paoloTheCool's Q&A profile

• Windows Live Developer Forums how can you detect the version of messenger

  how can you detect the version of messenger from a html page. I'd like to launch my app from a html page and would need to detect the version of messenger first. How can I do that Thanks, Mark ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3d mesh animaions.... soon?

  Anyone got any news on when we can see some 3d animated meshes 2d's great but I am gagging for some 3d action. BTW, nice work to those who allowed us the power of swm files in XNA I suspect people are waiting until there is a release with the content pipeline, otherwise its a lot of work to write the convertors which will be of no use. There is no date announced when a content pipeline ready version will be availalbe. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Streaming directly from mic to speakers using DirectSound

  Greetings, I hope this is the right forum for this question. I'm trying to write a small program that will echo input from the mic directly to the speakers. I've written a program to do this that seems like it should work but when I run it, no sound. I was wondering if there was anything that I'm doing wrong or not doing or whatever Its written in C# using VC# Express 2005. Thanks, FM Program source: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Threading; using Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound; namespace Echo { public partial class Echo : Form { private Capture _captureDevice; private CaptureBuffer ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Finding a pin

  Hi, Once I've loaded a number of GeoRSS layers onto my map is it possible to use any of the Find methods to locate a pin by its title Or do I need to maintain a list of all loaded pins and write code myself to search for the required pin Also : I've used the methods to add layers and pins to a map - are there any methods to retrieve the pins from the map object Can't see any in the documentation. Thanks for your help. ...Show All

• .NET Development A problem in transffering data on a cross platform

  Hi, I am calling a 2.0 functions from 1.1 through a bridge (using com+ server ). My object implements 2 different interfaces .Each of the interfaces has one function that works with the same global parameter. My client calls the first function by casting to the first interface that contains it. This function inits the global param. Then, I cast my object to the second interface in order to call to its function. This function uses the global parameter but from some reason it is null. as if it was recreated or override. The code looks like : private Type mBridgeType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID ( "SPL.ProjectWrapper.CrossFrameworksBridge" ); private ISourceController mBridgeObject; private ISourceControlEr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Build and DB project.

  We have a DB project that we have created a team foundation build type for and which does run fine, at least no errors in log file, but it does not create the output sql scipt file. If I build the db project from the build menu within the VS IDE it will create the .sql script file in the specified directory ok or if I use msbuild it also works fine. I have seen some documentation about modifying the tfsbuild.proj file along with the dbproj file for actually deploying the DB but at this point I only want to create the SQL script file using the team foundation build. Is this possible to do I am currently using latest TFS along with VS and SP1 applied to everything including the build machine. I went ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. IT'S ALIVE!!! But now what?

  Ok after several hours of coding i have my mesh loaded into the screen and it rotates and its cool right Now I realize how do I move my mesh to postitions in the given matrices I am not sure cause the mesh itself doesn't seem to have any coordinates to alter to get it to move. Ok example of my code: if FAILED(D3DXLoadMeshFromX( "ship.x" , D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM, pDevice, NULL, &mymodel, NULL, &dnumofMats, &oglla)) { MessageBox(hWnd, "D3DXLoadMeshFromX" , "Failed to Load" , MB_OK); } So I have loaded my mesh into my program and I have it all rendered. but how do I alter where my mesh is positioned in the given world space Do I completely rotate the entire world around my obje ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS connect to cube and extract fact data

  Hello, how can I connect to a cube (on a SQL 2005 server) and get (fact) data to process with SSIS I looked at the toolbox but I see no applicable tool. It would be fine if somebody can provide a link to an article or example. Thanks in advanced! -flyall- Pipo1 wrote: ... although I'm pretty confident that this is not exactly the intended use; SSIS is, due to the nature of the product, better equipped to get data into a cube, than it is to get it out. But hey, where's the fun in using products for what they were made for Hi, I have to transfer data from the Cube into another system via a file interface. Report services do not have the power to set the data in the right w ...Show All

• SQL Server Launching DTA via "analyze in DTA" context option in SQL Editor failing

  TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------ Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file specified. (mscorlib) ------------------------------ BUTTONS: OK ------------------------------ 32bit/x86 standard edtion, build 2047 (sp1) I was getting this same error. Following is how I was able to produce this issue: 1. From management Studio, open a query click on toolbar option to open Database Engine Tuning Advisor. 2. Started analysis on my query. 3. While the performing analysis step was running I stopped analysis. 4. Before letting the process completely fail I closed the Tuning Advisor window. 5. The next time I tried to ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Xbox 360 Official Dev Kit vs. "the XNA thing"

  Here goes, The official dev kits intergrate within Visual Studio and compile on PC and send the executable to the machine and launch it via remote debugging. This also allows for breakpoints, steping thru code, etc. Will this new XNA subscription and Game Studio Express be similar to this idea I'm dreading things like relying on Windows support and burning it to a CD to play it on the 360. (For example) Q: How can you debug XNA-based games running on the Xbox 360 A: Debugging on the console is supported through a remote debugging connection from a Windows desktop running XNA Game Studio Express. Just incase you can't find the FAQ ;-) ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing connection string at run time??? :(

  I have got two connection strings in my application which I am creating in VB.NET 2005, one whose database is installed with my application so i can keep the connection string and other which is already there with the user. I want the connection string of the other database which i am taking from the customer to be installed in the registry which is fine, the string value is stored in the registry from the customer input. Now how do i get that string as the current connection string as systems.settings.connectionstring is read only Is there any ways this can be done because I am working on this project and it needs to be done somehow Easy. You have to add your own user setting. I called mine NewConnection. Check out the followin ...Show All

• SQL Server Access connection count at the same time

  I want to learn access connection gives how many user to connect at the same time. http://www.narcv.com/ Access is mainly limited through the performance of the server, the logical limit is AFAICR 32767, but in most cases you will be throttled through the physical limitations of the server. if you have conneciton pooling on the client side enabled, and you will go through the pool, you will be limited on the client side to the numbers of connections specified for the pool. HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Gadgets Looking for a App

  Hi Guys / Girls I looking for a app that supports creating cab files and supports sub folders :) any ideas Try Creating a CAB file . See the CAB FAQ on how to keep the structure, point 12 mentions it. ...Show All

• Visual C# VLookUp

  hello, I run this code: Excel. Range rng = (Excel. Range )custWS.get_Range( "A1" , "B" + custWS.UsedRange.Rows.Count.ToString()); exObj.WorksheetFunction.VLookup(((Excel. Range )sourceWS.Cells[i,1]).Value2.ToString(), rng, 2, false ); and I get this error: VLookup method of WorksheetFunction class failed please help me understand what is the problem thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Number of nodes in a tree view

  Hi, Is there a limit on the maximum number of nodes that will be displayed in a tree view Thanks! Generally, you wouldn't want your user to have to traverse through 65535 nodes. Not only would it take forever to populate the TreeView, it would probably take her forever to find the right node. This is one reason this bug hasn't been fixed for so long. Nevertheless, there's a strategy you can follow, similar to what Windows Explorer does. It presents a TreeView that allows you to browse all the files on your C: drive. Anymore, that's well over 65535 files. If you take a close look at how it behaves, you'll see that it shows "+" nodes for every folder, even if it doesn't contain any files. Wh ...Show All