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• GinkZ182 Do you have to have Office installed?

  Hey everyone, I'm working on a project at College that requires I gather text from Word documents. I would like to do this via some Microsoft libraries. However, the end goal of the project is to have this installed on a server. Do I have to have Microsoft Office installed on that machine Or is there some way to read the text from a Word file without Office I was thinking something through the Word Viewer that is offered for free by Microsoft. ...Show All

• deo1979 What happened to ServiceHost.Throttle

  The title says it all really.  The ServiceHost generic used to have a property named Throttle which allowed setting of no. of concurrent threads and so on, but this has now disappeared/moved. Anyone know where it went David OK, just for fun (and for documentation) I wrote another way to do this, using a custom service attribute, which was the way that I suggested before. Depends whether you want an attribute or not. First, I rewrot ...Show All

• Kristoffer Ryden passing session parameters - newbie question

  hey guys, another newb question for ya.   ok got a report viewer control on 2.aspx - local mode links to a .rdlc and connects to a orcale Connection String and everything im doing is in VB.   Next i got 1.aspx webpage with 2 fields. DATE1 and DATE2.  When the user hit the generate button I saved the inputs into Session("DATE1") and Session("DATE2") and postback to page 2.aspx.    Next i verify 2.aspx pi ...Show All

• Washington Moreira Duplex Contract and ConcurrencyMode.Reentrant problem

  hello, This is service contract [ServiceContract(CallbackContract = typeof(IUpdateCallback),Session=true)] public interface IUpdate { [OperationContract(IsOneWay = true)] void CheckVersion(string assemblyName,string clientVersion) [OperationContract] Stream Update(string assemblyName); } public interface IUpdateCallback { [OperationContract(IsOneWay = true)] void UpdateAssembly(string assemblyName); } [Service ...Show All

• jschroedl AssemblyInfoTask errors

  Has anyone seen this AssemblyInfoTask error (this is on Team Build server). I only have one linked AssemblyInfo.cs file that I'm attempting to update (for many assemblies). Any help is appreciated...! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Target UpdateAssemblyInfoFiles: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\AssemblyInfoTask\Microsoft.VersionNumber.targets(90,5): error MSB4018: The "AssemblyInfo" task fa ...Show All

• Jonathan Kotthoff How to separate fixedpages along with its resources from XPS document?

  Hi, I have a question to ask. How to extract a single fixedpages from the XPS document along with its resources, and insert this page into another XPS document This problem may be a little harder when take consider of printTicket, thumbnail, signature... Thanks! The question is tricky as you've pointed out because of all the additional resources. Taking this from a non API perspective, you would need ...Show All

• GoMSF Extending Add Reference Dialog

  I found this walkthrough in the September CTP SDK on adding a custom page in the Add reference dialog. The walkthrough is in C++ and I was wondering if this is possible to implement in C# (managed package) and any sample code available to supplement the "Next Steps" section. Here is the link from VS SDK help: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.VSIPCC.v80/MS.VSSDK.v80/dv_search/html/24a4a8b2-79b2-4621-9243-23a0bcbdc942.htm " IVsComponentSelectorProvider ...Show All

• Ted van Hoof VSTO Outlook Addin - How to disable registration after build

  Hi all, I've created an Outlook Addin using VSTO with VS2005 beta 2 (Whidbey). I've noticed that the Addin is registered after a successful build without me having to do anything.  Is there anyway to disable this behaviour I work with a team of developers and I don't want the Outlook Addin to be registered on everyone's machine after he or she does a build. In addition I'm trying to use the build events to copy the built files to a lo ...Show All

• Schwab- CONFUSED AS HELL

  my visual basic express 2005 applications cant run under .net 2.0 framework in my other computer what is the problem here in my other pc i installed .net 2.0 i wanted to test out if they worked but they just dont every single one of them failed to work. i dont understand this, why is microsoft providing the .net 2.0 framework which is not compatible with visual basic express 2005 what framework allows vb express applications to run on differ ...Show All

• Norbert Mika How to get IWin32Window for Show/ShowDialog in Excel

  In my workbook.cs file I am trying to open a form, I need a handle to excel to pass into the Show/ShowDialog method for the IWin32Window parameter so that the dialog doesn't get hidden. Yes, unfortunately that is expected. You must release your subclass on the main Excel window prior to Shutdown. The reason for this is that the loader calls shutdown in response to the main Excel window closing. So if you have ...Show All

• Jaime de la Mancha Class Designer Questions

  Ramesh, 1) Is there a way to represent an assembly in the class designer. Or is class the highest level of abstraction supported Adding assembly will allow us to simply the class diagrams by representing a set of classes as one assembly. 2) Do you plan to add multiplicity to the associations. Vishwas, You can't represent an assembly in the class designer.  Class is the highest level of abstraction sup ...Show All

• NeedSQLHelp Persistent installation errors with Beta2/RC0 : "Beta 2 was not attempted to be installed."

  When I run the installer, it take about 10 miniutes of "installing" before there is an error, the error is below. I've seen that there are threads describing a similar error with earlier drops, but I didn't see any mention of a way out. I'm running on XP, I've run the removal tool but still I get the error. Has anyone else installed this drop on XP Is anyone else having this install problem with XP or other [05/24/06,12:27: ...Show All

• Genja_Eugeny Problem with FaultException<>

  I'm having a problem getting FaultException<> to actually return as a generic FaultException rather than the plain FaultException class. I set up a test service that can throw either a System.IO.FileNotFoundException or a System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException, with appropriate [FaultContract()] attributes on the operation. The problem is, when I throw a FaultException<FileNotFoundException> I get the correct generic exception at t ...Show All

• A.M Reportviewer - can I get to the data before it is bound?

  In my ASP.Net 2.0 C# application, I have a report which displays a credit card number. The number is encrypted in the database. What method or event of the reportviewer control will allow me to access the data before binding so I can unencrypt the credit card number and reformat it The number currently will be populating a text box on the report. This would be easy in say, a gridview control, through the ItemDataBound event. Can you ...Show All

• Mike Caito WS-Discovery, WSD, or Network Connected Devices

  Hi, Does anyone know Windows Communication Foundation support Network Connected devices, WS-Discovery, or Web service for devices If you know any samples or link please show me. Thanks. Vinh There is a sample provided on wcf.netfx3.com as well as an article and getting started package written by the netfxfactory team. Check it out here: http://www.netfxfactory.org/blogs/papers/archive/2007/0 ...Show All