Neo the 1's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What am i working on MDX-1.1 or MDX 2.0 or anything else........?

  Well all i know is i installed the DirectX Aug2005 SDK...update..........and i have installed Visual Studio 2005......and i found references for microsoft.directx and microsoft.directx.direct3d and now i am developing directx CAD app in VB.net and problem is i have been reading on many sites and forums that....MDX2.0 is dead. what am i developing stuff on am i using MDX 2.0 or MDX 1.1 or this new XNA.... i have installed .NET Framework 2.0 in my system. Actually August still had MDX 2.0 in it, though we are expecting it to be missing in the October SDK. If your app runs then you are on 1.1, 2.0 has a timbbomb that expired yesterday so you will get an error about expiration. Check the version number ...Show All

• Visual C# synchronization???????????????????

  void a() {   //I want to stop in here, waiting  c(); execution finished.       How should I do Thanks.   b(); } void b() {    ...... } void c() {    ...... } I think you're going to need to give us more to go on, but it sounds like maybe you want to use thread synchronization If that is the case, then you probably want the System.Threading.Monitor class. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development write to file...CFile?

  Hi folks. Simple problem and I've searched a lot and just can't seem to get it to work: I need to write null delimited strings to a simple text file on a smart device. I've tried CFile and CStdioFile and can't get it to work (I think because I can't figure out a way to convert a CString to a const char *). I tried this but I get a bunch of weird boxes at the end of and before every line of text: CString thisString = "Hello there"; writeToFile = thisString + _T( "\r\n" ); csfWrite.SeekToEnd(); csfWrite.WriteString(writeToFile); I just read that apparently CStdioFile is not supported in smart device applications... Is that true Can someone please tell/show me a way to write to a text file Thanx in ...Show All

• Windows Forms Tutorials on imaging for beginners

  I am trying to make a bitmap font program. I want it to allow the user to assign an image to each char of the standard ascii lineup. Then when a user types in a textbox, it will create an image based on the contents of that box. I have seen some freeware programs that do this but are harder to use than needed. I have tried to ask for the source code (since they are freeware) but the authors have refused. So I have decided to make my own. I have no idea how to create the image though. Is there any tutorials for people who have never done anything with images in vb.net before If you want more information on what I am trying to do then please ask. Thank you, Troy L. I just tried the method you posted and realized that it was kind of li ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Data Compare - Next Button Grayed Out

  Trying to a Data Compare. After I select my 2 data sources, I go to the next screen where I select the tables/views. I can select all tables or select individual tables, but no matter what I do the Next button is grayed out. Clicking the Finish button just closes the wizard without doing anything. What am I doing wrong I am running the initial CTP that was distributed at Tech Ed. I have the same issue. Both tables have primary keys. Here's the behavior I see: Data menu, select Data Compare Choose my Source and Target databases. (At this point, the Next and Finish buttons are both enabled.) If I click Next, it takes me to the screen where I can choose which object(s) to compare. By defaul ...Show All

• Windows Forms Concurrency violation at update

  Hi I had a working vs 2003 application with access backend. I added a couple fields in a table in access db and then to allow user to have access to these fields via app I did the following; 1. Regenerated the data adapter sqls by running the data adapter wizard and pasting the resulting code into my app. 2. Deleted the data adapter correspond to the relevant access table from the dataset and re-dragged the table to dataset to have the new fields included in the resulting data adapter. 3. Used below code to bind the windows form field to the underlying table field; db = New System.Windows.Forms.Binding("Text", ds, "tblClients.MyField") txtMyField.DataBindings.Add(db) Now when I run the app I can view t ...Show All

• Visual Basic vb.net school croject

  I am a vb newbie and am doing a very simple school project involving the calculation of volume for various shapes. If i can explain my problem properly, i hope that someone can easily answer it. so here goes: "...the calculation should be performed and a message box displayed to indicate the inputs and ouput in the following format: The volume of a box with a length of 1.00 feet, a width of 2.00 feet, and a height of 3.00 feet has a volume of 6.00 cubic feet." my problem is i can't figure out (either thru my book or online help) how to make the messagebox.show method output the inputs and answer (which are all variables) using the info the book has given me. this is what it looks like now: messagebox.show("The ...Show All

• Windows Forms OnLine strategy and the foorprint

  Hello, OnLine strategy is used in clickOnce , What is the footprint of the online application on the end user machine. In case there is no foot print so How the run (online) mode execute Where it stores the dll and exe it execute on end user machine 10x. Yaron Karni www.attunity.com http://dotnetbible.blogspot.com/ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Controlling MSWebDVD buffer

  Hello, I want to use DirectShow (the MSWebDVD control) in a vb project and I need access to the buffer. Basically, I want the program to automatically skip from one part of a movie to another while the movie is being played (say from 10 minutes into the movie to 12) and I want it to happen seamlessly. To accomplish this I need to alter the choice of data that is being buffered. I need the buffer to load the information needed to play the video that will come after the section is skipped (So, in the previous example, it would buffer the data up to 10 minutes and the next data that would be buffered would be that which is after 12 minutes). Is there a way to control what is going on with the buffer If not, can anyone suggest something els ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET framework 3.0 (x64) installation error

  Perhaps one of you have an answer. I am getting an error when installing .NET framework 3.0 (x64.) The error actually comes in two separate error boxes but at the same time. Error #1 reads "Unable to load Sitesetup.dll. Setup cannot continue. Error #2 reads "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000006). Facts: My computer is running WIN XP x64 on an AMD64 processor. I have successfully installed NET framework 2.0 ( I do see it in Add/Remove programs.) When trying to install the program NET Framework 3.0, called "Dotnetfx3_x64", I got the above errors. Please help me as I am at a complete loss right now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. d- Thanks for the repl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Underwhelmed by Sandcastle

  I've noticed that the feedback on Sandcastle has been generally positive. Maybe I'm in a minority of one, but I felt I had to get this off my chest. <rant> Having initially dismissed the first Sandcastle release as immature, I've come back several months later to try out the December CTP. My requirements are, I believe, simple and mainstream. I want to generate documentation for a product consisting of a few class libraries and integrate it with VS2005 help. The document should be generated automatically as part of the build process. With .NET 1.1 and VS2003, this was easy to do with a batch file that calls NDocConsole, which in turn generates a configuration file for the easy-to-use H2Reg utility. I can then call H2Reg in a ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Licensing Problem Upgrade

  My company purchased a server plus user cal SQL license and now wants to change to a per processor license. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about this other than just purchasing outright licenses Hi, contact your license vendor or your contact at Microsoft (if you have one, if the license vendor is a MS partner you should be able to get in contact with the partner account). Perhaps you can make a *deal* with them, otherwise you will have to go the hard way and buy new licences. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Multiple Web-Test iterations not executed

  Hi all. I have noticed an issue with running a batch of (in my case coded) web tests repeatedly. I am running the RTM. I am attempting to run several tests multiple times in a row. I have set the localtestrun.testrunconfig Settings to default to 50 times. This config is selected as Active. When several tests are selected via the Test Manager Window, and I right-click to "Run checked tests", only the first test initiated is executed 50 times. Each subsequent test appears to only run once. As a workaround I have referenced a "false" datasource w. 50 rows and used the "once per datasource row" config setting instead. It works but requires updating each coded test with a datasource Aplogies if this ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rotation Matrix on Object Axis?

  Ok, here we have my effect.World stuff... effect.World = Matrix.CreateRotationX(Pitch); effect.World *= Matrix.CreateRotationY(Yaw); effect.World *= Matrix.CreateRotationZ(Roll); effect.World *= Matrix.CreateTranslation(position); This rotates the object, however, it seems that the rotation is always based on the view axis, and not the object axis. How do i rotate the object around it's own axis for yaw pitch and roll, instead of using the view axis Thanks! it looks like you are rotating the object on its own axis. It only gets into view axis when you multiply with the view matrix and projection matrix. Add in a second object with a different pitch, roll yaw, position and you should see the dif ...Show All

• SQL Server drop ##temp

  due to unavoidable reasons i had to use a ## temp table in a SP, ie i had to dynamically create a table whose (number of)columns i come to know at runtime.. if i do thi ::set @sql = 'create #table....select some columns _ append varchar(10)' then insert into #temp....temp is not valid here..so i used ##temp now i need to explicitly drop it...also in catch block , i need to make a provision for droping it incase of an error in runnin proc...some kind os IF EXISTS drop ##temp.... as i dont know if it'll be created by that time or not..how do i do it..there is ofcource no entry in sysobjects....where is the entry for temp tables...tempdb dosent have system tables..!! dave : i am creating my temp table by creating a sql ...Show All