Adam Stuart's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. No Programming Tutorials?

  I'm not sure if this question has been presented before, but I am not a programmer, not even close. I can't program, I'm not a number-cruncher, I'd die if I had to program all day. I just can't make sense of this stuff. So, I ask: Are there tutorials that can help you make a game without programming I doubt this and the best thing I can try to do is just copy & paste code while implementing my own files & hope it all works *rolls eyes* This, or I am looking for a reliable person who likes to program. I looked at the Torque thing & opened up XNA to use it & I keep getting a game.Run error...I have no clue how to fix this ofcourse. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Installation Failure on Vista

  Help! I'm trying to install SQL Server 2005 on 32-bit Vista RTM. Have tried several editions (Developer, Standard, Enterprise). Have tried installing while logged in as domain user account in machine administrator group as well as built-in Administrator user. Running SETUP program with elevated privilges. Certain portions (Analysis services, Notification services) install correctly, but never the database engine. Always fails consistently with the same error reported. Machine has Visual Studio 2005 installed already, but NOT SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. Error logs reports are below ({computer name} is the name of my machine) UI error reported: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup ------------------------------ SQL Server Set ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Ad insert without stopping the source material?

  I want to run an ad during the inning break in a baseball game that is being presented as an on demand presentation. Because the inning break is a break we do not want to resume at the point where the ad started. For example the innning break is 1 minute 10 seconds long. When the break starts we run a 1 minute ad. When we return we see the last 10 second of the inning break. Right now when I return I see the entire 1 minute 10 second inning break. Any ideas Since this isn't a Media Foundation question, you might want to try posting instead at one of the Windows Media newsgroups: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx d=1 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Setup Wizard in VB 2005 Standard SP1

  This one is aimed at Matthew Gertz in VB Development Team. Yes, I am aware that the Christmas Holidays are near but I hope your response will be quicker than last time. First two points and then my query 1. Despite ticking the Alert Me box, I am not getting Alerts when you post responses. 2. The first time, I opened VB2005 after installing SP1, I got the error message "Run Time Error/Program C:\Pro\R6025 - pure function call" and VB closed. The second time I got an Report Error toMicrosoft - which I did. Third time the programme loaded and ran OK. Curious QUERY I have read extensively in the help file about using the Setup Wizard but the reality does not match the reporting. Page bf5cf02e-b0b7-4a99-ba9c-bcf9d383b7d ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Newby questions

  Hi, digging around with Vista we came (after a lot of success with WPF things) to the point where we think about the WEB. We run a lot of web apps (ASPX). Most of them use Forms Authentication and profiles. Our idea is now to have those site support InfoCard. Before running into a totaly wrong way we try to ask here if our idea is totally stupid or not. The idea: When a user tries to enter a protected area we normaly bring up the .NET 2.0 Login control. This is pretty automatic - the user enters username / PWD and is redirected to the page after login. At the same page we offer a link to register - also using the "normal ASPX features" (Username, Email, PWD, Secret Question.....). On most sites we do an email verif ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to change link of "Show ProjectPortal" in Team Explorer

  Hello everybody, I would like to point to a different location for a single TeamProject. In Team Explorer there is the menu item "Show ProjectPortal". How can I change the link target All other TeamProjects should keep their link targets... Kind regards, Rudi Hi Rudi, There currently isn't a way to change the portal for a single team project. TFS has the addresses of the one WSS server stored in a database table, and it uses that combined with the name of the team project to create the url to the portal. -Dennis ...Show All

• Visual C++ Mutex vs Event

  Can anyone tell me what the difference is between Mutex and an Event as far as functionality is concerned. Many places mention the difference as the fact that mutex is owned by the thread whereas event is not. I dont see functionality wise how this should matter. Some places mention that a thread could get into deadlock while using Event because it might wait on an event that it is supposed to trigger whereas this is not possible for a mutex. Again from my understanding, this is possible only for Manual Reset events where once the wait on an event is succesful, the thread should set the even back to non signalled. For automatic reset events (which are automatically reset to non signalled when a single thread wait is succesfull) this ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) envelope transform in WPF?

  Hi, Anybody knows if it's possible to apply a 2D Envelope Transformation (or similar) in WPF on WPF widgets like Macromedia Flash Thank you in advance I assume this is the same envelope transform that's available in Illustrator. WPF doesn't provide direct support for arbitrary mesh or envelope transforms. If you're willing to code a little, though, you do have a couple of options. Your first option is to create your own BitmapEffect. This has the disadvantage that you have to write an unmanaged plugin, so you won't be able to use it in a partial trust web-app. It has the advantage, though, that your transformed elements will be fully hittestable, so you could transform a button, say, and it would still be clickable. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Visual Studio 2005 Problem

  I have been trying to install VSTO SE Beta. But after the installation the new project types (office node) are not available in visual studio 2005. So i can't start to develop. Hi Dave There is no "VSTO projects node". There's an Office node under VB.NET and C#. Under that entries for Office 2003 Add-ins and Office 2007 Add-ins. That's all. However, in my experience, you can't install mixed languages in the Visual Studio IDE (English beta with a German VS). So if you don't see the Office node, that may be the problem. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding an exisiting project to source control

  How can i add an existing project to source control I have a team project that i can see in team explorer in my VS2005, but i don't see where i can add a new or existing solution to TFS. Is there something else i need to install I don't see that option. Is there something i need to install to make this option available I have the team explore installed and can connect to TFS but still no add to SCC ...Show All

• Visual C++ function pointers..

  i'm not sure how to declare an array of function pointers this is what i've got so far:   typedef vector<int>::size_type (*arr[5])(const string&);         arr[0] = hashfn1;        //Line #44         arr[1] = hashfn2;         arr[2] = hashfn3;         arr[3] = hashfn4;         arr[4] = hashfn5;   error message: hashing.cpp:44: parse error before `[' Any suggestions     Try defining the function pointer as type and use it to create an array of that ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems Creating Database on SQL Srvr. 2005 Ent. Edtn.

  Posted - 12/17/2006 : 07:23:22 Someone found the problem with the above SQL query, and it was line 5 missing the \ after E: E: \ Sales_Data\SalesPrimary . mdf I have corrected that, however, now getting the message: Msg 5133, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Directory lookup for the file "E:\Sales_Data\SalesPrimary.mdf" failed with the operating system error 3(error not found). Msg 1802, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors. Anyone have any ideas ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Titlebarinfo API in VB.Net

  Hi all. I'm trying to use the GetTitleBarInfo api call to get information about the titlebar of the currently active window (stored in curWindow) but can only find examples using Classic VB or C++. I've tried to upgrade these to vb.Net but whatever element of the function I try to call (e.g. titleinfo.rcTitleBar.top) always returns zero. The code I'm using is as below: Declare Function GetTitleBarInfo Lib "user32.dll" ( ByVal hWnd As Integer , ByRef pti As TITLEBARINFO) As Long Private Const STATE_SYSTEM_FOCUSABLE = &H100000 Private Const STATE_SYSTEM_INVISIBLE = &H8000 Private Const STATE_SYSTEM_OFFSCREEN = &H10000 Private Const STATE_SYSTEM_UNAVAILABLE = &H1 Private Cons ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie question on editing

  I do not know how to do the EDITING in steps4 and 5 below and don’t want to try (by opening the files in word pad) and mess things up. Please help. Thanks in advance, Gerhard From http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/ Step 4: Update the corewin_express.vsprops file. One more step is needed to make the Win32 template work in Visual C++ Express. You need to edit the corewin_express.vsprops file (found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCProjectDefaults) and Change the string that reads: AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib" to AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid. ...Show All

• SQL Server Append current date in exported report file name in PDF format in sql report server 2000

  HI All I want to append current date in exported reported file name. I am using report viewer to diplay report . when i exported report in pdf format it ask me to save file at this time file name is same what ever i uploaded in report server. when it ask me to save i want append current date to the file name. like report file name is "testingdetail" then i want "testingdetail-November-27-2006.pdf" Please help me in this Thanks Alpesh   Hi All I found another way to append current date to Expoting report file name. We have to overide the Reder method of reporting service first we have to add web reference of reporting service then put below code in button click event private void ...Show All