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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Depth Buffer Support Formats

  Hi, I just tried to create a depth buffer. While looking through the HDR Format 10 example I believe I considered a bug in the example or in the documentation. The documentation states that the depth buffer formats are D16_NORM D24_UNORM_S8_UINT D32_FLOAT D32_FLOAT_S8X24_UINT The HDR Format 10 example is checking for the R16_TYPELESS, R32_TYPELESS and R32_FLOAT_X8X24_TYPELESS formats and can not find any of them on my machine .... the documentation does not say anything about those formats. Replacing the _TYPELESS formats with the one above works. I assume typeless means that it is looking for a _NORM or _UNORM format and picks whatever is available - Wolfgang The sample is incorrect in ...Show All

• .NET Development how can i get vsextwfx.msi install

  i have vswxtwfx be install with final release of .net 3, vs2005 pro, win xp sp2 and latest patches installed the ms windows sdk but when i try to install the vsextwfx.msi iget the following error error reading from the file vsextwfx.msi verify that the file exist and you can access it Can these things be used with vs2005 kinda lost here thanks Paul Ensure that the account that you are installing with has administrator privileges. however if you were able to install Visual Studio, then you are probably already doing that. Additionally, you might want to try redownloading the package. Finally, if this is still an issue or if anyone else is havi ...Show All

• Visual C++ Link error LNK2019 redux

  I reviewed the previous thread but couldn't resolve my issue using the info there. The errors I'm getting are: Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__SetupDiGetClassDevsA@16 referenced in function _main USBReaderC.obj Error 2 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _USB_1208LS_GUID USBReaderC.obj I found the lib file that contains the function and manually added it to my list of link directories to search, but that didn't work. Some other hopefully useful information: This is intended to be a simple Win32 console application I'm using to debug some things going on at a USB port. I'm running Windows XP SP2, the devel environment is Visual Studio 2005 Pro. I'm using the DEFINE_GUID macro which doesn't seem to b ...Show All

• SQL Server Volume Distribution

  Hi Guys I Have not been able to solve this problem from quiete a while now. I am using sql server 2005. I have got a table which contains these columns - start date, end date and volumes if the month in the start date is same as that of end date, the volume remains same, else if the months in the two dates are different, then i have to distribute the volume in such a way that some part will go in the first month and the rest in the other month.. i have to somehow calculate (or prorate) the volume according to the no of days in each month I have to perform a query on this table so that I can group the volumes for different months and different years. Hope I have made this quite clear. Thanks Mita ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I count the number of lines in a Rich Text Box, or a List Box control?

  More accurately put:  How do I retrieve the number of lines of text Thanks, John   ahmedilyas wrote: well you cant know something you don't know! Research is what it takes to learn and develop. keep asking questions, look on MSDN, look and browse around the objects properties/methods and read the documentation on what it does, and experiment with it. Thanks ahmedilyas, I guess I was more asking about the best research techniques, but I will learn as I go, for sure! Much appreciated, John ...Show All

• Windows Forms Why does the ClickOnce 'Install' button generate an xml page instead of starting download?

  Hello, I just published my application for ClickOnce deployment to my web site. When I click on the Install button on the publish\publish.htm page on my website, the browser returns the contents of an xml file and does not start the download. Does anyone know what might be causing this Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jason I too am experiencing this frustrating ClickOnce behavior when installing from IE 6.0. We tried adding the mime type application/x-ms-application to our apache server but this had no effect. This is our current solution which I call " ClickOnce and Fudge " Publish your application as normal Edit your deploy file (i.e deploy.htm ) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error in Web Service Software Factory Recipe - CreateASMXSolution

  I'm working with the Web Service Software Factory and attempting to use the ASMX Guidance Package. When the package runs it fails with the following error: Recipe Framework Error An exception occurred during the binding of reference or execution of recipe CreateASMXSolution. Error was: The following arguments are required and don't have values: HostProject. Can't continue execution.. You can remove the reference to this recipe through the Guidance Package Manager. Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.RecipeExecutionException: An exception occurred during the binding of reference or execution of recipe CreateASMXSolution. Error was: The following arguments are required and don't have values: HostProject. Can't continue execution.. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how to stress test ajax application?

  I am writing an AJAX application and would like to run performance test on the server. How do I record the trafic to the server and play it back as if it was real a-sync test as it is in AJAX What tool should I use here Eran You could use the web test and load test functionality in VSTS. The one problem is that the web test recorder will not record the ajax requests. However, you can use fiddler, www.fiddlertool.com , to record all requests and generate a web test. Then you can take the web test and add it to a load test to stress the server. ...Show All

• SQL Server capture delta

  how can I capture delta in SQL Server 2005 to refresh base tables in a data warehouse what is SCD transform wizard Is there any document on this also is there no way to find out which dml's were executed against a specific object is it not possible to extract these dml's from transaction log ...Show All

• .NET Development converting a byte array to a string?

  I have a program that acts as a server and when it receives information I would like to get all the data until a break char is given. for example the return key. The problem I am having is converting the Byte Array back to a string, it seems to only be giving me numbers. If you would like me to post my code to explain then I will :D. Encoding.ASCII does NOT work with character codes above 0x7F. This is unsurprising, since ASCII only goes up to 0x7F. To make it work with 8 bit ANSI characters using the current code page, use Encoding.Default instead. (If I had ￡1 for every time I've seen this error... I'd be etc etc) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFSBuild & sourceControl Deposit

  Hi, I am currently working on a task that publish within the SourceControl the result of the libraries' LastBuild . This task aims to furnish to the developer the last version of their assemblies. I want that they intentionaly use the GetLatestVersion to get the builded assemblies. The task get a local Workspace defined on the app server , check out all the content of a folder named _assemblies. get the content of the lastBuild (within the dropZone ) and copy it straight to the workspace assemblies folder then pendEndit or PendAdd files and finally checkIn pending changes. The task work fine while I tested it with a simple test.proj executed on the server but once I add it to the AfterEndToEndIteration target I am faci ...Show All

• Visual Basic Position of double clicked item in listbox

  As the code below shows, when I double click an item in a listbox the item is returned and displayed. What I need to know is what position in the listbox that item is stored. Private Sub ListBox11_Doubleclick( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListBox11.DoubleClick MsgBox(ListBox11.SelectedItem) End Sub Thanks Thanks Ken. The first method worked for me, but I'm sure I'll need what you suggested soon. Robert ...Show All

• Visual C# help with DataSet.Merge

  hi all. in my application i have a timer, on the timer_tick event i go to the DB and get a refreshed dataset. then i do MyDataset.Merger(NewDataSet). but - how can i know if there are changes, and if i had changes i want to let the user know it. thanks. Hi, You should use the HasChanges and AcceptChanges method of the dataset. See the example on the MSDN site: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4swwh51k.aspx . Greetz, Geert Geert Verhoeven Consultant @ Ausy Belgium My Personal Blog ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Setting for URL in Reporting services

  Hello, When viewing the project portal and drilling down into the Work Items report, the ID links href is not showing the fully qualified URL. It links to: http:<servername>:8080/WorkItemTracking/Workitem.aspx artifactMoniker=xxx instead of http:<servername>.ucr.edu:8080/WorkItemTracking/Workitem.aspx artifactMoniker=xxx I have looked all over the server in XML and config files, Sharepoint and Report Server configuration, the database tables, and in the registry, but can't find where this value is being set. I have run TFSAdminUtil activateat, and that hasn't fixed it. Does anyone know where else I can look Thanks, James We are getting close James. It seems ...Show All

• Visual C# how can i serialize a object received from a MessageQueue?

  I am sending to a message queue objects of a type "employee" ( a type that i created), sending part executes properly.. i need to know how i can retrieve the objects properly, how can i serialize it back to "employee" type currently i'm using the following code.. it doesnt work.. BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter (); MessageQueue msgQueue = new MessageQueue (MessageQueueName); System.Messaging. Message msg = msgQueue.Receive(); msg.Formatter = new System.Messaging. XmlMessageFormatter ( new string [] { "System.String" }); Employee emp = ( Employee )msg.Formatter; MessageBox .Show(emp.Name); Hi, Have you i ...Show All