BillS's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Does WF support transactions?

  I need to start several workflows in one transaction. Something like this: using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope()) { Runtime.CreateWorkflow(typeof(MyWorkflow1)).Start(); Runtime.CreateWorkflow(typeof(MyWorkflow2)).Start(); Runtime.CreateWorkflow(typeof(MyWorkflow3)).Start(); scope.Complete(); } Basically, If something goes wrong inside the scope, I dont want any of these workflows created/running/persi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Chapter 9 In The Book Build A Program Now c#

  Well i have purchased the book Build A Program Now c# by Microsoft, Im at Chapter 9 where you build the weather tracker,when i try to do the exit command for the exit button on the context menu strip i get to Application.Exit(); then } and i get stuck! I type the } abd i know it goes there cause the book says it does and the little red squiggle mark come beside it! sO I erase it and the little red squiggle comes beside the Application.Exit(); ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project Portal has several page components that do not load properly

  On the project portal page, the builds, bug rates, and quality indicators all render as: The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. In beta 3, the components render like this: http://static.flickr.com/27/57070871_8a413e1772.jpg v=0 The SQL reporting services are connecting, but ins ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to show/hide column in GridView

  Hi everybody, Please help me show/hide column in GridView of Avalon. Datagridview of window form 2.0 has visible property in order to show/hide columns. Every body solved my issue, please let me knows. Thanks. Steven That's for ASP Gridviews. However, it's good that we could revisit this matter. I think that setting Visibility to collapsed should do what the original poster wants. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista msdtc service on WinXP Starter

  I am not sure if this question has been asked before. I have a WinXP starter machine in Spanish. I wanted to confirm if the msdtc service is supported in starter edition. Also if supported how can I Start/Stop this services. I cannot see this one in Services.msc. Thanks, Kushal. Hi Kushal, It is very possible that Starter Edition doesn't have this service. What happens if you do a "net start msdtc&quo ...Show All

• Visual C# Rfc2898DerivedBytes

  I am using the Cryptography in .NET Compact Framework 2.0 but the Rfc2898DerivedBytes does not exist What am I suppose to use in order to get a Key and IV from the password for encryption if this is not available Thanks, Kenneth Lewis .NET Compact Framework 2.0 << for the smartdevices such as Pocket PC 2003 or Windows Modile 5.0 does not contain this class or PasswordDerivedBytes so I am asking what are we suppose to use I kn ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums problem with 8.0 beta

  im a beta tester of live messenger 8.0 and i couldnt find anywhere to post bugs with the program so i thought someone here could help if not then my problem is that when i sign in my display name dissapears and i just get my email just wanted to let microsoft know so they cn sort it out thanx people Hi, are you enrolled via Microsoft Connect If do sign in choose the beta and then go to communities to find t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Easiest way to get the Datagridview's text while editing?

  I want to capture the text while the user is typing in a datagridview textbox cell. So far, I've read that I have to use the Editingcontrol in some way. Thanks for any help! I would do the following: Private Sub dgv_EditingControlShowing( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewEditingControlShowingEventArgs) Handles dgv.EditingControlShowing If e.Control.GetTyp ...Show All

• Visual Studio CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LogOnException: Logon failed.

  I get error at the time printing report CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LogOnException: Logon failed. Please give me solution Imran ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions MSDN Express Edition is broken!

  Hi! I had Visual Studio 2005 Pro installed on my system. As I was not using most of the features of the Pro version, I uninstalled it completely. (I followed the correct order - As specified in the ReadMe document) I then installed Visual Studio Express editions on my system. The express versions are now working fine, but I have problems with MSDN Express Edition. Almost every link in MSDN Express is broken, & it shows an error : ...Show All

• Windows Forms INI files

  Hey, I searched MSDN for this but I could not find anything on it... How do you have the program recongnize a .ini file I have called it load.ini and this is what it is inside of it: [firstload] firsttime = 1 I am trying to make it so that in the Private Sub Form_Load it will look for the ini file and read it, is firsttime = 1 then it is going to open up a dialog, otherwise it will do nothing, I can do all of that, ...Show All

• .NET Development ADO.net, how to use INSERT statement

  when execute insert statement, happend exception "fail to connect datasource". if change the value( , , ) to real value(3,'dfdf',11). it work well. so it prove that it can connect to DB. and execute select statement, no problem. why insert can happened the problem how to handle it CageNo defined to AutoNumber, CageName to Text and Food to Number(long integer) in Access. Any help, i will appreciate it. using System; using System.Drawing; us ...Show All

• .NET Development type accessibility modifier question

  Why unnested type can only be marked public or internal(assembly),does the other four make no sense Who can demostrate thanks a lot! class MyType   //implicit internal {    private NestedType    {    } } Correct.  The other accessibility modifiers don't make sense.  Private - A private class is inaccessible outside its parent.  For global classes there is no paren ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to override INCLUDE path for external projects?

  Hi, I'm using VS 2005, Native C++, with an external project (NMAKE/makefile). For this project, I would like to override the standard VC++ Include paths to point to a different set of header files from another toolset. I would like Intellisense to reference this other set of header files. Is there a way to do this How is the NOINHERIT macro interpreted in a project file Could it be used to suppress the standard includes Thanks for any sug ...Show All

• Windows Forms No Touch Deployment and DTS

  Hi I have NTD application deployed to a win2003 server with iis6.0. The application loads a DTS Package from SQL Server 2000 on the same server. Running the app from a browser session on the server, it works great, however if I run the app from a client machine, the app runs ok except for the DTS Package does not get executed. I get the following error: Event Source : DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_1 Error Code : -2147467259 Source : Microsoft OLE DB ...Show All