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Windows Live Developer Forums Activities- Sharing common State between users
Hi again folks. I need help with another dev topic: sharing state between user of an msn activity I'm developing right now. It's a 2-player card game, that I've modeled in C#, using stateful objects, retaining info like the name, order and puntuation of each player, cards played by each player, and stuff like that. That stuff changes according to each player's action. I need to "share" somehow that states, letting me to update each user' screen info, and so on. Excuse me for my poor English, if anything in the question is not clear, just tell me and I'll do my best to explain that better. Thanks in advance. Rod. ...Show All
Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Using Point cloud data in DirectX
I need to incorporate point cloud data denerated by a 3D LASER scanner into my DirectX app. Can anyone help me with this problem I'm also looking for a program to convert .slt (StereoLithography) files to .X (DirectX mesh) files. Details of the problem-- I have point cloud data files of some 3D archeological models. These files were generated by a 3D scanner. Data is contained in a textfile which contains x,y and z coordinates of points saparated by space. Each point is listed on a saparate line eg. x y z 1.0000 1.2444 1.4556 2.0000 2.3333 4.7789 Now i want to display this data usinng DirectX without converting it to mesh. ...Show All
.NET Development exception connecting to self hosted singletone server: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
hi, I used WCF to implement a self hosted singletone server. When I try to execute an operation from the client I immediately receive the above communication exception. Error code 10054. SocketErrorCode ConnectionReset. The code for the server is : Uri baUri = new Uri ( http://localhost:8080/AutoCalcServer ); CallSCGServer svcObj = new CallSCGServer (); using ( ServiceHost serviceHost = new ServiceHost (svcObj,baUri)){ try { serviceHost.Open(); Console .WriteLine( "The service is ready." ); Console .WriteLine( "Press <Enter> to quit." ); Console .ReadLine(); serviceHost.Close(); } catch ( TimeoutException timeProblem){ ...Show All
.NET Development Instantiating Remote Object as a new Process
Hello, I have a question regarding remoting objects and their instantiation on the server side. Can remote object be instantiated as a new process on the server side my remote object takes up heavy-duty calculations and i want for each of the clients that connect to the server to have a new process for their instantiated remote object on the server. Currently the server has one process on which many clients run, but i want to seperate each client's remote object process as well. any input would be greatly appreciated! Hi Nuri, Thanks a lot for your reply! Just a silly question; I'm not familiar with *thread* instantiating for remoting object. Is that multi threading ...Show All
Visual Basic Test for Web Availability
I need to test for availability using a test site such as http://www.ABC123.com/test.htm that returns <html><head><title>TEST</title></head><body><p>TEST</p></body></html> I've tried the My...download but it fails when their is no web access ( the try and catch mechanism doesn't catch the failure). so... if something( http://www.ABC123.com/test.htm ) then ... else ... end if Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think you'll have to use a different object to control the timeout... The HttpWebRequest object lets you specifiy the time out: Dim success As Boolean Dim wc As System.Net.HttpWebRequest Dim ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ImageBrush with video
Hello all, I know how to brush an object with an image: Brush: <ImageBrush Stretch="Fill" x:Key="elipse1Brush"> <ImageBrush.ImageSource> <BitmapImage CacheOption="OnLoad" CreateOptions="IgnoreImageCache" UriSource="building.jpg"/> </ImageBrush.ImageSource> </ImageBrush> Object: <Ellipse Fill="{DynamicResource elipse1Brush}" Stroke="{x:Null}" x:Name="movieElipse_" Width="347" Height="187" Canvas.Left="105" Canvas.Top="70" TextElement.Foreground="{x:Null}" AllowDrop="False"> <Ellipse.BitmapEffect> <DropShadowBitmapEffect/> ...Show All
Visual Basic textboxes
how would a make a text box so that it would only accept certain characters like numbers or letters or make it so it will only accept 0s and 1s Try the examples and play with them, you'll find you can include and exclude whatever characters you want. The best way is to try each code snippet and play around with it a little. Experiment and modify to meet your purposes. ...Show All
SQL Server SCHEMABINDING and Partitioning
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could tell me why I am unable to switch data out of a partitioned base table when an indexed view is created on it... obviously SQL 2005 rules state the view schema bound to the base table so the base table cannot have any schema changes applied to it ie column name data types ect. But the odd thing here is that as far as I know a scheme boundary really isn’t a schema value depended option. In other words it doesn’t affect the schema result of the base table at all. It only affects the data segregations and potential location right so with that said. if you had created a base table and applied a partition scheme to it then later created an indexed view on that base(now partitioned) table (additionally t ...Show All
Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) XAML caching issues
Whenever I change the contents of a WPFE XAML file I have to delete the previously cached file from the Temporary Internet Files directory in order to see the change reflected in the browser. Is this a known issue I’m using IE 7, but Firefox seem to have the same problem. Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot! /Billy PS: For debugging purposes, I attempted to write a console app that would automatically remove all the XAML files in the Temporary Internet Files directory upon recompiling my solution. However, since that directory isn’t an actual directory but rather an “illusion” provided by the Windows shell, this is not an easy thing to do. I'm having the same proble ...Show All
.NET Development checking logged in user priviledges
i have an app that works fine when a user logged in has admin priviledges but not when they are logged in as a guest. anyway that i can check to see if logged in user has admin priviledges using c# and framework 2 I am not sure I can follow now. So do you mean that checking if an account belongs to a specific group does not work Or are you asking why your application does not work with an account that has no administrative privileges ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Customize Team Project Creation
In the past, our team has stored items in Source Safe that weren't necessarily associated with a project we'd created in Visual Studio. With the source control in Team Foundation Server, we'd like a separate top-level folder where certain project artifacts (executable utilities, documents, etc...) not associated with a Visual Studio 2005-created project could be managed under source control. Is there a recommended way for this to be done using source control in TFS Again, the key is that we'd ideally like a shared top-level file rather than having to put these shared items under a team folder that was tied specifically to projects in Visual Studio. Thanks, David Madrian Moving this to th ...Show All
Visual C# Error code: 0xe0434f4d
Hey, I am using .net Framework 3.0 at home, and my program works successfully, no problems to launch. However at my school where they are using .net Framework 2.0 it fails to launch Here is a screenshot: Here is my Program.cs using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace FilmScript { static class Program { public static Form1 form = null; public static newProject newProj = null; public static String ProjectTitle = String.Empty; public static String ProjectAlreadyLoaded = "NO"; /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> [STAThread] static void Main() { Application.EnableVi ...Show All
Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What does OptimisticConcurrencyMemberConflict.Resolve() actually do?
In the DLINQ Overview for C# document, in the OCCR section, there is an Example 6 on page 67-68 (physical, not Word numbered). In that example, there is a try/catch around the first SubmitChanges() call. In that catch, the code enumerates through the OptimisticConcurrencyException.Conflicts collection. The code then calls the Resolve() method on each Conflict. Then it enumerates through each Conflict's collection of OptimisticConcurrencyMemberConflict objects. If a member conflict object has the HaveModified flag set to false, it then calls the Resolve() method on that member conflict. I have two questions. 1. What is the member conflict's Resolve method actually doing From what I can detect, it is doing nothing. You might want t ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot create a new project/solution
My environment: Windows XP sp2, all patches from WindowsUpdate are installed. I just installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, version 8.0.50727.42. I also installed the Platform SDK, if that matters. I have a user account "Administrator" that I do not use much. If I launch Visual C++ from that account, it seems to work OK. I have another user account that I use heavily. When I launch Visual C++ from this user account, I cannot create a new project/solution. If I try, I get a large error dialog box that states "Project and solution names cannot: contain any of the following characters ..." But the project and solution name that I choose is always completely innocuous. I have tried Hello, HellowWorld, and He. ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Opening a .chm file using Visual C# 2005 express
Hey, ummm, I make a .chm help file for my program but there is a problem I cant fugure out how to make it open it...I added it to the project, and make it copy itself to the output folder, but now how would I amke it open the help file Thanks :) Process is in the System.Diagnostics namespace. System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(" filename.chm" ); how may also wish to look at this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWindowsFormsHelpClassShowHelpTopic2.asp which would be better practice thread moved to the appropriate forum ...Show All