Rogier van de Roer's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Unable to add Custom properties to Activity

  Hi, I am not able to add custom properties to the Activities in Visual studio 2005 IDE using the Property window. Though I am able to see all the properties added to the activity thru code in the workflow that is using this activity. Thanks & Regards, Rajesh You cannot view properties defined on the class itself when designing that class [yes, this seems like a very silly limitation, but it's been that way since .NET ar ...Show All

• Windows Forms OFFICIAL SURVEY about your usage of the .NET Framework documentation!

  Hello -   I'm conducting an official survey about your usage of the .NET Framework documentation. In particular, what programming languages do you filter on. Your answers will be used to help improve the documentation viewing experience. When reading the surv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO as a web-based report generator - is it possible?

  Given that the proposed system is a web-based application - is it possible to use VSTO2 to: 1) Populate a server-side word doc with data using CSLA-based custom business objects (I know about the ServerDocument class - but bear with me..) then  2) Send the document out  to the end user over the web 3) More importantly - without the need to deploy the VSTO custom-code assemblies to the end user in advance In other word ...Show All

• Visual Basic Need help with QueryString in Mail Merge

  Calling all Mail Merge masters! The following code is VB code I'm using to conduct a Mail Merge. The code is running on XP under MSO 03 (Word VBA6) This code simply opens the template file (if it is not already open) and sets up the merge properties and runs the merge. The extra piece you see, in bold, in the .DataSource.QueryString is my attempt to get the code to filter the contents of the data file to just those entries who have 0 for the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Listview control and dropdown menu

  I want to use a 3 column listview and embed a dropdown menu in a subitem column, much like the properties panel that appears in the bottom right of Visual Basic .NET Express IDE. i.e. When I click a property, some of them give me a dropdown menu control and where I can make a selection from a list. Or should I be doing this in some other way Thanks in advance, I'm a little new to all this! Michael Go ...Show All

• .NET Development Related to Mutex

  Hi, What is a Mutex for Does it perform like a process The following MSDN documentation may be helpful. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.mutex(VS.80).aspx Hope that helps, Stephen Fisher ...Show All

• Visual Studio plk request

  The documentation says: Resource DLL Filename Type in the name of your resource dll, for example, MPUI.dll . If you have no resource dll, leave this field blank. Note This field is not used to generate the PLK. This field is required on the web page. What value is supposed to go in this field Thanks, Mike Hi Mike, I suspect you could put just about anything in there. But I usually r ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista InsertTrackingProfile doesnt seem to exist

  I am trying to get a basic tracking profile created and installed. The problem is that the online docs have a CreateAndInsertTrackingProfile() that wont compile. The Insert...... seems to be undefined. Anyone know what I am not referencing or where I am going wrong Thanks Are you trying to add a new tracking profile or update an existing tracking profile in the SqlTrackingService If so you should use the stored procedure UpdateTracking ...Show All

• Visual Basic I just want to learn Visual Basic.... Can't find "Windows Application' Template

  Hello all,  I am trying to re-learn programming after a long hiatus, so I decided to start with the newest version of Visual Basic(VisualBasic 2005). I am trying the 'Create Your First Application' Tutorial, and it tells me to go to File>New Project and choose 'Windows Application'. This isn't an available choice... My choices are: 'Class Library', 'My Movie Collection Starter Kit', 'Screen Saver Starter Kit', and 'Search Templates' ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Run executable zip from a web page.

  I NEED to be able to allow a person to execute a self extracting zip file from a web page. Windows 2003 won't allow this because it blocks it. Is there any way to turn the behavior off I can manually unblock the file as an administrator but the users do not have this ability. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Database search

  Hi there, I am new to VB Express. I have a project that requires finding 2 fields in a mdb database. The search key is a variant rather than a text box. In the project I modify input from a text box. The resulted variant is the search key for retrieving 2 fields in the variant record. The database is structured as follows: Location Identifier Field1 Field2 Alocation ABC 123 456 Blocation DEF 789 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS on Domain Controller, how do I upgrade to RC?

  Hi, For Beta 3 (refresh), I had Team Foundation Server installed on a Domain Controller. Now the RC has come along and this is no longer supported. Any ideas on how I can move the WIT and Source Control data in my Beta 3 instance to an RC instance and maintain any sort of history Regards, Martin. Great. Thanks for the confirmation. For all of the comments about this, I'm surprised that we haven't seen any feedback on this w ...Show All

• SQL Server how to save result of sql query to .csv file "using command in sql query itself"

  Hello there I m new in sql..i want to know wether above said task is possible in sql if yes then what is exact format of sql query command.. Thanks AVD YOu can have a look in the BOL for OPENDATASOURCE, there should a sample for an output to a propetary format. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• .NET Development Application runs slowly first time with Framework .NET 2.0 on Windows 2003 Server

  We are developed an application in .NET 2.0. On Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 and others, works fine all times, but when you try to run on Windows 2003 Server, the first time takes a lot. We have check that this time are consumed in database access. All next times you run the application works fine. Do you know some bug related to w 2003 Server or only may be an specific configuration on this server Thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I use XSD in 2005

  I am a beginner with C# and I am trying to use datasets. I have been tiring to find some good books on how to use xsd or dataset class in VS2005 and haven’t' found much like this. Does anyone know of good examples or books I can buy that has this information. I understand Datasets (limited) but xsd just are confusing. Any help appreciated I’d like to validate a xml string against a xsd string. To make ...Show All