EmekaAwagu's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. distributed rendering

  hello , is it possible to develop distibuted rendering using directX because i need 15 displays. so i came up with this idea. any suggestions or any ideas The only framework I've heard of that does some kind of distribution out of the box is OpenSG (See this app description for an interesting application http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp topic_id=402377 ) Otherwise, as Ralf says you are on your own. ...Show All

• SQL Server Preview has data but no columns returned

  In my SSIS package, I connect to an external SQL server database. This external database supports a stored procedure that I need to execute to "retrieve data". So in my package, I set the DataAccess Mode property of my OLEDB datasource to "SQL Command" and I provide the command EXEC <proc_name> <Param>,<output_param>. (The proc has an output parameter). The preview shows all the columns and data, but somehow no columns are returned....so when I try to link this data source to a copy column task, I get an error saying the source does not have any columns...any idea why this could be happening. Thanks - Manmeet Unfortunately that didnt work too...this is what I did...I now have this variable that st ...Show All

• .NET Development StDev returns NaN

  Hi Everyone: When using the code to calculate the StDev of a data column, it returns NaN. But all other aggregate functions, like Sum, Count, Min or Max return a number on the same data column. It seems this function has a limit on the maximum number of rows it can hundle. The number of rows in the column is 46712; if I reduce the row number to 46064, it works. DataTable.Compute("StDev(DataColumnName)", "") Does anyone has this problem before Does anyone know under what condition, this function returns a NaN Thanks. Hi, By the following code, I verify that the limit of the StDev function is 46340 line of rows. Dim dt As DataTable = New DataTable() Dim a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Clicking

  Is it possible to pass through all clicks on a form's face to the applications below it For example, if there is a Form with a button on it, even If I click the button it passes through and clicks on this web page instead.. Yes it is transparent enough, and it is a full screen video. I have already set the topmost property, but when they try to click on an application they want to use, they can't click on anything because the video is in the way (but they can type). ...Show All

• SQL Server how to use DtsLocalizableAttribute

  I Have to set the display name and Description of DtsPipelineAttribute using DtsLocalizableAttribute. Can anybody point to some example. MSDN Help is not much of use, it does not contain any example. Dhamrbir Hi Deniz I have a custom component, whose name should be localized. For this I have to read the resource file and set the Display Name and Description of the DtsPipelineComponent attribute. As per the MSDN Documentation http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.dts.pipeline.localization.dtslocalizableattribute.aspx We need to set the LocalizationType property of the DtsPipelineComponent attribute to the type of the resource class that contains the resources for ...Show All

• .NET Development How do youinsert Null into binary columns

  My current app is reading and writing images to a sql2005 db with a varBinary(max) data column. Sometimes I do not want to add an image to this column, just data for the other columns. It is a nullable column. (1) How do I insert the null value for this field I tried dbNull.value but get a design time error of: "value of system.dbNull cannot be converted to 1-dimensional array of byte" If tbLookup.Text > "" And isBinary And Not (PB.Image Is Nothing) Then ' save image from PB to byte array Dim arrImage() As Byte Using imageStream As New IO.MemoryStream PB.Image.Save(imageStream, PB.Image.RawFormat) arrImage = imageStream.GetBuffer imageStream.Close() End Using en ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Compile Errors when trying to run Directx sample tutorials

  Hey folks, I've just downloaded VC++ Express edition. Proceeded to install the platform SDK, then installed Directx 9 SDK, October 2006. I've installed the first sample tutorial, CreateDevice, and no matter what I do, I get error LNK2019's. I've added the include and lib paths to the project options as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here's the errors: 1>------ Build started: Project: CreateDevice, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 1>Linking... 1>CreateDevice.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__DefWindowProcA@16 referenced in function "long __stdcall MsgProc(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,long)" ( MsgProc@@YGJPAUHWND__@@IIJ@Z) 1>CreateDevice.obj : error LNK2019: unresol ...Show All

• SQL Server Order by clause in View doesn't order.

  I have created view by jaoining two table and have order by clause. The sql generated is as follows SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT dbo.UWYearDetail.*, dbo.UWYearGroup.* FROM dbo.UWYearDetail INNER JOIN dbo.UWYearGroup ON dbo.UWYearDetail.UWYearGroupId = dbo.UWYearGroup.UWYearGroupId ORDER BY dbo.UWYearDetail.PlanVersionId, dbo.UWYearGroup.UWFinancialPlanSegmentId, dbo.UWYearGroup.UWYear, dbo.UWYearGroup.MandDFlag, dbo.UWYearGroup.EarningsMethod, dbo.UWYearGroup.EffectiveMonth If I run sql the results are displayed in proper order but the view only order by first item in order by clause. Has somebody experience same thing How to fix this issue Thanks, Well, that' ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Toshiba player not rendering text

  The Toshiba player is not rendering text while the iHDsim has no problem with it. The markup code: <div id="textField" style:position="absolute" style:y="1px" style:x="1px" style:height="40px" style:width="1920px" style:display="auto"> <input id="textMessage" state:value="test" mode="display" style:navIndex="none" style:font=" file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/font.ttf " style:fontSize="28px" style:color="red" /> </div> The font I use for testing is Arial (openType) I've also used other fonts but no succes, maybe someone can help. Have you tried ...Show All

• SQL Server rowcount from a bulk insert task in SSIS

  I would like to get the rowcount from a bulk insert task to validate that all the data is being inserted correctly. So far the only way that I can see this being done is through a trigger on the target tables. I would like to have this information inside the DTS package. Can anyone help me Thanks How about using two Exec SQL Tasks with SELECT COUN(*) FROM MyTable, to get the before and after counts. Depends on if you expect other people to be adding records around the same time, but then that would be an issue with triggers possibly. Not much of a bulk insert of you have triggers firing as you have to reduce the "load speed" to get them to fire. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Focus() does not always appear to work for me ...

  I've got a window created in XAML, and it's got a couple of TextBoxes on it. They are both focusable. Before I display this window using ShowDialog(), I set the focus to one of the TextBox controls. The first time the window is displayed, this works fine. But if the other TextBox gets focus, then it doesn't seem to relinquish it - the next time the window is displayed, the second TextBox has focus, even though I am specifically trying to set the focus to the first TextBox in code. I don't know if this matters, but I'm not destroying the window in between the times it is showed. I simply call the Hide() method to hide the window. Then before I show the window the next time, I attempt to set focus to the correct TextBox. I've stepped thro ...Show All

• Visual Basic Inheritance and Interfaces vs c#

  I'm trying to convert a C# sample to vb.net and am running into a bit of a problem. The following C# code compiles.. public interface IView { event EventHandler Load; } public class MyView : System.Web.UI.Page, IView { } While the following VB.NET code does not. Public Interface IView Event Load As EventHandler End Interface Public Class MyView Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Implements IView End Class The error returned is: Class 'MyView' must implement 'Event Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)' for interface 'IView'. How do I fix this problem It seems like it should be simple! If I do that, I get the warning: event 'Load' conflicts with event 'Load' in the base class 'Control' and ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Console Configuration

  In using Windows Authentication via the Management Console to connect to a database, my user name listed is in the following format <machine name>\<user name>. I would like to change this setting to <domain name>\<user name>. Is there any setting files or registry settings for the Management Console that will allow me to modify this Hi, if you log on with a domain account this will automatically change. If you are logged in with a local account and don’t want to logon with a domain account, or your comouter is not part of the domain you can use the stored credentials cache in Windows to logon using another account: Control Panel > User Accounts > Select the user > manage my ...Show All

• Visual C++ Strange Compiler Error!!!!!!!!

  Hello, I have recently begun programming in DirectX. I am compiling a single file(.cpp), that requires nothing but a link to DirectX in Visual Studio 2005 Professional (Which I own). I have linked everything to the DirectX SDK files, but I receive the following errors. error C2065: 'index' : undeclared identifier error C2228: left of '.x' must have class/struct/union error C2228: left of '.y' must have class/struct/union These seem familiar with "C" style errors, but I'm using C++. I might have the compiler settings wrong, so that it could think that it was C, not C++, as .x, and .y is straight C++ so somethign is wrong here, there is nothing wrong with the code, as it is from a book and have given it to other ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cookie support

  Hi, I've recorded a scenario where a user logs in using ADFS. Everything including redirects seems to work fine except for one case. A cookie (that contains the users login token) is missing from the response. I thought I would find it amongst the headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Pragma : no-cache Content-Length : 1577 Cache-Control : no-cache Content-Type : text/html; charset=utf-8 Date : Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:21:21 GMT Expires : -1 Server : Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-AspNet-Version : 2.0.50727 X-Powered-By : ASP.NET Is there specific settings I must be aware of to get the the cookie and send it in the next request (to the partner site). Thanks, No - as far as I can see is the cookie '_WebSsoAuth' not sent in the next request. To v ...Show All