mwherman2000's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Sql server 2005 trial version

  I ordered a trial version of Sql Server 2005 from Microsoft that is supposed to be valid for 180 days. Yesterday, after only some 30 days of usage I am told that the trial time has expired! Have anybody experience the same problem Any help/suggestion would be most appreciated. Thanks, the Cicada The RTM version of SQL Server 2005 Evaluation Edition should work for 180 days after you installed it. What ex ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.NET And a State Machine Workflow

  I recently read the MSDN magazine article, Windows Workflow Foundation, Part 2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/04/CuttingEdge/), where Dino Esposito demonstrates how to work with workflows in ASP.NET. Dinos' demonstration provides a helpful solution to working with Sequential workflows; however, it left me a little confused with how to work with a State Machine workflow. In the article, Dino demonstrates how to pass parame ...Show All

• SQL Server ReportViewer with Authentication

  I'm new to Reporting Services but have built some reports and have implemented them.  I have used the report viewer which works great and has a great tool bar that users really like.  One problem, I can't figure out how to pass network credentials using the viewer. If I use the ReportingService class I can pass the credentials and everything is great except that I lose the nice tool bar. I want the best of both worlds without having th ...Show All

• Visual Basic Socket Encoding and Decoding using Ascii Encoding

  Hi All fairly new to VB .Net and have been trying to port code from vb6. I have picked up the sample application for sockets and my problem is I have a string which come come in with binary data packed as bytes i.e 10101010101001 and the bytes would appear as .>D.... .. .B..." compressed bitmap. It would now appear that I cannot see the full string I have some characters missing and when I read through the data and build a response I can ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VsipHelper.GetTfsServer()

  The VsipHelper class was public in Beta 3, now it is internal. Code I wrote depended upon this type to get the currently-active server in the IDE via the GetTfsServer method. What is the best way to handle this in the RC You will need to get a TeamFoundationServerExt object. You do this by asking the DTE for it. So with a DTE object you would do something like this: ... using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Emboss effect

  Can anybody help me with EmbossBitmapEffect After export XAML from GD some Paths with embossing convert to png, and emboss live many Paths. "In XAML" I found EmbossBitmapEffect but can create cool emboosing :(( Can you give me some samples of EmbossBitmapEffect Thx Effects (like emboss) can be applied to any UIElement. <Page xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/p ...Show All

• Visual Basic Copying GDI+ graphics object

  I am writing an analysis program that displays data on a GDI+ generated graph. Is there any way I can copy this graph, for example with a rectangular selection tool, to another application I am currently using Alt-PrintScreen, pasting the image of the window into Micorsoft Paint, then selecting the graph from the bitmap of the screen and copying that and then pasting the graph into Word. Any help and guidance appreciated Well, you ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Designer Rules Support

  Hi, I'm in the process of trying to setup a demonstration application which shows an example of workflow and rules management. I need to basically setup a workflow, set some properties, then run the workflow from the designer. Part of this demo include the use of an IfElse activity and a Policy activity which link with the rules engine portions. I've trundled through the examples and the current samples get things about 75% of the way there, an ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Need a 'for each' type statement to deal with resources

  I am trying to say something like: For Each i As System.Drawing.Bitmap In My .Resources do something Next Which, to my learned forum associates, obviously does not work Suggestions please! (The resource files are actually GIF files, which seemed to GetType to 'bitmap') If you resources have a consistent naming convention then you can use something like the following code to programatically access the the ...Show All

• SQL Server Install SSMSE - Installation failed

  Hello all, I have a problem with install SSMSE on all my PCs! :( I downloaded SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP (v9.00.1399) and I can't install it. I have Windows Installer 3.1 v2, .Net Framework 2.0 and MSXML6 installed. If I launch SQLServer2005_SSMSEE.msi its nothing to do :( I have only screen "Preparing to install" and it's go out. In Event Viewer I've evet id 11708: Product: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Expr ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Client Initiated Notification in Analysis Server 2005

  Hi Does any one knows how to use the Client Initiated Notification in Analysis Server 2005 How and where the client sends the notifications Any suggestions Thanks! Rakesh You can use AMO object model to write to submit a notification to Analysis Server. Take a look at books online for information about Server.NotifyTableChange method. You can also construct your own XMLA command to submit notfication ...Show All

• Smart Device Development .Net V1.1 vs 2?

  Ok, should be a quick easy question.  Is .NET CF 2 out now   What does it run on... I understand it fills in alot of the holes in 1.1. Thanks Hi InquiringMinds, Yes, NETCF V2 provides many value-added features and performance improvements. The following is a partial list of the new features: - Generics - MD3DM - COM Interop - GUI Controls like DateTimePicker, MonthCalendar, LinkLabel and WebBrowser - SerialPort - IPv6 - MSMQ NETC ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Agent Hangs

  I have an SSIS .dtsx package that will run fine during debugging, however, when I run it as a job under the SQL Agent the job won't start. To be more specific, the Agent will load the package, ensure that it passes validation (which it does), then sit there without starting the rest of the package. The job will run under the "executing" status until I stop it manually. Does anyone have any idea why it might be doing this ...Show All

• Windows Forms Help needs with SaveFileDialog

  Hi MS, I have some doubt in SaveFileDialog Control. Here i am explaining my problm Please try this,, Open word file and give \\\"save as\\\" in that dialog change the \\\"save as Type\\\" as .xml then u will get option to transform the xsl sheets. How can i do it programatically. I tried to use SaveFileDialog and set the filter as .xml but that transform option is not coming. How to enable that option. Please reply me ...Show All

• Visual Basic Creating MS Word document without using automation

  Hi All, I need to create MS Word document (using the new native XML capabilities of Word 2003) without using automation. Can anybody provide some smaples/links to samples to achieve the same. Thanks & Regards, Prash Hi Jamie,          Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate your interest in the issue.          I have now de ...Show All