marina B.'s Q&A profile

• Visual C# C# VS C++

  OK. I want to have a crack at programming - C#/C++ seems the way to go. What are the differences between the two - and which would you say was best to learn to create basic apps   < erossetto@discussions..microsoft.com > wrote in message news:03583ce3-c8a0-4ba9-9606-d23ecdda6856_WBRev2_@discussions..microsoft.com ... This post has been edited either by the author or ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista GetAllWorkflows() failing

  If I try to do a GetAllWorkflows from a SqlWorkflowPersistenceService immediately after starting my runtime (and having added all the services), I get a Null reference exception. If I call this same function after creating a new workflow (and maybe after it has been persisted), I get all the workflow descriptions as expected. It's as if the service hasn't done something it needs to get the workflows from the db until it has already performed som ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to automate the process of creating MSI

  Hi all, I am trying to automate the process of creating an MSI file for an vb.net web application. Can any one suggest me the way of doing the same Thanks, Sridhar Greetings, What do you mean by 'automation' Best regards, Mike. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF cons and pros

  Can someone enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Thanks :) Matt Winkler -- MSFT wrote: Here is a similar posting. Please let me know if this helps. Hey, Matt... where is the posting ...Show All

• Visual Basic I have a big problem with .NET Framework

  Hello I have a big problem with .NET Framework 2.0. My story is: I made a program via VB2005 and I gave it to all my friends. My friends who doesn't have Win XP SP2 said: the program didn't work cuz .NET Framework 2.0 didn't install. My question is: Does any program which made via VB2005 need Win XP SP2 exclusively I'm very angy. Can anybody help me, please, please, please You don't nee ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Strategies for Stoping non customers from using my software

  I am trying to come up with a simple solution to people who "borrow" my software from a friend.  I would like to have a 30 day period for trial use, then stop anyone from reinstalling the program again unless there is an unlock code. Any recommendations popson wrote: i ve 2 questions (1)Sir i haved developed an application on Visual Basic programming, i need a security that if i sold it out, i ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Rotate an object using a vertex shader

  Is it possible to rotate an object using vertex shader code. I know you can position and scale it but cant work out how to rotate it. Thanks Bilbob I must confess that I am not a RenderMonkey expert. But if you want to move your object in the preview window around with the mouse you should use ViewProjection or WorldViewProjection as semantic. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions "Microsoft SQL Server" choice missing in Data Source Configuration Wizard

  I'm a newbie trying to learn VB using VB Express Edition, so I bought the ADO.NET 2.0 Step-by-Step book from Microsoft Press and installed the sample databases, etc. The very first lesson involves using the Data Source Configuration Wizard. In the "Choose Data Source" form, the book shows five possible selections. My system only shows "Microsoft Access Database File" and "Microsoft SQL Database File". I need &quo ...Show All

• .NET Development How to force date format to custom format.

  I have a program whose default UI culture is German. I also have satellite dlls with English and Catalan resources. The program shall run in Spain with Catalan UI. We have an English Windows XP with German and Spanish MUI packages installed, and English as well as German UI work fine from our program when selected as UI languages in Windows respectively. But how can I get it to show the Catalan UI When I turn on Spanish Windows UI I get the Germ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System WorkItem programmatic migration query

  I'm working on a set of migration apps at the moment to move issues from our existing issue tracking system into VSTS Work Items. To maintain tracking information, there are various bits of information I'd really like to copy over such as "CreatedBy" and "CreatedDate" but these are ReadOnly fields in the WorkItem class. I know I could create yet more custom fields to hold this information, but then I end up in a situation where existing iss ...Show All

• .NET Development Text Messaging App using VB.NET?

  I am VERY NEW to VB.NET and am wanting to create a text messaging app as a windows service.  Can this be done   Does anyone have any sample code for communicating with a modem using VB.NET   I have previously created a vb6 app that reads a SQL db and sends text messages to various text messaging services.  Basically, my users choose a pager(or txt enabled phone) from a list, post a message using a .ASP web app.  On a se ...Show All

• Visual Basic ADO.net DataAccess time SLOW

  Unless I am doing something very wrong, it seems that the ADO.net dataaccess time,IE retrieving a record is extremly slow compared to Classic ADO. Now it takes between 1 and 2 seconds to retrieve the data from the Remote database (Access). Because of needing update data when I select a serial number, I presume and currently use direct access to the remote database. I load a combobox with all my serial Numbers, Currently 15,000 . Then when I c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Stop taskbar appearing when printing ?

  I have a form that is maximised and with FormBorderStyle set to none so it is covering the whole screen. My app. requires that some printing be done but when that happens the taskbar appears briefly and disappears again which looks unprofessional. Is there any way to keep the taskbar in the background or hidden I don't believe it's possible - the reason the Taskbar pops up is because you are launching the print ...Show All

• .NET Development Can multithreading solve this problem?

  I'm writing an C# window application that will query a large database. I found when the application is running the query, the GUI has no response. I heard that .NET GUI and event handling are running in the same thread, is it the cause of this problem Can I use multithreading to solve it   Daniel Rieck wrote: There's a version of the BackgroundWorker for .NET 1.1 available here (which is compatible w ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS3 indexing problem

  Hello! I upgraded my working WDS2 to 3 as Outlook 2007 asks me about it. I left my laptop at office for a night but at next morning nothing was found via WDS3. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\GatherLogs\SystemIndex contains 2Mb gatherer log. When I tried to start Indexing Snap-In I received Snap-In Creation Failed, so I tried to reinstall Indexing Service from Add/Remove ...Show All