Alan Hebert - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista After wf receives external event, the host never sees any more tracking events

  I have a host which starts workflows. It implements a TrackingChannel and TrackingService, and it sees a flurry of tracking events when a workflow starts running. My workflow includes a HandleExternalEvent activity. The event that satisfies this is raised by a separate application, which of course loads the runtime etc. This second application does not implement TrackingChannel/TrackingService. When that event is fired, the workflow proceeds on its way as it should. But the host that originally started it, although still running with its tracking stuff active, sees no more tracking events for that workflow. I was expecting these events to co ...Show All

• Visual C# cross platform

  is there a way to run C# applications on mac or lunix os http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:About Mono is the Linux port of .NET. ...Show All

• .NET Development how to convert from a Byte array to a Int32?

  Hello! Is there an easy way to convert a 4 byte array into a Int32 type I've tried the methods from the Convert class but they just don't seem t offer such a functionality Tanks in advance Karol Duzinkiewicz ...Show All

• .NET Development I want to store the connection request and later on i will send the response to those requests using persistent connection.

    Any request from the browser with a .conn extention should be stored. ( www.somewebsite.com/somedir/somefile.conn ) the somefile.conn should not be really present in the directory so IIS should not check if the file excists.Rather the filename requested should be stored with the request. So what is being gathered is a collection of requests ( stil open and alive, I mean persistent http connection ) and the name of the file they used ( in this example somefile.conn ) [Usually when someone visits the site, the connection opens with the server over http, response gets sent to the browser and the connection closes... In case of persisten ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro a child form needs 2 clicks to close

  I have a form calling a secondary form. In order to close the latter I have to click twice the button that has the following statements in the CLICK method: ACTIVATE SCREEN "CLICK fired " THISFORM . Deactivate () THISFORM . Destroy () THISFORM . Hide () THISFORM . Release () 4 statements are there out of desperation. I tried them separately and in many combinations. I see on the SCREEN that the event fires accurately. I tried to put these statements into MOUSEDOWN - the same thing. I can see that that event also fires. I tried to place them in both methods. The behavior changes somewhat. The secondar ...Show All

• SQL Server Linked server table name with period issue

  Hi, I've been investigating this for a number of hours with no success, where i cannot cater for a table name that includes a period on a remote server. The table names include periods to allow me structure the database along as a collection of namespaces, I can do selects and updates but cannot get inserts to work, i have illustrated this with the following example I have two DB servers S1 and S2, i have configured SQL accounts on both servers as sysadmin members to allow me investigate linked servers, where i have configured S2 as a linked server on S1. On S2 i have added two tables each with a single row creat ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to open link in web browser

  Hi I have used Web Browser control in vb form, this browser has some links. Now it opens the link of .html extention file in new browser window but does not open other extentions like (.doc, .txt , .pdf ext). Pleas tell me the reason and solution. Thanks, Shoaib shoaib@interinfosystems.com hi, have you tried something like this webBrowser1.Navigate( "c:\file.txt" ) hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Breakpoints not getting hit

  Hi, I have asked around ASP.NET with no luck, so I am at my wits end with this! Installed VS.NET 2005, really impressed with it. Except that often ( though not always) breakpoints are simply ignored. This makes it next to impossible to debug, as you can imagine! Yes, I am configured for debugging, I am producing the pdb files, I am hitting "some" breakpoints (though there really is no real pattern to identify why I hit some but not all). Any ideas The problem is particularly evident in C# Web Site development. Thanks Just to add some more evidence. It seems to work flawlessly if I run it, stop it then "attach to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions disappearing trick

  wen i installed visbas on my computer it went thru all the normal steps like any installation process but i can't find the program on my machine. i tried it 2 more times and it says it's already installed but it's not anywhere to be found. any suggestions Hi there, I presume you are talking about Visual Basic Express Edition Do you have a location on your machine like: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE as that's generally where the actual file gets put. Also, you could always do a Search through all your local hard drives to find the appropriate file. It's name is " vbexpress.exe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Create Tests doesn't work...

  I have a solution with 9 C# projects in it: 1 WinForms application, 4 class libraries, and 4 test projects corresponding to the class libraries. The EXE and the 4 class libraries implement branches of a rooted hierarchy of namespaces (not sure if that's significant, but thought I'd mention it). In one of the class library projects, if I add a new method to a class that already has a corresponding unit test class, everything's fine. In another of the class library projects, when I try to add a test using the Create Test... context menu item from within the source code editor, the dialog box that appears to let me choose the test project shows ...Show All

• Windows Forms GDI+ libs

  I'd like to create a small little app to use for myself that will automatically create a drop shadow on a .jpg file.  For an example of what I'd like to do with .NET check out the thumbnails at the following link: http://www.level3photography.com/Proofs/Linsey/default.htm I'm curious if anyone has any sample code for creating a drop shadow on an image using ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to Download MSDN Express Library w/o Using Bootstrapper

  Is there a link to download the MSDN Express Library without using the [vb]setup downloader/installer   I'm using a dialup connection and I'd like to use a third porty download manager so that I can pause/shutdown/restart the download process a few times.  It's 243MB, which would take about 10-12 hours on my connection.  I can't tie up the phone line for this amount of time. Is there an external link to an .exe or .msi package somewhere Thanks! -sw Hi, Actually there is a step by step instruction on how to extract files in the IMG file using ISOBuster in the link that I have provided. ...Show All

• .NET Development Error 1935 on .NET framework installation

  Hello all! I have this problem during the DOTNETFX.MSI installation... this is the error: (ON XP HOME!) Error 1935. An error occured during the installation of assembly component {7D4B5591-4C80-42BB-B0E5-F2C0CEE02C1A}. HRESULT: -2147319761. Thanks!! Max try to do this. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;839547 ...Show All

• SQL Server Trying to use adomd in a web app

  I'm trying to connect to an AS2005 cube using adomd in an asp.net application. It only works if I use impersonation in the app. I don't want to do this, and I would like to include a User Id in the connection string. But this seems to get ignored. If I look in SQLServer profiler it's always the impersonation id that gets used. Running an MDX query through MS Reporting Services is similar to what I want to do -- it's a web app that connects to AS. But I suspect that MS RS doesn't use adomd. TIA, Jim Hey Jim, The user id (and password) in the connection string is for http connections. If y ...Show All

• Visual C# Copy <Summary> from other member?

  Is it possible to copy the <summary> from another member In particular I want a Property to display the same Summary as my DependencyProperty (WinFX). But it could also be that I want to copy the summary for some overloaded methods. I have stumbled across a document showing: <summary cref=”xxx” /> But this doesn’t seem to work There's nothing currently available to do that sort of thing. There as been some discussions on "inheriting" that sort of information from another method/property; but, I don't know whether that sort of thing will make it into a future version of ...Show All