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• Software Development for Windows Vista Execute method on Sequence is never called.

  Hi. I have an activity that inherits from Sequence, and I'm needing to run some code in the sequence just before the activities within it are called. (It would be the "Execute" method, but it is never called.) I tried to inherit from CompositeActivity and implementing a SequenceDesigner on it, and the "Execute" method works fine, but it doesn't call the inner activities... I'm using the Beta 1. Any clues No ...Show All

• .NET Development Best practice while writing C# functions

  Hi, Anyone has any idea about how to free up memory in C# functions. Does the GC collects memory after a function has executed How about setting variables to null after we are finished with them, or the GC will automatically set them to null Does setting variables to null in finally causes an overhead void TestFunc() { XmlDocument xdDoc = new XmlDocument(); try { // use xdDoc } catch { // handle cat ...Show All

• .NET Development I've never used .net, need help

  I will apologize in advance for being a outsider coming in and asking you professionals to help me. I'm just lost at what I need to do. I had a terrible experience with a website developer company and so I was told I should just hire a programmer to create the program and then I can have it installed and a website designed for it's use. My problem is, now that the programmer has created it, they have sent me the program to install and test ...Show All

• Windows Forms Name Conflicts with existing module,project ........

  I am having problems trying to reference a Kodak imaging component. Everytime a make a reference to it, a 'Name Conflicts with exeisting module,project or object library' appears. However, I did use this reference but the ocx imaging component that I&nbs ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow overloads

  I have not been able to find any information about two CreateWorkflow overloads in the WorkflowRuntime class: CreateWorkflow(XmlReader workflowDefinitionReader, XmlReader rulesReader, Dictionary<string, object> namedArgumentValues) and CreateWorkflow(XmlReader workflowDefinitionReader, XmlReader rulesReader, Dictionary<string, object> namedArgumentValues, System.Guid instanceId) I have two questions: 1. Given that there a ...Show All

• .NET Development Just a simple OpenFileDialog

  Im trying to make a form in C++ .net 2.0 with a button. When the button is clicked I want a OpenFileDialog to be opened. Can someone show me a simple example of this!!!!!! This is what I use, it compiles alright but no Dialog opens: private : void button1_Click( Object^ /*sender*/ , System::EventArgs^ /*e*/ ) { OpenFileDialog^ openFileDialog1 = gcnew OpenFileDialog; openFileDialog1->InitialDirectory = "c:\\" ...Show All

• Visual Basic setting start folder

  In VB6 compiled programs you could set the "start in" option in the shortcut. But I VB2005 I can not see how to do this The problem is differnt user's might have differnt folders for there data It maybe in Project Designer Click on "My Project" in Solution Explorer -> Go to "Debug" tab -> Under "Start Options" -> "Working directory" ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Getting fox pro 6 data into an SQL 2000 database

  Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right forum or not I have a database that was developed in Fox Pro 6 or 7 which is in use on a daily basis.  I want to get some of the tables into a SQL 2000 database and use ASP.net as my front-end. What would be the best way to do this.  Is there a replication agent I can run to populate my SQL DB or is there another way to do this If this is not the right forum please let me know which one to put th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Does the client needs .net framework 2?

  If I create word document to be filled with a sql server database, and I put a link on my page to that document, Does the User needs the framework installed     Hi Luis, To open documents with a VSTO customization, the client machines need to have: - .NET 2.0 framework - VSTO runtime (VSTOR.exe) - Office Primary Interop assemblies - Trust must be granted to the customization assembly. In addition, if the document is on a fil ...Show All

• Visual C# How To Return Null From Class Instantiation

  I usually answer the questions, not ask them  .... but today I'm asking : If I have a class to instantiate and there exists the possibility that there may be problems instantiating that class, how can I have the instantiation return null I know that one way out is to throw an exception in the constructor, but we all know how expensive exceptions are. I'd rather have the instantiation be null and have to test for a null: MyCla ...Show All

• .NET Development How do I get a .NET TextBox to implement MY OWN INTERFACE

  This is a tough one.  I know how to use and implement interfaces from my own classes, but how do I take a system.windows.forms.textbox and get it to implement an interface that I designed.  I really don't want to have to inherit a textbox into a usercontrol and then do it from there... isn't there a more direct means to do it    I have tried creating an empty class file and making it look like the following... =============== ...Show All

• Visual C# from datagrid to gridview

  Hi i'm passing from VS 2003 to vs 2005 (not convert)...i'm translating some code. In particular in this event: private void DataGrid1_ItemCreated( object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs e) { if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem) { LinkButton _myLink = (LinkButton)e.Item.FindControl("btnDelete"); _myLink.Attributes.Add("onclick", "return confir ...Show All

• .NET Development SQL Data class / structure?

  Someone on a board somewhere took a look at my code and said I shouldn't be manually assembling strings for SQL queries, I should be using an SQL Data class (or was it a structure). I can't find a good, clear reference to this. Advice Dave, When you say, you are assembling queries, do you mean that you are appending just parameter values to the existing query skeleton or you are building the query on the fly If you are just appending the ...Show All

• SQL Server To add one report or many

  I have a project that in the end will need to create one excel document that has 4 tabs. Basically each TAB is a separate report. One of the tabs will be a summary of the other 3 tabs. My question is, should I create 4 separate reports or just one with 4 subreports In other words, will I end up with 4 .rdl file or should I design it using one .rdl file so that in the end I can push out the 4 reports to one Excel document that splits each Rep ...Show All

• Smart Device Development easy file writing

  Hi, For some reason text tiles are not written This is very simple but it is not working. StreamWriter outStream = null; string outFileName = "mydata.txt"; try { outStream = new StreamWriter(outFileName); log.Info("Got to outStream"); } catch (Exception e) { log.Info("NOOOO"); MessageBox.Show(e.ToString()); } Would anyone have any idea why Cheers, Gareth. Hi, you did not call the write() Methode. Check this o ...Show All