Jordan111's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Working with buffers in 2D

  Hello all, I've been trying to figure out how the system with backbuffers work. In all examples I have found people are clearing the buffer before they draw something new. graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.Black); ...draw some sprites... graphics.GraphicsDevice.Present(); I guess that when you enter the Draw method you are working with the backbuffer, so the clear() and the sprite draw() will affect the backbuffer. After that you call the Present() to draw the recently made backbuffer on the screen. My problem is that this is not how I would like to do it in my case. Everytime I enter the Draw() method I would only like to add some new things, and not clear anything. The easiest way to do this is to not have any backbuffer at all, but I ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Building Mechs for Mechcommander 2

  Hello, I'm new around here so it this post is in the wrong place point me in the right direction. I'm a big fan of MechCommander 2. I have seen on another site where some one has built mechs for the game as addons. I like to try to build a few. What programs would I need to do this Thanks for any help offered. Donald I do not remember the version but it was the version current when MC2 came out. The game can import the objects by itself; they have to be declared correctly and put onto a map using the editor; the ase files are transformed into the correct files in the tgl folder. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2D Direct3D Sprite Rotation (such a basic problem :( )

  Sup,   ( sorry in advance for the poor written quality and the dumb n00bish question, I'm at work and not supposed to be onthe internet. There's a lot of quick alt-tabbing going down when the boss is about!! Gotta be quick) Right, I'm getting well annoyed with this; I have found various sites on the internet that describe how to succesfully use sprites in Managed D3D (and c#) and perform transforms on them... I just can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone know of a simple bit of code (not pseudo) that creates a sprite class, rotates it and then places it at coords x,y on the screen I keep getting wierd results and would be unbelievably gratefull for a just a simple implementation. All of the examples (*and there arent man ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help!

  How do i locate and set permissions on registries I have a problem with setting up any data source connection in VS2005 i'm getting the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.EnterpriseServices.Wrapper.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. I have read that this is caused by conflicting permissions on registries: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=179707&SiteID=1 I did what the forum said and got back the registry causing the problem it is : {3DC0F2B5-CDD4-A326-9F26-BD835749B4CD} How do I locate this and set the permissions on it ...Show All

• .NET Development Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 driver error on Win2003 SP1 & SQL2005 April CTP

  Hi folks, We've got SQL2005 April CTP i64 running on Win2003 with SP1 appied (Itenium Proc).  Last week, one of developer sent me an email with error msg, : Msg 7403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" has not been registered. I ran Component Checker against that box and it found that MDAC2.8 with SP2 installed.  I also found from MS site that Jet 4.0 SP8 i64 version available but the installation aborted due to newer version installed on the box.  I am stucked.  Any advice would be appreciated. Sunny If I remember correctly, the Jet OLE DB Provider is not included in MDAC 2.8.  You can download and install the Jet OLE DB Provider from ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can i solve the mapping mode problem?

  Hi All, Which map mode would be support for all type of printers like compaq,hp officejet,cannon,......IF you know , let me know immediately.. Thankx in Advance ...Show All

• Windows Forms remote desktop connection

  Hi, I was able to connect to a remote PC using remote desktop connection. I have configured the rdp file to start a batch file upon connection on the Programs tab. While it connects to the remote PC, it did not start the batch file upon connection. Is it because of some settings on the remote PC Is there another way to remote login to a PC, run a batch on that PC and then close the connection when the batch has been completed Thanks WilcoxChan This forum is NOT for Windows trouble-shooting questions: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=152532&SiteID=1 acturaly you may get more answers from related forum ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to: Implement aggregates with GridView and Grouping

  I'm trying to create a sort of Outline Grid. Where you can group and the Grouped item contains the sum. Eventually I need to include a Min and Max for dates. +/-Group1 20 50 item1 10 40 item2 10 10 I was thinking that extending the CollectionView and CollectionViewGroup might work, but before traveling down that long road I figure I'd see if anyone has had experience with this sort of thing. The goal is so that when you're creating the GroupItem style, you'll be able to reference ItemSum, just like ItemCount that currently exists. There is still an issue as to what column you need to sum, which I haven't really thought out yet. The other issue is that I'll need the group data to refresh when the item data changes. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions links

  well i need two things done .. Number one i need a link from one application to another and then a link to a folder ..id appreciate button links aswell. This is my code... Where do i enter the data .. cos i am new to c++ ya see :P #pragma once namespace RhysDurham { using namespace System; using namespace System::ComponentModel; using namespace System::Collections; using namespace System::Windows::Forms; using namespace System::Data; using namespace System::Drawing; /// <summary> /// Summary for Form1 /// /// WARNING: If you change the name of this class, you will need to change the /// 'Resource File Name' ...Show All

• .NET Development Validating Xml with the longer form of EndElement fails

  ' First create Xml document (Visual Studio .NET 2003 VB) Dim oXmlDocument As New System.Xml.XmlDocument oXmlDocument.LoadXml("<Trees><Oak TreeType=""deciduous""></Oak></Trees>") oXmlDocument.Save("Trees.xml") ' .NET save xml document with spaces <Trees> <Oak TreeType=""deciduous""> </Oak> </Trees> ' Because there is spaces between <Oak ...> and </Oak> validation against an xsd schema will now fail. Complains about white space. ' However, if the endelemnt </Oak> was removed and we closed the orginal Oak like this: <Trees> <Oak TreeType=""deciduous""/> </Trees> ' Validation succeeds. How can this be ' validation code Dim oXMLReader As ...Show All

• Windows Forms Usercontrol inheritance stopped working in designer (VS 2005)

  Hi all.. I am creating an application that uses UserControl inheritance. I declared the base UserControl as abstract and derived from it 5 forms exist. When I used the designer, I could see visually all of the inherited controls. Until now. I don't know what happened but when I try to see any inherited control in the designer, the following error is shown : The designer must create an instance of type 'Gama.Tablas.Maestras' but it cannot because the type is declared as abstract. I haven't done any code change to the inherited forms. I tried by exiting VS and running it again, and the same happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think it is unuseful to post the code, because it is the same code VS creates when a new ...Show All

• Visual Basic ASP.NET LOGIN VIA SQL SERVER

  Hi, Where can I find info on using role based login via sql server (Not Active Directory) for asp.net 2.0 I used the patterns an practices book for asp.net 1.1 but I am quite sure they may have changed a few things. Thanks There were alot of changes in asp.net. Take a look at the membership provider. Check out lesson 9 in the videos on this page . ...Show All

• Customer Care Framework Help Needed ASAP - admin console unable to connect to CCF Server the server does not exist or access is denied

  Im getting this message when trying to followup the step of running the ccf admin console from the mmc, refrence to page: 43 in the deployement guide of ccf 2005 .net 2.0: admin console unable to connect to CCF Server the server does not exist or access is denied the guide states as follows:   CCF 2005 .NET 2.0 Deployment Guide wrote: CCF Settings You may wish to adjust the general settings of CCF (available in the Options table of ContactCenter database) to suit the deployment environment.  Follow the steps given below to do the same.  Refer to Appendix – A for all available settings of CCF and their significance. Machine: CCF client machine. Login User: Member of CCFAdmins group. 1.&nbs ...Show All

• SQL Server Problum during sub total

  When I used this below expression for a calculation, I was not able to calculate the inbuilt feature supported by SSRS for calculating "Sub Total". When I have values for both numerator and denominator then "Sub total" is working fine. =Iif(Fields!Approved.Value AND Fields!Total_Apps.Value AND Fields!Total_Apps.Value <> 0, Sum(Fields!Approved.Value)/Sum(Fields!Total_Apps.Value), "0.00" ) Actually I used the above "IIF" statement to avoid "NaN" problem. Please help me to sort this issue. Regards Durai This could be a data type issue. The Sum() function will reurn a number where as "0.00" is a string. Also in the condition section you are ...Show All

• SQL Server Lookup problem

  I have a problem related to execution of a lookup in a transformation script in SQL server 2000 DTS package. I have a lookup that launches a stored procedure: EXECUTE TableID , output This lookup is executed from a script like this: Dim newID as integer DTSLookups("GetNewID").Execute "string_data", newID The problem is that the second parameter (it is an output parameter) is unchanged althghough it is changed in the stored procedure Any suggestions Thank you, Gabyx The Execute method won't assign a value to newID. It returns a value, or array of values. Try this: Dim newID as integer newID = DTSLookups("GetNewID").Execute "string_data", n ...Show All