madaboutnoggins's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. On-screen Xbox 360 Keyboard?

  Sorry if this has been asked before. I was unable to find anything related to it when I searched. In future releases, do you plan on supporting the on-screen keyboard with the Xbox 360 I know there is a component for it, but I would be more comfortable with using the real thing. Also, are there any plans to support the other processor cores I read somewhere that only the first is used and the others just sit there and do nothing. It seems to me that it would be very useful to split, for example, physics into a separate core. Again, sorry if I'm reiterating past questions. Jim Perry: It's not that I don't think the component is good, it's just that it only supports some resolutions and doesn't look exactly ...Show All

• Visual C++ List Control Perfomance Issue

  Hi, I have a list control in which i will be loading nearly 3000 records.To load them its taking around 20 seconds.Can anyone provide a solution to minimize the timing and improve the performance.Thanks in advance. Use a virtual list. See http://www.codeproject.com/listctrl/virtuallist.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Poaching application's controls

  Is it possible, after including reference to Access, to work down the Access object structure it's data grid (Sheet View) and insert that into a form. Bigger question is is it possible to insert other application's controls into a form Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. But still up a blind alley, can you point me to an example, anything involving the use of an externally referenced .net control, and I will adopt it from there. So long as I can use the control whilst running Visual Studio I do not need to distribute the resultant compiled code. Thanking you in anticipation, Nameoor ...Show All

• SQL Server Chart in Report Builder

  hi there I am just designing a simple chart in Report Builder - but when trying to drag any field into the value field of the chart (it doesn't change colour and won't accept any field). If I drag a field into the category or series the curser changes and on approaching the chart properties they seem to change colour. Can someone help to what can be wrong thanks Dianne still needing this information Is someone using the Report Builder and have the same Or is someone using it and no problems - so I can check thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Stack overflow in calling Range.InsertXML()

  I'm using Range.InsertXML() to display an xml blob on a particular area on the document. The xml blob comes from the database and I use recursion to insert all records on the word document. I'm getting a stack overflow error when the records gets too big (50+ pages). I saw a thread on stack overflos in excel and it suggests using Application.EnableEvents set to false before calling a method. Word don't have this event. Any ideas how to prevent this error Recursion... Any idea how many "layers deep" this is getting Are you concatenating all the information into one "xml blob" before using Range.InsertXML Or are you using the method "rapid-fire" into the document ...Show All

• .NET Development Stopwatch class not found in System::Diagnostics ?

  I am using VC++ 2005. In several projects that I have created I have never had this problem but now that I created a DLL project (used the Win32 wizard), I am having this weird problem where the System::Diagnostics namespace shows up a few namespaces and classes, but not nearly all that belong there. For example, the CodeAnalysis namespace is shown, then ConditionalAttribute, DebuggableAttribute, Debugger, and so on until SymbolStore, which is the last namespace/class listed. No Stopwatch and many other namespaces and classes that should be there. What is wrong It must have something to do with the project settings but I don't even know where to look to find the missing namespaces and classes. Any idea Thanks. Kamen From the sound ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. lens flares

  i have read something about lens flares. the position of the lens flare are calculated by the vector which goes from the sun until (0, 0, 0). but in many games i see the following effect: when i look into the sun and turn left or right the lens flares are turend left or right to. do they calculate the angle between the camera direction vector and the lens flare vector and turn the lens flare vector by this angle i implemented lens flares with billboards because i didn't wanted to use sprites in order to work with world space. the question is, how do i calculate the vector from the sun to the center of the screen ...Show All

• Windows Forms Get SQLCommand Collection from TableAdapter

  Hello, If I have an object tableAdapter, I want to get the array of SQLCommand[] that this table adapter has. By exec these statements, I only get the first one (SELECT stored procedure). PropertyInfo commandsProperty = type.GetProperty( "CommandCollection" , BindingFlags .NonPublic | BindingFlags .Instance); SqlCommand [] commands = ( SqlCommand [])commandsProperty.GetValue(tableAdapter, null); Does anyone have any idea how to do this Thank you ...Show All

• Visual Basic getting binary from file

  Private Function TextFromFile( ByRef fInStream As String ) As String Dim i As Integer Dim strText As String i = FreeFile strText = "" FileOpen(i, fInStream, OpenMode.Input, , OpenShare.LockWrite) System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents() strText = StrConv( InputB (LOF(i), i), vbUnicode) --- this is the original code strText = My .Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllBytes(i) ---- I just added this to try FileClose(i) TextFromFile = strText End Function I just converted this code from mVB6 to 2005.net, but you will see a one of the functions don't exist any more (inputB), which is grabbing the binary info from a text file. I attempted to do the same ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3.0 w/ Outlook 2007 Beta - won't return results in cached mode, does when online.

  Hi, I have been fighting WDS 3.0/Outlook 2007 for a good while now. I started with Outlook and BCM loaded, but have uninstalled BCM and re-installed Outlook alone with WDS 3.0. Everything seems fine, but my searches return no results. On a whim, the other day, I turned off "use Exchange in cached mode" and voila, WDS started returning results! This is repeatable. I turn on caching, WDS does not return results. I turn off caching, it does. I do not use a .pst file, but rather keep all my information on the Exchange Server. I wonder if it has something to do with either an Exchange Server setting, or something to do with my .ost (offline folder) file. Anyway, I wonder if others that are having trouble getting WDS to ret ...Show All

• Windows Forms prevent DataGridView selection

  Hello All, I have 3 columns in my datagridview and about 100 rows. When the user clicks on any cell in column 0, I want to prevent that row from being selected i.e. the datagridview should retain its previous selection if any if the user clicks on any cell in column 0, but the default behaviour should be executed if user clicks on any cell in column 1 or 2. Is there a way to achieve this My datagridview selection mode is FullRowSelect Thanks, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# Executable distribution?

  The article "How to: Set Debug and Release Configurations", implies that its possible to create a "release" executable for C# programs under all but VS 2005 Express edition. This implies that an application cannot be distributed to and executed by users without Visual Studio to run it with. Is this true - I can't create an applciation and give it to other users Is there another way to do this Another free IDE that might be useful Give your users the .exe that is built in the Debug or Release sub-folder of the project folder. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding to a service from xaml

  I'm having trouble figuring out how to bind to an object retrieved from a custom service locator where the key of the service is indicated in the xaml. For example, imagine I've exposed an object "ServiceLocator" to the namescope. I'd expect to be able to call: < UserControl x:Class = " UserControl1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " > < StackPanel > < TextBox Text = " {Binding ElementName=ServiceLocator, Path=GetService[CurrentUser].CompanyName} " /> </ StackPanel > </ UserControl > My ServiceLocator class has: Public ...Show All

• SQL Server OLE DB Connection Manager will not save password

  I'm stuck with a very annoying problem - any help would be greatly appreciated. I created a package using Business Intelligence Project. The package reads from a Flat File source and saves to a SQL Server table. The package has a Data Source for the database connection. In this I have opted to save the password. When I run the package in VS on my machine it works fine. I then deployed the package to our SQL 2005 database server using the Deployment Utility. It then appeared in the MSDB section. I then tested the package ran from my machine using Management Studio and all was fine. However, if I try to run the package from the database server itself I run into problems. Specifically, the log gives me the following error: "The AcquireC ...Show All

• Visual C++ help please!

  ok so far this is what ive got for my code im trying to figure out how to start my for loop that will receive the array and the int that represents the count(2) if anyone could help please im completley stumped. thanks in advance.   #include<iostream> using namespace std; struct Student {        char Name[30];        float GPA;        int Major; }; //Function Prototype Student studentdata(Student&); //Function Prototype Student changeData(Student&); //Function Prototype Student GetStudents(Student&); int main() { struct Student s1; struct Student s2; struct Student s3; s2 = studentdata(s1); s2 = changeData(s2); s2 = GetSt ...Show All