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• simonech How to deploy a VB .Net Shared Add-in

  I have created an IDTExtensibility2 Shared Add-in for Outlook using VB .Net in Visual Studio 2005. The add-in runs great on the development computer, and I am ready to install it on a few production computers for beta testing. The problem is, after running the setup.exe program created by the setup project, the add-in does not launch with outlook on the production computers. No error message, no listing in "disabled items" in about ...Show All

• dfiorucci Insert HTML text in a Word document

  Hello: I'm trying to insert a HTML text in a word document. I have an action pane with a few controls. With theses controls, i call to a remote web service and get some information in HTML format. After this, i want to insert this HTML information in the document, but i don't know how to do it. I have a very few time, next thursday i have to give in the software. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and VSTO 2005. Please help me. Thank you very m ...Show All

• chino Frequent incorrect build results - projects skipped that are out of date

  Re-posting here at the suggestion of the Team System folks... The below was observed using Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 RC version. I have a solution with 17 C# projects - two .EXEs and the rest DLLs, including a number of unit test projects. I can't begin to relate how often I run into problems due to incorrect build outcomes - one or more projects were not built even though clearly out of date. I see this sort of thing when running ...Show All

• Wociech Kosi?ski Property notation decision

  i'm curious about the decision in msbuild to go with the <PropertyName>PropertyValue</PropertyName> notation for properties instead of the n/ant style <property name="foo" value="bar" /> approach.  using property names as element names drastically restricts what types of names are acceptable (eg. periods and spaces are not allowed in element names).  the decision to use script-specifiable to name elements seems highly ...Show All

• mnsh Relate an animation's property to a control's property?

  I have some code that uses an animation to expand the window size to a fixed amount. The animation looks like this: <DoubleAnimation BeginTime="0:0:0.1" Name="expandAnimation" To="400" Storyboard.TargetName="mainWindow" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Window.Height)"  Duration="0:0:0.2" /> What I would like though is for the "To" amount to be dependent upon the current height of a grid I have in the window, plus the height of an image s ...Show All

• Xkutzy Hardware acceleration of WPF on XP

  Will WPF support hardware acceleration to the same degree on XP as it does on Vista For example, I have a machine running XP with an NVidia GForce 7800 GTX card (the latest NVidia gaming card). If I upgrade the machine to Vista, would I get significantly more hardware acceleration on Vista than on XP, assuming that I have the latest drivers on both platforms Thanks, Adam Smith You definitely get ...Show All

• DeJohn P 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 To do the graphical up+down motion, you got to trigger the event where the mouse button is held down, and in that function change the button's state or graphical properties.  Similar for when the button is released. call button_cli ...Show All

• Kredis Attaching digital signature after reading the entire word document/Excel sheet

  Hi, I want to digitally sign my word or Excel document after the end of document only,  I need an algorithm for the following requirement, please anybody can help me out. I have a word or excel document with more than 2 pages, I need to enable my document "add digital signature section" after scrolling the entire document, But it(add digital signature section) should appear in the first page itself, when the cursor is&nbs ...Show All

• Yuvi Panda Add shapes with time interval

  Hi can anybody know how to add shapes to canvas automatically with in some time interval (i.e. i want to add some circles to canvas for each 5 seconds howz it possible) thanx-Nagu Can u give me a simple example code bcoz i never used this before thanx-Nagu The Timer will be part of the PAge/Windows so it will be able to accesss to the Canvas If I remember, I've a ...Show All

• WizDum Problem building Managed C++ project with Msbuild that has multiple assembly references

  I have a VS2005 solution that includes a Managed C++ project as well as several C# projects. The C++ project references several of the C# projects. All projects in the solution reference log4net.dll (as an AssemblyReference). My C++ project builds without any warnings using the VS2005 IDE. However, when I build the solution using MSBuild, I get zillions of warning messages such as: log4net.dll : warning C4945: 'LogicalThreadContextProperti ...Show All

• IainDowns "late binding" communication and more questions

  I have several more basic questions concerning indigo: 1. Does the WCF provide a way to communicate to a slick way to communicate to a web service which is discovered during runtime. As an example: somebody provides a WSDL and an operation he wants to call from this service as well as a XML message he sends to the service and a XSL that he wants to apply to the response message. Currently I do something like that with a manual HttpWebRequest. ...Show All

• SAAM Getting contact information from Outlook and Exchange without security message?

  I am trying to collect all of the user's contacts from Outlook and the public folders in Exchange to display in a Windows form in my application. I have it all working using VB.NET and the Outlook Object model except for one thing - getting the Email addresses. I get the security warning when I attempt to get these addresses. And since the user could have 50,000+ entries in their public Exchange folders, having them hit enter 50,000 times is ...Show All

• Paarul Security Deployment Package

  Hi everybody, I have a VSTO solution for word. OK I need to add a runtime security policy node to the user, computer or enterprise node. I had that too on my developer box. Now I want to deplooy my solution. So I made a security deployment package. Great. There is my name.msi file. But what does this file do I deleted all the security nodes I added manually, for a test. Then I started the created msi file. And nothing happend. WHY W ...Show All

• Luis Huapaya Share single dataset across worksheets

  Hi, I need to connect multiple worksheets to the same dataset instance; so I have tried passing the dataset around using the Globals class but the databindings go weird. One page binds right while another sheet does not bind at all. Also I tried creating and filling the dataset in the ThisWorksheet class and got the same effect. How should I pass the same instance around inorder to get everything to work right Thanks, blair ...Show All

• MRF Adding a new Target Platform

  Hi everyone, I am trying to implement a new target platform so i can integrate different c/c++ compilers for different target hardware. I'm totally new to this VSIP stuff, and after reading through the docs for a few hours, i couldnt find anything related to target platform management. I have seen loads of 3rd party plugins add 'platform's before (XBox, Dreamcast, SN Systems), which can coexist within a single project file along with the stan ...Show All