Neeva's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Export Error D3DMaya7ExportX plugin

  Hi! I have a question related to the Alias Maya 7 .x exporter plugin (D3DMaya7ExportX). Maya crashes every time I export more than 2 meshes where one is smoothbinded to a skeleton-rigg. The rigg consists of joints, clusters, IKhandles, setDriven Keys and so on, but that dosen't seem to be the problem, cause when i Combine all Meshes, the plugin works fine. I can't see the problem with having one mesh smoothbinded, will the rest are free! Please help! Thx! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Making XNA/Managed code secure

  What is being done to make managed code more secure for commercial applications. I can't see how any companies would be willing to switch to managed code for prime time games as long as MSIL can be easily reverse engineered. I love XNA and Managed code and pray that eventually commercial industry will as well (so I can put my C# skills towards gaming instead of business apps). Our company is already hesitant to make WinForm applications due to the ease in which these applications can be decompiled and reversed. For Windows development, you could always put your IP-critical code in a Win32 DLL (which can still be disassembed but is less readable). Most of what goes into an app isn't worth protecting like that anyway. There are obscufat ...Show All

• Smart Device Development detect connection

  Hi! I have to detect what kind of connection ( usb, ir, bluetooth ). I searched a lot about it but nothing was found... Anybody has any idea Thanks! Celso Yes, ActiveSync Both of them, but which connection i am using is more important. thanks for replying. Celso ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Managed 3D API for CAD-like software

  Now that XNA is out the door and Managed DirectX is more or less a discontinued product what are you telling people that need a managed 3D API for software that is not gaming related We started to develop a CAD-like software package for house automation and used Managed DirectX. Now it looks like MDX will not see any updates in future (DirectX 10 ). We wouldn't want count on an API that is bound to die (or to become outdated). But XNA Framework on the other hand doesn't seem to be the right API for the job either since it seems to be too much tailored for gaming. What is Microsoft's message here Managed 3D graphics is only reasonable in casual gaming area (XNA) or simple Datavisualization (WPF) For everthing outside that, better stay u ...Show All

• Windows Forms Strange form behaviour

  Hello, i've got app with splash and main form. I've got Activate(); method call in main form OnLoad event handler, to bring the form to the front and to get focused. The problem is that sometimes it works fine, sometimes main form stays in the background behind the other windows and it's not focused, only the taskbar starts to blink. Do you have some explanation for this form behaviour, please Am i doing something wrong, please No, it's not. I'm including source code (copied from somewhere) using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Reflection; namespace CDScan2 { static class Program { /// <summary> ...Show All

• SQL Server partition switch and non unique index

  I have a table partitioned by month. There are no primary key. There is another table with the same structure that I use to load data for the current month. I can perform partition switch with no problem. I created non unique index on integer field in both tables. After this change partition switch does not work anymore. Here is an error that I am getting: 'ALTER TABLE SWITCH' statement failed. The table 'dbo.test' is partitioned while index 'IX_test' is not partitioned." Any help To align an index to partition scheme, you have to use the same partition scheme for the index creation too. In your code above, you are creating the index on filegroup [PRIMARY]. Instead you ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setup and deployment project, resilient feature

  Hi, I have created the setup which install the exe file in application folder and .gif files in the Image folder. If the user deletes the .gif files/icon files from the image folder and when the user tries to run the application, application starts repairing the installation. My question - i) Is this inherent feature in the deployment package ii) Is there a way to disable the resilient feature, so that even if the .gif files are deleted from the image folder, the application continues to run as it is without invoking a repair Kindly let me know if any one has the answer to this question! Thanks, Rajshekhar             The tool ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Possible bug: Error while executing `Import database schema` using non-Administrator account

  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. Thank you for your inputs. I tried reproducing the issue using my CTP bits, using a non-administrator account & NT auth for connection (though user is NOT an local administrator on SQL Server machine, but is part of SQL SysAdmin group) and unfortunately I could not repro the issue. Nevertheless scenarios resulting ...Show All

• Smart Device Development edit a field in an SQL mobile database

  Hi There, I'm currently writing an application for a windows mobile 5 device which will store data in sql mobile 2005. I would like to know which would be the most efficient way of writing the following example to work with the above. (up until now all the code i have written has been in vb6 and connecting to an access database) Set db = DBEngine.OpenDatabase("location\database.mdb") ' strSQL = "SELECT * FROM Floats WHERE AgentName = '" & lblAgentName.Caption & "' AND Status = 0 " ' Set rs3 = db.OpenRecordset(strSQL) If rs3.RecordCount > 0 Then rs3.MoveLast lngRecordCount3 = rs3.RecordCount rs3.MoveFirst Else lngRecordCount3 = 0 End If ' If lngRecordCoun ...Show All

• SQL Server How can i use comma like a decimal separator?

  "update product set price='1,99' where cod='001'" I need COMMA... not DOT In oracle i use "alter session set language='Brazil'"... but... in SQL SERVER You're in the wrong place. Go here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=93&SiteID=1 -Jamie ...Show All

• SQL Server Specifying the Role Cache Refresh Frequency in SSAS

  Hi all How can i specify the Role Cache Refresh Frequency in SSAS 2005. The msdn mentiond this option in: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175424.aspx The option not exists in the Managment Studio as mentioned. Thank you. Shlomi You can access Anlysis Server configuration file (msmdsrv.ini) directly by going into c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\OLAP\Config. You might need to restart Analysis Server after changing it's properties. Please also be aware changing some of the advanced properties should be done with coordination Microsoft Customer Support services. Some additional information about Analysis Server configuration properites you will find in following document ...Show All

• SQL Server Flat File, Fixed Width import with Nulls always fails

  More SSIS woes. DTS was so much easier. I have a flat file. It's fixed-with with CRLF record delimiters (a.k.a. Ragged Right format). Some fields are null, and represented by the text NULL . I'm trying to import the file into SQL via an OLE DB connection. The target table is a SQL 2000 data table. Two of the fields in the target database are of type smallint. When I run PREVIEW on the data source (Flat File), everything looks good & correct. I added the convert columns task to convert my strings to smallint. This is where things go haywire. After linking everything up, the conversion gives me a "Cannot convert because of a possible loss of data." All of my numbers are < 50, so I know this isn't the case. Ano ...Show All

• Visual C# Variables - Named storage locations

  In "Learning C#," the author states the following: Technically, a variable is a named storage location (i.e., stored in memory) with a type. From the little assembly language course that I took in school many years ago, it hits me as odd that the memory location for the variable is indeed named. In assembly, we used to deal with registers R1, R2, etc., not actual variable names. What I would like to know is whether the actual memory location for the variable is, in fact, named and if so, where this name is stored. By the same token, the author states that the variable's type is also there. Is the type stored with the variable If not, how does MSIL tell what type a particular storage location (i.e. variable) is Of course, if ...Show All

• Community Chat My Browser.

  I have created another browser using MFC. And I have finished it. It is much like maxthon but more. I have improved some nice features according to my using experience with maxthon. But,since maxthon was so popular,and IE7 have released,firefox too. I doubt whether anybody interested. How should I release it Much thanks. Dear Matt: Your email account is not active, maybe. I have tried three times,but all failed to deliver. I hope you could see this message here. ...Show All

• SQL Server Accessing the variable in Execute SQL Task

  I have a variable SYear with the data type Integer and the value 2005. Connection type is OLE DB, and my sql statement is: DECLARE @MyYear Int SET @MyYear = I have set the variable User::Syear as Input with the parameter name=0, there is no result set. I set BypassPrepare both True and False. However, this simple statement does not work. I keep having an error. If I put integer value directly into @MyYear, it is fine. What is wrong in here Somebody help me! This is VERY annoying. It is a type cast problem between the .Net type and the SQL type. When it can't cast the .NET type to the SQL type you selected, it just fails SILENTLY and gives you NOTHING in your task and NO ERROR. What EXACTLY i ...Show All