Mitch Walker - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problem with DirectX and Visual Studio 2k5

  Hey,    I've noticed something very wierd. I am using Visual Studio 2k5 for sometime but I've never tried to complile my previous Direct3D relelated projects on this release of Visual Studio, maybe because it never occured because the machine that I was developing them had 2k3. Now for the Problem if you create a Win32 default application with MFC support (or not) that you try to write the following stuff you get linker errors and sometimes complier errors. I've never had them before and I don't know why they are occur. I checked for the Project Properties, altered some stuff (such the use of precompiled headers etc with no luck :S). The DirectX samples compile fine but I don't know the cause of the pr ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiple rotations in OnPaint

  Hi, I have 2 "triangles" which are drawn by 3 drawLines each in the Paint of the form. Those 2 triangles need to be rotated but with a different angle. So let us say : triangle 1 :45° , triangle 2: -75°. Is this possible to do this Grtz Annihil8 public Point RotatePoint( Point pPoint, Point pOrigin, Single degrees) { Point rotatePoint= new Point (); rotatePoint.X = Convert .ToInt32(pOrigin.X + ( Math .Cos(D2R(degrees))*(pPoint.X - pOrigin.X) - Math .Sin(D2R(degrees))*(pPoint.Y - pOrigin.Y))); rotatePoint.Y = Convert .ToInt32(pOrigin.Y + ( Math .Sin(D2R(degrees))*(pPoint.X - pOrigin.X) + Math .Cos(D2R(degrees))*(pPoint.Y - pOrigin.Y))); return rotatePoin ...Show All

• SQL Server Get Server\Instance Name

  I can't find this anywhere in the thousands of objects in SSIS. So I thought I would ask. I have a situtation where I want to retrieve the server\instance name of the SSIS job is running on. I have multiple servers and instances and I want to send emails like "Failed see server\instance - job name". Any ideas Thanks Tom Phillips wrote: That is true. However the job which kicked off the SSIS package did start on a server. That is actually what I am trying to get. Maybe I will have to pass it in the job to the SSIS package OK, so the job is completely different to the package. There is no way for the SSIS package to know where it was executed from unless you explicitly tell it so ye ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development XSLT rendering to HTML in IE7 performance

  I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this question, but I have an XML file with the following reference to an XSLT file that transforms it to HTML when it is loaded in a browser. < xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xml2html.xslt" > It renders correctly, but it takes an awfully long time. For comparison, I loaded the same file in both IE7 and in Firefox 2.0. In Firefox it renders in 2 seconds; in IE7 it takes 15 seconds to render. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks to Dimitre Novatchev who solved this in a different forum. The answer was to make use of an xsl:key for the lookup. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot Deploy Report - Please Help

  I am trying to set up Reporting Services. I am using SQL Server 2005 on Win XP Pro. I installed service pack 2 for SQL Server 2005. The database looks to be set up in the configuration manager. When I try to deploy the report I get the following message: A connection could not be made to the report server http://localhost/ReportServer When trying to open the ReportServer folder in IIS I get another message: An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log for more details. (rsInternalError) Get Online Help Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions DDE or something else?

  Hello folks, Sorry in advance if I'm in the wrong place to ask this question. I want to build a custom Visual C++ app that can be a DDE client. I have some legacy DDE server software that I need to connect to. I've done a day's worth of searching for documentation on this with no luck. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be most appreciated. Thanks, EV Try these articles/samples: http://www.faweb.net/us/das/sample_vc.html http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=22CA6C9D-45C8-4609-8169-82FE896184D4&displaylang=en http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/ddeinfo.html http://thesource.ofallevil.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=29d0257f-49fb-4c3e-97ff-f8 ...Show All

• Architecture Stored Procedure Approach for developing Applications: An Architecture Viewpoint

  Hi, I have a designed a smart client application which talks to WCF Services --> BL--> DAL and finally the database. Since I know that I would using only SQL Server for this application, I am of the opinion for going in for Stored Procedures(for its obivious benefits) and having transactions being handled at Business layer using System.Transactions. My Lead Architect is against the idea of using Stored Procs. His argument is that with SP approach it would be a question of getting the right transcation boundaries and also ensuring that the messaging and the transction are in a single distributed XA transaction. He says that these things are best achieved through individual statements and not in SP since SP's have their own txns. But ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Bizzare object Axes with trueSpace, what about other 3D apps?

  I'm finding some really bizzare mappings of object axes with objects created by trueSpace 7.11. If the origin is at the bottom right of the screen, I want the nose of my spaceship pointing towards the right, the top pointing up, and the right wing pointing towards you. My understanding of XNA is that its coordinate system is right handed. Thus, the origin is at the bottom right of your screen, positive X is to the right, positive Y is towards the top, and positive Z is towards you. I'd expect that an object I create in a 3D program should have the same layout for its axes. In experimenting with trueSpace, when I export an object to .X format and right-handed coordinates, in order to get the nose pointed right, the right wing point ...Show All

• SQL Server reporting for mobile device

  Hi All! I need to find a way to get a single page report which contains very little info to fit on the screen of a blackberry 8700g. I have set the page size and body size to 6cm x 8cm, set the margins to 0cm and set the font size to 8pt. Looks fine when previewing in vs2003.net but the report text is splitting accross 2 lines when received as a web archive at the bb - any ideas ...Show All

• .NET Development Memory consuming during BinaryFormatter Deserialization

  Hi, I have a problem and I need your help please, I have made a large aplication that takes a very long time to generate the results, so I have serialized the intermediate results periodically in a binary files using BinaryFormatter in order to save it from any suddenly problems like shutdown or restart. Now I need to Deserialize all saved files to continue my work. The size of the saved file is about 6.5 GB devided into about 260 files. When I try to deserialize it one by one, the first three files were deserialized in about one or two min. , and then the speed is very slow down, and the memory is fully consumed. I think that when the reading process starts the memory begins free and it then filled out with each reading ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Inherits:-

  I've been dealing with a single form form1 only so far, and now that i want to be able to be directed to another form once i click on a button, say form2. Is inherit the way of doing so What should i do Yap, i do it the way you instructed, the form 2 appears. But if i want that once the form2 appears, the form1 dissapear rigth way. I tried with form1.close(), it didnt work at all. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Focus in Form

      I am using 3 different user Controls in a form. Each control is having a Datagrid , at any given time the three datagridviews are having focus. if i select particular datagrid focus on another controls should be loose. I want Focus at only One at a given Time.   yes it is like selected in each control ,it is not focus,   --thanks can you describe it clearly. if you want to set focus on a particular control then on the load event of the form set the focus on the control as like this controlName.Focus() or else you can set the tab order accordingly to set the focus on the control. ...Show All

• Visual Basic writing ANSII/ASCII characters using streams

  Ok so I have some text boxes that have some text in them, I think I know how to convert them to ascii chars by converting them to uni bytes then to ansii/ascii bytes then to ansii char arrays but just in case I have it wrong, and I still am having issues writing them to a data/text file, how do I do this and write them to a file That's not quite true. What is happening is that your fortran application doesn't recognise both a carriage return AND a line feed (CrLf) characters. Cr = chr(13) = Carriage Return. Lf = chr(10) = Line Feed. The file format you have requires (apparently) a carriage return only. ...Show All

• Windows Forms execute control validation

  Hello, My control has validate event handler that raises when the control looses focus. I want to be able to call this validate event handler from code (and no, I don't want to write a function). Is there a way to call this handler, or maybe cause the control to loose focuse Thanks. You are right :-), now try this IContainerControl ctrl = myControl.GetContainerControl(); ctrl.ActiveControl = null; I tested it with TextBox, that had "Leave" event defined, and was active, the timer executed the code above, and TextBox lost the focus (and got it again) but Leave event was definitely fired ...Show All

• .NET Development xsl rearrange flat document

  hi, i have document like this <doc> <subitem id="1" itemid="1"><v>sub item one</v></subitem> <subitem id="2" itemid="1"><v>sub item two</v></subitem> <subitem id="3" itemid="1"><v>sub item three</v></subitem> <subitem id="4" itemid="2"><v>sub item four</v></subitem> <item id="1"><txt>item 1</txt></item> <item id="2"><txt>item 2</txt></item> </doc> and i want to the output to be like that item 1 sub item one sub item two sub item three ...Show All