Chris L's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to open an Infopath form from Outlook VSTO2005 add-in.

  I can open my form with Process.Start("Iexplore.exe", ls_Filename), but cannot Process.Start("infopath.exe", ls_Filename) if ls_filename is a long file name with spaces in it. Infopath startst, but gives a file not found error with the name up to the first space. Any help Is there a better way to start Infopath from an Outlook VSTO2005 add-in Can I inclide the Infopath namespace somehow Is the path you're using the same on both platforms   The syntax is the same regardless of the OS, however the quotes are required when there are spaces in the path name. Please post a snippet of the code if y ...Show All

• Visual C# Is it possible to generate a MSI package for a solution using codeDom or other?

  Hi, I'm working with a codeGenerator and I would like to create an installer (MSI) programmaticaly for a solution. Is it possible using codeDom or another tool Could somebody help me Thanks! You need the Windows Installer SDK, a great resource page can be found here . ...Show All

• SQL Server Machine name and 'localhost' work, but local and . don't

  SQL Server 2005 express... when i'm trying to connect through SQL Express Manager, i can connect just fine if i use 'localhost\sqlexpress', or [machinename]\sqlexpress, but if i use local\sqlexpress or .\sqlexpress, it times out. i've recently had trouble connecting through VBExpress as well, and i'm wondering if it's because it always uses .\sqlexpress to connect... Anyone know why these 2 seemingly valid options don't work anymore that's what i thought, but only the third of those three worked. now that i've deleted the aliases, they all work again. how do the aliases work ...Show All

• Visual C++ Redrawing View

  Hi all, sorry for this question however i have a basic MFC app, i have a dialog box which i enter data in, the box saves the info and when i go back its all there and i can serialize it fine however when i close the dialog box i want the view to redraw, i've tried using Invalidate(TRUE); UpdateWindow(); however the information i have just added into the dialog is not displayed on screen. can anyone help me, i've added the above call into the dialog onBnClickOk thanks for your help, Martin (Noobie) :) You have to invalidate the view and not the display of the dialog. In the view you are calling the dialog with a Do ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflowinstance. suspend, terminate throws exception "instance operation is not valid on Wf runtime thread"

  I m hosting WF on windows app. I have used CallExternalMethod activity to show UI form if user submits the form I proceed further using handleexternalmethod activity   if user cancels I want to abort or suspend the workflow instance. When I call suspend , abort or terminate methods I get exception "instance operation is not valid on Workflow runtime thread"   Since you are using the DefaultWorkflowSchedulerService - all the workflows are executing on CLR thread pool threads, including the call back to CallExternalMethod. 1) You have to make sure not to calls controls from this thread see ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading in MULTIPLE registry values at once

  Everyone,               I have been Searching High and Low to no avail…. Everything I read you can read one key and you have to know the value of the key you want.   I am looking To reading in Multiple registry values at once, For example:             \\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Uninstall\   I want to pull all the keys under this hive location into a listbox.   Then once the user selects a key I would like to display all the keys under that in to another listbox.   ...Show All

• Visual Basic Item icon doesn't show

  Hi, What could be the problem if the icon doesn't appear in the 'add new item' dialog What tools/methods would you suggest to find the cause I'm using MDE 2002 version 7.0.9366 Framework 1.0 Also tested on Visual Studio 2005 with the same problem. Path to vsz-file is e:\program files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\VB7\VBProjectItems Could the param argument cause the problem Security issue I used filemon from sysinternals to find problems but everything seemed OK. Is there any other tools I could use Regards Andla Sorry if I have trouble explaining. I'm talking about wizards and addins. The vsz ...Show All

• .NET Development Preventing unauthorized access - URGENT

  To simplify our own situation lets say we have clear seperation of the three layers with the Presentation, Business and Data Access Layers in their own seperate DLLs, but on the same client machine. Our DAL DLL is obfuscated and holds our single service account to access the database. We are presuming it is at least very difficult even with someone having access to the obfuscated DLL they would have a difficult time determining the userid and password of our one service account that can access our SQL Server database. Still, how do we stop someone from writing their own code and directly accessing the DAL DLL to change our datbase We cons ...Show All

• SQL Server Executing a Stored Procedure in a loop

  Hi There!   I need to execute a stored procedure for each row returned from a Select statement for now the only way for me to do it is by creating a cursor and loop thought the result and passing the parameters for the stored procedure and call it in the loop. My question is. Is there any way I can put the 'execute [spStoredProcedure] param1, param2' with in the select statement so I won't need to create a cursor and manually call the stored procedure for each record Hi Lazer, If you're using 2000, have you had a look at functions EG: select fn_MyFunction(a.Column1) from MyTable where something = someth ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem with SQLStatePersistence

  I added the sqlpersistence service to my Workflowruntime (with a valid connection string). I have two events that i will trigger: SubmitEvent, and ScanEvent.. When I call my submit event the workflow gets to a new state where it is waiting for the scan event..\ At this point the workflow instance is idled. Now when I raise the ScanEvent with the same instance ID i get an error EventDeliveryfailed for the instance ID.. When I look in the innerexception it says the workflow with the instanceid was not found in the persitence store (but when I check the database that instance is there). So I tried to add before raising the scan event WorkFlowru ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions BalloonTipText on NotifyIcon1 Hover over?

  I've been looking at how to use BalloonTipText, and I found this small section of code: NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipTitle = "Balloon Tip Title" NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "Balloon Tip Text." NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Error That isn't working for me though, in the test app I made to try it out. I put it in the NotifyIcon1_Click event and nothing showed up. I'd really like to be able to display something when the user hovers over the notify icon too, and I couldn't find a hover over event. Also, can I use a variable for the text in the balloon tip Any help would be appreciated. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Force Uppercase

  I have a textbox into which data is keyed. I want to be able to have the keys entered set to upper case before they appear in the textbox. I dont want the user to have to use the shift key. how can i do this Can i do something inside the KeyDown or KeyPressed event that will convert them to uppercase Add this code to the KeyPress event: if ( char .IsLower(e.KeyChar)) {     e.KeyChar = char .ToUpper(e.KeyChar); }   ...Show All

• Windows Forms PointToScreen and PointToClient

  Can any one explain how these methods work These methods allow you to convert from screen coordinates to form coordinates and back. Basically, if you don't use these methods, you have to track the location of the form and use it to calculate the actual screen coordinates of points on the screen. Say, for example, you want to open a&n ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Management Studio - 2005

  Anybody know where to find Enterprise Manager in this new format I've located Query Analyzer okay ..... the Books Online has practically no reference to Enterprise Manager. There is no Enterprise Manager.  Nor is there Query Analyzer.  There is only SSMS.  Is there certain EM functionality you're looking for that you can't find   -- Adam Machanic Pro SQL Server 2005, available now http://www..apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html bID=457 --     < micropterus_sal@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message news:6cd87632-987c-423b-9866-f86b30e732e ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 Beta setup error - "Setup was unable to find the Baseline data"

  yes there is, 48.250 bytes. -- Maurycy Markowski Can you try copying everything in the \VS folder locally to your hard drive and then run setup.exe from there ...Show All