Magannahan Skjellifetti's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Pseudo Code anyone?

  Ok Experts, I am looking for nothing more than pseudo code at this point - I've done little more than dabble around with the UI, created a simple activity, done some limited persistence etc.. Here's what I would like to do: Create a new WF instance Persist, and place the Instance GUID in a table, along with other attributes Present this list and allow selection Open the WF Instance again, and munge around with it - add properties etc.. Continue along the WF route and evaluate rules as necessary Persist again, etc.... Essentially I am not seeing the easy way to open a WF instance, work on something related to it, then update some properties and have it reume it's path ... Anyone care to point me in the right ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Blogpost description

  Hi there, I can't seem to find the Description sitecolumn. I would like to add it to blogpost because it is very annoying if you send the complete post in your rss-feed's description and I would like to use the Content Query Webpart to aggregate my blogs on one page and include both Title and Description. As I can't imagine that the Description isn't included by default on blogpost - please tell me why if it's not - can somebody tell me where I can find it Cheers, Wes Thanks for your reply Henry, Unfortunately 'Description' is a reserved name so I can't add it to the Site Columns. And if I add it in the list, it doesn't show up on the Content Query WebPart, but .... we(me and my collegue) did found a workaround to s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions TableAdapter.Update only works when I move from record to record

  Hello everyone, I am still new to VB.NET and I am having a little trouble using TableAdapters. Now, I figured out the "Copy Always" thing, which seems to be a problem for beginners everywhere (are you listening MS ). My TableAdapter.Update() method works, but only if I move from the current record. I am using data bound controls. If I just make a change in a data field press Update button, nothing happens. For it to work, I have to make the change, move from the current record, and THEN press Update. Does anyone have any idea why this happens Thanks. master20 "Here is the code for my Update button:" It's the event handler that executes when the button is depressed, that's ...Show All

• SQL Server Subscriber database MUCH larger than publisher

  I have replication setup between our main site and a remote one, and have recently noticed that the database at the remote site's .MDF file is about 3 times as large as the main site's. This doesn't seem to make sense since essentially all of our data is replicated between the two servers. Can anyone suggest why this might be happening and what is safe to do to shrink the remote file TIA Ron L Are you comparing the file size or the actual data storage size in the database You should really look at the size of the allocated space, you can try running sp_spaceused in the two databases and compare. Are you on SQL 2005 There are some nifty reports that you can run in SQL Workbench that can drill down and show you table sizes. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Retrieving a TreeView Item's Label

  How can I retrieve a TreeView item's label Thanks. ---Dan tnsgod831 wrote: How can I use it Thanks. ---Dan Example: TCHAR szItemText[260]; TVITEM tvi = {0}; tvi.mask = TVIF_TEXT | TVIF_HANDLE; tvi.hItem = hTreeViewItem; tvi.cchTextMax = sizeof(szItemText); tvi.pszText = &szItemText; TreeView_GetItem(hTreeView, &tvi); ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Why simple large forms are rendered that slow?

  Hi   Some project, like the one that I’ve been working on the past 2 years, require large forms, combined from hundreds of controls, a single form can go 10 or 20 pages long.   We are currently using Microsoft InfoPath 2003 with the .NET framework, and although it is not that fast, rendering of a large from with a 1000 text boxes for example will take couple of seconds.   Of course our forms are much complex than just having text boxes, but I tried to build an Avalon application with a 1000 text boxes, and the performance was even worse than Windows Forms, a simple Web Form (HTML), or even InfoPath!.   I know the product is still beta, and my test are all on Windows XP, but I also know that the new ren ...Show All

• SQL Server REporting services error

  Hi to everybody, I have installed on a windows server 2003 machine with all the last update until 12/10/06 sql server 2k analysis services with all the last update the problem is that when I tray to export the report I recieve this error Reporting Services Error -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exception of type Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportRendering.ReportRenderingException was thrown. (rrRenderingError) Get Online Help Exception of type Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportRendering.ReportRenderingException was thrown. Cannot find font ' '. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Reporting Serv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions HELP: This used to be working..

  id like to ask help about the code below, it used to be working, but now i get to print only the first row.. will somebody help get this working again please.. While RowItem < Me .dgvOrderDetails.RowCount While ColItem <= 3 str = Me .dgvOrderDetails.Item(ColItem, RowItem).FormattedValue e.Graphics.DrawString(str, pFont, Brushes.Black, x, y) ColItem = ColItem + 1 If ColItem = 1 Then x = x + 70 ElseIf ColItem = 2 Then x = x + 310 Else x = x + 90 End If End While x = 80 RowItem = RowItem + 1 y = y + pFont.Height + 5 End While After the first row, ColItem is set to 3 and is never reset. From then on, the inner loop is never entered ...Show All

• .NET Development Newbie likes to use a RingBuffer from two threads...

  Hello, My SerialPort receives data which should be handled by my Application without any data loss no matter how busy my Application can be with other tasks. My SerialPort should write received data into a (Ring)Buffer and my Application should read data from this (Ring)Buffer. I am looking for some clear example what mechanism to use and how exactly it is to be implemented. As far as I know with the Lock mechanism only a buffer can be locked but in my Application also the read/write indexes should be locked somehow. All tips are welcome, regards, Henk If you are using .net version 2 then you'd better use the new System.IO.Ports namespace. The objects do al the things you ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to install SQl Server 2005 SP2 - Unexpected error

  I am trying to install SQl Server 2005 SP2 but it was throwing an unexpected error when trying to install "setup support files". O/s: Windows Server 2003 SP1 Product: SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition Log file shows: +++++++++++++++++++ === Verbose logging started: 2/20/2007 16:05:42 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 3.01.4000.2435 Calling process: F:\SQL2005sp2\hotfix.exe === MSI (c) (74:68) [16:05:42:635]: Resetting cached policy values MSI (c) (74:68) [16:05:42:635]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0 MSI (c) (74:68) [16:05:42:635]: ******* RunEngine: ******* Product: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\Cache\SQLSupport\x86\1033\SqlSupport.msi ******* Action: ******* CommandLine: ********** MSI ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Image button source

  Hi. May be you can help me with this. I want to make a image button rollover. I want to trigger a event on mouse over event. I've a control template using a Button. My problem is that I want to pass the image source that I'm going to use in normal and over state. In this case I send only the normal state (1.png), but I want to use a user defined image so I could change the image. May be with a attached property but I couldn't find the way. Any ideas Thanks a lot. Gonzalo. <ControlTemplate x:Key="TemplateButton" TargetType="{x:Type Button}"> <Grid x:Name="Grid" Width="{TemplateBinding Width}" Height="{TemplateBinding Height}" ClipToBounds="true"> < ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Full Screen Refresh Rate

  Ho do i set the graphics refresh rate in full screen mode Thanks, Ziggy www.ziggyware.com Probably. That override is an NVidia driver thing, not a part of DirectX, so I'd imagine they just wrote their driver to ignore whatever DirectX tells them if the override is set. ...Show All

• SQL Server Unequal operator with GUID

  Hi, Trying to create a conditional split on GUID. As simple as GUID1 != GUID2. According to BOL this is supported: (Quote) The expression set, expression1 and expression2, must follow one of these rules: .... - GUID. Both expression1 and expression2 must evaluate to the DT_GUID data type. (End quote) However, when I do this, I get yhe following message: (Qoute) The data type "DT_GUID" cannot be used with binary operator "!=". (End quote) So, in BOL it's explicitly possible, the error message says not. Of course I can work around it by converting to string, but I need to use this pretty often and would prefer not to convert to string every time. What's the story here BTW, I am on 64-bit ...Show All

• .NET Development About the implementation of netstat using .NET Framework

  I have spent plenty of time in implementing the functions of netstat by using .NET Framework2.0. I found that I can implement some functions of netstat(for example, -np TCP, -s) when using the classes in NetworkInformation Namespace. But I don't how to implement the functions listed below: netstat -r netstat -e Could anyone give me any suggestion You may need to P/Invoke. See the native IP Helpers APIs. http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms691203.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3.0 requires me to use cached mode in outlook 2003?

  Is there anyway around this 2.6 does not require this and it searches all of my main mailbox email just fine. I can enable the option but im scared that it will somehow slow down outlook or cause problems when I use outlook from home on the web interface. I saw an older thread that said there was a way to disable this in the registry but I do not have the registry folders listed in that post. Is there a way to disable this or is my only choice to go with cached mode I am using WinXP Pro SP2 with Outlook 2003 and MS Exchange Server. Just for reference, email search worked fine on my main mailbox using 2.6. Thanks! so, i found the answer from microsoft i have recived. WDS 3.0 can index uncached excha ...Show All