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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to draw an arc between two points

  Im trying to make an application in C# to draw an Visio Drawing. The problem is that I dont know how to implement the ElipticalArc statement in the .vdx file. Is there a way to draw an eliptical arc between two points and thru a control point with direct3d Any will do. Are you still in school If so just use whatever book your school uses to teach algebra. Ask your math teacher about this problem and he/she will likely be more than happy to help you. ...Show All

• SQL Server Certification Question

  Hi all, I am new to Sql Server 2005 I planning to take exam MCTP exam 70-445 is the cert 70-431 a pre-requisite for certs 70-445 and 70-446 Thanks and regards Currently, according to the 'official' Microsoft websites, 431 is NOT required for SQL BI certification. See: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcts/bi/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcitp/bid/default.mspx ...Show All

• Visual C# c# how to update point array using foreach loop

  Hi there, I've done quite a bit of programming in J++ and even Java but am currently getting stuck trying to achieve things in C# :( My current situation as follows: I have a point array that's been initialised with the curly brackets. I then learnt to loop through it using foreach, here's the example Point[] pointarray = new Point[] { new Point(0, 0), ... }; foreach(Point p in pointarray) { ... } I'm trying to add a specific Size(100,-100) to every point in the array. I want to loop through it using foreach and update the value of every point on the fly. Anyone so kind as to show me an example of how to do this Is it you want to change the value of each point by a specific amount or change th ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Official Update

  Now go register!!   Actual contest details to come the week of Feb 5th Hmm... State location and phone number seem to be USA specific. An oversight, or is the rest of the world excluded ...Show All

• Windows Forms Unload splash screen

  My app has an splash screen, when the user writes his name it shows the main form, but i want to close or unload the splash screen after that, if i use the Close method, it doesn't even appear the main form, and must show the main form before it closes. I can only achieve this by changing the visibility value, what can i do when you close the splash screen form, if its your initial form, then it will close the application. Best thing you can do is probably set the visible property to false or hide the form: Me.Hide() alternatively you could make your main form (non splash) your startup form, then on the form_load event call the splash screen and hide your main form, after a delay then close that ...Show All

• Visual C++ Displaying a QT form in a VC++ .NET application

  Being entirely new to Windows and mostly new to C++, I took the path of least resistance when starting a new project, and let Visual Studio 2005 lead me to using .NET for my development. It has been a learning experience but not too bad. Now, though, I have to use a form developed in QT by another team. I have a QT license, am using 4.1.4 with the vs add ins. The form, after much gnashing of teeth, etc., builds, and my application links, including instantiating the form, and calling the form.show() method. However, when I actually invoke it, I get a message that it is not a Qt application. So my question (applause) is, "Is there a switch or flag, or quick way I can convince Qt that my .net application is a Qt application " ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Alternative to Timers

  Yeah, are there some other things I can use that replaces timers Like a loop or something you can but you may well make that timeframe of the loop "hang" the application or rather block it/being unresponsive. It depends on what you want to do. you have thing like do/while loops, for and foreach loops. You can use them but depends entirely on what you wish to do. Using a timer would be good in scenarios where for example, you want to show the current time on the form. You could also do this using a for loop but you would make the application non responsive (depending on how long the loop is to be executed for) since its in a for loop, until the loop is finished. The timer event will only "tick" when the time interval has ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Anyone using IDirectInputJoyConfig8?

  I'm trying to use IDirectInputJoyConfig8 to configure joystick settings on a joystick device I've written a driver for. My intention is to integrate with the control panel and provide custom test/calibration property sheets for the joystick. I'd like to use the IDirectInputJoyConfig8 interface to set the DIJOYTYPEINFO.clsidConfig and .dwFlags2 values by using the SetTypeInfo method. However, when I call Acquire(), I get an E_FAIL result, which is both undocumented (as a return code from Acquire) and not very helpful. I'm toying with the idea of abandoning doing things 'the right way' and just writing registry values to REGSTR_PATH_JOYOEM. I can set the clsidConfig this way, but I don't know about the dwFlags2 (I want to set JOYTYPE_M ...Show All

• .NET Development Email Reports

  How do I go about emailing Access reports, via Outlook Referencing Outlook is the only way to actually automate an instance of Outlook; that is programatically create an email in Outlook . If you're not referencing the Outlook namespace then you're not (directly) using Outlook to generate the email. You might indirectly be using Outlook if it's the registered email client in Windows, but that is not the same as programaticaly creating an email in Outlook; that's just creating an email using MAPI. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Interop question

  Hello I have a question about C# express, apologies if it's been asked before, I searched the other posts in vain. Is it possible to create a class library dll in C# 2005 and use it in a C# 2003 project When I try to reference my 2005 project dll from 2003, I get a "reference could not be added, not a valid COM component or assembly ...". I haven't tried going the COM route (I'm new to C#) as the examples I've seen had to do with sharing 2005 with vb6 and the like. Any help anyone is willing to provide would be very much appreciated! Thanks -Paul S No, the .NET 1.1 runtime doesn't know how to load a .NET 2.0 assembly. The format has changed. Both the .NET 2.0 runtime and VS2005 know ...Show All

• Visual C# Two Questions

  Question #1: Is it possible to have a restart code rather than: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("restart", "-r -t 05"); Question #2: Can someone help me edit the code below I wish to make this make code create the folders more than once. What I mean is, at the moment, I am using this code on the press of "OK". Once I press "OK" it creates the folders, but if I press "OK" again, it doesn't create anymore folders, the problem is because the folders are already created and it can't over-write. Is there a way to make it create like "TEST1-1" or continue with the number last used for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) + "\\Test" + i.ToString()); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Your usage of database diagrams?

  Folks I am super interested to hear your feedback on your current usage of the database diagrams feature which shipped as part of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Please see my blog post and submit your feedback there http://blogs.msdn.com/mairead/archive/2007/02/21/do-you-use-database-diagrams.aspx mairead PM, TS Data ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Browser Control editable mode required

  Hi Guys, Can we use frame for html editor, I mine as we can do with browser Control in 1.1. That user can build the html pages in the browser (by using the edit mode). Is there any editable browser like functionality available in avalon for building html. If any confusion please do comments. Thanks for reading:) Cheers, Kahn Avalon has two editing controls - TextBox (supports only plain text) and RichTextBox. You can get contents in xaml or rtf format from RichTextBox. There is no built-in xaml to html conversion in Avalon but there might be some simple tools in the net which do that (not perfect though). ...Show All

• Windows Forms splashscreen problem

  Hi, I've got a problem with my splashscreen; I want to show my splashscreen as long my application is not fully loaded and I don't want to use a timer, it must be "real", so I realy want to see it as long as the application isn't fully loaded. And how can I see what the application is currently loading give me an answer if u know something about it regards tom sorry I still don't have the delegate conversion to vb.net stratight in my head. how would this look in vb.net thank you !! -greg public delegate void FinishSplashScreen(); public static event FinishSplashScreen OnEventFinishSplashScreen; //splash screen constructor: public Splashscreen() { MainForm. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions compare two files

  Hello, I am inserting files into seperate textboxes using the built in streamreader. After the insert is complete, I am trying to look for the differences between the two textboxes. So far, I can get it to tell me that the files are different but I ca't seem to be able to display the differences. Any help would be great. Here is what I have so far!   Private Sub CompareFile( ByVal start_at As Integer ) Dim i As String Dim x As String Dim pos As Integer i = TextBox1.Text x = TextBox2.Text If i <> String .Empty And x <> String .Empty Then i.CompareTo(x) End If If i = x Then MsgBox( "Files Match" ) Else MsgBox( "Files do not Match!" ) pos = InStr ...Show All