arkiboys's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Fixed Function Pipeline

  Removing the fixed function pipeline is simply a bad idea. Lets face it, as an indie-developer, we are targeting 3 year old intel on-board chipsets... maybe the fixed pipeline is available via effects files I have a nice little terrain engine in C++ - using DX8 - most users don't even have the big nine installed - that I would like to port over to XNA... it uses the fixed function pipeline and can blend 2 textures per patch via a coverage factor and modulate this with a shadowmap (if there are 4 blend stages)... and runs with high framerates even on intel on-board. For older hardware with only two stages, it simply do two passes. So for indie-developers, wo loose 95% of our target audience due to the removal of the fixed function pipeline ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView

  I have a DataGridView on a form and I want the user to be able to edit several different fields in any of the rows displayed. After editing the fields (in possibly many rows) I want to find which rows in the DataGridView have been edited. How do I find out which rows in my DGV have been edited Thanks, Dave alternatively Private Sub ToolStripButton1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ToolStripButton1.Click Dim r() As DataRow r = Me .CostingDataSet.Bill_CostTypes.Select( "" , "" , _ DataViewRowState.ModifiedCurrent) End Sub ...Show All

• Windows Forms StyleGuidelines/Best Practices for WinForms

  Hi- I am fairly new to the Windows Application Development (as I always worked on the Web Applications) and are there any style guidelines available, best practices specific for Windows Application Development I will be using VS.NET 2005 for this applicaiton. Please advise. Thank you. Prabhu Sorry, I should have been clearer in the original request. I am indeed following specific coding guidelines and a well organized projects and solutions structure. Style guidelines, I meant defining control properties at the base level (say TextBox, width, height, font, dock etc) and auto inherit it whenever a TextBox is created in the application. Also like, auto expand/shrink when the maximize button is used or a window is res ...Show All

• Visual Studio Creating a Crystal Report with VB.NET and SQL Server Express 2005

  Hi there, I haven't received any replies to a question I posted, so I'll try a different approach. Can anyone point me to any resources (tutorial, walkthrough, articles) on creating a report in Crystal Reports, using VB.NET 2005 and  SQL Server Express 2005. Specifically how to set up a connection to SQL that can change. The structure/data in the SQL views/tables won't change, but the string used to connect to SQL will. I test on my laptop. When I hook up to the network, I need to switch my connection to the network SQL Server. Thanks in advance! Amber Hello Amber, I am reposting from an ealier reply: Here is a link to the online help: http://support.businessobjects.com/documentation/pr ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. device.AvailableTextureMemory somehow?

  Is it possible to get the free or the used VGA memory somehow in Xna like device.AvailableTextureMemory in MDX or GetAvailableTextureMem(). If it is not possible in the XNA framework, can I extract the "native DX device pointer" from XNA and pass it to the C++ DirectX dll and ask GetAvailableTextureMem() with PInvoke Thanks, George I just want to show the used texture memory as a statistics about the current state of the program. Like the Fps statistics (or the number of triangles) that is usually displayed on the top of the screen. ...Show All

• SQL Server AVG Measure

  In AS2005 how i make a measure with tha aggregate function avg Thanks Try using AverageOfChildren aggegate function and see if it works for you. Edward. -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Referenced Assembly Warnings/Publishing Problems

  I just finished making something small and wanted to make it available for some friends to try out. I'd like to make executables during each success stage of my games, but when I tried to publish the code I recieved the following error: Warning 1 Referenced assembly 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft XNA\XNA Game Studio Express\v1.0\References\Windows\x86\Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll' targets a different processor than the application. KDP I checked out the error help, but it really didn't help me how to rectify the problem. I know its just a warning, but I'd rather not have it. Also, the published files wouldn't install properly and kept causing illegal errors. I'm assuming that the two are related. Any insight as to what exactly is c ...Show All

• SQL Server Drillthrough action

  Hi, Is there any way in AS2005, I can specify a cube action which will bring up an HTML page displaying the Drillthrough MDX for the cell that I just initiated the action on Also, will this MDX work across all cube partitions (no need for FIRSTROWSET clause) Thanks, JGP Any idea how I would go about retrieving the action schema rowset Any samples would be greatly helpful. I'm trying to get this working from the ProClarity clients (Standard and Professional). Thanks, JGP ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to detect deletion when editing in WebBrowser

  I need to detect when the user is about to delete text in the WebBrowser control, analyze the current selection, and then detect when the deletion has completed and go in and make some fixups based on what came out of the analysis before the deletion. This is to keep the WebBrowser from stomping on top of some private tags I have interspersed with the HTML - it happily deletes my tags without concerning itself whether there are matching tags outside the deletion, therefore destroying my XML tags. I can override the PreProcessMessage and get the selection before the deletion takes place but I can't see anything which will give me control after the deletion. I tried looking at WM_KEYDOWN in WndProc, but no keys are coming through at all. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can anyone explain this to me?

  I am using Visual Basic 2005 Epress Edition I am making a game of 21, in this game users have option. I wanna put a horizontal slider in it. I looked up and down the toolbox, I found a control called vertical slider but nothing that said Horizontal Slider, so can ya tell me how I can get one, and how to code it. Public Class Form1 Dim bet As Integer ' Add a trackbar from the toolbox ' Paste this code into Form1.vb ' and see how it works. Private Sub TrackBar1_ValueChanged( ByVal sender _ As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TrackBar1.ValueChanged Label1.Text = CStr (TrackBar1.Value) bet = TrackBar1.Value ...Show All

• SQL Server Like statement in a filter

  In a report I want a parametered filter on a specific text. I tried with the following statement: =Iif(Parameters!Filter.Value="Example",(Fields!Warehouse_Class_Code.Value),"NULL") like %TEXT% But no result. Please help! Thanks a lot! Now I have a filter with two values. A last question: I want a filter with a Label "All" and a value <Blank>. How to show the label "All" as a default in de dropdown on my report I tried the value %. This works in the preview, but not in the HTML viewer. Kind regards, Marius ...Show All

• Visual Studio Exported PDF and Excel file Getting Ugly layout

  Hi My Question is about Exported PDF and Excell Files Layout. Sepecially Excel file Layout problem. So i have Basically Three Problems 1) Expoted PDF or Excell file does not have appearence like Report Viewer. 2) Expoted Excell Files have missed some Image icons which are included in Report Viewer 3) And Some Extra Lines are appear in Exported PDF file which are not viewed in report viewer (Actually These Lines Visible in PDF file are Hide in report Viever By making colomn length to 1Pt. So those lines are nor visible in Report Viewer But visible in the PDF files) SO if u know about this or have any experience with this kind of problems Pls replay to this thread. Before i sending this problem to forum, i searched on forum and it was un ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office does visual studio tools for Microsoft Office......

  hi, this is srichand. does Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office provides add-in plugins for outlook.... i have VSTO(SE) up on installing it i got an error regarding the registry key where can i find solution for that.. thanx one and all... srichand Hai Peter, Thanks for responding me. well i have downloaded the VSTO SE from microsoft site and i installed that on my visual studio 2005.. upon installing that i displayed installed successfull.. but when i start to run the add on component in visual basic>office> OutlookPlugin.. it failed to displayed... further it displayed a message which is as followed.. CLASS NOT REGISTERED( Exception From HRESULT:0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOT REG)) so Mr, Peter If there is an personal id of ...Show All

• Windows Forms where i can edit update statement for table adapter?

  hi im using vb 2005 where i can edit update statement for table adapter since there is no such a property for table adapter for doing this. unlike vb 2003 thanks in advance. If you click on the show all files button in the solution explorer you will see a file name datasetName.Designer.vb. If you scroll through that file you will find your tableadapter. In the InitAdapter procedure for the table adapter you will find the commands. Remember to back up the file before you make any changes in case you break the table adapter. ...Show All

• SQL Server SqlExpress Bootstrapping

  Hello I'm building an app for retail commercial distribution, and I'm agonizing over which database to use. I'd like to use SqlExpress, as it's supported by the code generation tool I use, but I'm wary of the download size.   SqlExpr32.exe is 35 megabytes, yet Microsoft maintains that it's a " fast download ", a claim whose logic escapes me. If I try to force something like that on my buyers, I won't have any buyers (Framework 2.0 is going to be hard enough for them to swallow).   I recently made the difficult decision to forfeit the use of my preferred code generator ( DeKlarit ) in favor of the VistaDB embedded database , but this article has got me thinking about SqlExpress again.   Is there a lightweight distributi ...Show All