mayette's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Reloading the state machine instance from persistence in Tracking

  I am trying to extend The Ordering State Machine example. I want the form to load all persisted workflows on start up, displaying each at their current state in the list view. I have implemented the SqlPersistenceService and the Tracking service successfully and both databases are being populated.   As a test I am loading a persisted workflowInstance using its GUID WorkflowInstance CurrentInstance = theWorkflowRuntime.GetWorkflow(new ...Show All

• Visual Basic third-party installer for choice and security

  Does vb.net express offer a way for the developer or user to decide where an app would be installed or is a third-party installer necessary If so, any recommendations   McWhirter wrote: Thats good to know I was just whining to myself yesterday that the product comparison listed clickonce for the Basic Edition. I didn't wanna have to fork out the money for Pro. Now i might be happy :) Yes, I w ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Sum in Query Expression

  Is it possible to do the following using query expression syntax: decimal total = customers     .SelectMany(c => c.Orders)     .Sum(o => o.Total); Or can this only be done presently with the extension methods Not every Standard Query Operator is currently represented by a Query Expression analog.  But since Query Expressions all return IEnumerable<T>, and ...Show All

• Windows Forms BindingSource PositionChanging

  Hi, Sample scenario (using Framework 2.0): you have a collection of objects (loaded by a data layer - i.e. a Web Service) and a windows form containing a datagrid bound to the collection. When the user moves from an object to another changing the selected row in the grid, if the previous object is "dirty" (i.e. some properties of that object has been modified by the user), the system must send the modified obje ...Show All

• Visual C++ Changed the COM signatures....using ildasm.....

  Hi, I have a .exe COM which I used in .NET but some signatures got changed....so I opened it with ildasm and changed the signatures so that it should return something from the function....This is the error I'm getting now.... The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x79e8aff6, on thread 0xb4. The error code is 0xc0000005. This error may be a bug in the CLR or in the unsafe or non-verifiable portions of us ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Exam 70-306. Visual studio version?

  I want to give the following exam. Exam 70-306 Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET   However, i want to give it for Visual Studio 2005. Does anyone know which version of Visual Studio is covered in the exam If it is not Visual Studio 2005, when is Ms planning to bring it. Thanks for your time!! Hello Tk. Visit ...Show All

• Visual C++ [C++/CLI] new syntax, how to get a type

  Alright, i need to get info off the type of a arraylist inside a not-created object; public: [XmlElement(type = )] ArrayList^ arrayAccounts; in native C++ i just use typeof(ArrayList), but now it aint working. i need to get the type of an arraylist without declaring him, so i cant use ArrayList::GetType()anyone has an idea You can use typeid. Take a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kwd9abya.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to include an icon (image) in a ComboBox ?

  Hi, Can u ppl help me out I'm writing a small app, created a combobox, i want to display a Drop-Down list of some directory names with ICONS(especially Folder icon). I m working with Pocket PC using C#...Is this possible with that If possible plz suggest me a way. Thanks, ramakrishna swamy. Combobox supports owner drawing, which let you measure and draw the individual items in the combobox. I don't k ...Show All

• Visual Basic Automate MS Word Doc with VB.Net

  I amtrying to pull info from a Sql Server to populate a word Doc using a VB.Net App any ideas Dim LPC As Word.Document PolNumber.DataBindings.Add("Text", PolicyNumber1, "Policy.PolicyNumber")   Well i binded the data to the textbox but what should i do to make the data show up on the ms word doc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Beta 3 Shipping in Nov and TF Not Shipping Until Q1 2006

  Now that the cat is out of the bag: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1850411,00.asp 1. Can you tell us what level of support we will get with Beta 3   2. Will our Beta 3 DBs be migratable to the RTM version    3. What does "Go Live" really mean for TF 4. Will the Visual Studio Team System editions also be held back until Q1 2006   5. Will TF be in the August CTP I'm fairly c ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WinFX CTP install issue

  Cheers, I am posting to this group because I have not found any groupe dedicated to general WinFX issues. I am having problem installing WinFX January CTP. When I launch the install, the window with progress bar saying "Setup is loading installation components. This may take a minute or two." shows up, advances to 80 percent, and CPU usage jumps to 100%. It is impossible to kill the process. Task manager doesn't kill it, taskkill ...Show All

• Smart Device Development netcf 1.1 and Windows Mobile 5.0

  Whether the application developed using netcf 1.1 work on Windows mobile 5.0 pocket pc Regards, Senthil. Hi Senthil, Yes, no problem. Windows Mobile 5.0 based devices have the .NET CF 1.0 SP3 in ROM. Regards Michael ...Show All

• Visual Basic Reading characters from a line

  I was wondering (DESPERATELY) how to read only certain characters from a line of text and how to define where the code will start reading and how far into the line the code will read.  and lastly - is it possible to store these specified characters in a variable   I've been messing around with "Mid()" but its not doing exactly what I need it to.  THANX i think i see what youre saying, but as f ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Dlinq and unnormalized data

  Hi all, I would like to have your opinion in dealing with the following situation: We have daily treatments whose results are some unormalized datas in excel files.My basic question is : where does Linq fits there I thought about 3 solutions: 1. Upload those files in a database : this is heavy, and I would need (would I ) one database per day, or a time key to be duplicated all around. 2. Read all the datas, then do some in memor ...Show All

• Windows Forms user control problem

  New to VB.NET I have an application with 2 usercontrols on a Form called Main Login and PhoneLog When the app runs the phonelog is not visable and the login is. I am able to login and hide the login control but the phonelog control will not&nbs ...Show All