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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do I load a 3d mesh (.x file)?

  How do I load a .x mesh into my scene The space game seems to use its own format (which it names .swm), and there's nothing in the help. I've been scanning through through the classes in the Framework namespace, but I can't see anything obvious! Is .x the recommended format for objects like this (If not, I change my question to be about the recommended format :D) If anyone knows anywhere that has some nice .x meshes I can play with, that'd be cool too. The only one I have lying around is a chair, and that's going to look a bit funny running around my game :D There's a human mesh in the DirectX SDK content. As for loading it, there some content pipeline stuff on the XNA Team Blog you might want to ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding to a non string - possible?

  Hey all, If I have something like this in my data template :- <Rectangle Fill="{Binding Path=Color}" . . . And Color comes from :- private Color color; public Color Color { get { return color; } set { color = value; } } It won't work. But if I change the type from Color to String, it works. That's sorta ugly. Is this a Binding restriction that the type can only be String Thanks in advance. Blast! That failed because Fill needs a Brush and I used a Color :-( As a note to other beginners, if you really need to use a Color property, then you'd need to write a converter class (derived from IValueConverter) that'd convert the Color to a Brush. ...Show All

• Windows Forms updateable view ado.net sql server

  Have any body use updateable view ado.net sql server . That is for example you have bind a grid with update able view[which comprises of multiple tables] Then you update data via updateable view. ...Show All

• .NET Development Update Typed dataset with code

  I am able to get records updated on this form as long as I type in each field in the form. If I use my code to edit entries, records are not updated. What do i need to add to my code to let the text fields know that their content have been changed Here is how I am trying to save the data to the dataset: Thanks Jon Stroh if (recnum != 0) { FB7MobileDBDataSet . LineItemRow CurentRow = fB7MobileDBDataSet.LineItem.FindByRecNum(recnum); amountTextBox.Text = str; CurentRow.Horsename = hrsnameStr; This value comes from another form CurentRow.Procedure = descStr; this value comes from another form as well CurentRow.Rate = Convert .ToDecimal(rateStr); etc. CurentRow.Qty = Convert .ToInt32(qtyStr); CurentRow.Amount ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Using IProcessInitializer

  Hi, We are currently trying to use IProcessInitializer in our COM+ components in order to perform some preparation/cleanup of resources when dllhost is loaded/unloaded. We can't find too much actual information about people using it so it's a bit hard to try and figure out how it works. We are running on Windows XP SP2 using Delphi 7 (not .NET, it's for a standard win32 COM+ dll component). I know it's not VS but... my problem is not related to the development platform as far as I know. When reading the type library of comsvcs.dll, in XP SP2, there is no such interface as IProcessInitializer. However it is present in the same file in Windows 2003... Technically, according to the MSDN articles, it should be here starting from Windows 2000. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Loading a mesh then rotating it about x and y axis

  Hi, I have a mesh, xwing.x, which is a simple x wing model. I am able to load it onto my form and display it w/ the following code: LoadMesh("C:\\xwing.x", ref spacemesh, ref spacemeshmaterials, ref spacemeshtextures, ref spacemeshradius); This is my render method: public void RenderScene() { device.Clear(ClearFlags.Target, Color.DarkSlateBlue, 1.0f, 0); device.BeginScene(); //Draw Mesh for (int i = 0; i < meshmaterials.Length; i++) { device.Material = meshmaterials ; device.SetTexture(0, meshtextures ); mesh.DrawSubset(i); } device.EndScene(); device.Present(); } Next, I would like to know how to rotate my model about the x and y axis. I was ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista XPS and StartDoc

  I was trying my application on the latest Beta 2 release of Vista and found some weird features when writing out to XPS. In my application the user has the option of going into a print layout window. This layout window allows the user to place the desired application related objects on pages for printing. When the user goes into the dialog, I go create a printerDC based on the default printer and hang on to that DC until the user closes the layout window or changes to a different printer. While in this dialog, the user can change how the objects are layed out and print at any time. Inside I call startDoc with just the application name and when saving to an XPS the first time, the XPS file is generated successfully. If I write to a di ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Will there be a clear XNA to XBLA path?

  Ok, A direct question that I am expecting will receive a 'wait and see' response from you guys at MS, but I'll ask anyhow... Given that many indies looking at XNA/GSE right now might be aspiring to get something published on the Live Arcade, and possibly making a decision between C++/DirectX and XNA, do you have a clear path planned to get XNA content available on XBLA And if so, would the user be required to have a HDD (yes, I have read the FAQ) Andy. This is one of the scenarios we want to support and make easier for those who want to make that transition. You're right, you'll have to wait and see for the details of how it's accomplished, but know that it is an important topic for us. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Inconsistent 2-tier TFS installation after SP1

  First I installed the Team Foundation SP1 RTM on the application-tier and after that succeeded I went to the database tier. But I'm not able to install the service pack on it. Somewhere the installation stops and hopefully reverts it's changes. The lock-down of the SQL server through the "TFS_Quiescence" still stays. There some manuall task to revert this and the SQL server is accessable again. Now we can't get any source code anymore because there is always an error which says that an incopatible version is installed: "Detailed Message: TF53018: The application tier MY-SERVER is attempting to connect to a data tier with an incompatible version.". Could somone please help me, I really need to access the source. Is it ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting the mouse position in screen coordinates using C++ (no .net)

  Hi, I'm quite new to DirectX, and C++... I'll start with what I'm trying to acheive: I'm aiming to get a bunch of textured cubes on the screen, and for the user to be able to pick them up and move them around, using the mouse. I've got the cubes (well, squares at the moment), and I can get input from the mouse so that when the mouse moves the camera moves. However, in order for the user to pick up a specific cube, I need to know which one the mouse is over at that point in time, therefore I need to get the screen coordinates of the mouse. All I seem to be able to get at the moment is the change in x and y of the mouse since the last poll for input. If anyone can tell me how to do that that'd be great! I've read stuff about getting th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Numeric performance on 360

  A question for the framework/VM guys... I have ported one of my simpler benchmarks to the 360, and find that the numeric performance is running 5x slower than my 2.8GHz P4 desktop. Now I was expecting a drop in performance on the 360, allowing for the difference in CPU implementation (in order execution / branch prediction etc), but nothing like this magnitude! The benchmark simply transforms a source array of Vector4s to a destination array of Vector4s, using a 4x4 matrix. Have you guys done any benchmarking of pure numeric perf, and if so is this in line with what you get Andy. What's sad is that, traditionally, the PPC architecture has been better than Intel at FLOPS and lower latencies. How ...Show All

• Visual Studio help with basic crystal report query

  I am using this to connect to a database, run SQL query and view a report but not getting what i want.. I am sure that this is not the best way to do it but I am new to Crystal Reports.. can anyone tell me what's the best way to do it connection.DatabaseName = "TEL_DATA" ; connection.ServerName = "192.168.96.3" ; connection.UserID = "sa" ; connection.Password = "123456" ; IVReport.Load( "c:\\temp\\CrtRep.rpt" , OpenReportMethod .OpenReportByTempCopy); foreach (CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine. Table table in IVReport.Database.Tables) { // Cache the logon info block TableLogOnInfo logOnInfo = table.LogOnInfo; // Set the connection ...Show All

• SQL Server Errors using the uninstall tool - 'vs_uninst_betas'

  Hi Folks getting the following error message when using the tool and can get past it. i can email the error dialog to you if required, i just cant post it. the setup has encountered an unexpected error in data store. The action is RestoreSetupParams. The error is: Failed to read property installl ds Hi Mike I think a reformat may be in order! Thanks for all the help. By the way, would you know of a good article/thread on how to preform sql 2005 express back ups by any chance thanks again for all the help nick ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System monitoring w3wp.exe in a load test

  I'd like to monitor w3wp.exe memory usage on another machine through a load test. I see no ways of adding a counter of this sort. I do see that I can monitor committed bytes in use, which is fine, but I want to see that it's w3wp that's using that memory. Any ideas -Rob The counter you want is Process/Private Bytes Instance is w3wp. You may need to add additional instances for w3wp#1, w3wp#2, etc. You can add this to your IIS or ASP.NET counter set. Right-click on Counter Categories, Add Counter. Ed. ...Show All

• Visual Studio System Error &Hc0000005&

  On occassion, I'm having issues where the background compilation, or the normal user compilation, is giving me this error. Once I get it once in a solution, I get it continually. Immediately after this error is thrown, my method name and class name dropdowns on a .vb page show only "Empty." I can usually still build and test, but sometimes it will just end up in a neverending string of errors. I saw the KB article on ADDHANDLER and REMOVEHANDLER, but I don't have either of these in my solution yet. I'm using Visual Studio 2005, specifically, an ASP.NET Website written in VB.NET. Jonathan, ASP.NET sites are built using something other than MSBuild, and different compilers as well. You ...Show All