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• Software Development for Windows Vista How to get Replicator data in Parallel

  When using a replicator with replicatorActivity1.ExecutionType = ExecutionType .Sequence; I can query the replicator data for the current executing activity in this way replicatorActivity1.CurrentChildData[ replicatorActivity1.CurrentIndex] When using replicatorActivity1.ExecutionType = ExecutionType .Parallel; replicatorActivity1.CurrentIndex is always the last index ( the replicator InitialChildData collection length -1) The question is: How can I query for the current data instance of a replicator in an activity that is running under the Parallel ExecutionType. Thanks in advance What do you mean with index of the child Imagine I'm running ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Power icon problem

  Hello, I've just installed the Windows Vista Beta 2 (Build 5384) and so far so good, except for one thing: somehow i can't activate the option to show the power icon on the "notification are" of the "taskbar". When i go to the properties of the "taskbar", and then go to the "notification area" options, i'm allowed to select to always show the clock, volume and network icons, but not the power icon. Do you know what can i do to fix this problem Because of this problem, i never know when the battery is low. Thanks for your help!! It is true, I have an Acer TravelMate 4002WLMi Notebook and I have the same problem as mentioned here..... I tried installing drive ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) TreeViewItem: hide item when it is the last node in the tree level

  I have a TreeView and for the TreeViewItem I have created a style with a ControlTemplate in it. One of the elements is a line to connect all the tree nodes (visually, that is). But for the last node in the tree level it should hide this line, because there is no other node to connect to. The way I was thinking to do this, is to set the Visibility of the line element by using a Binding string/statement/whatever it is called: Visibility="{Binding Path=..., RelativeSource={...}}" RelativeSource should then point to a property of some sorts which tells me if the current TreeViewItem is the last node in that level. Is there such a property available Or has anyone done something like this before and knows how to do it ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BasicHttpBinding, TransportWithMessageCredential & Windows Authentication

  I am trying to setup a service and client using the BasicHttpBinding and Windows Integrated Authentication on IIS. I understand the importance of CIAA, but I am not considering confidentiality or integrity for this scenario. I simply would like to authenticate and authorize clients on the service as follows: Host the service on IIS 6.0 using basicHttpBinding without HTTPS Require that all clients are authenticated using Windows (NTLM or Kerberos) Authorize calls on the service using PrincipalPermissionAttribute. To this end, I have applied the following configuration to the calculator SDK sample: Service: < system.serviceModel > < services > < service behaviorConfiguration = " CalculatorServic ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Server Error in '/WebSite1' Application

  I get thisa message when im trying to load an web application that im buildning. Anyone who know what this meens Server Error in '/WebSite1' Application. <add assembly="System.EnterpriseServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" /> Could mean almost anything relating to the assembly system.enterpriseservices and you website application WebSite1. However as VB Express doesnt allow creation of web applications - I'm sure this is actually off topic for this forum. Might I suggest that you ask questions for ASP.NET related questions in the forums at forums.asp.net They are probably able to assist with questions relating to Visual Web Developer Express product and ASP.NET relate ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word Thumbnails

  Hi, Is it possible to generate and view Word document thumbnails in a WinForms application What I'd like to do is offer a user a listbox prepopulated with document file names, and if they were to click on it, it would generate and display a thumbnail of either the first page or all existing pages in another listbox/image box in my application. It would generate 1 image per page. I guess I would have to build the image from a memorystream of some sort. Does anyone have any idea What I basically want to do is display a thumbnail view as Word does when creating a new document. Regards, Giovanni Hi Giovanni - This forum is dedicated to discussions around developing Office apps using VS ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Urgent - Handling Map Click event

  Hi all, I have a strange requirement. I have a small Virtual map appearing on one of my pages. Now on its click I want to open a popup window which will be a bigger version of the small map displayed. For this, I have done following map = new VEMap( 'VirtualMap' ); try {map.LoadMap( new VELatLong(latitude, longitude), 8 , 'r' , false );} catch (err){} map.AttachEvent( 'onclick' , openVirtualMap); This functon openVirtualMap opens a new popup window which conatins the larger map. Now the problem which I am facing is 1. After clicking on the small map, The popup comes up and then the popup suddenly gets minimized. I used event .cancelBubble = true ; I also tried setting the focus ...Show All

• Visual Basic Setting MessageBox returnValue to Yes

  I have created a dedicated WebBrowser application that is only used for viewing a program containing dynamic web pages that runs on my computer. Some of the web pages in the program utilize activeX controls so when I open up a page containing activeX controls in my dedicated WebBrowser application I get the following warning message box. An ActiveX control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction I click the “Yes” button and all is well. It is just that the repetition is annoying. If I set the “ScriptErrorsSuppressed” property of WebBrowser control to True, I don’t get the warning message boxes, but the activeX controls don’t work either. Is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Installation On Vista Ultimate Problem

  Everytime I try to run Visual C# Express Edition Installation, I get an error saying I must have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed but I'm currently running Windows Vista Ultimate on my machine. Does anyone know how to fix this problem Sorry, the picture has view only of your desktop not of error. Also I am not sure what is not working. download is not happending or the application after downloding was not working. if the application is not working, then it is a problem that microsoft should know and you should send an email to them by the using 'contact us' link given on the microsoft website. ...Show All

• .NET Development DataTable.Load() Generates InvalidOperationException

  Hello All: I am having a problem with the following code generating a "InvalidOperationException". The exception is thrown sometime, but not all the times. Does anyone have any idea why this code may be causing DataTable.Load() to throw that exception Thank you kindly. Jerry... p.s. Please forgive the cross-post. I must have inadvertantly posted this to WindowsForms. ***** Start Here ***** public partial class CollectionDetailStatusDataTable { public event TableFillingEvent TableFilling = null; private EventWaitHandle tableFilledWaitHandle = new ManualResetEvent(false); private CollectionDetailStatusTableAdapter tableAdapter = null; public CollectionDetailStatusTableAdapter Adapter { get { if (tableAdapter == nu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Timer won't fire

  I have a timer on form1 with the timer_tick set up like this:     Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick         teaTime = False         MessageBox.Show("End timer")     End Sub In a module I have:     Public Sub Transition1()         Form1.Timer1.Enabled = True         teaTime = True         Dim st As Integer = 0         Do While teaTime             ...Show All

• SQL Server Scheduled SQL Server Agent SSIS Package Job Problem

  HELP! I have been banging my head against a brick wall on this one all this morning AAAAAAGGGHHH! 1. I have an SSIS package that runs a simple SQL script and then updates a few tables by downloading some XML of the web. It runs fine when I kick it off manually under SSMS. 2. I created a SQL Server Agent job to run it every day. This always fails. The error information in the log is useless ("Executed as user: domain\user. The package execution failed. The step failed." - I had already figured that out!). It fails almost straight away, and when I enable logging for the SSIS package, no info is ever logged (text file, windows event log, whatever). 3. Out of desperation I have changed Agent to run under the same domain user ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Tiger Model Textures don't look right...

  I've been having some problems with textures and the content pipeline. I've tried exporting some textured objects and the textures seem to repeat a small section over the whole model. As a sanity check, I decided to load the Tiger.X model from the DirectX SDK, and it seems to exhibit the same problem. What exactly is going on here The directX viewer shows it fine in both cases.  The tiger, and the model I'm having trouble with.  For this I am not using any custom shader IE BasicEffect.  I am also not using any custom processor on it and it still exhibits aparently bad texture coordinates. My code for loading and Draw code kind of looks like this: ContentMgr.Load< Model ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Distribuion for End Users?

  In the XNA Beta 2 documentation it is stated:   "How do I distribute my game On Windows you direct users to install XNA Game Studio Express and you distribute the conents of you bin\release directory. Users will be able to run your program like any other application. " Does this mean that all end users will have to install Visual C# Express and XNA GSE in order to play the games with the XNA GSE RTM (Under Windows) Or do you just mean its a requirement for Beta 1 and Beta 2, and eventually the 360 deployment I was under the impression that a run time installer for XNA GSE PC would be available apon the RTM release. It seems stupid to force end users to install Visual C# Express and XNA GSE just to run a game under Wi ...Show All

• Visual Basic Transparent Gif (PictureBox) on top of another PictureBox

  I am trying to do something really simple. I have a small PictureBox control whose image is a GIF file that has some transparency (the white background is the transparent color). When I stick this control on a form, it is indeed transparent, as the color of the form shows where the white used to be. So far so good. Now, I want to stick my small PictureBox on top of a much larger PictureBox, which is full of different colors. When I do so, the transparent gif no longer works - instead of showing the colors 'behind' the white, it is still showing the color of the form! In VBA (e.g. MS Excel VBA form, using Image controls) this is trivial - you set the 'backstyle' property to 'transparent', and it works like a charm. But in Visual Stu ...Show All