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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Space Wars no weapon 4

  When I play The Space Wars starter set, I can play it without problems, till i try to fire the $4,000 weapon. then it gives an error on the modelMesh.Draw(); line You'd need to fix the source model that is displayed for that weapon. An easy hack would be just to copy one of the other weapon graphics over the one that is causing the problem. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need Help/Ideas for Program

  I'm making a program that changes the size of a group of user-selected images stored on the hard drive (JPEG, GIF, BMP, ect.), but I'm kind of stuck on how to approach this. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas/suggestions. I know how to resize each single image, but I don't know how I should automate it to do a group of images one after another. I was thinking about storing a list of filepath addresses of the images... Thanks for any help. No, that returns all files it finds in a folder. To let the user selectively pick which files to work on, use an OpenFileDialog with the Multiselect property set to True. You'll find the files she selected in the FileNames() property. Save the selected list of fi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to make driver works both on WinXP and Vista?

  Hi All, I have developed a driver in WinXP. But it can not work in Vista. I build the driver with WDK under the environment of ' Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn x86 Checked Build Environment'. The driver can be installed in Vista. After launching the corresponding application, the Vista is end with blue screen without any message.( In Win 2k&XP there will be some message on the blue screen) How to make my driver works on Vista Any comments is appreciated Oliver, thanks for your quickly reply! Here is more info to you: For mutiplatform, my Vista PC is 32-bit and I build my driver with the environment of 'Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn x86'. The driver built with 'Windows XP enviroment' works ...Show All

• Visual Basic call an event in the same form

  A question, please. Could anyone say me how can I call an event of a form in the same form. example: public class form1 sub btn_click ( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnOK.Click      Code... end sub How can I call btn_click from here , and what are the parameters to send  end class Thanks...   another possibility... btn_click ( btnOK , EventArgs.Empty) ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL2005 Active\Passive Cluster Install ?

  yesterday i installed sql2k5 on a active\passive cluster and for some strange reason the mssqlserver service does not want to start up on the node that i installed it on but if i fail it over to the passive node it will start fine. system info below: system info: * win2k3 enterprise r2 (x64) cluster active\passive* * sql2k5 enterprise (x64) clustered* the win2k3 cluster works fine. i installed the msdtc service running as a cluster as well and that works fine. both servers are identical to each other. sql virtual server is running on the passive node which is now the active node. any ideas --alan well after reading through the event logs i discovered that we had a dns issue with one of th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Changing text in a header unlinks a shape

  Hi, I'm editting a header of a document to change the text. The header has a shape (bitmap) anchored too it. When the text changes the shape disappears. How do I update the text and keep the shape Thanks This question doesn't concern the VSTO technology. You need to address it to one of the Word newsgroups. If you're working in the .NET Framework, ask in the office.developer.automation newsgroup. Be sure to include your code and the version of Word you're working with. If you're working with VBA, ask in the word.general.vba newsgroup. If you're an end-user, ask in one of the general Word newsgroups in this interface . ...Show All

• .NET Development Hashtable and IHashCodeProvider

  The implementation of Hashtable has changed in .NET 2.0. The IHashCodeProvider that could be used in the constructor is now obsolete and a new IEqualityComparer is used now. For me it is very strange that using the default constructor of Hashtable the SerializationInfo that is created on serialization still contains a member of type IHashCodeProvider. What is the reason for this I can't get rid of my compile warnings because I use that SerializationInfo. Hans-Peter Undoubtedly for backwards compatibility. If IHashCodeProvider had been removed then it would have broke any code that relied on it. As it is obsolete it will continue to be supported (and therefore accessible in a derived class) until it is ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Unable to open IChannelListener

  I'm trying to use the WCF adapter for BizTalk (I know this isn't supported by MS) and I'm getting an exception when I try to start the receive location: The Messaging Engine failed to add a receive location "News Receiver" with URL "wcf://http://localhost:13000/eventsource" to the adapter "WCF". Reason: "The ChannelDispatcher at 'http://localhost:13000/eventsource' with contract(s) '"IndigoOneWayReceiver"' is unable to open its IChannelListener.". That sounds like a pretty specific WCF exception but so far I'm unable to figure out what the problem is. Any ideas -- Bryant I was able to resolve this using the HttpCfg tool. I posted the full detai ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista waitHandle.WaitOne();

  Hello, I have a very simple question: I have checked many WF examples, and in most I see they use waitHandle.WaitOne(); or waitHandle.Set();. waitHandle is declared as an AutoResetEvent, but I don't really understand what this is all about. Can someone give me a simple explanation of how this works and what it is used for Or if you have a link to somewhere it is explained it would be fine too. Thank you, Ruben Ruben, AutoResetEvent allows threads to communicate with each other by signaling. Typically, this communication concerns a resource to which threads need exclusive access. A thread waits for a signal by calling WaitOne on the AutoResetEvent. If the AutoResetEvent is in the nonsigna ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Is there a way to get the TFS user role from a custom control dll?

  I have a custom control that I would like to enable and disable a form control depending on the tfs user role. Windows roles are easy but not adequate. Does the tfs environment expose any technique to get its the user roles Thanks much for the quick reply. I started to glue all the pieces together and it looks something like this: private IServiceProvider m_serviceProvider; private IGroupSecurityService m_grpSecurity; void IWorkItemControl.SetSite( IServiceProvider serviceProvider ) { m_serviceProvider = serviceProvider; m_grpSecurity = (IGroupSecurityService)serviceProvider.GetService( typeof(IGroupSecurityService) ); if( m_grpSecurity != null ) { } } Problem is GetService is always ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Working with classes

  Hi, I am learning C# and I am still little little confused about classes, methods... here is what I am trying to do: I have a class in seperate file. Inside that class I have a method . From that method I would like to change text property of label on my form . This form is generated with designer and is in different file and in different class but in the same namespace . Any suggestions f1.Show() will indeed show a second instance of Form1. Since they both use the same class (Form1), the forms will be identical on the screen. There's therefore no need to change Application.Run(new Form1()). If you need a reference to that form, use "this" in the Form1 class methods. ...Show All

• .NET Development What's done with the Send method of UdpClient?

  I'm writing something with UdpClient.Here I got some problem.I am confusing about the Send method,what will be done with the UdpClient when I Send smothing to an unavailable hostend using the Send method. Here is some of my code. I just use a udpclient to send something to the server and then wait for the server's apply. IPEndPoint server=new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("60.25.34.200"), 5100); IPEndPoint local= new IPEndPoint(Dns.Resolve(Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList[0], 5400); udpClient = new UdpClient(local); IPEndPoint remote = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 0); byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("something"); udpClient = new UdpClient(local); //Send something to the server int c ...Show All

• SQL Server passing a parameter to the Filename in a Report Subscription

  I have defined a monthly substription for a series of reports. I would like to be able to pass a paremter used in generating the report to the file name define in the subscription. I can do it if I used system names such as @datetime, but I want to be able to use a parameter unique to the report. For example if the parameter for the report was CARS and I was quesrying Toyotas how can I get toyoats to show up in the file name Any suggestions ...Show All

• Commerce Server Who is using Commerce Server 2007?

  I am looking for companies using Commerce Server 2007 One of my clients, wants to move to Commerce Server 2007 but I am not sure how successful it is. Any help is appreciated! -- Salim Hemdani Salim, My company was the first to go live on Commerce Server 2007 (under Microsoft's Technology Access Program) and we've been using it for over a year now. Please feel free to ping me or call me and I would be happy to speak with your client about our experiences. Jeff Lynch E-Commerce Manager Gulf Coast Seal, Ltd. 713-910-7700 jeff.lynch@[nospam]gulfcoastseal.com MVP Windows Server System - Commerce Server http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA - Microsoft lack of vision

  Its real sad that Microsoft, once again, shows this lack of vision for a games development tool: 1: Get visual: Don't force users to write such a lot of code to do just very little. It reminds the Charles Petzold's "Hello Window" hell of code days. 2: Provide visual tools: Let users choose the components, change their properties and write just the required code for the events. 3: Quick development means quick prototype and minimum learning curve. XNA has a lot of things to learn. Definetively it is NOT for students and hobbists. We will have to wait until someone encapsulates XNA framework into a group of visual components, that can be easily drag & dropped, inspected and tested very easily without having to learn lots of n ...Show All