EWGoforth's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Double hand-shake in WCF

  Hi all, I'm looking for a way for STS to ask a client for additional information. First a client sends username/password to STS, the STS a uthenticates the user against a database and returns a list of values to select from. The user selects a value from the list and sends it to STS again. The STS includes the value to an issued token. When a webservice receives the token it can extract the value along with username. As I underdstand the webservice can ask the STS for the additional info by its own but for me it makes more sense to keep everything in the token and do not bother asking STS for every consequent request. Thanks in advance Vicel, What you are saying makes sense and is t ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with a VS C++ file

  I have a Visual Studio C++ file that I need to combine with a VB6 file. Preferably, I would like to go ahead and update the VB6 file so that it is completely tied together in VS 05. I need some help with the C++ file so that I can combine the two functionalities. Is there any way to use a form created in VC++ and apply it to a VB2005 project or vice versa. The C file is being used to communicate with a USB device and the VB file is communicating with a Can Bus. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The C++ file was created in part from another file for USB applications. The file is rather large since there are quite a few parts to the project. If you want, I can post the code or send it. Overall, I am trying to get a better grasp on ...Show All

• Windows Forms Which windows product?

  Which windows product has a silver toolbar and a popping up green start-up button Is it windows XP Home or some other windows product Plz tell me which one. im afraid this is the wrong place to post the question, the best place would be over at: www.microsoft.com/communities in the Windows XP newsgroups to answer your question, its an actual theme used in Windows XP (home and pro) to display the silver stuff you are asking about. Thanks! ...Show All

• SQL Server SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [Table] from an Oracle database

  Hi friends, I have problem when retrieving a result from SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [Table] from an Oracle database. When I try to put the result (single row) in a variable I get the following error message. [Execute SQL Task] Error: An error occurred while assigning a value to variable "RowsSource": "Unsupported data type on result set binding RowsSource.". Pls help me Mahe The underlying Oracle client and OLE-DB provider has an interesting take on data types and their conversion in OLE-DB. I assume there is a conflict between what Oracle returns as the type and your variable. To help determine the type returned put that query in a data flow and see what you get. Then match the variable type to this. Yo ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Vista allows What versions of DirectX?

  (split from http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1221168  to make a new question) It is interesting that you say that because I am testing a VB6 app that was working fine on XP and below but now fails on Vista when it tries to create a DirectX8 object, specifically Set oDX = new DirectX8 throws Error 429, ActiveX failed to create component. Running in XP SP2 compatibility mode does not work either. I would be really grateful if anyone has any ideas on this.  I also tried running the latest DX9 redistributable because I heard that was providing backward compatibility, but to no avail. Thanks. I'm sure you've probably seen this, but this is the support state ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IfElseActivity built within ActivityToolboxItem (Designer Drop)

  Hi I am trying to create an composite activity that has its child activities added as it is dropped onto the designer. I use a ActivityToolboxItem and override the CreateComponentsCore in order to achieve this. this worked well for most activities untill I tried the IfElseActivity - or more specifically the conditions of the branch. MyActivty has a boolean property that will be bound to other activities by the designing user, this should then be used as the condition of the IfElseBranchActivity. Users can't add this manually as MyActivity will have an activity designer attribute that hides the IfElseBranchActivity (and I don't won't them to either). I can't find a way of creating this condition/rule inside the ActivityToolboxItem. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Go On: Why VisualBrush for Words Can't Writte Words on GeometryModel3D on second viewport3d ?

  I Writte words to Model3D in some Viewport3Ds, On One is right, but the other is wrong ,why Which Scene can cause this private VisualBrush CreateTextBrush(string strText) { TextBlock labeltext = new TextBlock(); labeltext.Text = strText; SolidColorBrush ForegroundBrush; ForegroundBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, 222, 130, 0)); SolidColorBrush BackgroundBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(0, 255, 255, 255)); //SolidColorBrush BackgroundBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White); labeltext.Foreground = (Brush)ForegroundBrush; labeltext.Background = (Brush)BackgroundBrush; VisualBrush ViB = new VisualBrush(labeltext); return ViB; } ...Show All

• Visual Basic ClickOnce Publish Version Problem

  I am currently using .Net 2005 Professional (see Info below). Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0.50727 I am using ClickOnce to publish new versions to a local web site. Lately whenever I publish, the solution builds just fine, but attempts to publish an older version (1.1.2.33) even though I have manually set the Publish Version (in the Publish tab in Project Properties dialog) to 1.1.2.42. It appears that regardless of the version I enter in the property, I get the same error message: Published version 1.1.2.41 will be replaced by an older version (1.1.2.33). Can anyone help me with this one ...Show All

• Gadgets hello!! problem with web sidebar gadget

  Hello, im new to ur forum. I'm working on a very simple gadget, but i have problem with the flyout and with showing a web site in it. Can anyone tell me how i show a wesite within the flyout box. Thank you very much.   emepvsd wrote: No text shown either.... Cannot undetsand why. When i remove the <g: ... > command line, the text is shown. But,when I click on the "Show" text label, something appears, but its to small and "covered" by the gadget. Maybe we have to change the flyout left value i now found why. the "height" of the gadget must be at least 120: <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> var url; function setupgadget() { machname.innerHTML = ...Show All

• .NET Development Connecting to a Sybase db

  When running my program I get this error, I installed the Sybase client in my local machine and I can access the tables using the SQL Advantage utility in Sybase. Do I have to do anything else Message "The 'Sybase.ASEOLEDBProvider.2' provider is not registered on the local machine." String Thank you JM Hi, That would be my best guess. Since the error that you are experiencing suggests that the .Net provider for sybase is not present in the computer... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Right-click menu icon

  Hi there, Can you tell me how to add an icon next to a custom right-click menu item Like the little scissors next to the "Cut" item, I would like to place an image next to my custom menu item. Any help would be great. Thanks. Hi, The menu item you create should have a faceid property. You set this to an integer value that represents the built in icon you want to use. You can get free faceid viewer addins that let you see what icon uses what face id. http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2004/11/23/faceid-viewer-addin/ I hope thats right I use it for toolbars but I believe toolbars and menu bars derive from a common command bar object and it's that object that has the faceid property. ...Show All

• Visual C++ How to change default font of PorpertySheet and its PropPages ?

  Hello, I changed the default font of ProprtyPage resource dialogs to "Tahoma" font (in ResourceView of MS Visual C++ 6.0) . But when I create a PropertySheet it changes fonts of all the pages back to default font "MS Shell Dlg". Could you please help me to solve this problem How can I change the default font of PropertySheet and its Pages to "Tahoma" font Thanks in advance, Mark. Thank you, Viorel. Font changing of all controls on PropPage helps, but it does not change the size of controls. So the only solution for now is to implement my own PropertySheet. Unless there is any alternative way of font changing. Thank you, Mark. ...Show All

• .NET Development This Error Appears: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0.

  I have saved the database connection string to a key named 'ConnectionString' allowing to access it by calling 'configurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString") But a red line comes under the configuration in the part of the : 'configurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString")'. When i run it this error appears: Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0. and says: Line 4: Public Shared Function GetCategory() As SqlDataReader Line 5: Dim connection As New SqlConnection(connectionString) Line 6: Dim command As New SqlCommand("GetCategory", connection) Line 7: command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure Line 8: connection.O ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to get a framework element define in cell template

  Hello, I'm working with ListView+GridView. I define my own datatemplate (stack panel with an image and a textblock inside) for each GridViewColumn.CellTemplate I have. Once I have the table up and running (loaded, etc) I want to get a reference of for textblock object in a given cell. Is that possible When I define the template I give a unique name for the textblock, later I try to use ListViewItem.Template.FindName() to retrieve my textblock but it returns null. Thanks Felipe I know that I can use VisualTreeHelper, but is that really the best (only) way It seems like there should be an easier way to access a cell in a GridView. ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating Partions on Developer Edition

  Hi, I was trying to partition my cube built in MSAS 2005 Developer Edition based on time dimension, however I was running into a lot of issues. I just read an article which states that cube partition is only possible on Enterprise Edition of MSAS 2005 can someone verify if it is true and if thats the case then why do they provide an option to partition the cube in the developer edition. Thanks Hi, Thanks for the response guys. Matt I had one quick question if I am able to process a cube using table binding as opposed to query binding to create partitions and the sql generated during processing of the cube does have sub selects and it does build the cube sucessfully I dont think ...Show All