CSharpNewbie22's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Faulting on Windows XP but fine on Windows 2003 Server.

  Hello.   When I run any workflow scheme created with my activities, everything works just fine on Windows 2003 EE SP1, but when I try to run it on Windows XP SP2, my workflow is aborted.   As I realized, it depends on SqlTrackingService. After removing this service, everything works fine on both OS.   TIA, Nikolay.     Sounds like a Sql permissions issue on your XP box. You might want to look into that and make sure that a simple ADO DB write works ok. There are definitely no OS-specific behaviors in WF. -Angel ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to host Windows Workflow(WF) into Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) ?

  Can anybody please tell me how to host WF into WPF I already hosted WF into winforms using panel. But i want idea about integration of WF into WPF. Thanks, Pravin Arote Hey Pravin - I wonder if the following sample will help you: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970891.aspx If it doesn't can you describe to us the scenario so we can try to find some help. Thanks, Vignesh ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Video playback frame rate and performance

  I am hoping to use WPF for an interactive application that plays video in realtime with 3D graphics drawn on top. Think of it like a simple video player with one video layer and one 3D graphics layer. Any pointers on relevant WPF topics would be great, or opinions on whether WPF is the right technology to choose. (Last time I did this by using DirectShow for video, writing a custom allocator-presenter for the VMR9, and then calling native DirectX routines to draw graphics onto the decoded video frames. It was OK, but a bit messy.) In the mean time, I have written a simple C# app which plays back video in a window. For my first test, I used a Type I DV AVI file (PAL), which is 720x576 at 25 fps. Unfortunately, the observed frame rate ...Show All

• Visual Studio September CTP: pubstructure.gif background not transparent

  In the September CTP, the pubstructure.gif image doesn't have a transparent background. This applies to both the VS2005 and Prototype icons. — Eric — Yes and Michael reported this bug at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=737673&SiteID=1 . I will provide a fix by RTW. Anand.. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Disappointed by the limited functionality

  I doubt this is the right place to complain, but I want others to know when they have the same question. The report controls are nice but are a big disappointment.  When using local reports they don't provide parameter prompting and they don't grab the data from the datasource for me like the Sql Server Reporting Services reports do.  This means I have to work with and develop two seperate reporting mechanisms.  I was hoping to use the same reports for both the Reporting Services and the Reporting Control based on the database the client uses (some clients will travel with MSDE and want access to all of their reports on the road.  When they return they will get their reports from the Enterprise Server and Reporting Ser ...Show All

• SQL Server Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.

  I am receiving the following message when connecting via query analzyer to SQL server using windows authentication.(error 18452). I have a login created with the sys admin server role on the server. When I connect using SQL authentication it works. I added myself to the local admin group on the server, this allows it to work. The same situation is seen with another user. I am using windows 2000 sp4 server and SQL 2000 SP3, connecting from NT4. I get the same issue if I use TCP or named pipes. We have been using SQL security but are moving to windows authentication - but this issue is stopping us. I have checked and upgraded my version of MDAC to match the server version 2.7 (sp1) Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS 3.0 - searching intranet sites, mapped My Documents

  Searching My Documents mapped to network drive through GP Searching SharePoint sites&libraries Searching other network drives As I can see, you can't configure indexer to achieve any of the above. At least mapped My Docs should be supported, as it is now this version is practically useless for any serious environment. regards I agree completely... when I installed WDS 3.0 with Office 2007, I was shocked that I could not index my network drives and network My Documents. To top it off, the help file included with the software and on the website both say you can index network drives... so it seems there might have been some disconnect between the documentation team/plan/final software. If I hadn't f ...Show All

• SQL Server VB6 and SQL Express?

  Hi there, I have a windows application written in VB6 that used to use Access. I have since upgraded to SQL Express but the program is a little slow. I have it setup up to use a DSNless connection. I am an amateur but know it is still slower than before. Does anyone have any pointers on where I should focus Any help appreciated. Cheers, Matt Hi, i would suggest to refer excellent tips given at http://www.sql-server-performance.com/visual_basic_performance.asp Hemantgiri S. Goswami ...Show All

• Community Chat Microsoft and its 'new' Halo: Wars RTS Game, and Derelict Studios

  Well, as most have probably heard, Microsoft has come out with a 'new' Real Time Strategy game called Halo: Wars, a game to be made for the X-Box 360. I quote 'new', because it is not a new idea, nor shall all the credit go to those people who work in Microsoft. A Modification for the game C&C Generals, called Halogen, was a mod in the works for approximatly 3 years, where people from the community pitched in numerous hours of work and labour for the good of the  community, and a playable release was soon to come for those of us desperate to download it. Microsoft came in close to before the release and forced the memebers of Derelict Studios to close down Halogen and halt all progress on the game, and close down the ...Show All

• SQL Server Truncate Table function not available

  I have just updated to SQL server Everywhere(Compact) version from SQL Server Mobile. A desktop application was using several features of the Mobile version which no longer seem to be available in the Everywhere version.  'Truncate Table' does not work. This can be worked around with deleting the rows and then changing the Identity seed value. Also 'INSERT INTO Table1 SELECT * FROM Table2 no longer works in SQL Everywhere. Now the number of columns in the two tables must match exactly or a list of columns must be provided with the INSERT and SELECT statements. The biggest probem I have run into so far is that 'SELECT * INTO Table1 FROM Table2' no longer works. How can a new table be created without manually recreating all of the c ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System CTP7 BUG - Database Role Membership is not Compared

  I have created a custom database Role with grants and denies in the securables and one Role Member. When I do a schema compare the role membership is not considered regardless of the settings of the IDE (schema settings, project settings). When updates are written the role is created and the grants and denies are written (the latter if ignore permissions is not checked). HOWEVER - 1. The membership is never written meaning the user is stranded without a role membership. I assume that the SQL for this should appear in the RoleMemberships.sql but it doesn't. AFAIK there are no UI Settings that affect this behaviour (ignore permissions on or off has no affect). 2. The SSMS UI view of the role does not show the securables or the schem ...Show All

• SQL Server Landscape Printing issue in SQL Reporting services

  I have reports, set to print on Landscape and Legal ie 14 * 8.5. However, when certain users try to print the report, it prints it in Letter, even though the report is set to print in legal /landscape. The strange part is that for most users it prints correctly in legal, only for some it is on letter. Any idea why this would happen This may be a printer driver issue, where Legal paper is unavailable. Here are a few questions to help troubleshoot this issue: Does this always occur consistently for the same users If the report is not set to landscape, does the report print correctly Can those users, for which printing fails to use Legal paper, print from another application, such as Word, using Legal ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing SQL 2005 after Visual Studio 2005

  WinXP Pro Installed Visual Studio Team Suite Installed Team Explorer Installed SQL 2005 with all the features turned on (so everything installs) Result: None of the SQL Management Studio tools show up. I checked ARP and see all the entries for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. I also checked the Services and see SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER). I also see SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) but don't see an ARP entry for it. Any ideas on how to install the SQL 2005 Studio tools Thanks! 1. Have you try the setup.exe under ...\tools\setup.exe 2. There will be only one entry for all SQL Server 2005 editions/instances. Go to ARP, and open SQL Server 2005 entry, select change, you can see all SQL Server 2005 editions/instances. ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing Microsoft SQL server management studio express broke my asp.net databases

  Morning, I installed the managerment stuid on my machine and now none of my database connections seem to work any more. I keep getting the attached error. Before I installed the studio the system worked fine, I could connect to the database and everything was fine. Does the studio change any permission stuff I cannot seem to get it to work again at all now, I added in aspnet as a login inside the studio and it still won't let me connect to the database. I cannot find *any* logs anywhere that might be helpful in what it is doing or see any way to debug the connection to find out what the problem is. When I look at the permissions inside of the studio it shows me that the connections should all be fine. I checked and remote and local connec ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Referencing canvas from HTML button with javascript

  Hi all, How to get a reference to the main canvas from javasript (called from HTML button). function Button1_onclick() { var control = document.getElementById("agControl1"); var rootcanvas = control.findName("rootCanvas") var xamlFragment = '<TextBlock Canvas.Top="200" Opacity="0" Text="Click for more info" />'; rootcanvas.children.add(control.createFromXaml(xamlFragment)); } I tried this but control.findName is not available. Ideas Thanks Hi Eric, Can you send me the xaml you are using   Also, are you sure your event handler (Button1_onclick()) is getting fired   --Martha Test Lead, WPF/E ...Show All