JimPDX's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Replication and correlation

  Can anyone tell me whether or not, in Beta 1.2, it is possible to use the replication shape to invoke a method that initialises a correlation set and then waits for the correlated event. There are lots of business scenarios that call for functionality like this - i.e voting scenarios, approval scenarios etc. You can obivously do something like this using the parallel shape but you need to know at design time the number of participants in the scenario. Arjun, I'm very pleased to here that but I can't see how to make it work. The problem I'm having is with binding the correlation reference to the invoke ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Web Service Consumption

  When I tried to call a XML web service, any function will fail with a "WebException" in the emulator. The Web Service is fine since I might call it inside a windows desktop project. Do I need to configure the Emulator or do some special for the Smart Device app to call a web service I am using vs.net 2005 and PPC. Any feedback will be appreciated. Please check that you have done following things 1. You have to give the computer name in place of the localhost Eg, if ur web service is http://localhost/WebService1/Service1.asmx here replace localhost with your computer name. 2. Cr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Lab 1: Creating a Herbivore

  Hello I'm a asp.net beginnner. By search, I go on http://www.terrariumgame.net/Terrarium/documentation/tutorial_cs.aspx I read Lab 1: Creating a Herbivore and I try  At chapter 1.8  Add the IdleEvent handler.   I read this  Add the following two methods to the MyAnimal class. But I don't where exactly I should put it. Can you help me Thanks Cordially Steff T ...Show All

• Visual Basic Big equations without the real deal equation symbols.

  I am currently working on a math project & I am in need of putting nice looking math equations with all the equation symbols. Can anyone guide me in the correct location on where & how I could incorporate this in my project Thanks in advance.   William ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Access to Project Queries over team site

  I would like to open the project queries (which are normally in the Visual Studio in the Team Explorer) but from the Team Portal Site. so I don't have to open the vsts2005 and export it into MS Excel to access these reports. How does it work Unfortunately we don't currently have a web part that can run TFS queries and display a result on a web page.  It's been a highly requested feature and something we are looking at for the next version. Yes, you can use the BI Report Builder or Report Designer to write reports against the data warehouse and host those reports on a web page.  We have no ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with reporting

  Hi, I am testing MS reporting on VS 2005 Beta2 with the report file (.rdlc) embedded in a Windows application (no server involved). Previewing the report works fine, but if I want to print it, I apparently must first click on the print preview icon in the viewer's toolbar and then click on the print icon. I believe that one should be able to print a report without showing the form containing the viewer; but is there at least a way of forcing the viewer into the print preview state by means of code Will something change in this respect in the delivery version One more question: is the version of Crystal Reports bundled in VS capable of ...Show All

• Visual C++ Compiling code written in C in .NET2005

  Hi, I am using .NET 2005 and I created an empty project, Win32 Console Application,and the code I wrote is simple C, not C++. When I try to compile it it gives me this warning : C4996: ' scanf' was declared deprecated. When I run my application it stopes after the first scanf function. I read in MSDN that they changed something about this functions, but what #include <stdio.h> #include <conio.h> #include <stdlib.h> struct nod { char inf; struct nod *left,*right; }; struct nod *creation() { struct nod *p; p=( struct nod*)malloc( sizeof ( struct nod)); printf( &q ...Show All

• SQL Server How to edit a custom property on an external metadata column

  I am using external metadata columns in a destination data component to match sharepoint fields to input columns.  I want to add a flag that the user can set to specify if a column is a lookup column (indicates that the component should look for a list item with the specified input column value, and do an update if the item already exists).  I added a custom boolean property to the medata column, but the property editor does not allow me to edit the column.  It appears to be enabled, but when I choose a value other than the default, the editor immediately replaces the value I chose with the default.  How do I set ...Show All

• SQL Server Error with setup of SQL Server 2005 Express

  I had Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005 installed on my computer until the recent release. I followed the uninstall instructions in order, then installed the available 2005 Express editions. Each install showed an error when installing SQL Server 2005 Express. I attempted to install SQL Server 2005 from a fresh download, and it indicated that there were still beta components on the computer. I downloaded and ran the VS Beta Uninstall tool, which did find one component (SQL Server 2005 Express CTP), but it has an error while trying to uninstall it. The message is: The setup has encountered an unexpected error in datastore. The action is RestoreS ...Show All

• Windows Forms Mac OSx Aqua Look & Feel

  Does anyone know of any windows forms samples using a look & feel similar to 'Aqua' as used for the Mac OSx   Cheers James I found a project on codesine that has the aqua button - but it doesn't work too great, it locks other controls.  I love the look though ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista in rule condition editor how to input character "["

  I wanna use a Dictionary type in Rule Condition Editor as follows: Custom.GetParameters(this.Param)["aa"].ToString()=="Yes" GetParameters returns Dictionary(string,object) type.But it seems the character "[" is not valid in the Editor, what shall I do HI, Which version of Workflow Foundation are you using This capability of using indexing was not supported uptill Beta 2.2. However with the Version1 release expected very soon any collection indexing is being supported. Till that time the best workaround is using functions defined withing dictionary like get_item(key). Hope this helps. ...Show All

• SQL Server Having problem with my server

  I just currently installed Microsoft studio express which includes SQL server and i get this error Server Error in '/WebSite1' Application. it also states " Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding" I am wondering do i have to have IIS on to run SQL server 2005 express adition. I am also having problem with SQL Express installation. After installing it, and configuring with SQL surface area for also remote access via tcp or pipe I still get the message: >sqlcmd HResult 0x2, Level 16, State 1 Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Hi, guys

  I have posted several questions about the compiling and linking problems here. Now I think maybe the problems come from the strmbasd.lib file. I should compile it from baseclasses by myself. But I do not know how to compile and build it from the files in Baseclasses. Anyone help please. BTW, there is a makefile in the folder of baseclasses. Thanks for your time and help. The ms docs talk about setting up the build environment. I believe there are also solution files here: http://tmhare.mvps.org/downloads.htm ...Show All

• Visual Basic uint64 to date conversion

  I created a class that returns the system up time. However the number it returns is a uint64 as thats what its base class returns. When i run the program it returns a value like this System Uptime = 94118 What want to do is convert this to a time and have it say something like 1 Day 22 hours 5mins and 30 seconds. However I a not sure how to do this, what does this number represent the number of seconds mins and what is a uint64 is that a 64bit integer If i knew say its the number of mins, then i know its a matter of just dividing by 60. etc.... Um, if you created the class you should know what it returns, shouldn't you ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't use Virtual PC for VS 2005 Pro with SQL Server Express

  I am unable to successfully complete an install of Visual Studio 2005 with SQL Server 2005 Express on a Virtual PC 2004 image, which seems to be a pretty reasonable expectation. The installation completes successfully all of the way through in a Windows XP Pro SP2 image, but at the end the installation program informs you that SQL Server Express has failed to install, with no other explanation. No setup log files give any information as to why the installation failed. Then I see in the fine print for SQL Server Express downloads that "There is no support in this release for Virtual Server, Virtual PC". (http://download.microsoft.com/dow ...Show All