dragoncells's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista InvokeWorkflowActivity1

  I'm trying to figure out how to start a workflow within a workflow. I have a Parent Workflow that has a code condition which just writes out to the console. After this activity, I have an InvokeWorkflowActivity that calls another workflow (Child). This child workflow has another code condition that just writes out to the console and then ends. The problem I'm having is that the Child workflow never runs. I did not set the Invoking Method of the InvokeWorkflowActivity1. Do I need to set this If so, it will create a method which I should use to initialize my child workflow. What does that exactly mean and look like I could not find any documentation for this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Brad private void invokeChildWorkflow(obj ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) OperationContract Instrumentation

  Hi, i am serching information about instrumentation (performance counters) in WFC. When you install WCF, the installation creates some performance counters, but you can not monitor every active operation contract, average time, etc. For example, i would like to monitor: - Number of operation contract calls. - Number of operation contract calls OK. - Number of operation contract calls failed. - Average Time. - Every Service Operation Contract contains a Category for performance counters. I think that you can not do this with default WCF performance counters. I am trying to use a solution similar to EDAF instrumentation. Anybody knows a better solution Thanks and sorry for my english.....;-) ...Show All

• Windows Forms How can I set a digital clock on my windows form project in C#?

  Hi, The question is very simple. " How can I set a digital clock on my project " I want to put a digital clock seems like that " 2006-09-23 Wendsday 23:12:48 GMT " means " YYYY - MM - DD ' DAY ' HH : MM : SS ' GMT ' " I am master of C and php however I am newbe in the visual languages. Thank you... Edit: I am using C# i dont know how to make a digital clock using structure.can you guide me .i have heard that it can be make by using sleep function ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Team System Chat Next Wed

  Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) . Join the chat on Wednesday, February 7 th , 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar Additional Time Zones ...Show All

• Visual Studio BATCH FILE and VB.NET

  I am creating a project with VB.NET and i need to write a batch file and excute it or call it from there, how can i do this Another thing about writting the batch file, I dont have any experince in writting batch files, but from my readings i understand that it should be written with dos commands and saved in a .bat format.. I want the batch file to open a text file and read it charecter by charecter, and output the charecters+1 to a new document.. For example if the text file has 'a b c' the batch file should write the following output to a new text file 'b c d'. Any HELP will be appreciated.. Thanks. Yah i tried that but for some reason it didnt work... although i put the batch file ...Show All

• Visual Studio Forcing a clean build - especially for Unit test DLL's

  G'day, On of the problems I'm finding frustrating to resolve is how to do the equivelant of the /clean project command in the GUI build process. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe" /Clean /project UnitTest C:\Data\Customers\xyz\Development\TheSolution.sln I know there is a Solution explorer right click option to "clean". But I really want to be able to switch that on perminantly for a project, so I can just build/debug it an know that all the latest files are being used. This seem particularly critical for Unit test DLL's for instance. I've had a snoop around the Pre-Build Events for Visual Basic solutions, but the help doesn't seem to give enough examples for me to work out ...Show All

• SQL Server Microsoft Participation in this forum

  The VSTS team have posted a really useful manifesto for their participation in MSDN forums which I have read here: https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=885414&SiteID=1 I'd like to politely suggest that the SSIS team do something similar on here. People have different expectations of what involvement Microsoft do/should have on this forum and it would help if Microsoft could clarify their position on this. -Jamie Hi Everybody, Here is the perspective of an insider; SSIS team member: First of all, this is a great forum. The posting traffic is quite amazing. SSIS is the most popular SQL forum and one of the top MSDN forums overall, which is amazing for such a young product. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Reference from one DSL metamodel to another

  Hi, How can I reference from my metamodel to element from another metamodel For example, SDM (is based on old version of DSL), you can inherit or reference on elements from imported metamodels, but they implements it inside SDM. Probably, in the current version of the DSL you have implemented this as DSL functionality May be if all referenced metamodels are loaded to Store it solves some problem, but how does it works for Designer, for instance Evgeny Popov We need this functionality as well, but have been unable to find any built-in way of accomplishing it. We were able to work around it by writing two custom directive processors that load the models being referenced before the DslDirectiveProcess ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Loading icons from an .exe

  Hi, I am writing an app on a Windows Mobile 5.0 device in VB using Visual Studio 2005, and having problems extracting the icons from .exe files. On Windows, the following code works file: First of all most of the OS API's are located in the coredll.dll in Windows CE. Second, you should use ExtractIconEx instead: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa453065.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Reading 2 lines from a file

  Hi all! It's me (again). I feel really frustrated, because I know that I'm so near to achieving my goal, and yet it seems so far! Problem: I have a text file with 2 lines (it will always be the same): - Line 1 defines the name of the "Plugin" - Line 2 defines the executable path of the "Plugin" A directory (sampledir1) contains an amount of files structured like this. Is there a way to add the names of these "Plugins" to a listbox, but also assign a value to that item, so that when the item is selected, the plugin will launch. Please don't get mad at me for asking so many questions - I'm still a newbie... Thanks! Johannes Hi Spotty Thanks - that helped me a lot, but now, I also want to put in a cas ...Show All

• Commerce Server Request for: Commerce Server Staging Resources

  I’m looking for resources on Commerce Server Staging (CSS). A walk through, tutorial, or blog post would be nice - I’ve already been scouring the MSDN documentation. Thanks in advance. Thanks Ning, I have visited all those resources, and unfortunately they aren't what I'm looking for. More specifically I'm looking for a tutorial that outlines how to stage business assets across servers. I can't seem to get the servers configured properly, any help would be appreciated. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. SpaceWar with a PC controller?

  Hello, I was experimenting the SpaceWar application, but it seems to expect a xbox360 controller instead of a broad PC controller since... well, I'm running it on a PC. Do you know anything about that I should be able to use it. I have a team that wants to use XNA for the PC platform - we could hardly care about the xbox360 at the moment. Forcing our players to have a xbox360 controller when they already have a fully capable controller does not make any sense. Did XNA leave out DirectInput or something I'd hate to drop back into MDX just because of this necessity. If MS has no answer for this, may I suggest that DirectInput should be included in XNA when the program detects its running on a PC Average Joe may not want to play the game ...Show All

• SQL Server Lock and unlock the table

  Hi, How would I lock a table so that the access calls from other applications are put in "wait" by sql server till I unlock How would I do this Thanks, Fahad MS SQL, and most "server" based databases, don't do that unless they absoulutely need too, and it is done by the engine, not the user. What is it you are trying to do and why If you just want to make sure someone doesn't read partially updated data, use a transaction. ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) WPF/E Deployment

  Hello, I have created a WPF/E control that I am attempting to deploy.  I have successfully deployed the control locally.  However, I want to deploy it to a publicly visible server. A strange thing seems to be occurring.  I have validated, via javascript, that my wpf/e control is not null.  However, I attempt to access a wpf/e element via JavaScript using control.FindName("ControlElement") and the return value is null.  However, when I run the same code locally, I get the expected control. The item that is throwing me off is the fact that the wpf/e control is not null, however, I can't seem to access the elements of the control.  I have several questions, Does the hosting server have to have t ...Show All

• Visual C# Display HTML Document in an application form ?

  hello any ideas how to display an HTML document on an application form with Visual Studio 2003 using Visual C# thank you David L wrote: It's been a while since I last used VS 2003 now, but try the following: Right click in your toolbox and choose "Add/Remove items" In the window that pops up, choose "COM" or "COM Components" (can't remember what it's called) Scroll down to "Microsoft Web Browser", mark it and click ok. If I recall right, you should now have a WebBrowser Control in your toolbox. Let me know if it doesn't work. thank you david i just tried this , couldn't find it there :( well, it must be inc ...Show All