Don Eddleman's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Webservice Workflow with Dynamic SetState Activity

  I am writing a webservice workflow using Visual Studio 2005. I am trying to add in a Hold State in my workflow so that users can temporarily hold an approval process or something. I can use recursive composition to create an event so that the Hold State can be reached from any other state. The problem is --- how do I then return to the previous state before the Hold State I have tried to set the TargetStateName property within my workflow class (inherited from StateMachineWorkflowActivity) in a CodeActivity but I get a InvalidOperationException. It seems that I can't set the state within StateMachineWorkflowActivity while running. Thanks for any help. Hi Jimmy, You can use the StateMachineWork ...Show All

• SQL Server Forwarding ?

  Hi There Anyone have a good resource for a forwarding example I have a distributed service broker application working but i would like to add a forwarder in the mix, all i can find in BOL is that you must create an endpoint for forwarding and create the correct routes on a frowarder but thats it. Is that all you require AN instance with a forwarding endpoint correct routes I am looking for an actual example, cannot find anything in BOL on how to actually implement it I downloaded forwarder1.1 example from getdotnet.com, but that example sucks, it does even create routes Thanx I'm not aware of any sample. But try this: Let II be the initiator instance, ID the initiator database wh ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies DB content migration from Sharepoint 2003 to MOSS 2007

  I have created a new MOSS 2007 portal, now I want to migrate document libraries and user and their permission from SharePoint 2003 to new portal in MOSS 2007. I only want to migrate document libraries and Users, not the complete portal. Can anyone tell me what are the steps that are required to migrate document libraries and user and their permission from SharePoint 2003 to new portal in MOSS 2007 Thanks, Bilal Bilial, In Beta 2 TR you had three options for upgrade Inplace, Gradual and database.  Database seems to have been dropped from the SDK so not sure if this is still a valid approach. However in your scenario, where you have the new MOSS 2007 setup already,  I would reco ...Show All

• Visual C++ Date, Time and day of week formattor

  I have purchased many manuals for VB, c++, java and C#. I have no problems in formatting a Date (01.01.07), Time (10:10:10) and the day of week (tuesday) in VB. But anything i try in C++ to get the same result is not working. I am trying to format three different fields. If you can give any help with this i would be greatful. See Time Management (CRT) . Those are the relevant functions available. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Features or Bugs in VSTO.

  Are these features or bugs I've found two things that there may be a reason for but I can think of none. 1. If you have a form field in a word document project that has a default value in it. You cannot populate that bookmark in code with a bookmarkname.Text = "AAA" line of code. It gives you an error along the lines of "Out of Range" or something like that. 2. If I am trying to populate a data island from code on a web server. I open the the document file with a file stream and then assign it to a "ServerDocument" class as shown below If File.Exists(BlankDocumentPath) = False Then Return ("File " & BlankDocumentPath & " Does not exist") Exit Function ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TFS/IDE bug?

  hi, not sure what forum to post this but it is relevant to TFS. in an earlier post i learned that a file checked out that is dependent upon another file as shown in the IDE gets a red check mark as does the file it is dependent upon even if that file is not checked out! here is a case where i think the concept is breaking down, consider the following image: notice that BaseObject.cs has a red check. it is not checked out, one of it's children is, the Plate.cs file is the one checked out. i would expect the BaseObjectFixed...cs to have teh check mark too. maybe this is a side effect of how i got all those .cs files to come under the BaseObject.cs file. i got those in there with a hack by editing the .csproj file, but i only added the Depe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Code Coverage : Color is not seen

  Hi, When I run a unit test and checking code coverage details, I ccould see details like what percent of code is covered and not covered. But I couldnt see the colors (red, green,etc) in the program.Whenever I click on the'Show Code Coverage Coloring' tab on the 'Code Coverage Results' Window, an error message is shown: "value doesnt fall within the expected range'" Can anybody help in this. Thanks in advance akjal Hi David , Many many thanks man. It worked. Now I can see the colors.What could be the problem with it before Could u please let me know Actually I had seen colors some times before it.. Its version is like this.8.0.50727.42(RTM) lot of th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Smarttags

  Hi, I'm developing in C# and I'm using Office 2003. My poblem is that I want that all incomming Email are wiroking witz my SmartTags which are searching for article numbers. What I have to do for it M. Franz, Check out this article on MSDN it explains the process of building an application level smarttag in managed code. Eric Carter's book Visual Studio Tools for Office: Using C# with Excel, Word, Outlook and Infopath also goes into great detail on this topic starting at page 666:) http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/ManagedSmartTags/default.aspx Hope this helps, Donald ...Show All

• .NET Development Delegates

  What is the scope of a delegate Can I define the delegate to be AppDomain wide I have multiple instances of a business layer. But I want would like to define delegates that all of them have access to. I realize a pattern would need to be involved and what not. But, what is the scope of the delegate DO I have to define a domain neutral delegate so all of my instances have access my delegates Some advice would be nice. Thanks, Nick Not sure exactly what you mean. You cannot directly call code from another AppDomain. You must go through remoting. An easy way is AppDomain.DoCallBack. Loading assemblies as domain neutral doesn't mean that you bypass AppDomain isolation. It's just ...Show All

• Visual C++ Program runs slower when compiled with Visual Studio 2005 (in Release with optimization)

  Hey, I have a performance problem with the new Visual Studio 2005. My code (which is a genetic algorithm) is 3 times slower when compiled under Visual Studio 2005 compared to when I was compiling it under Visual Studio 2003. With Visual Studio 2003, it used to run in 3.0639 seconds, and now it runs in 9.0031 seconds. I run both code in Release. I tried every optimization option, and adding the /D_SECURE_SCL=0 compiler command to the project options with only minor differences. Is there any other way to get back to the speed Visual Studio 2003 It is a bit absurd to upgrade to a new compiler and get lesser performances. Thanks a lot!!! Antoine Atallah Hello,    Sure, here are the compiler opti ...Show All

• Visual Basic VS Enterprise 2005 AS/400

  I need advise. This is the only version that will build BI Objects against an AS/400 database. We have several developers that will use this version to develop BI Objects. Since the cost of license is high, we decide to only place it on one server to see if in facts works against the AS/400. We'll it does and that the great part. The problem is this. We all want to develop using this version. The problem is how can we develop on the same server using the same tool with multiple remote connections Is that possible Or is it better to install VS Enterprise 2005 on each developers PC Currently we have VS Standard Edition 2005 on each developers PC, but we can't create BI Cubes against the AS/400, we only limted to create repo ...Show All

• Visual C# Format String??? Help --->

  I need to convert a string from bytes to megabytes. I have this so far: label1.Text = string.Format( ) but how do I format the string Hi, Your code modified: label6.Text = e.Bytes.Received.ToString(); label8.Text = String.Format("{0:#,##0,,.0MB}", e.Bytes.Received.ToString()); Hope this helps ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work Item publishing errors

  Work Item Publishing Errors When trying to publish a .mpp project file to vsts project.... Details: This work item cannot be published because it is assigned to more than one resource. It seems to be using <lastname>,<firstname> to be TWO different resources. The resource names are filled in automatically from the work items that are imported into the .mpp file. Why does the publish function treat them differently and what changes can I make to work around this error I heard there may be a patch for this in 3Q06. See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=277816&SiteID=1 for potential workarounds for this issue. The problem is that comma is used as delimiter for r ...Show All

• Visual C++ Inlining with /EHsc

  I found that compiler (VC++ 2005 Pro) not inlining some functions/operators when using /EHsc flag and you have an empty destructor in class. class vector3 { public:     vector3();   vector3(const vector3& vec);   vector3(float x, float y, float z);   ~vector3() {} // if remove this compiler will inline operator+.   // some code }; inline vector3 operator+(const vector3& a, const vector3& b) {   return vector3(a.x + b.x, a.y + b.y, a.z + b.z); } Can somebody explain this behavior Here is the link: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=211600 You can bookmark this to follow its status. If you wan ...Show All

• Windows Forms Switch XML-Script to send data via POST

  I just wanted to try to call a webservice (found the way to do this in this tutorial ). But as I tried to click the button - only the error event was executed. I searched for a while and then I found out that the webservice blocked every request that was sent via GET. So I just wanted to ask if there's a possibility to change the method from GET to POST (I know that I could enable GET for the webservice, but I was told not to do so ...). I'd be very happy if anyone could enlighten me :-D. ...Show All