General Fault's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Write Text over Triangle

  Hi... I am very new in DirecX Programming. I creeated a Triangle (with positionnormal vertices) and now I want to write something over it. After using postion normal vertices, I have a length for the Trinagle 0.5f. But for the position of the text I need interger values (in Rectange). What should I do Thanks.. objectPosition * world -> worldPosition worldPosition * view -> view/cameraPosition viewPosition * projection -> screenPosition Note that screen position is in the range -1<x<1, -1<y<1 and the y axis is +ve up, -ve down whereas pixel positions are +ve down so take the screen position and do something like (screenPosition.X +1) /2 * screen width and you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Depth of Features

  I am going through a book on VB that uses visual studio 2003, using visual basic 2005 express edition. But it seems that in express edtion the user is unable to create a solution within which multiple projects can reside. There is no option in templates to create a solution in express edition, is this right or am I doing something wrong TIA You cannot create a solution from scratch (I believe), but you can add multiple projects and 'create' a solution. you can see some additional overall differences between versions (Express, Standard, Pro, etc.) here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx     ...Show All

• .NET Development configuring proxy settings

  Hi, im trying to add a reference to a web application in visual studio 2003, every time I try to do this i get the message about my proxies not being configured for web discovery. I 've gone to Internet explorer > connection > LAN settings, and I unselected the automatically detect settings check box. I then checked the use a proxy server for your LAN what I need to know is what do I enter for the address and port. thanks. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to call openCV dll in smartphone?

  Hi all, I've created an application written in C# which works well in smartphone 2003. Now, I want to use the openCV dll in my application and i encountered 'NotSupportedException' error. Is openCV can be supported by windows mobile 2003 What should i do for the openCV to make the DLL compatible in windows mobile 2003 Can anyone out there help mi thanks. Please do not cross post. Your query has been answered in the post http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1037278&SiteID=1 Closing this thread. Manav ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to put new row at the top of the datagrid.

  I have a comment datagrid, which store comment in desc. order( the most recent listed first) I wonder is there a way to put the new row at the top instead of bottom of the datagrid ...Show All

• Visual Basic Form & Picturebox sizes

  I am trying to set the sizes for the form and the picturebox to the size of the image displayed.  The picturebox is set to a random varible from a listbox of images.  The code I know that works is below but the problem I'm having is that it sets it to size of the image before the current image and on and on.... Form2.PictureBox1.Size = Form2.PictureBox1.Image.Size Form2.Size = Form2.Picturebox1.Image.Size Here is the code I have so far for the rest of it... Static number As Integer = 1   <-- If Code is inserted here the same problem occurs Try Form2.PictureBox1.ImageLocation = ListBox1.Items(number) <--Inserted here same problem. Catch ex As Exception Timer1.Stop() MessageBox ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista in the StateMachine use BaseWorkflow

  I use a empty StatemachineWorkflow as the baseworkflow . and the xoml-only to design the really workflow,and I want to know how can i invoke the function in the service running at the workflowruntime. ( Actually I have two problems can't resolve 1 when a define a state and in it ,I use the hee to catch the event ,and also I change the HEE's Invoke Property manually ,and there 's no error.but the invoke method what I defined in the baseworkflow always can't be invoke at debug .I want to know how can it work; 2 at the end of the HEE run ,I use the CallExternalMethod activity ,and how i can invoke the service 's method to call and with the paramers I'd recommend you start with a state machi ...Show All

• SQL Server please check this trigger

  Apparently I could not insert a text field to another table from INSERTED in a trigger. It seems the following is working, do you see any problem joining INSERTED to the mySrcTable which is the table that has this trigger INSERT INTO myRemoteDatabase.dbo.myDestTable (myTrID,myFirstName,myBigText) SELECT i.myTrID, i.myFirstName, p.myBigText FROM INSERTED i INNER JOIN mySrcTable p ON i.myTrID = p.myTrID WHERE (i.myTrType = 'In') Thanks, What type of database is MyRemoteDatabase It may be that the driver does not support the text format. If this is the case you can try casting the text field as a varchar. Note you would loose any thing over 8000 characters. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to PostMessage between 2 separate applications?

  I'm trying to implement messaging between 2 different applications using PostMessage (HWND_BROADCAST, msg, 0, 0) in one, and setting a On_Message handler in the other. The idea to test this is that when PostMessage is sent from App1, App2 will receive the message with On_Message and call the appropriate handler function. Unfortunately, its seems that this setting doesnt work. I set the message ID to the same one for both applications (something like 9990) . I did a search thru MSDN and had a clue on RegisterWindowMessage but have no idea on how to implement this, especially when the messageID must be a constant for ON_MESSAGE to work. Is there any way around this problem Please limit use of this forum to C ...Show All

• SQL Server about update

  when transfering data from text file to sql server using dataflow how can i update a record if it exists.Is it not possible to use or call stored procedure in the dataflow. please let me know I havent downloaded any sample package on this article.please let me know where i can get that. I am explaining in detail please guide me with this. I have 10 columns coming  from my text file. In the lookup i connect one key column and check in the check box (available inputs to available lookups) and  the chekboxes i check one more key column What hapens when i run is that if any information in these two columns is changed it inserts as a new record which is correct (hope it is). ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing sql express

  When I run the install script, I always get a warning that the hard drive (space ) won't support the install, but I have installed successfully with the new tools etc. and I still have 20 gigs left on my laptop. Why is this warning given thx, Kat Thank you for telling me how to get the error message... I'm learning something new everyday! Error message below: "The current system does not meet minimum hardware requirements for this SQL Server release. For detailed hardware requirements, see the readme file or SQL Server Books Online" Kat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio Combined Help Collection is Borked

  How do I repair a damaged help collection In an effort to reduce the insane duplication of help collections I've managed to completely bork my Visual Studio 2006 Combined Help Collection. I've been trying different collections of help files by using the Help Collection Manager form and have finally broken everything. When I launch Combined Help I now get a blank home page with no TOC in the Contents sidebar and no topics in the Index sidebar. However, both sidebars have long lists of items in their "Filtered by:" dropdowns. I am able to access the Help Collection Manager form by manually typing in the url. I can even manipulate the selected collections and verify that the changes are persisted. What I cannot do is get Combined He ...Show All

• Visual C# input data to website

  Ok right now I have to configure routers manually by inserting the exact same data into a router's configuration panel (website on router) then swap out the configured router with one that needs the exact same setup and redo this process over and over. I would like to write an application that fills in all the needed boxes,selects values from drop down menu's and fills in any other information and presses the save & restart button for me is this possible I initially though about trying to find the file on the router that its writing to thinking making its one config file maybe if thats the case I could just write to the file but im not entirely sure. right your first idea sounds like what I want to do ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem printing from WinFX application

  Problem: Our WinFX application's print job gets stuck in the Print Queue. What we have done so far: We are writing a WinFX application to print to our Monolithic XPSDrv Printer Driver . We created a visual and printed using PrintDialog.PrintVisual ( tried with XpsDocumentWriter 's Write method also). But the Print Job gets stuck in the queue. Even though we have set the Driver Port to "FILE:" the file input dialog never pops up. Observation: 1. But please note that if we rename the .SPL file in the "Windows \System32\ Spool\Printers" folder to .XPS extension, we can open the document using XPSViewer, which means the .SPL file is a valid XPS document. 2. Ou ...Show All

• Visual C++ Call ref class method from unmanaged callback

  I use the following way to call managed class method from unmanaged callback: BOOL CALLBACK EnumWindowsProc(HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam); ref class TestClass { public:     TestClass()     {     }     void EnumWindows()     {         GCHandle gc = GCHandle::Alloc(this);         ::EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc, (LPARAM)GCHandle::ToIntPtr(gc).ToPointer());         gc.Free();     }     void HandleWindow(IntPtr handle)     {         Console::WriteLine(handle.ToInt32().ToString(L"X") ...Show All