spshah's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Enabling aero glass?

  Is there something in particular that has to be done to enable this I've installed Avalon and the other pieces with it, updated my gfx driver the the latest version from nvidia, but I'm still getting the plain aero, and I don't see anywhere to enable aero glass. My system is far above the requirements needed for it: Athlon64x2 4400, GF7800GTX, 2GB RAM... Hi, See section "Enabling Aero Glass" in the article below: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/08/16/vista2.html Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Defining Bitmap of custom activity

  Hi, I want to define a bitmap with a custom activity. I already set the ThemeAttribute in the ActivityDesigner and the ToolboxBitmapAttribute with the Activity but I cannot see the bitmap ... Any help appreciated! Thanks Andreas Your image file will need to be an embedded resource so that it is part of the generated assembly. Highlight the image in the solution explorer and change the properties in the property browser to indicate that it should be treated as an embedded resource. Matt ...Show All

• Visual Studio how to add several data sources to the crystal report

  hi, i want to show some fields from different tables on the form at the same time, i try to use the SetDataSource method of my ReportDocument but i can add only one dataset by this way, don't i need to add more than one dataset to achieve my goal i will acquire information from three tables so i need three datasets to add to the reportdocument..so how can i do that If you are using SQL Server, use a stored procedure. You can then set the report datasource to the stored procedure name rather than the actual table. For example: The following three tables: Customers-CustID,CustomerName (CustID is primar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I need to count by ascii characters. Seems tricky!

  Hey guys, I'm doing an expirement and I need to basically "count" but using a set of ascii characters. I'm having a heck of time. And using VB.NET Express. For example, in Decimal, you count 1,2,3...8,9,10. As you know, once your first character reaches 9, a new character is added, 0, to the left, and then you start over counting the 1st character such as 10,11,12...18,19,20. Each time the rightmost character reaches 9, the next one over goes up one, and if another char doesn't exists, it is created. Okay, I need to do this but instead of doing it with numbers 0 - 9, I need to do it with 93 ascii characters! Ranging from chr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Only allow numbers VB 2005

  My program that l am making l need to let the user put anything into a text box but if it has any letters in it to bring up a error message saying that they can only input numbers into it. Anyone able to help me. I'm sorry, you've asked this question in the VBA and C++ forums, what language are you using VB 2005 Please confirm so I can move the question to the right place. I'm deleting the other posts. And the answer is to handle the KeyPressed event and do something like if Not (Char.IsControl(e.Key) or Char.IsDigit(e.Key)) then e.Handled = true I'm not sure if it's e.Key, but hte key that's press ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I know if count is counting up or counting down

  I have a MCU (PIC) in which I'm using to send serial information (0-255 ASCII) out to my VB program. How can I find out if the data is counting up or counting down. Please keep in mind that I am new to VB so please speak slowly. P.S. Is there a way to differentiate between odd, even and positive, negative numbers. Thank you in advance. Ken Hi again, Is this question too simple or too vague. I would like to know because it has not been answered. Regards, Ken ...Show All

• .NET Development A very irritating problem!

  A while back I installed the .NET framework on my Windows 98se computer (old original version 1.1 redistributable package, or possibly even 1.0).  Some time later, windows update told me there was a security update or patch that fixed various issues or something along those lines... so I did the update.  However, half way through the updating/installation process, my computer crashed. This left my .NET in a half updated state - nothing that required .NET would work, and when I attempted to do the automatic windows update again, it still said I needed the update, but the installation wouldn't work either. So, I ...Show All

• SQL Server Virtual Labs - No Connection message

  A couple of us are trying to use the SQL Server 2005 Virtual labs at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/  .  We complete all the prelim steps successfully but when we click on "Start the Lab" we get a blank page with "No Connection" in the middle.  The clock ticks and the system thinks we are doing the lab.  How can we get a connection   or is the server down   or are there no available resources left Can you please send an email to me at majewett@online.microsoft.com so I can connect you with the right people to address this   Thanks< MJ ...Show All

• Visual C# Why must I cast on the way out of an emumeration?

  Hello, It's hardly a major issue, but I do occasionally get irritated when the compiler tells me that something like Logger.Log("portfolio selected", Developers.carlos); doesn't work, because I haven't casted Developers.carlos as an int (which I never think to do, as I have explicitly defined the Developers enumeration as being of type int ( public enum Developers : int )). Just wondered if there was a good reason behind this. Obviously it's not very important, but brevity in code is always nice if it doesn't compromise functionality or readability... Thanks, Carlos C# supports implicit casting only if corresponding implici ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Who can help me?

  Here is the newest workflow designer sample hosted out IDE: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/3/2/C325E3B1-9B85-407C-8C4B-422A5CF04126/WorkflowDesignerControl.EXE , but there are some place unfinished in the MemberCreationService Class.such as : public void UpdateTypeName(string oldClassName, string newClassName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } This causes you can't not change the workflow name in the designer. Who can help me to figure it out Thanks. Try doing the following in the method 1) Update the type name in both the code compile units present in the loader (xamlccu and codebesideccu ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista BPEL-compatible Workflow-Engine with WWF?

  Does anyone know something about a released product that executes and manages workflows and whose workflows are BPEL-compatible I'm thinking about something like "OraXXX BPEL Process Manager" but based on WWF/.NET ... and about something reliable :-) I understood that BizTalk Server doesn't include this functionality but not exactly why ... as an ISP we have to handle about 5000+ BP - so importing an exporting BPEL files is not a solution ... Thanks, Marco There are a set of BPEL 1.1 activities in the works but you will need to import the BPEL file into WF and will not be able to direct ...Show All

• Visual C# Preserving compatibility with an Interop dll

  I asked this question a couple of weeks ago and thought I had solved it, but I was wrong. When creating an interop dll in C#, any time I alter the code and re-compile, I lose the reference to it from any applications that reference it (like VB etc). This is a sample application. I thought I was doing everything write by specifying the GUID etc but nope. Any ideas using System; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Collections.Specialized; using System.Text; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; namesp ...Show All

• Visual C# Create Dataset Object from Schema (xsd)

  In VS 2003 we could save the dataset schema and it would create our typed Datset object automatically.  I cant see where to do this in VS 2005.  Can someone please explain how to handle this now. Thanks -j hello... show all files. it is now named like this. datasetName.Designer.cs (or, .vb) many of the souce file and location named differently i also little bit confused ...Show All

• Windows Forms Applying Visual Styles to form When Theme Service is not enabled.

  Hi. I am developing a winform application at my company, and there is one thing that I want to do, but have not found the answer to it. The IT people have setup the Group policy to disable the Theme Service in Windows XP, that is responsible for applying the styles that a Theme has in windows. I hate the way my application looks with square buttons and no mouseover color change. And this is my question: Is there any way to apply XP Visual Styles to controls even if the system itself has the theme service turned off Thanks in advance for your response. The IT Department by some unknown reason ...Show All

• Visual C++ linker warning 4217

  Hi, when we compile our projects, we get a lot of linker warnings 4217, like this one: warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol _sof_hand imported in function _s_hand but we think, they have no bad effect, so we want to suppress the warnings. But we didn't found a linker switch to do it. Same effect with VC 7.0 and 8.0 Thanks for your efforts Markus The linker has no way to suppress warnings. Set a define in the project whether the __declspec(dllimport) is needed or not. That's the best way and recommended way to do it. ...Show All