chief_druid_tma's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Word Document Code Not Running

  Ok, so riddle me this.  What's the difference in running a VSTO Word Document project in the VS 2005 IDE vs. opening up the .doc in the bin\Debug folder manually after compiling in VS 2005 I just created a blank Word Document project in VS 2005, and added a simple MessageBox.Show in the ThisDocument_Startup method to verify that the document's code was run.  If I run this project in the VS 2005 IDE, the document opens and the message ...Show All

• Visual Basic A Modest Proposal for Microsoft

  I've been a Basic programmer for over 30 years and that whole time I've endured the constant reminder that I'm not a "real" programmer. I know better and you know better but still there's that stigma associated with being a Visual Basic programmer vs. being a C++ or a C# programmer. Now that I use VB.Net it really couldn't be further from the truth since VB.Net does everything any contemporary OOP language does. So here's my sugg ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with SQLStatePersistence

  I added the sqlpersistence service to my Workflowruntime (with a valid connection string). I have two events that i will trigger: SubmitEvent, and ScanEvent.. When I call my submit event the workflow gets to a new state where it is waiting for the scan event..\ At this point the workflow instance is idled. Now when I raise the ScanEvent with the same instance ID i get an error EventDeliveryfailed for the instance ID.. When I look in the innerexc ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista State Machine

  On a State Machine WF I have: StateA (Event A includes: WaitForEventA, CodeBlockA, SetStateB) StateB (Event B includes: WaitForEventB, CodeBlockB, SetStateC) StateC (Event C includes: WaitForEventC, CodeBlockC, SetStateFinal) FinalState I have a WF client that fires EventA, and the WF moves as far as SetStateB. I would like to move *automatically* to StateB when I reach SetStateB. What is the best way to do this O ...Show All

• .NET Development Compare time

  Hi, Im having a lil question. Im trying to compare 2 times with eachother. One time is in an xml file. The other one is the time at this current moment. If the time is older than 1 month, it should remove a whole table from the xml file. This is the code i produced so far: static void Main(string[] args) { try { DataSet xmlFile = new DataSet(); xmlFile.ReadXml("test.xml"); foreach (DataRow dateR ...Show All

• SQL Server Changing Column and Row Heading in MDX

  I am trying to change the default row and column heading to make it more meaningful to the user in MDX. Can you please help me. This is done easily in SQL like SELECT the_actual_cost AS cost...... Thanks in advance. Riju Hi Peter, I am using one measure in multiple reports and trying to give them different names in different reports to make it more meaningful. Thanks Riju ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Registration page not available

  The link in my Visual Basic 2005 Express to register keeps coming up "page can not be displayed" the link is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=51341&lcid=1033&h=7c7d6ccdd64da0f1&c=&pid=76541-000-0000011-00124&bn=050727.42   and my version is 8.0.50727.42 Any suggestions on how to register it   I want the free goodies... thanks in advance. Teamdad Hi Teamdad, The link works for m ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Can't install in Vista Build 5384 (Beta 2) 64-bit

  I just installed Vista beta 2 on my AMD 64-bit x2 machine. Vista appears to be running find, but I'm not able to install Visual Studio 2005 Developer Edition for some reason. When I run the setup program and select the first option (install VS2005), it copies about 66 files to my hard drive and then ends. There's no error or anything. I think at this point it should be trying to run something that it copied to the hard drive from the VS2005 DVD, ...Show All

• SQL Server what is the default uid and the password for the database?

  hi i have installed the .net C# 2005 it include the sql express but when i am creating a database in window authoncation it create sucessfully but when i am creating using uid and password it will not accept why any one tell me By default the SQL Express systems are set to run under windows mode only. To turn it on you can use the management tools to change this. ...Show All

• Visual C# Retrieve info from SQL db

  How do i retrieve info from my db I want to create method that validates password which is stored in db.         public bool IsValidPassword()         {             if ( Password == " ") // I need to chech DB for password               &n ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Service design for SOA based application

  ALL, I have a specific query around the implementation that I have in my application, details below-   I have modules in our application which are implemented as service , each   (applying SOA principle) and each have their own database.   There is some reporting functionality in each of the modules and we have architectural principle guideline not to make cross service database calls from a module, all the cross dat ...Show All

• SQL Server DTC error with concurrent data flows

  I have a package that has several data flows that run concurrently after some initial tasks and an initial data flow. I want transactions on each of the data flows and have set the transaction option to Required on the data flows (not on the package itself). I am also using checkpoint restart on the package. A couple things are happening. 1) the first data flow is successful and that releases the several that are waiting. Some of these compl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Balloon tip

  A built-in control to display balloon tips on a given control (currently I'm using 3rd party libraries and self-written components to do this via a Platform SDK invocation). Check out this ToolTipExt - http://component.cheapcard.com.au ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Simple element Drag'n Drop example in WBA

  Is there a simple UI element drag'n drop example for WBA Regards Ranj Yes, you are absolutely right, my response was incomplete, it was only in the context of Unni's sample. This is the link to the Peter Blois's sample: http://blois.us/blog/2005/12/stupid-listbox-tricks.html ...Show All

• Windows Forms Eumerate Sub-Folders

  All, I am trying to write something that you can point it to a directory, ex. c:\library, and it will tell me what the sub-folders are in that directory. The reason that I am doing this would be to create something of a dynamic library. &n ...Show All