MARK E6581's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. C# - DirectX 9.0c - Creating a Basic Hexagon

  I was wondering if someone could walk me through drawing a basic hexagon using DirectX 9.0c in C#. I've been using the Vector3 structure, and I am having problems understanding how to initialize the view transformation matrix for a hexagon, as well as what input vectors will represent the hexagon (understandably 6). Thank you in advance, Owen If I were you I would not purchase the book by Wendy ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Test game: MessengerQuest

  Hurrah! Finally I got Messenger-Quest done... Four days of terrible hard work has resulted in a really cool game :) Unfortunately the <s>lazy bastar...</s> people checking the apps have holiday too, and they can't check it till after newyears :( So, Because I don't want those 4 days of work to go to waste, I've put the Msgrp2p file needed online :) http://www.stuffplug.com/MessengerQuest/msgrp2p.xml I'm sure you know how it works ;) ...Show All

• .NET Development TableAdapter Update problem

  Hello, i have problem in my application. I create dataset with single table. In MainForm i have 2 texboxes and update button. This is code for update button: [CODE] Klient klient = new Klient(); klient.ShowDialog(); KlientDataSet dataSet = new KlientDataSet(); Serwis.KlientDataSet.KlienciRow klientRow = dataSet.Klienci.NewKlienciRow(); klientRow[0] = Guid.NewGuid(); klientRow[1] = klient.Imie; klientRow[2] = klient.Nazwisko; ...Show All

• Architecture IntraLayer Communication

  Typically when passing data between various layers normally most recommend use of custom entities because it allows the developer to write code which gives finer control to the data. The other means could be usage of dataset, typed dataset. The way I look at it, custom entities take time to code and at the same time one needs to also write logic for retrieving data from database and looping record per record into an array of custo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How are functional requirements recorded in MSF for Agile Software Development?

  We're starting to use VSTS and happy to go off the bat with MSF for Agile Software Development asa process for now (tuning it to our needs as we go). A problem emerged for us today that I can't seem to resolve reading the process guidence or searching on the web. MSF for Agile has Scenario and Quality of Service Work Item types and these I understand I think and value. Quality of Service Requirements are sometimes called Nonfunctional Requ ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Beta 2 Debugging question for HOL 1

  Hello, I'm working through the Hands on Lab (HOL) #1 for WF Beta 2, Exercise 3 and task 7. Everything's been working according to the lab instructions until I got to the debugging section. I'm seeing a couple of strange things: 1. Step 6 tells me to step into the code for the ReportSubmitted_Invoked handler. I've tried this, but the debugger doesn't go to the code level; it simply highlights the next activity in the workflow designer. I al ...Show All

• .NET Development Multithreading, MsgBox causes an Error

  Hello,    This has probably come up before but for the life of me I could not find an answer anywhere....I've created a program in Visual Basic .Net 2003 that starts multithreaded sub using system.threading.  The function works great until I put in a MsgBox("Test") anywhere in the thread.  When I use this one line of code, the thread itself will execute fine and return 0 when it closes, but when I exit the applicati ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Terrain Rendering

  I have a quick question... What are some of the best/simplest ways to render large terrains for games such as a MMO or a FPS like Far Cry I have skimmed over some LOD stuff using quadtrees and this seems to be ok but I was thinking of using an LOD technique that changes with distance from camera. I am not sure what this is called. But i was wondering if this would be a good way to go about it. Thanks in advance. Sorry to hijack a bit here. ...Show All

• .NET Development Listening to .NET events using COM interop.

  Hi all, I'm looking to embed a .NET component in a COM application (Delphi with VCL). To produce a proof of concept, I've created a new class library and exposed it to COM, created a class which is COM visible and allows COM clients to send a message (call a method) and register for events. This all works fine, the COM clients (I've done one test bed in VB6 and one in Delphi) can create my object, call a method on it and respond to the event. ...Show All

• Visual C# Message passing... telling the form the control is in to do something

  Hi, I have an application that has a user created control, the data in this control is used to populate color boxes in a seperate user control contained within the same form. How can i call a function of the form that my two controls are in without having a form object in each of the controls Thanks for any help, -Dave Yes, you can cast the Owner property to the needed type and then call the needed ...Show All

• SQL Server Login failed

  I have VS2005 Beta 2 I created a very simple Web Site that has a Login page and a Default Page I installed MSDE so that I can use a SQL 2000 database I ran C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\aspnet_regsql.exe to create a database in the MSSQLSERVER for user info. My Web.config file looks like: < xml version = " 1.0 " > < configuration xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0 " > < appSettin ...Show All

• Visual Studio crystal report in asp.net

  Hi all, I am very new to asp.net(vb). I need to make some reports using crystal from a web form. I have to pass some values from the form, and based on that values the reports needs to generate from an oracle database. Can anyone can help me to do this if you can please provide with code or url's. I appreciate your time. Thanks!   Try this: The Business Objects Developer Resource Center has links to Code Samples and a Deve ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions The registration Key you entered is not VALID

  The link in my Visual Basic 2005 Express to register keeps coming up "page can not be displayed" the link is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=51341&lcid=1033&h=7c7d6ccdd64da0f1&c=&pid=76541-000-0000011-00124&bn=050727.42   and my version is 8.0.50727.42 Any suggestions on how to register it   I want the free goodies... thanks in advance. Teamdad Hi Teamdad, The link works for m ...Show All

• Visual C# Ribbon UI

  i like the ribbon ui, but is there a way to get this component for free...I really don't want to pay 189. Does Microsoft provide this for us .net programmers Should be a free component.. There is not Ribbon component provided by Microsoft for free or for money and somehow I doubt it will ever be. The Ribbon was specifically designed for apps like Word and Excel that have hundreds of commands and a lot ...Show All

• SQL Server Running Sum on DataReport

    Hye Guys,        I am a beginer programmer.. I have started 2 build a simple database application. I am now in the stage of showing the data in reports 2 print. I am suggested to use datareport available in VB. I also did my some of the report in it. It worked fine. But now I am stucked in one step..of displaying the calculateable field in the detail section.. Eg. in database: Item   & ...Show All