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• Software Development for Windows Vista Different ending states in EventDriven

  Hello, I am programming a document approval workflow using Beta1. I'm using a state machine workflow to model the different states the document goes on. Sometimes after the occurrence of an event I need to go in different states according to determinate conditions as for example after teh response of an approver according to the content of this response. I noticed that the designer doesn't allow me to put a SetState if not as the last activity of my EventDriven. So I cannot simply have an IfElse choosing which state to go next. Is it possible to obtain this functionality (maybe in beta2 ) or I should think the workflow in di ...Show All

• Visual J# Any good Add-Ins for VS 2005/J#?

  Hi; In the java world I use IntelliJ and in the C# world I use Visual Studio wit ReSharper & nunitaddin. Is there anything like this for VS 2005/J# ReSharper flat-out does not work with J# (they officially don't support it and most of it's features are turned off in J#). And nunitaddin does not understand J# (for a main()) or junit. And Visual Studio doesn't come close to having the features found in ReSharper & nunitaddin. Anythinf out there I feel like I'm back in the dark ages of IDEs. thanks - dave Hi Dave, If you drop me a line through my blog (http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/contact.aspx), I'll see what I can do about a ...Show All

• Windows Forms AddNew() creates a new row but I can't navigate to it

  I have a DataTable filled with records from my Employee table. I did not create a DataSource in the project for this Employee table. I simply created a command and data adapter in code to fill the dataset. I have an Employee form with a BindingSource set to my dataset and I connected a BindingNavigation control to the BindingSource. Of course, I have a number of textboxes, checkboxes, and comboboxes bound to the BindingSource.  I can navigate thru the records fine and delete and update data too. The problem is that I can't add records. I can click the add new button on the navigation bar and it shows the recor ...Show All

• Visual C++ Adding bitmaps

  How do I add bitmaps to a Visual Studios 2005 C++ program without using The Windows Forms interface or express edition. After adding a bitmap as a resource is there a way to insert the bitmap. Use Bitmap::FromResource() to load the bitmap from a .NET resource, then use Bitmap.GetHbitmap() to create a bitmap you can use with GDI (BitBlt etc) . Cast the IntPtr returned by Bitmap.GetHbitmap() to a HBITMAP handle. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System fxcop

  Can anyone tell me if the api's used in fxcop are documented anywhere I want to interrogate a dll for a specific method - which I have done using the visitMethodCall, and then interrogate that method to give me back the variable calling the method and the method parameters, e.g. public void someMethod() { a.someothermethod(anobjectinstance, "abc"); } I would like to extract the following information from the above method body a the class type of 'a' anobjectinstance (the variable name) "abc" (which I can get by following the ExtractsArguementToMessageBoxShow example) Is this possible ...Show All

• SQL Server Report builder & designer end-user's functionality

  Where can I find a comparison between the report builder and designer I would like to implement an end-user solution and as part of the exploration process I failed to completely understand the capabilities and disadvantages in each of the modules (I’m talking about the end-users functionality for the given reports – not for the designer’s usability of any sort)   Thanks Ron Take a look at slide 13 of http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/2/6/e2631eea-9a8d-484c-ba43-ac2e5be86396/BIN316.ppt . This is a version of a slide that I built to explain the differences. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Limitation with indexing enging only running during idle time.

  Version Info: WDS Beta version 02.06.500.5373 The WDS indexer *never* runs when any other thread in the system is competing for IDLE processing time. *as far as I can tell!* Here is the scenario and why: I run two instances of the Folding@Home Service (FAH) on my DUAL Athlon MP dev box 24x7. Each FAH client process has its process priority set to IDLE(4), resulting in the lowest process priority of 4 with all its threads having a base thread priority of 1. I can let the FAH clients run on my box using all free IDLE processor cycles.. and NEVER do I notice that it is running because the OS will pre-empt the FAH clients whenever I do anythin ...Show All

• Visual C# this one is a doozy!!!

  I am using Visual C# to develop a sudoku program. I have been working on it for a couple weeks now. The one thing I want it to do is to generate the puzzles through a random algorithm. The rules are a little complex but I managed to simplify them a little for the program. The one problem I am having is actually with C# itself, I don't believe it is my code because I have rewritten the algorithm numerous times. Here is the problem. The values for the puzzle are generated randomly inside a loop in the algorithm. I handle duplicated keys but making the loop reloop on the same index. Well somewhere along the loop C# goes into a frenzy and throws ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFSDeleteProject/Add Project with Same Name in Beta 3

  Can you still not use TFSDeleteProject to delete a project in beta 3 and then add a project back with the same name that was just deleted   I tried it and received errors. Thanks There's a lingering bug in beta 3 that prevents the naming of a project with the same name as a deleted project.  The bug is scheduled to be fixed in the final release. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQLXML managed classes - passing parameters to templates (error or documentation lack?)

  hello, i just made template file: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <root xmlns:sql="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql"> <sql:header> <sql:param name="ids"/> </sql:header> <sql:query> execute comparegoods @ids </sql:query> </root> and it work just fine from virtual directory, but when i try imlement this in C# using SQLXML managed classes i notice that stored procedure do not get parameter from SqlXmlCommand object (see code) <%@ WebService Language="C#" Class="WebService" %> using System; using System.IO; us ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get template id of a project in VSTS

  Hi When I create a team project in VSTS then we select a methodology template for that. It means that every project is associated with some methodology template. So, my question is that how can I retrieve template id for a particular project. Do we have any API for that. Regards Hi Neelam,    Here is some info from Ravi Terala, a developer who works on this area. "We thought about tagging the project with the template Id at one point and decided not to do that since the template is not versioned and association does not make sense since it can be changed. Unfortunately we don’t log the template we ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Problem of Office add-in (C#)

  I have a problem in that I have a MS Word Add-in which works fine on the computer where I developed it (in MS Visual C# .NET) but when I try to deploy it on other machines it doesn t work. To deploy the project I am using the Setup project from the Add-ins solution explorer as per instructions at, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;EN-US;q316723 I tried to isolate the problem using some simple examples. I made an add-in that simply pops-up a Message Box in the OnConnection method. This deploys fine on the target machine. Next I tried the simple add-in as outlined in the KnowledgeBase article 302901, How to build an Office ...Show All

• SQL Server Is SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services FREE ????

  I can't find any information on this. Thanks. Yep, it's free. Regards, Mike Wachal SQL Express team ---- Please mark your thread as Answered when you get your solution. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Application Variables

  Are there object/variables that have run-time scope within windows workflow I would like to have a connection shared among all the running workflows. Thanks, Marty Mardo - this would be something that would be host specific (there is nothing built into the runtime that enables that). You can create a service (just create an interface and then an implementation). Here is some pseudo code if you aren't sure how to get started. public interface IHostCachingService { void Add(string name,object o); object Get(string name); } public class HostCachingService : IHostCachingService { //your implementation goes here } ...Show All

• SQL Server Distinct Count in a new Measure Group

  Here is the situation: I have a cube that has transaction level data and there is a control number that goes with this data, but it isn't one for one.  If I have 60 million rows in the fact table, I have 50 million control numbers in a control number dimension. I would like to be able to slice the data by date (for instance) and then do a distinct count on the control number dimension.  I can do a distinct count w.o having to do a join of course because I can count the distinct instances of the key to the control number dimension. One more note - the control number dimension is not a degenerate dimension...it is not one to ...Show All