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• john smith How to re-use RPT designs and formulas in CR for .Net 2003

  I am creating a series of different tabular reports in CR because I need a way to have the output be in PDF format. Things are proceeding too slowly and awkwardly for me - I fear I am missing some important trick regarding reusability:  How do you re-use report design layouts and formulas with this version of CR Much of the Page Header and Footer sections are the same on all reports I need to create; even the detail section(s) need to ...Show All

• Ignacio Danta VS 2003 Enterprise developer hangs during re-installation

  Hello All, I am facing a weired instalation/un-installation problem with VS 2003 Enterprise developer version on Windows MC 2005. When I first installed VS 2003 on my dell lattop, installation went perfectly fine. I have used the VS 2003 for couple weeks. Suddenly debugging feature stopped working. One of the visual team developer asked to submit mini dump and repair VS 2003 to fix the problem. I created a mini dump and submitted the bug. ...Show All

• AssafO Questions on Visual Studio 2003/2005

  Hello, I'd like to know which version is included of Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 I know in the 2002 (and 2003 ) it's version 9 (or equivalence) Also I would like to know which full Crystal Reports versions we can use with the .NET studios I've tested CR10 with 2003 and it fits but could XI work with 2003 for instance A list of compatibilities would be advantageous Thanks Sperin, I wa ...Show All

• Benb54 Avalon Web Application fails to publish

  I'm running september build of WinFX runtime + SDK.  VisualStudio is Beta2. Using WinXP+SP2. Steps to reproduce: 1) Create an Avalon Web Application from project template; 2) Build solution; 3) Go to project settings, "publish" tab; 4) Without changing anything push "Publish Now" button; Results: Build succeeds but publish fails: "Unable to add 'AvalonApplication1.application' to the Web.  Unable to add file 'AvalonApplication1.appl ...Show All

• Adam Singer MSFT Can someone explain the usage of RegisterAndLockDocument

  I'm having a hard time understanding the documentation on RegisterAndLockDocument. How are the flag suppose to be used, they look like they should be OR'd together to get the functionally you are looking for. However, I can't get my head around the interaction of these flags, some seem to cancel each other out. Creates an entry in the running document table when a document is created or opened. Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.In ...Show All

• Rioch Mulhall Converting Add-In (7.1->8.0)

  I am attempting to convert an Add-In from a previous version of Visual Studios, 7.1, to be used with VS8.0. I am also trying to keep it compatable with 7.1. I have been trying to work through just the IDispatch interface to find functions such as "get_Item" from a collection like:     pCommandBars->get_Item(index, &pMenubar); Where in my version both pCommandbars and pMenubar are IDispatch interfaces and "get_Item" would b ...Show All

• Calua DataContracts and COM

  I'm having problems trying to see the fields of a data class exposed through an Indigo service (attributed with [DataContract] etc.) from a VB6 client during the client's dev and wondered if anyone can help. The scenario is: I've got a service that I wish to expose to VB6 as a COM client. The service exposes a DataContract type which is used as a parameter to one of the service methods. I generated the client proxy from svcutil and compiled i ...Show All

• Anthony Frayling Excel File Deployed to WSS?

  I have read through the msdn deployment documentation (please don't bother responding with the msdn deployment links), but I was wondering if anyone has any personal experience deploying an Excel (or any office doc) to a WSS document library. Is it a simple matter of updating the manifest with some sort of network folder or url I would like to have users open an excel file from a particular site, and then populate a named range with list values ...Show All

• _gcvt Differences in IDE and MSBuild for Web Project

  Hi, I've got a wierd one. I've got a Solution that contains a Web project and a DLL project. The web project references the DLL project and The DLL project references 3 thirdparty dlls. When I build from the IDE, The build copies all the dlls from the DLL's output (my dll and the three thirdparty dlls.) However, when I build from msbuild, It neglects to copy one of the dlls. It is always neglects the same dll and it never gets copied. I've tried ...Show All

• KevlarMpowered Database Project Template (possible???)

  I am attempting to create a standardized database project for our organization that will mimick the project you select when creating a new project in Visual Studio 2005 under Other Project Types>>Database>>Database Project which will allow us to streamline our SQL server 2000/2005 script creation process as about 90% of customization business involves creating SQL scripts for various reporting and/or customization tasks. I have ex ...Show All

• flyingsnow Localizing reportviewer control

  I am in Italy so i need to localize the reportviewer control (eg. "Elaborazione in corso" instead of "Report is being generated", "Trova" instead of "Find" and so on). How can i do this Visual Studio 2005 (including ReportViewer control) will be available in these languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional). If you want to support another ...Show All

• chjl.cn programmatically clicking a button?

  is there a blessed way to programmatically simulate a button click so that the button acts as though it's been pressed   perhaps sending a mouse click to the button sorry, i should have been clearer.  what i want to happen is not just that the button looks pressed, but i want everything to happen as though the user clicked the button. e.g., for a button, it would be a look pressed then look releas ...Show All

• Mister3957 Outlook Add-In mailto:

  Hi, I am writing an add-in that replaces the standard email form with a custom form if it has a certain subject keyword. I do this by checking the subject when a new Inspector is created. The idea is that this will be used when a person clicks on a mailto: link on a webpage. Now, when outlook is opened prior to clicking the link, this works just fine, but if outlook isn't open, the standard form comes up and an exception is thrown. With a lit ...Show All

• Kekke "Unexpected error" dealing with vss in vs2005

  I get the following error when I try do do getLatestVersion or "Change source control" on a vss linked web app --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Unexpected error encountered. It is recommended that you restart the application as soon as possible. Error: Unspecified error File: vsee\pkgs\vssprovider\cmsscciabstractionlayer.cpp Line number: 5906 --------------------------- OK --- ...Show All

• Lerxst51014 suppressing parameter fields to select all fields

  when using Parameter fields, we are prompted to supply parameter values so that records can be filtered. suppose the user enters no paramter value, in that case i want to display all the records without any selection formula. how do i do this Hi, Normally you would handle this in your stored procedure in the database, so that if the parameter isNull or '' then do something, otherwise, do something else with your select statement. P ...Show All