7:30 – 10:30 SR

• Backups, and it turns out that there was a bug with the project_portfolio_enh db, where a view that referenced tables that no longer exist was trying to be serialized. Dropping the view fixed the problem.
• Deployed the new FA, and changed the db around a bit to accommodate. Which caused all the data to disappear from the client due to a null return of a query. Which caused us to want to restore from the backups. Which brought the backup error to light. Fortunately, it’s a test db, and very little actual work was lost.
• Looked at the server info in Xacta, which was a new, exciting thing. It looks like our current authority to operate expires 3/25/2014. Need to keep an eye on that.
• Meeting with the PIT crew from 7:30-8:00, which I missed due to the fact that I was uploading the new FA in preparation for the *scheduled* 8:00 meeting. Dong caught it though. He showed/described FA and RA to the team and they are actually quite happy.

10:30 – 3:30 FP.

• More Audio3d.
• Starting to add in the 3dAudio based on this and this and this.
• Got an audio link error and chased that down, discovering a few things along the way.
• There is directX help for C++ in (“C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Documentation\DirectX9\directx_sdk.chm”). I don’t know it it’s any good, but I’m going to look though it next. Note that this is DX9, not 11. I’m *hoping* that this is all up to date…
• Pointed Configuration Properties->Linker->General->Additional Library Directories at (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Lib\x86), and added the following files to Configuration Properties->Linker->Input->additional dependencies”
  • d3d11.lib
    d3dx11.lib
    winmm.lib
    xinput.lib
    X3DAudio.lib
  • This is a change from the libraries that the demo book points at, which were dxd9 libs. Recompiled and ran the code with no problems. I did attempt to clean up the xact3dInstance pointer in ~Audio3d(), but delete[] threw an exception
• Reading through the DX documentation, which, though it is in the DX9 folder, contains information about DX11. Whatever.
• The documentation is kind of what you’d expect, but it let me find the tutorials and demos, which are quite nice. On my machine, the demos that I’m interested in are located here: (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Samples\C++\XAudio2). It contains 4 projects:
  • XAudio2BasicSound
  • XAudioBasicStream
  • XAudio2CustomAPO
  • XAudio2Sound3D
• Each project has source and MSVC2008 and MSVC2010 project files. I’ve just opened up the XAudio2Sound3D MSVC2010 project, and it compiled and ran just fine: 
• This is almost exactly what I intend to build for the test environment, so that’s pretty cool. And using the buttons or the keyboard, I can drive the sound emitter around my head. Woohoo!
• Next goal is to build up a copy of XAudio2BasicSound and then add the 3D components (without the graphics) from XAudio2Sound3D.