RobertoG's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 3D game tools

  I want to create a simple flying game using DX and C#, what are some of the tools people here use to place objects into world space(to get the coords), my idea is to use a manager I created to manage my resources then once I find a good tool to use to get world coords I will create a class that will tie into my rendering loop that will grid out my world for rendering. thanks for any help or Ideas Placing objects ...Show All

• Visual C# Newbie question...odd or even?

  Hi ! I have just started studying C# and I need some help... I'd like to know how to tell if an integer is odd or even I want to use it with an if / else function. Ex. int c ; if ( c is odd) { // do this } else { // do that } Hope you can help me Try this: if (c % 2 == 0) { Console.WriteLine("Even"); } else ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista make a simple ASP.Net workflow

  I am new at WWF and I want to build a simple ASP.Net workflow application where the first user creat the instance process and the second user recieves it in his Inbox (his Task list) , the he edit just one field of the datafield for the data that entered by the first user . Can WWF do that as simple as other products ... I wish if there is an example or good article about this Idea b/c I searched and I found nothing ... Regards . ...Show All

• Visual Basic I keep getting out of range exception

  I have this peice of code Dim out(2, 100) As Char Dim  a As Integer = 0 Dim b As Integer = 0 While  a <= 100 And  b <= 2 out(col, row) = val(cnt) all the variables not declared are just not in this snippit. I keep getting array outofrange exception or something on the last line ive tryed a ton of things and im really frustrated, thanks in advance note: cnt = 0, and increases each time ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Crystal Report and VB 2005 express

  I have download the VB 2005 Express.  But I can not find the crystal report.  How Can I upgrade my project Thank you.   The crystal reports system does not come with the express products, you need to have the professional or team systems. Have a lok at the product line for the Visual Studio systems ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Insert picture problem - Outlook Express 6

  When I try to insert a picture in an e-mail message, I click Insert and then, Picture. This brings up a Picture window. I click Browse and click on my choice of pictures. When I hit O.K., the picture is inserted into the body of my e-mail message. At this point, everything freezes. I can't close the Picture window that I used to browse for a picture. Nothing responds so I have to hit CTRL + ALT + Delete and close out Outlook Express. When I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Could not download 'setup.exe' deployment

  I published my VS2005 APP to Windows2003 server. The build went well, but a warning  message appear: "Could not download 'setup.exe' from http://myserver.com/MyClickonceApp/Publish.htm " If I add this address to my browser, the clickOnce installation page show up correctly, but when I click the Install button I get this CGI Error: The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. If I click on ...Show All

• .NET Development Can I add Microsoft.AnalysisServices assembly into SQL CLR stored proc

  My general problem is that I want to make a runtime component that: will sit on the SQL Server machine will be called with a large xml parameter, then use AMO to define and process a new AS database Can be invoked from a non windows machine using jdbc or web services. Preferably jdbc. I made a CLR C# SQL stored procedure that references the Microsoft.AnalysisServices assembly (adding the reference to the project file using a text ...Show All

• .NET Development Code runs but database doesn't update

  All, I'm new to ADO.NET (used to work in ADO and am really struggling with the concept!)... I've got a web form, which has a dataset and connection attached with 2 text fields that I want to use to add a new record to a table. The code runs fine, but the database does not get updated... the db is Access. Here's the code - I know I'm doing something stupidly wrong, but I can't work it out! Thanks in advance. Dim strPN As String Dim s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System AgentInstallation Issue

  Following Agent install, the state of the agent I have to manually add to Controller via "Administer Test Controller" shows status as offline. Error message returned after trying to "Restart Rig" is "The RPC server is unavailable" However, RPC services are all running on both controller machine and agent machine. Controller machine is also VS machine. Agent is on machine 2. All are XP sp2 with firewall ...Show All

• Visual C++ Errors when building MFC applications

  When converting an MFC application from VS.net 2003 to VS 2005, I got the deprecated warning. While I was working on it, I probably made some kind of setting (not sure where) that causes any C++ application (out side of .Net applications) to error on building. I get the following errors when I try to build: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include\string.h(55) : error C2733: second C linkage of overloaded function 'memcpy' ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Persistence

  I need to store about 10 000 000 workflows in a database. With standart serialization one workflow takes 25 kb. Every instance has the same schema. Is there a way to minimalize the required db space My idea is to save the schema somewhere and then during the deserialization recreate the activity tree ( not deserialize workflow instance ). However, there're problems with activities' internal state. Does anybody know how to do it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions unable to run setup/install

  i have a problem.just completed downloading the vb2005 express edition (vb.img around 486 mb). it took almost 20 days to downlod.now the frustrating part. I cant install it(cant run the setup.exe file).whenever i try to run it a dos prompt window opens and closes and then nothing. what should i do i dont want to download this huge file again. I believe that there is a link up on the MSDN Subscriber Website that ...Show All

• SQL Server TOP 100 ordering of Data Question

  Hi, I was trying to use the UNION construct to combine two tables. The second table was to be sorted before effecting the UNION. The first attempt was the following: SELECT emp_id , assigned_branch_id FROM employee WHERE title = 'Teller' UNION SELECT open_emp_id , open_branch_id FROM account ORDER BY open_emp_id The above was generating an error. I then tried SELECT emp_id , assigned_branch_id FROM e ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Contest Participant Document

         Hi!!!        I was wondering if it is possible for all participants of “The World’s Best App” contest to have a document that acknowledges that we participated in this event, even if they (or we) did not win one of the prizes.   You know, just a memento or something that we can brag about with, say, our grandchildren or Human Resource Head Hunters. I wonde ...Show All