paraGOD's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF and custom activity. Workflow terminates with exception

  I have created a custom activity which inherits from SequenceActivity. The class name is ApprovalRequestActivity In the designer of my activity I have added a stock Replicator activity. Inside the replicator activity I have added a stock ListenerActivity. Inside the Listener activity, I have two activities one is a delayActivity and the other is a HandleExternalEventActivity. I have dragged this custom activity onto my workflow and it looks good and I can set its properties etc. Further, the solution compiles with no errors. When I execute the workflow through ASP.Net, it seems to initialize my activity because I have added event handlers for the Child_Initialize events. I have also put some logging code int eh Execute method of my activi ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista how to read data from a hid device in vista service ?

  hi i have a service, it can read data from a hid device, but now it can not work in vista, i find the readfile() always in io pending even if data coming, i don't know why who can help me regards Dear Sir: Do you resolve this problem I try many method, but still can not solve it. Best Regards, ...Show All

• .NET Development Enumerating Sound Devices

  Hello All. I'm wondering (since I can't find it) if there is a way in .NET to enumerate Sound Devices on a client system. I know that there is a way in DirectX, but I can't seem to find it in .NET. My app allows the user to toggle sound effects, but there is no point if there are no Sound Devices installed or functional. Thanks for your help. Hello All. Thanks, Scott, for your response. Yes, that's what I was looking for. I already knew that I could do it by referencing the DirectX library, but I didn't want to do that so I could try and keep the footprint as small as reasonably possible. This is exactly what I was after, even if it is a little out of the way. Thanks again. ...Show All

• SQL Server how to select the date part of a date

  I use smalldatetime for a datetime and i just display the date part i'd like to compare the date part of the smalldatetime and the date i have how can i do that I know we can select the day,month or year ... If you know a link where i could find different kinds of example about sql command it would be great to thanks we have a sound discussion of that matter here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=691450&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Data Contracts vs Message Contracts

  Hello, I'm not sure when I should use a message contract. In fact why would I use a message After all my operation parameters get serialized into a soap envelope automatically. So when would I use a message and when would I use a serilizable class Thanks in advance Houman Message Contract allows finer control to specify how data gets serialized in SOAP body or SOAP header. Why use Message Contract 1. Interoperability. For example: If you need to add custom SOAP headers needed to interop with other existing systems. 2. Not wanting to use DataContract versioning and to keep a open Message type across service operations. 3. You want to complicate others work :-) I would rather ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development HDiSim stopped working

  My HDiSim doesn't want to work anymore. I can load playlists but nothing happens when trying to close HDiSim, it hangs itself up. I already tried to reinstall but it still doesn't work. The only change I made to the system was an update of Sonic Scenarist HDMV. Anyone experiences with this behaviour Huh strange... I made some tests and it seems that it's only not working, when trying to run a completely multiplexed hd dvd (as you could run in a player). In the past it was no problem running such multiplexed folders. Only the video itself kept black but the application worked properly. Now it seems to be only working when replacing the original .MAP files with appropriate renamed .wmv files. Only whe ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to Raise and handle Events

  I have searched every server connected to the internet and msdn help but they returned no answers to my question Heres what i want to do I have a switch connected to my parallel port and i need to write an event to make textbox1.visible = true when it is pushed Please note i have every thing to do with the parport under control please help dav Here is an MSDN entry on how to publish, subscribe and raise a custom event. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w369ty8x.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Vertical Label

  Does someone know how i can make a vertical label like this : H E L L O Thanks Unless my eyes are deceiving me... http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4910/untitledoq8.jpg I have never had any problems not being able to make vertical labels using the default label control. ...Show All

• .NET Development Webservice: "The ASP.NET process identity does not have read permissions to the global assembly cache."

  I'm uncertain what the best forum is for this - I also posted this in the ASP forum. I am developing a distributed application with a client-side java calling a webservice serving a static binary database. The application works well with the VS2005 Development server on XP Pro SP2. However when I publish it to an IIS v5 environment, it fails with these errors.   3.)    .aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 3988) stopped unexpectedly 2.)  Failed to execute the request because the ASP.NET process identity does not have read permissions to the global assembly cache. Error: 0x80131902 1.) Failed to initialize the AppDomain:/LM/W3SVC/1/Root Exception: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException Message: Exception ...Show All

• SQL Server Subscription/Data Sync Error

  Dear All Iam receiving an error message when trying to complete the subscription. Please find the below given error report that I get from SQL server. Synchronizing Data (100%) (Error) Messages · A call to SQL Server Reconciler failed. Try to resynchronize. HRESULT 0x80004005 (29006) The schema script '\\MAIN\snapshot\unc\MAIN_SQLMOBILE_TEST\20060926133385\MembershipData_2.sch' could not be propagated to the subscriber. HRESULT 0x800704CF (0) The merge process was unable to deliver the snapshot to the Subscriber. If using Web synchronization, the merge process may have been unable to create or write to the message file. When troubleshooting, restart the synchronization with verbose history logging and specify an output ...Show All

• Visual J# Visual J# Product Announcement

  With the release of the January CTP of Orcas, Microsoft is announcing two important changes to the Visual J# offering. J# 64-bit Runtime Support Information To meet customer demand for 64-bit runtime support, we are planning to release an upgrade to the Visual J# redistributable earlier than previously communicated called, Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Second Edition. This will enable our customers to compile their Visual J# code to run natively on 64-bit versions of Windows and the .NET Framework, including the .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 and the version that will be released with Visual Studio code-named “Orcas”. Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Second Edition is targeted for release in the second quarter of 2007, with support ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office insert image

  how to insert image into word application from resource file. thanks for reply "selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture" will required path of image file in string format . i can't give path. i wants to insert the image thorough resource file only . resource file will return " image " object while the above method required physical path of image. ican't save image at physical location. is there any possibility to insert image from a resource file ...Show All

• SQL Server Need Help with Foreach ....Anyone...........

  Hello, I am new to SSIS. I need to create a SSIS package that can loop through the databases and create a flat file of each table in the database specified. Is it possible with Foreach to loop through databases and tables How should I proceed with this I would probably need step by step procedure because I am new. I would really appreciate your help. Thank you. hi, I'm not sure if this exactly what you are looking for as i've not used it myself but... There is an ADO enumerator for the foreach loop which allows you to enumerate tables in a database. Here is a link to a similar subject, hope it helps. http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/foreachadossis.asp Cheers, Grant ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Wave bank file is huge

  Hi! I need help on compressing audio files. Our game music is making our XNA game quite huge. How do you make XNA compress the sound and music for the game when you deploy WilderLand wrote: That isn't entirely correct. You can compress the size of WAV files in XACT, it isn't as good as MP3 format, but it can pull down the size by 75%. Oh wow, I never noticed that. Thanks for the info. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista UIA versus IAccessibility

  I was looking into using UIA instead of IAccessibility for test automation. However, I noticed that AccExplorer can discover all UI elements while UI Spy can only discover some. For example, AccExplorer can discover in all the list items in the Toolbox pane of Visual Studio. UI Spy can only detect the main pane and the scroll bar. Is this a limitation in the tool or the SDK it self Why use UIA if it can't detect all the elements/controls that IAccessibility can Thanks. ...Show All