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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Graphics Engine Design

  I am looking for material on designing a graphics engine. The main purpose of the engine will be tech demo development and function as  shader playground. To start with I have some ideas about decoupling materials and shaders. I would like to have the flexibility that an object can have multiple materials. One part could be a diffuse surface with phong illumination, another part of the same object could be a bump mapped rusty surface with cook-torrance illumination etc. If anyone could point me to some good sources to investigate or have some thought please share.     Thanks ...Show All

• Visual C# C# Without .Net

  Hello Fellows, I’m about to start a project, and in this project i cannot have any framework I must have only the .EXE of the application. Is it possible to create an EXE in C# that does not depend on .Net framework Thanks Technically speaking, you can compile any application without mscorlib by giving the parameter /nostdlib to the compiler. But it practically renders your entire application uncompilable unless you give it another library to link to that has all the references that C# needs, e.g. System.Object. Now why would you want to do something as not to depend on the .NET Framework You will require to link to something to give ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Adding Strings to an Array

  Hi, I'm trying to add strings into an aray, when it matches the criteria: If strProdCat = "Beer" Then strAgeRest(intCount) = strSelProd intCount = intCount + 1 End If This isn't working, can anyone suggest what to do Thanks How exactly it’s not working Are you getting an exception Which one What's stack trace, error message How variables are declared ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem running Debug solution

  Hi all, I hope this is the right forum to ask this question. If not, please advise me where I should be sending this. I have started using the last version of the DSL tools, but run into a problem. When I go though the first walkthrough and get to the point where I have to run Start Debug Visual Studio tries to startup the second VS, but this stops with a dialog box stating:     Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application. No other error messages, events or log files can be found.  I did install the correct edition of VS, the VS SDK and the DSL tools.  Two of my collegues have ins ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CA0055 Could Not load x.dll

  I am using Code Analysis in VS 2005 Developer edition. I have a Web Application that works just fine - however FXCop tells me that it gets an error CA0055 could not load WYSIWYGeditor.dll - which is an add in functionality for web editing made at Innova studios. This project resides in source control and is located in the BIN folder. Is there anyway to fix this error or have FxCop ignore the Bin directory Thanks I'm guessing that the DLL that won't load was compiled against 1.1 whilst your other assemblies have been compiled against 2.0 If this is the case then an exception is being thrown in the IntrospectionAnalysisEngine.dll: The f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Couldn't get Configuration"

  Our test project used to work but we broke something - now we get "Couldn't get Configuration" - not much point putting that one into google! A new solution and test project is fine but we'd like to fix our existing (fairly detailed) solution rather than rebuild it from scratch (and maybe have it happen again) Any ideas on this one would be great cheers Dave Hi guys, I got "Couldn't get Configuration" again when I added a new report project (SQL RS2005) - removed it again and all was OK again... HTH Dave ...Show All

• Visual Basic Processing Serial Data

  I need the reduce the processing time in a uMicrocontroller to allow faster sampling times. This has creates a problem in the data collection routine in VB. The old system collected the analog data a converted it to a decimal format before sending it to the serial port. This data is collected and saved using Hyperterminal. The VB program would, when run, would open this file and process the decimal data by graphing it. What I need is to capture the data directly and process a binary word. All attempts to run the graph program have failed! I'm sure it's in the way I'm reading the data. I've not been able to find much informatio ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET Windows Forms : actually a dead-end

  Apart from Web Matrix, any [popular] commercial applications out there based on .NET Windows Forms yet  That's a sad state of affairs considering that RIA (Rich Internet Applications) based on Windows Forms could be, IMHO, the best technology for delivering compelling products. Alas, the 56kbps vs broadband ratio is still somewhere 2 to 1, at least in the U.S.  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Computer Shuts down on Install

  Hi, I'm trying to install vs2005 - default install - from Disc 3073 Enu MSDN TE for Softw Dev. This is on a clean machine (formatted HDD + XP PRO + SP2). Every time the computer shuts down (in fact 'turns off' without warning)  at about the same point during installation (near the end of vs2005). I have rebuilt this computer (Acer TM636LCI) from scratch 3 times now (twice enu, once dutch) but it keeps on failing. Please advice! Getting a bit desperate   TIA, Michael Can you take a look at your system and application event logs to see why it shut down   ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Time format saved a character field

  Hi, Can somebody pls help me figure out how am i going to compute the time format such as this one "05:32:44" saved in a character field. The output should also be a time format not like this one when i'm summing up all the records "190:119:255". The time is in this format Hour:Minute:Second. I will appreciate very much if somebody can help me on this. Thank you in advance You can use conversion functions like: Function TimeStr2Seconds Lparameters tcTime Local Array aTime[3] Alines(aTime,m.tcTime,.T.,':') Return Val(aTime[1]) * 3600 + ; Val(aTime[2]) * 60 + ; Val(aTime[3]) Function Secon ...Show All

• .NET Development Pass object by Ref

  Hello, I have sort of dummy question If I pass object by ref to the remoth method, and in that method I call method or property of this object, is it going to be executesd on the client or on the server, and also is it going to make a trip to the client In other words: //remote method on the server remoteMethod(ref MyObj obj) { obj.Add("test1"); obj.Add("test2"); obj.Add("test3"); } is going to do 3 additional trips to the server Thank you May be I am becomming very annoying but ... if we have the follow situation: public class A : MarshalByRefObject, IManagedObject { ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView , DataSource and myGridView.Rows return null (same for .Columns)

  Well, I was very happy to be able to set up a complex query to fill a DataSet and use that DataSet as a DataSource for a DataGridView. But the issue is that the DataGridView displays the data in a very raw mode and that I need to apply many different style depending on each cell. But the Columns property returns null and the Columns.Count return 0 Same for Rows and Count. I have had to create all the columns manually from code to be able to apply styles to columns, but now I need to apply styles to cells/rows and I can't see any way of getting that Rows collection... Is this my poor knowledge Is this a bug Is there a workaround Thanks f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions create setup package

  how can i create a setup package for my application in C# 2005 Express In the Express Editions you are limited to ClickOnce deployment, take a look at this MSDN article on it to guide you through the process. ...Show All

• SQL Server System::ContainerStartTime may nt be working properly

  Hi, I've posted a little demo of using event handlers for doing custom logging here . Unfortunately, as I have said right at the end, the task duration (which I derive from System::ContainerStartTime doesn't seem to be getting logged properly. There's a demo package at the above link. Could someone download it and try and figure out why System::ContainerStartTime does not seem to be behaving correctly because its baffling me. Quite probably user error although I'm using it in exactly the same way as System::StartTime and that is working fine. Thanks Jamie OK. Done. Track ID 631766486 .   Kirk Haselden wrote: One th ...Show All

• Visual C++ Is partial redistribution of VS 2005 DLLs allowed?

  We're looking at migrating our applications from Visual C++ 6 to Visual Studio 2005.  We link in the MFC and the C-runtime DLLs.  Since users download our application over the Internet, we need to minimize the download size as much as possible.  We would need to redistribute the VS 2005 DLLs as applocal. Does the license agreement for redistribution require that the entire contents of the Microsoft.VC80.CRT and Microsoft.VC80.MFC be redistributed if any of them are needed Or would it be possible to just redistribute mfvcr80.dll and mfc80.dll and their manifests appropriately modified, since that's all we need at this po ...Show All