Darksaint's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista HELP!! Tracking Service is not working

  I'm playing with the WF tracking service but couldn't get it to work even for the simplest use case. I created the Sql tracking database and tried to run the "SimpleTrackingSample" solution is the SDK. The workflow runs ok but never terminates. If I commented out: workflowRuntime.AddService( new SqlTrackingService (connectionString)); The workflow worked fine then. We're evaluating WF as the foundation of our next-generation Order management system. Any help will be higly appreciated! One thing to check is to make sure that your Workflow host handles all of the runtime events like Wo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System traceability in Team Foundation Server

  Does anyone know if TFS maintains traceability between requirements, specifications, testing, etc. you can create links between workitems either manually through team explorer, or automatically through event synchs when work items are created (eg when a scenario is created, a number of tasks are also automatically created to support the scenario, and links between these are auto-generated).  Once you have linked work items, then you can use these to create results such as traceability reports eg.  Alternatively, Project can also be used for this, as it has excellent tools for parent-child relations ...Show All

• Visual Basic IntelliSense for everything in VB ?

  Does anyboby know why Intellisense does not works for every words in VB as it does for C# I mean : it would be very usefull if IntelliSense could work from the beginning of the line for the language words as well as for the controls and variables names created by the developer. It is the way it works for C#. Why not for VB Patrick I found these options and they where checked. It does not make IntelliSense suggest a list from the beginning of the line as it does in C#. But Ctrl-Space does it ! Thank you, I did not know about that shortcut. I which it could work by itself, without having to crtl-space... Tha ...Show All

• Windows Forms TerrariumOrganism Documentation

  Could some please give me the URL to "Organism Documentation". This information is refered to in the tutorial. However, I can't seem to find a link. Also, how do I enable all the links on the Terrarium web page. Many of them are unavailable. e.g. Skins Sincerely, Heck Yes, several of them are out of date.  I need to do some house ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Patterns and practices for the SDLC?

  Microsoft is moving in to the SDLC arena with Team Foundation Server. Most of the guidance (e.g. patterns and practices) books from them relate to "hard" matters like programming with the Data Application blocks. Does Microsoft offer any P&P guides on the SDLC, in particular, on gathering software requirements, team infrastructure, etc -- the "soft", up front, parts of the SDLC that can make or break a project. If they don't , can you recommend any books/guides on those topics. TIA, BarkingDog I am the development manager in p&p and leading our planning efforts around gui ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deleting porjects

  Hi I've setup up a few projects now and would like to delete my initial test porjects but can't seem t work out how to do it! I can remove them from the Team Explorer but not delete them from the Team Server. Any help appreciated. Ta in advance, Paolo W. You have to delete them using the command line tools.  There is a command line tool called TFSDeleteProject.exe (I can't remember where it is installed to, but if you do a search on your Team Foundation Server for this executable, you can find it).  If you  run TFSDeleteProject.exe / , it will show you how to run it ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild vs NAnt

  Please share your thoughts about comparison between those two     We also want to ditch the solution file format. It is a legacy format that we ideally would have converted to MSBuild format in Visual Studio -- this is obviously totally technically possible -- but we didn't have time in V1 to do this and do everything else. The quickest thing for us was to parse the solution file format when we run on the command line, and turn it into an in-memory MSBuild project that we can then build. (To see this project, set environment variable MSBuildEmitSolution=1. You can even keep it and modify it, b ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. How do I Setup Visual C++.net 2003 Standard for Direct X Games Programming

  Hello! How do I Set up Visual C++.net 2003 for DirectX Games programming. I have  just up graded from Visual C++ 6, I know how to do this in Visual C++ 6, with linker and # includes,  is it the same with Visual C++.net 2003 standard. If so a step by step would be helpful. Thanks. Thanks everybody for the replays,      Ok I went to all the links on managed Direct X. I was very hopeful that this was they way forward, till I noticed all the tutorials are in C# or VB, all the books in C#, I'm using Visual C++.net 2003 standard, as I'm new to Visual C++.net 2003 standar ...Show All

• Visual Basic PictureBox

  I draw some objects (such as line,rectangle,text,...) with methods drawline,drawrectangle,drawstring,... (graphics namespace) on a picture box. but these objects are clearing when the picturebox moves out of screen and enter to screen or the form minimizes and the restore. i sove this problem with .AutoDraw=True in VB6 but i dont know how can i fix problem in VB.NET2005 You should handle the OnPaint event and draw your lines direct onto the screen, otherwise you could draw them on a bitmap and pass that to the picture control. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Printing a windows form page

  How do i print a windows form . In my case my window has many controls embedded on it.along with a scroll bar,so I need to print the whole window including that which is seen when scrolled. The samples from net print only user visible area. If this is not possible is there a way to print out the data present in each control. How can these things be accomplished. --------------- Regards Bhargav Printing a form as in the sample will do just that, print the form. Thats nothing more than a screen shot. What you are asking to do is print the data contained in the form. Bas ...Show All

• SQL Server 2 node Active Active SQL Cluster

  I want to host 2 seperate SQL databases and wanted to know if it would be possible to run this in an active active cluster config which each database running on a different server. The clustering would be there in the event of failure of one of the servers but for normal operation the two sql instances would be completely seperate. Is this configuration possible and would this give the best performance and resiliance from a 2 server setup. What do you think Yes there is nothing wrong with that idea, we run an active/active cluster, with the oltp database on one instance and the ods instance ...Show All

• Windows Forms a Bug in .NET with HardMarginX, please help!

  Hello, I am making a Printapplication and have found a bug in .NET 2.0 (using Visual Studio 2005). I have a printer (Printek FormsPro 4503se) installed with LetterRotated paper with 11 in. width and 8.5 in. height. Then I make in my application a: PrintDocument doc = new PrintDocument (); and look at the doc.DefaultPageSettings The settings are Letter 8.5 in. width and 11 in. height. Why does it not choose the right paperSize (Should be LetterRotated and not Letter) Now I have to make a custom paperSize: doc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize = new System.Drawing.Printing.PaperSize("LetterRotated", 110 ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB Dummy

  I have inherited a vacation request form.  In the start and stop dates there is a macro.  Right now when somebody tabs onto the start or stop date a calendar comes up for the year 2000.  You can change it and select any other date you wish but I would like the calendar to pop up with the current date.  I am enclosing the macro below.  Is there any entry I can insert or deltete to make this happen   Thank you for any assistance with this.  Option Explicit Public sDate As String  'used to write value from calendar form to form field Public fFlag As Boolean     'did they c ...Show All

• .NET Development Regular expression multiple catch

  Okay, I experienced some trouble trying to catch some expression contained in a '*' group : For example: I have the simple regular expresion : ^( :a( <mycapture>[^a])a)*$ that would sucessfully match the following input: a1aa2aa3a Using RegEx.Match, I can only get the LAST capture, that is "3". Is there a way to get all the matches and not only the last one   Hi t0x1, NB! A bit hasty, didnt see the ^ and $ surroundings (which locks the MatchCollection to only one hit...). Removing these such that the regex = "( :a( <mycapture>[^a])a)" would be handled by my sample. By u ...Show All

• Windows Forms expandable property in property window

  hi, i generate a user control and i could add into toolbox. i added some new properties to the user control. but i want that these properties can be expandable into property browser.  for example:  "size" property of any form control has two sub properties as "width" and "heigth" and these can be viewed in property browser.  i want& ...Show All