Barrios's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista GetWorkflowDefinition removed

  In a previous beta there was a method WorkflowRuntime.GetWorkflowDefinition(). I am now using June CTP and that method has been removed from this object (this happened in beta 2.2 I think ). The method is available on the WorkflowInstance, but this is not what I need. Is there a workaround for obtaining the WorkflowDefinition of a workflow type without using an instance of that workflow type The scenario: I want to iterate through a compiled workflow type and get all activities of a specific custom type so I can add records corresponding to these activities in my workflow engine database. So, at this stage, there are no workflow instances for me to GetWorkflowDefinition ... I need to perform this step before instances can be created b ...Show All

• Community Chat .NET Web Browser Effort - First Preview!

  Hi Guys, A couple of months ago I started an opensource effort to create a Web Browser better than IE7 in .NET. So far its going GREAT, with a team of 3 including me. As of now, source code is not offered - it will be once I get it to a Beta 2 state. Also, if anyone would like to join the project please send an email to netwebbrowser@gmail.com or add mateuszrajca@msn.com to your MSN/Live Messenger contacts list(email is preferred) Here are some stuff you can help in: Write code(C#), fix bugs in code(C#), make sourcefourge web site, report bugs, optimize code(C#), make app more responsive, make installer, graphics (icons logos) and whatever else you can come up with! Download Now Preview 1! ~Matt ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Designers using TFS source control

  Hello, We currently have a number of designers who use Dreamweaver and Photoshop to develop XSLT, XML and HTML files for our presentation layer. I wish to integrate their work into our source control. Is there any way I can do this without installing Visual Studio 2005 on their machines Thanks in advance Chris McKelt Yes. Install just the 'Team Explorer' SKU (from the 'tfc' folder). This will give them access to Source Control Explorer and the tf.exe command line. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB 2005 Express - Removing/Deleting rows from a dataset

  Hi, Can someone explain how to delete a row from a dataset. It should be a simple task, but I cannot find the information to do it. My intention is to fill a dataset with one specific record (row) using the FillBy query from the table adapter. After that I want to delete this record and update the database. Please help me. Thanks. Regards, Pedro Assuming you can find the row you want to delete, it's just a matter of calling the Delete() method on the row. Then save your changes back to the database using the TableAdapter. This code's just off the top of my head, so don't expect it to compile or anything. MyDataSet ds = new MyDataSet(); myTableAdapter.Fill(ds.MyTable); MyData ...Show All

• Visual Basic String$ versus String

  A fellow developer uses "string$" but has no idea why he uses it. So I pose this question to the pros because I've always used "string". What is the difference between using "string$" and "string" The type suffixes on functions, like String$ and Chr$, and variables, like A$ or C1$, come from the original BASIC language specifications. It's outdated usage now in .NET although it was important in VB6 where on functions it indicated the difference between a variant based function and a string based function. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions how to use a control using a string

  Hi All, I want to change the properties of a control, by calling it names. I have several labels in my form (L1...L100 for example) and in the code I want to select one of these label, using a string ("L" & i) in order to modify it property. I can write Activecontrol=L2 But not Activecontrol= Numlabel where numlabel = "L2" But if L2 is a result of a calculation how can I select the proper control. Not sure it is clear ( ) thanks, VSC I dont think the method u said is posible. However, i can give u alternate solution , make a class which inhertis Forms.Label and set up a user variable say "id" for ur tracking...and make 100 objects ...Show All

• Visual Studio read off file

  Hi guys, I Have a file my rootdirectory, XXXX.txt, and I would like to read the contents of it because it contains the build number, for example 784940.1. I wanna be able to get that string and create directories with it. To create directories is pretty straightforward, but to read the contents of file I need some help. Thank you in advance, cdoloriert. Since you are dealing with a single item (build number, assuming that you have 1 line in the file which is just the build number) you can do <ReadLinesFromFile File="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\BuildNumbers.txt" > <Output TaskParameter="Lines" PropertyNameName="ItemsFromFile"/> </ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Earth Invaders 360 (including source)

  Hi ! :) I love XNA Game Studio express, it's just great ! Thanks to the team ;) If i'm posting this topic here now, it's to present you my first (far from being complete) XNA creation. It's named "Earth Invaders 360" :p How to play : Left stick : move your ship Right stick : aim Right trigger : shoot Image : http://jvteamds.free.fr/ship1.PNG (note that the downloadable version has a background ;) ) Here's the file : http://jvteamds.free.fr/EI360_0.2.rar http://jvteamds.free.fr/EI360/EI360_0.1_source.rar For the ones doubting, I made the particle engine myself ! I didn't steal it from spacewar ! :) Please also note that this game will not simply be made of shooting asteroids, there will be ennemies....someday there will... Have fun ;) PS ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Production Method for Released HD-DVDs

  I'm curious, have all the currently released HD-DVDs been produced using SACA (Sonic) If not then what are the other tools Sorry Because Microsoft is a long name, I don't want to refer at an other thing. So Sorry Golgot13 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) CB Model Pro

  All I want to do is make a spinning 3d Laptop.... it just spins until it's clicked on - at which time it comes forward and displays information on it's screen. This is turning out to be really hard - I tried ZAM3D but it is still quite hard. Is it meant to be hard or am I going about it all wrong It can be done in several 3d apps and then by using ZAM as a xaml converter. Alternatively then yes you can hand code it but it will be a large task indeed. Something like this will be relatively easy to produce in ZAM. What are you ZAM skills like ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How to host multiple services at a single location in WCF?

  Hi evryone, WCF is totally new to me, so I need to learn from all of you. After learning WCF by download examples in Microsoft‘s website, I still not quite sure how to design the software for my company using WCF technology. Example: I need to develop software which needs to have many contracts to implement by many classes Interface I EmployeeCtrl ( ServiceContract) implement by: EmployeeCtrl class Interface I SalesOrderCtrl ( ServiceContract) implement by: SalesOrderCtrl class Interface I PartCtrl ( ServiceContract) implement by: PartCtrl class Interface I SalesOrderCtrl ( ServiceContract) implement by: SalesOrderCtrl class and many more …. Based on what I know about WCF at this point, I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Opening / Closing Forms

  Hey guys, Really simply, how do you open forms when you click a button! ! (i.e. in VB its docmd.open 'Form'). I just want to click a button and it pop up another form i have designed. Thanks in advance Tom Basically ive got 2 forms : frmFrontEnd and frmPassword. I want btn_1 to launch frmPassword from frmFrontEnd. I have: frmFrontEnd frmpassword = new frmFrontEnd(); frmpassword.ShowDialog(); This however, keeps opening frmFrontEnd... If I enter: frmFrontEnd frmpassword = new frmpassword(); frmpassword.ShowDialog(); i get a compile error: namespace 'frmpassword' could not be found argh.,...something so simple...but so complicated.... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions doubt on right click menu

  Can anyone help me in getting the handle to the menu which appears when the user right clicks in the slide show window That is , How to get the handle to the context menu which appears when the user right clicks in the slideshow window Thank you for your help. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem invoking IE programmatically

  When using Process.Start to invoke Internet Explorer, IE starts OK but the IE process is signalled as completed to the invoking program, using WaitForExit or the Exited event, even though the IE window is still displayed. The following program demonstrates this: using System; using System.Diagnostics; namespace test { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { Process ieProcess = Process .Start( "iexplore.exe" ); ieProcess.WaitForExit(); } } } The WaitForExit completes, even though the IE window has not exited. It appears as though the process created by the program actually creates a second process which is the one displaying the IE window, and the first process exits. This work ...Show All

• SQL Server how to do this in SSIS? soory if i m a noob

  Hi all, Am trying to setup a SSIS package between a sql2000, sql2005 source and a sql2005 destination. I have 2 concerns, firstly, due to performance reasons (we have 2 huge legacy databases): After 1st run, Source table has: 1 - 1000 records Destination table has: 1 - 1000 records For 2nd run, Source table has: 1 - 1500 records Destination table has: 1 - 1500 records How I insert only the 1001th record - 1500th record, without touching the 1st to 1000th record Secondly, if there are any changes in values in the records 1st to 1000th record, how to I compare and only update the value that has changed Is there any particular configuration setting in sql that I can use Many thanks for any help provided. ...Show All