Dan Rooney's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel Chart: How to change chart data source formula when object "Series.Formula" is too short?

  How to change chart data source when Formula object is too short I know that: I can assign data source 1) Series.Values=Range(...) - suitable 2) Chart.SetSourceData souce:=range(...)... - suitable 3) Series.Formula/FormulaLocal="" - not suitable because string is too short I can read data source 1) x = Series.Formula/FormulaLocal - not suitable because string is too short The question is: How to read data source not using Formula object Could you post the series formula, so I know exactly what you mean If you've encountered this limit, I want to make sure my solution for this works in your case as well as in the general case. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsof ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Combine Vertex Buffers?

  Is it common to sort and combine vertex information for a number of small objects prior to sending to a vertex buffer I am considering re-structuring my engine to sort all my vertex and index data into sizeable chunks before sending to buffers on the card. These would be organized by effect and render states to minimize calls and state changes. Is this standard procedure I can imagine eventually being able to concurently render from a buffer while I traverse my scene graph further untill I fill another buffer of a target size and then draw from it. Are these reasonable Ideas Considering your intended way of using the buffers, I would say the ideea is good, and makes sense. Good Luck implementing it, an ...Show All

• Smart Device Development smart device - visual basic .net 2005

  I'm tryng to open a new smart project in VS 2005 (Visual Basic). I have received this message: "could not be opened the microsoft visual basic 2005 compiler could not be created. Unable to find required file 'mscorlib.dll' I've reinstalled VS2005 twice. Somebody have some reference to solve this issues Thanks I think the record is stuck on this problem, as I have the exact same problem. I have reinstalled VS 2005 Pro, and still no joy! If someone from Microsoft Tech Support is out there, Help ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using a VB.NET Service to copy files across servers - Problems with permissions

  I have a service that I have developed in VB.NET. Part of the functionality of this service, is to copy files from one server to another. I am using the following command for copying files: My.Computer.Network.UploadFile(source, dest) When that command is called, I get an "access is denied" error message. I have the service complied to logon as NetworkService, and I think I have setup the permissions correctly on the destination server, but still the same error. Yet when I compile the application as a standard .EXE file, the application copies the file over without any issues at all. Anyone have any idea as to what I am doing wrong Network service is a local user account, not a domain account. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What does creators club include right now?

  I'm a little puzzled about what the creators club actually includes, I've checked the FAQs and can't really find an answer. I have however managed to find the following: "The XNA Creators Club is available on Xbox LiveR Marketplace for $49 (U.S.) for a four-month subscription, or $99 (U.S.) for an annual subscription. Both subscriptions provide aspiring game developers with access to thousands of game assets from Microsoft and key partners such as Turbo Squid Inc., as well as white papers, specialized starter kits, samples and technical product support to help turn Your World, Your Game into a reality." I signed up for a year because it sounds like quite a good package, however there seems to be no information provided on ...Show All

• Visual C# ANN: Native C# Protection for C# 2.0 (ver. 2.0.0) released

  Native C# Protection (NCSP) is a protection tool (not obfuscator) for C# 2.0 applications. The goal of NCSP is to produce trial versions with limited functionality of C# applications. With the correct NCSP Key these applications work as registered versions. NCSP uses only NATIVE (but peculiar) TO C# means, i.e. NO EXTERNAL PROCESSING of C#-produced executable. NCSP protects NOT CODE, BUT DATA needed to run the application. In case of C# applications DATA IS A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN EVENTS AND EVENT HANDLERS. The difference between trial and registered versions produced by NCSP is based on use of DIFFERENT EVENT HANDLERS FOR TRIAL AND REGISTERED VERSIONS of the protected application. The trial version uses one set of event handl ...Show All

• Visual C# Does not exist in the Current Context?

  This is a noob question. I'm writing a simple program that creates a student object using constructors, then outputs the variables. When I compile, I getthese errors: Error 4 The name 'Jonathan' does not exist in the current context C:\Documents and Settings\student\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Project1\Project1\myInfo.cs 20 48 Program2 Error 5 The name 'Jonathan' does not exist in the current context C:\Documents and Settings\student\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Project1\Project1\myInfo.cs 21 47 Program2 Error 6 The name 'Jonathan' does not exist in the current context C:\Documents and Settings\student\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Project1\Project1\myInfo.cs 22 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Touch panel in Manged DirectX

  Hi! I almost finished game for our company. It is based on FlatRedBall library and it using now MDX 1.1. Currently I have 2 big problems with this game: 1) Game will use touch panel as for user inputs, but its behavior is strange. Looks like mouse pointer on steroids (100x) more sensible. 2) Graphic card – I described this problem in separate thread. I need help (and ASAP) – if I will not resolve current problems I need to switch to Flash … Kind regards from Poland Mateusz Kierepka I wrote about this problem here: http://www.flatredball.com/frb/forum/viewtopic.php p=3313#3313 Main problem is with this strange behavior. Each time when I click (almost on this same place) I got alm ...Show All

• .NET Development .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting

  On using Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.ApplicaitonUpdater, we're having some errors as below. Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting Event Category: None Event ID: 5000 Date: 01/12/2006 Time: 4:24:00 PM User: N/A Computer: ADMIN6 Description: EventType clr20r3, P1 tradex.exe, P2 1.0.2526.26931, P3 4570a557, P4 microsoft.applicationblocks.applicationupdater, P5 1.0.0.0, P6 4570a553, P7 ad, P8 1d, P9 system.unauthorizedaccess, P10 NIL. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp . Data: 0000: 63 00 6c 00 72 00 32 00 c.l.r.2. 0008: , etc. Event Type: Error Event Source: ExceptionManagerPublishedException Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 01/12/ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Does XNA support x64?

  Well, thats already the question. MDX 1.1 runs only in x86 (32 bit) mode, MDX 2.0 beta didn't support x64 either. I'm asking because the DirectX dlls are also provided for the x64 platform for quite a while now, but we managed developers can't use them yet. Hi abi. Native x64 support will not be in V1.  We realize this may be a blocking scenario for some game developers but we plan to have x64 support available in the next release. We will likely have an update to XNA Game Studio Express next year that will have native x64 support. (edited and clarified) aL ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums using the 3d activex in winforms

  i am currently trying to find out how to use the 3d activex control in my winform app, anybody got it yet David Buerer has an example app on his blog http://heptazane.spaces.live.com/ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Texture transparency using the content manager

  So before beta 2, I was using TextureCreationParameters to set the transparent color of my Texture2D ojbects and passing it into the Texture2D.FromFile params. Now I'm using content.Load<Texture2D> to load all my Textures, and I don't really see a way to set the transparent color. I know you can use the DX texture tool to just change the texture file, but I am pretty much editing my artwork every time I build my game so that's a lot of extra work I would like to avoid. Any Ideas Transparent Color is generally a bad idea, because with filtering, you will get color fringes. However, the content pipeline texture processor has an option where the transparent color will be magenta. (Content proc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Tell Us Your Express Story and Win $100!

  Want a chance to show off a cool way you’re using Visual Studio Express or SQL Server Express We’re looking for your stories! Tell us about something that makes your life easier or is just plain fun and if we like it enough to include in a feature article, we’ll give you a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com! http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/hero_promotion/default.aspx I'm a GPITC (general purpose IT consultant) working in the Pacific Northwest. I started programming in 1972 with paper-tape BASIC on a diskless DEC PDP-11 system, worked for several years as a scientific programmer in FORTRAN, switched to COBOL for a few years and then gradually moved away from programming and into sales. Du ...Show All

• SQL Server PDF creation automation

  hello is it possible to generate PDF files from reports programmatically Not quite sure what you mean but you CAN export a report to PDF format, as well as subscribe to a report with PDF format (auto-sent to your e-mail, or to a network location) ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Dimensions in BSM

  Hi We are building a scorecard to report the sales. We need the rows to display the time, ie., by year, quarter and month. And the columns to display the autaul sales and its target values for a particular time dimension.My datasource is SSAS cubes. Is there a way by which I get the Actual and the target value for a year and by drilling it will I get the values for a quarter for a particular year, and by drilling through the particular quarter, will I get the values for the month of that particular year and quarter.I get all the values in the format that I wanted in my cube. Can I achieve the same using Business scorecard. I have created 3 KPI's. One for year, one for Quarter and another for Month. After adding them to my scorecard a ...Show All