Theo Lindebaum's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to use UI as part of the Workflow in State Machine

  Hi, I am new to State Machine Workflow of WWF. I want to work on one of the feature as listed in white papers Display User Interface as part of the workflow through State Machine Workflows Can anybody please help me in doing the above with some samples. Thank you in advance. hi, I dont know if I understand the question, but for windows forms application, I suggest the hands on Lab n°4; I think Tom Lake has ported it to asp.net; you can alslo take a look at Jon Flanders sample here : http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/PermaLink,guid,0fae3e73-7801-4cf6-a5a5-9370b0f99973.aspx Hope this helps Serge ...Show All

• SQL Server cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode with SQL Server

  I keep getting the error message below when attempting to import a text file (flat file) to an SQL Server Destination using SSIS. This database has recently been migrated from SQL Server 2000 (where I used a DTS Package that worked fine). I plan on doing further manipulation to the file after importing but have so far tried to keep one step at a time. I have tried using a smaller files and different tables but still get a similar response. I believe that the encoding of the text file is ANSI. If it is relevant the database collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS (the same as it was when 2000). Any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciate ...Show All

• .NET Development System requirements for VS 2005

  Does anyone know what the runtime requirements are for solutions developed in VS 2005 Thanks, Eyvind. Never mind, I found it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=7ABD8C8F-287E-4C7E-9A4A-A4ECFF40FC8E&displaylang=en " Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows ME, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP" Yay! Eyvind. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can someone point me in right direction for database questions..

  Im trying to get my head around the database/sql features of vb 2005 express.  Ive followed the beginners tutorials and managed to get a database up and running on a form but i would like to know if the following scenario is possible and how to go about it. Lets say I have 2 tables.. one for Customers and one for Invoices..  the primary key "CustomerID" in customer table and foreign key CustomerID in the Invoice table. Ok, so ive made a form thats for making a new invoice and I would like the field that references the CustomerID to actually show a dropdown box with the Customers names from the Customer table.  How do i go abou ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Extract code from .dot

  For some reason, (really not sure why, but it happens every now and then on my company's PC) my normal.dot file containing a few years' worth of customisations and home-grown macros was reset to the default a few days ago. My backup normal.dot has the toolbar customisations and lists the macros in the Tools>Macro>Macros window, but they do not run. ("Could not load Macro storage" error.) I can see snippets of the macros when I load the file into notepad. The VBA editor doesn't know they are there. Does anyone know if I can extract the macros from the .dot file - without using Word MS Office Word 2002 Windows XPpro Th ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.Net and SQL Persistance?

  I am creating workflows in a ASP.Net Form with the Workflow and Persistance declared in the Web.config. This was functioning fine in Beta1. After making what I believe the new declarations to be, I seem to be unable to persist in this new version. Anyone else have similar problems Please look at this post and see if it solves your problem: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=253277&SiteID=1 Thanks, Iza ...Show All

• SQL Server Token (A-DBN) show always master after alert

  I try to create a job for an alert that should backup the log of the database which passed adefined threshold in an alert. Therefore I created an alert for this threshold which starts a job in which I would like to use the token (A-DBN). Doing debugging with print statement shows always the database name "master", although my alert is defined for a user database. Bug or USer error and if it is an user error, what did I wrong Nobs Yes, I used the new syntax and I already filed the bug. I will try to reproduce it on a SQL Server 2005 GA release to see if this is a bug coming with the c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Bug Rates Report - Getting very weird report

  The report "Bug Rates" used to work great. It shows us how many Work Items were in the System, how many were resolved, new active etc. (the way it should). I exported 250 Work Items from one of our products as a trial for TFS, threw them into Excel, and published. This worked great. The Report showed a huge spike of Work Items. Now, I've gone through all those Work Items, and instead of having them assigned to me, I have them assigned to "Administrator" who we're using as a place holder for Work Items not yet assigned until we have our meeting on what we should do with these. Now when I go to this report, it shows 0 for everything o ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS 2005 Beta2 Installation problem

  Greetz, I am not able to install the Visual Studio 2005 beta 2. The installation gives error when trying to update MSI 3.0. my os is windows 2003 Enterprise edition with SP1 v.1023. I tried manually installing MSI30 then it gives error that " Setup has detected that the Serive Pack version of this system is Newer than the update you are applying. There is no need to install this update. " kindly help me appropriately. Kishan Windows 2003 SP1 comes with MSI 3.1 and VS shouldn't need to install MSI 3.0. Can you check the version of msi.dll in your %windir%\system32 folder to make sure you have MSI 3.1 on the ma ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista x64 bit kernel patching

  Who would I contact to discuss alternatives to patching on x64 systems ...Show All

• Visual C++ Error C2440: cannot convert from type to type

  Yesterday I got this error in a new C++/CLI project:   Error 1 error C2440: 'return' : cannot convert from 'ZXNewtonCP::LayoutManager' to 'ZXNewtonCP::LayoutManager' d:\proyectos\rfog\zxnewtoncp\zxnewtoncp\Config.h 17 LayoutManager is a managed class, and is instantiated in class config as a stack type, not a reference or pointer. My intention was to return a reference, but I mistake the typing and got that error. I don’t know if system can return a complete class instead a reference, but the error sounds cryptic and obscure.   Public ref class LayoutManager {…}   Public ref class Config { LayoutManager lay ...Show All

• Windows Forms Refresh in List View.

  Hi,  Anyone know how should i make the record that just added display in the list view immediately Or throw away the record that just deleted from the list view I guess is using Refresh(), but after i put in the refresh part, it seems not working. //refresh function private void refresh() { this .dataset1.Clear(); //clear the contents of dataset this .da.Fill( this .dataset1, "employee" ); } Thanks. ListView.Refresh() simply causes the control to be redrawn. The question asked was how to get a record that had been newly added to a database to be displayed in a ListView. But as Mark correc ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Smooth Scrolling ?

  1) First of all I use Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Font.DrawText(....) for creting 2d text and change x-y parametrers for scrolling 2) I can calculate framerate as below : ++frames; int ticks = Environment.TickCount; int elapsed = ticks - lastTickCount; if (elapsed > 1000) { int framerate = frames; frames = 0; this .FPS = framerate ; lastTickCount = ticks; } But how can i use them together and get a SMOOTH scroll Or am i on the wrong way Take a look at this tutorial/sample code on mdxinfo.com. We at MDXInfo provide alot of samples, tutorials and cod ...Show All

• SQL Server Connection to Analysis services from VB - very slow

  Dear All, I noticed a strange problem with one of my client's computers where in establishing a connection with Analysis services from VB takes 6 seconds, when the computer is not connected to network, but it takes only a fraction of a second when the computer is in networ. We use ADOMD to connect to Analysis server. Analysis services is installed in the local machine. I ran dependency walker and found that the dll WS2_32.dll (winsock dll) is taking most of the time when establishing connection. This issue is very important for us and it would be great, if someone could help me in this. Thanks in advance, Niyas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Iterate through all tab pages in tab control - how to hide this from user

    RDD wrote: * I have a form with one TabControl with 2 TabPages, with one TextBox on each TabPage . Result of running this Form: * The TextBox of the visible TabPage gets bound very well, and displays the property value. BUT, the TextBox of the second TabPage remains blank. Can somebody provide with a solution   Mark Rideout wrote: Just to let you know -- I'm investigating this. The problem is that the controls on the other tab pages are not created, so they are not databound yet. Windows Forms does this to ensure that controls currently not visible are not initialized. This keep ...Show All