Alex Yakhnin - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Show off your website and/or game!

  As part of our effort to reach out to the XNA community, we would like to create a special community page on the XNA Developer Center that links to YOUR site, game, or blog. Here's what you need to do, send me (David Weller) an email (click on my name link to the left of this post for the email address) telling me: 1) Your name 2) Your contact email 3) Your website or game (or blog) 4) (Optionally) If you send me a link to your game, please let us know if you give Microsoft permission to use your game as part of any press-related activities we might do (i.e., incorporate a screenshot/video of your game, etc.). Please don't reply to this post with links to your site/game, I need the information emailed to me. Thanks! ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. ShadeMode?

  Is there a meanning for setting the ShadeMode from inside a Shader .fx file The shading technique done in the vertex shader and pixel shader functions, so setting the shadmoe will not have any effect on the renedring result Thanks in advance. Then why does the FillMode have an effect on the rendering result If I set the FillMode to WireFrame, the rendering will be wireframe. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums #msnb_toolbar_full_name# (HELP)

  im new here and have this same problem havent been able to find the answer in here probable here some where but not that great on comps. :( any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks ...Show All

• Windows Forms H/VScrollBar Scroll Event Issue

  I needed to scroll something on a panel, so I added an HScrollBar and a VScrollBar. But I'm having a problem with the scroll event. Private Sub HorizScrollBar_Scroll(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ScrollEventArgs) Handles HorizScrollBar.Scroll Console.WriteLine("HorizScrollBar.Value: " & HorizScrollBar.Value) 'Canvas.Location = New Point(-HorizScrollBar.Value, Canvas.Location.Y) End Sub The problem I'm having is that the event doesn't seem to be firing at the right time. I press down on the bar and slide it to the right and I see the following output, for example: CanvasHorizScrollBar.Value: 191 CanvasHorizScrollBar.Value: 196 CanvasHorizScrollBar.Value: 201 CanvasHorizScrollBar.Value: 203 CanvasHorizScrol ...Show All

• Windows Forms Add scrollBar in Windowsform

  I have to add scroll bar in windowsform for which i check property of the form and allowscroll property to true, windowsstate prpperty is to be maximized but when i increase height of form more than 780 then it can not increase, i can not understand why it can not allow me to increase form height if any body know then pl help its urgent AllowScroll property of the form works only when the control contents are larger than the visible area of the form. If you want a big form(bigger than 780) , check this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=642754&SiteID=1 Hope this helps. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Controls of my dlg do not have XP style.

  Hi all, Its dialog based MFC application. My problem is, controls in my dialog do not have XP style. But in VC++ IDE's design mode, all buttons, edit boxes have XP style. I hope you understood what I asked, otherwise send me your mail-id I can send dialog's appearance in BMP image format. Thanks. :) Purusothaman A You are missing a manifest for your application See using Windows XP Visual Styles ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ActivateService sometimes fail

  Hi, I've developed a service component that runs under Services.exe. I also have a user interface to control the service. To start the Service I write the necessary information to the key HKLM\Services\MyService and call ActivateService (ActivateService(TEXT("MyService"), 0)). This works fine for most of the time but occationally it fails with the result code 87(ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER). I flushed the registry just before the call to ActivateService but that made no difference. I set the Flags registry value to DEVFLAGS_LOADLIBRARY but still no success. What's going on here I fails approximately one time of twenty. DeregisterService on the other hand never fails. I can't find any information about this, but surely I can't be t ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums VB-API

  I want to write a program which can change the text in the column ( Normally shows which song you are listening). How can i do this in VB Which api should i use Thanks ~ ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Handling events in a multi-form application

  I'm trying to write a .NET CF 2.0 application that behaves a little like the built-in Calendar application, in that the main form has multiple views with very different contents. In fact, in my application the four views are so different that I'd like to implement them as four different forms, so that I can use the Visual Studio designer to layout and script each one separately. This also allows me to completely close the forms I'm not using so that they're not taking up memory. Taking some inspiration from the FormStack sample code, I replaced the usual call to Application.Run() with a custom routine that does: do {     Application.DoEvents(); } while (MainForm != null); ...along with code and event handlers to make sure t ...Show All

• Visual Studio COMException:The device is not ready .NET 2

  Hi Visual Studio 2005, Wdows 2003 Sever, SQL Express 2005 I am developing an admin area for a website which includes 2 crystal reports. I have them working fine on my developement machine; but when the wesite is run on our testing server I get the following error. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The device is not ready. Source Error: Line 85: Line 86: Dim Cnn As New SqlConnectionStringBuilder(adapter.ConnectionString) Line 87: CrystalReportSource1.ReportDocument.Load(ReportPath) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can only see html

  I try to open a m-html (49 mb) document in visual web developer 2005 express edition. The document is created in powerpoint 2003 on my own computer and I open it from the desktop. I can only see text (no design, no pictures ...) and get this notice (first in danish then in my own translation): "Dette dokument er en webside i en fil. Det kaldes ogsa en webarkivfil. Hvis du kan se denne meddelelse, skyldes det, at webbrowseren eller editoren ikke understotter webarkivfiler. Hent en webbrowser, der understotter webarkivfiler, f.eks. Microsoft Internet Explorer." "This document is a one-file webpage. It's called a webarchivefile. If You can see this announcement, it is because the webbrowser or the editor does not su ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies documents per view

  Hi,   I have a webpart that shows me the nr of documents of a library that have a certain view. The user can enter a certain view, wicht exists for that library, and then it shows the # of documents that view has. If the view has a filter, and it shows 2 of the 3 documents of the library, then i want my result only 2. Now I can only make this happen if the user selects this view as the Current View, but I want this result also when the user has not selected this view as current. So what I actually try to achieve is when, in Sharepoint, you go to your Document Library, and choose on a certain view, i want the list of the documents that are in that view. Here's my code so far, does anybody have a clue Thanks in adva ...Show All

• Visual Basic Emulating VB6 Textbox arrays on Windows forms

  My apologies to anyone reading this for a second time - I might have put it in the wrong forum earlier. I like entering data into text boxes on a form, rather than using a datagrid. I like to have the use of the Enter and arrow keys to navigate from one box to another. Doing this in VB6 was easy. All it took was making the textboxes part of an array, then this subroutine took care of the business (the actual routine also takes care of the arrow keys - I have removed the coding to keep it short). Private Sub Text1_KeyDown(Index As Integer, keycode As Integer, ShiftCode As Integer) Select Case keycode Case Is = vbKeyReturn Index = Index + 1 If Index > Text1.Count - 1 Then I ...Show All

• Visual Studio MS SQL 2005 RS

  What would I gain for the SQL Reporting Services if I purchased the Visual Studio 2005 Pro or higher Does it give me any extra tools or anything for the Reporting Services for SQL 2005 Reporting VS that comes with SQL 2005 does not have C# or VB projects, or the corresponding Report Designer. The Report Designer included in SQL 2005 only creates RDLs that can be published to a Report Server. It doesn't create RDLCs (for local processing.) ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Whats the Scenario?

  Dear all A state machine workflow can have many states lets say a,b,c. Now its possible that in a state i can define one more state machine workflow like a -- d ,e,f can any one tell the scenario where this may be required. The reason that we allow this is for defining common event handling logic for states d, e and f. For example, suppose that you want to be able to accept a "Cancel" event in all 3 states. Instead of having to define the "Cancel" event handler in d, e and f, you can simply drop an EventDriven activity in A and define the cancel logic there. ...Show All