Rob Zuber's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Rehosting WWF and set ifelseActivity Rule expression

  1.I have rehosted WF with _vihang's sample(WorkflowDesignerControl.EXE). 2.I have created a customActivity with a boolean property(BlnReturn). Now,In the WF interface i put in a customActivity1 and a ifelseActivity1.Then I select the ifElseBranchActivity1 and run the RunConditionDialog,In the Dialog i input 'this.customActivity1.BlnReturn == True' .When i click the 'Ok' button,the error message will show "The type of the menber 'customActivity1' could not be determined.Ensure that the declaration is corrent". The same problem will run correctly in vs!Why Please help me!Thanks! I'm not 100% sure - but it could be a type information problem (lack of type info for the rule editing functionality). You can always do this: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to process a Office document which is encrypted by RMS

  PS: i programme it with C# it's a programming question. i want my .net programme to access the document which enrypted by RMS . but i can't. when i use OleDb + ADO.NET to access a normal Excel file, i make it. but, if the excel file has been enrypted by RMS , it will return falure message. so i try to use Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel(.NET Component ,ver. 8.0) , but i don't how to open a excel file :-(, i can not find any method about Open(string file) and then , i try Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library(COM Component) , i got the above question too. plz help me. thanks and best regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Killing a Timer

  Hello all, I have a method that is using a timer as a dealy to call another function: void sb_Completed( object sender, EventArgs e) { // create the timer PauseTimer that calls pauseMethod in 3 secs DispatcherTimer pauseTimer = new DispatcherTimer ( TimeSpan .FromMilliseconds(3000), DispatcherPriority .Normal, new EventHandler (pauseMethod), this .Dispatcher); } void pauseMethod( object sender, EventArgs e) { // kill the timer pauseTimer.Stop(); } // I get this error: Error 4 'System.EventArgs' does not contain a definition for 'pauseTimer' C:\Projects\TickerApp2\ I assume it is because the timer is out of scope... So, can someone please help me to kill the timer ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums A couple of questions regarding the Windows Error Reporting Program

  Hello, Recently I discovered that the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting program is open to all developers free of charge if two requirements (more or less were met). The first requirement was that upon signing up for the program, the candidate company must send a unique Verisign certificate that represent's their organization's identity (about $100). The second requirement was that the application to be submitted to Microsoft for WER must also have a Microsoft Authenticode signature also provided by Verisign (for about $400). My only question that I have is whether I could go with some other signing authority who participates in the Authenticode code signing program (Thawte for instance), and still participate in the Windows Error Rep ...Show All

• Visual Basic Can you create sql statements by editing the *.xsd file?

  On the page asking for a specifig SQL SELECT WHERE statement from the TableAdapter Query Configuration Wizard, I want to create a sql statement that selects all the rows with a common condition: SELECT FirstName, Address, State, Zip, Phone FROM Database WHERE LastName = 'X' How can I make 'X' a dynamic variable derived from combobox.items.item(combobox.selectedindex).tostring (if combobox.selectedindex >-1) Edit: I found that the above statement does not work (combobox.items.item(combobox.selectedindex).tostring) to display the string value of the selected item. Can get the string of the selected combobox item to display without using TableAdapter.GetData.Item(combobox.selectedindex).LastName.tostring Hi, If you can take the t ...Show All

• Smart Device Development device unable to connect

  Hi. I was having interesting debugging/breakpoint problems and issues where "The operation could not be completed" messages when I try to run/deploy my application on a smartphone mobile device, running .NET CF 2.0 VS2005 Pro.   well, I formatted and re-installed everything on my computer, for alot of reasons. I've installed VS2005 and WM5SDK and guess what When I try to deploy the application I get the error: The operation could not be completed, the device is not connected.   But the device is connected - Activesync is there, its on, device is synced - why am I getting the error message even though its a clean formatted computer   How can I configure it, like before, to automatically connect to t ...Show All

• .NET Development Error 25007.Error occurred while initializing fusion. Setup could not

  Hi, I am trying to install .net framework 2.0 on Windows XP OS. I get the following error " Error 25007 . Error occurred while initializing fusion . Setup could not load fusion with LoadLibraryShim().   how do i solve this     Thank you! Thank you! Deleting the policies folder worked for me. VS 2005 and .NET 2.0 was completely dead on my machine after attempting to apply SP1 :( ...Show All

• SQL Server single node cluster

  Is it possible to setup an cluster with sql server 2005 as single node cluster - and lets say in 4 month we add the second node to the cluster - its because of budget and we do not want to setup then again. Thanks for your help, HANNES Yes. It is possible to create a single node cluster. I have done it successfully. As common sense says in a cluster make sure the failover can take the load of the primary. ...Show All

• Windows Forms TreeNode IsExpanded property behaving unreliably

  In my Outlook add-in (C# .NET, Vis Studio 2005), as a form is being disposed, I serialize the contents of a TreeView control to an XML file.  This works fine every time, preserving all aspects of the tree data, except for one thing:  The value of TreeNode.IsExpanded often returns "false" even though the node is indeed expanded.  I tried serializing inside a lock(myTreeview) block because I thought the control might be getting partly disposed, but this doesn't help at all.  The TreeView.Disposing property is "false". Has anyone seen this behavior, or have ideas on what's wrong     OK... here is the method that serializes the tree into XML... First, the call to do so in the Form's Dispo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windowbase application

  Hi, I want to create a windowbase application which must be in running stage and its icon should be displayed in taskbar system tray. All suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance. Regards Hi Hitendra here we have an example minimize window to system tray using c#, hope it help you. http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/3336751 ...Show All

• Visual C++ audio input?

  Hey there, just wondering if anyone knows of a simple way to get audio input from a microphone. What I want to do is build a neural network, train it to recognize commands, and then have it execute files and or tasks based on those commands. In addition, if anyone knows how to call external programs, that would be very nice to know as well -I have a good book on the windows API which I imagine I will need to read to figure this one out though, as I imagine there is no simple way to do this. Thanks You could simple use a microcontroller that has ADC for converting the analog signal to a digital signal and then send it to the computer through RS232 port, I have created a PC application that rec ...Show All

• Visual Basic Starting apps at shutdown

  I am writeing a simple app that displays a message telling the user to turn off the moniter etc before the user shuts down the system. Could someone exlpain how I can run the app at shutdown. The app also has to be iinstalled on a large network, is there anyway of installing it on all the machines at once. Thanks Hi Rob, Take a look at the ClickOnce delivery system. It's designed to enable applications to be installed from remote machines as and when they are updated. I am unsure as to what style of application you are creating, but if you can have a form loaded in it, a simple way to detect a system shutdown would be to handle the FormClosing event and check the value of the FormClosingEventArg ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) error Installing winfx

  I got a problem on one of my computer which also try to build a wcf application.During the time I found that the version of SDK and its winFx runtime didnt match. So I unistalled it, through add/remove program and using uninstall tool. When I tried to install it again, at 22MB of 32MB I got error message : EventType : wap10setup P1 : 13165 P2 : 3.0.03906.22_waprc0_x86_sfx P3 : gen P4 : inst P5 : f P6 : dlmgr_verificationerror P7 : 5008 P8 : 5008 P9 : type_badcertificate P10 : - I have also reinstall my windows xp sp2 due to other reasons, but the same thing happenned again when I tried to install the winFx. Could anybody help me, please Best Regards, lingga Hi Madhu, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Is it possible to change the Logo of my custom plug-in in the VS About form?

  We use VSPackage to package our plugin which includes some special features on the VS.NET Menu. After the installation, our plugin will appear in the about screen of VS.NET. Is it possible to change the logo associating with our plug-in in this screen I am not sure about VS packages but for add-ins there are two registry entries: AboutBoxDetails AboutIconData Check the docs about them: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/19dax6cz(VS.80).aspx There should be something similar and more for packages in the SDK docs, because packages can add icons to the splash screen while add-ins can't. ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ won't run from source control: "The system cannot execute the specified program"

  Hi, I've installed VS 2005 C++ Express into source control and it won't work. I've wasted the better part of a day so far trying to get it to work. The error message I get when trying to run something as simple as lib.exe is: "The system cannot execute the specified program." When I load up the .exe in the dependency walker (depends.exe), it says: Error: The Side-by-Side configuration information in "y:\compilers\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\LIB.EXE" contains errors. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem (14001) . The only dependency shown for LIB.EXE other than KERNEL32.DLL is MSVCR80.DLL. I've tried copying all t ...Show All