Jo Ann Anthony's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Trends in Managed Game Development

  Hello all I'm just starting developing games and am wondering which language / envirronment to write them in. At the moment for experimenting using Direct3D I'm using C#, with Visual Studio 2005 (.NET), and mucking around with DirectX 9, and XNA (the XNA game studio express). I've always figured that the professional game devs use unmanaged C++, but is that changing now with the additional support for managed DirectX So, in short: If I want to make a game using DirectX, what language / environment should I use to make it Thanks =) -Cabbeh Cool, thanks Yea, I'm thinking that I want to make a really slick engine, and would like to start off using DirectX and C++ ( ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Filtering in a master detail situation

  I have a listbox which is used to filter a listview. I would like to add two items manually after the listbox is databound. One to show ALL items (the attatched listview is not filtered at all), and one to show all items that are not in any of the items listed in the listview. How could i do that using the supported databinding features You could try to use the CollectionView filtering features. The listbox will not be databinded anymore, on selected index changed you will change the filter for the listview ( see http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752348.aspx ) ...Show All

• SQL Server report viewer and reporting services security

  i have a web application in studio 2005 using the report viewer control. i have my own security model implemented on my web pages for clients [1..n] each of the [1..n] clients should be able to view reports of their order history. i have the report viewer set up in url mode. the question is that when i have drill downs in my final reports, a user with some tech knowledge, would be able to obtain the url to my sql server running reporting services. the sql server will not be given a port 80 acess. how do i go about displaying reports without any savvy user being able to locate the server locations/credentials i donot want to create windows account for each [1..n] clients as this is ever growing ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Error 0x80040154 when printing

  From night to day some machines gives the error 0x80040154 when printing reports in a VFP 7 solution (there's about 50 workstation and 4 with that problem). When the user try to print he takes a error message: "OLE error code 0x80040154: Class not registered" in any report (even simple reports just with a bmp and some comom controls like labels). The printed result is a blank paper. I try to reinstall the VFP 7 runtime on this client but not happened. There's no ActiveX on this reports. Please, someone could help me You may check this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/149259 and if you don'have installed yet, update with service pack 1. ...Show All

• Windows Forms cross problem of two box

  i cant find the correct Subject :( in my form my listbox and a picture cross.. i added photo in this link: http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php image=reia1.jpg picture's location is 677; 12 and the listview's size and location is like this: this.k.Bounds = new Rectangle(new Point(0, 0), new Size(650, 720)); listview finishes at 650 and photo begins at 677 why this cross happen at another pc it works correctly at my pc.. can you please help me ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView: One double click calls both CellMouseClick and CellMouseDoubleClick

  Now I see that my question was very badly writen so I re-write it. I am writing in C#. I have a DataGridView and two functions: One to handle the CellMouseClick event and one to handle the CellMouseDoubleClick event. The problem is that if the user double click a cell, BOTH events are called! First the CellMouseClick and then the CellMouseDoubleClick directly after. They are both called by the VERY SAME double click! It would have helped if I at least could tell if the "CellMouseClick" is caused of a double click or a single click. Anyone that knows how Isn't it alltogether a bug I do not think that a CellMouseClick should be raised by a double click at all. Thanks in advance, Keren PS: This is a car booking system. A single click on a bo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. "Chaos" 3d FPS Game Engine (WiP)

  Title: Chaos First Person Shooter Game Engine for XNA Objective: To design and write a first person shooter engine for the XNA that utilizes advanced shaders, shadows, and poly-based collision detection and to meet or exceed the capabilities of the engine used in "Halo" Website: [ here ] Time Frame: 4-5 Months (Expected completion in late April to early May, 2007) Description: The Chaos First Person Shooter Game Engine for the XNA will allow anyone to create high-quality first person shooters that will rival Halo. Chaos will be a library available for both Windows and the XBox 360. The library will include all the basic, and advanced functions of the game, you just need to add in your custom elements and add the content. Chaos will not onl ...Show All

• Visual C++ Migrating to VC2005

  I am trying to migrate my C++ codes written using VC6.0 to VC2005 but having some problems. These seem very trivial, but I am just unable to get around it. When I use the statement "#include <iostream.h>", I get "iostream.h: No such file or directory" Then, I try, "#include <iostream>", which seems to work, only that now it gives a fatal error on "cout << "Hello World\n";", saying that "cout: undeclared identifier" Could someone please tell me what am I doing wrong here I am trying to build a simple Win32 console application. Thanks a lot... cool! That worked. So do I have to always have this "using namespace std;" thin ...Show All

• Windows Forms Format columns in the .NET Winforms Datagrid

  Hello, I used a tableStyle to format my columns in my datagrid. DataGridTextBoxColumn dcFinalDate = new DataGridTextBoxColumn(); dcFinalDate.HeaderText = "Final date"; dcFinalDate.MappingName = "UGFNDT"; dcFinalDate.Width=100; dcFinalDate.NullText=""; dcFinalDate.Format="####/##/##"; tableStyle.GridColumnStyles.Add(dcFinalDate); It works good if there is a string entered, fe: 20060202, it will be 2006/02/02. But when there is no string (because the field is not required), then I'll get // .... How can I get rid of that Greets, Dirk protected override object GetColumnValueAtRow(CurrencyManager source, int rowNum) { DateTime ...Show All

• Windows Forms OTP: Creating Dynamic Controls from the Database

  Hi , Can any one help me out in resolving the issue.. I need to design a .NET application where it is like a survey. There are many questions and answers.. I have a requirement where I have the Data collection stored in the database. From the Database, i am trying to retrieve the values in a dataset. For the total count values and based on one particular values, i need to create a label control dynamically. For that Asp:label control, the id should be 'Unique ID' from the table and the text should be 'Text' column of that table. Is it possible. Can anyone help me out on proceeding with this requirement. Thanks in advance. Tig ...Show All

• SQL Server Timeout and Audit Logout and sp_reset_connection?

  Hello, We've been getting some intermittent timeouts from our live website (the timeouts normally, but not always, occur when getting the user details - but that could be just because that task is happening the most often). However the strange thing is that this happens intermittently - but often enough to be annoying! I started a trace to see what was happening. I thought maybe it was a transaction/ or some sort of blocking SQL statement - however I'm not seeing anything that clearly indicates this.(I suppose the timeouts would only occur when another SQL was blocking the same db object, right And I don't think the updating of the user details are performed regularly.) However I did find some oddities that could maybe help: When we receiv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Program hangs when preview report

  Our Company is using 2003 Standard Edition, which is a domain controller. When the server start up for a period. client using terminal service remote into the server. They are using an application which will print the report on "Remote Session".That means the database and the cilent program are also store in the server. Sometimes, when the cilent try to preview the report, it seems normal. But after a while, some of the cilent using the application to preview the same report, the crystal report will got freeze , and the program will hangs. It need to terminate the program and start again.When same user print same report, it still hangs. But when the server restarted, user can preview the report and print it normally.. D ...Show All

• SQL Server Inserting into SQL 7.0 with an identity column as the primary key problems

  Hi I'm using Visual Web Developer Express 2005 and I'm connecting to a SQL 7.0 database. The table I'm connecting to is a table where I store help desk issues that I've encountered. Since I could have tons of help desk issues with multiple instances of the same user, same issue I decided to go with a column called "ID" as the primary key, I was also thinking of using an automatic time stamp but I'd rather use the "autonumber". "ID"s property is set to Identity. To select,update,insert and delete I just use the automatic generate statements VWD makes for you. Select, Delete and update work fine but the insert gives me this error. ERROR [23000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot insert expl ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help the handicapped.

  Good morning gurus, I have the stupid question of the day - in fact, I'm embarassed to even ask it. How do I extract a filename without the extension and set it to a variable For example, I have a file called 123test.ps which is passed to a batch file as %1. I want to set another variable (TESTNAM) to 123test - no extension Something like set TESTNAM=%1 (minus the .ps) TIA I wasn't clear - this is just for a batch file run from the command prompt. It is not for VB, I just could not find a forum that would deal with something like this so I picked VB How would I do this in MSDOS ...Show All

• Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Languages

  As I began installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, everything was written in French. I pressed through the installation successfully, but when I run the program everything is written in French as well. How can I switch it to english, or where can I find an english language pack for it Ok, This works, but when I go to change the language, the only options are French and "Indentique a Microsoft Windows" which I tried but did not change the language ...Show All