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• Different ways to pass Textures into HLSL shaders

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  The GraphicsDevice class of xna 4 has the properties Textures and VertexTextures. What is the exact difference? I don't really understand what MSDN tells me about this. I usually use Effect parameters to pass textures to my HLSL shaders. What are the differences between these methods, which is faster? My Scenario: I am working on a minecraft…

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• Fast lighting with multiple lights

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  How can I implement fast lighting with multiple lights? I don't want to restrain the player, he can place an unlimited number and possibly overlapping (point) lights into the level. The problem is that shaders which contain dynamic loops which would be necessary to calculate the lighting tend to be very slow. I had the idea that if it could…

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• Fast lighting with multple lights

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  How can I implement fast lighting with multiple lights? I don't want to restrain the player, he can place an unlimited number and possibly overlapping (point) lights into the level. The problem is that shaders which contain dynamic loops which would be necessary to calculate the lighting tend to be very slow. I had the idea that if it could…

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• Managed game frameworks with Model loading support [on hold]

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  Iam looking for an alternative to XNA with support of model loading. Does anybody know when/if there if a MonoGame release is planned which includes its own content pipeline which works without XNA beeing installed? If not, what are the alternatives in managed game development? As far as I know, SlimDX and SharpDX on its own brings no…

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• Strange thing about .NET 4.0 filesystem enumeratation functionality

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  I just read a page of "Whats new .NET Framework 4.0". I have trouble understanding the last paragraph: To remove open handles on enumerated directories or files Create a custom method (or function in Visual Basic) to contain your enumeration code. Apply the MethodImplAttribute attribute with the NoInlining option to the…

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• What sense does asynchronous IO make if the thread is blocked anyway (see example)

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  Hello, I found an example for async ftp upload on msdn which does the following (snippet): // Asynchronously get the stream for the file contents. request.BeginGetRequestStream( new AsyncCallback (EndGetStreamCallback), state ); // Block the current thread until all operations…

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• What source licenses allow inclusion in commercial applications

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  Which open source licenses allows inclusion of the licensed source code in commercial applications without having to make our program open source as well? In particular, I was looking on koders.com for an implementation of a fast hash algorithm, but I am not sure if Iam allowed to use it in a commerial application without limits.

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• How to get index using LINQ?

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  Given a datasource like that: var c = new Car[] { new Car{ Color="Blue", Price=28000}, new Car{ Color="Red", Price=54000}, new Car{ Color="Pink", Price=9999}, // .. }; How can I find the index of the first car satisfying a certain condition with LINQ? EDIT: I could think of something like this but it looks horrible: int…

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• WPF: KeyboardNavigationMode.Contained doesn't work to suppress focus wrap

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  I want to navigate in my window with the arrow key. It works so far but if I reach the end of my window, focus wraps to the first main menu item. But I want that focus stops at the last control in my window. private void Window_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e) { if (e.Key == Key.Down) { …

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• Fast search in XMl files in .NET (or How to index XML files)

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  I have to implement a search feature which is able to quickly perform arbitrary complex queries to XML-data. If the user makes a query, all XML files must be searched to find possible matches. The users will have lots of XML-Files (a few 10000 or more) which are typically a few kilobytes in size. All the…

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• Getting Dictionary<string,string> from List<Control>

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  I want a dictionary containing the names and text of all controls. Is it possible with predefined framework methods/LINQ/colection initializers or do I have to make a loop and add all entries by myself? This gives me an error message: List<Control> controls; // .. initialize list ..…

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• How can I query all Childcontrols of a Winform recursively?

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  Iam using windows forms. How can I query all child controls of a Form recursively which have a certain type? In SQL you would use a selfjoin to perform this. var result = from this join this ???? where ctrl is TextBox || ctrl is Checkbox select ctrl; Can I also do this in…

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• Good library to load images of different formats

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  Hi Iam developing an image viewer application just like irfan-view or acdsee which should be capable to view lots of different image file formats (not just the standard ones which can be done with System.Drawing.Image). Iam currently using ImageMagick but it isn't very fast and seems to…

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• html-login form not working

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  I have a child page LoginContent.aspx which contains a login form. If the user logs in he should be redirected to my Welcome.aspx page. But if I press the login button the page just reloads itself, nothing happens. The codebehind on this page is empty. Both LoginContent.aspx and…

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• Array.BinarySearch where a certain condition is met

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  I have an array of a certain type. Now I want to find an entry where a certain condition is met. What is the preferred way to do this with the restriction that I don't want to create a temporary object to find, but instead I only want to give a search condition. MyClass[]…

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• Strange thing about .NET 4.0 filesystem enumeration functionality

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  I just read a page of "Whats new .NET Framework 4.0". I have trouble understanding the last paragraph: To remove open handles on enumerated directories or files Create a custom method (or function in Visual Basic) to contain your enumeration code. Apply the…

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• How to integrate conditional logic in postbuild events

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  Hi I have a visual studio project which includes postbuildevents in the following form: MyTool.exe $(ProjectDir)somesrcfile.txt $(TargetDir)sometargetfile.bin Now I want to add some logic saying that these steps are taking place only if the files have changed. In…

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• add assembly reference dialog

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  Is there a way to use visual studio's "add assembly reference dialog" (or something similar) in my own application? I need it for dynamic code generation and compilation. This is not simply an OpenFileDialog, since it additionally looks into the GAC and so on, so…

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• InvalidOperationException when using soap client

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  I've added as wsdl file using the add servece reference dialog in vs2008. MyService serviceproxy = new MyService(); When I instantiate the service proxy, I get an InvalidOperationException with the following text (translated from german): Could not find…

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• AutoScaleMode.Inherit does not inherit

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  I have a user control contained in a tabpage. The Form has set AutoScaleMode = AutoScaleMode.Font and the UserControl has set AutoScaleMode.Inherit. Now when I enlarge the font size of the form then the font is enlarged in the user control too, but the…

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• How to correctly stop thread which is using Control.Invoke

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  I tried the following (pseudocode) but I always get a deadlock when Iam trying to stop my thread. The problem is that Join() waits for the thread to complete and a pending Invoke() operation is also waiting to complete. How can I solve this? Thread…

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• Strange performance behaviour for 64 bit modulo operation

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  The last three of these method calls take approx. double the time than the first four. The only difference is that their arguments doesn't fit in integer anymore. But should this matter? The parameter is declared to be long, so it should use long…

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• What does ZIP stand for (the compression format, not the postal codes)

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  Does anybody know for what the acronym ZIP stands for which was and is used in programs like PKZIP and GZIP? There is a compression algorithm named Lempel-Ziv-Welch-Algorithm (LZW) maybe the guy named Ziv invented together with other people ZIP? I…

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• Change managed C++ project to another framework than 4.0 with vs2010

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  Since I upgraded my project to visual studio 2010 project format, my managed c++ project is targeted to .net framework 4.0. It is easy to switch the framework version to another version from a C# project, but I have no clue how to do this in a…

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• Performance problem loading lots of user controls

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  My application is loading a bunch of the same user control into a ScrollPanel. The problem is, this is very slow. The profiler show that the method Application.LoadComponent(), which is called internally by in the designer code in the…

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