andyedw's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Scrolling a 2D Background

  New tutorial on scrolling a 2D background on my site XNADevelopment. This is the quick and dirty approach. It covers creating the project, adding images to the project and scrolling those images horizontally in a continuous loop. I've posted the tutorial and the source code if you're interested. So far, I'm SUPER impressed with XNA development and just how easy it has been. The support from the XNA developers in the forums here has just been outstanding. These guys are really going over and above helping out all of us XNA newbies as we struggle to fly and learn the ropes. I'm also just amazed at the variety and number of tutorials being put up each day by sites in the community. If you haven't been to these sites yet, I highly recommend th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rants on XNA 1.0

  This is my first reaction when I installed and tried the 1.0 of XNA. To summarize my feeling: it's still 95% for XBox and no nearer to replace the old MDX 1.0. So I decided not to migrate from MDX to XNA though I want to do that very much. I feel like MDX 2 more; amen to MDX 2. The hardest issue for me is the content pipeline, which is very necessary, but the workflow is fixed and it assumes the contents are only built before the program runs. The helper functions wrapping D3DX can only be used with types in the content pipeline. I have to utilize the full content pipeline just for generating something dynamically, of course with significant performance cost. Or I have to write those D3DX utilities my self. Currently I don't have a good id ...Show All

• Gadgets Flyout content offset to the left.

  I'm writing a gadget and I get a strange behavior for my flyout. Sometimes all the content of my Flyout is offset by about 35 pixels to the left. The question here is why it's doing that only sometime (1 every 4 time maybe), not always. I'll continue to investigate the case, but I was wondering if any gurus had an idea why it's doing that erraticaly (at least, from my point of view). Here's a snapshot to show you a bit about the problem. You can see that the background is a bit too much on the left (and start repeating at the right), as well as the content : http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5208/buggygadgetey0.th.png Thanks in advance. Make sure you do a 'style="position:absolute&qu ...Show All

• .NET Development System.COnfiguration in C#2.0

  I tried to add a new key value pair in app.setting System.Configuration. Configuration config = ConfigurationManager .OpenExeConfiguration( ConfigurationUserLevel .None);config.AppSettings.Settings.Add( "ModificationDate" , DateTime .Now.ToLongTimeString()); config.Save( ConfigurationSaveMode .Modified, true ); config.SaveAs( "New" ); // Force a reload of a changed section. ConfigurationManager .RefreshSection( "appSettings" ); But i can't see the change being reflected in the file.... IS there any method in ConfigurationManager .OpenExeConfiguration ...by which we can update keyvalue pair in config file... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Switching form Focus

  I'm using the sub below to call a new form and display it. The new form (form2) has a text box and a button. When the button is clicked I want the form to go away and have the code pic up where it left off on my main form (display the msgbox after frm2.showdialog). All I have on the button_click event now is ME.hide. The form (form2) disappears but so does my app. The name of my mainform is mxev. I've tried MXev.visable=true .bringtofront . show and .showdialog but no luck. The app is still running but I cant see it. Thanks DASHLEY Private Sub DisplayQuestion( ByVal Thequestion As Integer ) Dim form2 As New Form2 Form2.Label2.Text = Thequestion Form2.ShowDialog() MSGBOX("form ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Creating xll files (excel library files) in visual c++ 2005 express

  Hey. I know this forum isn't specific to excel, but I haven't gotten any responses from the excel.programming newsgroup so I thought I would try here. I am trying to create xll files for excel so I can use my existing c++ code to do custom functions through excel. I have a book which explains the basic ideas, but it says to include xlcall.h and xlcall32.lib from the excel 97 sdk. These files won't compile in visual c++ 2005 express. i was wondering if anyone knew where to locate equivalent files which would compile in visual studio 2005 express, or any good resources on using visual c++ 2005 express to create custom functions for excel using xll files. Thanks. Hi there! Jackson, were you successful I’m ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IObjectReference cannot be resolved

  I have a strange problem whereby my workflow is failing when I call the StartRuntime method. My basic workflow works with a few custom activities derived from CallExternalMethod and HandleExternalEvent - I use a replicator to call many events and wait for the correlated response. However, when I add any new items to my workflow like a delay shape I get the following error:- " The object with ID 54 implements the IObjectReference interface for which all dependencies cannot be resolved. " This is some sort of serialization error but I've been unable to find out what is causing it. There is nothing in the designer generated code that uses IDs for the workflow artifacts so I don't know what is being complained about. H ...Show All

• .NET Development Error loading assembly (C++)

  Hello folks. I have a big problem here with Assembly loading. Maybe someone has experienced the same. My application uses a C++ assembly (A.dll), witch one uses as reference another C# assembly (B.dll). Both A.dll and B.dll have been configured as 1.6.2.0 version, and strong naming. Now we made some changes and decided to release a new version: 1.7.0.0. Since we started with these project, we always had changed the version number of the assemblies in AssemblyInfo.cs file (for C# libraries) and AssemblyInfo.cpp plus rerource file (for C++ libraries), and everything worked fine. But with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0, a strange error started to occur when I changed the version numbers. For ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to set the font of the richtextbox's text?

  as I did set the richtextbox's font during i designing it, and when run the application and open a file, and read the file's content into the richtextbox. and then when i input content directly into the richtextbox by keyboard, the file-in text's font is different from the keyboard-in text's I just want them the same font defaultly, how can i do it (Moderator: Thread moved to this forum for better responses) I'm sorry, still cannot make it. and even found, if i just change the font through the menu( fontdialog), which did the same like yours, the font changed, but when i input text, it is different from the others. and is the richtextbox cannot set the input words's font according to the richtextbox.font and it have to be s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do you run module at startup?

  Is there a way to select a module as the startup object Forgot about that... grrr. For a just moment change your Application type to be a Console Application. Because of this change the Startup form drop down will become the Startup object one... from there select your module and then change your Application type back to Windows Application. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to debug web application remotely using VS2005 debugger

  Hello, I have been trying for two weeks now to find an answer to this problem. I have a web application that was built in ASP.NET 1.1. I migrated the project to the .NET 2.0 Framework using Visual Studio 2005, by opening the project and converting it using the Conversion Wizard. When I debug the application locally, it works just fine. I deployed the application using the Copy Web Site option. When I attempt to open the remote version of the application in VS2005 and build it, I get the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'VocabDBEdit, Version=1.0.2174.28224, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. Failed to grant minimum permission requests. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131417) As far as I c ...Show All

• .NET Development return "hello world"

  I've created a simple webservice which works in a browser, but how can i get it to return the string of "Hello World" into a vb.net application Please use wsdl.exe tool to generate the client ofr your webservice: wsdl.exe http://hostname/service.asmx /language:vb It willl generate a vb wrappes to call the service, compile the code into your client app, and use it. Thanks, Elena ...Show All

• Windows Forms Microsoft Forms Application 2003 .NET how to 'read only' view a text file?

  I am new to this development environment, though not new to C++ or the Windows IDE. My task is to develop an ASCII file viewer. I am having difficulty finding an object that allows me to display the contents of an ascii file in 'read only' format in a Window. These files can be very large. I need to be able to scroll through the lines, and have a Mouse Click event tell me which line a user wants to see more information about. Thanks for your assistance. Steve The listview, richtextbox or multiline text boxes - can I setup a stream to pipe the ascii lines from my text file directly to them I need to be able to display text from files that may have tens of thousands of lin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Integration with VS2005 IDE

  I'm missing some obvious... I've got VS2005 Team System for Developer, installed WinFx Components 3.0 Beta 2, VS code "Orcas" Tech Preview - Dev tools for WinFx, Windows SDK. However when I try to install Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation it simply brings up the SDK repair options with no mention of WWF. When I open VS2005 I can see the System.Workflow... namespaces but I I don't seem to have any designers or new items etc. Where have I gone wrong I installed the runtine (CTP June), Windows SDK (CTP June) and Orcas, but when I try to install WF Extension, the Windows SDK Repair is launched. In Visual Studio, I have templates for WinFX Win App, Web App, Service, but I don't have any t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Performance Tool - Is not working

  Development OS: Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2005 RTM C# Windows Form application, the Solution consists of about 5 projects.. one exe, 4 dlls. All are strongly named. I'm trying to do instrumentation but am completely mystified by serveral problems and the documentation is rather poor.   I start the Wizard.. I select the assembly that's going to be the exe. I select the instrumentation option. I provide it its own path. I set this as the post-insturment event command: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\sn.exe" -R "C:\Projects\WinIrc\WinIrcNet\bin\INSTRUMENTED\WinIrcNet.exe" "C:\Projects\WinIrc\WinIrcNet\pacella.snk" I am under Release build. Two things happened.. 1) VSPer ...Show All