J W B's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic convert graphic to bitmap

  I have dawn a graph on a graphic and is need to convert this to a bitmap. How do I do this Next i need to disply the bitmap and draw more graphs on it. How is it done Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Do you mean you've drawn onto a Graphics class, presumably in OnPaint Instead, create a Bitmap, create a Graphics instance from Graphics.FromBitmap, and then when you've drawn on your bitmap, draw that to the scre ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista make a simple ASP.Net workflow

  I am new at WWF and I want to build a simple ASP.Net workflow application where the first user creat the instance process and the second user recieves it in his Inbox (his Task list) , the he edit just one field of the datafield for the data that entered by the first user . Can WWF do that as simple as other products ... I wish if there is an example or good article about this Idea b/c I searched and I found nothing ... Regards . ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows Forms

  Hi,  I want to develop a simple chat application.I want to incorporate smileys.Hence, I wanna concatenate string with an image as ':)' has to be replaced with a smiley image. Please help.. Hi, Thanks rkimble! Im not able to get thi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System .testrunconfig and automation Buid

  Hello All, To make my tests work correctly I need to deploy some extra text files. So I have edited my localtestrun.testrunconfig file to add my files as deployment items. This is working fine locally. I get my file using the following code: string path = Assembly .GetExecutingAssembly().Location; path = string .Format( @"{0}\{1}" , Path .GetDirectoryName(path), fileName );   First question: Is there an easier way ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Modules for the Underexperienced...

  I have created a public module to hold often used functions like cut, copy, paste, undo. I have something similar for print-related functions. I have the correctly named buttons on my form that correspond to the Subs in the module(s). Now how do I call the darn things If you have declared the functions as Public then you simply invoke them: Answer = SomeFunction(A,B,C) or Answer = ModuleName.SomeFunction(A,B,C) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Groking Shelvesets

  So I created a shelveset that I called Bug-56-Fix.  It contained a couple of files that were edited.  I then logged in as a different user and unshelved Bug-56-Fix and tweaked one of the files in the original shelveset and another file that wasn't in the original shelveset.  Now if I want to get the second user's updates back to the original owner to review and check in, how do I do that   I was sort of expecting to be a ...Show All

• Architecture How to properly manage requirements?

  Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a hard time managing the requirements for the application I'm currently working on. I'm currently using a product called Enterprise Architect from Sparx (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/) to manage the requirements and do the general design. What I did so far was to collect and filter all requirements and categorize them. For example, there are requirements pertaining to the message list , task manager , connection m ...Show All

• .NET Development FTP stop transfer prematurely

  I am wondering on how I would go about requesting the server to "stop" giving me the download/file when in transfer. This is because, if you disconnect from the server, there maybe a download in progress.... however next time you try to connect and recieve the initial Response, the application just hangs because the last request is still "active" on the PC....hope that makes sense I just want to know how to tell the server to stop sending me t ...Show All

• Windows Forms scrolling a DataGridView programatically

  Hi there Is there a better way of scrolling a DataGridView than just setting the CurrentCell property I just want to say "make row X the first displayed row" Am I missing something simple You can use the scrollbars directly. You can get them using the HorizontalScrollBar and VerticalScrollBar properties. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Reccomend me books please!

  Ok im looking for some books to get me started on creating games using C#, Managed DirectX and Winsock. Can anyone reccommend me books they have used that will cover what I need to know to get started on making great games Have a llok at the following forum, I have a list of books, and comments on them. These books include both of Tom Millers "Managed DirectX Kickstart, and Beginning 3d game programming" as w ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Life cycle of a workflow

  Is there a diagram describing the life cycle of a workflow I see that we can monitor bunch of events from the workflow (such as WorkflowLoaded, WorkflowPersisted etc.) but it is not clear what exactly do these events mean. For example, I thought that WorkflowLoaded would mean workflow has been hydrated from persistent store, but I don't see that event being fired (though I see WorkflowPersisted events during dehydration). ...Show All

• SQL Server Error registering a Third Party assembly

  Help. When I try to CREATE/Register a third party assembly (dtsearchNetApi2) within SQL server I am getting an error (see below). I have the source code for dtsearchNetApi2 but it is in C++ and I would like to avoid having to extend/modify it if that is avoidable. I have written a 'wrapper' class in C# but sine it references dtsearchNetApi2.dll I can't register that dll either. CREATE ASSEMBLY DBSEARCHNETAPI FROM 'C:\Temp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Hidden XML Tags in Word document

  I have a Word template that has a custom XML Schema attached. I would like some of the nodes to be hidden from the user, so that the nodes could contain some meta data, such as a database primary key ID. Is this possible Another approach would be to map XML nodes to custom document properties. Is this possible Thank you! // Johan Yes you can put tags in the header and footer. Thanks Paul Stubbs Program Manager http://blogs.msdn. ...Show All

• .NET Development Why do all examples assume you're binding data to a control?

  I'm starting to get frustrated now. Every example I come across shows you how to open a connection to a database, fill a dataset, but not how top programatically get at the data... Every example assumes you are going to bind the data to a control and update using a GUI. How do you get at the data within a DataSet once you've Fill()ed it Not from a form, but from with the application. This frustration is also heading towards disappoinment. The ex ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Developer CTP Edition - Setup Error

  I am getting the following error message when I try installing the SQL Server 2005 Developer CTP. Can anyone please help me out. Thanks in advance. SQL Server setup could not connecr to the database service for server configuration. The error was"[Microsoft][SQl Native Client]Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server[2]. Refer to server error logs and setup log for more information. For details on how to view setup logs see ...Show All