dtwilliamson's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. rendering meshes in c#

  hi! i've made a mesh picture_1: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/object_mode _solid .gif even on actually flat faces there are a lot of triangles i.e. many different faces picture_2: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/edit_mode.gif when i view the mesh in the meshview - that one that comes with the sdk - it looks like that picture_3: http://toomaniac.com/kopi/blender/directx.gif and when i load the mesh to my device it looks ...Show All

• Windows Forms WebBrowser control compatibility

  Hi all, I’m using the WebBrowser component in one application and i’ve seen it doesn’t render the html in windows 2000 platform. Is this normal I just get the html source-code in Windows 2000. ...Show All

• Windows Forms No Submissions for Animal Farm?

  Come on guys, noone has a neat organism or technique they want to share  I can't believe that during the time the animal farm was down that some techniques have been discovered and are now common.  What have you been doing  :) It would&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms textbox multiple selected text

  Hi Everyone I am new to this forum so my appologies if I have posted in the wrong section.. If anyone could help me with this problem it would be greatly appreciated.. What I need is a textbox that the user can select multiple parts of the ...Show All

• SQL Server Initial report processing

  I have a report that can generate a TON of information (100's of pages) When the report is initially open it generates the report based on the parameter defaults (Which usually means EVERYTHING). How do I stop it from generating the report initially and only generate when the user has clicked the view report button Please note this is reporting services 2000 with an sql 2000 db. Phylum I guess the only op ...Show All

• Visual Basic Changing screen resolution with VB 2005

  I'm having a difficult time converting a Windows API call that works fine in VB6 to run in VB 2005 (Windows XP with SP2 in both cases). I reduced the problem code down to its core which is below. I'm trying to change the screen resolution with the ChangeDisplaySettingsEx call; the idea is that on entering the program it shifts to high resolution and at the end it restores the original settings. I left the restore part out because I get the same ...Show All

• Windows Forms Taskvision Source install problems

  I have not been able to get the application to run.  It has compiled without error but will not run.  After entering Jdoe and Welcome to the login screen, I get this message: "Remote server is unreachable or request has timed-out".&nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add connection wizard fails with Access database

  I have the RTM version installed. I am quite puzzled at this wizard. It works fine with SqlClient. But for Access databases, this wizard completely fails. In this wizard, I only have one option to do - setting the ConnectionString. I set it to Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\path\abc.mdb, which works fine in my code. But when I click OK, it complains: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- ...Show All

• SQL Server backwards compatibility of the MDF file 2000 and 2005

  I'm looking for information on if the SQL Database files are compatable between SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. I know I can take a mdf from SQL 2000 and attach it to a SQL Server 2005 server and everyting works. So the real quesiton is : Can I take a SQL Server database that started in SQL 2000, attach it to SQL Server 2005 and work with it, (including schema changes) and then attach it to a SQL Server 2000 server . In the above scenario I'm k ...Show All

• SQL Server How to display group footer at end of the page

  How to display group footer at end of the page In order to achieve this, you would need to move group footer calculations into the page footer. Note: there are several limitations of what you can do in a page footer. I tried to include a report which demonstrates what I'm talking about in the posting - but for some reason (the report is probably too large) it won't let me post the answer with the report included. I will see if I c ...Show All

• Visual C++ multiple debug assertion

  Main application A shares resource dll with another dll B, Also this dll B loads into A. at registration i get an error which is then fails to register error as in dll regsvr32 failed.bmp registry error showing file not found Also,it appears when the A is installed at a diffrent machine ,at runtime it shows debug assert . can you help me in this regard is it related to "WINVER not defined. Defaulting to 0x0502 (Windows Server 2003) " a ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Win CE.NET development committee

  Hi all This is the space for all Win CE.NET users who want to share their doubts,  experiances and thoughts>>> Let us all make a differance for each other. lets make Microsoft Rule. ...Show All

• Visual C# Merging namespaces as one

  Is it possible to merge multiple namespaces as one The reason I want to do this is because I want to inherit someone elses control, but use my own namespace. Using my own namespace stops the UI design tools from working. What I need is to be able to make C# think my control exists within the other name space, while still existing in my namespace. Maybe I'm asking for to much. Namespaces exist to create seperat ...Show All

• .NET Development FileSystemWatcher performance load

  Hi all Im thinking of using the FileSystemWatcher object to help me monitor if some network files has changed. My only concern is a bit about how this class works. Is it pinging the server folder or is it receiving events from the server when changes are happening. In other words - how will utilizing this class impact the performance on the network here. We will have approx 200-250 workstations running this tool all watching different f ...Show All

• Windows Forms Async message notifications

  Hi, i have a process in my app that must invoke a new thread to start an asynchronous window to show an informative message about the progress of a remoting call; My problem is that i'm creating the thread in the caller object, which  ...Show All