Simonth's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Object Collection Editor comes up disabled for Dictionary parameter

  I am using a CallExternalMethod activity in my workflow. I have a interface defined one of whose methods takes a Dictionary<string, object> as one of the input parameters. I need this Dictionary<string, object> to be passed as a parameter to CreateWorkflow call which takes a type and input params. The trouble is, in the property grid, the ellipses that appear against this dictionary parameter throws up the Object Collection Editor but with Add and Remove buttons disabled. Only OK and Cancel are enabled. This means that I cannot practically add an entries to this Dictionary parameter using Object Collection Editor. Can you please point me to a solution where by I can use Object Collection Editor to add entries to the dictionary ...Show All

• .NET Development Datasets and SQL Server

  I'm currently working on a application in VB.NET 2003, with a SQL Server backend. I was asked to make an import function that would allow a user to import an Excel worksheet into SQL Server. I'm aware you can do it from Excel directly to SQL Server, but the clients would like something that wouldn't involve the users of this application touching the SQL Server. I'm using an OLEDB for the Excel connection, and a ODBC connection for the SQL Server connection. Next, I have a button event that would open up a OpenFileDialog window, and a user can choose an Excel sheet. If the Excel sheet is valid, it would go on extracting the data into a dataset: ds = New DataSet ds.Clear() strSQL = "Select HEAT, Practice, C, Mn, P, S, Si, Cu, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Object and Property Descriptions

  I am making a managed dll in C++ to use in later projects for C++, VB, and C#. When ever you click on properties of MS user controls in the design portion IDE it tells you what that property is, ect. I would like to know how describe properties in the same manner. Also when you look at an object in the object browser it gives you a summary; I would also like to know how to define these summaries in C++. Thanks in advance for any help I didn't think so. Hmm, it should be automagic. IntelliSense is supposed to pick it up from the reference you add to the project. Then again, IS tends to be a bit InonS when you don't build your project once a while. C++ doesn't have the "background compi ...Show All

• .NET Development Sending email via Lotus notes

  Hi, I'm trying to send email via Lotus Notes. This worked before I updated visual studio from 2003 to 2005. Now I get the following error message: " Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that the memory is corrupt ." I understand that the .net Framework 2.0 has much stricter rules concerning untrusted components and I think the error comes from that, but I have no idea how to give the component a trusted status. I have a reference to Interop.Domino. Below is my code: Dim domSession As New NotesSession Dim domNotesDBMailFile As NotesDatabase Dim domNotesDocumentMemo As NotesDocument Dim domNotesRichText As NotesRichTextItem Dim strAttachment As String Dim ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Outlook attachment file name change

  Hi All, I am using outlook 2000. While i open attachment with a click in outlook 2000, the file name will change. Example i receive a mail with attachment and attachment name MKM-100189 but when i open the file (just double click the icon of attachment bottom of mail) , the file name change to MKM-1001891. Why this case will happen Thanks Kendy Hello Kendy, The "Visual Studio Tools for Office" forum was created for questions involving custom Office 2003 solutions using Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Office. A place to ask specific questions regarding Office behavior would be the Office discussion forums found here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal report value display problem

  i want to selet the date in the datetimepickers for choosing spacific period report for example 1-Nov-2006 to 30-Nov-2006 how can i do this Ather. wrote: when report load all transaction will be display but when we select the startdate and endDate then (throught datetimepicker in the same report form) i can see only those records between that duration. so you mean to say if you choose nov 1 to nov 30, you only want the records between nov. 1 to nov. 30 to be displayed not including records for nov. 1 and nov. 30 only records for nov. 2 up to nov. 29 i think i don't understand what you want to do very clearly... ...Show All

• Visual C++ A question about WMI in VC++ 6.0

  I'm a chinese,I used VC++ 6.0 to make wmi program ,why the flowing err (Windows2003 CN + SP1) I searched the answer on internet,google,yahoo,or others,and can't resolved I had set the include path and lib path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Include" and "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\Lib",and make this path first, please help me --------------------Configuration: wmi - Win32 Debug-------------------- Linking... wbemuuid.lib : warning LNK4003: invalid library format; library ignored wbemuuid.lib : warning LNK4003: invalid library format; library ignored wmi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _CLSID_WbemLocator wmi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IWbemLocator Debug/wm ...Show All

• Visual C# Declaration of Function

  Hi, I want to give you some informastion before I will continue to my question...Let's say that I have 2 Classes in my project... public class Cclass1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form{.......} public class Cclass2 : System.Windows.Forms.Form{.......} inCclass1 I want to create a function (e.g public void CallOtherFunctions() ) which includes some other functions of the same class...The others classes which I want to call are exact these : private EReturnType ClosePorts() { ..... ..... return eRetVal; } ...Now I want to call these function "CallOtherFunction" but from the other Class..."Cclass2"..How must I write the syntax for declaring "CallOtherFunction" and how can I call it form the other class. I mean I want to do sth like that ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista problem with changing ACM codec's format - i am pretty desperate ...

  in my project I need to convert audio files to wav files with codec - specified by user (e.g. u-Law,ADPCM,a-Law) and format also specified by user (frequency stereo/mono etc.) ; the project itself is in C# ,but due to incomplete managed interfaces of DirectShow , I decided to use C++ functions that use DirectShow that I call from C# from DLL by platform invoke; the problem is in IAMStreamConfig interface -> SetFormat method returns VFW_E_NOTCONNECTED error , and I call SetFormat after I connect the graph (either manually or with intelligent connect) . after trying to solve this problem for several weeks I am getting pretty desperate...anyone knows maybe what can be the problem I only recently moved fr ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista A problem with Installing VS 2005 Extension for WWF

  I have a problem when trying to install the latest version of visual studio 2005 Extension for windows workflow foundation. I've installed: .Net Famework 2.0 from the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en .Net Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en VS extension http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en When I try to open any sequential workflow in visual studio 2005 I couldn't open the design view and the following err ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System database project of visual studio

  anyone using the database project to store versioned scripts under visual studio I noticed that in VS 2005, they dropped the database-wide script generation and they designed it for a team environment where it is ideal to store versioned script per object. How does one go about handling foreign key constraints since create scripts drops the object first before creating it. In VS 2003, this is not a problem since all the constraints are added after all the tables are created (in one script filed), anyone Joey - I'm not sure that I understand your question. If you use Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals, your database project is an offline representation of your database schema, including all tables, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Performance Tool crashing when it interprets VSP

  Hello, The performance tool (profiler) worked great for one of our apps. I was able to focus on some problem areas, and we spotted some things we didn't expect--very helpful. However, I'm trying to use it with a 2nd app and having problems. When I close the app, I see that it starts to interpret the VSP file but then it fries...it crashes, closes down visual studio entirely, and restarts. Has anyone seen something like this and do you have suggestions Oh, and I'm using "sampling." I'm attaching to the app after it starts because I had some problems "launching." Thanks! Hey Dwight, Sorry to hear that the profiler if giving you trouble currently. I know that we had a fe ...Show All

• SQL Server Any clues why DTExec.exe is slower than Business Intelligence studio(SSIS Shell)?

  All, I have a simple package in SSIS that reads approx 2.5million rows from SQL2k5 source and exports it into 4 Foxpro files. The way I do it is as below 1) use and oledb source to read data from SQL2k5 2) use a conditional split component to divide the source into 4 streams ( I do a recId % 4 = 0, 1, 2, 3 to give 4 streams) 3) use an OLEDB destination to export to the 4 prexisting foxpro tables. This thing runs amazingly fast when I run(F5) it from Business Inteligence studio, but it is atleast 10 times slower when rightclick the package and execute using dtexec.exe I can't figure out why! any clues I would elimiate the 64 bit /32 bit problems because export to foxpro only works in 32 bit mode and my package has been configur ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies changing My Settings

  hi, does anybody know where the user information that's displayed when you click My Settings menu in the Welcome drop down is coming from i am trying to see if i can use the user profile information instead of the current information in there, since i have more information from the user profile that i want to display. any help would be appreciated. thanks. peter ...Show All

• Visual C++ Function pointers, pointers and references confusion

  I'm struggling to get my head around this, I'm not entirely sure what is happening here. Wondering if someone could offer a detailed explanation as I can't find an answer elsewhere. In project InterfaceDLL which is a static lib although Interface.h does not make up part of the static lib. class DLLManager holds Interface * m_pInterface; in DLLManager.h. Interface is a struct in Interface.h declared in Interface.h not inside the struct and as extern "C":- bool GetInterface( Interface ** pInterface ); typedef bool ( *GETINTERFACE ) ( Interface ** pInterface ) Inside DLLManager.cpp in function LoadDLL() GETINTERFACE _GETINTERFACE; _GETINTERFACE = ( GETINTERFACE ) GetProcAddress( m_hDLL, "GetInterf ...Show All