Novelle's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Retrieving effects and textures

  Assuming that I have a model in 3DS Max that I export into a FBX file, which goes through the content pipeline, and is then loaded into the runtime as a Model, how do I go about getting the 3DS texture and effects bindings from my C# code Looking at the Model class all I can see hanging off it is an Effect class, but no texture references - are the textures supposed to be embedded in the effect files If so, how should I set the effects in 3DS so that they are imported via the content pipeline Sorry if there is an obvious answer to this, but I'm more used to dealing with pure HLSL/ASM files rather than effects files.. Andy. Take a look at the .xnb files produced when you build the model. Can you fi ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Video card question:(

  I have gotten interested in C# and XNA so I started reading up on it and watching tutorials. I have been doing this for about 3 days and I understand it slightly when it comes to reading it. So I started making Pong for my first game to hopefully tie some different aspects together for me, I had an error during debuging and says you need a a vid card that has Directx 9 and shader model 2. Do I necessarily need a better card to continue or am I screwed I currently have onboard graphics and it can barely run N64 games. I could be wrong but I believe XNA requires at minimum a video card that supports DX 9.0 and a minimum of Shader Model 2.0. You probably will need a new video card, the on-board vide ...Show All

• SQL Server Error 1418 and Good Basic Setup Guide

  Hi, I'm new to DB Mirroring, and I am trying to get it going in a test enviroment between two SQL 2005 Dev Servers. I have followed documentation that I have found but cannot get past a 1418 error when establishing a connection between the servers initially. Does anyone know of any good step by step guides that I could look at, in case I have missed something stupid. Thanks in advance Stupots Why you use differential ports 5022 and 5023 You sets the partner connectionon 5022 for all partners (it looks like), but one of the partners endpoint on 5023 I see no requirement to do that... I use 5022 for all partners and witness, and it works fine! Torsten ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Strange Rollback / Get Specific Version / Undo behavior

  One of our internal teams is perplexed by the rollback behavior in Team System. Specifically, when we try to revert a file or file(s) to earlier versions and check them in. Like so: 1. Pick a file that has several versions in your project. We'll call it foo.cs. 2. Open foo.cs in the editor. 3. Do a "Get specific version" on foo.cs, to an earlier version (earlier changeset). 4. Note that foo.cs is now, correctly, replaced with the earlier version in the editor. 5. Check out foo.cs. 6. Check in foo.cs. 7. The conflict dialog is displayed. 8. Select "Auto Merge", then OK through the dialogs back to the editor. 9. Note that foo.cs is now reverted to the latest version in the editor! This is utterly unintutive to me, because the e ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Datetime Variable perfoming >= instead of >

  The source table has timestamp column (Modified Date), which gets upated with each modification via an update trigger. I store the MAX(modifieddate) in a DeltaExtractionHistory Table in the staging database for each extraction or package execution. Then in the next run, I need to pick the coulmns that have a greater datetime, than the last extracted MAX(ModifiedDate) in the DeltaExtractionHistory table for delta processing. The OLEDB source has the following SQL statement: SELECT * FROM [dbo].[MyTable] WHERE [ModifiedDate] > with the following parameter: Parameter 0 : dtLastModifiedDate dtLastModifiedDate is an SSIS variable of type Datetime. I read the value of MAX(ModifiedDate) in this varia ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deployment and/or registration failed with error: 0x8973190e. Error writing file '%csidl_program_files%\test\system.wind

  hi, I have wrote a simple C# device application program intend to call the function from the managed C++/CLI Class library in the form of *.dll file. The *.dll is named as pll.dll. My procedure is added the pll.dll file as 'add reference' and i Rebuild the C# device application project concurrently. Afterthat, i tried to deploy it to the PC Pocket emulator. Somehow the deploying process failed all the time and the error is like below. Error 1 Deployment and/or registration failed with error: 0x8973190e. Error writing file '%csidl_program_files%\test\system.windows.forms.dll'. Error 0x80070070: There is not enough space on the disk. Device Connectivity Component Is there anyone can help me to solve this problem and tell me the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Setting TextBox.Visible = true not taking effect.

  Visual Basic 2005 Express: When the user presses the "Send" button to send an email, there is a long delay until the MsgBox("Email Sent Successfully!") message appears. So, I added a text box to the form with text = "Sending . . . .". and I set it's visible propery to 'false'. The first instruction in the 'SendButton' subroutine is SendingTextBox.Visible = true. But, the TextBox does not become visible until the MsgBox("Email Sent Successfully!") message appears! Try putting a Application.doevents immediately after the textbox.visible = true. This should force this Command to occur prior to it continuing on with the code. ...Show All

• SQL Server Exporting to PDF in Java with web interface issue

  Hi, thanks for taking the time to take a look at this. As you can read from the title, I'm trying to export a report to pdf from a thick java client. My connection string is: "http://10.0.1.36/ReportServer/ /Invoice1/Invoice&assetNbr=14 &invoiceId=061000002&rs:Command=Render:&rs:Format=PDF&rc:Toolbar=false" (I just added the toolbar=false part, and it didn't fix the problem) After getting the datastream I just throw it into a file and it works fine... Until I add an image to my report. I don't get any errors in my program, but when I try to open up the pdf itself I get the error: "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired." What confuses me is that if I ...Show All

• Windows Forms GDI leak tool

  Is there any third party tool or Visual Studio 2005 plugin which can detect GDI leaks I can find tools which can count leaked resources, but I want the stack trace i.e. where in .net code the leaked resource was allocated. Also another question: does .net use GDI or GDI+ or both Thanks in advance. Pawan Sorry, but you're wrong. The Image.Finalise method loks like this: this . Dispose ( false ); and the Dispose method looks like this: protected virtual void Dispose ( bool disposing) { if ( this . nativeImage != IntPtr . Zero ) { try { SafeNativeMethods . Gdip . GdipDisposeImage ( new HandleRef ( this , this . nativeImage )); } catch ( Excepti ...Show All

• SQL Server Seconds (10000) to HH:MM:SS format

  Hi, How do I convert a number to hh:mm:ss format The number can be assumed as in seconds. I got a code here in the forums =String.Format("{0:HH:mm:ss}",CDate("0:0:0").AddSeconds(<Number>)) My problem is that when the number is BIG, it does not return the correct result. Example: =String.Format("{0:HH:mm:ss}",CDate("0:0:0").AddSeconds(10000000)) returns 17:46:40. If the number is small, the conversion is correct. What can I do about that I just started out in Reporting Services 2000. Thanks! Rj rj_pebs@yahoo.com The problem your facing is that your 10000000 is more than 24 hour. If this is happen your code is also counting ...Show All

• Windows Forms help in coding a game application

  Hi all, I started writing a small game application.which contains 16 buttons which are dynamically created.and set text to that buttons randomly taken from 1-15 and 1 button text set to " " (nothing) so the player has to move the adjacent buttons to the empty button and final result would be the sorting order from 1-15 with empty button either first or last. in my application i wrote only one button click to all the 16 buttons. and now i'm unable to handle how to get the previous button clicked as i want to compare with the button names. I wil give the code how i created the buttons and the event. Help me to develop this application as well as my programming skills. Thank you -regards GRK code>>> ...Show All

• SQL Server Index not replicated to the device

  Hi, I have a table published on the SQL2K Merger Replication publisher. But when I add an index to the table it's not replicated to the device. I have checked the snapshot folder and the newly added index is already in the .dri file. Any ideas Cheers, Justin One more thing...as there will be no notification from the publisher or exception generated from the device during the replication after a new index is add but not pulled down to the device, is there a way we could know when to reinitialize the subscription ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Link May 2006 not install

  The LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi doesn't find any Visual Studio 2005 installed when Visual Studio is french version. I've got Visual Studio 2005 Pro French Version with Cpp and CSharp installed and Framework .Net Sdk 2.0, but the installer cant't find any visual studio products installl !! It asks me to install Visual Studio Express !! (Windows XP Pro Sp 2, Sql Server 2005 Express and got yet Visual C 6.0 cause simple as Visual Cpp 2005 for Cpp developpement). Dvpt Uml Installing on a non-english version of VS is a known issue. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=395991&SiteID=1 for a command line work-around to the issue. Jim Wooley http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/default.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ Setup project

  I need to create installation package for my Visual C++ application. My program uses outside-vendor libraries that require some configuration at the production environment. Production deployment includes: - Creation of new Environment Variables (Global variables) - Registering DLLs with regsvr32.exe At Visual C++ development environment, I have created Setup project. What should be done to include “creation of new Environment Variable” in the Setup project That is, I want new "Setup1.msi" setup program create new Environment Variable on the production machine. Along the same line, what should be done to make "Setup1.msi" setup program to register DLLs with regsvr32.exe ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums MSAJAX 1.0 conflict with V4 API. Sys.InvalidOperationException. V3 API is fine.

  Hi Guys, Been trying to use the new V4 API in my application but I get this error when I call the LoadMap method function GetMap() { map = new VEMap( 'myMap_myMap' ); map.LoadMap( new VELatLong(53.278353017531821 , - 2.153320312500008) , 5 , 'h' ,false ); ***** Get the error here when I call LoadMap. Microsoft JScript runtime error: Sys.InvalidOperationException: Object Microsoft already exists and is not a namespace. Can anybody please help me to find the problem. V3 of the API still works fine without any problems. If I remove AJAX references from my page the error goes away. Unfortunately, I make heavy use of MS Ajax 1.0 and can't get around it. thanks, SoS ...Show All