TDSoregon's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Weird question

  I have a question for all the leval designers out there. Let's just say I'm playing Doom 3 or something..See, Doom 3 or Quake 4 or any other game like that require a lot of visual memory..So let's just say that I'm playing the game and since all of thoes are first person shooters..Here's my master question is..Why don't you just put what you're not looking at in the game in a lower detail or maybe even wireframe But it wouldn't stay in a low detail until you turn, it would automaticaly render itself..Just think of the visual memory you would be saving.. Well, if you have a question or you just want to give me a billion dollars email me at sc ...Show All

• Visual C# How to present a Windows Application on the web?

  Hello, would anybody please suggest ways to the way to present Windows Application when a link (or tree node) on the Web site is clicked This is through VS2005 smart client distribution which install the software to the user's computer, but I do want the pupup Windows Application from the website running on user's machine independently without post back and data transfer. Greatly appreciate your possible help. James Hello, Avi_harush: Thank you very much for your implication. But what I wish is that once the user close the Internet Exploreor, the application will disapear from the client machine instead ...Show All

• Visual Basic Access COM+ objects remotely

  Hi,   I need some help to find out how to access a com+ object remotly from client using vb.net. I exported the server component as an application proxy.In the client machine I tried to install the component as a proxy. But actual server component (dll and tlb )also goes to the client machine . Still I could not create an object using createObject (vb.net). My com+  component is vb.net . Is there alternative way to access com+ object remotely other than exporting and insatalling as an application proxy If this is the way,how can I prevent actual servercode (dll) goes to client Is a standard way to write com+  component ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error connecting to Team Foundation Server using MSSCCI Provider

  Hi, we are currently testing Team Foundation System to see if it is suitable to replace our current source control system VSS 6.0d and are having problems connecting to TFS via MSSCCI provider. We are using the following: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer Version 8.0.50727.147 TFS MSSCCI provider V1 PowerBuilder 10.2.1 I selected 'Microsoft Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider' as the Source Control System in the IDE and then try to select a project and a dialog box for 'Connect to a Team Foundation Server' is displayed in which I select our server and the following error is displayed: Method not found: 'Micros ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions [OTP] Outlook Team Calendar Application V 2.2

  I recently installed Outlook Team Calendar Application V 2.2. It works really well - but one calendar is causing errors. "Error occured accessing an appointment Unknown Error". It is only happening on one of the team calendars and if I delete that calendar it works perfectly. When I readd that calendar - the errors start again. Any ideas ...Show All

• SQL Server SP1 ships

  Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx Thanks, Mark The link for the download on that page goes to the link http://www.microsoft.com/sql/tbd , which doesn't exist, and gives a 404 error. I assume "tbd" means To Be Decided. Has it really been released yet It'd also be good if it was possible to install this via Windows Update, but apparantly the technology doesn't yet exist to do this. See here for details: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=248730&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create a connection to data source !!!! SSRS 2005

  I cannot get this error resolve either for myself or any users, and I'm actually part of the Admin group! Furthermore, a user with whom I'm tring allow to view this report keeps getting prompted for their windows username and password. I thought that since this datasource was set to Windows Authentification that it would just pass it through I'm pulling my hair out at this point: Screen Shots: http://www.webfound.net/datasource_connection.jpg http://www.webfound.net/datasource_connection2.jpg http://www.webfound.net/datasource_connection3.jpg Also As far as I know, I've ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Get Latest Version is not..?

  We have been experiencing some issues with Get Latest Version not actually doing a Get Latest. If we compare 2 files that we know are different between a Workspace and the Source Repository we can see differences in the compare tool, but Source Control Explorer indicates that the latest version is on disk. If we delete the file from disk (well, move it), and perform a get, we still do not get the latest copy. The only way of getting the file with changes is to perform a Get Specific Version on that file, and force it to get the latest version. Also, performing a Get Latest recursive at the project or solution level is not always getting chan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is there an easy way to display 2 possible values in the property grid?

  I am writing my first control and have a property which has two possible valid values: 72 and 128. I would like to make these the only two options in the property editor, from a dropdown displaying only "72" or "128", however using enums it will display whatever the enum name is, which can't be a number (or start with a number) ...Show All

• SQL Server Package config errors - VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA

  Hi everyone, I am having issues with using package configurations when just chaging the ServerName and InitialCatalog vars of a Connection Manager.  I have DelayValidation = True on the Data Flow Task that is erroring out, but I am still recieving a VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA error before the package is executed.  The 2 boxes have identical tables I'm trying to access, although 1 is 2005 and the other is 2000.  Any thoughts   I thought that package configs were supposed to be quick and painless Thanks, Adrian NeedsNewMetadata means that the component is detecting a difference between the table ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Centralize suppressions (no more attributes) in VS2005

  Using VSTS, how can we avoid having to suppress violations all over our codebase I'm aware we can suppress things at an assembly or module level, but that's not my intent. I want to have fine-grain control, yet don't want my codebase polluted with all those attributes. This is the only reason we can't use the built-in Code Analysis in VSTS -- it screws with the code. I just want a separate analysis file that can store all the information it needs to, and stays completely separate from the source, but still get the benefits of VSTS and Team Build integration. Is there a way to hack the teambuild/msbuild stuff to use .fxcop project files but ...Show All

• SQL Server Reading truncated tooltips....

  Sometime when I’m using the Data Flow designer I create a task that displays a red circle with a white “x” in it. Usually, but not always, the tooltip appears explaining the problem. Sometimes when the tooltip appears I can’t read the message fully because it is truncated. What can I do in that case Barkingdog The tooltips are limited to 255 characters. But every validation error message also appears in Errors window, so if you can't read the tooltip, you can get the full message in Errors window. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to catch double click event of ListView ?

  Hi all, Currently, I can't see double click event of ListView. Please tell me how to get it. Thanks for your help. Steven, Double click event from header, listview item, or listview itself More descriptions on your scenario may be helpful. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Tablet PC - API for measuring Z

  Hi - I was wondering what was the API to calculate how far the stylus was from the screen. I know how to get the x and the y co-ordinates I was looking for the Z. Any help would be highly appreciated - Santosh Hi Santosh, in order obtain information about the z-coordinate, you would add PacketProperty.Z to your desired packet description: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/tpcsdk10/lonestar/microsoft.ink/Classes/packetproperty/Fields/z.asp That's the theory. However, the reality is that none of the existing hardware provides this information. At least I am not ...Show All

• Windows Forms SqlConnection and Dispose in Windows Forms

  Hi, I'm new to Windows Forms development. I'm developing a simple Windows Forms Application with 3 forms, MainForm, FormA and FormB. The MainForm simply contains 2 buttons to open FormA and FormB in a modal fashion using ShowDialog(). FormA contains some text boxes and a button to add a record to a database table in SQL Server. FormB reads the database table and displays some information. So, we can go the MainForm, click on a button to open FormA, add some records, then close FormA, click the other button in the MainForm to open FormB and view the records. Additionally, I have a class DataAccess.cs that contains various methods, namel ...Show All