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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. GameComponent comprised of other GameComponents

  Hello all. I've been poking around with XNA to build a game. One thing that I wish I could do is use the design-time experience to build a GameComponent comprised of other GameComponents. I know I can do this programatically in the meantime, but it would be really cool if the design time experience for a GameComponent itself was just like a Game object so you could use composition when building GameComponents (so they really _are_ like building blocks). I wanted to do a "sanity check" here to make sure I'm not missing anything before posting a suggestion on the connect site. Thanks all! Not a problem Mitch! I can just embed my own GameComponentCollection in my GameComponent to build it ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Where is the download?

  It is 12:48 pm here (GMT + 1)... in Nuku'alofa (GMT + 13) it is tomorrow... So where the hell is my download link :-D it's past 9 am over here (Netherlands). By my calculations it should be past midnight Pacific Time... I'm bored of cleaning my Holy Grail, let's get this show on the road!! ...Show All

• Visual Basic How web client download a pdf file from my Window/Ldap server

  Hi! I really don't know if this is the right place to post this question. . I have some confidential pdf statements (such as monthly statements from bank) on my window server (could on Novell directory also) and I will provide a download link in the web applicaiton for the web user so they can download or open the pdf file based on their login credential. the web client can not access those physical pdf files and only can download those files for themselves. I don't know how to implement this. Any idea or help will be appreciated. Thank you for your response. I want to store those statements in the window server (or Ldap server) directory for securrity. The web client user only can download thoes statements they have authority to acc ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagridview SelectionMode Question

  Question about: datagridview = DataGridViewSelectionMode.XXXX I have datagridview (unbounded) where I modify the background color to indicate a date that someone is scheduled on. When they click on the (xx.S ctionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode.FullRowSelect) I don't really want a full row select (although that is what action I wan't to perform), I just don't want the row highligheted because it obscures the background colors, any suggestions Thanks Tim, By the way, I'm working with fyiReporting and their RDL reportpint tool... any experience with it ... any interest in it ... Just wondering ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies IE crashs when opening office doc from sharepoint 2003

  Hi All, There is numerous reports (see links below) of IE crashing on vista when opening word or ppt from sharepoint 2003. This is also happening to me. Does anyone know how to fix this Thanks slyi http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1090561&SiteID=17 http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general/browse_thread/thread/43f86639250505a2/b0ef5e5c7be556a3 lnk=st&q=sharepoint+ie7+crash&rnum=1&hl=en#b0ef5e5c7be556a3 thanks for your advise! this helped solve the problem! ...Show All

• Visual C++ serialport problem(Quick-no time)

  Project has 3 module.GUI-communication-serialport We used QT for GUI because of Linux. In console aplication ,project was exceuted well.But when used GUI ,project began to crashed because of ReadFile(). ReadFile should wait the port until signal.How can I solve this GUI s.listeningPort(); //s is a communication object communication srlObj.readMsgFromPort(); //srlobj is a serialport object serialport-readmMsgFromPort int size1, size2; vector<string>msgV; vector<string>msg; msg.push_back("-9999"); int i=0; char buffer[200]={0}; #ifdef WIN32 DWORD Read; #else int Read; #endif #ifdef WIN32 if (!ReadFile(hComm,&size1,sizeof(int), &Read, NULL)) //Error1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Who can tell me the detail limitations with Crystal reports for vs2005?

  Hi,all I got the message "Integrate Reporting into Server or Web Applications What's included within Visual Studio .NET, C#Builder and Delphi 2005 A Crystal Reports .NET reporting component is built into Visual Studio .NET, C#Builder and Delphi 2005. This bundled component is designed to let you develop and test server or web applications. Although you may deploy your applications using the component, it is best suited for an internal pilot within a workgroup. If you exceed the throughput limitations, the component will throw an exception error (this case does not apply to Visual Studio 2005 users). Learn more about how to scale your application ." from http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/cr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How do you develop team build scripts?

  I must have missed something here, how do you actually develop your team build scripts I have my basic Team build file created in the browser, but as soon as I want to add and change it it appears that I have to edit the file, save, checkin, run the team build from the server, wait for it to do its build and then find out I have a typo or missed somethign out. I tried running it locally but dont seem to get the same set of events and I believe this is due to settings such as IsDesktopBuild being different when I run locally using MSBuild. How do I go about actually developing my Team Build script without the whole checkin / run remote cycle thanks for any help The normal methods should work ju ...Show All

• Visual C++ Bug in CImageList::DrawIndirect in MFC Version 8

  The size of IMAGELISTDRAWPARAMS (defined in CommCtrl.h) depends on the value of WINVER, but CImageList::DrawIndirect overrides the value of its cbSize member according to the runtime version of Comctl32.dll. This messes up the display of images on XP and Vista, when WINVER is set to 0x0500, for Windows 2000 compatibility. A workaround is to call AfxImageList_DrawIndirect(&imldp) instead. Hello Re: Bug in CImageList::DrawIndirect in MFC Version 8 Thanks for the post. I do not see a question here so I will mark the thread as answered unless you require some information Thanks Damien ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView -- setting column format to 'UpperCase'

  Hi. I'm using VC# with VS2005 How do is set an individual column on a DataGridView so that it converts all input to UpperCase (I tried editing the column and setting the format to 'ToUpper' and to 'UCase', but no luck....) Also, how could I set the format specifier to limit a column's input to numbers only Thank you. John F. Did you ever figure this out I am having this issue myself and need some help. Thanks T ...Show All

• SQL Server performance and tunning

  hi. i have a new question.. how can i make my cube browsing faster since i processed like a million of records into my fact table.. browsing the cube has become really really slow... is there anything i can do to avoid this delay That is a great suggestion. I have the trace available already. I ahve also read through the great optimization guide available from the sticky note. Some settings like reducing the connections time out may help considerably. I have to read this more thoroughly. Just 2 questions: - It says it is intended for SP2 installs, how accurate could it be for SP1 (hotfix) installs - When it talks about settings limits according to number of processors, is it logical or physical processors Thanks ...Show All

• .NET Development Object Already Exists error when trying to sign an assembly using a pfx file

  Hi, I'm trying to sign my assemblies using a pfx file. This was working fine, until I changed the file I used to sign it (I used to sign it using xxxx.pfx, and now I'm signing it using another xxxx.pfx, so the name is the same but the file itself is different). When I point to the new file on the signing tab and build my solution, I am prompted for the pfx password. When I type in the pwd and confirm, I get the error message "Error Importing Key" "Object already exists". For me, it is not clear what is going on. Could someone clarify what I should do to avoid this problem. I already tried to apply the workaround suggested here http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1325523.php , but to no avail. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista man-in-the-browser attacks

  CardSpace seems secure once the user is in the CardSpace desktop, but I worry about the security of the application (IE, Firefox, etc.) that invokes CardSpace in the first place. How resistant is CardSpace and/or IE7 to man-in-the-browser attacks For example, a trojan browser helper object or extension that invisibly modifies the claims presented to CardSpace. The user is not likely to be checking the claims too carefully (if at all), and the Identifying Party of course has no way even to detect, much less prevent, this attack. Is IE7 hardened against such an attack, and if so, how CardSpace doesn’t just rely on the URL. It relies on the Certificate of the RP. Tokens produced by CardSpace are encrypt ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Telnet

  we can't find telnet in vista. Is this great tool removed in vista You could write a wrapper script to mimic the SSH command. PuTTY is also a nice replacement for HyperTerminal as it now supports serial interfaces :-) ...Show All

• Gadgets xmlHttpRequest on Vista Home

  I have utilized xmlhttp on many occasions to power ajax enabled projects and have never had a problem with it until now. The following javascript code is debugged and runs flawlessly in IE7, but does not work when installed as a gadget. Is there something in here that gadgets do not support but IE7 does function GetXmlHttpObject(handler) { var objXmlHttp=null; var strName="Microsoft.XMLHTTP"; try { objXmlHttp=new ActiveXObject(strName); objXmlHttp.onreadystatechange=handler; return objXmlHttp; } catch(e) { alert("Error. Scripting for ActiveX might be disabled"); return; } } function showDisplay() { var url=" http://www.ourwebsite.com/phpscript.php variable=one"; xmlHttp=GetXmlH ...Show All