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• Software Development for Windows Vista Are your customers able to modify workflows?

  Hello, We are considering use of Workflow for internal projects with not well defined or ever changing business rules. I believe implementation time (and especially maintenance) for such projects can be improved with WF. However, it is crucial for us to know that we can build a framework where not only developers but people from other departments (support workers, business developers and even customers) can take care of some workflow scenarios. If it's still us who will have to build and maintain all scenarios, then we need to perform a comprehensive analysis of where WF gives us benefits in comparison with traditional .NET components. In case you have a great experience with WF in your organization, can you please say a couple of wo ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) BitmapEffects.... What the???

  Howdy.. I am trying to create a BitmapEffect to turn an image into grayscale... I am almost there accept I get a COM failure... (I shall not go into the managed rant...) The specific return error is: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException was unhandled Message="Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." Source="mscorlib" ErrorCode=-2147467259 StackTrace: at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 errorCode) at MS.Internal.HRESULT.Check(Int32 hr) at System.Windows.Media.Effects.BitmapEffect.SetValue(SafeHandle effect, String propertyName, Objec ...Show All

• Visual Studio [SandCastle] Error on a bat file - Could not find Output\html/d4648875-d41a-783b-d5f4-638df39ee413.htm file

  Hello , I try to use SandCastle to generete my documentation for a .net project. I put the code in a *.bat file, using Cozowicz's example ( http://www.eisber.net/index.html#SandCastleCompileBatch ) set DXROOT=C:\Program Files\Sandcastle set HTMLWORKSHOP=c:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop set XSLTRANSFORM="%DXROOT%\ProductionTools\XslTransform.exe" set MREFBUILDER="%DXROOT%\ProductionTools\MRefBuilder.exe" set BUILDASSEMBLER="%DXROOT%\ProductionTools\BuildAssembler.exe" MRefBuilder "C:\Project\Help\Working\*.*" /out:reflection.org if not exist comments mkdir comments del comments\*.xml copy "C:\Project\Help\Working\*.xml" comments %XSLTRANSFORM% /xsl:"%DXROOT%\Prod ...Show All

• Smart Device Development can pda program to function like 3G phone with video conference throught WiFi or BT

  can the PDAs communicate with others by the program like 3G phone, with video and voice Yes, it could. There are applications like that on the market already, e.g. from Skype. Of course, it takes a lot of time, effort, experience and expertise to write such an application. I would say team of 10 developers (5+years C++ experience) could do it in a year or so. ...Show All

• SQL Server Object reference not set to instance of the object while trying to sync.

  Hi, I am trying to configure web syncronization using the wizard for a merge replication. However when I am trying to add users (in authentication mode), I get an exception "Object reference not set to instance of the object ". Please let me know if you have any inputs on this. It will be highly appreciated.. Use a login that is not an admin or does not have SQL access and execute the wizard as this user. Anyways, was that the case when you encoutnered the problem Or would it have been due to a network glitch Were you running the wizard and configuring a local server or remote server ...Show All

• Visual Basic Index out of Bounds??/

  hey people, I have the following code for my windows form, however I keep getting out of bounds array exception..where is this exception coming from Private Sub Bt_Procurar_Click( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Bt_Procurar.Click Dim frm_erro As Frm_Config Dim configFile As File Dim fWrite As StreamWriter Dim fReader As StreamReader Try OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() OpenFileDialog1.OpenFile() Catch ex As Exception 'Error_Config.GetError(frm_erro) Throw ex End Try End Sub The OpenFile line is throwing the exception. If the user does not select a file when the dialog is presented ...Show All

• Visual Studio Incorrect Disk

  My computer's hard drive (Boot Drive) failed. I found myself starting over. I am installing Visual Studio 2005 and MSDN from a network share and I keep getting "You have inserted the incorrect disk. Please insert MSDN disk 1." Does anybody have any ideas as to how I can get past this I followed the instructions found in the readme.htm as best as possible.. (The Visual Studio IDE installed fine.. It is the MSDN that keeps failing..) Thanks.. Hi Dave, There may be a problem in the way that the MSDN media was installed on the network server. The selection below is from the MSDN Setup Help.chm and details the server installation. It might be worth sharing this with your administrator: Installing Manually to a Se ...Show All

• Visual C# How to write to Excel file？

  I am using Visual Studio 2005 standard verison。 And I want to save data from SerialPort to an Excel file since the TXT file is not powerful... Is there any related material about realizing this I do not have the VSTO and there are few examples using Visual Studio C#... Thanks! Assuming you have all the data you want to write into your *.csv file in a string type variable ( response ) you can do the following: using ( StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter ( "D:\\TestFile.csv" ) ) { sw . Write ( response ); sw . Close ( ); } It is a piece of my code that I just tested since I am facing a similar task. Response is a string type variable. You should have using System.IO; statem ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to reference XSL style sheet into XML file in VB.NET?

  I am trying to declare the “XSL style sheet reference" to XML file that My VB.NET application is creating at run time. This is the XSL reference which should go to the header of the XML file < xml-stylesheet type=text/xsl href=filename.xsl > ds.writexml(filename) Will produce something like this ="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" > <catalog> <cd> <title>Empire Burlesque</title> <artist>Bob Dylan</artist> <country> USA </country> <company> Columbia </company> <price>10.90</price> <year>1985</year> </cd> . .. </catalog> I want to reference the XSL file into the header of the p ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Still no Hlsl debugging in Pix?

  I am trying to get the hlsl code from my effect file in the debug shader view of PIX. 1.) I am using SWVP 2.) I have set the D3DXSHADER_DEBUG and D3DXSHADER_SKIPOPTIMIZATION in the shader flags of D3DXCreateEffectFromFile() function. But when i go to shader debugging in PIX i still see assembly code. and there is no other source tab to click on. Here is the relevent shader creation code: DWORD dwShaderFlags = 0; dwShaderFlags |= D3DXSHADER_DEBUG | D3DXSHADER_SKIPOPTIMIZATION; if (FAILED(D3DXCreateEffectFromFile( this ->m_pDevice, "assets/Shaders/basic.fx" ,NULL,NULL,dwShaderFlags, NULL, &m_pEffect, &pBufferErrors))) { LPVOID pCompileErrors = pBufferErrors- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQL + DataGridView Question

  I am using SQL in Visual Studio (C#), and would like to have a datagridview listing information from my database. I actually have a couple of questions. 1) I need to track several bits of information (like orders / purchases would be handled) linked to a particular record. Do I need to have a database field called order 1, order 2, etc., or can SQL save multiple bits of information for the same item 2) I would like to have a datagridview that would list all the purchases made from this contact. I would then like to click on the line of the datagridview and have the detailed purchase information populate textboxes in the same window. How can I do this Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, hi, ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2K -> SQL 2005

  Hi All, Trying to replicate databases between SQL2K (Publisher) on a Windows 32bit server and SQL 2005 (Subscriber) on a Windows 64bit server. Both servers are running Windows 2003. The distributor runs at the publisher and I’m using a snapshot pull subscription at the subscriber The servers are both in separate domains and have a tried and tested two way trust relationship. This is the error I’m getting… 2006-12-08 09:06:12.141 The process could not read file '\\VIENNA\D$\MSSQL\distribution\ReplData\unc\VIENNA_IMP_KLI_IMP_KLI\20061207180011\M_APBAL_1.sch' due to OS error 5. The data is shared at the \ReplData\ level and ‘Everyone’ in the Publishers domain has access, in addition the accounts used to run the SQL server agents on ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to upload files

  Hello I got a problem with uploading files. Look at the code: My.Computer.Network.UploadFile ("D:\file.txt", " http://www.onh1986.com/file.txt ", username , password ) And I set permission to "777". And it couldn't to upload the file. What's problem, please Thanks & Regards Then try using ftp:// instead of http:// would be my best suggestion - it's possible that the service provider has set something to prevent a direct upload using http (that's just a guess, since this is usually the cause of the error you are seeing). ...Show All

• Visual Studio installing using the .IMG file?

  I downloaded the VisualStudio 2005 trial version but am at a loss as how to install it from an .IMG file type What am I missing here you have a couple of Choices. an IMG or ISO is an image of the actual product CD/DVD. Its in 1 file format, which represents the entire media you can: use something like Nero to burn the image to CD/DVD extract the contents of the image using something like ISOBuster to your harddisk, and run setup from there use a virtual CD tool, something like MSVCD, to mount the image and run the installation from there ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Dynamically generated XACT projects

  I'll admit that I haven't even investigated whether this is possible or not. Figure I'll start by asking whether it's even feasible, or if there is another technique I should be thinking about. What I'm looking to do will involve dynamically generating .wav files during the build process of certain assets. Since all audio must be pre-processed via XACT, I was wondering if there was some way of programmatically generating an XACT project file, and then building it. Ideally, this will result in audio code that is both dynamic (ie. generated by the content pipeline), and compatible with the XBox 360. Thoughts That sounds feasible to me, although it will certainly involve some work :-) I'm not aware of any docs on the XACT project f ...Show All