RanA69826's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista State Machine Activity Designer

  I'm going to be embedding a WWF designer into my application. I really like the sequential workflow designer. However, I think the state workflow designer is very difficult to use and is not an appropriate fit for my potential customer base. However, my application needs the potential flexibility of a state machine workflow. What I'd like to do: Use a state machine workflow Use all the activities of the sequential workflow to be the basic building blocks of my state machine workflow Add an additional few custom activities that add functionality that a sequential workflow cannot provide My questions: Is this a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Upgrading vb6 projects

  I was unable to upgrade projects from vb6. I get an error when "invoking upgrade engine". Error occurs in vbu.exe. Error message: Enexpected exception ocurred during upgrade engine operation: Error in remote procedure call. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BE). Using: XP Pro Spanish Version VB 2005 Express V8.0.50727.42 VB6 projects made with VB6 Enterprise Edition (SP6) Spanish Version. Hi Cristian, It sounds to me like the VB Upgrade tool did not get installed correctly. I would suggest going to Add/Remove Programs in the control pannel and doing a repair on VB Express. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System VPC Foundation Server installed images - When?

  At TechEd, DVD's with VPC images of Foundation Server (well, everything in Team System) installed were being passed out.  This saves headaches for both end-users and MSFT (who have to answer all the install related issues) The question for the rest of us is: when would this be available for download from MSDN Thanks, I find it very annoying to try to enable alerts in a thread, and not being able cause of the shortage of MSN Alerts. I think, it's about time something to be done about it... George J. ...Show All

• Visual C# Write strings into a richTextBox

  Im looking for a way to write strings from an array into a richTextBox. Im fairly new to c# and im trying to make a windows version of an app i did in php. lets say for instance i had an array of 10 strings array[] letters {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j"}; I want to add the letters inside the text box, one by one (so not all at once), in a loop (while). in PHP i would just echo from the array in between the textarea tags for instance(PHP): $lettersArray = array("a", "b", "c", " ...Show All

• SQL Server Execute a package on a remote server

  I want to execute a package that's found on a remote server as MSDB. The execute package task locally is not allowing me because i don't have a login permission i guess because i'm not on the same domain and my user account doesn't have the neccessary privelages to access the server. However i can execute sql statements and data flow tasks on the same server. Isn't it possible to use the login and password of the sql server in away or another to execute the package Thanks Thanks for your comments. I fail to understand the following comments - can you please elaborate the following ...Show All

• Windows Forms ClickOnce - Deploy previous version

  If the version deployed (V_3_0_0_3.application) has errors and you want to redeploy a previous version(V_3_0_0_2.application). I noticed that V_3_0_0_2.application is located in the Inetpub wwwroot of the server. Is there a simple way to rollback to this version so that the users use this without having to go to Add/Remove Programs and rollback Thanks, Travis ClickOnce support server-side rollback. You should be able to do this without any regeneration or re-signing of manifests. Replace the main deployment manifest (probably V.application in this case) with the version that you want to rollback to an ...Show All

• Smart Device Development eboxII and Visual Studio .NET 2005

  Hi. I've got my hands on an ebox II and I've just started looking into smart devices/windows ce/embedded. I don't know if this is the place to ask a question about ebox, but I'm having trouble deploying Visual Studio .NET 2005 to the ebox (which is running Windows CE 5.0 - the evaluation version). I can't make ActiveSync work with the ebox through the serial port (it just doesn't detect the device, which I've imaged with ActiveSync support in PlatformBuilder), so I guess the only way I can make it work is through the ethernet connection. I found one article that describes how to make the ebox work with Visual Studio, but it talks about ...Show All

• Windows Forms When or how can I expect to be able to deploy reliably?

  I have found click-once to be a fabulous concept, yet totally useless, as it does not provide enough control over the installation process. I can't tell you how many times my setup kit projects have become corrupt, and I have had to delete and remake them from scratch. Most of my solutions contain at least 5 projects. Advancing versions and switching between debug and release seems to confuse dependencies. When I do get a kit built, it is a ***-shoot as to whether it will install everything. I had no such problems before switching to VS 2005. I have seen many posts relating setup kit problems, and very few resolutions. There has ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server pricing

  If this is not the best place for this question perhaps someone can direct me to the right place. Please do not send me to a knowledge base article as this does not really help. I come from a Sybase background. I have the potential to direct various companies that need client/server applications to SQL Server but it is not clear to me (even vaugely) what it is going to cost them. These businesses have maybe 20 to 50 PC's that might need to access data on a SQL Server database. This will almost always be done through an application like Visual Studio .NET. The number of people that will actually need to go into SQL Server Management Studio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Renaming files under source control in VS.NET

  Is there an issue with this at all anymore In other words, if I rename a file under source control from within the VS.NET 2005 environment, will the file: a- be renamed correctly (and not deleted+created) in VSS b- retain it's history in VSS Thank you, Sammy In Team System Source Control, the item would both be renamed/moved correectly (i.e. rename is not a copy/add/delete old), and history would be retained. ...Show All

• Visual C# c#

  Can any one tell me of a good training place for C# I would like to get like a 5 day training course. gee there are a lot of good trainining options in order to know a specific language, 1. Self paced trianing 2. Training Centers 3. Forums ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem with dataview

  Hi, I am fetching data from sql server database and store in the table, after that I call a function to randomize this data which adds a new column dynamically to it and this column is filled with random no. generated by random function, after it I assign this table to dataview and sort it by added column to randomize data. This all works fine have a look at following code which I call in the click event of a button: { if (a==0) { dt=con(); a++; } DataGrid1.DataSource=dt; DataGrid1.DataBind(); for ( int i=0;i<5;i++) Response.Write("<h1>"+"MY: "+dt.Rows ["Ran ...Show All

• Visual Basic Launching a Precess from Ram

  Starting a process requires a file path to a disk location.  I would prefer to not create temporary files on client computers for a number of reasons.  Can love or money buy a way to start a process from memory with the data file represented as a byte array or a memorystream.   Thanks, Fred Herring No, a ram disk is out.  If I don't want to write to a clients disk space, I definitely don't want to steal his/her memory.  I would like to leave the thread open for other comments.  It seems like such an obvious capability for launching a process.  I know of two third party component makers (Farpoint ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions prob using afxdisp.h /MFC use/ CLR support

  I'm making a project on vc++ 2005, I want to plot graphs, so using MSChart evrything goes fine, till i come to point where I've to include afxdisp.h by defualt i'm using Project properties as.. use of MFC: standard windows library clr support: /clr:pure but i got this error Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\include\afx.h(24) : fatal error C1189: #error : Building MFC application with /MD (CRT dll version) requires MFC shared dll version. Please #define _AFXDLL or do not use /MD so I changed project properties to : use of MFC = MFC shared but then i got series of errors WINVER not defined. Defaulting to 0x0502 (Windows Server 2003) E:\Visual Stu ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista HandleExternalActivity not subscribing to event

  Hi, I have a state machine workflow with a state that uses the HandleExternalActivity activity. I have set it up to use an event in my custom interface. However, when the implementation of my interface raises the event I can see that there are no subscribers to the event. In other words, the HandleExternalActivity activity hasn't subscribed to the event. Any ideas what would cause this Thanks, Kent Here you go Kent - it still throws an exception but inside of the Execute of your custom activity. Here were the main two problems: 1) You were not creating the ExternalDataExchangService ...Show All