cmk'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 Well, I think it is pretty clear that MS takes MDX seriously. They are moving game developement toward MDX using XNA. Eventually MDX will become the main focus. Even though they didn't say it out loud, they are doing it. It is just that they have to focus on DX10 right now. If they can't make a good DX10, what's the point to make MDX for DX10, it will be junk anyway But it will cool if they can release MDX along with DX in the future, or at least in a 6 months time frame. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Animation - Final Question

  I have a model with multiple animations in one x file, I really want to animate the bleeding thing. Now, I will hold my hands up and say that I am not a good enough game developer to produce my own animation classes ... is there going to be an example of how to do this in the near future from the XNA team Cant wait for the final xna release ... I have a working skinned animator, and am in the process of creating the tutorial (have been for a while). I tried as best I could to make skinned animation work using the built in .X importer, but simply could not. I had a working animator in beta 1, but for some reason, the ability to make it work with the normal importer has eluded me. When the tutorial is fi ...Show All

• Visual C# Replace splitcontainer panel usercontrol

  Hi, I'm using the splitcontainer control, assigning a usercontrol to panel2. How do I change the currently assigned usercontrol to panel2 from within the current usercontrol which is currently assigned to panel2. ie. a button is clicked on the current usercontrol and now must be replaced with a new usercontrol. Cheers John Hi Inside usercontrol use this.Parent property to reference to the container (Panel2) and if you need reference to the spitcontainer use this.Parent.Parent Markku ...Show All

• Windows Forms Saving Files in MDI

  Hi... I Need to be able to save different MDI child windows each with many different fields. How would I do this Thankee I would save the values into a database. Just loop through the Mdi Parent child windows and save the properties. For each form which holds information I would just save that form on an individual basis . Most people use database to save into and specific fields depending on your business entities. Your data store will really depend on your application what are you trying to specifically do James ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Trying to get just the file name

  I'm using VBA to read a text file made of files paths (path & name). I'm opening them in word and trying to resave them into .txt format for notepad/wordpad. There is no easy way to be able to find the last "\" and then use that to take all the text after it. example: "C:\my docs\this file.doc" i would want the "this file" portion of the text I found what seems to be a useful method (sourcename) but have no idea how to implement it If f1 = fso.FileExists(file) Then Documents.Open filename:=line, ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly _ :=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate _ :="", Revert:=False, WritePasswordDocument:="& ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid_ItemCommand doesn't fires the first time

  Please refer the code below, I have DataGrid_itemCommand defined. This does not gets fired the first time, works perfectly fine otherwise. protected DataGrid dgTransactions; #endregion #region Event Handlers //protected void dgSearchResults_ItemCommand(object sender, DataGridCommandEventArgs e ) private void dgTransactions_ItemCommand( object source, System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs e) { if ( e.CommandName == "DrillDown" ) { // User Code } else if ( e.CommandName == "ShowConfirmDialog") { showConfirmDialog(source, e); } } protected override void Render(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter writer) { base .Render (writer); // If ...Show All

• .NET Development AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath deprecated vs. alternatives and hosting UI controls as plugins

  I’ve posted this reply on the AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath Depricated (sic) thread, but since that thread was marked as answered I realized my post wasn't taking anyone attention at all, so I've started a new thread with this question which is similar to the original thread but goes further in the discussion. The question follows: I’ve designed a plugin architecture that ultimately used AppendPrivatePath, which is now marked obsolete and no equivalent solution exists. I understand the motivation to make Assembly resolution predictable, but I really do not think it was so much of a problem, unless Assembly failures started to be cached, which is what 2.0 seems to be doing :-) The workaround/solution (depends on your view point) is to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System At beginning all my scenarios are too long (ROM =3)

  Hi I'm writing the first scenarios of my system but I have the the following problem, all my scnerios has a ROM >= 3. Like a scenario shows the ways that the persona would use the system I undestand that the kernel of the system has to be developed too and then the scneario is too big. For example: My system has to show a calculated information to user Jhon, the scenario could be: "Jhon starts the application click the button 'Show' and the last calculated info is presented to him." And to this work would be possible the kernel of the system (presentation, bussiness and data layer) would be build first. Then if I estimated it the ROM is >= 3 because I have to add kernel +funcionality. How can I solve th ...Show All

• SQL Server shrink my backup device

  does this Delete/Remove DATABASE ***** FROM backupdevice WITH FILE = 1(2,3) can working thanks check this it may help you http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=889290&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Selling my software and SQL server 2000 as part of the package

  Hi everyone, I have developed a VB6 application that works with SQL server 2000. My client does not have a SQL server installed on their machine. I wonder do I have to purchase a copy of SQL server 2000 and install it to client's computer How much would a basic version of SQL server 2000 cost I am new to the softwarel world. Please give me some advise. Thanks assuming your application will not require a database that extends beyond the capabilities of MSDE2000 you should use it. Further more there are actually MSDE 2000 merge modules that you can use to embed the SQL Engine into your custom app's setup/msi routine. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/msde/prodinfo.mspx Derek ...Show All

• Connected Services Framework HelloWorld Sample-CreateSession times out

  hi, Can somebody tell, why should the CreateSession time-out . After clicking CreateSession button, the status continues to show "create session in progress", and after some time, it times out. Links are all proper. thanks,. anita Hi, thanks for ur reply. We specified the windows credentials in the code itself, while creating session as message.Header.Security.Add(new UsernameToken("username", "password", PasswordOption.SendPlainText)); But still resulted in an exception (input trace) <processingStep description ="Exception thrown: User 'username' is not authorized to access the service ."> at Microsoft.Web.Services3.Design.Au ...Show All

• Community Chat so the Zune's a flop

  or so says every review I have read. anyone have any sources saying otherwise installation HORROR stories. questionable collection of "features." incompatibility with WMP and pretty much any non-Zune marketplace source for music. handicapped wifi. I was on the verge of pre-ordering a Zune, but Microsoft has jaded me over the years, so I held off. I think I'm pretty happy with that decision. ahmedilyas wrote: it's only JUST been released ... how can one say its a flop far from it IMHO. its typical when anti MS people like to criticise something that doesnt go their way initially. You should buy it IF you like it and IF you find it useful for you, not what other people say or think. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Deployment and Removal issues

  I created a setup package and installed it on my SQL2005 server. I cant seem to find anywhere on the server where they are installed, but I can access them from the Job schedule tool, which work for me. However, now I have to upgrade the deployed SSIS and I cant seem to install on top of an existing one (gave me no errors but after testing it i realized it is still running the old version.) My questions are: 1) How can I find and delete these SSIS packages from the server 2) How can I just upgrade for a new version of a SSIS package I need to be able to do both things as at some point I may want to just remove some packages. hlj16 wrote: I Installed to the SQL server. I conneted to the SSIS s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drag outside window and get drop path

  Hi,  Im trying to find out how i can get the path of a drop when you drag an item off the form and drop into a folder or desktop. Im using C# if that makes any difference. Same as lets say winrar where you drag a file out and it extracts it into the location you dropped it. Thanks for any help,     -Dave It is the other application, the one that created the window onto which your dropped the object, that gets the drop notification. That would be the Windows Shell. Writing Shell drag and drop handlers requires C++, it cannot be done in C# or any other .NET language. This is a technical limitation of the shell that probably won't be resolved for a while. Here's a good project ...Show All

• SQL Server for loop expression

  I'm trying to run a data flow task inside of a for loop container. First I was attempting to set the forloop expressions using variables that I was setting by running execute sql tasks. I ran into so many problems there, I decide to try this an easier way. So I've created 3 variables, all Int32. One is called counter, one is called inc, and one is called max. The values are set to: counter=1, inc=2, max=100. I then need to set the Expressions for the for loop. SO I open the properties window, and click on Expressions on the left hand side. I've set the following: AssignExpression : @counter = @counter + @inc EvalExpression : @counter < @max InitExpression : @counter = 1 To prove to myself that the counter variable was not incrementin ...Show All