Mike Chapman's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista about wwf

  I installed wwf(beta2.2),but when I create a project in vs2005,a waring shown. The msg is : cann't find "SequentialWorkflowActivity" but I have add the System.Workflow.Activities.dll Thanks ! Unless you have a specific reason to install our beta 2.2 version, like the version of Office 2007 Beta, you should probably be using the latest build. Links can be found in this post for installing it. If you can’t upgrade can you go to the gac and give me the version numbers for System.Workflow.Activities.dll and Microsoft.Workflow.VSDesigner.dll. To get to the gac go to Start / Run and type assembly. Find the assemblies, right click on them and click on the version tab. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Basic 2005 IDE Performance Hotfix Released

  We've received feedback, both directly from developers and in the forums, regarding slow performance of the Visual Basic 2005 IDE in certain situations (larger projects, projects with many errors, etc.). I’m sorry that these issues made it to production and degraded the performance of the IDE. The Visual Basic Performance team is working hard to address these issues via hotfixes and the upcoming Visual Basic 2005 SP1 while we work on engineering changes to make sure that issues such as these never make it into a shipping product in the future. Based on this feedback and forum posts, we've been working with customers to address these performance issues. We recently released a performance hotfix to address the follo ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem Removing Visual Studio Team Suite Trial

  Hi All, I'm having trouble removing Visual studio Team suite trial. I had Visual Studio Team Suite Trial installed on my machine. I decided not to continue the trial and instead install Visual Studio Professional So I installed Visual Studio Professional and tried to run it, but up came the message saying my trial period had expired. Since then I've tried to uninstall/reinstall Visual studio professional, with no change. I then tried to uninstall the team suite trial (its still in add/remove programs list) but it cannot find the setup file to perform the uninstall. I tried to reinstall team suite (so I could the fully uninstall it), but cannot since it thinks there is already a trial version installed on my machine. I tried the msiinv to ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Just a question regarding MDI form and ToolStripPanel

  Is there a possibility to disable the MDI scroll when ToolStripPanel appears on screen I created an MDI form with two ToolStripPanels at left and right (with dock property set in appropriate way) and I use those containers for a ToolStrip menu (in order to drag and drop it from left to right and vice versa on demand, like a toolbar). The ToolStripPanel is normally hidden (visible=false). It comes on screen only if appropriate button pressed. So, my problem comes if a child form is also open into mdi. In fact, the mdi form by default scrolls to right (or to left) the child form when I open the toolstrippanel, in order to preserve screen place. I want disable this behavior, because I want that toolstrippane ...Show All

• Visual C# Problem sending text to An Asayo LED Sign using a hexadecimal string

  I can't get the sign to get the message displayed correctly. Is the code below correct or have I made somthing wrong Regards Kristian using System; using System.Net; using System.Net.Sockets; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace AsayoControl { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { //Connecting to the Asayo Sign IPAddress ipadr = IPAddress .Parse( "10.172.1.11" ); EndPoint ep = new IPEndPoint (ipadr, 6001); Socket sock = new Socket ( AddressFamily .InterNetwork, SocketType .Stream, ProtocolType .Tcp); sock.Connect(ep); if (sock.Connected) Console .WriteLine( "Socket OK" ); //The a ...Show All

• .NET Development problem in starting windows service.

  I'm trying to write into a data base using windows application for that i made a class who uses an insert query to insert data in to a mdb file. i simple wrote a class and called its public function (SetDataBase()) to insert data in to the database. I called this function in OnStart() function of a windows service. and then complied it. it compiled successfully the service project was also install successfully but when i tried to start that service the following error occur --------------------------- Microsoft Management Console --------------------------- Could not start the MyNewService service on Local Computer. The service did not return an error. This could be an internal Windows error or an internal service error. If the prob ...Show All

• SQL Server Move SQL Server Express .mdf file to SQL Server 2000

  Is this even possible I tried to move an existing Sql Server Express .mdf file to SQL Server 2000 by copying the .mdf file to the server's folder and then tried to attach it. I get: Error 602: Could not find row in sysindexes for database ID 9, object ID 1, index ID1. Run DBCC CHECKTABLE on sysindexes. I realize that I'm moving back a version in SQL, however the structure of the database is very simple. Does anyone know Even if I can just script the thing to SQL 2000 would be helpful, however the .mdf is a file within my ASP.Net site, and does not show up in my Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express under the appropriate SERVERNAME\SQLEXPRESS either, so I can't figure out how to script it out ...Show All

• .NET Development where to locate dlls when using LoadLibrary in C#

  Well, I thought this was odd: Okay, I've just established that LoadLibrary worked this way in "the old days" too, I just never noticed it until I started using C#. This morning I wrote a little test program (TestProgram.exe) that uses DllImport to bring LoadLibrary in from kernel32.dll so I can use it in a C# program. Just to make sure that I had the signature right, I started by doing LoadLibrary() on some Windows APIs (net32api, etc.), and it worked fine. Great. Then I tried doing LoadLibrary("C:\\NoWhereSpecial\\MyDll.dll"); and I kept getting a NULL handle back.(well IntPtr.Zero, really, but basically a NULL). Weird. I made sure that all the dlls that MyDll.dll is dependent on were in the same directory w ...Show All

• SQL Server Replication -- New Subscription Wizard SQL Mobile error, please help..

  I'm following the steps of sample SQL Server Mobile Tutorials.. error on my replication subscription wizard : "Initialiazing SQL Server Reconciler has failed HRESULT 0x80045003 (29045) The initial snapshot for publication 'SQLMobile' is not yet available. Start the Snapshot Agent to generate the snapshot for this publication. If this snapshot is currently being generated, wait for the process to complete and restart the syncronization. HRESULT 0x80045003 (0)" error while waiting synchronizing Data in New Subcription Wizard!! anyone can help how to solve this problem THIS HELPED ME. The tutorials assume that your C drive is shared so they tell you to use the machine name everywhere instead of your C drive. If ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with regestration key in bv.net

    I have downloaded Visual Basic Express Edition and am now trying to register it. When I try entering the registration key provided I get the message "The registration key you entered is not valid. Please enter the registration key exactly as it appears on the registration website, or copy and paste it into the Registration key field". I have tried entering the key using copy and paste and also typing it in but neither way is successfull. What can be the problem  Don't mind I have tryd again to register and if gave me a new one and it worked Have you installed SP1 since receiving the registration key If so you will need to reregister your product. Please try going to Help->Register ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problem with DataGridView

  Hello I have a problem with datagridview and can't solve it. I'm from Iran and use in controls English and Farsi. Engilsh should be right to left and Farsi should be left to right. In datagridview i need that one cell be right to left and another cell be left to right but datagridview control have not this property for each cell or style . Please guide me with the best solution. Thanks Hi I'm from Iran too and have some problem with farsi language. I work with pocket pc ,VS2005 , sql mobile and want to read data from oracle database.when I get data and load in form ,I couldn't see the correct fonts. would u pls help me thanks ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Saving sms to the inbox

  Hi I am developing an application in vb.net CF to send the SMS from pocket pc I got one demo from the following link :. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnnetcomp/html/netcfsendsms.asp I can send messages to other mobiles but it's just displaying it on the mobile , I want it to save in the inbox . Anybody please give me solution for it . thanks. .NETCF does not supply SMS functionality out of the box. You may need to look into either a third party solution (perhaps OpenNetCF has one) or re-ask your question on one of the windows mobile forums: Windows Mobile API : microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer microsoft.public.smartphone. ...Show All

• SQL Server DATEADD with 8 byte int?

  I have a bigint column called "MillisecondsSince1970" that I need to convert to a date - SSIS is erroring out when I use DATEADD with the 8 byte int (if I use 4 byte it works but the column is bigger than 4 byte). The error is really lame: [Derived Column [79]] Error: The "component "Derived Column" (79)" failed because error code 0xC0049067 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "Date" (100)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. Anyone have a way around it... a VB.NET equivalent of DATEADD or something else I can do Why not do it in stages Convert milliseconds to say, day ...Show All

• Visual Basic SqlDateTime overflow.

  You also have to specify the Data types of your parameter. : .. .. .. cmd.Parameters.Add("@EmpImage",SQLDBType.CHAR,5 ) ' for string type, also specify the length cmd.Parameters("@EmpImage" ).value = strEmpImage cmd.Parameters.Add("@frmDate", SQLDBType.Smalldatetime) cmd.Parameters("@frmDate" ).value = dtFrmDate .. .. .. .. Hope this helps :) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Sandcastle Help File Builder

  I've created an NDoc-like GUI front-end plus a command-line builder tool for automating help file builds with Sandcastle. It's available at: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SandcastleBuilder.asp Using the help file builder provides the following advantages: The GUI interface is almost identical to the NDoc interface so anyone familiar with NDoc should be quite comfortable using it. You can import several settings from an existing NDoc project to start a new Sandcastle Help File Builder project. The builder will automatically locate both Sandcastle and the HTML help compiler by looking in the system path and in the Program Files special folder on all fixed hard drives. Properties are also supplied for you to specify the ...Show All