blaydes99's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Bug

  Hey! In all samples I install using DirectX 9.0 as API, may it be from DirectX SDK or NVidia SDK, the following bug is present: The ui controls, such as drop down box, slider bars, check boxes etc all appears normal at first. But whenever I try to interact with them they disapear for good never to come back. The samples are still running as they should. My machine is uses a dual core amd athlon x64 cpu, it has about 2 gigs of ram, nvidia GeForce ...Show All

• Visual Basic Setting the Primary key as a foreign key in an intersection table

  I need to be able to add information to table1 then click a button to bring up a new screen with information from an intersection table, table2, and another table, table3, while putting the PK from table1 into table2 for several records. Table3 is a static table and will not change so I know how to do that, but I don't know how to do it with a table that will not remain static. I am using VB '05 Express and SQL '05 Express. Simplified version: I ...Show All

• SQL Server Question about matrix

  hi, If in my report some columns are added static,and other columns dynamically,how can i make it possible with reporting servicing thx! ...Show All

• Windows Forms Bind an array of structure to DataGrid

  Hi, Can I bind an array of structure to DataGrid  I tried but the data didn't show in the datagrid. Please help. Thanks!! Here is my code: Public Class Form1     Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form     Public Structure st1          ...Show All

• .NET Development Does COM Interop cache data?

  When I make COM interop calls, do the results get cached in the interop object I've noticed that it seems like data is being cached. If I query a COM object, I get the same data until I instantiate a new COM object and query it. I've noticed this seems to be a general behavior when calling COM objects. Is this a function of the COM object or the managed wrapper >Is this a function of the COM object ...Show All

• .NET Development The connection's current state is Closed??

  Hi all, I'm trying to use a sqlDataReader to load data into a DropDownList on a .aspx page, but get the following error: Server Error in '/YLCPDTdb' Application ExecuteReader requires an open and available connection. The connection's current state is Closed. But havn't I opened it with the conn.Open(); statement Here's my code: private void Page_Load( object sender, System.EventArgs e)         {   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What SC do you guys (Microsoft) use internally?

  I read on the Team System site that you are planning on using TS for source control once it's released. What SC software do you use currently Just to add one more tid-bit of information.  The server we are currently using is a 2-way mid-tier and a 4-way data tier (8GB of memory, I think).  This "server" is supporting over 400 people who have used it to varying degrees - probably about 250-300 that use ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Source Safe 2005 Download

  Hi Team, Can anybody give me the link to download Visual Source safe 2005. Regards, Sam The question to which I replied asked if there was a way in which it is possible to download Visual Source Safe. I answered that if you have an MSDN subscription at the appropriate level (eg. Universal), it is possible to download the product immediately, before the DVDs ship. I made no inferences about whether or not it is possible ...Show All

• Visual Studio Licencing of Crystal Web Components

  Hi! Suppose an ASP.NET application that incorporates the Crystal Web Viewer components as packaged in VS.NET 2005. My question is if this can be deployed to a customer as part of the application royalty-free, or if a special licence is needed for that (by MS, Crystal). Thanks, Christian. I have looked at Business Objects website on updates / Merge Modules, etc, but we still can't figure out how to run our exis ...Show All

• .NET Development "Transport-level error" using .Net Beta2

  Hey, When I run the following code, I get the error: A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.) The code is: cnxn.Open() adptDeathMechanisms.Update(tblDeathMechanisms) adptCases.Update(tblCases) cnxn.Close() The error occurs when executing adptCases.Update(tblCases).  The connection is fine...that is proved by the fact ...Show All

• SQL Server Calculating distance based on latitude and longitude

  I need to be able to take the latitude and logitude of two locations and compare then to determine the number of miles between each point. It doesn't need to account for elevation, but assumes a flat plane with lat and long. Does anyone have any algorithms in T-SQL to do this if this were easy to do, esri/mapinfo wouldn't charge big bucks for their GIS libraries. People get PhD's in geodesia! Now, there is a solution. Search your ...Show All

• Windows Forms manifest in dll...

  Hi, I'm developing a project that contains one exe and several dlls. I'm using a manifest on the exe, can I use this same manifest on the dlls, or I have to create a manifest to each dll Thanks Well, in theory, you would  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

  Hi, I am getting a problem when debugging an application to my pocketpc device on VS2005, every time there is a call to get a recource below: base .Image = ( Bitmap ) global ::MyApp.Properties. Resources .ResourceManager.GetObject("imageName"); I get the following error(s) in output.. A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll A first chance exception of type 'S ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms, Avalon (XAML) and the future

  Hi, Does anyone know if XAML will ever find its way in to Windows forms What I'm trying to establish is whether sometime in the future (before Longhorn though), XAML will be used to define a more traditional Windows forms app. Something like the MyXaml open source project. Regards Graham MyXaml is the only one that works with any object model, including windows forms. This is because it is generic. It only took t ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. problem loading mesh from .X file.

  Hey guys... I'm having some trouble loading a mesh from a .X file in C#. I'm using the same code that I see pretty much everywhere as sample: private Material[] meshMaterials; private Texture[] meshTextures; private Mesh mesh = null; private void LoadMesh(string file) { //LOAD X FILE ExtendedMaterial[] mtrl; // Load our mesh mesh = Mesh.FromFile(file, MeshFlags.Managed, ...Show All