Huckster's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Why doesn't ActivityTrackingRecord.ContextGuid match any context guids in the rootactivity?

  In my system, I need to track additional information about a workflow. I implemented a custom tracking service so when the a new activity tracking record is sent, I can inspect the activity type and determine what additional information can be tracked. My problem is finding the correct activity instance associated with the tracking record. When I try to find the instance based on the root activity, the qualified name, and context guid, I get n ...Show All

• Visual Basic can here discuss vb6

  or vb.net Hi, This forums is still beta. this was created in parallel for the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. The final release of this forum would also be in nov. (I really hope so) this forum mostly discusses .net technologies. that's why vb6 (COM) is not being discussed here. If you want to get the microsoft vb6 site here it is: http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp Just search it in the NNTP forums...   cheer ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Project creation fails

  Hi, I'm getting the following error when creating a new project in TFS: Event Description: Task "Currituck.WITs" failed Exception Type: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException Exception Message: Server was unable to process request. ---> Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint 'UQ_ADObjects__DomainName_SamAccountName'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.ADObjects'. SoapException Detail: <soap:Detail xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/20 ...Show All

• SQL Server How to sync database latest data with Analysis service

  Hi, I am creating sql server reports using analysis service(using cubes and dimensions). After creation of cubes and dimensions for existing data I deployed it. Then I created reports on this data. Reports are generated properly for existing data. But the report is not showing newly inserted data to database (latest data inserted after deploying analysis service). Did I miss anything Or any new configuration required Newly added ...Show All

• Visual Basic Message Box questions

  Question, is there a way to change the color and size of a message box font And, is there a way to change what the button says Like right now I have it set to "OK" but that's not really what I want it to say. For example: I want it to say something like "Goodbye". Is that possible You can change what the buttons say, but only to be something standard, such as OK/Cancel or Yes/No.  There's a MessageBoxButtons enum, or something similar ...Show All

• Windows Forms Composite Control Child Docking

  Hi! I have a composite control which inherits from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl and uses ParentControlDesigner so I can use it as a container.  At the top of my control I have a panel which acts as a "header" of sorts.  Below the heade ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using arrow keys to navigate through ComboBox issue

  Hi all, I have a rare instance where I need to let the users of my application use the arrow keys to navigate through the controls. One such control they will navigate to is the ComboBox control, and this is the control that is giving me problems when using the arrow keys. So when I press the up arrow and the currently selected value in the combobox is on the last entry, the focus goes to the next control the combobox selected index goes down a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VS2005 Express PDF File Creation for web

  I am converting from Visual Studio 2003 where I used crystal reports to generate a pdf file to be displayed in the web browser. I just noticed that the VS2005 express version does not include crystal reports. Is there an alternative way to generate the pdf files or am I stuck going ahead and getting the professional version. Thanks, Colelaus What is sourceforge... as in www.sourceforge.com I'm not familiar with this. BTW... thank ...Show All

• SQL Server Query 2 tables - each in a different database

  Is there any query code that will allow joining tables that are in different databases running on the same server If yes, how is the connection to each handled WeslyB is right. But your user has to have select rights on the other database. You don't have to handle the rights in ADO. Regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) INotifyPropertyChanged by ChannelFactory and DuplexChannelFactor

  Hello! Shouldn't ChannelFactory and DuplexChannelFactor be able to factorize instances of classes which implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. For instance the CreateChannel() method of ChannelFactory and DuplexChannelFactor could take a boolean argument which tell whether the INotifyPropertyChanged interface should be implemented by the class. What do some of the other ones of you think of such an idea Best regards, Hen ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Character comparison

  Ok,here's is my question as a new C++programmer.I want to make a character comparison but when I run the program I get the last printf whatever I type.Can anyone tell me what is the mistake I have done Should I make a loop for comparing it's character separately Here is the sample code. #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <ctype.h> #include "readwrite.h" #define MAX_LINE_SIZE 30 ...Show All

• Visual C# Is it possible to create a mail server or NNTP server with VC# 2005?

  If it is possible to create a mail server or NNTP server with VC# 2005 could you please point me in the right direction   I have been trying to search Google and MSDN but I am not sure where I can learn how to create such applications with VC# Thanks! J.S. Yes you can implement these servers in C#. As far as NNTP Is concerned you will find a lot of examples of NNTP Clients like [ http://www.csharphelp.co ...Show All

• Visual Basic "Could not find a part of the path" error message when you access a mapped drive

  Hi I'm getting error when I try to access to a mapped drive. I'm using vb.net 2003 and developing a windows service. The service needs to read a file on a mapped drive using the streamreader class. When I run the service on windows XP pro all works perfect, but now when I run the same service on the Windows 2003 server it doesn’t work. The mapped drive exists and I grant access to everyone. I’ve found an article that says the pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Using INotifyPropertyChanged/CollectionChanged

  Should these two events be used for proporgating changes back to a store or not If I am binding an ObservableCollection to a control (with all of the items in the control implementing INotifyPropertyChanged) if an item is changed through that control is the datalayer consuming the notifypropertychanged event to prompt an update correct usage ...Show All

• Windows Forms Displaying images on a form using code

  I was looking if someone can give me some help with my code. I need to know what the best way would be to have a dialog box that returns an array of image filenames and use that array to create a new picture box for each image that was selected and display it on the form Should i use a for loop or a foreach loop I think I just need help figuring out the best way to create a new picture box for each image. What I plan to do after the images ...Show All