Chad Moran's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Issues with cummunication between Workflow

  Hi , Well Now some more issues .. I have a class which is responsible for instantiating 3 workflows ..all sequential When one is executing it raising event which should be handled by HandleExternalEvent by another workflow but in my case Workflow seems to be terminating before it can deliver the messages to Workflow .. I have included my handleExternalEvent of second Workflow in WhileActivity so that Workflow don't terminate ..In the mean time my First Workflow losses its persistence store ... 1. Host Application 2. Workflow 1 3. Workflow 2 4. Workflow 3 step 1. Host Application Communicate with Workflow1 ( I used Local communication service , it works well when Host Application & Workflow 1 ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Content Access

  How will we be able to access content when apps are running on the XBox using XNA Specifically I can access the System.IO namespace on the Windows platform to load content ( meshes, textures, sounds, etc ). What is going to be available the XNA framework for the Xbox I would imagine that it would be a modified System.IO namespace though as they're not going to allow haphazard access to the drive, probably just to files in the game's folder or something similar. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Is XNA best for me?

  Hi Guys, first post here so Hi to all. I am starting to look at developing a multiplayer game for use over the net, i have never developed a game before so I am looking at possible solutions. I am a dot net C# programmer so naturally XNA pulled me in but before i went to far in i thought i would see if it could do what i wanted. The game is going to be a multiplayer online game, whether purely online or with a download then linked to an online server (most likely as the graphics are all going to be big 3D stuff so most likely to large for purely online). Bit like Unreal. So can XNA do this for me Or should i look at Managed Direct X Thanks Steve For starters the Managed DirectX Syste ...Show All

• SQL Server Backup strategy

  Hi, In my current organisation they are using SQL Server. They are using TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) to back up the server on a nightly base. However I feel that this is not the correct way. Suppose I need some data back, I call technical support and they would restore the server. If another user made some changes to another database that day, he would lose his changes. Of course they could restore a file but I am not sure if this is correctly. What will happen to the transaction log for example My idea is that they should backup the database using the normal sql backup commando, dump the data to a folder and backup that folder. Any suggestions please Constantijn Enders ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Use XNA to make a map maker?

  How can I incorporate XNA into a Form so that I can make a map builder rather then make the whole interface inside XNA , I would like to be able to use windows controls. Thank you I'm in the midst of doing this currently. The decision I made was to add another XNA game project to my solution. this new project is the editor. Instead of the game class inheriting from Game, it inherits from the game I'm working on. So I have a project "MyGame" and a "MyGameEditor". In the editor project it has all of the classes necessary to build the editor, but since it's a sub class of the game it has all of the rendering/scenegraph stuff available to it. Then the editor has a bunch of small forms a ...Show All

• .NET Development WSE 3.0 Encrypt & Sign with no Certificate

  In the WSE 3.0 settings area on VS 2005 the only way you can select for the message to be encrypted and sign is if you choose a certificate on the next screen. My question is: Is it possible to Encrypt and Sign the message without using a cert and how. Thanks for any help ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Excel user form to select a favourite file

  I am trying to use a custom form for the first time and would like to select an excel file from the normal "File _ Save As..." window and once selected, save the path and filename into cell A1 of a spreadsheet called "My Toobar.xls". This will then allow the user to open this "favourite" file very quickly. Can anyone help me get this Windows "File _ Save As..." browser window embedded into a UserForm. Many thanks, Paul Hi, You can use the build in SaveAs dialog in Excel. The example below show you how to show the dialog filtered, it only shows files of type *.fil and the file the user selected is stored in variable vSelectedFile.     ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Thread Pool

  Hi All, i want the different between ThreadPool.RegisterWaitForSingleObject And ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem what are the appropriate position to use this. in my case i want to upload certain details in MB to multiple site. right now i'm using ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(UploadDataToDevice), "hhtp://myweb.com"); wat is need of using thread.sleep(1000); for uploading to 100 different site simultaneously...... am i right orelse plz make me correct Thanks and Regards Amjath You should use QueueUserWorkItem if you want multiple request to be processed simultanously. You can use the ThreadPool.SetMaxThreads() method to set the maximum number of threads used. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA Game Studio Express/Framework is ready!

  Get it here: http://msdn.com/xna/gse XNA Dev Center (going live soon) will have the readme file along with an updated FAQ. Enjoy! ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vihang's Re-hosting Workflow Designer example errors

  Vihang, I am receiving the following message when using your Re-hosting example code: Property value is not valid. The Service 'System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Design.IExtendedUIService' musy be installed for this operation to succeed. Ensure that this service is available. Have you seen this before Is there a reason I cannot view the Invoked handler in the properties windows I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks in advance, John P. Jon, I am still getting the same errors. This template causes error when running my code. I commented out certain things in this template so that I can run the code, but I get the same errors when trying to access properties via the UI designer. Let me know if y ...Show All

• Windows Forms Slow Form Rendering

  Whenever I have 100+ controls on a form, the render speed is very slow. Even on a fast machine, I can still see the controls being drawn on the screen. Is there a way to freeze the screen and unfreeze it after everything is finished render Or is it a problem with the CLR and nothing can be done One thing you fail to mention is if you are adding the controls yourself, or if they were added via the designer. If you are adding them yourself, then you need to do this: form1.SuspendLayout(); ... add the controls ... form1.ResumeLayout(); ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Internet Explorer Toolbar (Menu Bar) disappeared after installing IE 7

  I use yahoo as my homepage, when the "Get IE7 now!" appeared in the toolbar, I clicked on it and installed it. Big Mistake so far...Here's the problem, after installing my IE menu bar (toolbar) containing "File, Edit, View, tools, help" vanished and I can't figure out how to retrieve it or get it back. I have checked and it is not hidden behind another toolbar. Along with that, The IE blue bar at the top & small bars at the bottom contain no information of the URL (webpage) when pages are loaded. In the Yahoo toolbar, under the pencil icon- there is no standard toolbar listed anymore. Also my tabs disappeared from yahoo and under the toolbar options there no longer is a check box to "Enable Tabbed Browsin ...Show All

• SQL Server I have a simular problem as clay.routh, Can you help me please?

  Here is my sumary.txt log file from SQL Express. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 9.00.2047.00 ============================== OS Version : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Time : Sun Aug 27 08:16:07 2006 HOME-D84394AF4F : Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is either not installed or is disabled. IIS is required by some SQL Server features. Without IIS, some SQL Server features will not be available for installation. To install all SQL Server features, install IIS from Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel or enable the IIS service through the Control Panel if it is already installed, and then run SQL Server Setup again. For a list of features that depend on IIS, see Features Supported by Ed ...Show All

• SQL Server Error installing SQL Express 2005 SP1 on XP Home/SP2

  As the subject says, I am getting an error installing SQL Express 2005 SP1 on XP Home/SP2. I have never had a previous version of SQL server installed. I have never had Visual Studio installed. I have tried extracting the setup files and running from a different directory. I have tried installing the advanced package as well with the same results. When I run the setup, the Client and support files are successfully installed. It then goes on to the system analysis, where I get one warning about my hardware but I have checked the help file and my system appears to meet the system requirements. After I click Next from this window is where I get the error, " Error writing to file: Access is denied. . Verify that you have access to that di ...Show All

• SQL Server Error description

  I want to club the ErrorDescription system variable property in OnError. And I want to send this whole ErrorDescription variable on onTaskFailed. Can you please suggest how to club this errordescription on OnError event In the data flow, you can use a script component to grab the description: Imports System Imports System.Data Imports System.Math Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper Public Class ScriptMain Inherits UserComponent Public Overrides Sub Input0_ProcessInputRow(ByVal Row As Input0Buffer) 'Use the incoming error number as a parameter to GetErrorDescription Row.ErrorDescription = ComponentMetaData.GetErrorDescrip ...Show All