E Millard's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista WF Virgin

  Dear One & All, As my subject says, I'm a WF Virgin. Having read many an article on the principles of WF, I'm keen to start developing with it. Can anyone point me in the direction of some good simple examples of using WF in dotNet2, preferably in VB.NET. I’ve downloaded quite a few, but most either seem to be for Beta1, or I’m missing the odd reference here and there. Many Thanx in advance, Tim Take a look at the sample in Samples.zip which can be found under %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Workflow Foundation\, if you have the VS Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation instal ...Show All

• Visual Basic Bypass OK button

  How do I code in to auto enter an "OK" button so the user does not have to click on it I think the both of you have covered the possibilities. I'm still confused as to why someone wants to do this Make  a msgbox appear, to only close it right away...  Why not just skip the msgbox, and move directly to the next section I think the question is... Do you really need a user input, when all you're doing is skipping it Granted, i don't know your setup, but only in extreme cases, when using 3rd party controls, would you need to do this. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Winforms Database Application

  I'm really new with VS (i was using delphi for a few years), now i'm developing a database application with an SQL server database. I 've allways do all kind of stuff (connection, updates, etc.) programatically, even binding fields to components. Now it seems a common use to program database app with VS, dragging components and leting VS to do the code. I wonder if that's the right approach. Creating a typed dataset, defining wich controls the table use for editing, the relashionships (even if there are allready defined in the DB), etc. Is that how i should do it . How the framework deals with a select clause with a large result set Even ...Show All

• SQL Server Business Scorecard Integration with SQL server 2000/2005

  I was trying to install Business Scorecard Manager Server , for that i have installed SQL server 2000, Analysis services and Service Pack 4 and also have taken mixed mode of authentication . Then i have installed sharepoint portal server 2003 and extended a site . Now when i install BSM server at the end of installation it gives me error that user administrator does not exist in Scorecard server database( Database which is created during installation process itself ). This error comes when installation package is trying to create a query string to already existing SQL server database. Same thing happens even if i take SQL server 2005. An ...Show All

• SQL Server Help on Calculated Members

  Hi Gurus, I am new to Microsoft Analysis Services. I wanted to create a new Average Calculation. The Syntax is Avg ( Set [, Numeric Expression ]) . I am using the Foodmart cube. I have tried using many things but have not achieved any success. These are the following things that I have tried. Avg([Product].[Product Family].&[Drink].&[Dairy].&[Dairy].&[Milk] , 'Avergare of Milk') In this 'Avergare of Milk' is some sort of Calculation name I suppose. Avg([Product Family].&[Drink].&[Dairy].&[Dairy].&[Milk] ) In this ‘6’ I have mentio ...Show All

• Visual C# How do I determine which program window is active?

  hi there, i want to programmatically determine which program is currently active from the user's perspective. i.e. if I have Acrobat Reader, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer open but Internet Explorer is currently being used and is ACTIVE. I need to know where the active programs' .eve file is located e.g. C:\Adobe\Adobe.exe or where the process comes from. thanks You can use GetForegroundWindow(); to get the foreground window handle and compare this with the main handle of the process. /// <summary> /// The GetForegroundWindow function returns a handle to the foreground window. /// </summary> [DllI ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Solution problems with RC and Beta 3

  Maybe it's just me, but can you no longer add a solution to source code control when creating the solution (or project) Did something break with the beta 3     Awesome. This fixed it. For some reason I just expected the Team Suite to default to a given provider. I never even though to look here. Thanks for your help! Jeff ...Show All

• Visual Basic Auto-Save

  I would like to turn off the auto-save feature that automatically saves my changes without my permission when I exit the IDE. I looked in the Options dialog box, but didn't see anything about turning it off. In VB6 you can turn it off. Thanks. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but I will give it a shot: Tools-->Options Check the box "Show all settings" Expand the Environment node and you should see an AutoRecover page where you can uncheck "Save AutoRecover information". I am using the release version of Visual Basic 2005 Express available from this morning as a free download here: http: ...Show All

• SQL Server Isql and network path error? (What happens really)

  Hello I`m having a problem with ISQL and net-library. I have running a production server severals years and suddenly its starting to told me: DB-Library: Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does not exist. Unable to connect: SQL Server does not exist or network access denied. Net-Library error 53: ConnectionOpen (Connect()). I have read that this error is because not found the network path, but I dont sure about what this mean.Is the instance name or path of backup isql -S VSRSQL02\VSRSQL02 -E (.cmd) OR SET @BACKUP = ' \\BKP\' (.sql) I can login into the instance a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office adding data in a new added sheet in excel with VB

  Hi, I am taking a SQL statement and loading into the excel spread sheet. I need to be able to continue with the data filling on new added sheets. Here what works; It adds in the column heading from the dataset It adds in the data according to column heading. It will add in a new sheet. It will even name the new added sheet Here is what it won’t do; It won’t continue adding the data in the newly added sheet; it takes the continued added in data and overrides the data on the original sheet A bit of code: For Each dr In ds.Tables(0).Rows ' takes column heading and fills in column For intK ...Show All

• Windows Forms Contextmenu source control

  Hi, I'm having a problem trying to determine which control had been right clicked to show the ContextMenu in my VB v1.1 program. According to the MSDN samples etc I should be able to identify it as the ContextMenu.SourceControl. However when I try this in the Popup event for the menu, the SourceControl property contains Nothing. I'm currently running a simple fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Updating databound collection not in UI thread

  I have a TreeView that uses ObservableCollection as it ItemsSource. Items in this collection are added and removed in other thread, not UI thread. As collection changes I get NotSupportedException {"This type of CollectionView does not support changes to its SourceCollection from a thread different from the Dispatcher thread."}. How do I add, remove, clear items in ObservableCollection that is Databound to a TreeView without using Dispatcher Look at the Dispatcher.Invoke methods.  You basically put logic in a method/delegate that will execute on the UI thread.  WPF does not allow multithreaded ap ...Show All

• SQL Server Strange error

  I am getting the following error when I try to debug a package that needs to Copy Columns from an AS400 database into SQL 2005: [SQL Server Destination [1684]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E14. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Could not bulk load because SSIS file mapping object 'Global\DTSQLIMPORT ' could not be opened. Operating system error code 2(The system cannot find the file specified.). Make sure you are accessing a local server via Windows security.". Has anybody seen this error and what do I need to do an ...Show All

• Visual Basic Insert a command result into a text file...

  Hi all, I don't know if i am in the right section, but I will try. Let say I have a text file: a.txt ==== <Command>Now.Date</Command> Hi, This is a test. Thank you, Alan, Can I have VB or C# read a.txt file, process what is between <command></command> and output the file like this: a.txt ==== 5/12/2006 12:00:00PM Hi, This is a test. Thank you, Alan, Thanks, Alan, After you load the text file to your textbox, you must replace any " <Command>Now.Date</Command> " string with Now.Date , here is an example : ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Distributing directshow

  How do I distribute DirectShow now that it's not part of DX Or is it still part of the DX runtime Are there any WinSXS issues I should be aware of I thought I had WinSXS DX folders, but I don't anymore, so I'm not sure what's going on, nor can I find any DX merge modules in the SDK. This is an excellent question, to which I have not received a satisfactory answer. My GUESS is that 9.0c is going to be the last DS version shipped independently. To get DS 10.0, you'll need to get vista. However, that's just a guess. I haven't received a comprehensible response from an MS person. There was some discussion of this here: ...Show All