Jason-Massey's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. retrieving more than 4 values per texture lookup

  Is it possible to have a texture with more than 4 values per texel My problem is, I need to look up a chunk of many values (about 16) multiple times per pixel and I like to do that quickly. In my setting more than three 2d texture lookups each time (= 12 float values) is the maximum I can allow without a significant performance drop. Also if anybody has experimented with 64 or 128 bit textures I'm interested to know about the performance ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView Color Picker

  Hi everyone, I've been struggling for the past 2 days to get this straight. I created a DataSet with a DataTable called "Customers". This DataTable has a few columns and one of them is named "Color" typeof(Color) (I want to use this Color later on to actually display the customer rows with the colors specified). I created a new ColorCell, ColorColumn (to host the ColorCell) and a ColorEditingControl (for edit mode). First attempt was to inheri ...Show All

• SQL Server How to register remote server? Authentication method is grayed out!

  In SQL Server management Studio. I was trying to add remote server, so it would show up in registered servers. The authentication method is grayed out!   T he only option to connect to the server is by clicking connect button. It remebers the old settings. I t  also shows me all server databases , even I have selected my database in options... Could you send a screen shot of the authentication dialog to my email address ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro The ability of network multi-sharing for VFP6.0

  Do any expert know the multi-sharing ability of VFP6.0 .exe file Is there a limit for this Any other VFP upgrade versions produce better performance on this issue  Any comment is appreciate. There are no specific limits, and I certainly know of VFP applications with hundreds, if not thousands, of users. I don't know of any specific problems with performance in VFP 6 or any other version. The usual ...Show All

• SQL Server Web Application sample for Data Mining using Association Rules

  Does anybody have a sample web application similar to what you have done in the Live Samples in www.sqlserverdatamining.com for product recommendation using VB.NET and C# in VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 and June 2005 CTP of SQL Server 2005 This asp.netPro article on SQL Server Data Mining has an accompanying download with C# code for a similar product recommendation web app that uses Association Rules: http://www.aspnetpro.com/newsletterar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Any option to find Track Revisions - Reject Insertion

  Hi, We are working on word customisation using VSTO 2005. We have set the track changes on and inserted bulk of xml tags. On the tracked changes window, i have selected "Reject Insertion" option which fires XMLBeforeDelete event where i have done some functional things. Basically if Track Revisions - Reject Insertion option is selected, we need to skip some of the block of code execution in XMLBeforeDelete event. Is there any opt ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro COPY TO Command

  In Visual Foxpro, I am trying to create a CSV file using the COPY TO command with TYPE CSV, but do not want header fields on top of the output file. Furthermore, I am also trying to attach a COMMA after every row. Current Output f1,f2,f3,f4,f5,f6,f7,f8,f9,f10,f11,f12,f13,f14,f15,f16,f17 "0","49162","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0", ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectInput keyboard keys get stuck

  I've been using the following two methods to collect and poll keyboard:         public void ProcessInput() // called on each frame render         {             Key[] temp = _device.GetPressedKeys(); // _device is DirectInput.Device             Key[] keys = new K ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Device Emulator and Internet Connectivity mystery

  After following some of the helpful guidelines (eg. http://blogs.msdn.com/akhune/archive/2005/11/16/493329.aspx ) for getting network access from the device emulator, I had success for a short time. Then, rather mysteriously, the emulator lost network access. At this point, I can still connect and cradle. VS2005 deploy/debug works properly. Explore still works correctly from ActiveSync. All of these things have been working without i ...Show All

• .NET Development Generate update, delete and insert greyed out

  Dear all, I'm using Visual Studio beta 2005 with postgreSQL through an ODBC connection. I recently upgraded from 2003 and wanted to make new tableadapter in my dataset. The dataAdapter is created but I'm unable to auto-generate the update, delete and insert commands. The primary keys are detected and are shown bold in the Query Builder. Could someone please help me with what is going wrong With kind regards, Paul ...Show All

• Visual C# Treeview Mimicking Windows Explorer

  I am implementing a TreeView control to closely mimic Windows Explorer behaviour. The user can edit labels and these must be uniquely named. If the user edits the name of the label to a non-unique name an error message is displayed and the label remains in edit mode until the user enters a valid name. I am using the following pattern within OnAfterLabelEdit: protected override void OnAfterLabelEdit(NodeLabelEditEventArgs e) { //Label ...Show All

• Visual Studio Installation problems!!!! Please Please help!

  Hi i dont know if im in the right part of this forum but here goes. Im trying to install .NET framework 2 on two pcs. On the first pc the install is nearly at an end but then it just quits on me. On the second i get the erroe message "Windoes installer cannot be accessed" Im running XP Pro on both pcs. Can anyone please help me Thanks. Machine 1 - is a virus checker on there ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. 16 channel Real Time signal rendering: Should I go for DirectX?

  I'm refurbrishing an old VB6 application that displays up to 16 signals, at 100 samples per second, along with some icons on the screen. The user decides on the on-screen resolution by means of a zoom function key. Now in the design phase, I need some more information to decide on taking Direct-X or GDI+ path. I've been going through several sample applications, and so far, I've got the feeling that Direct-X is suited to heavily drive the ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Message Splitter in WCF

  I have a customer request to split incoming messages. I have a large message that I’m receiving that contains many smaller records within it. When I receive the message I want to split it by making each of the individual records a message. For example, I might receive a <customers> message that contains 1,000 <customer> records within it. On receipt of the message, I want split the large <customers> message into many <c ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista RPC errors when calling remote COM+ transactional server

  I'm getting a variety of RPC errors (800706bf & 800706ba mostly) when making a burst of simultaneous calls on a remote (transactional) COM+ application. The application is part of a small research project into the proper way to measure throughput, not a production application. The errors only happen when I make a number of simultaneous RPC calls. For example, one variant of the test driver creates a number of test threads, each with their ...Show All