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• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BUG? : XContainer.ReplaceContent throws an exception if attributes of the element are passed...

  and they already exist on the element. I am not saying it's a bug for sure, but if an element has an attribute, and you call ReplaceContent() on the element and specify the same attribute, you will get an exception. I tend to think it is a bug for the following reasons. 1. It has the same feel as the class constructors that allow multiple args to be passed. And, since when constructing an XElement you can specify attributes, it feels a little inconsistent that you cannot specify them when you call ReplaceContent. You could argue that attributes of an element are not considered content, but I think you could also say they are. 2. If you do not already have an attribute with the passed name, it will be added and handled properly. It ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Help me design my .Net 3.0 application?

  Hi All. I've been studying C#/.Net 3.0 programming ever moment that I'm not shacked to my real job. I can say that for a guy of average intelligence who has been working in his sleep, Avalon allows me to do some amazing things and pretty quickly too. Where I'm having trouble is my high level plan. I thought If I laid it out here someone might be kind enough to give my a push in the right direction. The program description: It is a e-Book of interactive puzzles. Each puzzle has a graphical representation of some physical reality and controls that allow you to manipulate that reality. ( Start engine # 1, run engine #1 at 300 RPM, etc.) The Quester is then given a brief written introduction followed by a serious of t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Getting WorkItems by Project Name from TfsWorkItemTracking database

  Hi all, I would like to retrieve the list of work items from TfsWorkItemTracking database because of some reason, The only why i'm able to find out is to get all the Areas from TreeNodes table and then get WorkItems based on Area but it involves recursively retrieval of Areas, is there any other path to it why i'm saying project name in the title coz i wanted to retrieve them by project, and which is now i know i can do it via top most area from TreeNodes as its same as the project name and u cant rename it as well :). regards faraz well agreed, this is the only fear i had as well, coz i explored workitemtracking database and it had lots of different things in it.. but yeah i'v updated all the versions &q ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Activity Queues in Parallel

  I have a custom activity that sets up and uses activity queues I want to place two or more instances of this custom activity on a work flow in parallel to each other I have my host using logic to decide what queue to send to but the work flow waits untill i send something to all the queues on the parallel activity I want the work flow to continue executing after only one of the activitie's queue was written to in a manner similar to using handleexternalevent activity on a listen activity my system is deciding at run time what "logical port" to send the data to on the workflow and the others should be ignored. Sort of like biztalk's input ports that are bound to receivers outside of the orchestration Any ideas ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Get Coordinates onclick

  I'm fairly new to javascript, and, as such, I have what I feel like should be a simple question. I want to get the coordinates (either pixel x, y or latitude, longitude will do) of where the user clicks on the map. I want to place push pins where they click, and, ultimately, I want to allow a connect the dots type drawing where the user simply clicks and a line is connected from where he previously clicked. I was hoping this could be raised as an event, but it doesn't look like it. Thanks in advance. Or put the coordinates in the baloon of a new pushpin: // CALLBACK FOR ONCLICK-EVENT function onMapClick(e) { //map.DeleteAllPushpins(); var pin = new VEPushpin(pinID, e.view.LatLong, "", "Title", " ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums find business name and type

  Hello All, I'm currently using find() to do business search .. I'm not sure how it works ... eg .. I did a search "cafe".. it didn't come out with anything .. and then I seached "coffee" .. it comes up with some cafe.. so what is it acctualy searching for is there a way I can choose to search for either business name or business type Thanks Yuki The "find" is very generic, very similar to the "find" using the Mappoint Web Service. As for how the search actually works, I do know that it goes through a set of internal datasources to find the result. Likely the reason "coffee" works is because theres a "coffee" datasource, mainly for ...Show All

• Visual Basic Update a Access database

  Hello! I have problems updating a Access database. I made a direct connexity with a mdb file and i cant do anything. All data ar Read-Only. For testing my app I try to make connection on ODBC and work jut fine. When i put the toolbar, for binding, is with out save button but only when i use direct access. My app is build in visual mode, not in code mode. Can help me 10 x. Could you please post some more detail about your problem If we could see the code you're using and the exact error message you're getting that'd help a lot. Thanks, Jonathan ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System C#

  hi forum how to solve this problem Inconsistent accessibility: field type 'DataGrid_Hyperlink.DataGridLinkLabelColumn.LinkLabelLinkClickedEventHandler' is less accessible than field 'DataGrid_Hyperlink.DataGridLinkLabelColumn.LinkClicked' thanking u in advance the only time i have seen messages like this are when i've changed the modifier from public to private or protected, therefore "trying" to hide the inherited method. ...Show All

• SQL Server OS Upgrade on SQL 2005 Server

  I'm running SQL 2005 on a Windows 2000 server. I would like to upgrade the OS to Windows 2003 server. Is there a whitepaper with all the required steps listed Thanks, Dave http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/upgrading/w2k/default.mspx http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/42d81246-a993-4d46-9a92-39011dc7f2ab1033.mspx Googled got the above nearest links. ...Show All

• SQL Server Possible to encrypt database assembly?

  Hello. I've built a simple Visual Basic .NET project containing the following code... Imports System Imports System.Data Imports System.Data.SqlClient Imports System.Data.SqlTypes Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Server Partial Public Class StoredProcedures <Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlProcedure()> _ Public Shared Sub WhoAmI() Using connection As New SqlConnection("context connection=true") connection.Open() Dim command As New SqlCommand("SELECT SUSER_SNAME()", connection) SqlContext.Pipe.ExecuteAndSend(command) End Using End Sub End Class From Visual Studio, I want to encrypt the contents of this assembly, as a proof-of-concept. Even though assembly contents are stored as ...Show All

• .NET Development CoCreateInstance doesn't work if the InstallShield is installed

  Hi, I'm programming a DB access application using SQL Server 2005 OLE DB(Native client) provider. There's no problem everytime calling CoCreateInstance until I install the InstallShield program. After the InstallShield(Express edition) is installed in my pc, the result of calling CoCreateInstance() is strange. It seems that just return and I could not get the any error code. Anyone help There are occasionally interactions between InstallShield and Visual Studio, like this: http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp articleid=q106194 and maybe that's what you mean, but you need to be more specific. Does every CoCreateInstance fail What is the object you're trying to create, its classid etc ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle December CTP - Wrong icons shown on member pages

  Hello All, I have noticed that when generating documentation using the Sandcastle December CTP, the icons it chooses to represent protected members does not appear to be correct. This seems to happen using either the Prototype or VS2005 presentation. The member items I have noticed that seem to have the wrong icons are as follows: - protected methods - protected properties - protected fields - protected events I suspect this also may apply to protected enums, delegates, interfaces, operators and structures etc. I have not tried including private/internal members in the documentation, but this will also be worth checking. Michael Hello, Thank you for your suggested fix. I have to break ...Show All

• .NET Development Setup a VPN connection with .NET

  Hi, I want to create a gui that creates (managed or unmanaged) a new VPN connection in the networks settings area with a provided ip, username and password. Can somebody give me some basic code to start with Thanks a lot Hi Mike, I am sorry, but this post only describe how to connect to an existing connection, but not how to create a new one :(. I want to create a complete new VPN connection by code ...Show All

• Visual Basic mouse_move in unfocused form while button pressed

  hi I'm trying to recreate a pseudo "drag and drop event" in my program, I have two child forms, and i want to, whenever I press down a button in one form, and after leave that form and enter in the other one, while the mouse button is pressed, the second form continue to track the mouse attributes. I tryed using mouse_move, mouse_leave and mouse_enter in both forms but the second one only seems to respond after the mouse_up. is there anything that I missed or I'm I doing anything wrong thanks for everything porces ...Show All

• Windows Forms Problem with overlapping windows

  Hello, In my application I am making several windows at runtime, one of which is the main window. When this window is closed, the application exits. The problem is that when i create other windows, they always stay on top of the main window, meaning that the other windows will always obscure parts of the main window. How can I change this behaviour so that any window will be drawn on top of the other windows when it has focus Here is what I do: ----------------------------------------------- Application::Run( gcnew MainWindow() ); ... msclr::gcroot<System::ComponentModel::Container^> m_windows; Form ^wnd = gcnew Form(); m_windows->Add(wnd); wnd->Show(); ----------------------------------------------- All feedback would be appr ...Show All