sdbala's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 2d DirectX?

  Can someone point me to a simple 2D game engine that is run by DirectX. A simple one would be good. I dont need or know how to use all of the advanced programing. what i really want is to make a game like "robowar" or "darwinbots".. Oh. On the side... is it posible to graphics rendered by VB's managed backbuffer/render code that are about as fast DirectX if all i want is a 2D view Thanks One example of a ...Show All

• .NET Development Visual Studio .NET & importing an existing site

  I've recently been hired to overhaul a website.  It was built with .html and .asp pages as far as the design aspect, but the forms and DB connection is done in .NET. I've tried opening the website in Dreamweaver and I'm able to do site design no problem, but getting the .net code pieces imported into the dreamweaver program isn't working.  The .aspx and .ascx just won't come in.  As an example, there is a .net "login and user ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can I execute a command from a system string?

  Hello once more, this time I'm wondering if it's possible to execute a command line function from a system string... more specificly the the copy command (or if theirs another way to do this that works to.) What I'm trying to do is save a text file (well, inf, but same thing) to a directory the user chooses, my code is something like this: System::String^ fileName; fileName = System::String::Concat( "copy " , '"' ,System::Environment ...Show All

• Windows Forms selecting an item from a datagrid to show in a combo box

  hi, I've got two forms. In one form I've got a datagrid and in the other I've got all the controlls  for user to edit . When the user clicks on the datagrid(Form1) the relevent record data shows up in the second form. The problem  ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005RC Fails to Install

  I'm having a problem getting to install the RC.  First problem is the uninstall tool failed to uninstall my VS2005Beta2.  The log file is filled with "Product {GUID} is not installed" followed by a failure.  When reading through the log it states it's "Starting fix for {BB69B4AB-619E-487f-B0C2-5ACD1AE5A9A0}.... Issue name is Uninstall Visual Studio Components" MSIEXEC /x {BB69B4AB-619E-487f-B0C2-5ACD1AE5A9A0} also fails due to pro ...Show All

• Visual C++ ODS_SELECTED for MFC CMenu::DrawItem no longer works?

  Hi all, I write an application with MFC owner-draw menu. Under windows XP it works fine, but under windows Vista Beta2 5320, my DrawItem() no longer receives the selection status of the menu item. The code looks like this: ...(omitted) if (lpDrawItemStruct->itemState & ODS_SELECTED) { (draw selection rectangle) } After tracing, I found that itemState will never have ODS_SELECTED turned on. However, non-owner-draw menu wor ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Exception when executing a webtest run() from a test project build dll

  hi I have created webtests in my test project , run them succseffuly and build the test project to DLL i have created a simple application and added a referense to the test project DLL (TestWeb.dll) what am i doing wrong Dim wt As New TestWeb.TestWeb.WebTest1Coded() Try wt.Run() Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message) End Try   I am getting exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an obje ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Runtime Error

  I have a problem with Word on XP I keep getting a dialouge box up that says Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library X Runtime Error Program C:\program files\microsoft office\office 10\WINWORD.EXE abnormal program termination Any suggestions anyone Contact the support for word for such issues through the support folks on your area. Make sure you haven't installed any application that over copied t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Distributing directshow

  How do I distribute DirectShow now that it's not part of DX Or is it still part of the DX runtime Are there any WinSXS issues I should be aware of I thought I had WinSXS DX folders, but I don't anymore, so I'm not sure what's going on, nor can I find any DX merge modules in the SDK. This is an excellent question, to which I have not received a satisfactory answer. My GUESS is that 9.0c is going to be the last DS version shipped ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Getting rendered graphics (quickly) from the card

  I had a thread about thins some days back, but for some reason I can not write into it now. I am faced with the task of rendering some graphics with directx and then copying that graphics into another card which generates a video signal. I need to feed it a new frame 25 times a second. The size is 720*576 The rendering does not have to be any faster that this. I have tried two methods of geting the pixels, and both are much too slow. On ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Server Error in '/' Application. Database cannot be upgraded... ??

    Server Error in '/' Application. Hi! Thanks for asking! I'm a member of the ASP.NET team, and was just popping over here to see what was going on. The best place to ask ASP.NET questions is over on the ASP.NET forums at http://www.asp.net/welcome.aspx tabindex=1&tabid=39 Make sure that Network Service has Full access to the file ASPNETDB.MDF, if that doesn't get you going, try posting over in the ASP.NET forums. HTH, PEte ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Update of SettingValue.Value throws exception

  Hi, Following Dmitriy’s example ( http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=11246 ) I created an AddIn that analyzes an SDM diagram. During the analysis I’m trying to manipulate values of a particular SettingValue of a producer endpoint. This value is represented by a ComplexSettingValue[]. I have no problems to read and update existing elements of this array. But when I’m trying to reset it to a new array of this type because I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions PauseTime

  Hello all In VB6 I could pause an event by using the PauseTime property "eg: PauseTime = 0.01). How do you pause time in VB 2005 Express Thanks all Use the Thread.Sleep(timeout) ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Help, How to Include CheckBox Control In Column of DataGrid?

  How to Including CheckBox Control In Column of DataGrid Like this :http://www.msale.net/resco/images/smartgrid_overview.png The DataGrid Control In .Net Compact Framework no Events like in .Net Framework. Or use ListView instead. If you want to be able to bind the data to it, take a look at my blog entry: http://blog.opennetcf.org/ayakhnin/PermaLink.aspx guid=e2e7f6d3-c356-473f-87d2-127fb54ec531 ...Show All

• SQL Server Copying database using "Copy Database"

  I am struggling with the "Copy Database Wizard" in SQL Server 2005. I am used to working with DTS to copy data from one server to another, but with the new tools, I am having serious problems (in fact, it's unusable) 1. When copying a database using the "SQL Management Object" method, I always get errors concerning logins. If I select not to copy logins, I get errors "sp_grantdbaccess failed". If I do select to copy logins, the logins can't b ...Show All