rabbitears's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How to use the ClipPlanes Class?

  I try to use ClipPlanes to Clip a region for device.But Always fail.Who can tell me how to use ClipPlanes,ClipPlane, Device.ClipPlanes,Device.ClipStatus . Here's some code from a sample I have. Send me an email of you want the full project ( zman@thezbuffer.com ). I have this code right before I call Draw() ClipPlane plane0 = dev.ClipPlanes[2] as ClipPlane; plane0.Enabled = true ; plane0.SetSingleArray( new float []{0.1f, ...Show All

• SQL Server Mapping of SQL Server data types to Integration Services Data Type

  Does anyone know of any cross-references between SQL Server data types and the new data types introduced with SQL Server Integration Services   For example, Integration Services has "DT_DATE", "DT_DBDATE", "DT_DBTIME" and "DT_DBTIMESTAMP".  So far, if I have a SQL Server datetime column, the only Integration Services type I have been able to use is "DT_DBTIMESTAMP".  There must be a way to map the datetime type to "DT_DATE", "DT_ ...Show All

• .NET Development .net issue with 100% cpu spikes and user slowness

  Hello everyone, First the system specs win2k3 standard server running iis 6.0. development is done is asp.net 1.1. about 400 max users. Since our company is a bit on the cheaper side, they asked me to look into this, let me start off by letting you all know, I do not know much about asp. I'm more of a desktop support person/server support person. Problem: we get periodical 100% cpu utilization for several minutes on the w3wp.exe p ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to convert the below line of vc++ code to vb

  how to convert the below line of vc++ code to vb 'width_mask = (BYTE)(((1 << (start_bit - end_bit)) - 1) << 1 | 1); 'tthe << character is used for bit shifting and the | character is an or. Dim width_mask As Byte = CByte ((((1 << (start_bit - end_bit)) - 1) << 1 Or 1))   In vc++ Bitwise Left Shift and Right Shift Operators:  <<, >> In vb there is no operator for this i gue ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Formating a Label

  Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click 'This calculates average income tax paid on earned income Dim incomebox As Double Dim MTR As Double incomebox = IncomeBox1.Text MTR = MTRBox2.Text Label20.Text = "$" & MTR / 100 * incomebox End Sub Private Sub Label20_Enter( ByVal sender As System.Object, By ...Show All

• Smart Device Development ODBC

  Hello everyone and happy Easter, i'd like to write some data in any database using ODBC, is this possible on windows mobile 2003 and how till now i've tried to get the ODBC drivers from my pocket pc but i keep having null objects as results. here is the code, it's actually 3 c# files that u add to a project and a form that has a button called button1 and a multiline textbox called textBox1, when you click on the button the drivers' list s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions New to Visual Basic Express - Viewing and Printing Data

  I am new to Visual Basic Express;I last programmed in Quick Basic (DOS). Through various books I have been able to construct a Form to input data such as, for example, speed and time (I am keeping this simple;the actual situation is more complicated). Using this data I perform calculations which produce results which I store in variables d, s, and t. I simply want to produce a new form in order to view the results in the following way: ...Show All

• Windows Forms trying to replicate "historyList" functionality

  hiya, I'm trying to do the above. However, the only text that appears in my listbox is: userCtrlName + RowItem userCtrlName + RowItem userCtrlName + RowItem here is the code: I assign to a datatable. I know that the datTable contains valid data, because I check&nb ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked servers 2000/2005

  I can't define  a linked server in SQL Server 2005 x64 edition (to a SQLServer 2000 instance). The error message is : OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "serv01" returned message "Unspecified error". OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "serv01" returned message "The stored procedure required to complete this operation could not be found on the server. Please contact your system administrator.". Msg 7311, Level 16, ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ...

  Hi,    I've added a ContextMenu to a ListBox. The notion is to have the right click on a ListBoxItem select an item and then present a context menu specific to the selection.    Default behavior of ListBox is to select a ListBoxItem by the click of the left mouse button. Can a ListBoxItem be selected by the right mouse button Many thanks in advance, Rana Rana - True, but I can think of ...Show All

• SQL Server Documentation / Metadata tools

  Hi, I heard about some upcomming tools... About logging and metadata management (Donald told in the IT Forum about that) and some documentation tools (I don't remember anymore who mentioned that)... Are there any specific dates/previews/feature lists Thanks, Michael, so this will analyse all the XML files in a project ( ) and show usage paths of information (where does it come from, where is it going, where is it used) This would be ve ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unexpected error

  I have Visual Basic 6 Service Pack 6. When i generate the package for my project , this message appears : "Unexpected error number 28 has occurred. Out of stack space" Please help me These fora are for Dot.Net software. If you have a VB6 question, please make use of the Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center to find a solution to your problem. Thank you. OTP ...Show All

• .NET Development Web service client (VB.Net): debug build works, release build doesn't

  I'm writing a VB.Net client application that communicates with web services running on Apache Axis 1.3 and Apache Tomcat 5.5.16. I'm using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Everything was working fine until I tried running the release build instead of the debug build. It gets to one of the web service calls and reports an exception: System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (1, 368). ---> System.ArgumentExcep ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Conversion problem

  I am trying to convert my VSTO 2003 projects to VSTO 2005 and failing one after another.  VS says it converted them successfully, but the Solutioin Explorer shows they are unavailable. Attached is the log of one of the conversions. If I remove the unavailable converted proejct and try to add it back, then I get the following error: The operation could not be completed. No such interface supported. Could anyone offer any hint T ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems With SQL 2005 SP1 (x64)

  Hi, After installing SP1 onto our SQL x64 2005 box (running Server 2003 x64 R2), I have come across two problems. The first is that the install seems to fail for database services (and I see I'm not the only one), declaring the following: I haven't had a problem across a suite of x64 installs here at the bank. Disk space can be an issue as the SP install seems to require a lot. You can also run into problems if you have removed the ...Show All