jobethm's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Custom SDM Application System

  Hi,   I have completed the SDM tutorial and I have the following question. How can I control / enable “Implement Application” behavior of the custom application system Currently when I add it to the ApplicationDiagram I don’t get this option in its context menu.   Thanks, Nel Actually, this behavior is by design. A number of apps can consume from the same provider (i.e. web site, or web service), and that is why it is allowed to have multiple consumers consuming from the same provider endpoint (at least in Web Services). Web Service Consumer endpoint, however (together with the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. MDX: Desktop or Laptop?

  Hi all, am planning to purchase a new pc and I can't decide between laptop or desktop, my main concern with a laptop is performance and developing games with Managed DirectX and shader v2.0 or even v3.0 Anyone developing on a laptop Specs Graphic card   Thx a lot DX 10 presentations are linked here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=97912 Short answer: Yes, DX 10 will have a Managed API as well as a native API. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Data Bound WebTesting

  If I add a data source to a declarative WebTest it appears I can only use an OLEDB datasource. Do I need to do something to allow me to use other providers Thanks, Since OLEDB hit all the data binding scenarios we wanted to support in v1, adding support for other providers got bumped down the priority list.  Other providers would have also expanded our test matrix.  We're looking into various ways to improve data binding in the future. Josh ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Printing a Form

  Howdy Again, I'd like to print my form with two TextBoxes and a DataGridView. Is this a big operation that requires a lot of code or can I do it fast without having to write a lot of code Thanks Much. Hi, You'll have to write some code, the sample is here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_vbcode/html/vbtskCodeExamplePrintPreviewingForm.asp . Additional reading material: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet12242002.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconPrint ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office TSQL issues

  I want in incorporate quereis in my VB.Net app to populate word documents..i am getting the data from a sql server database... Do i need to just write regular t-sql statements or do i need to begin with some type of reporting You can use TSQL to extract the data from a SQL Server database.  What are you using to generate the word document   Are you using the Microsoft Word Object in the COM tab in the Add Reference option   If you are, you can store the results of the TSQL statement (after calling the corresponding ADO.NET objects to execute the query and retrieve the results) in a string then print this in your word doc ...Show All

• Windows Forms Programming method of multiple tables in a form

  Hi all, I was wondering what the 'best practice' is for implementing a form that draws on a lot of data. For example, a Member Tracking type of application, the Members form could have a whole bunch of information ie. MemberDetails, Orders for that member, members address, Members Qualifications etc. All drawn from a database with over 40,000 members and plonked  ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Problems with maya x-file converter.

  I've been able to successfully convert maya 6 models into .x files using the maya 6 plugin however when I try to substitute these files for the .x file in the basicHLSL sample it fails when loadMesh calls computeNormals. All the .x files from the samples media folder work fine but anything that I create myself fails. These files work fine in the .x viewer. Is there something I should know What is the difference between these files Any help would be appreciated. I've experienced a whole host of issues with the Maya DirectX Exporter in 5.0 and 6.0 First issue I have is that the format seems completely i ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Changes

  i placed 2 code Activities . In one CodeActivity - i added throw Activity using workflow changes.- working fine In Second Code Activity : i wanted to remove the throw Activity using WF Changes - but it is not deleting (i am not getting the refrence of Dynamically added Activity). my Question is - How do we get the reference to Dynamically added Activity Did you try thw following WorkflowChanges changes = new WorkflowChanges (wRoot); changes.TransientWorkflow.Activities.Remove(changes.TransientWorkflow.Activities[ "throwActivity" ]); workflowInstance.ApplyWorkfl ...Show All

• .NET Development Port Address

  Hello, I am new to programming, learning Visual Basic just now. I am working with a software program written in VB and upgraded to Visual Studio.NET. It's using some kind of hexadecimal code for parallel port addresses; does anybody know, how ports are coded in this way and what do the numbers mean I would assume it outputs 8 bits (1 byte) of data to the port. What type of application is this What kind of device are you trying to talk to over the port ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to make a StateMachine which show the terminal user to see the status of Squence workflow

  In my case, the second step is from a main table to entry a sub table, however, the main table page does not close. The system can keep this page and reentry into sub table by different option. (It means that, my workflow can go back last state). I think the we should use StateWorkflow to achieve the functionality. However, there a problem. I wish the follow a simple order processing which always from main table to entry the sub table, to show the contain to terminal user.(It's just a simple sequence workflow). How can I achieve the interface layout The scenario is that there are three pages(A,B,C) makes workflow A->B->C (a simp ...Show All

• SQL Server xml modify 'replace value of' using sql:variable

  I need to be able to use sql:column in a xml modify/replace statement. Is this supposed to be possible Here is a simple scirpt that shows the problem I am having. I used sql:variable instead of sql:column for the sake of simplicity. declare @xml xml set @xml = '<root/>' select @xml declare @value varchar(10) set @value = 'val1' set @xml.modify('insert <item value="{sql:variable("@value")}" /> into (/root)[1]') select @xml set @value = 'val2' set @xml.modify('replace value of ( /root/item/@value)[1 ] with "val2"') select @xml set @value = 'val3' --set @xml.modify('replace value of ( /ro ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Migration from BETA-1 to November CTP

  Are there any migration documents or "what has changed" documents for moving code from previous BETAs to November CTP Our code is breaking all over the place ... generics seems to have gone, config attributes have changed and namespaces have disappeared. I think this will be easier to read :) Area Indigo Beta 1 WCF Beta 2 RC0 Service code  DataContract.IsOptional DataContract.IsRequired, default is false Fault<T> FaultException<T> UnknownFault UnkownFaultException AutoCompleteTransaction parameter of OperationBehavior TransactionAutoComplete AutoEnlistTransactio ...Show All

• Windows Forms Combobox selected index in datagridview

  Dear All,   I am using VS.NET 2005. I bound a datasource into a combobox type in the datagridview column. I cannot find any property of selected index when the selection changed in the dropdown list selection. Is there any property of combobox in datagridview equivalent to the normal combobox property comboBox1.SelectedIndex   Regards,   LG Check out the DataGridView FAQ: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=152467&SiteID=1 You'll need to cast the EditingControl to a combo box control and access the SelectedIndex property.   -m ...Show All

• Visual Studio What does ReportViewer.LocalReport.LoadReportDefinition() actually do?

  Thanks to the help of Brian at Microsoft, I no longer get the error "A data source instance has not been supplied..." however, I only get the <Header> fixed data and none of the actual data rows from the <Details> section of the RDL where its <Value>=Fields!foo.Value is used.  I found ReportViewer.LocalReport.DataSources.Add() but not anything else to reference the SQL query results from the RDL report file.  I gather that LoadReportDefinition() is the function that reads the RDL file to manage the display of the data but does it commit the SQL query and manage the query results   What does LoadReportDefinit ...Show All

• Windows Forms Creating Setup application in VS 2003

  Hi Guys I've created setup project for my application and added custom dialog with one checkbox (other three I've disabled). I'm interested now in how I can get the information whether this checkbox checked or not Regares Yeghia Yeghia, the information from the checkbox is exposed through the checkbox1Property Where 1 is the number of the checkbox.  The actual name of the value is configurable but defaults to CHECKBOXA1, you can access it in the project by using [CHECKBOXA1] or whatever you rename it to inside square brackets. ...Show All