AdilRaza's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista WorkflowsInstance.Abort Confusing me.. please help

  Hi. as MSDN document said: The workflow runtime invalidates the workflow instance in memory and clears the WorkBatch . After it aborts the workflow instance, the workflow runtime raises the WorkflowAborted event. You can call GetWorkflow to reload the workflow instance and start from its last persistence point. As first read of that, I though I am fully understand it means, however, when we set a unloaded workflow instance to a ...Show All

• Visual Basic Open "path\filename.log" For Input As #1 Error

  My open statement is no longer working.  The path and filename are both correct. MsgBox ("SETTING cLogin")     Set cLogin = New Collection MsgBox ("cLogin SET SUCCESSFULLY") MsgBox ("OPENING LOG FILE")     Open "\\path\filename.log" For Input As #1 MsgBox ("LOG FILE OPENED SUCCESSFULLY") I put in the MsgBoxes to localize the problem and it executes MsgBox ("OPENING LOG FILE") and then stops running.  It ...Show All

• Windows Forms Sliding Toolbox tabs

  Does anyone have any idea on how to implement the sliding tabs effect like the tool box in Visual Studio I have an app that could utilize this but I haven't been able to locate any web sites that broach this subject. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Failed to start monitoring changes

  i'm not sure if this problem belong to this forum, but it started only after a start to use visual studio express (web developer). when i try to build a website i get the folowing error: "Error 1 An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to 'Z:\lina\a\pics' because the network BIOS command limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to Microsoft knowledge base a ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to create 32bpp icons

  i've found lots os examples for a diferent kind of thing to do on vb.net, but now i'm trying to breate 32bpp icons from an image. the folowing example uses a simple way to get icons from a bitmap, "Alph.bmp" is in 32bpp with alpha chanel, but the result gives-me a white backround. Public Shared Function From32bppBMP() As Icon Dim bmp As New Bitmap("Alph.bmp") Dim HI As IntPtr = bmp.GetHicon Dim a A ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Action Pane disappears

  I have an Excel Template solution developed using VSTO 2005 that has controls on the Action Pane. I have a custom menu button that the user can use to toggel the Action pane on and off, and everything works fine until the user attempts to open an additional Excel file. If a user opens another Excel file from Windows Explorer by double clicking or selecting open from the context menu, the Actions Pane goes away. I then switch back to the ori ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Sample code for a Window Service that hosts the WWF engine?

  ...either a very basic implementation...   ...or, perhaps, one that using multi-threading to host multiple instances of a workflow My initial interest is using the Windows Service to evaluate WWF rulesets (WWF Policies). Thanks, Michael. All you need to do is get a sample for a Windows Server from MSDN and add the workflow runtime code into it. Then add any workflow services you need. For multithreading all you need is the default thr ...Show All

• .NET Development request.BeginGetRequestStream with FTP in ACTIVE mode problem.

  Hi, i'm making an asynchronous upload function. When using .usepassive = true all is good, i can transfer and catch pretty much every exception thrown at it. When using .usepassive = false and the server and client are both configured properly, all is good too. The problem i have is when .usepassive = false and either the ftp or client are not configured properly to use active ftp connections. Here is the code that calls the BeginG ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using VB.NET to get audio file extended attributes?

  Hi everyone... I'm an intermediate VB.NET user. I have a couple of applications that finds all the .WAV and .MP3 files in a folder (and its subfolders), reads their headers, and reports their sample rates, lengths, and number of channels. They run on XP and 2003 Server. I'd like to extend this to .WMA and .AIF files, and I'm starting to think that an easier way of accomplishing this task is to leverage some sort of Windows API. ...Show All

• SQL Server Naming conventions for database objects

  Microsoft has published some kind of guideline for naming or best practices for sql server 2005 From my experience this is not a vendor specific thing, rather than a guide with in company/the project or the own flavour of the developer. Regardless if you use hungarian notation or a custom one, the important thing is it to keep it constant within development. My two cents. HTH, Jens Suessmeyer. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro 2.5 Compatible font for VFP9

  Hi all; I have asked others before, but no helpful answer: What fornt should I use in my VFP application so older command would produce the exact results as in the old 2.5 DOS app I have tried many different options and none are spaced right. I have been told to use monospaced fonts but nothing works... Any ideas Thanks. Dave; Not sure why to do set disp to vga25... I'm refering to printou ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP failed to install

  I'm stuck I keep getting a Maintenance - Error occurred during setup.  I think I've tried everything.  Not that this will fix your problem, but could you try installing the latest version of SQL Server 2005 - September CTP edition.  You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=6E4AAC3A-9D85-4734-B1FD-318FB83B0D29&displaylang=en ...Show All

• Windows Forms Email from app

  How do I setup a linklabel in my Windows form to use outlook to send email  I'm assuming this is much different than doing from a web page. Robert Have you added the reference to System.Web.dll   This involves more than the Im ...Show All

• SQL Server No recovery/no log file wanted

  I have a SQL Server (Express) database that I use in a Visual Studio (Visual Basic) 2005 application. The application is of the Decision Support type, that routine deletes the contents of some of the database tables and then re-populates them with new data. There is no reason for keeping the "old" contents and no reason to restore the old content. (It does this using "BULK INSERT" statements, as in: "BULK INSER ...Show All

• SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP regular express replace bug?

  Open a document and try the following regular express replacement. Replace {:i} to \1 bla bla A lot of wrong replacement. (BTW, I do the replace in a selection.) I looked at the steps you did. You may miss one step that is necessary to produce the error: - In the "Look in:" field, you must select "Selection" instead of "Current Document" or "All open document". 1) Have you changed any options in Tools | Option ...Show All