Latesh Patel's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Render to a Video output #_#

  I know it could be difficult, but I am requested to Render a 3D scene with alpha to a video output, that request data transfer from the RenderTarget Surface to the DirectDraw Suface with Overlay. the problem is. Direct3D Surfaces and DirectDraw Surfaces are not mixable. I know that. so I have try to lock both of the surface and do a memcpy. every one knows this is a large cost to the CPU time. so if I can direct Direct3D to render to a ...Show All

• SQL Server sql 2005 updating table definition with 'large' amounts of data - timeout

  I'm trying to move my current use of an sql 2000 db to sql 2005. I need to update a table definition (to change a field to an Identity) I'm getting a dialog box (in SQL server management studio) on save saying : 'xxxx' table - Saving Definition Changes to tables with large amounts of data could take a considerable amount of time. While changes are being saved, table data will not be accessible. I press 'Yes' to the dial ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error 32000 during Team Server install

     I installed the prerequisites: Sharepoint services, SQL Server 2005 CTP April on a new install of Windows 2003 Server Standard SP1. Around 99% through the install I got a 32000 error. I am using the Virtual CD tool to access the ISO image downloaded from MSDN. The image is set as drive z I am logged in a TFSSetup user who is an administrator on the current box I assigned TFSService user as the service user (Both users are domain ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Why buttons are disabled in Web Test

  I'm doing a load test for my website. When I was recording the web test via Internet Explorer, the data entry screen looked fine(submit button was enabled), but after the test was recorded, if I run the web test, the submit button is disabled. Any idea why that's the case Any suggestion on what to do Jason, That bug could occur if a web page had multiple forms containing hidden fields with the same name.&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions My.Settings Values Read Only

  Hello All, I have a bit of a problem here and I can't seem to figure it out. My project is a Class Library. This Class Library is one project which is part of a larger solution. I have several application settings which are set up as part of the project. Within the Class Library's root class, Application, there are two methods. GetSettings and SaveSettings. GetSettings retreives the My.Settings values and sets them as various property values ...Show All

• Visual Studio Run SQL statements from .sql file

  I know, the title is not good enough, but... Anyway, here's what I want to do: 1. I have an add-in exposed as menus under the tool menu. 2. Eventually I'll have a *.sql file with some sql statements (however this file will not be in a database project). 3. I would like to be able to "Run" a statement from the *.sql file as I can do against a query file from inside a database project. Is this possible, if so how Niels ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Creating a solution in a TeamProject, how?

  I created a sample TeamProject but I can't figure out how to add a typical code solution to this team project, how can I do this Also, is the Team Server available via IP   Or do my team members need to be on the same domain/network as me   Thanks in advance.   Thanks for the help everyone.  The more I use and understand the features in Team System, the happier I am with the software. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I return the method that is called when an event is raised ?

  How can I return the method that is called when an event is raised  System.Reflection.EventInfo.GetRaiseMethod does not work. most controls and components have an events property which is a EventHandlerList class. This in turn has an items property&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how to group shapes

  Hi I created some shapes in a canvas but here the problem I want to group those shapes in to one howz it possible Thanx-Nagu I think I answered this question here recently enough. Just use canvas elements to group them. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can i Identift the Template of Project?

  Hi, I have created a cutom Methodology Template. And i have created some Team Projects using that Template. Now i want to know the Template name using which the Team Project is created. How can i do that All suggestions are appreciated. Regards Vikas Bindra There is no reliable way to track a live project back to the template that it was created from. One of the reasons for this is that the project is not linked to the process template fr ...Show All

• Architecture passing lookup values out and into services

  Hi all, This time I want you opinion on the following scenario: I have a service which returns info about an entity. Some of the information is based on lookup values (lookup=code/decode, such as "male/female", "small/medium/large" etc.) My options to output these values from the service are: 1. output them as the coded integers (male=1, female=2) - this is a problem because I shouldn't expose my inner data to the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to initialize DomainProjectPicker dialog to select certain project when it is displayed?

  Hello! I'm trying to initialize DomainProjectPicker. I want it to display certain project as selected when displayed to the user. I'm trying to use DefaultSelectedProjects but... I don't know what kind of information should I put to this list TIA Qfel Hi, DefaultSelectedProjects is a SortedList where the 'key' is the URI of the server (TeamFoundationServer.Uri.ToString()) and the 'value' each key i ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Minimum Possible Date

  Hi. I have run into a rather interesting problem while working with dates in my PDA application. Whenever I save a date with year less than 1930 (say 1929), its getting saved to SQL CE db. but when i retrieve it, it gets converted to 2029!!!!! is this a limitation of the datetimepicker control or is it the minimum date value SQL CE can hold [ like 1753 in SQL Server 2000 ] someone plz comment on this, or else i need to sit n think of so ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I undelete a document from Project Portal?

  If one were to [inadvertently] delete a file from the Team System Project Portal, how would one get it back J If you already deleted it, I'm not sure you can do anything, unless you've been taking regular (or scheduled) backups. Generally you have 2 options in this area: 1) Backup the server (i.e. in this case the Sharepoint databases on the data tier) 2) Backup the portal site using the Sharepoi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Blocking deployment woes

  It appears I have two problems. The first is that VS2005 appears to be trying to deploy my static library projects. Now why would it want to do that Not that it appears to find them: Quote doesn't work in Firefox (v1.5.0.1) for me either - still works in IE though. Or you can just manually put in the quote markers as a work around. ...Show All