briankaiser's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Mixing ManualSchedulerService and DefaultSchedulerService

  Hi, I want to run multiple workflows in a WorkflowRuntime in a WinForm Application. I want to be able to specify the thread to be used by some of the workflows (but not in all of them). This results in the following questions: Am I allowed to add both ManualSchedulerService and DefaultSchedulerService to the runtime Is there a possibility to specify the scheduler to be used by a workflow (Or does the runtime simply take the one currentl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help crashes Visual Studio 2003

  I am a computer science major at a university that has Visual Studio 2003 available through the MSDN academic alliance. I installed VS without the MSDN library for an assignment and everything was great, then when I later tried to install the library it won't work. If I try to directly open the library, a message comes up saying "updating help..." then Document Explorer crashes. If I open VS the same message comes up and the whole prog ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I get an Environment Variable?

    I have 35 years of experience. I have mostly avoided the C world. when I've had to write in it, I've done OK in VS6. VS2005 C++ is so cantankerous. I'm writing a program that must run standalone  so it's very lean and doesn't rely on high level code. I am in need of a routine that returns the value of the %windir% environment variable in string format. My project is set for a unicode build. Thank ...Show All

• Visual Studio How are custom tasks terminated

  Hi: I've written some custom tasks, and I have a question about how they are terminated. For example: I have one task which runs a separate process. If I start MSBuild and then do a control-C, MSBuild is killed, by my process is still running. My task never receives an exception. Is there some way I can find out that MSBuild is terminating and hold up the termination long enough for me to clean-up whatever my task is doing before allowing MSB ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Send Mail task problem

  Hi, I have got the problem connected with Send Mail Task in SSIS. The general idea was: sending email alert to different email users. I tried to use Foreach Loop task which loops through dataset (where the emails are stored) and assign different email addresses to SSIS package variable. When I try to use this task inside Foreach Loop task I receive this error message: "Error: 0xC002F304 at Send Mail Task, Send Mail Task: An error occu ...Show All

• SQL Server DTS Wizard SQL 2005 - Enable Identity Insert

  I have a large number of Access tables that I need to periodically bring to SQL using the DTS Wizard in SQL 2000 (via Ent. Man). I am only interested in bring over the data from the MS Access tables as I had a separate script (application drive) that would create the SQL tables. The problem is this: with SQL 2000 when bringing over the tables, the check box for 'Enable Identity Insert' for each of the tables was checked , this worked fine. With ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS as deployable MSI?

  Hi! In our company we want to deploy WDS to some desktops through Active Directory. For this we need an MSI file, however, the installer which can be downloaded from microsoft.com is available only as exe file. Does anyone have any information about how to turn it into a deployable MSI file Or is there a pre-built MSI available for download somewhere Thanks --Michael Hi Michael, First, I’d li ...Show All

• Visual C# Can FileSystemWatcher raise different events depending on file path?

  I have a FileSystemWatcher that watches a directory. This has 3 sub-directories. I was thinking of just making 3 different FileSystemWatcher objects to watch each directory individualy, because when a file is created in one of these directories I need different events raised. For directory A, I want MethodA called, and dir B I need MethodB called and Method C called when a new file is placed in Directory C. Can one FileSystemWatcher call differe ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Smart Copy/Move dialog,Smart Welcome Screen

  I wait for an Innovative,Imaginative,Impressive version of Vista from Microsoft . itis a historical event that Microsoft present monthly builds of its next version of Windows but itis really good ,nice,new idea But We Want and Watch and Wait an amazing version of Vista than its CTP Builds (I sure that Microsoft can give more) Smart Copy/Move dialog:- OK as all of Windows Users do much more copying of Big Files Like Movies or Games the p ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I get different colors of text in a RichTextBox?

  How do I get the following to display "Light Blue" in light blue letters and "Black" in black type RichTextBox1.Text ="Light Blue " & "Black" richtextbox1.selectionstart = len(richtextbox1.text) richtextbox1.selectioncolor = color.whatever richtextbox1.selectiontext = "Light Blue" & vbcrlf richtextbox1.selectioncolor = color.whatever richtextbox1.s ...Show All

• Windows Forms Binding Comboboxes to custom lists

  I am running .NET Framework 2.0 B2 I am missing something when it comes to implementing databinding in custom classes. I have a view class that acts as my main data source. The view class basically just loads up the data and returns via properties and BindingLists of NameValuePairs (which is just a replacement for KeyValuePair so that databinding will work) The view class also maintains current properties that tell me what the current selected i ...Show All

• .NET Development Regular Expressions C#

  Hi, I have the following string type=0&asset=0&assetNo=&facility=0&category=0&line=12&infraco=0&output=1&cause=&attribution=0 and I would like to extract the value of all the variables like, type,asset,assetNo,facility and so on. Does anyone how to do it thanks Might be easier to use string.Split string[] vars = args.Split(new char[]{'&', '='}); vars[0] is name of variable ...Show All

• SQL Server Keep getting Virtual Memory errors

  Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to solve a virtual memory error We randomly get the following error when trying to run sycn over the http websync. Some clients have 512 MB running sql express, others are full instances that have 1.5 GB. The merge process could not allocate memory for an operation; your system may be running low on virtual memory. Restart the Merge Agent. Yunjing, Thanks f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Disabling sort function in Datagridview

  Hi Is it possible to disable the "sort function" in datagridview that happens when pressing the header I would like display some data that you cant order by clicking on the columheader. Can you lock the headers somehow If i recall correctly - if you go into the column individual column definitions and look at there properties Select datagrid -Right Click and select Edit Column -> Sort Mode ...Show All

• .NET Development My web app (ASPNET 2.0) was reseting when I delete a sub-folder

  Hi, My web app (ASPNET 2.0) was reseting when I delete a sub-folder ("TestFolder"). When my web app runs over aspnet 1.1 it doesn't reset. Are there some documentation about this ...Show All