Erwabo's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to upgrade Beta 1 projects to Beta 2

  After removing Beta 1 and installing Beta 2, all my Beta 1 projects seems to build OK, but the workflows and activites can't be designed. How do I upgrade Beta 1 projects to Beta 2 I have discovered the same problems. It appears that a many common commands have been renamed, including tags for the XOML. I am in the process of recreating my workflows, but noticing, some other logic changes too. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista state engine design question

  Hello all, I'm in the process of starting a pretty good size project and I'd like to use a state machine workflow in my server application. I'm using the order processing state machine workflow sample to assist in building my concept demo. The one main question I have is, how do I have a state that is like a que/stack that another application monitors and when data enters that state the external app monitoring will pull the data/object do some other workflow/business rules on it and send it back to the server with a new state machine state Are there any examples out there   Thanks, Michael ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how to play mp3/wma in my program?

  With the API, PlaySound and sndPlaySound, it only play waveform file. I try to use DirectShow with WM 5.0 but still can't play mp3 or wma file. My code is maybe wrong, anyone has good sample with DirectShow to play mp3/wma I think the another way to play mp3/wma is using Media Player control. But I can't find the way to make this work. Could anyone guide me to the right way Thanks... There's no API to directly play a mp3 or wma file.  However, you shold be able to use the Windows Media Player 10 OCX, which is in Windows Mobile 5.0, and I think first shipped in one of the 2003SE AKUs ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB.Net Data???

  If my SQLdatareader.Read and it reads that for this particular ID there are row asscociated with it i want to just UPDATE my table, If the row does not exsist i want to INSERT my new row...I am getting the world famouse exception "Object Reference not set to instance of an object" and it highlights the bolded code below any reason why Thanks for the help Private Sub btnSave_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click If lblClient.Text = "" And txtcenter.Text = "" And txtenvelope.Text = "" And txtSenditem.Text = "& ...Show All

• SQL Server How to truncate the log file

  How do I truncate the log file using TSQL   My client's log file is 44 gig and there isn't enough HD space.  Thanks I have found that the following will work in the "out of disk space" scenario: BACKUP LOG database_name WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY Then, after you run that command, shrink the database using: DBCC SHRINKDATABASE ( database_name ) Hope that helps. Darren ...Show All

• SQL Server How to run only certain tasks

  If I'm in the Data Flow tab in VS 2005, how can I select only certain components to run to test   I tried highlighting the ones that I want to run but it's running all of them in the tab...some of the components I want to take out for testing then maybe put back in later.  If I delete the tasks I don't want to run, then I end up having to recreate them First of all, you need to be clear that the objects in the data-flow are called components. Tasks are in the control-flow. The lowest unit of execution in SSIS is a task. It is not therefore possible to execute a component in isolation and to be fair, why would you ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to connect to MSDE

  Hi fellows, How can I connect to MSDE server. There is no any interface like Server Manager to set login parameters. I have installed MSDE 2000 (Rel A) on my system running Win 2000 Prof. The SQL Server icon is now visible on my taskpar with green arrow showing 'Running - \\ALI-LAPTOP' But I want to use it to accomodate my database currently in Access. The MSDE was installed with SAPWD = 'sa', but it is not working even with ODBC. I have asked the same query in SQL Server forum but did not receive any answer yet. Thanking you in anticipation, Regards, Zulfiqar Ali, Abuja, Nigeria For MSDE, OSQL is the only tool provided by default ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 404 response when trying to connect to team server

  Hi, I've finish up installing TFS on my server but I can't connect to it from my client (VS team system). When either pressing the "add server" button on the team explorer or Tools>Connect to team explorer server, I get a pop up with a 404 notice. Both client and server are the latest on MSDN. There were no eror during the installation of the server. The problem seems to be that even on the server machine I get 404 when I browse to http://localhost:8080/services/v1.0/Registration.asmx . However this http://localhost:8080/default.aspx work perfectly fine. I've also already tried the following process: http://blogs.msdn.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot Connect to Server error

  Hi I am trying to add a server using "Add Server" Dialog Box from the Server Explorer Window. the server i am trying to add is an IP of a windows 2000 + SP4 machine located behind a firewall. I am getting a server explorer error : "An error occurred while attempting to connect to "servername"." Using the preformence monitor on my machine(XP OS) i can access the server i am trying to add and view it's counters, but i cannot add the same server in the VS2005VSTT I can add servers and worksations in my domain without any problems. Can you Help me With that thanks Udi The Serve ...Show All

• Smart Device Development smart device application

  hi all i have installed the new visual c# 2005 express edition. I want to start a new smart device application there is no smart device sdk among the installation files of C# 2005. i tried installing an sdk but still can't find the smart devicec application icon in the new project pannel..any help concerning what more files do i need to install or what certain path should the sdk be installed at. thanks in advance. please reply me asap There are forums for Smart Device Development . Anyway, Visual Studio Experss Editions don't support Smart Device Development... ...Show All

• Visual C# Add HTML to C# Form

  Hi guys, I would like to know how I can add some html code into my Windows application in C# To be more specific an <iframe> . What I would like to do is add my XBOX 360 Gamertag to the front of my Form. <iframe src=" http://gamercard.xbox.com/insertgamertaghere.card " scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" height="140" width="204"></iframe> Any advise would be great. Many thanks. Sten You can place a web browser control in your app, then you can pass it whatever HTML you like. You can't use HTML to define your UI in general. ...Show All

• .NET Development cs0006 error.

  Hello I have a single website. And I got this strange error. CS0006. Afer that I delete some temporary files on  this folder. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files I restart the vs2005 and it works. but its driving me crazy is that a bug I have no references on my website or strange things. It only  has some pages with webparts. I am also now experiencing this problem, very frequently - as of a few days ago. I can't say I did anything drastic to the application, so I'm constantly scratching my head as to what it could be. Restarting the ASP.NET development server does fix the problem, but o ...Show All

• Visual C# Localization Performance Problem

  Hi All, I have a small problem which I cant find answer anywhere. I wrote a small applcation in C#. It support english and German, So I am using resouce files for german and they all stored under the "de" and the "de-DE" folders. My Application loads through Internet Explorer ( IIS ). when I connect to my page from a German client console and check the IIS log files i see that a lot of GET command failed (404). the strage thing is that those dll are : system.resources.dll and mscorlib.resources.dll. My application is still working BUT I cant figure out why it searches for those file (.NET files) and if there is any way to solve this annoying ...Show All

• Visual Studio Load Report Failed. (Again.)

  Hi, Does CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine have any trace switches I can enable to find out why I'm getting the "Load report Failed." exception. This isn't much use as it stands. Incedently I've tried resetting the read/write premisions on the rpt file, creating new CR projects and even using the sample projects, as well as reinstalling VST system etc all to no avail. Or if any one knows what might be going on here I be very appreciative for any help or suggestions. Ta in advance, Michael McD. ...Show All

• Visual C# Another event handling question

  I have the same issue as this guy does: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=127763&SiteID=1 I have searched my local 2005 MSDN here: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_csref/html/804cecb7-62db-4f97-a99f-60975bd59fa1.htm but there was never any usable answer to the question of splitting event handlers into other classes. I have a default Windows App that has a button and text box. When I press the button, I want the text "Hello World!" to appear in the text box. Cheesy - yes I know. I am trying to understand partial classes in the exercise. I want to split my event ha ...Show All