xion.truth's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Other benefits of the creator's club

  I was hoping that another benefit of the creators club would be automatic acceptance to the http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/developer/default.htm xbox community developer program.  Is this a possibility   You can sign up for that now and its free, however they only except a small amount of people. They want quality of apps up so they are selective. To those who don’t know what the Community Developer Program is, it is a program that gives access to additional Xbox live user data, they have come up with thinks like Xbox 360 blogs and game score charts. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA windows and game input devices

  Ok perhaps I am a moron but if XNA lets you create a windows game then why does it seem that only one kind of gamepad will work with it ok so msft would love to sell 360's and the pads that work with them but.... come on ! I have a microsoft joystick and a logitech game pad that work just fine.... why not support standard gamepads not everyone wants an xbox pad, some kinds of games are better with a stick - like a flight sim and some users prefer them. why such a limited input option when the game is on a pc with so many input devices I am sure that an "adpater" could be written to map a std' input to the gamepad but since MSFT wrote DX and DInput and WIndows and XNA seems like they should have inclu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do you implement Fog into a scene?

  Hi All, I have finally got some 3D up and running so things are whizzing about (which is always fun to watch... for a while, yeah I know, small things...) and I was wondering if anyone had any examples of putting fog into a scene. I tried last night and succeeded in turning all my meshes to white, not matter how far away they were from the camera. No matter what I did to the values, nothing changed. As always, any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT wrote: As well as setting those device renderstates, you also need to compute the amount of fog in your vertex shader. Typically that will just be the distance from the camera, which you output using the FOG shader semantic, but you could use som ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System About warning C6258: Using TerminateThread does not allow proper thread clean

  Hi all, I am getting following warning while doing static code analysis - Warning 2 warning C6258: Using TerminateThread does not allow proper thread clean up 296 Code of line: TerminateThread(m_hThread, 0); Any help is appreciated . TerminateThread should only be called in an emergency situation since it does not clean up any memory, handles, and system resources owned by the thread in question. The only appropriate time to call it is when the application is shutting down and the thread is not responding. And even in that case, you need to know exactly what the thread is doing, and control all of the code that the target thread could possibly be running at the time of termination. ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS Host Assembly Resolving and parameter passing problem

  Hi, I need to pass some parameters to my template engine using VS host. I'm able to do it using TextTransform.exe tool, but now I need the same inside Visual Studio to have possibility run transformation from Vs as well as from command line. I check the code of TextTemplatingService.ResolveParameterValue and didn't find any way how link VSProject properties to template parameters. I think this is a valuable feature when you whant to change the behaivor of templates based on Configuration (Debug, Release), for an instance. Probbaly I just failed to find it. And second problem is assembly reference resolving. I'm able to specify the path where looking for my assembly when using TextTransform.exe tool and not able to specify it for VS ...Show All

• Visual C# Moving from procedural to OO

  I have been coding in C for upwards of 4 years now and a friend of mine has brought to my attention that a lot of employers now want their programmers to use OO instead of procedural. I have gotten a book on Java and 2 on C# (one on the basics and one on network programming), but I must say this OO thing isn't really catching with me. I am still in high school, so I don't have much time on my hands, but do any of you have any good resources on how to relate OO to procedural, or to just make it a bit understandable Thanks its not always necessary but make it meaning and short and sweet. like if we have a private member (variable) called "name" then the property should be "TheName" or "Name". The choice ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to deploy one project to multiple servers...

  I am using the database professional to create a generic DB that I have a copy of on two different servers with the exact same database code (procedures, functions, tables, etc.) and I was wondering how I can use one project to make all my changes and then deploy those changes to each of the two servers using the deploy functionality rather then do a schema comparison for each of the different servers and then running a seperate script on each server. Is there a way to package the comparison engine in an executable Our database schema is part of a COTS product we supply and support. We do not have direct access to our customers databases. Additionally, not every change to the db is implemented at every lo ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance problem: SSAS 2005 + ProClarity

  Hi, I am facing a performance problem. Here is my scenario: I am using ProClarity to create reports/graphs by connecting to ssas 2005. These are not dynamic graphs but are created beforehand in proclarity and accessed by users. The graphs enable drill-down/drill-up features. My Cube contains: 1 MeasureGroup 4 Measures 7 calculated measures 4 dimensions ( 1 time dimension: date) dimension partition count: 1,095 4,018 8 453 4,018 (hierarchy) 11 (hierarchy) 7 (hierarchy) 5 hierarchies in time dimension 1 hierarchy in other dimension 1 partition, partition count: 33,574 (current) partition size : 708.4 kb storage: MOLAP Partition aggregations: 15 current performance gain: 51% This cube is processed manually and appx of ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I need help with game screenshots

  I just created a demo of pong and i put it on threesixbox.com, but I want to have a screenshot of my game so people can see what it looks like before they download it. I really don't know how to do it, and I was wondering if anyone know. Thanks. Another way to save screenshots is to use a screencap program. In fact, some programs will even allow you to capture a video of your gameplay, but the resulting file size is half a gig for just 30 seconds of footage. See, e.g., www.fraps.com ...Show All

• Windows Forms transfer data between/to forms

  Hi,i have designed a application to handle employyees details.I got 3 forms I got 1 form to add a employee,1 form to delete and 1 form to update employee details. For each,form, i got a 'private void connectToDataBase()' method to establish aconnection to the database. Is it possible to have 1 form initially to handle the connection.......and then the rest of the forms make use of that conection Hope some-one knows how to do this. Thanx alot. Rahul The same question is asked on this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1258143&SiteID=1 It is not a "connect to database" sharing that is discussed there, but rather a "sharing data". The ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums CRM 3.0 Error: Subreport could not be shown

  I have a user that is getting the error "Error: Subreport could not be shown" when doing a report for a quote. She can do a report for an order but just not for the quote. I tried logging her in with different computer and get the same result so I think it is at the server level. Please give me some direction on what to do next. Thanks Try opening a copy of the report inside SQL BI Studio and checking for field level length limitations that might blow up due to longer than expected values in the actual database. I found this same exact error in the Account Overview report and it was caused by the phone number field in the report being restricted to 13 digits when the string value of th ...Show All

• SQL Server SSAS re-deployment failed after import - blank error description.

  Hi, I have created a new project using the "Import Analysis Services 9.0 Database" from the server and moved the project to my local pc (not connected to the server) in order to use the metadata. I can't deploy the new project on my pc to the local AS database. BI studio says: Deployment failed The following system error occured: . (only a dot) Can I get hint First see if your local Analysis Server is runing. Try connecting to it using SQL Management Studio. Second. Right click on on the solution in BI Dev studio -> Properties->Deployment. Check out the server name. To deploy to your local machine you can use machine name or localhost as a sever name. Edward Melomed. -- This posting is pr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) NegotiateCleintCredentials = false with wshttpbinding / message security / client credential type = windows

  on the same machine. server side : <endpoint contract="MyService.IMyService" binding="wsHttpBinding" address ="/securedmessagenonegotiation/" bindingConfiguration ="securedmessagenonegotiation"> <identity> <userPrincipalName value =" i-enrics@x.com"/ > </identity> </endpoint> .... <binding name ="securedmessagenonegotiation"> <security mode ="Message"> <message clientCredentialType ="Windows" negotiateServiceCredential="false"></message> </security > </binding> ........... I run svcutil so that on the clien ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Status of XNAExtras?

  I was bummed to hear that Gary Kacmarcik (author of XNAExtras) had left Microsoft. His blog was very interesting and informative (and still is, but ). XNAExtras is a very useful library. I see lots of opportunities to use it in my own work, but I'm hesitant to do so because I'd like to enter some of these programming contests and eventually have a commercial product. Can anyone from Microsoft clarify the status of library from a licensing perspective Is it under a similar usage license as the starter kits Can a user fork it as a project in codeplex The source files contain a copyright line, but no other info on licensing terms. That's a bummer, Gary. As I mentioned in an email exchange with you ear ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office [Outlook 2003 addin] : Problem for displaying the icon of a button in a custom command bar

  Hello all, I have made a simple button with an icon for Outlook 2003 in a custom commandBar with Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 with VOTS installed. My problem is : the icon is not printed and throw an exception on the client test computer, but is well printed on my dev computer. The Outlook on dev PC and client test PC are both an Outlook 2003. I have read an article saying that I have to include manually a reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll. I have tried many ways to load the Bitmap, but It seems that it is when I assign the Bitmap to my button that the problem occurs. MonBouton.Picture = (IPictureDisp)AxHost2.GetIPictureDispFromPicture(Image.FromStream(imageStreamPicture)); My images ress ...Show All