TwilightBrigade's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Got a feature suggestion for the next version XNA Game Studio Express?

  Cross posted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/12/03/got-a-feature-suggestion-for-the-next-version-of-xna-game-studio-express.aspx We're putting the final touches on our first release of XNA Game Studio Express and our launch on December 11 th is less than three weeks away! Many of the team’s members have started to think about features that could be implemented in versions of XNA Game Studio Express down the road. While the team has ideas about things we’d like to do, we rely on you to tell us about the things you’re interested in or that you’d like us to change in future releases of the Product. The best way to share this information with us is by using Microsoft Connect . If you’re unfamiliar with Microsoft Connect, plea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Barcodes

  Does anyone know of a good Barcode Form package for Visual Studio Express. I was thinking about adding in some barcode support but i can't find anything on the subject. If anyone knows anything about barcodes let me know. Thank s Hi Enlikil, Have a look at these: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/upc_a_barcode.asp http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/GenCode128.asp http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/barcodectl.asp Hope these help you out Scott ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System UnitTesting Controls Render Method.

  Hello I am looking to write automated unit test cases for the custom controls that are used for the project and got stuck with the below line of code. Code Snippet : protected override void Render( HtmlTextWriter writer) {............. if (_Metadata != null ) Dom = _Metadata.GetXmlDocument( this .Page); ..................... } How do I test the above method. Do i need to use Asp.Net Unit testing in this case if Yes how Please suggest Hello, Can you please give a little more context on what you are trying to do Where did you get that method from Telling us more about what you're trying to do and your approach will help us better understand your scenario and try to help. Thanks, David Go ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using button to browse a image file and load into database

  Hi im a begineer. the following is what I do. I created a database table and 1 of the field i put it as varbinary(MAX) let call this field "SmallPhoto" I drag the picturebox from the toolbox to my form1 and i drag a button to my form1 too. Now I need to configure that when i click on the button i can open an explorer to search for an image file and load into the picturebox, and click on the save button to save this image file to the database. Please advise how to do it as i am running out of idea. yep, lastly i had been watching the video clip from visualstudio.net for solution too... thanks in advance Private Sub PassportExpiryDateTimePicker_ValueChanged( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System ...Show All

• Visual C# minimize a System.Diagnostics.Process

  I have a System.Diagnostics.Process which I started. I would like to minimize it. How can I do this in C# I found this post, but it is for VB, and it looks like it uses COM. Neither of which I like. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=611361&SiteID=1 If there is a pure C# .NET way to do this, that would be great. ~S The process is already running. I tried doing this (for the sake of being thorough): runningProc.StartInfo.WindowStyle = FormWindowState.Minimized; but it did not work. ~S ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Designer view

  I see some examples and/or videos on the net about using the design view of a game to just drag & drop previously created game components into. When I create a new Windows Game, I do not get a designer in my solution explorer. How are they adding a designer to an xna game Also, are there any links to tutorials on how to create a game component Those tutorials are from beta 1. The designer view was removed in beta 2 and may or may not reappear in future versions (don't hold your breath ). ...Show All

• SQL Server Clusters with "missing" values

  Hello all and a happy new year! I used Microsoft clustering for grouping my data. Even though i already cleaned the data and have no null values i get one cluster with missing values in every attribute. (i set CLUSTER_COUNT=3 and i'm using Scalable k-means algorithm) Does "missing" mean that the algorithm cannot group that particular tuple in another group so it consider it as missing Thank you in advance. "missing" is an implicit state of any attribute, and is considered whether or not there is missing data or not. For example, a "gender" attribute could have states "Male", "Female" and "missing". An "Age" attribute would ...Show All

• .NET Development CLR Suggestions?

  (To admin: I don't know if there is a more appropriate place to post this, please move if so. I've been programming VB.net for over a year (professionally) and found some lacks in the language and would like to express myself as to what to add to make the language stronger. Don't hesitate to comment or add to these: PS : I may have written code errors below while exposing my problem, this is not copy and paste of real existing code. I have written this based on Framework .NET 2.0 (3.0 doesn't offer any language enhancements to my knowledge) and i wrote this code without retesting it. I may expose my problem incorrectly but on real problems that i have encountered. (Terminology may also be sligthly wrong) 1) Generics enhanc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ActivityExecutionStatus Executing to Closed

  I have created a simple Custom Activity and overridden the protected method Execute. The nature of job within Execute is such that the response would arrive into the activity asynchronously, I am returning ActivityExecutionStatus.Executing at the end of the method. I have a delegate callback private void myCallBackMethod(object Sender, EventArgs Args). My callback gets called successfully on recieving the response. What I do not understand now is, how and where do I return ActivityExecutionStatus.Closed so that the workflow having this CustomActivity knows that the activity is completed and it can proceed with the rest of the activities. In my case I will need the workflow execution to wait until the CustomActivity is completed, but since ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. RomantiqueX XNA engine

  Version 0.0.1 released. We will be glad to get some feedback from you. Download engine demo at http://www.codeplex.com/romantiquex/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx . Information is avaliable at http://www.codeplex.com/romantiquex . Please, provide the following info: your graphics card, FPS, FPS with enter pressed (with no HDR). Best regards, RomantiqueX development team. For those who had problems running demo: project page update with screenshots. http://www.codeplex.com/romantiquex/Wiki/View.aspx title=Screenshots ...Show All

• Visual C++ Intelli

  Problem with the intelli Kindly help not able to get the context help em a new bie kindly help Intellisense generally works fine with Visual C++. If you have VS 2005, install SP1 so that you obtain bug fixes with intellisense. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Vista install problems

  XNA won't install on Vista RC 1 5736. I'll try on a daily build tomorrow in the office. Are you going to support Vista in December Not had your coffee yet this morning, Dan ;) Seriously, I don't think either of us were bitching about the lack of Vista support - I mean, we're talking about running a prerelease set of templates for a prerelease framework on a prerelease OS! - but I don't think there's anything wrong with being disappointed. For my part, it's more that I'm so excited about the possibilities Vista and XNA bring that it's hard to wait, like a kid before Christmas. Anyway, installing the VC# SP1 beta does indeed allow me to install GSE beta 2, so I'm satisfied. For now ;) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how do we get number of days/hours comparing two diff date/time?

  how do we get number of days/hours comparing two diff date/time ... for example 12/05/06 to 02/01/07(number of days)......10:30 am to 20:05pm ok ok...it seem's like my explination is too complicated... here's my code Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click dim text00 as DateTime dim text01 as DateTime dim result as String text00 = MaskedTextbox1.text (masked __/__/____ __:__) text01 = MaskedTextbox2.text (masked __/__/____ __:__) result = Datediff(interval.minutes, text00, text01)/60 label1.text = result End Sub it seems ok here but my boss want is to seperate the date and time which means 2 maskedtextbox must join and to compar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Automatic Content vs Manual Content?

  One thing I'm not sure about are the two different content pools and what kind of content should be in each one. Additionally, in relation to this, are we supposed to load all our game's textures, models, audio, etc, all at once in one spot I can imagine larger games wouldn't be able to hold all the game's assets in memory, so where should content be loaded incrementally Thank You. I cant see any reason NOT to have unload of specific resource. Having multiple managers complicate matters as you need to check all managers for a resource before its loaded. E.g. if you have a manager for a level you will probally also want a manager for assets that are never unloaded. And in an editor context you want to be able to runtime add a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error launching Clickonce app from intranet

  I have an app which is deployed on an intranet site.  When I try to launch the <app>.application file, I get the error below.  BUT, if I do a RUNAS and run under a admin user of the webserver, the app will launch. Running framework 2.0    Windows Server 2003 Here is the error:   PLATFORM VERSION INFO  Windows    : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT)  Common Language Runtime  : 2.0.50727.42  System.Deployment.dll   : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)  mscorwks.dll    : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)  dfdll.dll    : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)  dfshim.dll    : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) SOURCES ...Show All