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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Model Collision Detection

  Say I had two models loaded from file, a building and a character. I want the character to be able to walk around the building (up ramps etc.) and of course not be able to walk through the walls. I notice that all meshes loaded from file having a Bounding Sphere property which can be used for collision detection, however, the character will never be able to get near the building if I use that approach. Is there a way to create complex collision shapes based on the mesh data Or do I have to export the building as many seperate meshes I think the vertex buffer can be used for this as well, although, I can't seem to find a way to read the vertex buffer from meshes loaded from file. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this would be great. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot open certain files in VEA 2005 suddenly

  I have Visio for Enterprise Architects (11.4301.6568) and for some reason all of a sudden cannot open or create ORM Source model or Database Model Diagrams. The files open fine on other computers running the same version of Visio. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Visio a couple of times, and that did not solve the problem. I even uninstalled Microsoft Office and reinstalled it. The strange thing is that I had everything working fine this morning, closed a vsd file and later this morning I tried to reopen it and now it won't open, nor cannot I try and create a new ORM or Database Model Diagram file. Any other diagram type works fine though. I tried to apply Service Pack 2 but the installer told me an unexpected version of Visio wa ...Show All

• SQL Server Simple Date Formatting Questions

  Hello all, Need some help formatting a date.. Simple but I am not sure of how to do expressions in SQL report service, new to the product. So here it is.. In my expression box I have =Fields!ServiceDt.Value this returns mm/dd/yyyy HH:mm:SS I want it to return YYYYMM any help would be great. Just need to know the code for the expression box!! Help! Thanks everyone, you guys are always great help Hey George Thats a simple one :). Here you go: =Format(Today(), "yyyyMM") All you have to do is replace Today() with your field so it becomes =Format( Fields!ServiceDt.Value , "yyyyMM") Visit http://jhermiz.googlepages.com/sqlbooks for great Reporting Services books Site http://jhermiz.googlepages.com ...Show All

• SQL Server Member.FetchAllProperties Error

  I get "System.NotSupportedException: The method specified is not supported by the current provider." AdomdClient v8, VS 2003, SQL Server 2000 What's the cause of this and is there any way around it Hi Mary. Thanks for this. It worked. We used the second technique because we need to be generic, i.e., we don't know in advance what user-defined properties will be available. But here's another question. Calling Member.Properties gives e.g., Property Name: MEMBER_KEY, Property Value: 13 Property Name: IS_PLACEHOLDERMEMBER, Property Value: False Property Name: IS_DATAMEMBER, Property Value: False ... Property Name: Allow Input, Property Value: 0 The last one here is one of our user-defined properties. The previous ones are the ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies IE7 Beta 3 Problems/Suggestions

  I installed IE7 Beta 3 and had a number of issues right off the bat. 1. Processor pegs at 100%. 2. Webpage (all IE instances) started opening for websites that I've never visited. 3. Webpages I do visit take on average 5 to 7 seconds to connect. 4. MSDN uses Popups a lot. This makes not since as IE7 is tabbed. Why would I want (4) instanances of MSN open, when I have tabs 5. Finally, isn't there a way to stop this "You must restart your computer" stuff I had to restart my laptop to install, then I restarted because the processor pegged at 100%, then I had to restart when I removed IE7.. That's my input... Chas If you try to print a highlighted message with o ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to make the transparent black in the surface become "transparent"?

    When I use HRESULT D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface(   LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 pDestSurface ,   CONST PALETTEENTRY * pDestPalette ,   CONST RECT * pDestRect ,   LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 pSrcSurface ,   CONST PALETTEENTRY * pSrcPalette ,   CONST RECT * pSrcRect ,   DWORD Filter ,   D3DCOLOR ColorKey ); according to the documantation of directx sdk, the color specified in ColorKey will be replaced by transparent black. But if I load this surface to another surface, by D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface or StretchRect, the transparent black is visible and covering the background image in other surface. So my question is, how to make the transparent black become "transparent" so that the image in o ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development WebBrowser.FileDownload - How to implement a custom downloadclient

  The documentation says that you can cancel the download by setting e.cancel to true but if I try this the defaul IE Downloadwindow opens. Could anyone give me an example for stopping the download and downloading the object with a custom tool - I use for downloading the file the .NET2 Webclient but - My Download starts A N D the default download beginns also. Hi S_A_S (Special Attack Squadron ) You may like to visit www.jcomdot.com and download and install their skinning toolbar. Then visit www.jcomdot.com/en/skin/skin2-1.htm and view the source of that page. You will see that they use cutom link class values which invoke a download method from their BHO. I presume that they are using wininet api's to do ...Show All

• Visual Basic List box Items..how do you refer to them?

  I wanted to refer to a specific listbox item....but how do you do that I tried using the same method as one would do with tabs, ex. Listbox1.Items.Item(1) Using an index number... but that didnt work apparently, I got an exception error... So how would I refer to the first item in a listbox, the second I cant use their specific name because I have code set to change the listbox items at user intervention... alright here's whats going on: on form_load I have the following Listbox1.Items.Item(0)= My.Settings.firstitem.ToString() (i tried w/o tostring too) By Default My.Settings.firstitem has the text "blank" It gives me an exception error you cannot refer to the index with the number 0 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problem generating interopform wrapper class in sub folder

  When I try to put any interop form in sub folder. The "Generate InteropForm Wrapper Classes" always give me an error. Does anyone experience that Hi, Yes, a subfolder in solution explorer, it just a popup message "Error: generating InteropForm wrapper classes", I moved the form back to root of the project then it generate the classes without problem. Kelvin ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums drawing lines/polygons on map with line following pointer?

  hi, i have successfully created an app where a user can click on the map and draw lines and polygons. each time the user clicks, it creates a node and a line is drawn from click to click with an attachevent onclick function. however, i noticed how on the maps.live.com site, when you draw a line and click on the map, and you move your pointer, a line follows the pointer nicely, giving the user a great sense of where the line will be drawn before he actually selects the next node. would anybody know how this is done many thanks http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=988700&SiteID=1 John. ...Show All

• .NET Development The simplest way to limit webservice connections

  Hello all. I have a webservice and its Windows Forms client. I want to limit connections count to webservice having this number hardcoded in server dll. This is done to limit number of WinForms clients, that connect to WebService so (n+1)th client could not connect until n workstations are already working. I do not want to limit these connections using IIS. Is there a simple way how do it Thanks in advance Mykhaylo, You can do it using WSE 3.0 using the <connectionLimit> configuration element. Please find a description of this element here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/wse3.0/html/5bf8bf09-d1c9-4ec9-b7e8-7b4bf4629413.asp Hope it helps Rgds Rodrigo ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Multiparty Audio-Video conversation

  Hi, Is it possible to do multiparty audio video conferencing using LCS 2005 and Office communicator 2005 Thanks, Ekta ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions mousehover rnd point project

    Hi I am trying to find ideas of where to begin my project for what I guess will be a mousehover event. I need to create a button in vb that moves to a random point within the form without moving off the form, I am asking for help and ideas where to begin hints and that sort of help. I am not looking for answers well at this point anyway. Thank you for your help   DKB O.K. this started out to be fun and now it has taken me all morning and part of this afternoon. I have not yet found a answer although I have come across what I think to be a begining I found that I need to use random method but I now have to learn how to work that into the bounds. I have no idea what I am doing or le ...Show All

• SQL Server Combining established columns into one

  I have a table whose schema is already defined and populated with data. I would like to create a column named Name that combines the first and last name columns in the following format "last name, first name". I tried to create a formula that concatenated these two columns, but it kept spitting up on me. Any ideas you may wish to use a calculated column use northwind select * from employees go alter table employees add fullname as rtrim(lastname)+','+rtrim(firstname) go select fullname,lastname,firstname from employees ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 driver debug in emulator

  I would like to set up a development environment for my audio driver front end. I have stubbed out the hardware context layer called by the bottom end of my driver. Using Platform Builder, I see that waveapi.dll is being generated, and I assume with some tweaking I can get it to call my driver. How can I do this with the VS 2005 toolset and emulator Driver development using Visual Studio 2005 is possible - but with limitations. You cannot debug the driver using Visual Studio. To debug a driver you'll need the Platform Builder Kernerl Debugger (More see here and here ). That's why I'd recommed you use Platform Builder using a Emulator (either x86 or ARM) OS design to do your driver development. To s ...Show All