Finny's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX 2.0 Shader Based Engine... Feedback wanted...

  Hello to all, I’m designing a small engine using managed directx 2.0 included with the december sdk, after reading several articles and tutorials about shaders I decided to develop the engine using (if possible) only shaders or at least avoiding as much as possible the fixed pipeline of directx. That’s mean I’ll using HLSL por lighting, texturing, meshes, shadows etc, although it may sound hard or very time consuming I believe is enterely possible based in the fact (that as far I know) any future engine that uses DirectX 10 will have to be based only on shaders. Even it’s not the first engine I develop, its the first time I’ll try doing ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS Folder Renames...

  If I rename a directory in TFS using the TFS Explorer, it first does a get of everything locally (5GB worth!!!), then upon check-in does the rename on the file paths etc. in the repository. Is there a way to get this to happen without doing the local get operation It's pretty much a complete time wasting step! Also, is it possible to get those pre SP1 patches from somewhere easy & public (ie. without hassling PSS etc.) You probably want to post this question in the Version Control forum, not the Build Automation forum... http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=478&SiteI ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Bug with DLinq Query Visualizer hangs the IDE

  If the Query Visualizer attempts to display a column that's defined as SQL Image and the data in the Blob field is not an image file (jpeg, gif, etc...) , the Visualizer gridview will throw exception after exception as it attempts to display data in the column. The only way to recover from this problem is to terminate the Visual Studio process.... and change the SQL field definition to text ! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to Format date from 01/01/06 to 01, Jan 2006 in VB 2005

  I am having a problem.  I just installed the new version of VB 2005, and I don't know how to format the date. For example in VB 6.0 I do as fallow: CODE:   Me.panelDate.Caption = Format(panelDate, "dddd"", ""dd MMMM"", ""yyyy") DISPLAY:   Sunday, 01 January 2006   If I do similar using the VB 2005 CODE:   Me .LabelDate.Text = Format(LabelDate.Text, "dddd"", ""dd MMMM"", ""yyyy" ) DISPLAY:   " dddd"", ""dd MMMM"", ""yyyy" I know it is something I am doing wrong.  Please someone help me I am getting stressed with this new VB 2005.   Thank You ...Show All

• .NET Development SmtpClient.EnableSsl Meaning

  I suppose I am showing my lack of knowlege about the protocol used for SMTP and the actual delivery of e-mail using that protocol between the sending server and the recipient's receiving server. But I have a real basic question regarding encrypting of an e-mail message with respect to the SmtpClient method of sending e-mail. The SmtpClient.EnableSsl property description is as follows: Specify whether the SmtpClient uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the connection. I understand that to clearly mean that SSL (or TLS) will be used to encrypt the data sent over the connection between the client application and the designated ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Microsoft Certification - I need suggestions

  Hi all, I am thinking of doing Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) Certification but I am confused as there are three lanes, Professional Developer: Web Developer Professional Developer: Windows Developer Professional Developer: Enterprise Applications Developer I would like to know which lane is the best and most required. Which type of application (Web or Windows or Enterprise Applications) is most developed in the IT industry so that I can do certification for that lane. Please suggest me. I think this forum needs a space for certifications also. Administrators please think about it. Kannan.B Binary Bits. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Copy files using ActiveSync connection

  Hello,   I am developing an application that at the end of the day saves all the work done in Text files. (this text files are to be read by an application in the computer) Is there any way for me to manage the file transfer of  the files, between the device and the computer     What i want to do is: Once the device gets connected to the activeSync, my application (application in the device) should detect it and then transfer files to the computer, and then get some other files from the computer. I want to send and get files from the computer once an activesync connection is established.   Can you help me I ...Show All

• .NET Development change internet explorer proxy settins

  Hello everybody I would like change the internet explorer default connection proxy setting. How can I do this in .NET 2.0 Is there a possibillity to safe the current setting and restoring when my application close Thanks   Best Regards Karsten By default .Net 2.0 web requests will read your IE proxy settings.  If you want to override those settings you have a few options: 1. Set you proxy settings via an application configuration file as specified here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/kd3cf2ex(en-US,VS.80).aspx 2. Set the proxy per request, by using the Proxy property on the W ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Windows Forms Control Library

  Although not new to C++ I'm looking recently into CLR and thus found my way to Visual C++ Express. To orientate myself with this edition, I briefly looked over some of the provided walkthroughs and found myself stuck. The Windows Forms Control Library is missing in the 'Visual Studio installed templates' pane. Windows Forms Application is available and operational. I do have the most recent x86 platform SDK installed and configured correctly. Something I've overlooked Cheers, Ulyses Visual C++ Express doesn't have the User Control template. The reasons are only known to Microsoft. The User control ...Show All

• Windows Forms User Control

  i made a custom user control. I would like to add this control to a group box at run time. What is the best way to do this private void NewXML_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { xml_groupBox.Controls.Clear(); xml_groupBox.Controls.Add(xmlUserControl1); } Cisco This is indeed a best practice, here is a little example to create an control that will fill the container control ( xml_groupBox ) because we set the Dock property to DockStyle.Fill and add it: private void NewXML_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { xml_groupBox.Controls.Clear(); XmlUserCo ...Show All

• Visual C# serial port

  Hi, I am new to C# and wanted to know How do I read data from serial port. and convert that data into integers.please help.. Hi I have come across this kind of quiz have a looksie here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=286910&SiteID=1 Hope this Helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item Submission?

  I know TFS is still in beta, but are there any add-on's for it floating around Specifically, I'm looking for a tool for user submission of WorkItems.  For example, suppose I have a website for a client, and they want to request a change.  I'd like to have a web page for them to submit the change, upload any relevant files, and allow them to come back and track the status of that workitem request. Anyone know of anything   Anyone developing anything Hmm it's good idea, as far as I know, there are no 3rd party products for it, hmm, well I know one, the Scrum plugin by Conchango, but ...Show All

• .NET Development System monitoring

  Is there any way to stay monitoring changes in registry and network ports usage (like a firewall) using .Net Framework Hi Stephen, Thanks for the answeer. But I have two new questions. First - Are this APIs compatible with all MS Windows versions Second - What do you mean with "port to your favourite programming language for the CLR" Is it just call for APIs in C#,VB.Net or J# application ...Show All

• Windows Forms Calculate Width of a String in Pixels

  hallo, Given a Font and a string, is there any ready-to-use function in .NET which can compute the resulting width of the string in pixels So that I can adapt say a Label, MenuItem or Textbox to the new size of a string. thx, Steve I guess we can agree to disagree on this one.  =) I didn't have a lot of time to plink with&n ...Show All

• Visual C# UserControl Close, Exit, Terminate, Etc.

  Does anyone know of a way to determine when a UserControl is being closed by the user in C# There used to be a Terminate event in VB6 that you could capture. I can't find anything like that for UserControl. Thanks. I also got the following useful information from another forum. namespace FormCloseCapture { public partial class UserControl1 : UserControl { public UserControl1() { InitializeComponent(); } protected override void OnCreateControl() { base .OnCreateControl(); this .ParentForm.FormClosing += new FormClosingEventHandler(ParentForm_FormClosing); } void Paren ...Show All