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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Displaying scores on to the Screen

  I have a 2D game in which you try to stay away from the enemy as much as possible. Every 100 milliseconds the enemy moves faster across the window. While this happens, how can you display the level and the score to the player Drawing a map: - http://www.xnaresources.com/blog.asp action=viewarticle&articleid=4 Drawing score - http://blogs.msdn.com/garykac/archive/2006/08/30/728521.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers and SourceSafe

  I have Team Edition for Software Developers and when installing it it doesn't mention anything about source safe. How do I install source safe Does it come on seperate disks look on cd 2081 or dvd 2435.5 you can also search here to find the disk ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Error when closing threaded modal dialog.

  Hi, I am getting ThreadAbortException when my ShowDialog completes its work. I have created a thread and called DisplayInformation, which creates form instance and call its ShowDialog (means form displayed as Modal). In the form I have a button by clicking on it, I set the DialogResult to OK. Whenever I press that button the thread terminated abnbormally with following exception. This behavior is for CF2.0 and PocketPC 2003 SE emulator. Sometimes it work on Device. ERROR: ThreadAbortException at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.WL.SetVis() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible() at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog() at UtilitiesThreadedDialog.DisplayInformation() at Utilities.ShowInfo() at WorkItem.doWork() at System.Threading. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums convert Quad key to tile x, y, zoom

  The following code can be used to convert tile image's quad key to tile x,y, and zoom. private static void QuadKeyToTile(string key, ref int x, ref int y, ref int zoom){             x = 0;             y = 0;             zoom = key.Length;             for (int i = zoom; i >0 ; i--)             {                 int mask = 1 << (i-1) ;           ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Hirarical Tree View C#

  Hi, I want to create Hirarical tree view based on are the following record stored in a table. Id Name Parant id === ============== ======== 1 Test 1 2 Test 1.1 1 3 Test 1.2 1 and so on... I am using C# windows form how can I create tree nodes at runtime based on above mentioned information. Thanks in advance, Hi Abdul Aziz, The TreeView Control in WinForms is extremely easy and simple to use and its a nice control to deal with. Try the following code sample, It'll fill the data you have provided into a tree: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { //the data in an array string[] Parents = new string[] { "Test ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Checkin of file fails because I do not save items I did not edit

  I have checked out a file for edit and made a one line change. Now I am trying to check the file back in. When I click the checkin button in the pending changes window, which only contains the single file I have checked out, a dialog comes up asking me: "Save changes to the following items " It then lists the project solution file and one of the projects in the dialog box (I already saved the file I want to check in). If I answer "no", the dialog goes away and my file remains checked out. The same thing happens when I cancel out (hit the x). I have made absolutely no changes to anything other than the source file I am trying to check in. So why does TFS seem intent on foisting some change in the solution file o ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I user VB.NET to Open Command Prompt, Call .bat File, and Send Parameters to .bat file?

  Greetings, I am Creating an ASP.NET application that our users may go to to unlock a locked out computer. Once the user supplies the IP Address and UserName they click the unlock button. The button Runs VB.Net code that takes the IP Address and UserName, looks at the first 2 octets of the IP and from that chooses which .bat file to run. All of that works great. The problem I am having is when I try to open the command prompt to call the .bat file nothing happens. I've searched and found many helpful ways but none seem to support passing the IP and UserName to the .bat file. the .bat file calls a .vbe that logs onto the remote computer as admin and then calls another .bat which calls the unlocking .vbe This is about the only way w ...Show All

• Windows Forms Disable Custom action instead of deleting

  We have a Custom Action to run an extra setup dialog window after the installation of a program we packaged in. User requirements have now changed and no longer require that custom setup step, but we intend to keep that lying around. There appears to be no direct feature to disable Custom actions. We have to completely delete it. If we need to revert, it means having to recreate the Custom Action again with all its properties. This seems fine for just one, but I cannot imagine what if we have several Custom actions. Is there a way (that does not seem obvious) for VS.NET 2003 to actually disable instead of delete Try setting the "Condition" property to something that will never be true... like to a property that doesn't exis ...Show All

• Visual Basic Common Language runtime detected an invalid program

  We have developed a Window Application in VB.NET (Framework 1.1) with Back-End MSDE and with Crystal Reports. We haven’t got any issue as long as we run the application in our development machine. Also we deployed it in many clients and it works fine But in only one client place, we got the following error ‘ Common Language runtime detected an invalid program’. The application contains many forms with many controls (More or less 100) But the issue comes only in one form when it is opening Configuration of the Client Machine Processor : AMD OS : XP professional We will be thankful if any one provides solution for this… If it's working on lots of clients but fai ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista transforming all input to RGB24 type

  Hi! I've been looking through many examples and forums... I think I need something not too complicated, but I haven't figured what to do. At the moment my Graph is: Video Input (USB camera or video card on PC) | Sample Grabber (with callback that provides RGB24 format easily transferred to BMP) | Null Renderer I now have to use many other USB cameras that do not necessarily output RGB24 type video. I need to add a Transform Filter (DV Video Decoder ) that will translate any Video type that's not RGB24 into RGB24 so that the Sample Grabber will continue working OK. I know it should be simple - but I'm a "newbie" and have no idea to do this. Any idea or sample, etc. will ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Impersonation and/or AppPool Identity Failing

  I'm hosting my WCF service inside IIS6. My app is running within its own app pool, with configured identity as Administrator. In my web.config, I've set <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true"/>. I'm using basicHttpBinding, and do not want to impersonate the client's identity, as I'm calling some priviledged operations. I've also marked my service implementation with [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Required)], and marked my methods with [OperationBehavior(Impersonation=ImpersonationOption.Required)]. The contract operation 'DoSomething' requires Windows identity for automatic impersonation. A Windows identity that represents the caller is not provided ...Show All

• Visual Basic Express to Pro

  Is there a part number to use when going from VB Express to VB Pro 2005 There are several of these, a little confusing, I just want to make sure I get the right one. Good reference for the different versions: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b4z62wxz.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms ? in file path for activex control in Registry

  Please note the " " in lieu of a ":" in the path below. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\-1-5-18\Components\296878DB682FFA144898BF24E107BBCE] "FB7A40E69E5647B4580A29B901E0D140"=" N \\Program Files\\IDX Web Desktop\\sg20.ocx" This control was delivered as part of an MSI I created using ISS 11. I posted this quesiton to the ISS site, but the moderator only pointed out the fact that this "situation" exist for a bunch of MS files as well! This is not good enough (for me and definitely NOT for my client!). Does anybody know why this happens and/or how to prevent it ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Sonic Scenarist

  Is this authoring tool an IDE or does it actually create the playlist, markup and js through a toolset In other words, can someone with very very little understanding of xml and js author advanced HD DVDs with this tool I'm trying to determine who their audience is. Currently, Sonic's tool only does the muxing of the audio and video streams and creates the playlist from the advanced content you have imported into the program. It does not have any capability of creating or editting the markup or script files. That is all done externally. I don't believe their intentions at this time are to intergrate that into the software. The biggest downside to Sonic right now is that their previewer does not conform 100% to the iHD spec. I find ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System source control

  does visual studio team system for database professionals incude source control if yes, is the source control at the database level meaning if someone goes into Management Studio will they "see" that a stored procedure is currently checked-out and then they cannot modify that sp. i am hoping to hear something that would make me switch to VSTS for source control. not hearing it. Just so we are on the same page, the process we use is someone goes into VS(not VSTS) database project, checks out an sp, make changes, clicks "run", this deploys the sp to the shared development environment. And many shops out there like ours have a shared development database environment ...Show All