CosmicFred's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. .x file exporting from 3DSMax using Skin modifyer

  hi, Is there a version of the MS .x exporter that supports Max's Skin modifyer for wieghted meshes used in animations. If not, is support for this planned   The Skin modifyer has many advantages over Physique. Just out of curiosity, what is the main difference between the two that makes Skin unusable with .x   Aren't those modifyers simply interfaces for a vertex weight value   Its just a weight value in the end! :) Urgent ...Show All

• Smart Device Development getting the vs2005 pocket pc emulator to connect with activesync

  I have been searching everywhere for an answer to this but have just ran into dead-ends. My problem is I am running an emulator in visual studio 2005 and want to connect it to active sync. However after going and cradleing it in the vs tools activesync can't find the device. I believe that the problem is active sync is missing DMA transport support. I can't figure out why it doesn't come up when I go to connection settings(in activesync). ...Show All

• Windows Forms Drawing Strings with fixed-size fonts in pixels

  Hello out there, I was wondering if anyone had managed to find a way to draw strings with fixed sized in pixels. I know I know, you're all thinking easy, all you have to do is create a font a new font fixing the height property to&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem Running C# Offline Install

  Well here is my big problem. I've switched to Novell Suse Linux and I am totally happy with it. Not only because you can have a very user friendly enviroment but because it lets you run Windows programs too. I dont know if you know what WINE is but anyways it is a windows program simulator that lets you run WinDowze programs in linux. Now here is my issue I downloaded the offline installation for Visual C# Express and when I try to run it ...Show All

• Visual C# concurrency violation

  Why public void MoveUp( int ID) { OpenConnection(); DataAdapter da = connection.GetDataAdapter(); string SQL = string .Empty; SQL += "Select..." DataTable tbl = connection.GetDataTable(da, SQL); //my lib, no problem executes SQL and return result in datatable // 2 righe di risultato if (tbl.Rows.Count == 2) { // swapping int temp = Convert .ToInt32(tbl.Rows[0][ "Ordine&q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions C# express edition

  Hi all, I downloaded Microsoft visual C# express edition . I have a problem with the help, I get only help for some things. many types I need help, I get : Information not found. Where can I get a full help of the environment and download it. Regards... This information is missing because you have a beta version. The most recent version of the documentation can be found at http://msdn2.microsof ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Colored Named Ranges

  Hi, Am trying to color a particular cell in an excel sheet based on the values of other cells. For eg i have the value 10 in cells a2 till a10.I want the macro to scroll through these values and compare each one of them with a cell in the same worksheet(say F2) which has a value of 10.If all the values in the range a2 till a10 are 10 then color F2 with green.If one or more cells in Range("a2:a10") are not equal to the value of Range("F2") ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do I convert a .gif image into Icon?

  Hi, I have several gif images as embedded resources in my C# project. I am able to load them and display them on a buttons, pictureboxs etc. But I want to load the same gif image and set it as the Icon for my form. How do I convert&nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio "sgen.exe" exited with code 1

  I am trying to build a project in VS 2005 but I am getting the error: Error 67 "sgen.exe" exited with code 1. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets 1892 9 TAI.Util This project had been building just fine earlier today. The only thing that happened between is I refreshed the web references in this project. As a test I added the same web references to a new project and i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Portal Customization

  Greetings, Applogies if this has been asked before - I can't seem to get the search feature working at the moment. I want to setup our Team Project portal so that we have certain information on the start page. I would like to have a list of the current work items for the user that is hitting the page. I would prefferably want to have the "My Work Items" Team Query to be run. I can't seem to find a way to run queries by a URL. That method failin ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating table where column_names are results from query from other table

  How I can create table where column name is result of query of second table Next cod doesnt work: Use Pubs declare @naz varchar(40) declare naziv cursor for select top 1 au_lname from authors open naziv FETCH NEXT FROM naziv INTO @naz close naziv deallocate naziv GO CREATE TABLE #t1 (@naz varchar(20), quote int ) GO DROP TABLE #t1 use dynamic sql, although it won't work for temp tables. EXE ...Show All

• Visual Basic Slow performance on Paint Event

  I have added the code on the user control paint event and pasted 20 of this user controls on a form. At the runtime, it seems to be redraw everytime when the form switch from background to foreground. How can I stop the control redraw or how to improve the drawing speed Is it possible to freeze the form repaint until each controls completed the paint event Private Sub funcbutton_Paint( ByVal sender As Objec ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I get or set IV and KEY for Symmetric Key in MS SQL Server 2005?

  All Symmetric encryption algorithms have to have Initialization Vector and Key for Encryption/Decryption. It is possible to generate and save them for future use in VS 2005. How do I do it in MS SQL Server 2005 ! I beleive that it has to be such parameters, but I could not find them ... SQL Server 2005 does not have the same rich cryptographic functionality as System.Security.Cryptography, so some things you may be familiar with in .NET ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot create a valid ODBC DSN to SQL Server Express

  Hello All, I've just spent the better part of a day trying to configure SQL Express to allow me to create an ODBC connection. When I do create one via Control Panel/Admin/ODBC it tells me that its timing out on the connection (localhost) and the problem is probably that SQL Server Express comes configured NOT to allow remote connections. I've enabled TCP/IP and named pipes, allowed remote connections, enabled the SQL Browser, and just about e ...Show All

• Windows Forms Storage of what the WebBrowser Control is displaying.

    I'm using the WebBrowser as a WYSIWYG editor. I want to be able to cut and paste text and graphics material into it, which I can do. I also want to be able to store what the control is displaying in an Access database. I am confronted by a couple of problems. 1.) The DocumentText property gives me a pure htlm representation including URLs for images. This isn't what I want. What I want is to be able to store a local represen ...Show All