Predator14567's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rendering To Textures in Beta2

  I used Texture2D's heavily with the usage RenderTarget, however in Beta 2 its like a whole new API. I understand that Surface no longer exists and RenderTarget/2D should be used. The problem is, the whole mentality is backwards compared to what im used to. From what I see I should create a RenderTarget2D and set that as a render target, then do rendertarget.GetTexture() if I want to set it. Thats fine. However, how do I copy between render targets There is no StretchRect or equivelent function I can see, which I used alot before. Surely I dont have to go about getting a texture, setting it, creating a 'copy' effect, setting a new render target, resolving the new render target just to copy from one to another Is there no alte ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Management templates are empty

  Hi all. I have downloaded the last MSF for Agile Software Development Process Guidance . But unfortunately I have an empty templates in Project Management folder: Development Project Plan.mpp, Project Checklist.xls, Test Development Plan.mpp. All these files are an empty documents. Is this correct and process guidance include only empty files or may be I have some problems wiht install. Thanks. < AlexanderRudyk@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:01d20c29-0272-4101-b2d2-9e853a8eea68@discussions.microsoft.com ... Thanks for your answer. But from TFS test project a get the same empty files. On the SharePoint project portal files are empty to ...Show All

• SQL Server 2005 Remote Connection Error

  Hi, Hope someone can help with this, having a huge problem connecting to SQL 2005 from a client machine. I get the following error: "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -1)" I have SQL 2005 installed on a server containing SQL 2000 (default instance) and then SQL 2005 as the instance SERVER\SQL2005. 2005 is running SP1. I'm connecting via windows authentication, using just using Management Studio. I've also configured the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Implementation Inheritance Regrets

  This is kind of OT, but I'd like to see what the other developers here have to say. I used implementation inheritance in Buttermilk's GUI design. I am regretting it quite a bit. I used implementation inheritance because I reasoned that everyone else's GUI system (including my past two) do so. But the more I learn about design and anti-patterns, the more subtle flaws I see arising because of the decision to use impl inheritance. Why do people use impl inheritance, even when they know better I presume because it's just so darn easy and quick. There is no way a modern language could get away with getting rid of implementation inheritance completely. People wouldn't accept it. In my opinion, a new language without implementation inherita ...Show All

• Visual C++ Hotkeys

  Hi Folks; I want to map some hotkeys for my Win32 app. I've used RegisterHotKey() calls for the standard keys but I also wanted to map function keys. I've looked around but can't find much info in C++. The complete list can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/winui/WinUI/WindowsUserInterface/UserInput/VirtualKeyCodes.asp For some reason, the documentation for RegisterHotKey doesn’t link to this information although it is in the MSDN Library if you search for “Virtual-Key Codes”. Cheers, Kenny Kerr http://weblogs.asp.net/KennyKerr/ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista InkCanvas exception

  Help! I am using .NET 3.0 Beta 2 and VS2005 on Windows XP Tablet PC 2005 edition. Whenever I try and use the <InkCanvas> element I get an unhandled NotSupportedException as soon as the mouse/pen is moved into the ink canvas area. Full details of xaml used and exception below. The exception occurs in the app.Run method. < Grid >< InkCanvas /></ Grid > System.NotSupportedException was unhandled Message="DLL version not correct." Source="PresentationCore" StackTrace: at MS.Internal.HRESULT.Check(Int32 hr) at System.Windows.Media.FactoryMaker.get_ImagingFactoryPtr() at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.FormatConvertedBitmap.FinalizeCreation() at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.Fo ...Show All

• SQL Server Running Package disappears without a trace

  Running Package disappears without a trace. It appears to be failing silently. It does not produce an OnError or OnTaskFailed message in the sysdtslog90 table. The events I am logging are: OnError OnExecStatusChanged OnPipelinePostEndOfRowset OnPostExecute OnPreExecute OnProgress OnQueryCancel OnTaskFailed The package gets executed from a web application which launches it in a new thread like this: Package pkg; ... <Sets up pkg object> private void RunPackage() { ThreadStart threadStart = new ThreadStart(PackageExecute); Thread thread = new Thread(threadStart); thread.Name = pkg.Name; thread.Start(); } private void PackageExecute() { try { pkg.Execute(); } catch (Exception ex) ...Show All

• SQL Server ASP writing data to SQL Server 2000

  I am having a problem with an ASP program that inserts data into a table on SQL Server 2000. No error msg is returned upon submission and the confirmation msg that displays after the commit command is sent to the server displays, but when we go to the DB, the data sent isn't there. This is an occassional occurance and usually the data is there, just some times, it isn't. Other forms function just fine, using the *exact* same file to perform the submit function (all the forms "include" the same submit page). The only difference we can find is a trigger on the table having problems which executes upon update, capturing the information about who updated the record when. From what we can see, this is the only programmatic difference. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office using VSTO w/ ASP.Net 2.0

  Hi, Newbie using VSTO and developing office applications. The task is to import and export data from and to database, but user can select from a list columns what they want to add, there will be a dialog will appear and allow user to select data to be included in a word document, how can this be done I installed PIA, VSTO2005SE w/ runtime, MS Office 2003 Web Components and will use MS Office 2003 (ver 11.0.7969.0) with ASP.Net 2.0. I tried some links and cannot find Actions Pane Control. What Am I missing Can anyone point me to some sample codes or resources to do this Thanks in advanced. den2005 Thanks for info Cindy. You mentioned I could use the xml approach, would I be able to fi ...Show All

• SQL Server Table Update

  I have two identical tables tableA and tableA_temp. On a regular basis I want to drop all values in the tableA-temp, import new values from a text file. Then I want to update any existing rows in tableA with the new values I just imported into tableA_temp, based on its primary key. After updating all the neccessary records I will then insert any new records. My question was can you do a mass update like I have described without specifing all columns individually. I know on inserts I can insert from a select as long as the columns and value types are consistent. But I wasn't sure if this was possible on an update. Thank you in advance for any help\advice. Sure you can, just put a join in the update statement. Something ...Show All

• Smart Device Development UPnP: problem with QueryStateVariable

  Hello! I have a problem with the UPnP API on Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Emulator (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005)... My software is able to find devices and invoke their actions but some things don't work: 1) InvokeAction of an action with one (or more) output parameter: it returns an array with one (or more) elements but the type of these (VARIANT) element is VT_ERROR. 2) Same happens if I use QueryStateVariable (returned VARIANT has type VT_ERROR). void CMyProject::QueryStatusVariable(IUPnPService *pUPnPService, CString VariableName) { HRESULT hr=S_OK; TCHAR tszMessage[2048]; CString strVariable; BSTR bstrVariableName = NULL; bstrVariableName=VariableName.AllocSysString(); if (bstrVariableName! ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies wds exception error when clicking file types tab

  System WinXP current with all updates. WDS 3.0 beta 2. Uninstalled previous version of WDS prior to installing 3.0. When using control panel to access indexing options, then advanced button, then file types tab, I recieve the following error. RUNDLL An exception occured while trying to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\srchadmin.dll",Indexing Options" When accessing indexing options from right click on tray icon, then advanced button, then file types tab, I get the following. RUNDLL An exception occured while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "srchadmin.dll"" I've spent most of the morning trying to find any information on this with no luck. I've also un ...Show All

• SQL Server Dynamic Stored Procedures

  Hi everyone, My question is how can i set a var with a table name to use it in a SELECT statement for example. EX: Declare @table varchar Set @table = 'mytable' Select * From @table I've got 1 stored procedure wich i want to use to get and update 2 tables. For that reason i want to know how to do this because having 2 stored procedures when the only difference are table names its not a good solution. Thanks :) Tiago: You can do what you ask with something like: exec ( 'select * from ' + @table ) A safer method is something that does not potentially incur problems from hacking is something like: if @table = 'A' select * from A else select * from B The other comment I have ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 193 installing

  When installing SQL Server 2005 the first component to be installed by the setup it is it (.NET Framework 2.0), but it happens the following mistake " Error 193 installing .NET Framework 2.0 "... what is doing wrong and which would be solution Did you already had a look in: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=134141&SiteID=1 HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• .NET Development WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails

  When there are a large number of files in the directory (i.e. 500), the ListDirectoryDetails method no longer returns any information, nor does it throw an exception. Has anyone else encountered this, and is so, is there a workaround Thanks. This is strange. I'd like to debug it if possible. Is your server accessible from outside If yes, can I connect to it to try to get a inhouse repro We don't have AIX 5.2 in the lab and I was not able to reproduce it on windows and on linux (I tried listing with 2,000+ files and it returned the whole list). If not, can you send me a network sniff on your machine so I can see all thats going on the wire. Here are instructions on how to get a sniff with Netmon: http:/ ...Show All