CDO's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Designer wish list?

  I have been playing around, and making some presentations to some people in our group on WF, and the way that can be used not only for programming purposes, but also for designin and presenting business processes. Here is a couple of questions (should I call it wish-list ) on the designer. If someone in the team could give some feedback on this I would appreciate it: 1. Ability to drag-and-drop "comment" activities (like the 'annotation' sh ...Show All

• Visual C# Want to find some good books

  There are a lot of books about C# and .NET on the market, and I read many of them. But most of them are written, assuming that the reader knows nothung about the language and framework,though he maybe knows some about programming and have experience in another languages like C++. In all this books author talking about all C# specification, begining with smth very simple like operators, variable types and so on. I saw many books ab ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Report - Hours spent in development

  Hi, Does anyone know how can I obtain the information of my development efforts like hours spent in check in/chec out items and number of work itens involved in this or that iteration Is there any way in VSTS where I can have this informations or I have to create a new report In this case, anyone here can show an example in how I can do that I don’t know nothing about create reports in SQLServer os VSTS... Thanks a lot, Daniel ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Readonly WorkflowView

  Hello, I am hosting the workflow designer and when I execute the workflow I want to make the designer read only. Then, when the workflow starts I set the DragDrop property to false and when the workflow completes (WorkflowCompleted) I set the DargDrop to true. But when I set to true I get the following exception: ""DragDrop registration did not succeed." How can I make the designer read-only when I run the workflow Th ...Show All

• .NET Development Please Help!!

  The issue is: I have a SqlDataSource I want to bind to a gridview control. - The SqlDataSource appears 100% functional whether connected to an MS Access or SQL Server (2005 Express) database. I can select a table and the fields to be displayed, etc. - When the SqlDataSource is connected to an MS Access database and the gridview control is bound to it, the gridview performs as expected: It shows the selected fields, refr ...Show All

• Windows Forms Shortcut checking installation...

  I have a slight issue with the deployment of my app. There are two problems that I have come across which involve the same issue. I am using the AppUpdater component and I have built the initial 1.0.0.0 folder into my setup project. I have created a link to AppStart.exe. Everything was running smoothly. Then I came across two issues. Firstly, a client had a application crash due to buggy programming on my part. In order to get out of this, ...Show All

• .NET Development How can I populate my combobox with data of a column?

  How can I populate my combobox with data of a column I am using Oledb (JET engine) and having .mdb database. I wounder if there some Enamurator method so i can use foreach or using loop. Because, I tried the Datasource   method and its not beeing populated. Regrads, Omer kamal Excuse me on my bad english. English is not my native language. Just asking, look for the combo's MaxLength property. If it has the value ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Open a VRML model in a C# app

  Hello, My goal is to be able to open a VRML model in a C# application. I don't know if it is possible because I don't find information about that. Do you know if it is possible Can you tell me some webs, books or examples that open a VRML model in a C# application I need any kind of information. Thank you. Best regards. Take a look at this article: Advanced Computer Graphics . Note: moved to DirectX section. ...Show All

• SQL Server Cube deployment hangs

  Hi, SQL2005 RTM I work with offline cubes projects. When I change the cube dimensions, it sometimes happen that the deployment hangs. The deployment is set not to process the cube. Then When I look into the Analysis services service status, I see that it is stopped! I can sometimes get out of it by restarting the service or if really bad, restart the server, then the deploy works. What's that Philippe ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro getpict() /explorer defaults

  Using XP & VFP9 When I issue fn=getpict(), How do I force the explorer window to sort by file name and display thumbnails. I have set remember each folders settings in Folder Options, Explorer always displays the directory properly, But I can not get  getpict to sort on file name.   It would be nice if I could set the default directory to open also. Hi Gary, I'm sure the opt ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can't find T2embapi.h

  I try to use the Font Embedding Services Library of the Platform SDK but I can't find the required header T2embapi.h . Any idea Thanks Please post UI related Windows API questions here: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.win32.programmer.gdi&lang=en&cr=US Ronald Laeremans Visual C++ team ...Show All

• Visual Basic to get data from ipadress:port

  for example ip adress:192.168.0.100:2533 I want to get data from this adress  then what did it send to in my datagrid How can I do or another solution Unfortunately because your question is rather vague it is very difficult to easily answer, instead I would suggest looking into how to do network communications in VB.NET with tutorials such as these in order to better learn to work with networked devices/servers. The Ultimate ...Show All

• Visual C++ smtp authentication howto?

  Hello everyone. I'm using VC++ 6 and trying to implement mail sending function into my application. But I can't realise, how to use smtp-authentication Is there some manuals, tutorials, code samples Thank you for any suggestions. Encaps wrote: Hello everyone. I'm using VC++ 6 and trying to implement mail sending function into my application. But I can't realise, how to use smtp-authentication Is there so ...Show All

• Visual Basic Learning how to use serial comm. with VB 2005

  Hi, I am searching for resources on info about how to get started using serial communications (USB or RS232, etc.). I make embedded devices, simple midi controllers using PIC's. So I am interested in learning how to connect my projects to windows via USB or RS232, etc. I just started to read about VB 2005, and I'm using the express visual studio for now. Any help on where I can go to start learning about this would be appreci ...Show All

• Visual C# no My object in c# ?

  i saw a demonstration of the My object in visual basic.net i think this is not present in c#. is that right it's a pity it seems handy. Same here, guess I should have tried it myself before posting. Sorry. Another google came up with That : http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/06/14/429092.aspx ...Show All