Paul A. Mestemaker II - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Connected Services Framework Fabio, oh sbe 3.0 createsession problem (SOLVED)

  Hello, i have the following problem. When the oh sbe try to create the session, the first time it is called after an iisreset on the web server i got the following error: <string xmlns="">Type: Microsoft.ConnectedServices.Sbe.OrderHandling.Exceptions.SbeException Name: ProcessCreateSessionResponse Nature: IsFailed Type: Microsoft.ConnectedServices.Sbe.OrderHandling.Exceptions.SbeException Name: GetOHSbeManifest Nature: ReadFailure Type: Microsoft.ConnectedServices.Sbe.OrderHandling.Exceptions.SbeException Name: RequestUUID Nature: 34ab0af5-c545-46d0-9b4d-2132d8a61ecb</string> If i send another request to the oh-sbe it works fine and it works for all following request. The problem there is just after ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Coloring of Excel Chart

  Hello, I'm generating Excel-Charts via VSTO in VB .NET. For the Seriescollections I want to set given RGB-Values like RGB(223, 0, 48) for red. But the colors are different from the colors, when I generate Chart objects in Excel-VBA. It seems that the RGB-Colors in VSTO / VB .NET not scalable like it shoud be. It seems furhter more that there are only a few colors avialable, wenn I increase or decrease the RGB-Colors they only get brighter or darker in intervalls. e.g.      mySeries.Interior.Color = RGB(223, 0, 48)     shows the same color as  mySeries.Interior.Color = RGB(204, 0, 35) My Screen-Setting are settet to 32-bit true color. Do you have any ideas how to sol ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visibility + TabStop

  Hi, I got some controls on a Form which I hide if they are not necessary. If they are depends on the input in other controls, so they might just appear by change of the Visible flag. validation of the input and the change of the visible flag is done on validation of a control. The problem is now that if somebody navigates through the controls with the Tab key, the new controls are ignored the first time. Example: - Form1 with TextBoxes textBox1, textBox2 and textBox3 - Tab order is textBox1, textBox2 and textBox3 - textBox2 is not visible. - event handler for textBox1.Validating contains: textBox.Visible = true; If you navigate now from textBox1 by pressing the Tab key, textBox2 appears, but the cursors jump to textBox3. If you conti ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista tracking service is slow

  Hello I am using beta 2.2 of the WF Engine. Using the SQLTracking service to extract parameters from the WF I ancounter the problem, that the data is not yet in the database when I show my WFStatus on my web page. Do I have to flush the result when tracking data How can I do this thanks in advance Josef Hi thak you, for your answer. I tried to add persistance points to my workflow and i added a delay in my thread, waiting for the wf being persisted. But still the data in the SqlTrackingService is not written, as i expected it to be at this time. is there a methode, how i can force the service to flush the data I tried to use the Service with IsTransactional=true and false, but i didn't make any differences. I am using a shared dat ...Show All

• Visual C++ Controlling Mouse Movements

  Hello everyone, I'm developing an interface where the mouse pointer is controlled by a user's eye-gaze. The original thread is here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=814312&SiteID=1 I'm controllingt mouse with these type of commands: INPUT Input={0}; Input.type = INPUT_MOUSE; Input.mi.dwFlags = MOUSEEVENTF_MOVE; Input.mi.dx = 300; //some vaues Input.mi.dy = 300; //some values ::SendInput(1,&Input,sizeof(INPUT)); My question is: what are Input.mi.dx and Input.mi.dy Do they represent absolute screen coordinates (I doubt it), or they move mouse pointer to the so many pixels in relation to current position If those values are not absolute screen coordinates is there a way to work with absolute coordin ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Basic projection, view and world matricies?

  Is there a tutorial out there about projection, view and world matrices I would like to check them out. If you want to learn about how to do matrix calculations yourself by hand, that's complicated and you should seek out some math books. However, in most cases you don't have to know anything about the math in order to be able to use them in a game. You simply need to understand what they are. The world matrix describes the position and orientation of the object you are about to ask the GPU to draw. The view matrix describes the camera's position, the world space point the camera is looking at, and the "up" vector for the camera. The up vector is typically the direction of the positive Y a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel 2003 using VSTO

  Hi, Is it possible to check if there is a running instance of Excel and load a workbook into it, or if not invoke a new instance Also, it would be good to have some error-handling in case whatever running instance of Excel is tied up (e.g. printing for example or doing some large operation). I am using VS2005, VSTO, and Excel 2003. Thanks! Hah! That's usually one of the first things I put in a reply if a question isn't obviously VSTO. Guess I missed that in your case, being so caught up in the question . See the "Please Read First" message at the top of the forum for a list of links. For discussing late-binding in Office applications, I'd go with the office.developer.automation newsgroup. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Ideal SQL Counters to track while load tesing a webservice

  Posted this a couple of days ago on SQL Server Database Engine but no response. Hence posting in this forum again. I've a web service which is being load tested using VSTS Load Test. I want a suggestion on what counters are to be tracked to see that the SQL Server is performing as expected. It would be great if someone help me in gathering the right set of counters related to the database. Also, I've researched over the net and found out the following counters which could help in tracking the behavior of SQL Server: Avg. Transactions/sec Deadlocks Page Splits/sec Batch Req/sec SQL Compilations/Sec User Connections Average Wait Time (ms) Full Scans/sec Buffer Cache Hit Ratio Page Life Expectancy Lazy Writes/Sec Pages/sec Page Reads ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Please help me on this misinG

  In 'Publish' of VB2005 Express , Item of 'Prerequisited' choose to install '.Net Framework 2.0' . I choose option ' Download prerequisites from the same location as my application' . Because I need to package within Publish package. (no need to use option 'Download prerequisites from the component vendor's web site' ) It shows error message 'The install location for prerequisites has not been set to 'component vendor's web site' and the file 'DotNetFX\dotnetfx.exe' in item '.NET Framework 2.0' can not be located on disk. See Help for more information' How can I fix this problem Thank you! I got that link. I think instmsia.exe is for Microsoft Windows Installer older version win 98 and so. ...Show All

• SQL Server How do I get rid of SQL Server?

  An icon for Microsoft SQL Server Service Manager just started showing up on my taskbar. I didn't install SQL Server. The icon starting showing up after I ran Windows Update. SQL Server is not listed in my Add/Remove programs, and I can't seem to find the application anywhere on my laptop. I have a new (less than 6 months old) Dell laptop running WinXP Professional. I seem to have lost my Internet connectivity at about the same time this icon showed up. I did a system restore back to before I installed the Windows Update, and the icon disappeared. However, it has now shown up again. Anybody know what's going on with this Does some other app use SQL server I really need to fix this problem. Thx, j ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Moving Interent Explorer Toolbards

  How do you move the tool bars in interent explorer 7. When i try and move the Menu bar up or down nothing happens. Trying to get the Menu Bar on top then the URL bar 2nd and so forth but cant seem to move the toolbars. Help pls! Harry F. Harrison wrote: The registry hack really isn't a good solution either - it simply moves all toolbars above the address bar. Ah, but for me it was a good solution. I'd just gotten used to being able to jump to the menu bar by double tapping the top left corner of my laptop's touch pad. All of a sudden, I wasn't getting there in IE7. As for sarcasm in a forum, it was lost on me. Maybe that tired-frustrated thing factored into my missing it. I guess w ...Show All

• Visual Basic Menustrip missing!

  i have put a menu strip in a table in a tab control. can/should that be done. anyway when i just make it, its there, after a while of working it it isn't. even when i make a new one. i tried bringing it to the front but it didn't work. I've just tried it in VS2005 against framework 2.0 and had no probems. When you're in design mode, I take it that you have entered menu items and that the menustrip itself is set to visible Also, which component do you mean when you say 'table' ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to pass a list[] into a listbox?

  Hello, is it possible to copy a complete list [] at once into a listbox without using the 'for' or 'forever' statement Regards, Henk Hi, Please mark post with acceptable reply as the answer as soon as you get solution from the post so one can see that its solved. Possibly its good practice to ask new question as New Post. It helps other to trace the asnwer of perticular questions easily. For your second question, You want to sort the array - your list[] (if this array internally contains "strings" then the following sample can solve the problem):             object [] objarr = { "COM2" , "COM3" , "COM1" };     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using grips to move

  Ok I've been trying to do this for like 3 weeks now. I see that there are a bunch of things such as the toolstrip and statusbars that have grips on them. The only problem is that they don't do anything. I can't seem to figure out how to access the grips so that a user could actually USE them to move the object around. I've developed the code for using them.. Now I just have to figure out how to use the grips.. Isn't there like a ToolStripGrip.Click or something I appreciate the help, but I already had a much shorter code that accomplished that exact thing. I don't want the moving to occur when clicking on the right side. I want it to occur on the left (on the grip) so that the grip is the only ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Emulator for landscape Pocket PCs/switchable PCs

  Hi everywhere, do somebody know, if there is a possiblity to get or buy an emulator which supports pocket pcs in landscape formfactor or better - switchable pocket pcs, like QTEK 9100 or HTC Hermes Thank you Waldemar The Device Emulator shipped with Visual Studio 2005 (and v2.0 CTP available as a free download) supports switchable mode. Go from WM start menu->Settings->Display and select the mode, the device emulator will switch display mode accordingly. Hope this helps. -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All