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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Wave bank file is huge

  Hi! I need help on compressing audio files. Our game music is making our XNA game quite huge. How do you make XNA compress the sound and music for the game when you deploy WilderLand wrote: That isn't entirely correct. You can compress the size of WAV files in XACT, it isn't as good as MP3 format, but it can pull down the size by 75%. Oh wow, I never noticed that. Thanks for the info. ...Show All

• SQL Server Print Button

  I have a web application with a stand alone report. When I put the ReportViewer in the webform I can see every reports in the project. The problem is that I can't see the print report button... If I indicate that the report is a "Server Report" instead a local report the Print Report appear, but a need a "Local Report" not a "Server Report" How can i solve that. Thank you. This is brutal not to be able to do this. It's like not showing a mouse cursor when you just bought a mouse. I've been busting my head trying to figure out why It cant use the same print control as server reports.. ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to get SerialPort to fire DataReceived event for a single byte

    Here's a sample piece of code that connects to a serial port and sends keyboard input to the other side.  Everything works great if the other side sends more than one byte at a time, but when only one byte is sent, the DataReceived Event is never fired.  The serial server to which I'm connecting echos characters.  Inspecting the comport in the debugger shows that data is being recieved by the internal buffer and is being added to the internal buffer as new bytes are sent, but so long as the server sends single bytes, no event is triggered.  If I type very quickly I can generate the case where the server sends mutlple bytes and the event fires fine.  I've verified that the ReceivedBytesThres ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Why does CustomTaskPane.Window return an object instead of a Window?

  Why does the CustomTaskPane.Window property return an object instead of a Window The Word.WindowEventArgs.Window property returns a Window. Shouldn't this be the same To build on what David said, the Microsoft.Office.Tools.CustomTaskPane.Window property returns an object because the specific window type depends on which application the add-ins is targeting. The following table lists the valid types of the Microsoft.Office.Tools.CustomTaskPane.Window parameter. Word 2007: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Window Excel 2007: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Window PowerPoint 2007: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.DocumentWindow InfoPath 2007: Microsoft.Office.Interop.InfoPath.WindowObject Outlook 2007 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development programmatically remove program

  Is there a way to programmatically remove a program that is listed in the Removed Programs instead of having the user navigate to the Settings..System...Remove Programs...selecting the desired program to remove nevermind. Since I know the application name, I am using the registry keys to find the install directory and removing the subtree. ...Show All

• .NET Development When linking ILASM doesn't set version information

  After compiling pure IL code with ILASM my resulting dll doesn't show Version tab on Properties window. It seems that attributes are not used when linking. There is no possibility to use al.exe - it says I can't link files containing assembly but how to produce netmodule from il Marcin But how to prepare such a file What should be inside rc file I don't know what is the exact name of this resource name and can't find any information. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to access the graphicsDevice from a new gameComponent

  Alright, I'm fairly new to the C# language so it may just be an issue with that. In any case I'm trying to figure out how to access the graphicsDevice from a different gameComponent. For example I want to create a SpriteBatch in a gameComponent in which the GraphicsComponent was not created in. So how would I go about accessing it I don't know if this is just me being an idiot and there is a simple solution or if something more complex needs to be implemented so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Obtaining the device is very easy: IGraphicsDeviceService graphicsService = ( IGraphicsDeviceService ) GameServices.GetService( typeof ( IGraphicsDeviceService )); Now you can use the g ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums No way to pause a campaign?

  I am not seeing any way to pause a campaign. Also it does not appear there is any way to know the current status of a campaign. Is this functionality somewhere in the API Pause/resume functionality is currently available only at the individual order level, via the PauseResumeOrder API (which is a bulk API, despite the misleading singular name). Therefore, campaigns do not have a pause/resume "status" associated with them, that you could get or set. Orders do. ...Show All

• Visual C++ help!!

  hi i really need help on this bcz some how i find it hard and im clueless ** write a program that prompts the user to input a positive integer. it should the output a message indicating whether the number is a prime number. plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me asap Most people on this forum are unwilling to do your course work for you. What they are willing to do is to help you answer specific questions you have about some code. If you don't understand the question I suggest talking to who ever is giving the course. He or she should be able to explain in greater detail what is expected. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Data Generation - Schema changes

  Hi, In CTP5, is there a way to refresh a Data Generation plan if I add a new FK constraint directly in the target DB In other words, in the Column Details tab, it currently shows 'integer' for a certain column. I want that to change to 'Foreign Key' to reflect the changes in the target DB. Thanks, JGP Hi JGP Data Generation works off the schema that exists in the project system. Therefore you would need to update the table containing that FK in order for the data generation plan to be updated. In CTP 5 you will need to import the table itself via the import wizard. However in CTP 6 we will allow you to import the update table from target db into the project system via Schema Compare. ...Show All

• Visual C++ problem with moving project from vc++2003 to vc++2005

  hello all, i am porting my projects from vc++2003 to vc++2005 express and having several problems. I want to use some libs that are old and compiled with vc++2003. is that even possible, or any kind of workaround to my problem i know that there have been some changes concerning the iostream implementation, i am not sure thou if this does affect me or not. any comments appreciated. i checked my project settings and i compiled everything with /MDd thank you very much the errors i am getting are: msvcprtd.lib(MSVCP80D.dll) : error LNK2005: "class std::basic_ostream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > & __cdecl std::operator<<<struct std::char_traits<char> >(class std::basic_ostream<char,st ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with a school project.

  I need help with an EAST project. My instructor wants me to create a transcript viewer for our school officew to use. She wants it to where you type in the students name and pick year of graduation and it displays the students transcript. The files need to be on the hard drive and in folders name by their year of graduation. I have the form layed out with a textbox for their name, a drop-down for the year, and a button for search. Will someone please help me from here or at least tell me how to do it So you need to create a file structure where this information is going to be stored. \<Year>\<Name>\Transcript.txt So the transcript file is always going to be called transcript.txt and is g ...Show All

• .NET Development Marshal SAFEARRAY to/from COM object

  I have a COM object with a method declared thus: HRESULT GetPixels([ in ] IDispatch * position, [ in ] VARIANT values, [ out , retval ] VARIANT_BOOL* result); - which I'm trying to call from managed code (c#, to be specific). My problem is with the values parameter. It's intended to be passed a VARIANT that has VT_ARRAY and (optionally) VT_BYREF attributes. It can have up to 5 dimensions, and the elements can be any of several types (from bytes to doubles). The values of the array are effectively 'out' parameters from the method, although the data type and array dimensions are effectively 'in'; in other words, the COM method fills the pre-allocated array with values. The default marshalling seems to treat the values parameter ...Show All

• Visual Studio VSS keyword expansion

  Hello Does anyone know if possible to change the "$" to another symbol for using the Keyword Expansion. <Reason being, that MISRA C Standards prohibit the use of non ISO C standard character set. MISRA is the automotive restrictions for writing software> thanks in advance -Bitt Flipper ...Show All

• Visual Basic IsNumeric function with multiple text boxes.

  How do you use the IsNumeric function with multiple text boxes The code works great with numbers and the decimal but in only one textbox. Thanks You can just call the function seperatly on multiple text boxes. Something like this: IsNumeric(textBox1.Text) IsNumeric(textBox2.Text) etc.. -Scott Wisniewski ...Show All