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• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. weird sprite positioning behaviour

  I am currently designing a simple 2D breakout game using Direct3D. I created a custom sprite class that allows easy drawing of 2d graphics. However, my problem started when I decided to scale some of my sprites. When i call Sprite.Draw2D (or even Sprite.Draw), and I specify a rectangle for the DestinationRectangle parameter that is larger than the size of the texture (thus, scaling the sprite). If i were to then draw this sprite on the scr ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Not able to generate proxy with typed dataset using svcutil.exe and WCF Feb CTP (with Jan Ctp was working fine)

  Hi, I wrote an WCF service using Jan CTP which transfer the typed dataset to and from between client and service. It is working with Jan CTP and I am able to generate the proxy using the SVCUtil.exe. Recently I have updated my system to work with Feb CTP and provide the necessary chnages in the App.config file. when I tried to generate the new Proxy with SvcUtil.exe( WinSDK FEB version) I got the below error: Error: Unable to obtain Met ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Distribute elements extracted from XML to ListColumns or Cells

  Hi, people I'm already get the connection using MSXML, rather than winhttpRequest in VBA code. The response that I'm obtaining for while just is displayed in specific cells. Well, when I do a simple query it's all O.k, the problem comes when I need to access many datas (from ISBN numbers), in this case what I've got it's only one item. Or be, I can't view the others datas from others books.. I already saw something to work ...Show All

• Visual Studio How to use Generic List in T3

  This fails at run time because Entities is unknown despite it is part of my GAT project. Any idea Thanks in advance, Philippe <#@ Template Language="C#" #/> <#@ Using Namespace="System" #/> <#@ Using Namespace="System.ComponentModel" #/> <#@ Using Namespace="System.Collections.Generic" #/> <# /* Retrieve parameters for use in the template */  System.ComponentModel.Design.IDictionaryService svc = (System.Component ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with Datetime type in MS Access

  When I want to find the records between a date range, there is a column 'Saledate' which type is Datetime, I always use below way to do that: Select * from Table1 where SaleDate >= #1/1/2001# and SaleDate <= #1/1/2002# It works fine in MS Access UI. But it doesn't work in my C# program. My program like:   private System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand oleDbSelectCommand1;   private System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand oleDbInsertComm ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I resolve DataGridView and CDialog bug

  To reproduce bug: Insert DataGridView into VC++ CDialog, using CWinFormsControl class. Set Grid::ColumnCount = n to show edit row. Run application. In DataGridView try to input any string into any cell and in edit mode go to an other application (by Alt+Tab or mouse click). When you go back, the DataGridView application will be not responding. If you want minimal sample project, please contact omega-skartashov@comped.it The bug is re ...Show All

• Windows Forms HOW TO ADD CONTEXTMENU TO EACH ITEM IN A LISTVIEW WHEN I SELECTED IT?

  I have a listview with some items in it, I want to when I select each item in listview a contextmenu will apear with it. And I want to manupulate each contextmenu follows with that item. The Listview I set LargImageList property. How can I ...Show All

• Visual Basic Iterate registry keys using WMI??

    I need to iterate through registry keys. In the code below I try to display just one key for debugging purposes, but I can’t make it work. Any ideas I will need to do this remotely so I’m using WMI.   Thanks for any help Steve   Dim options As New System.Management.ConnectionOptions() options.Impersonation = ImpersonationLevel.Impersonate options.EnablePrivileges = True   Dim Scope As New Ma ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word document Page count, word count, paragraph count, values.

  Hi, Is it possible to get the genereted word document number pages [ page count value ], paragraph count value, word count values, etc through programming. I would like thank if ony one answer to me. Yes, programatically you can count the number of pages in a word document, number of paragraphs in a word document and so on. Cheers Praveen ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL2005: Configuring Web synchronization for merge replication

  I'm trying (and failing!) to get Web synchronization for merge replication working with SQL Server Standard 2005 Sept CTP. I've created and configured a merge publication and have configured the publication for Web synchronization using the 'Configure Web Syncrhonization' wizard. I've followed all the setup instructions in the Configuring Web Synchronization article in Books Online and have tried testing that it works by accessing https://<ma ...Show All

• SQL Server RS 2005 Date Picker problem in Report Viewer?

  When I "Preview" a report in Visual Studio or run it thru the "Report Manager" the Date Pickers show up.  But if I try to use the Report Viewer control (ie. ReportViewer1) in a form the Date Pickers don't show up. Is this a bug or am I doning something wrong Thanks! Yes, the Report Viewer control is a different set of code. Since we deliver this code to Visual Studio, it is an earlier build ...Show All

• Windows Forms Filling an Array from a DataSet

  Is there a quick way to fill an array from a dataset.  The only way I know how to do this is fill the dataset and the loop through filling an array.  Is there any way to do the following arrayname=dataset("columnname") Tim ...Show All

• .NET Development Determine valid IIS website using System.DirectoryServices

  I'm trying to determine which IIS website is a valid website and which are not, i.e. which apps are actually IIS IIsWebDirectory and which are not, how can this be done I'm using System.DirectoryServices in C#.NET. Below is some sample code, the problem I think is that all the websites inherit from their parent ROOT, and so all appear and IIsWebDirectory and also with an AppRoot value, even though some clearly do not have this property themselv ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS 2005 Beta 2 Emulator deployment problem.

  I developed a simple "Hello World" application for Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone with VS2005 Beta 2. Then, I ran the program in debug mode. The application compiles fine but the deployment fails. Here is the content of the "output" window: ------ Build started: Project: myTest, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------ Csc.exe /noconfig /nowarn:"1701;1702" /nostdlib+ /errorreport:prompt /warn:4 /define:DEBUG;TRACE;Smartphone /reference:"C:\P ...Show All

• .NET Development Web Services .net framework 2 over SSL

  I have just ported an ASP.NET 1.1 application to framework version 2 and i have a problem. I used to use the following code in framework 1.1. // // workaround to make the webservice call work over ssl // System.Net. ServicePointManager .CertificatePolicy = new WebServicePolicyHelper (); MyWebService ws = new MyWebService (); result = ws.MyMethod(params...); When I compile the program in framework Version 2, it tells me ...Show All