Jain1122's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 360 Dev do's and don'ts

  Hi, My primary platform at the moment is Windows, but I want to ensure I don't code anything that is going to cause alot of pain when I eventually get around to subscribing to the creators club and deploying to the 360. I've read a couple of articles on GC and other performance related stuff, but I wondered if anyone has any advice generally on what to avoid or if there are preferences in how ceratin things are coded (e.g. there are many types of storage, is one better than another for XNA specifically) that will mean the transition to 360 is as smooth as possible. Any thoughts or comments welcome! Cheers :) I’m not very long working with XNA but you should not draw any important UI-Elements at the b ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Buttermilk Game Engine / Gui Engine

  I've submitted for a project at CodePlex. I've officially named it the Buttermilk Game Engine! The GUI portion is named the Buttermilk Gui Engine. Both are acronymed BGE, which is the same as the initials in my name. Pretty clever eh  ;) Hehehe... I typed up the current features list like so - Buttermilk is the game engine I'm building for the 2D XNA game "Rogue Bishop". It's a very easy to use 2D engine which additionally supports 3D objects in the 2D scene graph. It currently includes the beginnings of an advanced but simple to use dynamically skinned GUI system. The GUI system is completely separated from the 2D game engine in its own project module, and can be used in any XNA application, 2D or 3D. Current fe ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Rules Editor

  I must be missing something simple but I have been unable to use the "System.Workflow.Activities.Rules.RuleConditionReference" within my workflow (CAG specifically). Everytime I select this option and click the ellipse to add a New Condition , the popup closes. If I enter text manually in the ConditionName field and hit enter, it will create the worklow.rules file with RuleExpressionCondition line. Next I try to add the expression by clickin on the ellipse and I get an error "An item with the same key has already been added". I have hand coded a rules file using other examples in hopes of it being recognized but with no luck. Am I missing something Jesse I am able to create a new application and succesfu ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge/Combine Rows

  I am writing a database system which recieves information parsed from various data formats. These data formats may or may not be complete, and as such some rows in the database can have gaps. The input formats may contain reference to the same row (in this case the same Company record) but hold different facts about that company. Eg one message may have name, phone and fax, whereas another message may contain name, address and website. I need to be able to insert new companies into the database OR update current records with extended data as relevant, ive been looking for UPSERT or MERGE queries in SQL Server but i cant find any useful resources explaining its use. Alternativly i'd like to be able to condense potential duplicates into sing ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista I need a way to determine whether a Windows Workflow is alive or not.

  I wanted to know there is a way to create a method to call to "poll" a Windows Worklow Webservice that I've created to determine if it's alive or dead. This doesn't mean actively running a workflow, but simply making sure it's ready to run one. (like a heartbeat) I'm using a Sequential Workflow and it's tied to 1 method currently that's called. Is it easier than I'm making it out to be If anyone can point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it! Thanks! David d wrote: I gathered it would be like adding a new Web Service method (That's how I'm calling the WF Foundation, through a web service call) I don't think you can (or should!) add a new operation to the existing webservice. Inste ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista DelayActivity in a Sequential Workflow on MOSS 2007

  Hi, I'm trying to run a workflow on a MOSS 2007 RTM with a DelayActivity. But the activity after the DelayActivity is never executed and the workflow is still "in progress". I tried with a very simple test workflow. Just a onWorkflowActviated and a delayactivity. I also tried to set the TimeoutDuration at design-time or at run-time. It didn't help. Is there a issues releated to SharePoint Is there a problem with the host process Thanks in advance, David Questions about SharePoint’s implementation of Windows Workflow Foundation should be directed to one of the forums found at http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx#15 . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Override Targets in project file hierarchy

  Is it possible to override targets from a hierarchy of build files For example, I have team foundation build script which imports and calls the targets from Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets. I can easily hook into the team foundation build and overide targets such as AfterCompile. When the Team Foundation build script executes, it calls other build scripts such as all the project files in my solution. One of the project files in my solution is a WEbDeployment project. Within this project file I can tap into the AfterMerge target of the Microsoft.WeDeployment.targets. However I want to be able to tap into the AfterMerge target from the root build script, my main Team Foundation build file. Is this possible I have tried but withou ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Microsoft Equation

  How can I manipulate Microsoft Equation Editor I want to use Word, Excel and Equation to create an application similar to MathCAD. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Connect to Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook

  Dear Expert, Can I know how to connect to the Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook using FoxPro Like the data in a memo feild how I connect or send out using the Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook Or Can I generete email using FoxPro Thank you.     Yes, I have configured the outlook express perfactly. But unable to send the mail with CDO. I have the code for microsoft outlook , but not for 'outlook express' & CDO code is not working and i go the above error. ...Show All

• Visual C# Enum in generic class

  Assume the following code: Public class A<T> { public enum B { Alpha, Beta, } } A.B MyEnum1 = A.B.Alpha; //Won’t work A<int>.B MyEnum2 = A<int>.B.Alpha; //Works, but the enum shouldn’t depend on the type, right Why is it that, when accessing the enum, I have to specify the class's type The enum should, IMO, not depend on class A's type argument. Well obviously I use the type, this was just a simple example (just like the code below). I don't think the syntax is "nature". If you use the enumeration outside the class it makes no sense specifying a type argument that is totally irrelevant. It is just confusing. Just ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Windows Form opening WPF window

  I have a Windows Form project containing a Windows Form that opens a blank WPF window with a TextBox control and the text is not displaying within the TextBox with keyboard input. If I copy the XAML to a WPF .NET 3.0 project the text will be displayed within the TextBox. However within my normal VB.NET Windows Form project the TextBox is not displaying the key presses when the WPF window is opened from a Windows Form. Does something need to be added to the project to ensure that the WPF controls will work fine when opened from a Windows Form XAML code is as follows: <Window x:Class="Window1" xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation xmlns:x=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml Title=" ...Show All

• Visual C# WinForm: Image Viewer question

  Hello, I'm trying to replicate a web application in a winform. I'd like to select file name from a ListBox and display its corresponding image in a picturebox, but I'm not able to connect the selected item to an image. In a web app, there is a ImageUrl property that stores the location of the image for display. Is there an equivilent property that goes with ListBox.SelectedItem that can pass the file path to the pictureBox, or does it work that way Is there a way to display an image (say, blue hills.jpg) without using GDI+ Thanks in advance, wnz No, you need to load the image from files using GDI+ (that is System.Drawing). You just need to do something like: private void SetPictureBoxImage(string pathToImage) { Ima ...Show All

• Visual Studio MS Visual Studio 2005 cpu-bound in CreateAssemblyCache

  hi all, I'm using Windows XP SP2 machine with Visual Studio 2005 installed... earlier today it started misbehaving, using up a lot of CPU and responding very sluggishly to simple events such as opening a solution, viewing a source file, building a solution etc. I've installed a hotfix for .NET Framework (as a response to an error I've noticed in the Event Viewer), and after that downloaded the 400 MB+ Visual Studio 2005 service pack 1 installation package and deployed that. The CPU-bound behaviour is still there though... I launched Process Explorer from sysinternals to see what is devenv.exe exactly doing and it would appear as though it is the main thread that's using up the CPU, with the call stack very frequently containing something a ...Show All

• SQL Server Unprocess will destroy the structure and Metadata?

  I found something. I you Process a dimention with an Unprocess option, and after that, you can only ProcessFull to the dimension. If you try ProcessUpdate or ProcessAdd to the dimension, you will get a mistake which tell you that there are some mistakes in the MetaData. So I want to know if the Unprocess will Destroy the structure of Dimension, and put a Dimension to nothing in fact. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How To Create Our makefile For a Project in VC++ 6.0

  How To Create Our makefile For a Project in VC++ 6.0 VC++ 6.0 allows to export makefile and use NMAKE to execute it. However, better way is using VC++ itself for command-line builds: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vcug98/html/_asug_building_a_project_from_the_command_line.asp ...Show All