jvlake's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Workflow Startup in transactional way...

  Hello, My WWF usage scenario requires me to startup workflow in a transaction - that is workflow should start, it should be persisted and then my startup procedure completes making completed() vote in bigger transaction. I was thinking about following solution: Let's assume that MyStartWorkflow() should work in transactional way. MyStartWorkflow() starts up workflow using workflow runtime and hangs up on an event (for example AutoRes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Getting the current logged on user and NOT the user running the App

  G'day I'm trying to find a way to get the current Username of the person logged on. I ahve tried the following: I've read your question three times and I'm afraid I don't understand the description of the problem. Could you post a small snippet of code and identify where the failure occurs ...Show All

• .NET Development What's new with DataTables?

  I'm curious if someone could explain the new features relating to DataTables in .NET 2.0. I've heard that it is easier to share tables across datasets. Is this true I'm in the situation where I'd like to have the same datatable be in several different datasets. I'm not sure the best way to go about doing this. I'm assuming that I'd have to create it in multiple places. I can't just create a stand-alone datatable, can I ...Show All

• Windows Forms treeviews

  How do ya use'em if node1 is selectted button1 becomes invisible   Could someone giv me the code 4 that i could work on it then, thanks   well ive got a treeview1, ive added nodes to it and now i want to also add code, so what i was sayin is if the user clicks node1, button1 becomes invisible, i was trying: >if treeview1.nodes(1) = treeview1.selectednode then >button1.visible = false >end if But i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Document formatting

  Hi - Is there way to programmatially restrict a word document formatting i.e. restricting font sizes, or font style to times roman, verdena, tahoma only. Thanks for your help. Nick Nick, You can only restrict formatting to a selection of styles. To try this, go to Tools/Protect document/Limit formatting to a selection of styles. Click Settings.. to disable the styles that are not allowed and then cl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team Build, Web Projects and References???

  This might take a bit of explaining, but please stick with me. (note, some names and places have been replaced to protect the innocent) I have a web project, called WebSite, that project lives at "C:\Projects\Trash\WebSite" (IIS maps http://localhost to this folder). I also have 2 class libraries, one called WebSite.Library ("C:\Projects\Trash\WebSite.Library") and the other is called Company.Library ("C:\Projects\Junk\Company.Library"). Th ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to animate enumeration property (Rectangle.Visibility)?

  Hello,   Sorry for the dumb question, I novice in WPF yet.   Is any way to animate property that has enumeration type I try to animate Rectangle.Visibility My goal: show dotted rectangle when the mouse is over some grid cells. For this I placed rectangle to grid and trying to do such animation:         <Style TargetType="{x:Type Rectangle}">  & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot compare, diff or merge files

  The VSTFKnownIssues.rtf has the following issue: Issue : Cannot compare, diff or merge files on computers that only have Team Explorer. Details : Due to dependency on a DLL that is not included with Team Explorer, DiffMerge.exe fails on computers that do not have Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite or one of the Team System role-based editions. Workaround : Install Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite, or one of the Team System role-based editio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Cannot find server for Visual Studio help

  I am having trouble using help for Visual Studio 2005. I installed Visual Studio and then installed the MSDN Library for Visual Studio that came with it. Visual Studio itself seems to be working just fine. However, any attempt to use help or MSDN generates the following error message: Cannot find server. URL: ms-help/MS.VSCC.v80/...<<lots more>> The page cannot be displayed Cannot find server or DNS error. This happ ...Show All

• Windows Forms System.Web.Mail... yeah why would this method be missing

  Yeah you read it correctly i go into the object broswer an i look @ System.Web- the darn thing has 3 methods in  it. anyone have aclue why or how to fix this. I have used this method before on ASP pages.  This is seriously&n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Fail Team Project creation

  After installing TFS Beta 3, everything seems ok. Can connect to it, manage it, etc. However I cannot create projects sucessfully. When I try to I get this (excerpt from log): Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at TEAMSYS1 Exception Details: The Project Creation Wizard w ...Show All

• Visual Studio compact framework, pocket pc device application and local report support?

  are they any plans or is it possible currently to print local rdlc reports in a pocket pc 2003 or 5 device application suspect no if using sql but it would appear possible that this is feasible if using object data sources... ...Show All

• SQL Server Patching SqlRun_Sql.msi not successful

  Hi all, when I tried to integrate SP1 into my install media (32bit Developer Edition) by using msiexec /i sqlrun_sql.msi shortfilename=true /p sqlrun_sql.msp using the msp from an extracted SP1 full web download I ended up with a modified msi file. But installing from this one I received an error: "sysdbupg.sql.<some_guid> was not found in Sql.CAB" Any ideas how to fix that With best regards, Artus ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System DCR: Field level security

  I am sure this has already been covered in some past discussion somewhere, but just in case I want to add this thread so a person can search on "field level security" to find info about this request. The only thread I can find where the topic was touched on is titled "Let the submitter close the issue only". This is a design change request (DCR) to ask that in the next version or update of VSTS, that there be some way to add security on a per-fi ...Show All

• .NET Development Using FtpWebRequest to check if a directory exists.

  I'd like to know if there is anyway i can use the FtpWebRequest class to check if a directory exists before creating it on the server. The reason i ask is because if you try to create a directory that already exists it throws a WebException and disconnects from the server. This gives a performance hit if we are trying to create alot of directories on the server that already exists due to the disconnects/reconnects. TIA, lushd ...Show All