Rakshith's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What about PRT lighting? I didn't find out PrtEngine =(

  AFAIK Mdx included PrtEngine, it was great. It is to be regretted that PrtEngine hasn't been included in the Xna beta. I would like to see it in the next version.. Does anybody worry about it May you have another way to calculate PRT coefficients Maybe you aren't going to use PRT lighting! ...Show All

• Visual Basic connection from vb.net to reader

  i am currently doing a project on rfid. the database i am using is ms sql server 2003 i need to connect in vb.net 2003 to the reader ar400 to read and write and remove tags. can i get some help on it thanks a lot thanks for the info. hmm. i would like to ask lets say i ahve a button start reader. what codes do i put inside to startup the reader thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Resource Dictionary "Adding Stroke/StrokeThickness" IsMouseOver

  How can i get the Stroke/StrokeThickness to appear on IsMouseOver in the Resource Dictionary I have a custom button Style <Style> the Stroke appears in the <Rectangle x:Name="GlowBg" Opacity = "1" RadiusX="9" RadiusY="9" Fill="[TemplateBinding Background}" StrokeThickness="0.5" <Rectange.Stroke> I want the button to have "No" stroke until the IsMouseOver is Triggered,I have excluded some of the Xaml for my Custom Button <ControlTemplate.Triggers> <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="true"> <Setter Property="Rectangle.Fill" Tar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions printing image as backgound...

  Can somebody help me out... im printing a customized report with image using print document, in print preview the image was successfully displayed but i want it to be invisible when the document prints. From an earlier post of mine, (applies to image printing also) If PrintDocument1.PrintController.IsPreview Then e.Graphics.DrawString( "Preview" , namesfont, Brushes.Black, 600, 400) End If Will show the word 'Preview' on the screen in print preview, but will not print to paper. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Future D3DX's not supporting SM1.x??

  I saw this in the October SDK readme October 2006 DirectX readme! wrote: Preview Release of the new HLSL Shader Compiler for Direct3D 9 Targets This release has a beta version of d3dx9d_31_beta.dll that includes the Direct3D 10 HLSL compiler enabled for Direct3D 9 targets (shader models 2.0 and later). The new compiler has no support for 1_x targets. This debug-only DLL allows developers to utilize the new Direct3D 10 HLSL compiler for their Direct3D 9 shaders, and will become the default compiler for all Direct3D shaders. Please try the new compiler by building your application with d3dx9d_31_beta.dll instead of d3dx9d_31.dll. Does this mean in future SDKs SM 1.1 will not be supported any more, or is this limitation j ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Disabling all Selectable Elements

  I want to disable all buttons at once from script. What is the best way to do this Can I pass an xpath expression like so: document[class('foo')] What is the best method for disabling Setting state:enabled to false If you mean only the navigational buttons, then you could set focus to an empty button which goes nowhere. <button id="lx" style:x="1px" style:y="1px" style:width="1px" style:height="1px" style:position="absolute" style:navUp="none" style:navDown="none" style:navLeft="none" style:navRight="none" > Don't know if it is possible to disable every button on the remote with one single line. ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to query task manager and task schedular

  Hi Can any body tell me how can i see what tasks are running on my machine under task manager and sheduler task using vb.net or asp.net.. I would appriciate if anybody can provide me code example for it Please reply ASAP Thanks Gurvinder Hello I have made a app before that is almost like the Task manager. you know, kill processes, list processes, and stuff. It's easy once you start exploring the Process Class. Just type "Process" without quotes then a dot, then just go one by one with reading the descriptions. It should help you. Also, a quick search can do a good work for you. Keehun ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Schema with imports

  I have a quite complex xml schema with 2-3 import statements. Each import has different targetnamespace. How is possible to enter this schema in SQL2005 using the CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION and make sql validate the xml before inserting to the database Is it possible to overcome the xml import limitation that SQL2005 seems to have by modifying the xml schema So far my attempts were to use the Create XML SCHEMA COLLECTION for the first schema and the ALTER XML SCHEMA COLLECTION ADD for the rest that have import statements. However, the validation fails with an error message like the one below : XML Validation: Declaration not found for element 'MyFunds'. Location: /*:MyFunds[1] Thanks I'm not aware that SQL Server h ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Mouse Over

  How can i find out if the mouse is over my custom panel in my MainWindow when i'm dragging another window wich was made from within the main window and has the owner set the MainWindow Any ideeas sugesstions It's not working And i don't know what else to use I think that the mouse has to be over that element directly for this event to happen. Any other sugestions. ...Show All

• Community Chat Free List - Version 1.00.03

  http://www.barrysumpter.com v 1.00.02 - Enhancements: Moved command buttons to Tool Strip after converting all .ico libraries to .gif. (Major undertaking.) Changed Icons. Updated Node icons. A Right-click on a tree node now selects that tree node before displaying the popup menu. I've lighted up a bit with more wording and spelling corrections on this web page. This is a follow up thread from the original here: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1103536&SiteID=1 The original thread kind of lost focus. Free Lists is the only app there written in vb.net. Don't worry about the other products. I've only sold 1 of each. So I ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Show of Hands! Is WF by itself a viable approach to addressing a customer's workflow needs?

  Like many of us in the forum I am in the all too often unenviable position to influence my client's decisions. I currently have a lot of customers evaluating workflow, many for the 1st time. I personally have avoided building "custom" workflow solutions whenever possible as I have had success in the past implementing packaged workflow or BPM offerings, both Microsoft-based and less recently non-Microsoft-based. It's allowed me to focus my energies on building solutions and solving real business problems, not building infrastructure. Granted, there are customer situations that don't require or afford you the opportunity to buy a packaged solution to address a workflow/BPM need, but I would argue those are/should be the exception n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Uninstalling Visual Studio 2003 Standard after installing Visual Studio 2005 Standard Upgrade

  Does anyone know whether or not it's completely safe to uninstall Visual Studio 2003 Standard after installing the Visual Studio 2005 Standard Upgrade good question. hmmm I always thought that you need the previous product installed if you have done an upgrade. I guess you could restore it back if things went wrong using System Restore ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Where to Learn

  Greetings experts! I have just downloaded and installed Visual Basic Express. I love it so far. I have plenty of experiance in VBA using MS Access and VBS in programming in ASP. I understand database theory, and can hold my own in writing SQL...BUT I have never attempted to build an actal program before and I am a little lost. I am currently serving a tour in Iraq, and I am hoping to pass the time by learning what I can. Can anybody point me to a good book I can order Any other resources I have plenty of full featured Access Databases I would love to turn into stand-along programs, but I dont even know where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! First and foremost, thank you for your ...Show All

• .NET Development Code Access Security (CAS) equivalent for COM

  I am trying to a prevent .Net assembly from being called by untrusted applications/DLLs. I like the solution of using the CAS attribute StrongNameIdentityPermission to specify a public key required in assemblies in order to access methods in the assembly. However, I have a requirement that the assembly be callable from COM clients, and CAS does not support COM. Does anybody have recommendations as to how I can establish trust between .NET assemblies and COM clients Thanks, Alan. The best you could probably do in that case is a combination of licensing and obfuscation. However, once someone has their hands on your assemblies, they will be able to remove any licensing protections if they so desire. In order ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums custom error message for findlocation

  Is there a way I could display a custom error message when no matching location is found instead of: "Virtual Earth could not find a match for the location. Please check your spelling, enter the complete address including country name and commas, and try again." OR is there a way I can stop that message from being displayed Same for the message displayed when a close match is found. Is there a way to not display that popup message thanks for the help....i will prolly try it out on monday when i get back to work. there is a way to set a callback for errors: map.AttachEvent('onerror', <function name>); but that works only for map control errors. the find/findlocation function does not th ...Show All