stiflersmom100's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. AlphaTest glitches: Please Help

  hi all. I'm trying to create a "forest walkthrough" application (later on, I hope to create a terrain generator using this application) and I'm using the "ModelView example program" which can be found at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=806928&SiteID=1 as the basis for my efforts. (forum won't let me include that URL as a link, sorry) I altered the camera functionality to allow for a 1st person camera, and then started including more trees in the scene to see how it would perform. I probably would have saved myself quite a bit of time if I had noticed that in "agamerguy"s post, he mentioned that he had run into a problem where multiple alpha channels on top of one another would not aggregate. I figured ...Show All

• Visual Basic Sorting list box

  I am trying to make a high score table for my game and so far I have made the random access file, and it is working fine. I have one problem, on the properties for the list box, there is an option to sort, though this is only alphabetically. This isn't very good for saying it's a highscore table. I was wondering if anyone has some code for doing something like a bubble or insertion sort Thanks Dan Yea I see what you mean, but my list gets loaded from the Random Access File. I wanted them to be ordered by the high score so for example: 900 Sam 600 Joe etc etc But so far all I can get is the lowest first, because I set lsthighscores.sort = true. Sorry if I seem abit clueless by the way. Dan ...Show All

• Visual C++ for-each statement help

  I am building a Windows Forms application and it uses a configuration file to start; I would like a way to use the for-each statement to refer to all textboxes in my application for example; like: for each (TextBox ^TB in Form1) TB->Text = "etc"; This doesn't work at all and it points to Form1 as it is not a valid expression for this type of statement. Is there any way I can make it work You need to always iterate over the controls collection using Control ( the base type ). The base type does have the name property, so you can check the name of Ctrl against the name from your config file, THEN you can cast it to the type that you know it to be ( or check the type if you want to be ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to serialize xoml only workflows

  I am creating workflows dynamically and serializing them with the XomlMarkupSerializer. My problem is that the x:Class attribute gets serialized. This attribute can not exist when performing xoml only activation. How can I tell the serializer not to write out this attribute I tried not setting the WorkflowMarkupSerializer.XClassProperty but this causes an exception to be thrown when loading the workflow. I assume it can be done by extending the XomlMarkupSerializer however I would prefer not to do this. Any suggestions I figured it out. I was using an example of designer hosting that was compiling the xoml as well as serializing it. When compiling it looked for the XClassProperty and attempted to find the type in an ITypeProvider s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions install cl compiler

  Hi, i dowloaded and installed vc++ 2005 express edition. Now I need to install only the cl compiler on client machines. Please let me know what files should i copy and what env. variables need to be set on that machines. Thank you You are right. But Borland C++ compiler could not be used for commercial use. So far what i found is that only cl is free, reliable and could be used commercially . ...Show All

• Visual Studio Print Layout vs. Interactive Mode

  Is there a way to have an expression change based on which mode you are in Like have something hilited in interactive mode but look normal in print layout Please check my response in your other thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=580956&SiteID=1 -- Robert ...Show All

• .NET Development Webservice deployment

  Hi, I am facing some issues trying to create a Setup project for my webservice. I have done this thousand of times on 1.1 but things are a little different on 2.0 I have a simple webservice, with all these new folders that have mess my file organization (app_code, app_data, app_globalResources, etc). The webservice works fine and now I need to create a setup project so I can distribute the webservice in a single installation file. The problem is the following one: When I create the web setup project and I try to add the "Primary output" the form appears with only one entry , "content"... mmm... does not look right. If I put content when I compile and I deploy my webservice actually installs the service but copi ...Show All

• .NET Development The Visual Studio 2005 Style UI...

  Hi. I think the Visual Studio 2005 UI is very awesome. How to can I reuse it in my .Net Application or implement it good work. I didn't realize there was an open source project on this. You learn something new everyday. Thanks for posting the details, I sure will bookmark the page. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game Components, Game.GameServices and GraphicsDevice

  I've been working on some Game Components and was following an article by Mitch Walker about exposing GraphicsDevices between Game Components through Game.GameServices . I thought I'd try it out as it would make things so much easier.So, I went through the article and implemented what was needed, but I still can't get at the GraphicsDevice for some reason. Inside my Game Component, I have: private IGraphicsDeviceService GraphicsDeviceService; public override void Start() { // TODO: Add your start up code here GraphicsDeviceService = this.Game.GameServices.GetService<IGraphicsDeviceService>(); GraphicsDeviceService.DeviceCreated += new EventHandler(GraphicsDeviceService_DeviceCreated); GraphicsDeviceService.DeviceReset + ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Map events not firing in Firefox 2

  I just upgraded to Firefox 2. Event though this is still a release candidate ( i know ), the map events are not firing on my app. The events in question are "oncontextmenu" and "onchangeview". These are the ones i use at the moment and so i don't know bout the other events. Will Firefox 2 be supported in the near future A lot of people are already switching, and I have to know what to expect (Question for the VE Team) Thank you. This code works for me on Firefox 1.5 and 2. I put it in a wrapper page with the only change being using getElementById instead of $ on the third line as I didn't have scriptaculous handy and I added a last close bracket that was missing in the sample: <!DO ...Show All

• Visual C++ can not regsvr32 my DLLS

  Hi all, I had created a DLL on my machine. But I need to move it to another machine and call the regsvr32 on the DLL. But an error was prompted. It says: LoadLibrary("filename.dll") failed - The specified module could not be found. I called regsvr32 in the right path. Then I call that regsvr32 in my machine again and an error prompted and say: filename.dll was loaded, but the DLLRegisterServer entry point was not found. File can not be registered. Please help. Thanks Lewis oh I checked using depend.exe and found out that the DLL uses MSCVR80 but the target system, which does not have visual studio installed, uses MSCVR71 (default in windows) only. I wonder if I can chang ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Deployment From SD Card autorun.exe & restart

  Hi, Ive been testing different ways to instal compact framework 2 and SQL components then my app , using mobile 5. My problem is .. I use autorun.exe and once inserting the SD card, it fires the autorun event as expected , i then copy CF2 to the startup dir on the PDA then restart the PDA with code. The problem is here.. once the system comes back up ,the system does not detect the autorun.exe on my SD card (sometimes does trigger the event but sometimes doesnt!!) i use this to copy SQL .Bat's and a exe to install them as well as my app ,all on the next load up. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this Or even a better way in doing this process Many Thanks in advance... Jason ...Show All

• .NET Development XML databinding to a comboBox in windows forms

  Is it possible to bind information from an XML or app.config file to a comboBox in a windows application If so can someone point me in the right direction I have tried everything I can find but maybe I am just looking for the wrong thing. You don't need dateabase to create and fill up DataTable. You can create DataSet -- sort of in memory database. ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.dataset.readxml.aspx ) In general if you have any data structure that you can bind to comboBox you can read information from XML and put it to this structure/class. ...Show All

• .NET Development Soap Extension ChainSream method

  Hello, I use the soap extension to log the request and response soap messages in my web service like documented in the MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7w06t139.aspx it works fine with no problem but i want to understand: why we should finally copy the stream from the memory stream to the oldstream. First at the beforedeserialize stage we copied the stream to the memory stream and in the chain stream we returned the memorystream, in the afterserialaization stage i got the serialized message from the memory stream, this means that the .Net framework worked on the memory stream so the serialized message was written on it, so why the response to the client wasn't sent from memory stream, why should i copy it from the ...Show All

• .NET Development Working with threads

  Hi, I'm not completely into Threads on web or win forms. How can I create a Browser object for each thread and execute a method with this thread How can I define dinamically how many Threads will my page use How can I pause and how can I stop a thread execution (or maybe stop all threads) I saw many articles about threads, but I need one with more than examples that show "B" sometimes and after executing another thread, shows "A" also.... I need more complex samples with explanation and about using threads on UI elements. Thanks. Juliano.net wrote: Hi, I'm not completely into Threads on web or win forms. How can I create a Browser object for each thread and execute a method with this threa ...Show All