BrianRD's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista how does the instanceId get set on SqlWorkflowPersistenceService

  Hi, I'm trying to set up multiple servers each hosting workflow runtimes of their own. These servers persist their instances to the same SQL server. I can't get the locking mechanism to throw an ownership exception when a second runtime tries to load an instance from the persistance store. Looking at this, the Persistance service provides an @ownerId parameter to the stored procedures, I assume that this identifies which runtime locked the workflow Instance so that only that runtime can get it back while it is still locked. The problem is that this always seems to be null. Digging a bit deeper, the persistance service would seem to b ...Show All

• Architecture Entity Aggregation in the BLL/DAL world

  Hi all, I've started to read the paper about entity aggregation ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/dngrfSOAChallenges-EntityAggregation.asp ) and I've started to wonder - In layered service programming, where you have the service interface, the business process, business components and data components, we sometimes want to do an aggregation of entities (for example - an order might contains the order and order line details, but might also contain customer information, history of shippment etc.), each of them handled by it's own business component and data component. So if I want to create a se ...Show All

• Windows Forms windows forms flicker problem

  Hi I am kind of new to the windows forms, learning, and I would very much appreciate your help on this one as I think it is trivial but I don't seem to have the answer. I have designed a windows form with a background image (800x600 jpeg) and added some label controls (with transparent background). The problem is that every time the form open ...Show All

• .NET Development Posting a DataSet from A Windows Form to a web server

  How would I go about posting a dataset from a Windows Form to a Web Application (.NET 1.1) The Windows Form I am using as an admin tool and I need to post the configuration data to a specified web server. If a DataSet is not the best option, I am all ears. You can create a Web Service in the web application and have a web method that takes DataSet as its parameters. From the Windows appilcation, take a web reference to that web application and invoke the web method sending the dataset. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Flicker MSCHART - In loop

  Am stumbled on a MSCHART flickering problem, this one to do with the "Do Loop". After each iteration in the loop the code reads the data and plots it on the Chart frame. But it flickers crazily. Is there a way to avoid it Pl let me know, thanks! This code is in a loop, i is initialized to "0".. Open "res.txt" For Input As #1 If Not EOF(1) Then Line Input #1, Datas values(i + 1, 1) = CDbl(Datas) i = i + 1 MSChart1.Row = i MSChart1.RowLabel = i End If Close #1 MSChart1.ChartData = values Is this using VB.Net or VB6. The reason I ask is that ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office InfoPathNamespace screwed...

  From the Infopath documentation: ....The InfoPathNamespace attribute (which is implemented by the InfoPathNamespaceAttribute type) is applied to a class to identify the XML DOM selection namespaces used within the class. The namespaces referenced in the InfoPathNamespace are maintained by the InfoPath project system.... However, I managed to get rid of all the information (except the My namespace) And InfoPath doesn't put it back either. Can anyone give me some hints about how to resolve this issue Tnx Rene Rene, From your post, it looks like you are using the Infopath Beta with VSTA. A ...Show All

• SQL Server Help getting mirroring working

  Hello guys and gals, I've having some trouble getting DB mirroring set up in Sql Server 2005. Perhaps someone can help, as I've read everything I can find on the web and Google groups about this but still can't solve it. Here are the steps I have taken: 1. Installed a fresh Windows 2003 on box A (the primary) and a fresh Windows XP on box B (the mirror). 2. Run Windows update on both. 3. Installed Sql Server Enterprise on box A and box B, and also on my own machine box W (the witness). All good so far, I can connect to all machines, all machines can ping each other, all machines can telnet to each other on port 5020 (the 16 keystrok ...Show All

• Visual Studio Registering Visual Studio.net 2003

  I just installed VS2003 Academic Version and when I clicked on the link to register my software I got the following message on the MS web site: We're Sorry...The page you are looking for no longer exists or may have been moved. I can't seem to find a registration page on the web site. Anyone know where it is Surely one must still be able to register this version since it's still being sold! This is a on list of things for the VS servicing team to work on. I don't have an ETA on when this will be fixed but if you don't register, you will not have any missing functionality. ...Show All

• Visual C++ controlling user input

  I'm writing a game. A very symple game that doesn't use objects or anything like that. (I'm relatively new to prgramming and haven't gotten that far yet.) Over and over again the program asks the user for input. Some examples: cout << "Play (or try, failures) again, Yes(1) or No(0) " ; cin >> pg; cout << "Show attack score, Yes(1) or No(0) :" ; cin >> showatk; Since these questions only have two anwsers, the variables pg and showatk are of bool type. This all works fine, until the user tries to answer ...Show All

• Visual C# Error on a 'Add' in a Pivotcache in Excel

  I make an Pivotcache in C# and later want to connect an Access-database to this pivotcache, but i get an error on the 'Add'. The 'old' code in VB looks like this (and did work): With WbkXL_Workbook.PivotCaches.Add(SourceType:=Excel.XlPivotTableSourceType.xlExternal) .Connection = strConnection .CommandType = Excel.XlCmdType.xlCmdSql .CommandText = strCommand .CreatePivotTable(TableDestination:=WstXL_Worksheet_Bst.Range( "A3" ), _ TableName:= "Draaitabel1" ) End With The c# that i have created is as follows: Excel. PivotCache PCache; PCache = WbkXL_Workbook.PivotCaches().Add(Excel. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Generating Outlook Appointments from database

  How can I best utilize information in a SQL 2000 database to generate outlook appointments.  I would like to have a form in Outlook that accesses information in database to fill in subject of appointment, contact information, and set appointment time. I am contemplating programming other applications in VBA for a medical office. Thanks Hi rkarem, The outlook 2003 vb script editor can help us to realize this issue. And we can realize it successfully. Here is my code: === if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[New]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1) drop table [dbo].[Ne ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting list of builds using Object Model

  Can anyone tell me if it is possible, and if so how, to get a list of builds for a project using the object model. I've had a look through the documentation and can't find anything obvious. Thanks, Michael Abhinaba, from my team, has a great blog and sample on this - http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba/archive/2006/01/12/511935.aspx . And hopefully we will document these APIs before next release. Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Basic ADODC unrecognized database format for Access 2000

  I am working on a networked version of Access 2000 using a Visual Basic 6 front end. The access file was recently moved to a new server with MS Server 2003 installed. Over the last couple of days my clients, who have todate had no problems accessing the data, have one by one been unable to access the data getting error message "Unrecognized database format". Any help would be appreciated. This may be of use.... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q238401/ http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18535  Please note these forms are intended for VB.net questions.  . Questions regarding VB6 ...Show All

• Visual Basic Accessing Online Books

  Re: VB 2005 Express Beta 2 The VB.Net page said that in addition to the activation key... you also get access to online books. Does any one know how you access the books The links on the VB.Net page directed me to online book shops rather than to an online access link. Thanks Ozbravo Did you get an email that pointed you to the Microsoft My learning page ( https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/enterCode.aspx ) and supplied an access code If you have already gone to My learning and entered the access code then you can just go to the My learning page ( https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning ...Show All

• Windows Forms How 2 change the style of controls so they will look like Office 2003 ?

  Dear all. Me using some controls like toolStrip and MenuStrip and I get the Grey color style unlike the beautiful sexy blue color that U can C on the Office 2003 applications, How can I apply the blue styles to my controls Found it... ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=44749&SiteID=1 )   Application.EnableVisualStyles(); ...Show All