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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Events

  In a DirectX program, when is updating/drawing usually done What event I can't seem to find an Application event suitable. Usually, such an application is written like this: InitApp(); while (DoNotExit) { ReadInput(); Update(); Render(); } CleanUp(); Bye(); So you can expose Update() and Render() as events and have the programmer set them as desired... Does this answer your question ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to turn of WS-Policy?

  Hi Community, I created WCF service with X509 certificate using BasicHttpBinding. The reason Basic is to get Basic Profile 1.0 and BSP 1.1 I am using IBM Integrated development environement http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/wid/ to generate the proxies. The tool does not support WS-Policy and will not allow to generate proxy. The IBM platform supports X509 security. I want to test this out. One of my option was to somehow turn off the strict policy and try that way. Please send any comments/suggestions. Thanks in advance, - Pankaj. Hi Pankaj see if this can help you: http://www.dotnetside.org/blogs/fabio/archive/2006/11/26/Turn-off-WS_2D00_Policy-in-WCF-_2E002E002E00_.aspx in this solution you ...Show All

• Architecture Architecting Application?

  Dear All, In my career, i am in a transitional stage - moving from developer to managerial position and prefer Technical Manager/Architect. To master Architecting, need to know the following: 1. Is there any certification/course to master Aplplication Architect, including UML and applying Design Patterns 2. Can i have some sample/actual copy of 'High Level Design' and Low Level Design Document for an Application/Solution 3. What is the difference between 'Technical Architect' and 'Solution Architect' Or, are they same Thanks in advance for the advise/help. Regards, ravi Hi velu, you can go thru the skills list i tried preparing .. http://dotnetwithme.blogspot.com/2007/02 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Fullscreen mode doesn't seem to work for me...

  Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any insight into this. I have my app, and it runs fine in windowed mode, but when I switch it to fullscreen mode, the display seems to clear the screen to grey every frame.  I initialize my gfx component like so: gfx = new GraphicsDeviceManager ( this ) ; gfx.PreferredBackBufferWidth = preferredWindowWidth; gfx.PreferredBackBufferHeight = preferredWindowHeight; gfx.PreferredBackBufferFormat = SurfaceFormat .Bgr32;  //I tried this thinking maybe it wasn't in a well supported mode that the graphics card knows.  This doesn't work. gfx.ToggleFullScreen();   gfx.SynchronizeWithVerticalRetrace = true ;   Even if I reduce my draw code to somethin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WebPageRequest/Response activities for ASP.NET integration

  http://wf.netfx3.com/files/folders/control_flow/entry4354.aspx Package includes WebPage Request/Response custom activities: - WebPageRequest - WebPageResponse - WebPageTransfer - WebPageRedirect These activities will help integrate Workflow technology into your ASP.NET projects. Just derive your ASP.NET page from "WorkflowPage" and indicate which workflow to use. Features: - integration with Http Request/Response, ability to expose Http parameters in Workflow designer, ability to "Activity Bind" and use them in rules/condition expressions. - integration with ASP.NET WebControls and data binding sample - ability to use in both Sequential and StateMachine Workflows - includes extensible examples of work ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF53010 error after SP1 install

  I installed this first http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=c18c756e-8f80-4987-b3bf-600068a9e3c4&DisplayLang=en then installed this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=A9AB638C-04D2-4AEE-8AE8-9F00DD454AB8&displaylang=en everything installed ok. Reboot. Went into VS2005 and get several 503: TF53010 Service Unavailable errors. The event log is shown below. I read one post but all the TFS databases are in multi user mode and there arent any IP restrictions in IIS. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1026766&SiteID=1 I can access work items, documents, run reports but cant access source control - help! ! ! TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) HttpTransportSecurity not extensible

  There are many classes that could be usefull for configuring custom binding element and custom bindings. But their constructors are made internal plus there are plenty of usefull methods that configure binding elements that are also made internal . Woudn't it be better if I could reuse HttpTransportSecurity security in my classes for storing the custom binding configuration reusing it when I need to configure the HttpsTransportBindingElement instead of inventing my own proprietary configuration classes Same applies to many other usefull classses and methods that are presently visible only using reflection. At the end WCF framework is very flexible but obstacles like this minimize it flexibility, giving only two options really either to us ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Evaluation and SQL Express side-by-side?

  I have SQL Express installed on my desktop and want to install SQL Server Evaluation. Will these 2 clash or can they sit happily side-by-side I am also encountering this problem. I have attempted to uninstall the whole package and I could not even install after that. How do I get rid of SQLExpress ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Nested conditions in WIT definition

  I’m trying to make a field required when a double condition is true. Similar to this http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=402934&SiteID=1 , but instead of setting the allowed values based on a condition I want to make the field required or not. Something like: < FIELD refname = " A " > < WHEN field = " B " value = " 1 " > < WHEN field = " C " value = " 2 " > < REQUIRED /> </ WHEN > </ WHEN > </ FIELD > or < FIELD refname = " A " > ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies could some one comment the ExcelService.CalculationA1

  I think the CalculationA1 can calculate some thing base on the post ExcelService.CalculateA1 Method (Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.WebServices) However I don't know how to use it and what ' type of scenario could use it. Any suggestion The entire content about Excel Services extensibility is here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms517343.aspx You may want to take a look for some good context. Thanks, Danny ...Show All

• Visual Basic How can I use the controls implemented in XP?

  Hi everyone, The controls available in Visual Studio are very well written and function properly, but they look a little plain. I would like to know how can I import or use other controls, for example the nice shiny buttons in XP or the controls in Outlook. Also, if anyone knows a good book on how to write controls, which deals specifically with the subject, and explains the use of the tons of functions in the Control class, please let me know. Thanx! Take a look at http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/05/05/599.aspx You can enable XP theming by just adding a simple method call or a manifest file to your application. Hope this helps, ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DXUT-UI Callback-Method as Class Member

  Greetings everybody, I'm trying to add a User-Interface via the DXUT-GUI-API to my DirectX-Class. as you can guess I'm struck in the old Class-Member-as-Callback-won't work-Trap. Specifically I have the Problem with the Callback for the GUI-Elements (called "OnGUIEvent" in the CustomUI-Sample). I'm aware of the standard-Workaround of making the Method static and pass the this-Pointer via the Function-Arguments, but this seems to be impossible here as i cannot change the signature of the Callback-Method without Compiler-Errors. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first who faces this Problem and I'm keen to learn the Trick to master this. I really must have it in a class since my whole systems depends on classes and I have to make change ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Built in 360 Features When Deploying...

  I'm working on my entry for dream-build-play and since I don't have a 360 to test on, I wondered if there are any special things automatically available. The main one was the reconnect controller signal. Does that happen automatically with deployed games or is that up to the developers I already have a game component that sends out events when controllers disconnect and reconnect (for automatic pausing of the game), but wondered if I should bother putting text on the screen or if the Xbox will do it for me. Also, do I have to do anything for the case of a user playing music over mine Will it automatically get rid of just the music for me or is there a flag that I set somewhere Or do I have to detect that they started music and pause mine ...Show All

• Visual Studio Duplicate items are not supported by the "Resources" parameter error when building project

  Hello, While building our current project using Visual studio 2005 we stumbled on this error, === Error 16 The item "xxx" was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter. Duplicate items are not supported by the "Resources" parameter === we traced the issue down to resource file naming convention differences between Windows Vista and Windows XP ie, for a given form, if we include chinese traditional and chinese simplified resources, On Vista the resx files must be named with zh-HANS / zh-HANT , using zh-CHS/zh-CHT VS2005 will choke On XP the resx files must be named with zh-CHS/zh-CHT, using zh-HANS/zh-HANT VS2005 will choke This is really causing trouble, as we develop both in XP and ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Compare Rational Suite with VSTS

  Is there any good documentation comparing Rational Suite to VSTS I need this for a management descision. Hi Jason, I give you some post in where can you read about this camparing. http://softwareeng.blogspot.com/2004/05/rational-vs-ms-team-system.html Bao! ...Show All