leabre's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. .x Model and duplicated vertices issue

  I can see that in a .x template template VertexDuplicationIndices { <b8d65549-d7c9-4995-89cf-53a9a8b031e3> DWORD nIndices; DWORD nOriginalVertices; array DWORD indices[nIndices]; } There is a duplication of vertices. I believe this was done during the export when faces sharing a vertex duplicates that vertex. Am I right to say that My main problem is how can I get pointers or references back to the original vertices Can anyone help I was looking on the net, but information on this subject is sparse, I found some good ebooks though. From what I’ve understoo ...Show All

• SQL Server Report Manager

  I think I have Reporting Services installed correctly and it is working except for the Report Manager. When I browse to http://localhost/reportserver  I dont have a user interface. All I see is big black letters saying localhost/reportserver -/ and underneath is a list of the reports I have deployed. How do I get the user interface to show Your help is appreciated. Roy The Report Manager web application resides here: http://locahost/reports . You are accessing the web service URL. Todd ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions my first program

  hy ive made my first program today after watching some of the videos on this site. Now i made a calculation program and it works fine until u type in numbers that deal with a , . like 0.00675. first my val1 and val2 were integers so they cant have , so i maked then double. but it still dont work. heres my code for the calculate button: Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click 'make vars val1 and val2 Dim val1 As Double Dim val2 As Double Dim opr As String 'set vars val1 and val2 and opr equal to te ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Back to the 2-tier?

  It seems to me that Dlinq with this nice new feature of Entity = Class is good for a Client/Server scenario only. How would it worlk in a SOA at all I admit this code looks very efficient, but only in a C/S scenario. How would delayed execution work if you're not in C/S scenario, but need to call a webservice for retrieving your data, and also a webservice for updating your data ...Show All

• Visual Basic Customize Print Dialog Box (VB.NET)

  I want to add a control to Print Dialog Box to let user select part of the image in a pictureBox to print. Is it possible to do that in VB.NET Thanks. No, you can't. At least not without re-writing the dialog box from scratch. The Print Dialog is a standard dialog from the Common Controls that ship with Windows. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Emulator times out when accessing sscesa20.dll

  When I access http://server/folder/sscesa20.dll from the server and a pocket PC (wirelessly) I get "SQL Server CE Server Agent", good. However, the emulator can connect to external web sites such as msn.com, but times out when I access http://server/folder/sscesa20.dll . I suspect it is an authentication and/or network card (virtual) configuration of the emulator. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry, this forum is for the new DeviceEmulator that ships in Visual Studio 2005.  You might try posting your question to one of the eVC or VS newsgroups, depending on what product your emulator came with. Barry ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Duplex Contract and Close ?

  Hi together, I have implemented a duplex contract between a service and a GUI client. The service calls in the client (timer triggered). So more detailed: when the client starts, it connects to the server. After that, the server calls in the client (via a CallbackContract). The calls are initiated via a timer. Now my problem is, when I close the GUI, the server still tries to call in the client - and then it crashes. So what I do is the following: In the service contract constructor, I initialize a timer and create the callback object: public TestClass() { m_Callback = OperationContext.Current.GetCallbackChannel<IMyExchan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Constraint error when restricting zone to port 443

  I am attempting to constrain the input DMZ port to SecureBindings Contains One Port 443, but am getting an error when I press OK that states: "Cannot change conformance checking to Document. Make sure the ConformanceLevel in XmlReaderSettings is set to Auto for wrapping scenarios." What does this mean I will follow up on your issue. I would like to ask you to provide me with more information about the problem. 1) What version of VS and what edition are you using (i.e. Team Suite, Team Edition for Architects, etc). 2) Do you use one of our demos/samples or you have your own solution 3) ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is it a DataGrid?

  Hi people, I have read much about the DataGrid Control here in the foruns and in MSDN. It seems to me that it is very dificult to custumize. And I've a question, is the property box of VS.NET a Datagrid That box is fully custumizable, you can set buttons, etc... Thanks To make the grid available on your toolbox, right-click the toolbox,&n ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WMStub.LIB file from Windows Media Format SDK 7.1.1

  Can anybody give me WMStub.LIB. When I compile a sample it need WMStub.LIB from Windows Media Format SDK 7.1.1, but i couldnt find Windows Media Format SDK 7.1.1 from MicroSoft site. and there was no WMStub.LIB, in their latest version Windows Media Format SDK 9.5. Please help me, Anil That's because it's longer longer required in Format SDK 9.0. Remove the file from the link. From the keyprovider.cpp file: " // Windows Media 9 Series (code named 'Corona') no longer requires // a stub library. If using WMF9, we don't need to provide a CKeyProvider // implementation, and we don't need to link with the WMStub.lib library." ...Show All

• Visual Basic sending a char

  hello how can i send in visual basic a char i want to design a form with multiple textboxes and want the users to enter their text with some buttons. now i don't know how i can add the chars to the active textbox. greetings chris In the button click event set the textbox .text property Example  in the Button1 click event Textbox1.text = "foo" will set the contents of a textbox of that form called textbox1 to display foo   Now id tou want to add it to the Active text box then you need to determine which textbox is active - I would creare a variable that contains an i ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Express Icon

  Earlier versions of SQL had an icon in the system tray - which was very useful. I cannot seem to find how you activate this in 2005. Also you could schedule a job MSDE 2000 to, say, backup a database. I can't find how you do this in SQL Express. The system tray icon app is not shipped as part of SQL Server 2005, there are several alternative versions in the comunity. You are correct SQL Server 2000 had support for scheduling via SQL Agent, SQlAgent is not included with Express, you should use a combination of the windows task scheduler and also sqlcmd. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Simple Listview Question

  Is there a way to make my listview's background color altenrate with 2 colors Like on some programs a list of something has white blue white blue for each item's background color. Is there a way to do that so i dont have to have a loop go trhough each item and set its background color There is no shortcut, but looping through the items is easy: Dim i As Integer Dim j As Integer = 0 Dim item As ListViewItem For Each item In ListView1.Items     If j = 0 Then         ListView1.Items(i).BackColor = Color.Blue      & ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. About DX 10 ...

  ... I don't know where to post this: there will be a managed version of it I'm pleased to announce that the DirectX 10 discussion that was part of the overall DirectX presentations at PDC 2005 are now available for viewing through the DirectX Developer Center (http://msdn.com/directx) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Reading directories

  Using VC# Express, how would I go about reading the contents of a directory What I'm wanting to do is have my application search a directory looking for particular files (for my needs, image files) and display those images in a Form. Thanks in advance, Bill Hi Bill, Directory.GetFiles() should work for you. It has overloaded methods that allow a search pattern and to optionally search subfolders. Check out http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3hwtke0f(vs.80).aspx for explanations and examples. Mike ...Show All