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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tutorials

  Hello i just download The XNA THingy and i was wondering is there any tutorials for this Cna it make sudoku games I have been looking everywhere to find how to make a sudoku game for like 3 months and the coding 4 fun thing was a little to complicated! Thanks If you look at apress book line up you will see that they have a book that is just on programming a sudoku game in .Net... You will find that the tutorials will be hard to come by as the system has just been released, but they will start to pop up every where. For the moment though there are Howtos and the basic game tutorial included in the XNA Systems Help files. Also there is included a StarterKit of a complete game that you should be able t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Slowdown after refactoring

  I'm writing a particle engine that uses HLSL to leverage GPU acceleration. Managed-only code could render around 30k particles, and I had it up to about 500k particles using 128-bit textures. But after finding out that the 360 will not supprt 128-bit textures as render targets, I broke it down to four R32F textures. The problem is that this is now aproximately 4x slower. I thought there'd be a penalty to manage the extra pointers, and for the 4x increase in tex2D lookups, but the amount of data that is being transfered is exactly the same. Thoughts Hidden gotchas DOH! After sleeping on it, I woke up with the epiphany that most of the slowdown was due to my diagnostics code (GetData on all four textu ...Show All

• SQL Server Limit rows for a user

  Is it possible to set a limit for the number of rows to the user that connects to sql server (something like: whatever is the query this user does, set @@rowcount to 10000) Thanks. Alberto Limiting the affected rows is possible though various mechanisms like ROWCOUNT, TOP, ROW_NUMBER() but you are not able to do this per se. You will have to put the statement in all of your queries. There is no way in the query language to change the behaviour neside the ones mentioned. HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. equivalent to progressive mesh

  is there something like a progressive mesh supported in xna Pick one . ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies MOSS 2007 and custom error

  Hello, the customized error page shows up when I try to upload a document in a MOSS2007 document library. "Error An unexpected error has occurred. Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services. " I've changed the web.config from <customErrors mode="On" /> to <customErrors mode="Off" /> (It is the correct web.config, because when I put wrongs tag in it, the site doesn't work anymore). The problem is that even when I set the custom error to off, I still get the customized (generic) error page. Any idea sven I was experiencing the sam problem. But I also set CallStack="true" in the <SharePoint><SafeMode> tag. That made the differen ...Show All

• Visual Basic OTP Error message: control array element 'index' doesn't exist

  I’m using Janus Grid control in my VB Form. I have a gridindex ranging from index =0 to index=3. When I load my form the 1’st time it works fine, but when I load my form again without exit my application I get the error message: control array element 'index' doesn't exist. But the strange thing is that it sometimes works fine to load the form several times without exit the application, but sometimes I get the error message. If it woks fine I can do it over and over again and I will still work fine, but if I then exit VB 6.0 and execute my application and then tries to load my form several times it would not work. Somebody know this problem What should I do Regards Ann In gene ...Show All

• Community Chat Feedback Please anyone ! Project Live Video and Audio @ 60mph

  I have a system that could be of great use in any mobile paltform Please visit http://www.copilotsecurity.com   to read about our live video and audio  broadcasting system . In a nut shell our system will produce a live video and  audio feed from any vehicle while it’s in motion. also the system has the ability to use GPS tracking and OBD vehicle diagnostics AKA its tapped into the onboard computer of the AKA car   and is all viewable via the Internet or Intranet. The video and audio  is near real time so you can watch and listen as it happens. The system will archive the video as it is broadcasted on a server and is retrievable for evidence at a later date to be used in legal cases.   For more informa ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WCS .NET 3 June CTP and IE7

  I've installed the last .NET 3.0 June CTP . My installation seems ok and I can create some personal cards using the selector (with its new GUI :)   Then I've tried to login to Kim Cameron's website and Microsoft Live Labs STS web site (the former one uses the HTML Object tag and the latter one the XHTML tag) Both trigger the selector... but only during 1 second and then it's closed. That's all :(   Did somebody succeed in authenticating to these websites using WCS .NET 3 June CTP   PS: This scenario runs well with the previous WCS version Beta 2.   [updated] Here my configuration: - XP SP2 - Not fresh install of winfx (previous one was Beta 2) - IE7 b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Adding a custom control in Datagridview cell

  Hi all, I am a .NET developer and am facing a problem in Datagridview. To start with, I had a combobox as the column type in DataGridView. I was populating this combobox from a database table which had some aroudn 37,000 records. With so many records getting populated in the combobox on the datagridview slowed the datagrid to an exruciating slow speed. To resolve this issue, I thought of writing a custom control which will have a text box and a drop down box next to it. The text box in the custom control will let the users type a search value for the description(display member) and the results will then populate in the dropdown next to it. For e.g, if the users are searching for a company name (america), they will type america in the tex ...Show All

• Visual C++ Reserve Physical Memory

  Hello, I am working on a project that needs reserving physical memory (100MB). Can anybody show me how I can achieve that. If you can provide a code sample, that will be great ! Best Regards, Rupesh H Bhurke Your question is too vague to be answered accurately. You should specify your platform, environment, and reason for attempting to allocate anything. A quick example on how to allocate 100 MB of virtual memory follows. As basic as this is, however, it isn't non-pageable or anything like that, so it's not guaranteed to be in physical memory at all times. char* myBuffer = new char[100485760]; // do something with the buffer delete myBuffer; ...Show All

• Visual Basic Default button on Form

  Hi all, How do I set a button to be the default button, so when you press ENTER on the keyboard, it will press it VB6 had the default button setting. How do you do it in VB2005 At first I set the TABindex to 0, which worked, but when I set a textbox to have the focus, the button loses it so the tabindex=0 method doesn't work now. Thanks in advance. Set the AcceptButton property of the form to the button that you want to be the default or put something like this in the form load event to sett Button1 as the default button. Me .AcceptButton = Button1 ...Show All

• SQL Server DatabaseMail process shuts down by itself

  I have a job set up to run sp_send_dbmail.  Then I notice there were no emails sent out. I check the log I found "DatabaseMail Process is shutting down". In the log, there was "DatabaseMail Process Started" also. I don't know what is calling this processes. If in the log, Stop was the last activity, all I can make this process start is to restart the database. Does anyone know the trick   Here is the real answer to the problem. Database mail is a 2 step process if you want it to be used to send notifications. You first set up the database mail as you did. Second you would modify the properties of the Sql Server Agent. Select "Alert System" and then check &qu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Logic problem

  This problem appears to be a logic problem rather then a syntax one. Basically I have a heap of images and I want to display 3 per row. My problem is atm it is only displaying 2 on the first row and then 1 per row after that. Here is my code: Private Sub maps_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load loadworldMaps() interval = 0 setting = "maps" id = "worldMaps" y = 20 x = 10 width = 160 height = 110 For count = 0 To 59 interval = interval + 1 worldMapsDisplayArray(count) = New worldMaps(badgesArray(count).mapImage, worldMapsArray(count).name, worldMapsArray(count).mapInfo, x, y, width, height, count, "worldMaps", setting, interv ...Show All

• SQL Server Benchmark of SSIS

  Hi, Has anyone seen any benchmark results for SSIS vs Informatica Thanks, David Mariner Okay, well, the one thing SSIS has going for it is its bias towards using SQL Server databases, and rightfully so. They may have Informatica there, however as of yet, SSIS is not a competitor when using other database platform destinations. So, room to grow if they want. Jamie, I hear ya though! My comments were based on years of experience with first-gen products, MS software notwithstanding. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WCS .NET 3 June CTP and IE7

  I've installed the last .NET 3.0 June CTP . My installation seems ok and I can create some personal cards using the selector (with its new GUI :)   Then I've tried to login to Kim Cameron's website and Microsoft Live Labs STS web site (the former one uses the HTML Object tag and the latter one the XHTML tag) Both trigger the selector... but only during 1 second and then it's closed. That's all :(   Did somebody succeed in authenticating to these websites using WCS .NET 3 June CTP   PS: This scenario runs well with the previous WCS version Beta 2.   [updated] Here my configuration: - XP SP2 - Not fresh install of winfx (previous one was Beta 2) - IE7 b ...Show All