Tom Schulte's Q&A profile
Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow-Instance-Id within CallExternalMethodActivity?
A Custom Activity MyActivityA (based on SequenceActivity) is contained in another Custom Activity MyActivityB. MyActivityA uses a CallExternalMethodActivity. One of the parameters of the called method is the Instance-Id of the hosting workflow. How do I get the Instance-Id of the workflow within the CallExternalMethodActivity I've tried MyActivityA .WorkflowInstanceId (MyActivityA is derived from SequenceActivity) and WorkflowEnvironment.W ...Show All
Smart Device Development How Do you modify the Schema of TASKS DATABASE on WM2005?
Does anyone know how to modify the EDB schema of the "tasks database" on WM2005 Once the device boots shell32.exe already has mounted and has locks on the database preventing me from appending new columns to the schema. On Pre-WM2005 the developer could add columns without problems, but with WM2005 you can't - Does anyone know how to force shell32.exe to close all handles/sessions to the "tasks database" Thanks, Jim Row Dallas TX ...Show All
Windows Forms formatting millisecond
hi, I'm trying to format milliseconds. how to get the first digit alone . Actuall y i'm calculating timespan and formating it by , String .Format("{0:d1}.{1:d1}", ck2.Seconds, ck2.Milliseconds) millisecond is represented by 3 digits. i want to show it as one digit representation. Example: if 256 ms means, i need to show only 2. how to do it I'm using VS2003. Thank You! ...Show All
Visual Studio Express Editions Getting JIT debugging to work
Hey, I'm a complete newb to C++ and visual studio c++ express edition. I need to activate JIT debugging to get the Torque game engine to compile properly. Everywher I look it seems to say go to Tools>Options>Debugging and then enable JIT debugging. I don't have this option. Is this a feature that isn't in the 2005 express edition Any help is greatly appreciated. MMA_man wrote: Hey, I'm a comple ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Can't connect, 1 machine on novell, other machine w2k3 workgroup
Hi, I have TFS Beta 3 Refresh installed on a workgroup install of W2k3. Everything works fine on that machine, but I connect attach to the TFS Server from my XP workstation on novell. I tried the 'run as' technique, but it seems like XP won't accept it. TIA, C Actually, i got it to work by adding the user to the TFS machines administrators group, and project admins and contributors group, and just about any other priv i could t ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Can't see any "Documents" and "Reports" in Team Explorer
Other items such as "Work Items" and "Builds" are avaliable, but there is no item under the folder "Documents" and "Reports". I have checked my permission that I own all permissions. If your permission are set correctly, you migth want to take a look at this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909889/ . This correct a bug in "Security Update KB896688" (Additionally, folders may not appear correctly if Web View is enabled.) ...Show All
Windows Forms Weird Windows Service problem
Hello All, Last month, i wrote a simple windows service that generates a simple text file based on values from a SQL server table. The text file was being generated on my local hard drive. The same system where the windows service is installed. ...Show All
SQL Server Encrypted DB -- Restore Question
Hi, I have a DB in which I encrypt a few columns in a table. I am using a Symmetric key to encrypt and decrypt the data. When I take a back up of this DB and restore on another server ... my decryption doesn't work. I have dropped the master key and recreated it with same password and that didn't help either. What are the rules to follow when we restore a db on a different server that has encrypted data Thanks. ...Show All
Visual Basic How do Make my Database Run without having me COMPILE It everytime
I am ready to make it an actual application!!! Does anyone know Hey, Robert...I have my database and UI running properly but when i switch users on my computer from Administrator to Intern my datbase says it does not have permission to acces the data...but i am on the same server...I change the security setting to add users to the security features but when i switch users i get the same error messege...HELP PLEASE ...Show All
Software Development for Windows Vista Replication and correlation
Can anyone tell me whether or not, in Beta 1.2, it is possible to use the replication shape to invoke a method that initialises a correlation set and then waits for the correlated event. There are lots of business scenarios that call for functionality like this - i.e voting scenarios, approval scenarios etc. You can obivously do something like this using the parallel shape but you need to know at design time the number of participants in the ...Show All
SQL Server No grand total if Time Intelligence Calculation is drag on row
Hi, I've deployed a simple cube with a time dimension on SQL 2005. I added the time intelligence which generated some calculations like Day over Day difference, Month over Month difference. If I drag it to row on a pivot table, the grand total of the measures cannot be shown. Is it because the calculated member is not aggregatable Is there any ways to show the grand total as well as those calculation on the pivot table Million Thank ...Show All
SQL Server sql server2005 and sql mobile DB (.sdf)
hi. I am too green in sql2005. so the problem is with data import from csv or txt or access files to sql mobile database. at internet i fount that tis is wery simple but i can not find how so dts wizzard have not this function. coul someone provide directly steps which i shoud do to import/export data from sdf db i have vs2005 and sql2005 Onic, If you don't want to write code to do this, ch ...Show All
Windows Forms Is anyone updating http://www.windowsforms.com/
There doesn't seem to be any recent content, has the site been retired I wouldn't think so, as the forums are reasonably active. It has been a while since the main content was changed (since the whidbey info went up), but I'm guessing with the recent MS reorg that means the windows forms and vb.net teams work closely together, some resources may become available to update it Cathal ...Show All
Visual Studio Team System Branching and Merging: Best practice
Hello, I'm trying to design a new directory structure for a large project which is migrating from using Visual SourceSafe to Microsoft Team System for Source Control. I guess my problem is the following: I'm used to CVS, and to how CVS manages branches and merges. As to what I have understood, the only way of creating branches is to select "branch" in the Team System Explorer and to create a new branch directory. That would be fine ...Show All
SQL Server Problem after sql 2005 install
Setting: clean install of Win 2003 + SP1 in MS virtual machine Installed IIS and ASP.NET. Then did full install of Sql 2005, July CTP. The event log now shows the error: "The report server cannot create the Cache Misses/Sec (semantic models) performance counter. Any idea was this means or what to do about it TIA, Barkingdog You can ignore this message, I've asked the team about it and they said ...Show All