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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using the framework with WinForm controls

  Anyone have any idea on how to redirect the rendering output to something like a winform Panel control, so that I could use the framework for traditional applications I haven't had a lot of opportuntity to play with GSE yet, but an angle I would recommend that might be worth exploring would be to try extending the Graphics object and implementing the form control interfaces. Of course, I could be completely off-base with this, but it sounds to me like a logical place to start. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista pass paramters to InvokeWorkflow Activity

  I am invoking a workflow from within a workflow. How can i pass in parameters Angel, I would like to extend your example in 2 ways: a) Can I add your InvokeWorkflowActivity sample code to a CodeActivity Execute method ...i.e. is there a way to not only programmatically create and configure the InvokeWorkflowActivty but to also directly execute it from, say, a CodeActivity   If so, now b) If the workflow I'm invoking is a StateMachineWorkflow, can I use the ParameterBindings to override the InitialStateName for the new instance of the state machine workflow Thanks, Michael. ...Show All

• .NET Development access denied while writing file

  Hello I have a question. I 'm working on a small ftp client program. But when i try to download a file to a path for example c:\temp i get access denied. How can i solve this no.... you may say your code is perfect but it maybe full of bugs and in order for us to help you, please supply some code - perhaps you are writing the file incorrectly or something who knows until we can see the code, nothing much we can suggest. regardless of running it under the admin account or not, if your directory has readonly permission, you can't write to the folder at all. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Where are the Adobe filters?

  It seems the adobe filter is not at citeknet nor the WDS gallery. Did Adobe/MS pull it or is it located somewhere else ed, You can find the Adobe version of the IFilter here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp ftpID=2611 It isn't up on gallery anymore because it causes problems with WDS 3.0. If you are running WDS 3.0 I would advise against installing this IFilter at the moment. Paul Nystrom - MSFT ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MenuStripItem on sys tray

  After looking at this topic here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=381830&SiteID=1 Anyone know how to add some Sub or something for handling each individual MenuStripItem well when the user tries to close the form, that event will be fired. you then can ask if the user wishes to quit - if so then set the e parameter to true: e.Cancel = true otherwise if the user wants to quit: e.Cancel = false ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System OK it work's now

  Error message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object Is raised immidiately after OK has been pressed on `Import Database Schema into Database Project` dialog (Source database and Target database project is specified of course). SQL server uses Windows authentication only. User account is in `sysadmin` server role For Administrator account everything works fine. I'm hitting the same issue. I've got access to the server as sysadmin, but I keep getting "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" with no other information. Frustrating as all get out. I was able to run a compare between the project and the database and identify objects that needed to be create ...Show All

• Visual C++ purifiy warns about free mismatched memory

  Hello, When I compile the small program below that just allocates and deletes an object I get an error message under purify. There is no problem when I don't include any header file, but as soon as I include <memory>. It turns out that what makes the difference is in <iterator>, and in turn in <xutility>, .... , and ultimately it is that inside <use_ansi.h> a lib is linked. The problem appears with VC 7 Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for 80x86 and with /MD, and it appears in debug and release mode. There is no problem with /ML or /MT //#include <memory> //#include <iterator> //#include <xutility> //#include <climits> //#include <yvals.h> //#include &l ...Show All

• Visual C++ error LNK2019 help!

  I'm getting this error everytime I try to compile the program: Linking... Creating library ../Program/StepMania-debug.lib and object ../Program/StepMania-debug.exp RageSound.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: class RageSound * __thiscall RageSoundManager::PlaySound(class RageSound &,struct RageSoundParams const *)" ( PlaySound@RageSoundManager@@QAEPAVRageSound@@AAV2@PBURageSoundParams@@@Z) referenced in function "public: class RageSound * __thiscall RageSound::Play(struct RageSoundParams const *)" ( Play@RageSound@@QAEPAV1@PBURageSoundParams@@@Z) RageSoundManager.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "class RageSound * __cdecl PlayCopyOfSound(class RageSound &,struct RageSou ...Show All

• SQL Server Date format - Parameter/Field

  Hi, I have some difficulties to format a Date value in my reporting service. As you know you can use this kind of expression: =DateTime.Parse(Parameters!ReportingDate.Value).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") But it does not work, and when I just want to use the format property of the textbox content such as " dd/MM/yyyy ", it displays "dd/MM/yyyy", not the real formatted data, this property works for " =Today() " but not for parameters and fields. What is the diffrence Have you an idea to format a Parameter/Field of Date type such as dd/MM/yyyy Many thanks! Vins, That's a tough one, if you're using integer data type for Datetime. I guess my approach ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System High SQLServer Memory Usage in LoadTest

  Hi, I am executing a load test with 8 webtests and 4 web test plugins, 1 for 2 webtests. In each of the plugin, I am pulling data from the SQL Server with select statement like "Select top 20000 from tablename"; and in the post webtest method in plugin, I am deleting the row which was used for webtests. While executing the loadtest I am seeing hight memory usage for SQL Server in taskmanager and in turn causing my system to be damn slow. How could I get around this problem Does my select and delete statements causing high sql activity Thanks. I am doing the select top 20000 because the tables are very huge (500 MB each) for binding them directly. Each table has nearly 3 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual products disappear from stores

  I was out shopping today and visiting my favorite software dealers. When I stopped by the MS displays I noticed that all the Visual studio products and a lot of the office products had disappeared from the displays. This was at Future Shop (Best Buy renamed for Canada), London Drugs, and a few other large retailers here in Canada. Any idea what's going on Have the disappeared from the shelves in the States too possibly for their store but its definately available. It also costs quite a few bob to stock them/order them since its a VS/developer product so probably they accept orders on a request basis rather than stocking it up. Apart from online stores, there should be some other stores that stocks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Failed to generate reports

  Hi, We have some problem with the report server after change the account of TFS This error appears when we watch the raport. Une erreur s'est produite lors du traitement du rapport. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'dsLastProcessedTime'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) Query (3, 10) Analyseur : La syntaxe pour = est incorrecte. We have already rebuild the OLAP Cube but nothing has change. How can i fix it Thanks PS: Sorry for my bad English Hi Mauli Thanks for your quick answer I have reset the password with the TFSAdminUtils.exe but nothing has changed. The same error appears always in the report viewer. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error debuging Excel Smart Doc VSTO 2005

  Hi everyone!! I'm developing an Excel C# Smart Doc with VSTO 2k5, it was ok some time but recently when I tried to debug it it lauch an exception but the detail is empty, no exception, I was looking in th event viewer logs and more but nooo, it doens't reach the load event of the workbook, and something strange this project is Source Controlled by Team System, when you get the lastest version the smardoc loses the Microsoft.Office.Core reference, but trust me the COM is there, later it refresh and the reference is fine again, this was happening in another computer of the team but now this reach me, some one can help me please Are you saying that the Template file gets corrupted, have you a shared location you are developing the f ...Show All

• Visual C# Keyboard Input

  I am working on a 2D game. I am wondering how to use the keyboard arrow keys to move a sprite around. By the way they are sprites from files. Error 1 The type or namespace name 'KeyEventArgs' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference ) is the error I got. I'm not sure why am I supposed declare or assign it earlier on ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Optimal way to set lights in BasicEffect?

  I was curious as to what people are doing to set lights in their scenes. In DX/MDX it was a pretty trivial thing to do, but now lighting is distributed throughout the application. Setting up static lights is still pretty easy, but it's trickier with dynamic lights. Does anyone have any tips or any clever ideas My current implementation keeps a list of all BasicEffect instances and runs through and updates their dynamic lights every time there is a change. With hundreds of models with several effects each, this doesn't seem right. Thanks in advance! ...Show All