YWLMB's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Trying to pass a cubemap.dds to a fx shader

  I have been playing with these shaders: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/Goal_3___Environment_Mapping.asp and I have got these shaders up and working in my engine, with the exception of 3 and 4, they light my model correctly, but they don't seem to be rendering the cube map I am giving them. The shader manages the cubemap like this: texture EnvironmentMap < string type = "CUBE"; string name = "lobbycube.dds"; >; samplerCUBE EnvironmentSampler = sampler_state { Texture = (EnvironmentMap); MipFilter = LINEAR; MinFilter = LINEAR; MagFilter = LINEAR; }; I load the cube map like this: private TextureCube myCube; myCube = myLoa ...Show All

• SQL Server Permissions for SSAS Service Account?

  Hi All, Please help with this. I'm running a server with Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition. On the box I've performed one named instance installation of SSAS. I've installed SP1 as well. There's no firewall running on the machine. My domain account is in the SSAS Server role. SSAS Service is running according to SQL Configuration Manager SQL Browser Service is running according to SQL Configuration Manager If I run both SSAS and SQL Browser under Local System, everything works OK. But this is not the way I want it, because it's not safe and SSAS is unable to read data from the remote SQL box. If I change the service account to a domain user account, I can't connect to SSAs anymore. The error mes ...Show All

• .NET Development Can not send the XML file through https://

  I m m using following code string fileName = "d:\\lead.xml" ; string uri = "https://myserver.com//lmb//LMB.aspx" ; req = WebRequest .Create(uri); req.Method = "POST" ; // Post method req.ContentType = "text/xml" ; // content type StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter (req.GetRequestStream()); writer.WriteLine( this .GetTextFromXMLFile(fileName)); writer.Close(); rsp = req.GetResponse(); ------------------- This works fine with if i use the string uri = http://myserver.com//lmb//LMB.aspx ; But when i use the secure connection i can not send the file also i have the SSL certificate Can someone helpme to sort this using post m ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem wiht NetworkStream.EndRead and Network.BeginRead

  Hi, I use the following sample code as a client to receive data form Server.The problem is Execption either happens at ns.EndRead or ns.BeginRead. The exception is IOException, inner exception is SocketException, and error code are 10038 or 10053 respectively. My questions are : Could network be used to communicate with a server using BSD socket API When new NetworkStream, is it necessary to set the owning flag to "true" As the connection was neither closed by client nor the server, who should be responsible for this error This happens not so frequently, but it is annoying. I am trying to have a look at the patches of .Net and monitoring the packets between server and client. can anyone give me some information ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creat and activate Child form

  Can anyone pls guide me how to creat and run form3 as child form of form1... pls do the needful. Thanks. I hope this article will tell you how to creat MDI more detail ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions storing a date

  i am trying to aquire the system date and time from a click event. i can get the date and time...how do i store that time for later...if i use the date.now.date it will run everytime and i will never reach the end date...i am using this for a trial period trigger and need to be able to reach that end date. anyone have any ideas on how it can be done. so now comes the big question....as this is protecting an excel file...and it can be saved outside of my program...is there a way i can have a 2nd form open automatically 30 days after the original load of the first form..weather the program is run or not on that day...this way i can have it do the check and search and if not registered i can search all the dri ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WCF and win98

  bit of a newbie here. According to the minimum Microsoft's requirements for running the WCF service "WCF can also be installed on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows Server 2003 SP1." Does this mean that windows 98 based clients would not be able to utilize the features of WCF - would this limit the people who could use the program I make only to the users that have Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows Server 2003 SP1 Hi, That restriction is only valid for the service side. The service expects a valid Soap Message (XML) that can be created on any client platform. You only need some support on that client platform to create a valid soap message. For instanc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Invokeworkflow with required parameters

  Dear All, I drop an InvokeWorkflowActivity to any workflow. If i'm in the designer, and set the TargetWorkflow property, the property browser show all public properties exposed by TargetWorkflow type and it's easy to set/bind them. But how can I make this binding mandatory Acually i've made a "child" workflow that needs some parameters, and it would be a good thing not to forget setup in design time. My original idea was to inherit from InvokeWorkflow and add a custom validator class, but since InvokeWorkflow is sealed this is no way.... What do you think is there a simple way or should i make a custom activity and using IStartWorkflow in Execute method... Than ...Show All

• Gadgets file is .gadget but IE downloads as .zip

  I have packed my gadget files in a zip file. I then changed the name to *.gadget. The icon changed to a gadget icon and double-clicking it installs it. I then uploaded the file to my webserver and it is there are a gadget file. I then linked to it as a gadget file. When I click that link it downloads a .zip file and asks where to save it rather than downloading as a gadget file and installing. What am i doing wrong Mime types.... seems obvious now. .gadget application/x-windows-gadget However, it still doesn't automatically install, but it does download as a gadget now. Any idea on getting an automatic install ...Show All

• Visual C# Writting a rolling file !

  I need to write to a rolling file - i will setup a limit for the file - let's say 10 MB. When the file reaches the limit - i will delete the first line and add one to the end. Can anyone give me a hint on this - is there any way to avoid String/StringBuilder on this 10x Exactly how do i delete a line using FileStream ahmedilyas wrote: Why would you want to do this if the file is 10MB, you will have to check the size of the file using one of the File/FileInfo classes, which lives in the System.IO namespace. if its 10MB, you can open the file, Seek to the last line and delete it and save it. Then you can Seek to the beginning and write there and save it however you will have some perf issues ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to get file info from drag and drop operation

  Hi, I want to be able to get the file info (path and file name) of any file (just one at a time) when it is being dragged onto a windows form in VB 2005. Is that possible, I have been searching and get various stuff back but I am confused. Has any one got a simple piece of advise or code for this Thanks in advance. Kim Private Sub Form1_DragOver( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles MyBase .DragOver e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Link Dim objData As Object Dim eFile as String objData = e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop) eFile = CStr (objData(0)) End Sub The filename will be placed in eFile variable. Dustin ...Show All

• Commerce Server About OrderGroup

  Hi Guys I am directly working with Basket object that is, adding forms into the basket and adding lineitems into the forms and saving it. its working fine .. But now i want to create a wish list(Favorite List) and order template, According to some blogs, OrderGroup is used as a template and wishlist and later that can be converted to basket and purchaseorder. How to create an basket from the OrderGroup . it will be very helpful for me.. But there is no option in OrderGroup class to save as basket.. What is the next step to proceed.. and alos what is core differcence between OrderGroup and Basket . then how the basket was diffrencted from the OrderGroup.. Please provide any link to study about more... Hi Joe I am goi ...Show All

• Visual C++ please help!

  I made a short program,when I then sent it to a freind without .net seted,my program didn't work on his PC giving the error: "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". I was wondering ,that's release. when I use .net2003 ago,there's no such error! thanks! Also with Visual C++ 2005 regular C++ programs (one's that don't use .NET) won't run on other computers unless you have installed the appropriate C/C++ runtime on the other computer. ...Show All

• .NET Development Tab Delimited Text File to DataTable DataType problem

  Hi All, I have a problem that I need help with and it has to do with Tab Delimited Text Files and a DataTable so I hope I have the right forum. I have a program written in C#2003 that receives data via the serial port from a Pic microcontroller. The data is added to a text file in a comma seperated format. Extra fields are added to allow for manual anotations. I have a third party grid control for grouping the information in cool ways that needs the information stored in a DataTable. Because of changes in what I am doing, the files are not stuctured the same and sometimes store 5000+ fields. Currently I have code that will read the text file and seperate the records and individual fields and drop it into a two dimensional string ...Show All

• SQL Server get first row first column value into a variable

  It is my second time on this forum Nice people managed to help me on my first thread. I am encouraged to proceed with you ! Well   I  have an Excel source that returns One row , two columns: what I want is get the value returned in  the first row - first colum into a variable so I can then execute sql tasks based on this filter parameter ! Can you guide me   Regards Jacques   Hi Again Jacques, Here is an entry of a previous post I did (you can read the whole thread at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=736614&SiteID=1 ) ---------------------------------- You may have more than one option here; I would try with a script ta ...Show All