palmqvist's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Help Please, kinda alot of questions in here

  Hi, im a complete beginner with any kind of coding and i want to make a simple game to start learning how to code. I'm very fluent in 3ds max and want to put some use to the models i've made and put them in my own game... I want to make a simple space ship flight game. I've done the 3 tutorials for moving models but I dont really know how to apply them to my own game. heres mainly what i want; 1. I want the camera to rotate around my model using the right thumb stick. 2. the gun on top of the ship to rotate with the camera view. (when you look up and down the guns would aim up and down etc.) I have bones going through the gun on the model. 3. want to press up or down on the d-pad to toggle 3 different speeds. 4. steer the ship with the lef ...Show All

• Architecture How to extend the tablet pc input panel

  My company is going to deploy tablet PCs as a part of a wireless warehouse and we would like to add industry specific symbols to the Tablet PC input panel. Each symbol will map to a series of character to be automatically inserted a running (web) application text input. Is there a way to add these symbols to the input panel Is there another solution ...Show All

• Visual C# Implementing Interface IEnumerable vs. Iterator

  Implementing Interface IEnumerable vs. Iterator I am using the Caching Application Block but there is no way to do what I want, as I can't iterate over the cache. The way it is written, I have to pull items out of the cache one at a time. I would like to add an indexer methods to the CacheManager that would allow me to do what I want in a for loop. I have to add an indexer to an existing class and I have no idea which way I should implement it. public class ItemTypeCollection: IEnumerable { public struct Enumerator : IEnumerator { public ItemType Current { get {… } } object IEnumerator.Current { get { return Current; } } public bool MoveNext() { … } ...Show All

• Visual Studio Lets talk about rendering performance

  Hello. Our company distributes a vertical market accounting app which we've migrated from Crystal Reports to the WinForms ReportViewer. Our installed base is around 6,000 end users. We've found the viewer to be a solid product and we're pleased with the functionality and stability. That said, we may be forced to abandon reporting services for some applications due to performance issues. As an example, we have a report that processes 10,000 rows and perhaps 20 columns. On a 3 GHz machine with 2GB RAM, it takes 40 seconds to render the report (not counting query time). In addition, ReportViewer consumes approx 400MB of memory for this process (after garbage collection). These results won't cut it when a user is waiting for real-time outpu ...Show All

• Community Chat Kyro KidSafe Browser (alpha)

  Hello all, I am making a "KidSafe" browser for kids. Please download my program and post any noticed bugs,etc.  It takes only minutes to set up.  I am 10 years old, so who can make a browser for kids better than a kid Progress:  Final will be started in January Thanks you everyone for your contributions  and encouragement.  *Has 3 tabs for browsing. *Has a "My Websites" button with up to ten of your programmed websites in it. Beta Features: *Has 3 tabs for browsing. *Has a "My Websites" button with up to ten of your programmed websites in it. *Talking Help guide *A new install program Updates in final version: *Button text replaced with graphics. *A game room with games, and fun KidSafe software (suc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Assembly compiles to 0.0.0.0

  Hello, One of my library project always compiles to v 0.0.0.0 even though it is set to 1.0.* using vs 2005 Any Ideas Jason Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply The version is set to 1.0.* I tried it with a fixed value, but it still compiles to 0.0.0.0 Jason ...Show All

• .NET Development Tlbimport problem

  Hi , When I use tlbimport to import a COM component having a method with [in] parameter as BSTR params, it is imported as string @ params. Why is this I have the interface declared in the idl as [ object, uuid(7166ADEC-350B-4210-BA4F-451C0B97ADBC), helpstring("IAnotherClass Interface"), pointer_default(ref), local ] interface IAnotherClass : IUnknown { [helpstring("put BSTR")] HRESULT putBSTR([in] BSTR params); } When I tried creating a fresh component with the same interface specifications it is importing properly as string params. I tried implementing the interface in a C# solution by using the ' Implement Interface Explicitly' menu option when I right-click on the interface declaration in th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Effects Manager

  In reading the documentation it seems that you cannot have a (working)camera without passing through an effects. Would it then be better to create an effects manager class to handle exposing an effect update method accepting a camera argument, or better to just load up an effects cache and have the camera class grab what it needs each time. The effects uses the WorldViewProjection matrix as you may have to implement a camera in your game project. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Components; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics; namespace XNACamera { public class ...Show All

• SQL Server Unsecure transport and dialogs

  Hi There SInce day one i have configuring service broker to use transport and dialog security with certificates. However i am not 100% sure how to setup service broker between 2 instances without security. Would the following work, or what steps am i missing 1.Setup the endpoint with WINDOWS authentication instaed fo certificates, the instances are in the same domain, grant necessary permission to the service account for each instance. 2.Create dialogs with the create remote service bindings with the anonymous = ON and grant send to public for the services. Would this work Also am i correct in thinking that if encryption is required the use of certificates is mandatory Thank YOu Di ...Show All

• Visual Basic Merge files

  In the old dos days you could combine 2 files as save to a third file: copy file1 + file2 file3 It still works in a dos shell. I did this: Shell("copy " & file1 & " + " & file2 & " " & file3) I got an error that file3 cannot be found. I know it doesn't exist I want to create it. So I created a bat file: copy %1 + %2 %3 and called it as such: Shell("ccopy " & file1 & " " & file2 & " " & file3) I still get the error that file3 cannot be found. First I don't see how it can tell from the shell that file3 is a file. How do I do this otherwise Do I have to create a blank file before calling it I think to use a .NET code is better than using shell command, because this wouldn't work in ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataView Cell wraping

  Hy, I have writhed a DataGrid using ListView and GridView, my main problem now is that text in text in going out off the cell and I can't find a way to make it wrap, here is the xaml for the datagrid: <Grid> <StackPanel> <GroupBox Margin="1"> <GroupBox.Header> <Grid VerticalAlignment="Center"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition /> <ColumnDefinition /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Name="headerText" VerticalAlignment="Center"> Grid header </TextBlock> <Grid Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Right"> ...Show All

• SQL Server .NET Runtime 2.0 Error with EventID 5000

  Hi, We are performing a SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 upgrade on a Windows 2003 SP1 server. We encountered error in the SQL 2005 upgrade with the following error : =================================== Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program. =================================== Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program. (System.Xml) ------------------------------ Program Location: at System.Xml.Schema.SchemaInfo..ctor() at System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaSet..ctor(XmlNameTable nameTable) at System.Xml.XmlReaderSettings.get_Schemas() at Microsoft.SqlServer.UpgradeAdvisor.ReportViewer.UAReportController.LoadAndValidateDataFile() at Microsoft.SqlServer.UpgradeAdvisor.ReportViewer.UAReport.ValidateDataFil ...Show All

• SQL Server Can We Use Single Table for Fact and Dimension

  Hi, I have one table which has all the information for which i want to create a dimensions and mesures. I have some columns like product type, direction(buy/sell),Industry and some dates and volumns fileds. How Can i use this single table as Fact and Dimension with sql server 2005 analysis services Thanks in Advance Satish Yes it(the logical key) can be a single integer. You can use the identity property i SQL Server 2005 to make this automatically. Regards Thomas Ivarsson ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions printscreening program

  Hey, I'm working on a simple remote control program. But now I stuck on the printscreen thing. My id was that you can see what the other is doing by taking screenshots and sending them to the host. (as compressed as possible) Now, my question is: "how do I make a printscreen program" dim b as new bitmap (screenWidth,screenHeight) dim g as graphics = graphics.fromImage(b) g.CopyFromScreen(0,0,0,0,new size(screenWidth, screenHeight)) This will create a screenshot and store it in a bitmap ("b" is the bitmap). ...Show All

• Smart Device Development UPNP_E_EVENT_SUBSCRIPTION_FAILED

  Hi all !!! This project on developping upnp device will definitely make me crazy. I'm getting a UPNP_E_EVENT_SUBSCRIPTION_FAILED error whereas I'm using the microsoft sdk implementation. I don't understand anything. If you know the microsoft platform sdk UPnP API, I'm using the implementation of DCO_DimmerDevice. The registration works fine but the service cannot be gotten because of the UPNP_E_EVENT_SUBSCRIPTION_FAILED error. The hosted service failed to subscribe to event source I think. I don't know the reason. Do anyone know hpw to solve this, I am waiting for help. Thanks a lot. The error occurs on the server side. Because when I implement the UPnPEventSource::Advise method, I queried an ...Show All