Deborah Lukenbill's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to obtain Parent Activity , reading from a XOML

  Hi , I have an XOML file representing a workflow with two activites. <SequentialWorkflowActivity xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/workflow " xmlns:x=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " xmlns:otc=" http://schemas.OdeToCode.com/WinWF/Activities " x:Class="MyWorkflow" > <otc:WriteLineActivity Message="Hello, babu here !"/> <DelayAc ...Show All

• Visual Basic API Calls supported by VB6.

  I would appreciate information on exactly which API calls are supported by VB6. In paticular, I am having trouble declaring the following calls: SetupDiGetClassDevs   SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces   SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail The declares for these calls listed by the API Text Viewer generate the error message: "Variable uses an automation type not supported in Visual Basic" One variable it rejects is > ByRef ClassGuid As Gu ...Show All

• Visual C# How to change the color of a substring?

  for example: string newStr = "The color is red"; label1.Text = newStr; output: The color is red Hi icemart525 you want this to work in Web Application or Desktop Application Rags ...Show All

• SQL Server How to insert data into table

  can some one help me, how can i insert data, using some commands, scenario, two server, srv01 and srv02, both have database sales and both a table saleshistory pseudocode: insert into srv02.sales.dbo.saleshistory select * from srv01.sales.dbo.saleshistory where id > srv02.sales.dbo.saleshistory.max(id) In other words, you want to get all records from srv01 that are not on srv02, and inser ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Custom UIElementCollection and data binding

  I have created a custom Panel. I have also created a custom UIElementCollection for it because I need to do some extra operations when the collection is modified. Everything works fine when the custom panel is used in standalone mode. The problem is when I use this custom Panel as a items host for a data binded ItemsControl, it seems that the items are not added through the overriden Add method of the custom UIElementCollection so thos ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office [SOLVED] How to supress message : "the master template will be used" when inserting a subdoc ?

  Hi, I am programmatically adding a sub-document to a VSTO server document : Globals.ThisDocument.Range(ref oContentStart, ref oContentEnd).Subdocuments.AddFromFile( ref filePath, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); When this runs and the master and sub-document ...Show All

• Visual C# enumerated constant type in a DataGrid view (combobox column)

  I have a DataGridView which I populate with integer data. For some of the columns, only a few different values are valid. I would like to have each cell in that column be a combo box, so that they can only select a valid value. As you probably guessed, those columns contained an enumerated value. I have a 'NumStringPair' class. The NumStringPair class works well when bound to a combo box, as the 'ToString()' only shows the human readable n ...Show All

• Visual Basic MCAD Certification Training

  Hello, My name is Davin Eastley and I'm 13 years old. I am aiming high as I'm heading towards the MCAD certification from Microsoft. I have learnt a lot about Visual Basic .NET lately and almost use it every day. I am currently reading a few good books on VB .NET and then will be starting to read some QUE Certification books alongside some of Microsoft's. I was interested to know who wants to support me during this process. If you want to suppor ...Show All

• Windows Forms Folder Browser Question

  How can I detect when a user has clicked a path property in the Properties Window at design time & show the Folder Browser Dialog box & not when the user adds my control to the form I would think it's something l ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't anyone help me with this? - "..timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool..."

  I posted this problem but no one responded. I figured I'd try one last time. I'm having a wierd problem. I've been using Visual Studio.NET 2003, and writing an app that up to now has been working perfectly. All of a sudden an error comes&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Deployment error with CR XI R2 on Windows Server

  Crystal Reports XI Release 2. Deployed on Windows Server. Built with VS 2005. I'm trying to get my first web deployment of CR going. I'm getting the following error: Failed to open the connection. Failed to open the connection. C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ReedCorpReport {046213D8-2B13-4959-9F93-525104CB2FB3}.rpt CrystalReportViewer - myCrystalReportViewer Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I built the Crystal Report ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX 9 in visual basic 2005

  Hello all,     I am an experinced user of Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, but am failing terribly when trying to apply DirectX, Direct3D and other techniques.  Does anyone know where I can find directx tutorials that have visual basic code examples   I would really like ot learn.  I have tried literally hundreds of c++ tutorials and they never compile, whether the creater of the source says it works or not.  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Error Signature

  I am working on a program that it to run at startup on a touchscreen computer. The touchscreen is running Windows XP Pro. The problem I am having is when I start up the touch screen, I get an error stating theat it has encountered a problem and needs to close. I click on "What data does this report contain " and I get the following information: Error Signature EventType: clr20r3 P1: eyeonmain.exe P2: 1.0.0.0 P3: 43f9fa2 P4: syst ...Show All

• SQL Server convert int to money without decimal and cents

  I am doing the following to change an int into money (I want the commas) but it is adding a decimal and 2 zeroes at the end: convert(varchar,convert(money,m.[FirstTier]),1) as 'First Tier', m.firsttier = '1583456' after conversion = '1,583,456.00' Is there any easy way to not have the '.00' Thanks. Note that PARSENAME returns unicode string so you need to be careful when using that expression in WHERE clause for ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I create command line software that works in MS-DOS mode?

  Hi, I was wondering why the console app that I made works in the MS-DOS prompt under Windows, but doesn't work under MS-DOS mode, when booting from an emergency disk. Any ideas Any application you make in Visual Basic Express requires the 2.0 .NET Framework which unfortunately is far too large to be able to run from most emergency disks. To add insult to injury though the framework also ties into Windows in such a way that some sort of Win ...Show All