Lord Finn's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Input and Output paramters in WinForm Application in Beta2.0 or Beta 2.2

  Hi I found a good demo for beginners on WorkFlow at BizTalkGurus.com ( www.biztalkgurus.com/windows- workflow -foundation.aspx )which is in Beta1.I have installed Beta 2.2.As previously mentioned the parameters property of WorkFlow is missing.I tried doing the demo in Beta2.2.But the while Loop doesnt terminate.Has someone tried the same thing in Beta 2.2. or Beta 2. Hi Cory, You could do this a couple ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Reuse the GUI components for editing Work Item

  Several spreasheets defined in MFS agile process allow to edit Work Items in the context of Office Applications. I am building a customized document using VSTO. Is it possbile to reuse the GUI components for editing Work Items Thanks very much! Yuhang Yuhang, Yes, you can use Work item GUI components to edit a workitem. Check out the sample: Download VS SDK Mar CTP from http://www.vsipmembers.com ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to display multiple images in a row in ListView

  Can anyone help me to have multiple images and text together in a row in ListView Control. Without seeing your code, not sure I can offer much. Share the code, or have a look at the list control in SDF from OpenNETCF for an example. Cheers Daniel ...Show All

• Visual C# Service starts and then stops

  Hi, I am trying to run FileWatcher.exe windows service provided as a download by microsoft in msdn code samples. I have build the serive and as directed i have run it using installlutil command. It ran ok and started giving information in the Even Logs. Then i uninstalled it and instelled it again. But this time when i start it, it gives me this error: The FileWatcher service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services ...Show All

• Visual Basic Internet Cafe Application

  Hi Everyone, I am currently developing an specific Internet Cafe application, that really doesn't exists yet. It has additional features. As I am not advanced programmer, I have got to a stage where I am stuck. I am trying to make my application hide, using another computer. Bascailly there will be 1 admin system, and about 10 computers. But using the admin computer, I want to send commands. How do I do that in VB.NET. and can it be don ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor not detecting known issues.

  The SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor (June release) doesn’t detect any issues or make warnings of our application’s database, scripts and trace files. (Just the general message about undetectable issues.)   These trace files include statements which attempt to create a 2mb database and use xp_cmdshell so I’m sure there should be warnings!   - I have SQL Express installed and these things fail when I run our app. So what is wrong ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Custom Validation Rule does not show in Add Validation Rule dialog

  I have written a custom validation rule as described at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182556.aspx . However, I am unable to make my validation rule appear in the Add Validation Rule Dialog. Am I missing something Is this a bug in VS If so, is there a workaround Thanks. This should work. Is your rule in the same project as the web test you are trying to add the rule to If not make sure you add a reference to the test project th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Foundation server Proxy

  I have installed the foundation server proxy on our network and I have dual homed the foundation serve proxy one nic is on our production network and the other is on our test network. I have followed all the configuration steps and when a tester tries to connect to the foundation server proxy it errors out. When I look at the IIS logs this is the information that it spits out anyone know what could be wrong here I have replaced the domain an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Application failed to start, mspdb80.dll was not found error !!

  I stopped using Visual C++ Express Edition for a few days after it was working fine.  I came back to it today, opened some programs in a text editor that I had gotten from a tutorial, and tried to compile and run them on the command line using "cl /EHsc [filename].cpp".  I have done this many times in the past with the same exact files, in fact, and I have never gotten this error before. [cl.exe - Unable To Locate Component] ...Show All

• Visual C++ C1083 Permission denied

  Hi, I'm getting this C1083 Permission denied error when I try to build an application (console type) project A which includes files from another project B (static library type). The B project includes files from a math library C (GSL). When I build the static library B, I have no problems. The problem is when I try to build A, and it complains about having permission denied to access a folder which turns to be the folder containing the .h fil ...Show All

• .NET Development Can .NET Remoting App be both Client and Server?

  There will be a question in here so stay with me, I'm providing some background first. I just started working on an existing app with the programmer that originally wrote the code.  My contribution will be to make one instance of the app running on one workstation on a network talk to another instance of the same app running on a different workstation on the network. To provide the services I want to use .NET Remoting (eventually Web Servic ...Show All

• Windows Forms Win32 v Windows Forms v Windows Service

  Hello all, Could someone explain to me the difference between win32, windows forms and a windows service Cheers, Padraic Depends on what your application is going to do mate. If you develop with windows forms though then its the user that interacts with the software most of all. The forms become your program. You design your forms and then in the application you display a main form. From that main form the user can navigate thr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Project Creation Failed

  Hello, We tried creating new team project but failed with the following error: Team Project Creation Failed <snipped> Error: Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at DAGOBAH Some info to further help in troubleshooting this problem: (installed in the following order) - installed SQL Server 2005 - installed Visual Studio 2005 - installed Team Foundation 2005 (single server installation) - installed Windows SharePoint Services ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 fails to build solution

  I'm having a strange problem where the VS2005 Beta 2 IDE fails to build my projects. The setup is at follow: 1 Solution with 2 projects all located in the same folder. The two project share files as one is targetting regular .Net 2.0 and the other CF 2.0. When I compile I get the following error message: C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50215\Microsoft.Common.targets(2274,9): error MSB3021: Unable to copy file "obj\Release\NipoSoftware.Sy ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to control the location of ClickOnce installation?

  I successfully installed my ClickOnce application from a remote site.  However, it is be default installed in c:\Document and Settings\myloginname\....  How to change the installation location to be under c:\program files\... Thanks You cant change that location. It is installed in the Application Cache and there is no way you can install it to some other folder directly by using ClickOnce. You could write an exe to copy files fro ...Show All