I pretend I'm explaining it to a clever, but junior developer.

I have been involoved in some game dev in the past and i have to agree with you 100%. It seems that game engine dev is becoming more and more a specialised field, with companies using off the shelf engines rather than developing their own. With the great quality and feature rich engines available today, it makes complete business sense to go that route. BTW, do you have a demo of your game? Would like to have a look.

Thanks a million guys!

Can someone tell me what is the new Plugin API that comes with .Net 3.0 called? I want to use it but can find no reference to it. Thanks

Hi Suveen, Thanks for the reply but I think you are misunderstanding. My problem is not physical implementation or or even close to presentation layer. What I want to know is what logical design should I follow and how do I translate the problem space domain into a model. In other words, how do I use a genetic algorithm and a neural network to teach my app. Regards, Andre

Hi Everyone, I want to create something similar to www.20q.net but for business application. I know it uses a neural net (for which I have already created a library). But a neural net alone is not enough. Can someone point out to me how I could design this 20 questions app and what algorithm/data structures I should use? Any help would be appreciated! Regards, Andre

Anyone?

Hi Guys, I wrote a backprop neural net library in C# that is loosely based on the BrainNet articles. And as in the articles, the testing app that I developed is one that trains the NN logical operations (AND OR XOR etc.) When I train it for AND & OR, it works perfectly. However, it refuses to learn XOR. There is obviously a bug somewhere. Does anybody have a clue where I can look? I know this is a long shot in the dark, but I am at my wit's end.... Thanks in advance.

How do I use it? Where is it? Does it come with the .Net 2.0 library? If so, what namespace? Thanks for your help.

Phi?

Hi Guys, I was wondering if there are any object to do caching with in .Net that is not web related. I don't quite get why Microsoft included caching for asp.net, in the System.Web namespace, if clearly caching is necessary in more places than just for serving web pages. Any views on this? Maybe I'm missing something?

Phi?

Guys, I ask you as a guy that don't really do web dev. I need a page to print from a web page using the default printer and some specific settings (or the default ones). The requirement is that, because this is a step in a process that must be very efficient, no window pops up (like the printer dialog) and also that printing does not require a new window to be opened. IE 6 will be used exclusively. Hope someone can point me in the right direction. Cheers

Surely some phones also act similar to a Flash disk where it becomes an additional drive that can be read like any other?

Phi?

Hi Guys, I'm breaking my head over this one. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. What I want to achieve is quite simple. I want to develop an app written in C# that will simply extract MMS from a phone connected with a cable to the PC and store those MMS as images/sounds etc in a specific folder on the PC. Can anyone please advise me on how I could achieve this and what phones should I be looking at. I tried my Nokia 9500, but the MMS messages are not stored in folders on the phone that are accessible through standard .net objects. Cheers Andre

Phi?

Thanks for your reply. Yes I do have the header files. So am I right in saying that I would need some C/C++ skills for this? I feared that as I have very limited skills in that area and the header files' code seems very complex for me. Regards, Phi? -- modified at 8:52 Monday 31st October, 2005

Hi Everyone, I am faced with a bit of a problem. I suspect it is a problem only because of my non-existant knowledge of c/c++. I need to use a third party SDK to be able to control and/or monitor some telephony hardware from a popular vendor. My problem is that I have to do this from a .Net environment (C#) but the SDK file are .lib files. It is said that it is dynamically compiled (what that means I have no idea). Can anyone possibly tell me how I could use it from C# and if it's impossible, how I can wrap it in normal dll's (so I can use Dllimport) as normal. Thanks and Regards, Phi?

Hi Everyone, I am faced with a bit of a problem. I suspect it is a problem only because of my non-existant knowledge of c/c++. I need to use a third party SDK to be able to control and/or monitor some telephony hardware from a popular vendor. My problem is that I have to do this from a .Net environment (C#) but the SDK file are .lib files. It is said that it is dynamically compiled (what that means I have no idea). Can anyone possibly tell me how I could use it from C# and if it's impossible, how I can wrap it in normal dll's (so I can use Dllimport) as normal. Thanks and Regards, Phi?

Why not send the email as HTML. Then insert a transparent 1x1 gif in the email. But, make the gif's src="" attribute point to an asp/aspx page so on the server you can log requests for the image. One problem though... MS Outlook and Express blocks the downloading of images in preview pane by default I think. Cheers and Good Luck Phi?

Hi Guys, I so desperately hope that someone can point me in the right direction. I haven't slept in four days and I don't know what to do any more. The short version of my problem is below: I wrote an C# ASP.Net app that simply searches in an MSSQL DB for the keyword typed in. Brings back one result. User selects the row (in a DataGrid) and more info on that row is displayed. The user then needs to scan in a barcode, press enter and a new page is opened on which printing happens to the default printer. I made 100% sure I don't use any funny code, I don't use any files on the hard drive, I don't spawn any threads, I don't use any asynchronous calls and I don't use any reporting tools like Crystal or SQLRT. All the code is standard everyday simple C#. The web server runs MS Windows 2003. The application is in it's own application pool. The Problem: After about a hundred (not always a hundred but around there) of these scans and prints, IIS would suddenly comes back with the standard "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error. Note: It doesn't respond with a .NET error, but rather the normal Page Cannot Be Displayed. I would appreciate it immensely if someone could just point me in a vague direction as I think I have double checked almost everything. Thanks and Regards, Phi?

Hi Everyone, Does anyone know if there exists Assemblies in .Net 1.1 with which I can do load balancing on a server app that accepts TCP connections? Thanks and Cheers! Phi?

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