richard.brown's Q&A profile

• SQL Server How to get a reference to output buffers in a ProcessInput()

  I'm attempting to build data-flow transform component and at the moment something just isn't clicking. Hopefully one day I'll look back and laugh at myself for asking this. I am building a synchronous component with 2 outputs. I know from reading BOL that I can get a reference to the output buffers in the PrimeOutput method but I don't think (I may be wrong) that PrimeOutput is the place to do this for synchronous components. I need to get ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Trusted domain setup

  I have a development domain that trusts accounts from our primary domain. The TFS server is in the development domain as a member server. If I try to add a trusted account into the Administrators group it is unable to find it. What steps do I need to do to allow this trusted account As far as I know, you should explicitly set "trust for delegation" to make sure Kerberos credentials can be transferred between se ...Show All

• Visual Basic Multiple threads executing the same procedure.

  I am new to Threading in VB.NET and need help with the following questions. 1. Can we have multiple threads executing the same procedure 2. Will there be race condition if we code it that way 3. Lets say for example I have a procedure like this: Public sr as StreamReader 'A Global StreamReader Sub DoProcess() sr.ReadLine(); End Sub I would like to Create (10 or 15) threads based on the user entry. 3.1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio how do i register my help as a plugin

  what is the process for registering a help collection as a plugin I'm interested in the low level process and I've searched the registry for collections that i know are plugins but cannot work it out. Is there an API I should use to register as a plugin Thanks Jason Help 2.x registration is covered in the Visual Studio SDK, which includes a merge module you can use to register your help files, names ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista SQL Persistence, Loading Workflows and Workflow Properties

  I have a workflow that has a bunch of properties on it. One of those properties is the name of the user that initiated the workflow (it is passed into the workflow via the Dictionary<string, object> class. I have SQL persistence working just fine (well, I can't figure out how to 'auto persist', so I am manually calling 'Unload' when the workflow idles), and I run through the list of workflow IDs persisted when my application starts up. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TreeView + HierarchicalDataTemplate

  I'd like to bind an Object form the following class to a TreeView class MyObject { private string name; private List<MyObject> childs; public string Name { get { return this.name; } } public List<MyObject> Childs { get { return this.childs; } } } My Treeview looks like: <UserControl> <UserControl.Resources> <HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:MyO ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How can I query StateMachineWorkflowInstance before the WF idles

  I would like to retrieve the name of the State that a current State Machine Workflow Instance is in. The StateMachineWorkflowInstance class works fine for this once the WF idles, but I am unable to use it to retrieve the current State when a WF instance is first started. The idea is that I start a WF and then query the State. Can this be done with StateMachineWorkflowInstance or will it require tracking The St ...Show All

• SQL Server Move data from backroom to frontroom

  I need to know the quickest way of moving/copying data from a backroom/import/qualitycheck database to the production environment. The databases reside on the same server instance, the tablestructure is identical and I'd preferably like to use T-SQL procedures, rather than DTS/ETL. Can I make use of bulk loading, openrowset or ... from one table to another Hi Erik, I would have suggested BULK INSERT, but as ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel OLE Link Using VSTO

  I am porting an MFC application to .NET using C#. The app has the feature of establishing OLE Link with Excel. For example, user can copy a cell from Excel 2003 and do "Paste Link" to the app, and these 2 become linked together through OLE Link. I could not find anything on the internet do enable me to do that in C# and .NET. I know RTD server, but it only takes care of one direction, not from Excel to my app. Does VSTO offer any he ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Sockets - Client Unable to read what the server sent

  I use .NetSockets in my ASP.NET appliation to connect to the PABX. PABX machine is the server while my application is the client. My software connects to the machine and logs in successfully. It also sends messages which the PABX receives. But my application is unable to read any messages that is being sent back from the server. It stays there in the loop waiting. I have confirmed that the PABX does send information back. I have tried testing m ...Show All

• Windows Forms using OWC(Office Web components) charts in windows app

  hi, I am using OWC to create charts. I have following questions: 1) How can I get msdn Help about various fuinctions/properties of OWC classes when I press F1   Rite now, I have 2003 msdn installed and when I press F1 in my VS.net, it  ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO add-in setup error accessing registry

  A user is receiving the following error message during the exection of my MSI installation. I am using the MSI bootstrapper process and followed the guidelines to deploying a VSTO add-in ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerOverview.asp ). This is the error they receive: "An exception occurred in the OnAfterInstall event handler of MyInstaller.-> Unable to op ...Show All

• .NET Development When(why) use DataSet?

  I have a very simple Access database which consists of only one table and an auto number field (ID) has been used as the primary key for the records. All the columns are directly mapped to a object's properties except the ID property of the object is set to 0 initially.  I only use OleDbCommand object to execute sql statement but is there any way to get the value of the ID column of a just inserted row (I ...Show All

• Windows Forms different drawing origin

  Hello! Does anyone know a nice way to draw on a graphics-object with an origin at the bottom-left corner + | | 0/0 -- + I know that the default origin is top-left and positive coordinates will extent to bottom-right: 0/0 -- + | | + Any ideas would be greatly ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dealing with nulls and exceptions in query syntax

  If I want to dump the running processes where the company name is Microsoft I have to write a somewhat grody query: var msProcesses =     from p in processes     where p.Id > 4 &&           p.MainModule.FileName.IndexOf(' ') == -1 &&           p.MainModule.FileVersionInfo.CompanyName != null &&a ...Show All