MSDN OS Licence question
...A MSDN OS license is for " design, development, testing, and demonstration " and not for other uses such as games or email. If a machine currently has an OEM 32bit Vista license. I'd like to upgrade the PC to 8GB for development purposes. I could (I believe) install an MSDN Win7 64bit if the machine is for development use only....
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how to get the interface ID3D11VideoDecoderOutputView with the function ...
...In order to create decoder output view on given resource, the resource must be created with D3D11_BIND_DECODER binding....
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Problem running sample Stereo 3D application
...Later in order to see it as a real 3d application I have connected my laptop to samsung 3D tv using HDMI cable and run the sample, but an exception is generated....
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Alpha Blending - social.msdn.microsoft.com
...I've downloaded the C++ SpriteBatch sample. It didn't support animated sprites at first, so I've changed it to support them. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get alpha blending working now. I took some graphics logs:...
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Use of MSDN VL Media
...Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN subscription license. When this happens, the underlying operating system must also be licensed normally by purchasing a regular copy of Windows such as the one that came with a new OEM PC....
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DirectDraw Deprecation - social.msdn.microsoft.com
...Hi everyone; newbie here both to the forums, DirectX, and (to a lesser degree) game development in general. I'm wanting to get into game development as a hobby, maybe a couple of small shareware games for the heck of it. Nothing spectacular, just have a couple of ideas in mind that I'm wanting to do....
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Infinite request - social.msdn.microsoft.com
...1. In web browser I'm initiating request to localhost which is bound to myApp site (IIS), which is using myAppPool application pool....
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Missing references (assemblies) of libraries in web project built with ...
...We have some class libraries where some references are loaded with reflection, for example nhibernate, when we build the project with visual studio the references are copied in the bin folder of the web project, but when we use msbuild and msdeploy they aren't....
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Problem deserializing XML file - social.msdn.microsoft.com
...I am trying to deserialize an xml file into a object but I am running into problems and can't seem to figure out what the problem is. I have seen this problem in the past but can't remember what I did to solve it....
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number of downloads for an app in windows store
...I think it would be very beneficial to have generic statistics on the trends the category breakdowns. For example games. I would like to see how the arcade, simulation, family, etc... is doing specifically. How my app downloads compare to others in the same category that was out for close to same time period. Also, 3 or 4 month old trends does not help when generating a new app, especially if ......
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