KitWest's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Animation - Final Question

  I have a model with multiple animations in one x file, I really want to animate the bleeding thing. Now, I will hold my hands up and say that I am not a good enough game developer to produce my own animation classes ... is there going to be an example of how to do this in the near future from the XNA team Cant wait for the final xna release ... The XNA team has said that they will not provide an animation system, so the functionality of MDX AnimationRootFrame and friends will be gone from XNA 1.0. They do, however, import the animation data into the content processing framework. I think what's going to happen is that some number of people will create working animation components that you need to add to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Instance failure

  Hi. I just installed CTP6, but I cannot add my database project because of an "Instance failure" error when I select the .dbproj file. I am running XP SP2 and SQL 2005 Developer. Thanks. byronfromwesleyan - When you say that you cannot add your database project, are you trying to open a database project from an earlier CTP Or are you trying to create a new database project and you're seeing the error when you try to use that newly created project ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Feature Request for LINQ designer

  Could I make a small request, or perhaps this has already been done and I'm just not aware of it... When dragging tables into the LINQ Designer I get nice classes that I can customize. But what I would really love is if 2 classes were generated: a base class consisted only of the table's member properties, and an subclass that utilizes all of the LINQ data access features. This way I can decouple the LINQ specific data access code from my business objects and allow me to do other things with them (such as Serialize them!) Can this be done Thank you.. Would you not be better off just adding your own code in a partial class --- much the same way as all the other designers work. Cheers Ralph Shillington ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating a custom class using Form Components

  Newbie here needs help. I have a Form with a tabControl. Tabs are added onto the control when a user clicks on a tree node. Users can also close each tab, if not needed. I want to dynamically create the content of each tab during run-time by pre-designing the tab page's content as a custom class. So for instance, in a custom class, I could have a 'Panel' as a parent object, within which all my controls will be placed. The plan then is to add an instance of this custom class when the form is initialized, and add this to the tab when user clicks the relevant tree node. Before I proceed, is this the most effective way to go about this If not, can someone please recommend suggested reading If this is the right way, how does o ...Show All

• SQL Server ADODB and Mirrored SQL-Server

  I did setup a Mirrored Database. Connecting from it using ADO.NET works well. It goes to the Mirror if the Principal fails. But ADODB does not work. I get the error following error: 80004005 Invalid connection string attribute When trying to connect to the DB in case the principal failed and the mirror is active. (MyProductiveDB is in failover state) What do I do wrong Here is the code: ADOConn = New ADODB.Connection ADOConn.Open(CS) CS is my Connections-String: "Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Data Source=MyProductiveDB;Failover Partner=MyMirror;Initial Catalog=MyCat;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=MyUser;Password=xxxxxx;Pooling=True;Connect Timeou ...Show All

• .NET Development Parse a text file

  Hi everybody! I'm confused how to use C# to parse text file. what I have in the text file is the following: I am a delphi programmer~Who is willing to learn C#~Anytime soon. I need to read this text file into a stringlist like this: [0]I am a delphi programmer [1]Who is willing to learn C# [2]Anytime soon the text file will be big so I don't know which way I have to go, whether stringbuilder or something else. thank you Depending on how you're going to read the text file, you might want to read it into a stringbuilder (read so many bytes and just append to the stringbuilder variable until end of file is reached), then create a string array variable and use the stringbuilder.toStrin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS SCC Command Line Checkin attach a WorkItem?

  TFS SCC question: Does anyone know how to attach a WorkItem to a checkin via the command line (or even if it is possible ) You can find some discussion of the CheckIn() on the Workspace object at http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/20/checkin.aspx . At one point in time, I had planned to add command line support for specifying work items to resolve and associate with the checkin, but it didn't make it. If you'd like to see that feature in the next version of TFS, please enter it at Connect ( http://connect.microsoft.com/ ). Buck ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is there a macro which converts a 32 bit signed integer to 64 bit unsigned integer ?

  Hello All, Is there a macro which converts a 32 bit signed integer to 64 bit unsigned integer Thanks in Advance, CPPUser7 Is it the same definition as the one I've shown Can you give a complete repro (in as few lines as possible) that includes the #included files Also, which version of Visual C++ are you using ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to pass parameter in ManualWorkflowSchedulerService

  when using WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow, there's a overload, so that we can pass some parameter to workflow but, in statemachine workflow, if an instance already exists we use ManualWorkflowSchedulerService to RunWorkflow how to pass the paramter To answer you first question, even if you are using the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService.RunWorkflow, you still need to create the workflow using WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow. So you can still pass the parameter the normal way. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error on Splinter Cell Double Agent

  I receive this error message every time i try to run the game: "Runtime error! Program: ... Cell Double Agent\SCDA-Offline\system\SplinterCell4.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’support team for more information" I’ve already tried in the games forums but that didn’t help... If you could give me a hand, i thanks in advance! Sorry for any mistake in english, i’m from Portugal! Jose Oliveira Hi Jose, please, into the directory C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent\SCDA-Offline\System, create a shortcut for SplinterCell4.exe, and into this shortcut (Target Field) add "C:\Program File ...Show All

• Visual C# Outlining at brace level

  I think the outlining feature within VS2005 is great. However, I would like to expand/collapse code that is between braces { }, as I often have long if clauses. I can't see this ability in VS but I could be missing it. Or is there perhaps an add-in that offers this extension Thanks, Liam you could try placing the region tags/markers around the code you want to "collapse" These markers are ignored by the compiler but helps us visually. Would this be of some use to do this: #region [ yourRegionName] //code here #endregion the region name is optional ...Show All

• Visual Studio can only create one shape

  I started learning dsl tools recently. After going through the couple of examples i tried writing a designer myself. The new designer i created has two classes(will be more later) and each class pointing to different shape. it compiles, transforms and creates debug project . But in the debug VS, even though the toolbox shows all the shapes classes i can only create one class instance on to the designer. And the rest of them don't draw anything even i drag and drop them. The one that i can drop is the first one i created.. I checked parent element path, and element merge directives that was suggested in the other posts and they all seems to correct. did anyone had this problem before any suggestions on how i can make this work thanks ...Show All

• Visual C++ First Execution Only...

  Hi, I've been trying to tell my new program to check for a specific condition (whether it is the first execution or not), but I'm having quite a bit of trouble. In fact, it's driving me insane. I spent almost all of last night trying to get this right, but it simply will not work the way I want it to. I've asked a huge number of people for help on message boards across the net, and nobody has been willing to help me fix it. So this is my last chance. PLEASE help me. Anyways, here's what I have so far, see if you can fix it and point out what I'm doing wrong: Prototype : int Config (int firstrun); Cut from main() : int firstrun; Config(firstrun); int temp1 = 1; int temp2 = 0; if (firstrun == temp1) { cou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem before debugging

  i use c# express 2005 and currently trying to edit my created project which is a windows application, then whenever i try to run this project this message comes out: "Error while trying to run the project:Unable to start debugging. the binding handle is invalid." it only happens in my compaq deskpro EN computer (Pentium 3 933MHZ 512RAM). This was tested with the simplest of codes like output of a line of character in a console application and the same error message appears. please help me how to deal with this coz this is the only machine available to me right now. thanks for the help. Check this search query ... ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Elegance (and performance) Problem

  Hello, I developed a class (class CMatrix, that holds a lot of functions not really related to the other class) to use in another class. Currently, it's working real fine, but I don't know if there's a better way to handle with this. What I do today is, in the main class: Dim Matrix As CMatrix ... somewhere in a sub or property Matrix = CMatrix.MergeSort(Matrix) ... rest of the code If my CMatrix could acess the data in the main class, it would be fine, bc I wouldn't have to pass nothing. Thx in advance =] In most cases, you don't want to use pass by reference. It usually make the function unintuitive, unless you need to output more than one variable from a function. See those common ...Show All