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• AnhTinLove Shimming in VS 2005 Tools for Office

  OK - so maybe I'm missing something - it would appear the VS 2003 wizard can still be used to create shims for IDTExtensibility2 COM add-ins for Office... (I need to support Word, Excel, PPT, etc.) ... but the wizard is a C++ language wizard, and VS 2005 Tools for Office doesn't include C++. Any other stand alone alternatives for building shims, or something that works stand alone in VSTO Hi; We're using the shims. The shim is C++ but ...Show All

• Thenu Is it possible to override build dependencies from a different project?

  Hello, I am not sure it is possible to achieve what I am trying to do, but in general it is an ability to override default build targets for the project from another project. Let's say we have project MyProj that is simple C# class library. By default it will use the following build dependencies defined in Microsoft.Common.targets: < PropertyGroup > < BuildDependsOn > BeforeBuild; CoreBuild; AfterBuild </ BuildDepend ...Show All

• Laurent Flahou Vector3D.AngleBetween Bug

  Hey there! I'm using WinFX Beta 2 - MayCTP and I think I have found a little Bug ( ) in the Vector3D.AngleBetween Method. If you want to know the angle between two identical Vectors you would expect that 0 (zero) would be the return value. While for most vectors this is true, it seems as if it isn't for the following example: Vector3D sampleVector = new Vector3D(0,-1,-1); double angle = Vector3D.AngleBetween(sampleVector, sampleVector) ...Show All

• Learning concatenate datestamp to logfile name

  I am using FileLogger to log event from msbuild to a file. How can i concatenate datestamp to the logfile name msbuild.exe MSBuildCommunity.proj /l:FileLogger,Microsoft.Build.Engine;logfile=MSBuild.log i want logfile name to be MSBuild_yyyymmdd.log thanks There's no way to do this with our built-in file logger. You'd need to either write a custom logger that knows how to do this (the "correct" way) or wrap the call to ...Show All

• DJ MCFLY - NY ServiceRequest Failed

  I am trying to execute samples at http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/tool/vsto/2005/download/ but this results me with a problem at the following line of code, Globals.ThisApplication.ServiceRequest += new EventHandler<Microsoft.Office.Tools.ServiceRequestEventArgs>(ThisApplication_ServiceRequest); Any ideas I am targetting Outlook 2007 in the office family, and the error text reports that [ 'ThisApplication' does not contain definit ...Show All

• CDyche How to add window to tabitem dynamically

  I am trying to add a window ( ) dynamically to a tabitem dynamically. I added a page using vs, so it has a class with xaml and code behind. Then in a event handler I create a tabitem, to add to a tabcontrol, and then add to it the window I created like so: FamilyUpdate familyUpdate = new FamilyUpdate (); TabItem familyUpdateTab = new TabItem (); familyUpdateTab.Header = "Family Update" ; familyUpdateTab.Content = ...Show All

• Chris P. Can't repair/uninstall GAT or GAX

  I have installed Guidance Automation Toolkit and Extensions along with VS 2005 Beta a few months ago. Now after uninstall VS2005 Beta and installed the new VS2005 Team System Trail version and start up the new VS IDE, I get an error msg saying that "...error reading the manifest file for the Guidance Automation Extensions. The error is -->Method not found: 'Void System.Xml.XmlReaderSettings.set_XsdValidate(Boolean)'." followed by another err ...Show All

• Niclas S Displaying All (unique) Values From a Field

  Hi, I'm new to Reports & I'm hoping that someone has an answer to a problem I'm having. I'm using a local report to display a matrix. However there are more fields used as parameters than are shown on the report (i.e. there are 7 different fields for the user to select one or more values from, but there are only two actually shown on the report - the two making the rows/columns of the matrix). What I need to do is to also show on the report ...Show All

• EddieBear Installing VS2005 Professional

  I seem to remember hearing that VS2005 can coexist peacefully with VS2003 on the same computer. Is this true Also, I have SQL Server 2000 developer edition and I don't want it to be replaced with the stripped down version of SQL Server 2005 that comes with VS2005. Is there a custom installation of VS2005 that would allow me to skip the installation of SQL Server Thanks, Dave Thanks! Sounds good! -Dav ...Show All

• themcfet Going from item list to individual items

  Say I have a setup like so: <ItemGroup>   <FooFile Include="*.foo"/> </ItemGroup> <Target Name="ProcessFoo">    <Exec Command="app.exe @(FooFile)"/> </Target> In this case app.exe can't handle multiple .foo files.  I need to feed those files to app.exe one at a time.  How do you do this in MSBuild OK so I figured out how to do this: <Exec Comma ...Show All

• crimzonthunder LineBreak using C#

  Can line breaks be added in C# rather XAML Andy Do you mean how to programmatically add line breaks into RichTextBox element , then this probably is what you are looking for: Paragraph pa = new Paragraph(); Run run = new Run("blah blah blah blah"); LineBreak br = new LineBreak(); pa.Inlines.Add(br); pa.Inlines.Add(run); pa.Inlines.Add(br); myRichTextBox.Document.Blocks.Add(pa); Sheva ...Show All

• ZeeshanHashmi Setup freezes when it "installs components".

  Trying tor install vs05b2 , the "setup is loading installation components" bar freezes at 100%. CPU usage is 0%. I must reboot machine to stop setup. I had instated the Feb CTP but I think I uninstalled it. I hoped installing the b2 framework would solve the problem. It did not. I had a successful install on another machine with the same media.    I get the same problem when I try to install Web Express 05b2 . The log file ends with ...Show All

• fueidosffjewoei Dynamic RDLC

  I have about 100 reports that I am converting from Crystal to MS reports.  I would like to be able to use a standard header and footer for these reports. I am trying to write code to add in the nodes for PageHeader & PageFooter at runtime and whatever else I need to stick in there including images.  So far I am having trouble getting this to work. I am reading in the report from the manifest stream and making a copy (so ...Show All

• Stefanie Install failure in VS2205 Pro Release version

  When I attempt to install the Modeling Power Toys for VS  2005, I get the error: "This setup requires the Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package version 2.0.50215." Is there a newer version of the install somewhere that is built for the release version of VS2005 The new version is available now from  http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx id=fe72608b-2b28-4cc1-9866-ea6f805f45f3 . Enj ...Show All

• Oliver Bertram Competitive upgrade license

  If we upgrade from a competitive project, are we still entitled to use the competitive product The license is a little vague. quick update. I'm still waiting for MS legal to get back to me. Legal got back to me. The End User License Agreement only had verbage concerning microsoft software. We also don't do competitive licenses much anymore at MS so my legal contact couldn't find any information on it. ...Show All