kcdclan's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Do most SDKs do grapics, such as 3D?

  As far as Managed Direct X, and Visual C# Studio Express,with XNA, do those have a way of creating the actual graphical interface for the game, such as 2D or 3D, or do I need Adobe Photoshop, or Maya, or some other program I currently havn't been able to download them because I am temporarily on dial-up internet, which also makes me not want to do too much looking aroudn, due to long loading times. Thanks for any help you can give me. I also like Milkshape3D it has a free trail, its not that big, and not too pricy for the full verson. I have not found a cheap replacement for Photoshop that does all that it will do, maybe gimp. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Troubles with a form --Expression Evaluator Failed--

  In my form the user is typing the name of a product in a text box. Then they will add attributes to that product. I want to have a label underneath the text box that will dynamically change with what they are typing. Searching for existing products and displaying the closest match. That way if they want to edit an already existing project they can find the name. this is my code, its placed in the txt_SurveyName.InteractiveChange event. SEEK thisform.txt_SurveyName.Value ORDER 'SurvDesc' IN 'SurveyInfo' thisform.lbl_SurvFind.Caption = SurveyInfo.SurvDesc When the program hits the SEEK line it gives me an error: Expression Evaluator Failed. If I ignore it, it still works. can anyone help You should use the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Supported gamepads (Spacewar)

  Hi, Is just the XBOX360 game pad supported, or should other pads also work. I've tried connecting my old MS Sidewinder Plug and play pad, which is working in other programs, but not here. Is there something I need to set up And (if other pads are not supported in spacewar), is this a limitation of the spacewar demo that can be coded around for windows based games Chris So if we want to use other controllers, which is pretty much a requirement for a pc game, were back to mdx and we loose xbox360 compatability Is there a way we can detect the type of controller connected using xna ...Show All

• Visual C# Including Panels defined in another file

  I'm developing a Compact Framework 2.0 Windows CE application. It has a number of panels stacked on top of each other and a menu to navigate between the different panels. To be able to design each panel in the GUI editor of VS2005 I have one form per panel + one form where I put it all together and stack all panels on top of each other. So every time I redesign a panel I have to: 1. delete all panels from the form where I put it all together 2. paste all new panels back in to the form where I put it all together 3. edit the designer file of the form where I put it all together to remove any lines where one panel is added into another panel. 4. edit the designer file of the form where I put it all together to make each panel be added ...Show All

• Visual C# print on network printer

  is possible to print word document through network printer which is not installed on local PC using c# This is window form- desktop application. Currently I execute "copy filename SharedPrinterName" through process class and it works fine. Is there any other way it is possible ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Management templates are empty

  Hi all. I have downloaded the last MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance . But unfortunately I have an empty templates in Project Management folder: Development Project Plan.mpp, Project Checklist.xls, Test Development Plan.mpp. All these files are an empty documents. Is this correct and process guidance include only empty files or may be I have some problems wiht install. Thanks. If you have the TFS Office integration installed, you should see a button called "Choose Team Project". Press this button and you should see your project. Once you have selected your project, press the "Get Work Items" button. Take a look at my demo on http://www.microsoft.com/events/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can LoadRunner support application under .Net Framework2.0(C#)?

  Hi. I have encountered an problem when I use LoadRunner to do load testing. The LoadRunner need to run an Application developed by C#2.0 in VS2005. While I load the *.exe, the application breakdown. So I'm wondering if LoadRunner support .NetFramework2.0 Application. Thanks for your kindly help. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Winscard.dll

  Hi, For communication with card reader I use winscard.dll in visual Basic .Net 2005.I have a problem when using threads to communicate two card readers simultaneously.In this case 2 threads work together without any problem but time of operation is exactly twice of time of each operation individualy.For example if each reader transaction time be 20 seconds,in threading state total time for finishing both transaction simultaneously is 40 seconds.It is interesting to know when I seperate 2 readers transaction in form 2 application and run them simultaneously either apps finish on 20 seconds! Why this happen If we say winscard dll file has critical section , why this problem doesn't take place on multitasking Best regards. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Install VSTS with data tier on a Cluster SQL Server

  hi .. I was wondering if someone can send me a link for installing VSTS in a dual server mode. where data tier resides on a clustered SQL Server instance. I am not having any luck with finding such a doc on msdn. thanks You just need to install Tfs data tier on the active node of the cluster, follow carefully this step in the installation guide "Checklist: Team Foundation Server Cluster Deployment" for complete instructions. ...Show All

• Visual C# Retrieving last index value in an ArrayList

  I want to populate an int variable with the last index of an ArrayList. I haven't yet found a property of ArrayList that will do that for me and I'm wondering if I'm missing something. Right now I am doing it this way: int theLastIndex = theArrayList.Count - 1 But I'm wondering if there is a more elegant way. This is in C#, by the way. Thanks in advance. Sorry, but that won't work at all. If that even could compile, it would set the lastIndex value to theArrayList.Count and then increment theArrayList.Count. However, Count is read-only, since it doesn't make sense to increase the number of items without actually adding an item. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Treeview with checkbox, check with color gray

  Hello, I use the treeview control with VB .net 2005. I would like to check an element and if the child element are not all check, the parent is check in color gray (not the name of node but the checkbox only). have you an idee Thanks, Ben Me . TreeView1 . DrawMode = TreeViewDrawMode . OwnerDrawAll http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.treeview.drawnode.aspx Imports System Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Windows.Forms Public Class TreeViewOwnerDraw Inherits Form Private WithEvents myTreeView As TreeView ' Create a Font object for the node tags. Private tagFont As New Font( "Helvetica&q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't browse work items

  hi we are having a strange problem and i think its related to our environment as i didnt found anything similar to it on the net. The problem is few(particular) of our team users can't browse the work items at all i.e. none of the query returns any workitems, wat we have to do is to remove them from the project and add again then they can view the work items. It started happening quite frequently now like 4-5 times in a day. Any hint, clue why its happening regards faraz Hi Faraz, Regarding your first point, no, the following scenario is expected behavior and I believe it or similar could explain the problem you are having: 1) user 'mydomain\Bob' has TFS 'Allow' permission to team project [Myprojec ...Show All

• SQL Server check if schema exists

  How can I tell if a schema already exists so that it doesn't have to be created if exists( select * from sys.schemas where name = 'myschema' ) begin --ADD YOUR CODE HERE end else begin --ADD YOUR CODE HERE --CREATE SCHEMA [myschema] AUTHORIZATION [dbo] end ...Show All

• Visual Studio kb313504 :Unable to start debugging

  hi, i've this problem : "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging. Unable to start program 'path.exe name' The debugger is not properly installed. Run setup to install or repair the debugger." http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313504/en-us it is very strange because i only installed xp -> iis -> vs2003 i don't understud what kb says: RESOLUTION To resolve the issue, repair the .NET Framework redistributable installation by typing one of the following at a command prompt: C:\dotnetfx.exe /t:temp /c:"msiexec.exe /fvecms temp\netfx.msi" -or- C:\dotnetfx.exe /t:temp /c:"msiexec.exe /i temp\netfx.msi REINSTALLMODE=ALL ReinstallMODE=vomus" w ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Detecting User Privileges

  I have an application that needs to detect if it's a standard user or an admin user, how can I do this   Before, it worked fine to try writing to the registry in certain areas, but this is no longer the case on Vista it seems.  My installer gets elevated and the write operation succeeds, even on a standard user account.  Are there new functions for detecting this, or do I need a more robust solution, or maybe it's just not possible As a note about the reason behind this, I am finding an error when run as a standard user, but it works fine for admin users.  This is even after typing in the password and allowing on the UAC dialog that appears.  I wanted to simply limit this operation to admin users, sinc ...Show All