Kevin Rodgers's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. is it possible to create strategy games like command hq on XNA GSE ?

  i am just wondering to create strategy games like command hq, ancient art of war on XNA Game Studio Express..., is it possible to achieve ... this is a simple war strategy games. it is only 2D games but required some AI to make route / path movement of objects, Iterarion Calculation to find shortest path, plan attact strategy , defense strategy . It is turn-base strategy.... I know the logic and business process of this war strategy games.... but i am just wondering if XNA can perform such AIs... what do you think You could, but there are no built in libraries to help with things like AI or pathing so you would have to implement this kind of functionality yourself. XNA Game Studio Express is currently more targeted to be a framework ...Show All

• Windows Forms bringtofront()

  Hi, i get problem with main menu and children case ( true ): // //I need to bring the form to the front. //If it is minimised, how do i open it back to original //state. foreach ( Form F in this .MdiChildren) { if (F.Name == aForm.Name) { if (F.WindowState == FormWindowState .Minimized) { //code to open the form ( not maximise it ) } F.BringToFront(); break ; } } break ; if (fm.Name == "Form2" ) { fm.BringToFront(); }; okay thats rite, see my code, where i have the part to see if the form is minimised, i want to open the form, it actually does not open with bringtofront, nor ActivateMdiChild ...Show All

• Visual Studio Display User name instead of NETWORK SERVICE ...?

  I want to show the current user's name on the report. I placed the UserName report global and that works when running the report in Debug but not when running in Release. Instead in displays: NETWORK SERVICE . I think I know why it does it, but is there a way to display the local (client) user name Thanks ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D VERY slow on the XBOX

  Im having a hard problem getting good FPS rates on the XBOX, everything turns around and gets alot slower. Does anyone have a solution, or reason for this The most important thing in there is that on Xbox the GC is non-generational AAAIIIEEE!! The problem with this is that there are some required APIs that allocate memory each frame, including reading the gamepad. Non-generational GC is only useful if you can guarantee to not need to allocate memory at runtime, i e you load everything on start-up, pre-allocate working buffers, run one sweep of GC, and then enter steady state. Regarding the initial question, there's probably a growing store problem somewhere. Dump the heap to see what kinds of blo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D presentation

  Hi guys, I really want to waw my client and write a window display for a real estate shop using C# and managed DirectX 3D. It will be a presentation running accross 4 screens. I have a basic amount of experience working with meshes and textures, etc (I made a 3D space shooter around a year ago). But, I'm lacking ideas really of how to present pictures and info about apartments and houses... Could anybody possibly inspire me Thanks! Haha, well that was certinately interesteding to read, but perhaps not what I had in mind. ...Show All

• Customer Care Framework Win32API.FindWindowByID for a VB Application ControlID returns zero..why?

  Hello,  There are 3 applications as given below 1. CRM Web application 2. .Net Asset Maintenance ( C# based) Software 3.  Inventory Control applicaton developed in VB6.0    that I am integrating with AgentDesktop I have written three adapters for all the above so that when a new issue is created in CRM web app , it send the "Problem/Issue description" to other apps.  They in turn will use the data and manipulate it. The adapter for .Net application works fine. But  the VB6.0  adapter is having issues. Using spy++, I found out the ControlID (Which is 00000008).  Following is the code to populate the textbox in VB app with the data it reccives public over ...Show All

• Visual Basic MsgBox always return "no" regardless of what the user click

  I am using VS2005 and have a messagebox inside of an event that does not work properly. The code is below: If Microsoft.VisualBasic.MsgBox( "Do you want to save your changes" , MsgBoxStyle.YesNo) = MsgBoxResult.No Then Exit Sub End If The problem is regardless of whether the user clicks Yes or No, it always returns No. If I add another MsgBox in the code immediately before the if statement, then the if statement will always work properly. (see code below) Microsoft.VisualBasic.MsgBox( "Dummy MsgBox" ) If Microsoft.VisualBasic.MsgBox( "Do you want to save your changes" , MsgBoxStyle.YesNo) = MsgBoxResult.No Then Exit Sub End If I can't figure out what is wrong h ...Show All

• Visual Basic Processor optimized compiler

  Hi all, I want to improve the performance of my application by compiling my application with a processor optimized compiler. Is there a vb.net compiler optimized for Xeon processors Now, I know that the vb compiler compiles the code into an intermediate language file. So I can’t actually see any improvements here, or am I wrong That’s why I think to use ngen.exe to pre-compile my application assemblies. Is there a special ngen.exe optimized for Xeon processors available Any answer could help me further. Regards, George Homorozeanu. I want to optimize our application for XEON processors because we have a terminal server and the application will run on that terminal ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to record from 'Wave' or 'Stereo Mix' in Vista?

  Hi all, I wrote the following question in other forum space but some MSFT guy told me to try this forum for my question. I hope I could get right answer as soon as possible here. On Windows XP or earlier, I could capture the audio stream to the speacker not from the external device (maybe endpoint device in Vista) like the microphone. In other words, D irectSoundCapture was able to capture from the selected recording device/source line in the Windows record control utility or mixerXXX APIs. And if "Wave Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix" or something similar was selected as recording source line, D irectSoundCapture was able to record the audio stream to the speacker. However, I could not find the way to do tha ...Show All

• Windows Forms PropertyGrid and ListBox

  Hi All Can someone show me an example of how to place a "ListBox" property within a PropertyGrid I am working on visual studio 2005.   srinivasa rao   Changing the order by which properties within a category is displayed is doable, however, changing the order of categories, well as far as i know and please anybody correct me if i'm wrong, that is not possible! However, I'll do some researching and get back to you i find anything. BTW, one other thing that i couldn't do with the property grid, is to change the proportions of the column widths, the area covered by the help text and commands text ... etc. You know, the internal dimensions of the property gid. This is one other thing that i think is not possib ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't Open a New Project with VB Express

  Help! I am taking a programming class using Visual Basic 2005. I downloaded VB Express so that I could work on my programs at home. Whenever I try to Open a New Project I get an error that says: "The filename, firectory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007B) It lets me open an existing program - just won't let me create a new one. Can anyone help be sure your user name (Windows login) does not have any wierd characters (like & or ). Another way to test would be to create a new simple account named "test". Then install VBExpress on this and finally open the project. Does it open ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 and desktop icons

  I just installed Internet Explorer 7 today, which I guess is a.k.a. Windows Live . All of my fancy customized shortcuts on the desktop disappeared and each got replaced by the same generic windows icon. Right-clicking & changing the icons in properties no longer works. Also, when I create an internet shortcut while browsing, that creates a shortcut with that same generic icon (not even an explorer logo). Now my desktop is just one forest of identical icons. Anyone know how I can fix this I've wasted all day without success. I have just installed ie7 today I like lots of things about it BUT I have the same problem; all my customised icons with which I am familiar have dissapeare ...Show All

• .NET Development Cannot execute oracle procedure.

  System.FormatException was unhandled by user code Message="Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Decimal." Can somebody help me, I have looked very slow at each line of code and I dont find whats the problem. The company who did this procedure must be kidding protected void btnGuardar_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { OracleConnection oraconn = new OracleConnection (strOra); OracleCommand ocmd = new OracleCommand ( "Prh_prospecto_aiu" , oraconn); ocmd.CommandType = CommandType .StoredProcedure; ocmd.Parameters.Add( "vcNombre" , OracleType .Char,30); ocmd.Parameters[ "vcNombre" ].Value = txtNombres.Text; ocmd.Parameters.Add( ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) DataContractSerializer exception "System.DelegateSerializationHolder+DelegateEntry [...] not expected"

  Hello, in the microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.indigo group I was encouraged to ask my question also here, so I hope this is not seen as cross posting. Here's my problem: I have an object tree which I want to serialize to disk using the DataContractSerializer. For complexity reasons I have not defined specific data contracts for each class but I have marked them [Serializable]. Now I am getting the following exception: Type 'System.DelegateSerializationHolder+DelegateEntry' with data contract name 'DelegateSerializationHolder.DelegateEntry: http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System ' is not expected. Add any types not known statically to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttri ...Show All

• Windows Forms datagrid wrong row after column sort

  I'm seeing some really weird behavior in my datagrid and it only seems to happen when I click one of the column headers to resort the datagrid by that column. Here's what I do. I have a datagrid that is read only and a checkbox to enter edit mode. I click on a particular column to sort the datagrid by that column. Then I click on a row that I want to edit, click the edit checkbox to enter edit mode and then click the column I want to edit. Type in a new value, tab to the next field and type in a new value there as well and then click the save button. If I don't sort the datagrid by a column, or if I just edit one of the columns and don't tab to another, when I hit the save button I am taken to my save-button click event function and I'm ab ...Show All