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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Model texturing

  Does anyone know of any sites where I can find out how to texture a model and then export that texture to be used in XNA I am new to modeling and any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance. Emitting light is probably not feasible. That would require some very complex codework. I'm sure it can be done, but probably wouldn't be worth the trouble. Lighting is one of the more complicated aspects of 3D applications. However, "glowing" would be possible. When you want different affects on the same model, you just add an additional texture map. You can use multiple texture maps to define different aspects of your model's material properties. If you want certain areas to look glossy, and other ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Instances persisted by different hosts

  Hi, For example, I have 3 Winform Workflow host applications (with 3 different workflows also). They all using the SqlPersistenceService. Now I want to add a function to each of them to check the persisted workflow with the routine like this Dim instances As IEnumerable(Of SqlPersistenceWorkflowInstanceDescription) instances = PersistenceService.GetAllWorkflows Dim instance As SqlPersistenceWorkflowInstanceDescription For Each instance In instances System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(instance.WorkflowInstanceId.ToString) Next Everything work fine. But if I added the the to check the Status of the workflow (with StateMachineInstance) or try to load the workflow with : Dim Wfi As WorkflowInstance ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Express Re-Install

  Please help! I want to install SQL Server 2005 Express Adv. I saw that you had to un-install the beta version prior. So I did. When I go to install SQL Server 2005 Express Adv, I get a message saying that SQL Server detected the previous Beta version, goto add/remove programs blah...blah...blah. Nothing was listed in a/r programs. I ran an uninstall microsoft had on their web site, and I got a message saying nothing was deteceted. I deleted all folders related. Somehow when I initially ran the unistall, not all components were removed. I am baffled. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I don’t know much about the detection logic of SQL Server setup in there, but make sure that you first restart your computer to ma ...Show All

• SQL Server Get connecting client PC's name or IP address

  Hi All, Is it possible to retrieve the client PC's computer name through SQL I'm storing workstation specific data in a table and want to be able to retrieve it in order to persist the state of the application between sessions. Perhaps there's a better way to do this that I'm not aware of If so, please advise. Thx For PC name you can use HOST_NAME() for IP you can use these methods SQL 2005 you'll find it in the sys.dm_exec_connections dynamic managment view in the client_net_address column. SQL 2000 DECLARE @Hostname VARCHAR(255) SET @Hostname = host_name() CREATE TABLE #Results ( Results VARCHAR(4000) ) DECLARE @Commandstring VARCHAR(300) SET @Commandstring = 'ping ' + @Hostnam ...Show All

• Visual Basic Dynamic tabs and messages

  Hi everyone, I have a dialog box set up that has several tabs on it. This is a communications dialog box which handles incoming messages across my TCP/IP connection with a server. These messages can be related to different things, for example, and each tab on my dialog box is a representation of these different message types. Each tab contains a text box and my messaging function writes incoming messages to the text box. That bit is easy; done. One of the messaging functions that I want to implement is the ability to initialise outgoing messages to other users connected to the servers. Now I know how to do that as far as the network programming goes, it's easy. But I want people to be able to initialise messages with as many peop ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista 1606 error on R2 Web Install - Could not access network location

  1606 error on R2 Web Install - Could not access network location psdk-amd64-o-common.0.cab Microsoft platform SDK (R2) Installation Error 1606. Could not access network location http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/A/D/FAD9EFDE-8627-4E7A-8812-C351BA099151/PSDK-AMD64_o-comm But, If I enter this url, it does work... It smells like a proxy error to me. When you talk about installing the Platform SDK, do you mean the Windows SDK for Windows Vista or another release ...Show All

• Visual Basic Conversion from .Net 2003 to .Net 2005 using VB.Net

  We've just received .Net 2005 upgrade and are in the process of converting two projects. Both Projects have User Controls and we are having some issues with them. 1st, one of the user controls has 2 classes in it and the conversion moved the declarations from the class into another file, but not the code. Is there a way to convert a user control that has two classes without it doing this 2nd, We are getting errors on all the user control names. This error comes up: "Type uc_mc_btn_footer is not defined." Can anyone please tell me why we are getting this error when it seems all the user controls (except the one with 2 classes) seemed to convert correctly - adn how to fix it 3rd, where did the bin directory get moved to ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Intersection test problems

  Hello, I am trying to get our hierarchical BV culling working properly and I'm experiencing some odd behavior with the BoundingFrustum intersection test. The problem is that when I test my BV's against the frustum the test is not accurate. I am testing spheres and AABB's against the frustum but let's just talk about spheres as I have the same problem with every primitive. What I have found is that the accuracy depends heavily on the setting I use for the FarPlane when we call Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView. When I set the FarPlane to a big number (like 4700 for example) the camera has to be almost looking in the opposite direction to the sphere in order to get the sphere to fail the test. If I set it to a very small numb ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net 2005 EXE's Resources Editor.

  Hello Dear, After Compiling A Project, Sometimes, I Need To Change A Picture, Rename A Label, And Some Other Simple Changes In My Compiled Project Without Re-Compiling It. How Can I Do That Trying to interpret what you're asking: should "With Re-Compile it" mean "without recompiling it" ...Show All

• SQL Server sql performance

  what do you suggest |--Clustered Index Insert(OBJECT:(@l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl), SET:(@l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_QC_DONE_DATE]=[ppa].[PPA_QC_DONE_DATE], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_RECORD_STATUS_DATE]=[ppa].[PPA_RECORD_STATUS_DATE], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_LAST_CHANGED_DATE]=[ppa].[PPA_LAST_CHANGED_DATE], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_CREATED_DATE]=[ppa].[PPA_CREATED_DATE], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_TRANSACTION_GUID]=[ppa].[PPA_TRANSACTION_GUID], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_PTY_ESTABLISHED_TO_ID]=[ppa].[PPA_PTY_ESTABLISHED_TO_ID], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_OTY_ESTABLISHED_FROM_ID]=[ppa].[PPA_OTY_ESTABLISHED_FROM_ID], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_Tbl.[PPA_PPC_ID]=[ppa].[PPA_PPC_ID], @l_PARTY_ASSOCIATIONS_T ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Windows Forms and DirectX

  To use directx, you send it a winodw in the form of a control. Is there any other form type this will work with I want to have a windows form on one side, with a directx controlled draw space on the other. How would i go about doing this please Thanks, Mike I have found the source, but am unsure of the code, as I have little knowledge of C++. Is there a C# version, or could you tell me the part of the code I should be looking at sorry Thank you for the help, Mike ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Display a map showing multiple route points.

  I know that this can be done using yahoo.maps/beta but not yet with Microsoft Virtual Earth…. I have a requirement to display a map that shows the route between a number of points (possibly up to 20) but normally just 8. I will provide to the API the best optimized route around the points – but the API only allows for a driving route between two points. And this would mean printing off maps that show A to B, B to C, C to D etc. Any suggestion if / when this feature will be implemented Also I don’t want to go down the web service route as this is cost prohibitive. Thanks in advance for any suggestions…. Surely it would be easy enough to plot them yourselves There will be qu ...Show All

• .NET Development DISPOSE() When and for what object?

  I have looked and read till my eyes got all red.. I still do not understand exactally what objects require you to use Dispose() on. Or a stupid question as I usually ask Any object you use new on or just graphic objects.. Sorry, I'm not smart enought to ask this question in a reasonable way.. Anyway.. Ya' All'.. have a great holiday comming up..(If you do that sort of thing)... I do! Thank you for the reply! I'm sure YOU know what you said! Just sort of funning.. I try to keep things on the 'light' side.. Life is to short.. Near the end of mine! Example .. For my robot.. Yes OLD men DO play with toys! My wife is passed so I play with Robots! If I do something like .. I guess I'll ask is a new object to ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL Statement Not Working

  I'm trying to retrieve the position of a record in a table when the table is sorted using an SQL statement. My statement is something similar to this: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY PrimayKey) WHERE PrimaryKey < 'TheRecordIWantPosition' Does that make sense My problem is that this statement works great when I am connecting to an ACCESS DB through OLEDB. It does not work when I am connected to a SQL Server database using an SQL Adadpter. Sub queries with order by should include a Top clause. Select count(*) from (Select TOP 100 percent * FROM MyTable ORDER BY PrimaryKey) a WHERE PrimaryKey < ' '. But why complicate things with the above SQL You can ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook 2007 Add-in only installs for one user

  Hi After reading http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=357677&SiteID=1 I see that you can fix the outlook 2003 all user installation problem by moving the keys from HKCU to HKLM. That works fantastically for outlook 2003 but it it doesn't work for outlook 2007 which complains by saying that it cannot write information to any HKLM keys. Does that mean that its not possible for anyone but the user that installs the plugin for outlook 2007 to actually use the plugin And if it is possible... how do you do it It depends on the type of add-in. COM add-ins and Shared add-ins can be installed in HKLM or HKCU and Outlook will load them. For VSTO based add-ins, they must be installed to HKCU otherwise Outlook will ignore ...Show All