BlueMikey's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ASP.NET Integration

  I'm curious as to the plans you have for integration with ASP.NET, especially things like the ObjectDataSource control. Given that there's no template for ASP.NET, I suspect that you've not done much work in this area specifically. I'm particularly thinking about Update/Delete scenarios; while the EDF entity works well through through the ObjectDataSource, I'm wondering if you're thinking of more involvement. For example, removing the requirement for actually having methods to perform Insert/Update/Delete operations; could these somehow be implemented as part of the entity itself Have you thought about this at all If creating the methods is a requirement (and I can think of many reasons why it could be), are there improvements I can do ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to implement a PersistActivity or refine SqlWorkflowPersistenceService's persistence behavior?

  The out-of-box SqlWorkflowPersistenceService persists the running instance while being idled, saves only one data record for a workflow instance in persistence storage, and an UnloadOnIdled property to enable/disable this behavior. However, the above behaviors are not always expected in many scenarios, in which we want to much refinedly control the persisting of a concrete workflow instance. For expamples: 1) Shoud a Workflow have an UnloadOnIdled property？ 2) How to prevent an Idled event from being resaied and persisting the current instance between CallExternalMethod and HandExternalEvent In my case the persisted instance can't go on from this point when WorkflowRuntime restarts, because the persisted data is all useless after ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Daily Usage of VE

  Hi, My company has been buying MWS transactions for the last year and a half. We switched some of our maps over to VE (perhaps prematurely) and we're worried that as we increase volume we may hit the 5000 per day limit. This would be devastating as it's not so easy to determine when we hit the 5000 limit (to trigger a revert to the old MWS maps). That said, our MWS transaction provider indicated that there's a "Savings Account" that we should pay into to ensure we're compilant with VE commercial usage. He also said that there's currently no way to increase daily usage above the 5000 per day limit. This could really hamper our growth as we've begun to merge our application with the VE maps (i.e. move functiona ...Show All

• Visual C++ SetDPI

  How do I fixed SetDPI to 96 in my MFC Application Regards Manoj Jangid Please use the MSDN newsgroups for Win32 programming questions.  In particular, for your question, this is the best location: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.win32.programmer.gdi&lang=en&cr=US Thanks. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Delay activity - 60 days timeout perid error

  Hi , I have delay activity that is set on period of 60 days. Code for timer initialization: daWaitingForDocuments.TimeoutDuration = TimeSpan .FromMinutes(60*1440); //60 days Value from quickwatch inspector: daWaitingForDocuments.TimeoutDuration {60.00:00:00} System.TimeSpan this code is inside constructor, and it doesn't throw exception. But when state machine workflow enters state with delay activity it throws exception Time-out interval must be less than 2^32-2. Parameter name: dueTm Is there some other way to assign timeout period to delay activity that will work Thanks, Indigo Cowboy Hi, After more investigation, we think we found the cause (it is a bug). You ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. download DirectX 7.0 sdk

  Is still possible to download directx 7.0 SDK Where can i download it Yeah I had a wiki bookmarked a long time ago that had nearly every directx SDK archived, but I've rebuilt my system since then and will need to find it again. heh. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Convert 4 byte String to hex to number

  Hello everyone, I am fresh to VB programming but I find it enjoyable and easy to learn. I have been fighting a small issue with some code that I hope someone can help me out with. I have a 4 byte string variable containing a representation of a 16-bit word value. Each byte contains an ascii character 0000-FFFF I need to convert this psuedo-hex value to corresponding decimal (0-65535). Is their a way to parse this 4 byte string into a Ushort variable and then convert it to a number I would greatly appreciate any tips or advice, Thanks in advance!! You actually have a few options provided in .NET to do HEX conversions... The Convert Class and also the TryParse Method.. Integer . TryParse ( string , ...Show All

• Visual Basic How do I add projects to my solution

  In VS 2003 I just created a blank solution, then right click on it and choose add project. I could do this several times to set up my projects within my solution before I started coding. Now in 2005 when I create a blank solution and right click on it in solution explorer and add new project, the solution disappears and is replaced by the project. The only way I can find to add projects is to first add folders to the solution (seriously tedious when you consider the old version did this for me) Is there some menu I missed, or did they really take 10 steps back on this version In VB2005 - I create a new project for my initial project in the solution. This creates the project files. Then I simply File -> Add -> ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Testing Your Class

  I am following instructions on the "Testing Your Class" section of the Help. I can create a class called Persons, but when I get to this section and create a Windows application called PersonsTest, I cannot see " Set as StartUp Project" on the Project Menu. Can you add the project to your solution Is the 'solution' visible I believe that if you don't have the solution visible, then you can't add new projects, and if so, you only have a single project so the option to set as startup isn't relevant. You can always show the solution from the tools->options->projects and solutions: always show solution. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Using Colormap values in an array to pass to SetRemapTable

  I'm having difficulty doing it. When I declare an array as new object and load it up with ColorMap.NewColor and ColorMap.OldColor, I get a runtime error which is essentially a type mismatch error. When I attempt to declare an array as new ColorMap, I'm told you can't declare an array as new. Can someone tell me what I need to do Or, if I'm on the wrong track for my purpose, which is simply to swap one color for another in a bitmap, perhaps someone could tell me how to do it. I'm using Visual Basic Express. Thanks. Thanks for your reply. I found a clue here: http://www.java2s.com/Code/VB/2D/ImageRecolorDemo.htm I had to revamp the code a little to get it working...don't know why... ...Show All

• Visual C++ Com Interface

  I have an interface defined in Visual Basic.net that is used by a C++ unmanaged application. The problem is that when I recompile the VB app it sometimes switches the order of the get and put accessors. Is there any way I can control that such as specifying the order that I want The interface is defined as follows: <InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsDual), ComVisibleAttribute( True ), Guid( "7B6E8A67-A580-3C6F-AE74-9659FBD41DF5" )> _ Public Interface IFlipObject ReadOnly Property PageNumber() As Integer Function Clone() As Object Sub Cleanup() Property Parent() As IFlipObject Property Type() As Char Property hBitmap() As Integer Function GetImageArr ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7, OE6 Printing problems with headers

  Having an intermittent problem printing To: From: CC: Subject: Attachments: headers on emails. Usually happens with larger emails or emails with large attachments or emails that have been replied to or forwarded from other people. Have installed Generic/text printer and sent the email to this printer but sometimes the headers are still missing even printing this way. I have if I open the offending email and highlight just one or two words in the text of the email eg Dear John and then print the email using my HP printer (not as text on Generic printer) - the headers then print and so does the selected words. Don't suggest using Outlook as often we only print the first page of emails as we already have the rest of the email on file especial ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions BreakPoint

  Hi ppl, i got the following code i cannot set a breakpoint in that particular if statement inside the for loop why is that. for(index =1; index < 100; index++) { For ( i = 0; i < 20; i++) { for (j= 0; j < 10; j++) { //do some processing if(index == 10) { //do something ----------->Visula Studio says she can't set a breakpoint bcoz of invalid line. } //end of j for loop }//end of i for loop }// end of index for loop will some of help me what this is. cheers arun Hi, thanks for your reply. i actually properly teminated the for loop and with proper spelling. i am confused about wht u mean by actually statement. In this following code R[indexer ]++; g[Indexer ...Show All

• Visual C++ Help with IF function

  Hi all! i has problem with "if" function. i has that code: char * suffix = strrchr(str, '.' ); printf ( "the file name suffix is: %s\n" ,suffix + 1); if ((suffix == ".txt" )) { printf( "true\n\n" ); } else { printf( "false\n\n" ); } when the input "somefile.txt", it's output me false. and when the input it "somefile.somesuffix", it's output me false too. anyone can help me with that You are comparing two char pointers, they'll never match. You need: if (!strcmp(suffix, ".txt") { printf("true\n\n"); ..etc ...Show All

• SQL Server Giving permission to view CERTAIN records

  I've been looking through permissions to see if it's possible to grant a user permission to see only certain records from a table. For example: I'm granting users to view records in the table 'Sales', but I only want the users to see their respective data. User A should only be able to see Sales where Sales.Location = 1 User B should only be able to see Sales where Sales.Location = 2 ... and so on. I believe I've read this is possible, but in looking through the permissions you can define, I've only found where you can limit the columns a user sees, not records. Anyone have any ideas or did I just remember something wrong You might try something like this: create table Account ...Show All