kennm's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Way to get property from an persisted workflow instance

  Dear all, How can I retrieve Workflow Properties from an workflow instance (either loaded and persisted) Please help. Thanks. Andy Ho Bill, I have run through the said SDK sample, but it only contain examples on how to retrieve the Activity/Instance's name, not the user defined properties values inside. Any hints on how to do that Andy Ho ...Show All

• Windows Forms nullable numeric control?

  NumericUpDown does not allow to enter a NULL value. Why not I need a number control which allows NULL vallue. What can I do If you're using .NET 2.0, you could use either Nullable<NumericUpDown> nud; or NumericUpDown nud; both are the same, and can come in handy when you want to null out a value type. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Game.UpdateComponents order

  I was wondering if there is any specific order in which GameComponents are updated within the Game.UpdateComponents function, or if there's any way to ensure that components are updated in a specific order. For example, if I create a GameComponent to manage input, I wouldn't want it to collect input at the end of Game.UpdateComponents, because it would be another tick before the entities used the input that was collected. I would want it to update near the front of the Game.UpdateComponents loop. Is there any way to ensure update order Thats the reason i dont think im going to use the component pattern much. Having an easy way of specifying ordering and changing it later on is very important IMO. I normally base my game loop aroun ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) [Wish] X(a)ml editor for VS.NET

  I don't know if anyone else share the same mania as me. I wish to read the xml (not only xaml) attributes in a specific order so that I can immediately understand the name, meaning, etc. For example: <Grid Name="MyGrid" Background='Acqua' Margin="0" ... /> <Rectangle Name="MyRect" Fill='' Blue' Left=.. Right=... Margin="0" /> My wish is to have the chance to specify, in a tag-by-tag basis, the ordered list of attribute names. If an attribute is not in the list, it will be appended at the end. ... and please, don't shoot me :-D Raffaele Hi Andrea, I am not trying to read programmatically. I am talking about the vs.net xml editor. When I drop a control with Cider or ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Ball Collison for pool/ collision

  hi, ive been making a pool/ billards game in xna in the past weeks and i am having trouble with the collison. im currently using boundingsphere's and they work when the white ball hits but when the ball comes back at it, it stops moving. Any Help http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000516/lander_01.htm You will need to log in to access this article however it covers pool physics :) ...Show All

• .NET Development Storing and Retrieving Connection Strings

  There is an article on msdn2 ... see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254494.aspx which suggests that you can add this for the app.config file: <connectionStrings> <add name="DatabaseConnection" connectionString="Persist Security Info=False;Integrated Security=SSPI;database=Northwind;server=(local);" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> </connectionStrings> and this in the code Option Explicit On Option Strict On Imports System.Configuration Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim settings As ConnectionStringSettings settings = _ ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("DatabaseConnection") If Not settings Is Nothing Then Console.W ...Show All

• Visual Basic URGENT! hw can I save/retrieve document files from desktop via vb.net into sql database

  Hi, Anyone knows how to get a document file from the desktop or any plug-in devices(example: ext. harddisk) via a vb.net application and save the document file to a sql database. Then after, another person on another computer can retrieve the document file from sql database via vb.net application and save it on his/her desktop. Notice: The other person doesnt have the document file on his desktop. The document file must be retrieve from the sql as a whole document. example: a Word Document. Please help me with this. Regards, Melvin Hi, i'm currently trying to do something similar. The following links should explain to you at least how to write the file to the db (It worked for me): http://support.microsoft.com/defa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Debugging Problem

  Did anyone encounter problems in Debugging a VSTO application I am working with Excel VSTO and everytime I start a debug session it only lasts for few seconds or several steps and the VS 2005 restarts. WEIRD...... Pls help..... Well now, that does sound rather serious ... a couple of questions/ideas: 1. If this happens consistently around the same block of code, then you have a nasty bug that needs fixing. Wrap your code in Try/Catch blocks, catching the generic 'Exception' to see if anything 'falls out' (although you said the session only lasts "a few seconds", which leads me to believe that even if you didn't step through the code, you're still seeing a system crash). 2. Have you tried ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to be sure if a build is running in a build machine?

  Hi ALL, I, programatically, want to know if a build machine is busy with a build. How can I do this Can anyone help me Hi Manojit, Check this blog post - http://blogs.msdn.com/gautamg/archive/2005/12/19/505422.aspx HTH ...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 Undocumented sp supported...

  Dear folks, I’m seeing that undocumented stored procedures such as sp_MSforeachdb or sp_Mshelpcolumns are available yet on Sql Management Studio whereas other such as sp_MSgettools_path not. I don't get the point so that l et me know your thoughts/ideas about this. Thanks in advance and best regards, The procedures are as you already told undocumented, means that they are not documented in the online help BOL. They are shwoing up in SSMS, but that does not mean that are supported (they also showed up in Enterprise Manager). HTH, jens Suessmeyer. --- http://www.sqlserver2005.de --- ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro system window

  hi guys, is it possible to get the height and width of the system window of foxpro through a code in a program. please reply i've been stuck on this problem for quite some time now. dragon123 wrote: is it possible to get the height and width of the system window of foxpro through a code in a program. please reply i've been stuck on this problem for quite some time now. Doesn't _Screen.width and _Screen.Height work for you ...Show All

• SQL Server "Connection is not open" error when caching a Cellset

  A web page in my application caches a Cellset the first time it is requested for the lifetime of the current request only. Different visualization controls on the page use the same cellset. This has been working fine up until now until when I recently tried to access the following: cellset.Axes(0).Set.Hierarchies(0).Caption Apparently accessing this property causes the cellset to rehit the server, and I'm getting a "Connection is not open" error. Is there any way to reconnect the cellset to an open connection I don't see a property on the object for it. If there are any Microsoft techs listening, I'd like to point out that this has the potential to be a HUGE problem. While I'm only caching the cellset for the request l ...Show All

• Visual C# One project to rule them all

  I have a solution with 2 projects (each project builds a DLL). I want to create a 3rd project that takes all the settings and code from the first 2 projects and create one mongo DLL. What's the simplest way to achieve this Thanks! -- Smeagol Shared project What is that What I don't understand/know is how I can have a single solution, which houses 3 projects Foo.dll, Goo.dll, and Mongo.dll (made from Foo & Goo projects). I don't want to have a separate project that I must maintain the settings for. For example, if I add a new pre-processor definition to the Foo project, I would like Mongo to auto-magically receive that setting change. Does that make sense Is this possible w ...Show All

• Visual C++ OLE/COM Object Viewer where??

  Hello Does OLE/COM Object Viewer come with vs2005 i dont see it in tools menu and oleview at the command line wont work. where can i find it do i have to download the tool somewhere thanks ...Show All