated app to be able to impersonate the elevated client to perform certain file operations with full admin rights. Whatever CoInitializeSecurity() parameters I have been trying to apply on the client does not give the server appropriate rights ending with ERROR_BAD_IMPERSONATION_LEVEL error when it tries to work with a file after CoImpersonateClient() call. I can foresee that something like a Mandatory Label SACL needs to be applied to the client, but I cannot find any documentation in that regard. Anyone has any ideas Thanx in advance, AlexC That's probably because you're getting an Ide ...Show All
Windows Forms How to enable/disable MDIParent Controls from Childform?
Hi, I have a MDIParent control that calls a Childform on startup. The Childform behaves as a user verifcation form. After the user enters his password, the childform disappears, and the MDIParent comes into focus, with its menustrip and toolstrip enabled. I have other controls in the menustrip and toolstrip. I tried using "foreach (control in menustrip)" to disable/enable some of these controls... but no luck... can anyone give me any pointers I want the childform to be able to set the controls enabled/disabled on closing and when MDIParent comes into focus. Thanks! Ke You can access controls in the MDI parent this way: Form parent = this .MdiParent; //getting the reference of the pa ...Show All
Visual Basic VB.net 2003 Data types
i would be interested in a list of data-type-specific operators. for example, in an if...then statement, what operator do i use to compare one string to another what operator is used to multiply two numbers etc. As much as I could give you assitance here - there are a number of datatypes and the = operator will work for many byval datatypes and some such as string. So Value Data Types = boolean, integer, long, short, single, double, decimal. However there can sometimes be some issues if you are comparing say an integer and a single. As the level of precision may cause them to not actually be the same. So care should be taken - and you can always explicitly cast them to the same type using ctype or round/truncate them. Th ...Show All
Visual C# Is instanciating to null BAD??
is instanciating a variable to null is a bad practice RizwanSharp wrote: Right But for local variables too when you declare a class's object: private MyFunction() { SomeClass someObject; // its already null so u dont need to make it null again.... // Do work....... } What do you say Please I beg your Pardon if I'm wrong you are MVP so you would be knowing more than I do :$. But here i think I'm right that's why I'm writing again. Atleast I'll learn soemthing with this... Best Regards, No, it's not set to null when you declare a local variable, that's why the compiler complains you're doing something with an unassigned local variable (if null were assigned to ...Show All
Visual C++ Remote Debugging an ActiveX DLL using Visual Studio 2003
Hi I have developed an ActiveX DLL and a Test Application that invokes it. I need to remotely debug the DLL that is present in the Remote machine by running the Test Application in my local machine. What are the steps to be followed for achieving this Thanks in Advance, Supriya Search MSDN for "remote debugging". http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y7f5zaaa.aspx might help. For further VS2003 issues, please use the newsgroups at http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups as these forums are specific for VC2005 issues. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All
SQL Server Some strange behavior with parallelism
Hi, In my package I have a source, a script component to make some changes to that and a destination. To speed up the process, within a data flow, I have created 6 copies of the above components and running them in parallel. Each source takes different set of data. I have divided the data using the record no such that, each set will read 1million records. Now, my question is, though each pipleline is supposed to process exactly 1million records, they are not running at the same speed. For example, 1 pipeline completes processing all 1million records whereas another pipeline processed only 250000 records in that time. I don't see any reason for why one should run slow while another is running fast considering that both are doing the s ...Show All
SQL Server Got BIDS working, was there another way?
i re-installed the SQLEXPR_TOOLKIT.EXE several times(4) trying to get the BIDS part to work. Each time i had the issue of it looking for the devenev.exe as others have mentioned. I gave up on a 5th install and went for the unsupported option of running vs_setup , after the toolkit.exe dumped all the install files to its temporary directory i went in there and ran it sperately... but essentially i did it the same way as this method... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=368549&SiteID=1 while this did work, it seems to be the unsupported way. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=665067&SiteID=1 Im not opposed to going back and doing it right, but was there ever a conclusion as to why the BIDS prog ...Show All
Visual C# Static Methods And Thread Safety
could somebody please tell me, in the following static method, is it possible for a second thread to call the same method with a different input variable modway through, thereby screwing up the result thanks public static int GetString(int i) { // do some stuff with i. e.g. i = i + 100; i = i / 2 ... etc. return i; } You are missing the point a little bit, in that race conditions are not limited to static methods, issues with threading happen because you are acting on a shared resource at the same time, static methods just expose this more easily. For example, in the code below there are no static methods, yet we still have a race condition, basically the bank account object ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Registration Problems Please HELP!
i need help becuase i download the visual basic 2005 express edition program and i can't register it becuase when i click the link in it it says page cannot be displayed, it has been like that for a long time now. i have tryed 2 different computers adn the same thing. the link it gave me was: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=51341&1cid=1033&h=1f680fd8b558c3e4&c=&pid=76541-000-0000011-00124&bn=050727.42 and then it askes for me to sign in..then it does nothing at all. i tryed my firewall by turning it off and on and tryed different computers. someone please tell me how i can register i need to use it! the page is an FAQ page. Try here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx SiteID=40 ...Show All
Windows Forms Making "Everyone" the default option while installing the setup...
I know the solution of setting the "Everyone" option by default at time of setup installation, by modifying the msi in the ORCA editor. Now, I have to create the msi with no dialog boxes(no start or progress interfaces), the problem is there's no way to change the default setting from 'Just Me' which is default to 'Everyone'. Can anyone suggest what could be the solution for this if it is alt all possible to do Thanks for any suggestion and help. Hi Yes, I have done this using Visual Studio.NET 2003. You need to use ORCA Editor. Open up the .MSI File and browse to the "Property" table. From there, add a new row to the table as follows: Property: ALLUSERS Value: 2 Save the ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions sorry about this!
ok, i'm going to appoligise profusly...because this question isn't about VBE at all...its about php, but no other forums replied to my posts..and i know how awesome you guys are (i'm looking at you tall man and you too armdiliyas(sp )) so please forgive me and take pity on me! my website is frameset based, and once i made a login script i figured out that i can't actualy make it go to the right target (i.e. main ect.) heres a peice of code that needs it done: echo "[<a href=\"admin/admin.php\">Admin Center[/url]] "; and i want it to load that into the frameset named "feature". thanks in advance, and any help is appreciated! Is this what you mean: <a href="whatever&quo ...Show All