Carol Pahl's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Persistence & tracking in beta 2.2

  I have created a simple application with 1 code activity, one delay and another code activity, in that order. If i'm enabling both the tracking and persistence, my workflow stops at unload If one if disabled, the other works just fine. Any ideas why this might happen Are you using a shared database Is the app hosted in ASP.NET or a win form app Can you post your code for creating the runtime and adding the tracking and persistence services ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Non rectangle window in WPF

  See this example http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2006/02/24/538757.aspx This however does'nt work with XAML files that have class files associated with them. The other issue is that this does'nt fit into the XAML app structure, Application, Window, Page etc. It would make a lot more sense for this to be factored into the Application or Windows\NavigationWindow classes's. Andrew, The fact that creating a non-rectangular window is not possible using the Window class is certainly a hole in the story, and one that we'd like to fix in the future. I do appreciate the feedback. Hopefully the workaroun ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums How to use Direct3D in VBA

  I want use Direct3D in PowerPoint, but I can't found a control like picturebox in VB. The control in VBA don't have 'hwnd', how can I initialize Direct3D. Thank you ! Per our support engineer: Let’s talk about following issue. Our buddy wants to use D3D in VBA. Actually, we can insert an ActiveX control which hosts Direct3D into PPT file. I attached my sample code in the email. Please ask our buddy have a try. Anything unclear, please feel free to let me know. Thanks. The engineer provided some sample files that I can't post here. Please contact me at budsup@microsoft.com so that I can send thos ...Show All

• Visual C++ VS2003 to VS2005: locked files, cannot build

  Hello, We have a large C++ product consisting of about 40 components (COM and otherwise) as projects in a single VS2003 solution. I am now trying to make it compile under VS2005. The problem is that VS2005 locks one of the generated TLB files and does not allow me to modify it, so I cannot build (or even "clean") this component and a large number of components that depend on it. Process Explorer shows that the file is held by "devenv.exe". The only way to "release" the locked file is to exit Visual Studio but this is no way to develop... I suspect intellisense but there may be a different reason. ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection from SQL 2005 to Informix 2000

  Hi All, I'm trying to set up a SSIS package to pull data from a data sourse on an Informix 2000 server. I'm currently using an OpenLink driver to access the data through ODBC, however when I try to query it through BIDS or using the SQL management Studio's import feature it says that the objects don't exist for what I'm querying.. I can view the tables in the query builder, just not query them Has anyone any suggestions as to how I might be able to resolve this The Informix server is not one that I can modify, so anything that I do will have to be done from the SQL server (running 2005 ent edition) I'm able to query the tables and ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ICredentialProvider

  Did anybody make a successful user logon using the new ICredentialProvider interface My credentials are displayed, but I can't make them to logon. And what worse - after 20 or 30 seconds, the winlogon crashes completely with no recovery possible excepting hardware reset. I thought I basically did something wrong and decided to wait for more detailed documentation or some sample code. But MS doesn't seem to put too much effort on improving their SDK documentation and I also found that at least one other programmer has the same problem: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx query=vista&dg=microsoft. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development multiple instances

  ok I'm pretty much have no clue what's going on.  But basically I launch my app, then I tell it to do a bunch of processing (in a separate thread).  This is where it gets funky, I hit the home key, takes me to the homescreen, i can navigate around maybe even run other apps but now when i try to go back to my application, sometimes it works fine and it takes me back to where i left off and sometimes it doesnt.  In the case where it doesnt I check in resource manager and there's multiple instances of my application running.  Anybody know what exactly is the problem and proper way to handle multiple instances ...Show All

• Windows Forms Storing to database from datagrid

  I want to store a table from data grid to a table in database. I defined a dataset. Is is possible to save the whole table or I have to save each row separately How can I do it Thank you. I would use a DataAdapter to store a table to a database. Your description isn't very specific, but generally what I would do is the following: Create a connection to the database. Create a DataAdapter using the connection. Then either use VIsual Studio's built in SQL builder/DataAdapter Wizard or explicitly write the appropriate SQL. Then you can call the DataAdapter's Update method passing it the appropriate dataTable ...Show All

• SQL Server Reporting Services Subscriptions - Help!

  Hi, I have two questions regarding subscriptions in Report Services 2000. 1) Is there a way to view all the subscriptions in one centralised place. I know that you can view all your own subscriptions, but I did not create all of them. What I need is to be able to see all the subscriptions for all the reports without having to go into each report and see if it has subscriptions associated with it (we have about three hundred reports) 2) How can you disable a subscription, for example, my warehouse may be down one day and I dont want my daily reports to get sent to my clients so I just want to disable the subscription, not delete ...Show All

• Windows Forms Save me developing ALL of my applications twice please - develop .net framework for AppleMac!

  erm... think i said it all in the title! i work for a publishing group, so the offices and design studios are a mixture of PC and Mac systems. im really praying quite hard that MS give me .net for the Mac before the time comes i have to learn how to code MacOS.....! If you don't move forward you get left behind. And&nb ...Show All

• Visual C# skins

  hi frnds, how do i create the forms in shapes as that of the media player etc in c# do i need to use paint or is there any other way arnd Check this article http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/customforms.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Spacing difference in a label

  I am creating a control that contains multiple controls within it. One of the child controls is a simple lable that I have set to 'inherit' the Text property of the main control through proper get/set activity on the parent. All that is fine and well, but the content of the label control ends up getting really weird spacing the further to the right the text goes. I uploaded an image and link to it here . In the image you can see how 'information' looks different in the second instance vs the first on any single line. Any ideas In v2.0 all Winform controls can render text using the newly added TextRenderer API which is GDI-based.&n ...Show All

• Smart Device Development I need a good book

  Hi all, I am trying to find a good book on programming in vb.net for windows mobile 5.0 using visual studio 2005. Can anyone suggest one please. Regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio Web Based Plug-in publishing/updates

  Let's say I make 4 plug-ins: A, B, C, and D. And for the purposes of this discussion, how about I put in some versions: A: 4.0 B: 1.3 C: 2.9 D: 0.5 And let's say, I'm about to release version 0.6 of plug-in D. Now, plug-in D requires version 2.5 or greater of plug-in C and this is a minor update (meaning bug fixes only.) I would like to publish the new version of plug-in D to the web and have VS2005: 1.) Check for updates to all the plug-ins 2.) Tell the user of any new updates and their affect (major/minor) on the system 3.) Provided that the user approves the update, and the user has all of the required versions, installs the new ver ...Show All

• Smart Device Development i have no clue

  Now it seems to be and i dont know anything about GPS or C#, but i am a C programmer (ansi C) um, and i just picked up the 67000 and ran across this site because i am interested in getting the gps going. but i was skimming threw it, and reading what you guys said, and looking at the API lib, could it be possible that theres a link when using EMG911, to GPS that does a IOCTL_SERVICE_START or something like that and STOP when EMG isnt active. i also noticed that its using GPD0, which i would think a new registery vaule needs to be added to use COM*: along with a driver the invokes START, that way in the GPS managing software (you would p ...Show All