Jamie Clayton's Q&A profile
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Spacewar Performance Problems
Finally got my hands on a 360 controller today, so I thought I would give Spacewar a spin, unfortunately, it was a very, very slow spin. 2.5fps slow, even in retro mode. My laptop isn't the greatest (Pentium M 1.7Ghz, 512 RAM, X300 128mb w/ latest Omega drivers), but it should certainly be doing better than that. I've compared stats in PIX with some of the MDX samples, and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I tried the CLR Profiler on it, but from my limited experience with it, I wasn't able to interpret the results well enough to come to any conclusion. Any ideas Hey nuvem, We think we've found a bug in the Spacewar sample that may impact performace issues on some machines, we're still looking into ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums Bug with Resize() if you remove controls after AddControl()
I've found a bug if we have added a control using AddControl, then you remove it use the non VE API method posted here by me and then make a call to Resize(). The Resize function looks like it loops through the list of controls to do something with them but since they no longer exist it thows an error. So its not really a VE bug but we do need a DeleteControl() added to the API. That said maybe a try catch to handle this situation would be great. John <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head id="Head1" runat="server"> <title>test& ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XAML Browser Application
Hi, I have "traditional" .aspx page. This page has small IFRAME Element of size 20x20. I want this IFRAME element to invoke WPF browser application (.xbap url in src attribute). I assume this should not be a problem. Next, my .xbap in IFRAME at runtime generates a "Canvas" of size 400x400. My question is can I make this "Canvas" to cross boundries of IFRAME and render all over base page elements if not, is there any suggestion/workaround for this Thanks in advance. Ganesh Tonde Hi Chango, Thanks this could be the one solution. However, another question (may not be exactly related to this) is can one xbap application in a IFRAME be able to talk to another xb ...Show All
.NET Development VB Socket Method Questions...
I am writing my first network program, a chat client, and after much looking i found a good example of how to structure the class. But now i have problems with the syntax used within my Subs... like what addressfamily to use, how to actually create the socket. I am using the following statement to declare the socket: Private Sub NewSocket(ByVal AddressFamily As System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily, ByVal stream As System.Net.Sockets.SocketType, ByVal TCP As System.Net.Sockets.ProtocolType) ' code here... End Sub But i have no idea what comes next... and object browser hasn't been very helpful in providing an answer. Can any one help me, or give me any advice on how to structure the statements ('code here...) Thanks Al ...Show All
Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Multiple Storyboards
I'm trying to create a simple rectangle which has a MouseEnter and MouseLeave event. These events trigger a corresponding storyboard. The first time I roll onto it the MouseEnter storyboard plays fine. When I roll out it runs the other storyboard fine too. But after that it never triggers the enter storyboard again. Below is my XAML and JS.. <Canvas x:Name="home" Canvas.Top="114" Width="144.692" Height="36"> <Canvas.Triggers> <EventTrigger> <EventTrigger.Actions> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard BeginTime="1" x:Name="in"> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" Storyboard.TargetP ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista [Newbie] DirectX and webcams and C++
Hi people, now please dont flame me as im unsure where to post this: For my 4th Year University project i'm currently coding a program in straight C++ to control a mobile robot, there will be a USB webcam mounted on this and an image processing portion of my program will perform object recognition on it (in the form of sobel/canny edge detection, and feature extraction....goin kinda OT sorry). Now ive toyed with several ways to get the camera data into my program and come to the conclusion using a USB webcam is the easiest way to go. How can I get the webcam data (just one frame at a time) into my program Ive read that i can utilize technology inside DirectX to capture an image, but all i have seen is for .Net Help would be greatly app ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Hi recieve the same message
Hi i just registered VB 2005 Express Edtition and i try to enter to the registration benefit portal but i can't. i click this link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=52054 and error appear: The registration process can take a good 24 hours to go through, I would wait a day then try again... Also moving the thread to the Install and registration group for the express products. ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Administrator gets 403 - access denied
Hi, When I log in as admin on my Team foundation Server, I can no longer connect to the server through Team Explorer. I get the following message: TF31001: Team foundation cannot retrieve the list of team projects..... ....The request failed with HTTP Status 403: Forbidden. I also get a 403 when I try access the web services through internet explorer. http://localhost:8080/services/v1.0/registration.asmx gives me a 403 as well. Now I know this is my own doing because I was previously able to acces these services using this login. It all went pear-shaped when I started fiddling permissions, trying to get a new user access to TFS. Eventually I got the user working, but Admin stopped working! I played with file system permissio ...Show All
SQL Server Unable to create subscriber on a 2000 server from a 2005 server publisher
Hi, I'm trying to set up a transactional replication from SQl Server 2005 to SQl server 2000. The Distributor and the publisher are on our server and the subscription is supposed to be on a SQL 2000 server on a different location. Before upgrading to 2005 I didn't have problems - the replication from 2000 to 2000 was working perfectly. After I succesfully created the distributor and the publication the first problem that I encountered was that when I tried to create the subscription it was giving me an error that I cannot use an IP to acces the server. I realized to fix that issue by creating an Alias in the SQL Server Configuration Manager for the server where I wanted to create the subscription (a push subscription). Now when I ...Show All
Visual C++ char buffer to int buffer
Hi all, I am a newbie, so excuse me if I made a silly question. I have this char buffer (where I caught some data from an UDP port) and want to convert it to an int buffer in order to process data numerically. Is there any way of making this in a simple way Thanks in advance and best regards. einaros wrote: Also, there's no need to typecast it. The conversion between char and int exists, and will be used. True, but I'd hardly discourage anybody (especially a new programmer) from explicitly casting even when the compiler makes the cast implicitly. I think this is especially helpful when you're casting types which could potentially represent very different kinds of data, as is possible in th ...Show All
Windows Search Technologies Remote Indexes ?
If we have the Indexing Service running on the remote server for the shares that are mapped to our local machine, will WDS 3.0 w/UNC addon use the remote catalog or will it recreate it's own index over the network ...Show All
SQL Server SP1 Install Caused Problems
Had a couple questions about some Event ID 6702 errors on the server I’ve been getting recently. I can’t seem to find any intelligible information on Microsoft’s site about it; however, I did find this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842006/en-us#XSLTH5294121122120121120120 There are no replication partners for all I know on this server. As far as the A records that it wants me to check, when I take a look at dnsmgmt -> Forward Lookup Zones -> DI-COMM.local, there are several A records for all the machines on the network. The support doc is telling me to delete all A records except those corresponding to the actual server. As far as I know, I NEED these A records for the name lookup to resolve to IP. Wh ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Service development broken?
I'm having a problem with an app that appears broken by the latest (.Net 3.0) CTP. Client side proxies are broken, apparently because System.ServiceModel. ClientBase.InnerProxy no longer exists. Trying to refresh the web Reference failed, because of a missing entry point - I think - in the 3.0 CTP. I uninstalled the Orcas extensions to VS and downloaded the latest. This refuses to install because of a missing prerequisite - the WinFX Beta ! Is there supposed to be an update for the Orcas beta to go with the .Net 3.0 CTP I documented all June ctp installation steps here http://blogs.msdn.com/madhuponduru/archive/2006/06/27/648608.aspx ...Show All
Windows Live Developer Forums KeywordPerformanceReport
Hey Guys This might be a bit of a newbie question, that was asked a long time ago on these forums. I am trying to pull a Keyword Performance report using the PHP-NuSOAP library to interact with the MSN-AdCenter API I am posting a set of SOAP requests-response, along with the SOAP fault I got. SOAP REQUEST <xmp>POST /v3/Reporting/Reporting.asmx HTTP/1.0 Host: adcenterapi.microsoft.com User-Agent: NuSOAP/0.7.2 (1.94) Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: "http://adcenter.microsoft.com/syncapis/RequestBIReport" Content-Length: 937 < xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.o ...Show All
SQL Server Getdate() overflowing datetime
I have a weird error that just started showing up. This process has run many times before and just today it started erroring. The error I get is: There was an error with input column "dtInsertTime" ( 242 ) on input "OLE DB Destination Input" ( 146 ). The column status returned was : "Conversion failed because the data value overflowed the specified type." . The weird thing is that column is added to the data flow via a derived column just before the destination and its set to GETDATE(). The destination column for that field is datetime not null with the same name. I have litterally hundreds of packages that do the same thing (add a column set to getdate() of type dbtimestamp going into sql 2005 column wit ...Show All