The DATMAN's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF Performance issues

  I am doing some timing measurements to figure out whether we can use WWF for orchastrating code within our project. Here are some of the numbers I am getting and questions associated with them: 1. For a workflow with about 5-6 activities including a parallel activity and several code activities, the time to create the workflow the first time is more than 300 millisecs (328, 359, etc). All subsequent times it takes about 15 millisecs. What is the reason for the significantly larger creation time the first time Is there any way to reduce this time Our project might need to use 1000's of workflows. 2. The time to execute the workflow is no ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem with Sharepoint

  hi... i have a strange problem. im installing a Single Server for TSF. My steps: 1. Uninstall WSS 2 with SP2    (because accidentally i installed it in Typical Installation ) 2. i have tried to install de WSS 2 with SP2 but now in the wizard, there is no Type of Installation page , i mean, after the End-User License Agreement page, the Type of Installation page doesn't appear and the Summary page shows....i need to install WSS 2 with SP2 in farm type....but i cant!!..i have tried: restart, download again and nothing :( i hoep somebody can help me thx :D I am getting the same error, but I can't see how to uninstall m ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem coming during deploying asp.net application throgh Copy option

  Hi, I am trying to use copy option to deploy my asp.net application.I have user controls in the project inside UserControls folder.I am able to copy the whole project on server but it is not copying the user controls inside the UserControl folder.It just create a folder by the name of User control.I have other folders also in that project(e.g.images.documents).It is copying everything inside them but not copying User controls.I am not able to understand why is it behaving so. Can you help me Regards, Deepti ...Show All

• .NET Development TCPIP Messages Bunching Up! Any help appreciated.

  Hi guys, I have a client/server application in development (VB.NET 2005). Part of the appication's features require the server to send one or more messages to all the clients when the system time reaches a certain value. All of the above is working (i.e clients are receiving messages at certain times from the server which has a timer monitoring the system time and sending messages when it reaches a certain value). However, some strange things have been happening with the network streams. In one instance, the server sends three seperate messages to the clients via network streams when the clock reaches 8pm. The first message is re ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to create a customised persistence service

  I am still doing the planning around workflow support for a smart client application. My intention thus far is to provide local instances of workflows however i would like to persist to a webservice and similarly i would like to track the various workflows via a webservice. Can anyone point to some documentation that would guide through what the process of customising these services to enable the web service aspects described above. I have gone the "Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation" book however its example is a simple customisation of a the tracking service. thanks by havin several ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Namespace rule

  Hi, I need to check my component namespace to abide by the rule that all the namespaces should be prefixed with Companyname.Groupname.Productname Please let me know how i can acheive this. I'm using VS 2005 Static Code Analysis. If there is an existing rule, please let me know. If i need to customize, it would be great if you can let me know what i need to do implement this rule. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Kumar Fantastic! thanks much David. I followed the steps you've mentioned and i'm able to see the custom rules. Thanks much for sharing the info! Kumar ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. about ID3DXSPRITE->Draw()

     May I use ID3DXSPRITE->Draw() to draw a bullet mark I found that ID3DXSPRITE->Draw(D3DXSPRITE_OBJECTSPACE) cann't to draw a SPRITE that change the direction of the face.When I use a parameter like  D3DXSPRITE_OBJECTSPACE.    How to let it draw like Device->DrawPrimitive(); example:    SPRITE->Begin(D3DXSPRITE_OBJECTSPACE);    SPRITE->Draw(texture,NULL,&D3DXVECTOR(10,10,10),&D3DXVECTOR     (10,10,10),OxFFFFFFFFF);    SPRITE->End; Another way to draw a bullet mark,use Device->DrawPrimitive() .Somebody give me some code ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX and Visual C# .NET Express???

  Hi, I'm trying to play around with DirectX and C#. I downloaded the C# Express edition, and the latest DirectX SDK. After installing the DirectX SDK, I tried to add a reference to my project for Microsoft.DirectX, but I couldn't find anything DirectX under the .NET tab. Then I went through the browse tab looking within the directory structure for the DirectX SDK, and couldn't find C# would reference to. I then browsed to the C:\Windows\Assembly directory, and found all the Microsoft.DirectX stuff, but C# express wouldn't add those as references. Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere, or does DirectX not work with C# exp ...Show All

• Visual Studio July CTP - Subreport event doesn't fire when using LoadReportDefinition

  This bug was in Beta 2 as well.  When loading a report via LocalReport.ReportPath, the SubreportProcessing event fires as expected.  When loading the same report using a stream and LoadReportDefinition, SubreportProcessing is not fired. Not sure if this worked in the June CTP or not... Thank you - I should've seen this.  For some reason, I was expecting to supply the subreport definition in the callback, kind of like the Drillthrough event.  Thanks for clearing this up! ...Show All

• Windows Forms change the font on a ContextMenu

  Hi All, Does anyone know how I can change the font on a ContextMenu    By default the font seems to be set to SystemInformation.MenuFont which is a readonly property. I can't find a Font property in the ContextMenu class to reset the font.  (using C#) Thanks in advance for answers or suggestions. John Am I right in assuming that there ...Show All

• Visual C# Want to find some good books

  There are a lot of books about C# and .NET on the market, and I read many of them. But most of them are written, assuming that the reader knows nothung about the language and framework,though he maybe knows some about programming and have experience in another languages like C++. In all this books author talking about all C# specification, begining with smth very simple like operators, variable types and so on. I saw many books about programming patterns and modern application design in C++ and want to find smth alike for C#. Besides, I want to find some book about System.Reflection. It's a very powerfull t ...Show All

• Visual C++ OnTimer() not being fired up.

  hey guys, i have timer set like follows: UINT TimerVal; TimerVal = SetTimer(406, 50, NULL); and i added in header file: afx_msg void OnTimer(UINT nIDEvent); and in cpp file i have: void CEditorDlg::OnTimer(UINT nIDEvent) { char finalFps[100]; strcpy(finalFps, NConvert::IntToChar( _entityEngine->getFPS() )); m_lblFPS.SetWindowText( _T( finalFps ) ); CDialog::OnTimer(nIDEvent); } and : ON_WM_TIMER(). so when i put a break point int he ontimer function, it doesnt stop at it. therefore i understood that the timer wasnt started, but the TimerVal result i got had value 406, so i assumed that it already started. does anybody know why ...Show All

• SQL Server Advanced Select based on multiple field combinations

  I have developed an ASP.NET form with 12 different fields that will allow end users the cability to query 3 tables that are relational to one another. I was curious what is the best way to perform this in a Stored Procedure Can I use a UNION -- Not sure if this is the best choice or account for evey kind of WHERE clause based off IF statements on the data that is passed through the parameters If these drop down's are simply filters for the end-user to retrieve more specific results, you can add to each of the drop-downs an item with a value of 0 and a text value of something like "Any". Then when calling your pro ...Show All

• Visual Basic Programmatically changing user permissions for Access MSysObjects

  Hi, I am using VB.Net to connect to an Access DB and have tried to read the MSysObjects, but the User group does not have read permission. I know that you can manually change the permissions in Access, but I have 850 Access DBs (result of a Lab Test that students took) and now want to programmatically search through each one and see what Tables, Queries, etc are in there. If I manually change the permission everything works fine, but I want to know if I can change the permissions for each Access DB using code - so loop through each Access DB and set the User group permissions on MSysObjects to allow Read access. Can anyone help : ...Show All

• Visual Basic winproc message

  how do i find out the message/hex value of an event... in this case when the pen is lifted from and is no longer recognized by the screen... thanks! Dan I'm not sure what you're asking but it sounds like you need the CursorOutOfRange event of the InkCollector class. ...Show All