Faraz_Ahmed's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Gamekit developming

  I have an idea - to make freeware game developming kit using XNA Game Studio Express , which will include all required instruments for normal game-developing like Level/word editing instruments, simple scripting language and physics included. All that included in 1 progamm using which game-developer would make his game. I have a question - can I find here enthusiasts which can do this kind of job I'm not a programmer - I'm gamedesigner that worked on a few shareware games. Main reason of why I'm asking such help, it's because I've tried to find such kind of soft for making mini-projects or game prototypes which can help not pro gamedesigners to start making their ideas come true and achieve practice on game-developming. That's why I ...Show All

• .NET Development XPath - Get node

  Hi I have this XML structure: <Doc> <Values> <value a="100" b="131" c="20" /> <value a="100" b="130" c="20" /> <value a="23" b="400" c="20" /> <value a="2" b="1" c="110" /> <value a="2" b="1" c="100" /> <value a="0" b="30" c="2" /> </Values> </Doc> As you see the nodes are sorted in descending order by first "a", then "b" and last "c". I now want to insert <value a="100" b="10" c="11" />. This new node should be inserted a ...Show All

• Visual C++ please give me hint

  respected membrs please tell me how can i conver voltage inside computer. i know that inside computer ther is 5volt, i want to convert it in 3.5volts using computer programm in c/c++. i think it is possible using "bios" but i don't know much more about it. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Start Page not functioning

  I logged in as an admin and installed VS Pro 2005 on my machine. Everything looks good and seems to be working properly in the admin account. But when I log in as a standard user, the Start Page's Visual Studio Developer News area shows this message forever: "There is no content available yet. Content will be downloaded once a connection to the internet is established." Why is this I need to use my machine as a non-admin. Does anyone know how to correct this Hi isunshine, Just a hunch here... If your sitting within a corporate network, your normal user account may be restricted/prohibited from viewing all but certain websites made permissible by your management. You could try asking t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Getting the mouse double click event

  I have a control that I want to occupy the available space. So, I've overriden MeasureOverride and returned the size available as the occupied space. But, this does not grant my control the input information from the mouse. The only way I managed to get the mouse input was to style it with an element that occupied some space (like a rectangle). How do I tell my control that it should receive input from all its available space Or should I do it some other way Thanks. Hello Robin. Thanks a lot for the hint. But, isn't this a workaround What if someone styles my control and forgets to set its background to transparent Well, I could make it transparent by default, but the person styling my control would ha ...Show All

• SQL Server Foxpro .net odbc data provider misidentifying strings as unicode

  Since my foxpro OLE driver has been rendered useless by service pack 1 for sql server 2005 I am forced to use the .net data provider for odbc. I am importing a number of tables.. each time I add the DataReader Source to the dataflow and connected it to the OLE DB Destination I get a load of the good old "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types" errors... So I'm having to do derived column transforms, for each and every column that it coughs up on. Using expressions like (DT_STR,30,1252)receivedby to convert the "recievedby" column to a DT_STR, Some of these tables have 100 string columns.. so I'm getting a bit sick of the drudgery of adding all these derivations... Is there any way to tell this ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) What has happened to System.Windows.Media.Core namespace once present in betas of .NET FW?

  There has been namespace system.windows.media.core in betas that wrapped Media Foundation functionality. Why it has been removed Why again MS plays against its developers and we have to do complex things on our own because out of a box classes does not give ebough flexibility As far as I know there is no managed wrapper against Media Foundation toolkit present in windows vista. Przemek The MediaGallery sample from v6.0 samples still works. it uses mediaTimeline class from system.windows.media namespace I don't know if that is what your talking about Later Mike ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to change areas and iterations (MSF Agile)

  Hello there, I have just successfully set up a new Team Project using the MSF Agile template, and everything is fine. Except that I can't change the areas or iterations. That is, I can change them (by right-clicking my Team Project -> Team Project Settings -> Areas and Iterations...), but the changes aren't reflected in the corresponding fields in Work Items or Bugs. They still display the old (out-of-the-box) iterations (Iteration 0, Iteration 1, ...) and areas. What have I done wrong, or what do I have to do more in order to get the iterations and areas into the right forms I first thought of some caching problems, but closing Visual Studio and reopening did not help, unfortunately. Best regards, Martin ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista sdk sample - boot image problems

  Using the sdk sample app: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v1.0\samples\winbase\storage\optical\imapi2sample" I tried taking the image from a boot cd (known to work). Then extracting the boot image. Then burning the data from the disc (temporarily copied to the hard drive) along with the boot image to create a new boot cdr. It does burn the disc (in separate attempts, I used both bbie and ultraiso to create the boot images) - but the disc will not boot a computer :-| The computer complains with: "CDBOOT: Couldn't find NTloader" Shouldn't this work Ok, thanks TonyMan and Henry. At least you can repro the problem (right ) It seems surprisin ...Show All

• SQL Server Developer Edition vs Enterprise Edition

  Does anyone know why the same cube deployed on 2 different servers (one Enterprise Edition, the other a Developer Edtion) with the same MDX query would return 2 different Results MDX query I am using: WITH MEMBER [Measures].[TimeChargedToDate] AS 'SUM({NULL:[Timesheet].[Date].&[2006].&[9].&[15]},[Time Charged])' SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Time Charged], [Measures].[TimeChargedToDate] } ON COLUMNS , NON EMPTY { ( [Project].[Project Number].&[Z07600] * [Staff Member].[Staff Member Name].[Staff Member Name]. ALLMEMBERS ) } ON ROWS FROM ( SELECT {[Timesheet].[Date].[Year].&[2006].&[9].&[2] : [Timesheet].[Date].[Year].&[2006].&[9].&[15]} ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Adding external service

  Hi, I have a custom activity which I need to add to the workflow at runtime I use the WorkflowChanges class to do that. If the activity uses a custom service, can this be registered at the time of adding the activity dynamically or should this be done upfront Is it possible to add external services to the workflow at runtime Thanx, -Madhura You'd have to stop and start the workflow runtime to add a service. So either add it before the first call to StartRuntime or call StopRuntime - AddService - StartRuntime before you make the dynamic change. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build Error

  I just setup TFS Workgroup. I added a new project, and created a test build. It builds fine in Visual Studio, but when I run the build through TFS it errors, and this is in the event log of the TFS build machine: TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 2/6/2007 10:29:10 PM Machine: DEVTFS Application Domain: msbuild.exe Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Common, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727 Process Details: Process Name: MSBuild Process Id: 3240 Thread Id: 1044 Account name: DEV\TFSSERVICE ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D Playing Cards ?

  How would I approach a 3D representation of a playing card(s) If using a model, would 52 different models be required so that each card has it's own texture Can user primitives (i.e. 2 triangles to make a card shape) have different textures on each side What would be the best method for this 3DS Max has just about the same capabilities as Blender and each one takes a long time to learn. There should be a way to make faces double sided in Max but I don't know it. If you're just learning things like this in Max then don't get down on yourself if you can't get perfect results right away. I've been using Blender on and off for the last 6 years and still don't know how to make it do half the things it can d ...Show All

• SQL Server WROX Code Problem

  Hi, I'm pretty new to SSRS and VB.NET and was hoping someone might be able to help me understand why the following code fails when the click event outlined below is fired. The line highlighted in Red is the problem area and when this is commented out the event executes successfully. I've also downloaded the C# version of the code from the WROX site and this also fails. The code snipet relates to the windows application "RenderingVB" in Chapter 12 of their Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services book. I've tried the WROX forum but there isn't a great deal of activity. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Mike Private Sub btnGetParameters_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As Sys ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions TAB CONTROL

  I have a working Windows Based Form using Visual Studio. I now need to add a second form and need to insert a Tab Control. The only way i can see of doing it is to create a tab control and start all over - clearly this is an option i don't want to take up. Can someone tell if there is a way to add a TAB Control to an existing form It depends...... What containers are under the controls or what containers contain the control. They can be cut and pasted with a caveat.... you lose the handles clauses on events so you may want to save your source before you begin and then control-A and delete that source, replacing it with the orginal. I've also been known to stretch a form to t ...Show All