David Kyle's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista From Bussines Rules to Activities

  Just want to know that is it possible by means of any tool that I can take some of the Business Rules (which might be in some predefined format much more baised towards Busseness users along with thier terminology ) and then transfom them as a WWF workflow (not need to be an elobrated workflow model but capture things like creating activity autmoatically , parameters etc ) and intelligent enough to either chose by itself (or prompt in complex ca ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80.dll Problem

  Hi there, can someone possibly tell me why Noton WinDoctor is telling me that 10 executables in the .NET Framework 2.0 cannot access the necessary dll file msvcr80.dll I see that the dll exists in the WinSxS directory and I'm running XP pro. I didn't have this problem until I downloaded the 2.0 framework at windows update. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Naolin I am having the same problem... I even uninstalled i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printing Multiline Textboxes

  Hello I am developing smart client application and I have a problem with printing out textboxes output. I have two columns of the multiline textboxes on a panel. They have word wrap set to true. The panel is my main working area and the content of the panel is printed on the A4 format. In Print_Page function I am iterating through the panels collection of the controls. Then I cast control to TextBox type and print out their text property using ...Show All

• Windows Forms Single Instance app, Activate

  Using this in Main to enforce a single instance of the app: Dim firstInstance As Boolean Dim safeName As String = Application.UserAppDataPath.Replace("\", "_") Dim mtx As Mutex = New Mutex(True, safeName, firstInstance) If Not firstInstance Then Return End If Application.Run(New Form1) ... But instead of just returning if its not the first instance, I would like to Activate the existing instance's window. I guess the question is how can I get ...Show All

• Visual C++ Simple prblem with VS.Net 2005 Intellisense

  I keep having problems with the intellisense (IS) not working properly. That is, say I have a class Foo and I declare a variable Foo f; When I try to get the intellisense to start working by typing f. nothing comes up. To reporduce the problem in a simple setting here is what I have done. Create a new project, add a new class Foo. Now add a new member function to the .h file and call it OldFunction(). Problem 1: Click over to the Foo.cpp f ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using Project Level Groups

  Hi, I have couple of Project Groups defined and field in Work Item Type declared as follows: <FIELD name="Developer" refname="MyNamespace.Developer" type="String">    <WHEN field="MyNamespace.Team" value="GUI">       <ALLOWEDVALUES>          <LISTITEM value="[Project]\GUI" />       </ALLOWEDVALUE ...Show All

• Visual C# Generics: trouble inferring type parameters from usage.

  Hi everyone, Can anyone explain why the following code won't compile public static class Utilities {    public delegate void Unary<T>( T t );    public delegate void Binary<First, Second>( First first, Second second );    public delegate void Tertiary<F, S, T>( F first, S second, T third);    public static Unary<Second>       BindFirst<First, Second> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Open From Source Control problem

  When I do this with the MSSCCI provider I am developing I get this error ... "The source control bindings for this project do not match the bindings reported by your source control provider. This solution, or part of it, may have been forked or branched. To update the projects source control bindings use the Change Source Control on the Source Control menu." If I click OK, and let VS reload, everything is fine.  But I can't f ...Show All

• SQL Server Package Configurations not so portable?

  I'm still struggling with finding a sound approach to creating configurations that are truly portable.  For instance if you use XML files to store configuration information, the path to the XML file that stores the configuration is baked into the package.  This would require the same file system structure on all machines that could host the package. Store in SQL server - one key thing that is valuable to configure is Data Sources - bu ...Show All

• SQL Server Apparent BUG with SQL Server 2005 Express silent install /qb command line ( SQLEXPR.EXE/qb ) and displaying errors.

  I am using installshield to distribute SQL Server 2005 Express. I have the SQLEXPR.EXE file and I want to run it in /qb mode so the user can see the pretty dialogs pop up but not have to click anything. The SQL Express books say that SQL Express uses the same command line switches that SQL does, so I looked up the switches here: SQL Server 2005 Books Online   How to: Install SQL Server 2005 from the Command Prompt  ms-help://MS ...Show All

• Visual Studio proj.Object.AddFilter

  With Visual Studio 8 (2005) I am trying to build a custom wizard that generates MFC projects. I used the custom wizard wizard to get started and I am now trying to figure out how the default.js function "AddFilters(proj)" can be modified so that I can add a filter so that I can place both .rc and .rc2 files into a project's "Resource Files" folder. So far I can only get either the .rc or .rc2 file to be placed in the desired project folder.  ...Show All

• Visual Basic Loading Data Using ProgressBar as Indicator

  Here we go again folks, hope you help me out on this one...I had a form(frmAccount) wherein it has a datagridview(dgvAccount) that bounded to a certain table of my db.Because of too many records(about 20000), it takes such time(about 8seconds almost) to load all of the data...I had no idea how can I possibly decrease this loading time so I just put a progressbar(pBar) as an indicator of the process.This progressbar was attached in the main ...Show All

• Visual C# String Manipulation. Substring

  Hi, I need to know how can I transform the following string:           string recv = "Matthew:White:13:044532453";                       Note the colens (:) in the string to the following four string:                  ...Show All

• Visual C# How do you REMOVE or DELETE Items from Recent Projects list in VS2005 RC?

  I have been testing  VS2005 RC and as a result, I have built many applications. Most I am no longer interested in or use and would like to DELETE them from the RECENT Projects list, but I dont see how ! I have been achieving this by manualy deleting the project from IIS, but there's got to be a better way ! Any ideas cheers, yousaid >> The suggested solution is to have a "clear recent projects h ...Show All

• Visual C# C# error when using VB Activex dll functions.

  Hello can sombody help in solving a problem I am having a problem when trying to call the function of VB ActiveX dll from C# and I am getting the error show at the end. The VB Function is Public Function GetStatistics(ByRef varStats() As Variant, Optional ByVal stStatType As e_STAT_TYPE = e_stCLIENT_STATS) As Long And the RCW has created the function as follows (when adding ref ...Show All