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• Software Development for Windows Vista HandleExternalActivity not subscribing to event

  Hi, I have a state machine workflow with a state that uses the HandleExternalActivity activity. I have set it up to use an event in my custom interface. However, when the implementation of my interface raises the event I can see that there are no subscribers to the event. In other words, the HandleExternalActivity activity hasn't subscribed to the event. Any ideas what would cause this Thanks, Kent Kent - it generally is that the worklow isnt in the state you think it is. Are you hosting in ASP.NET or a different host If ASP.NET you need to look into the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Destinator ( Ver 3 ) load error

  Hi I am using Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Community Preview On a XP SP2 box I run Emulate Pocket PC WM 2003 SE I have ActiveSync 3.7 working OK and can copy files etc between the PC and "device" ( Guest Partnership ) On attempting to load an application, Destinator ( Ver 3 ) from PC to the device I get the error, "Cannot get power status " I am not a developer….. But can anyone offer suggestions on what to try. Thanks Philip It is very likely that the power management features will be included in the next version of the emulator.  As for a release date, it is still not determined at this p ...Show All

• SQL Server How to mimic replmerg.exe in vb.net

  Hello, On an existing Merge Pull Subscription (Subscriber: SQL Express) via websync how can we start replication via vb.net We can use the cmd line replmerge.exe and all works fine however we would like this to be cleaner as it's going to be on demand sync. I saw in BOL about the RMO and how to create pubs/subs but nothing telling me how to actually start the replication process. Is there a sample of how to start the replication process in vb.net for websync Thanks in advance. John See if these code examples help which are listed in: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms147890.aspx ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I download a file???

  I want to write a program which donloads a file which is entered by the user. How can I do this in Visual Studio .NET by using C-C++. Can you help me Look at this sample http://www.codeproject.com/internet/urldownload.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Specify Default Project/Website Folder

  Is there a way to change the folder path for websites after installation.  For example using the Personal Web Site Starter Kit created a website in folder "  \\gthou-fsclv02p\users2$\griojas\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\WebSite1".  "  \\gthou-fsclv02p\users2$\griojas\My Documents\" is the default My Documents folder on the network. I would like to save my websites on the c:\ for development. Thanks for your help!   I havn't got VWD on this machine, but I will check in a few hours, but for the Language specific versions of Express y ou can do this by chan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Some files are not published by VS.NET 2005

  In my .NET windows application, When i publish the project, some of the XML files are not published. The similar type of  files are published. Can anyone tell me the reason tht why they are not published How can i add application files that i want to get published Please reply as soon as possible. Hiral, Xml files are published, by default, with the application.  However, they are marked as data files by default.  This means the xml files are published to the data directory.  (The data directory is defined as System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom activities to simulate user action and populate web page input fields and submit the page.

  http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WWF.asp ...Show All

• Windows Forms Pop-up Blocker Settings

  I was wondering if there is a way to launch the Pop-up Blocker Settings dialog window from my applciation instead of IE. I have looked everywhere, I have tried google but can't find anything that would at least point me in the right direcction. Thanks in advance for any help =) Hi, Could you be more clear in what you would like to achieve Thank you, Bhanu. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Remote debugging VS 2005 / SQL 2005

  Hi there! We are developing T-SQL Procs on SQL Server 2005 and want to debug the procs on the client. When i "step into stored procedure" i get the error message: Unable to start T-SQL debugging. Could not attach to SQL Server Process on <MyServer>. Some remarks: Remote Debugging on the server is running, i've tried as service, as application, native without authentifaication and so on. Does'nt effect anything. I've tried some other permissions like admingroup and sysadmin - does'nt effect. Any idea When i manuelly "Attach to Process..." in the Debug-Menue, i can see the processes from my server (Transport: Remote (n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions EventHandler Question

  Hi all, I’m new to c# world and trying to learn it with Express Edition. The app I’m trying to do has 50 picturebox controls. Each one represents on the app form a physical door. I want to add to each door bitmap a ContextMenuStrip with options such as "Open Door","Close Door","Lock Door". In order to don’t create 50 different ContextMenuStrip from the IDE (each menu option is the same for everydoor) I do it programatically. pictureBox1.ContextMenuStrip = myStripMenu(1) // Door Number 1 pictureBox2.ContextMenuStrip = myStripMenu(2) // Door Number 2 pictureBox3.ContextMenuStrip = myStripMenu(3) // Doo ...Show All

• SQL Server permissions sql express and remote connection problems TIA

  posted to the forums a few weeks ago, followed the suggestion but the problem has not been squared, the link for my original post is at the bottom of this message. have tried most of the suggestions in the forums, again see the link for details on steps i have tried, kept poking around and came up with a few more possibilities for the problem, the error message is the one that says sql server express remote connnections are not enabled by default during the install of sql express, backed up a little and it seems i can not even connect to the local machine, i ran the sqlcmd -s -e \sqlexpress and the login timesouts and says that sql ...Show All

• .NET Development marshalling abstract base type pointer

  I'm wrapping an unmanaged class libraries that has several class hierarchies. One of the class returns a pointer to an abstract base type. In C++, this is safe, since it can be cast up without worrying. How do I marshal this into the corresponding managed abstract type Lee Crabtree You will need an instance of the managed abstract type, which contradicts itself so you will have to instantiate a derived class of the abstract class instead. If the abstract class has multiple derived classes you will have to determine which one to instantiate. When you have a managed instance derived from the abstract clas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Progressbar with mulitithreading

  Anyone here got any code to sample. Me would like to create a progressbar on a form and this progressbar will be shown when my process trigger. Meanwhile my progressbar just hang there and stop loading. I tried implementing as background thread and the progressbar form did not dispose off after the process has finish.... can any kind soul give me some code for this Hi, Please see the below link. Hope it helps. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/BasicInstincts/ Thank you Bhanu. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Tricky one for you all. WMI and CPU Utilisation.

  Hey all, I have created the following class to get CPU Utilisation data using WMI as follows; Imports System.Management Public Class WMIProcessing # Region " Definitions " 'WMI Objects... Private mManagementScope As New System.Management.ManagementScope Private mObjectSearcher As System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher Private mCollection As System.Management.ManagementObjectCollection Private mObject As System.Management.ManagementObject 'Data Storage... Private mOldData As RawData Private mNowData As RawData Private mResult As Double 'Flag to indicate first run... Pri ...Show All

• Windows Forms Minimizing windows in client/server app?

  Hi I have a VB.NET client/server application in which there are multiple forms can be opened. Its not MDI application but at a time multiple forms can be on screen. Now, when we minimize all the forms, the taskbar indicators show the number the windows presently open. But, I don't want it that way. I want to display only one taskbar indicator which&nbs ...Show All