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• Joannes Vermorel - MSP Help using the Visual Studio DIA SDK for debugging...

  I’m trying to provide myself a call stack dump whenever my code causes an exception, and I want to use the DIA SDK rather than ImageHlp API. Ie I want to see the callstack when my program crashes, rather like the callstack is shown in VisualStudio, except I’m not using an out of process debugger – I want to do this in my own app. The DIA SDK provides some COM interfaces to support what I want to do, but unfortunately there is ...Show All

• bairavinathan Recursive does not get Empty Directories

  When using the following does not return empty directories. <ItemGroup> <DirectorySet Include="$(ThisDir)\**"/> </ItemGroup> My question is why does a call like this not create a collection set off all objects Is there a way to have the collection return the empty directories as well I am trying use collection sets that need to have all the specified files and directories included in them for proper p ...Show All

• Viviana Gutierrez Sanchez Possible to remote an Expression tree into Yukon?

  So this crazy idea came to me over lunch. Yukon hosts the CLR.  It can also host a web service.  Provided that the CLR hosted has access to all the stock .NET framework, I wonder how worthwhile it would be to: 1. Create an expression tree at the client side. 2. Transmit the tree to a service on Yukon. 3. Have Yukon execute the tree in the context of the database (security being managed, of course). 4. Transmit the results back to the c ...Show All

• Derrick Morin Undo in Excel

  Hi all, I'm doing my first VSTO project for Excel. I need my users to be able to click the "Undo" button even after my code has been touched. In a previous post, Aburstein suggested looking at "application.onundo". This may indeed give me what I need. The problem I'm having is that the arguements to the method require a procedure name that gets executed if the user hits undo. It seems, though, that this procedure must be i ...Show All

• Flopik Conditional formatting c#.NET "Unknown Query Engine Error"

  I have a report I created in Crystal Reports 8.  It has VERY simple conditional formatting which works fine in the stand alone Crystal Reports designer. The formula is: If Mid ({Field}, 1, 4) = "BOLD" Then     crBold That formula is a conditional format formula on the style of a database field. Now the application is a c# fat client.  When I call that report it gives a "Unknown Query Engine Error". If I re ...Show All

• SMaste bind excel sheet with database without using typed dataset.

  Hi, I am using VSTO with VS.Net 2005. My problem is that I want fill the excel sheet with the database at the startup but not directly with typed dataset created through wizard (Actually I dont want to use wizard, I want to write code as with VS.Net 2003). Is there any example or any webcast there for creating a data access layer in a class file and then binding the excel sheet from this class at the start up. Any one have any idea re ...Show All

• carlos medina Error: "Error reading setup initialization file" from autorun

  I have been trying to install the MSVC++.net /Visual Studio and have run into a problem.  I am using the 2003 academic version and would like to install this on a Pentium M system running XP Pro SP2.  It is an HP notebook, so if there is a conflict there . . . The error I get when either autorun or exploring->setup.exe runs is: "Error reading setup initialization file" which is in a window/graybox with a button that has  no ...Show All

• ButlerDJ IE7 BETA 2 TABBED BROWSING DOESN'T WORKS

  Hi! I recently downloaded from MS site IE7 Beta 2, and was shocked to see that I haven't got TABBED BROWSING (no tab after the address window). I've tried everything, but nothing works (of course, the Tools, etc Tabbed browsing is ON) Any suggestion Thank you from Luxembourg! Hello, You might try one the IE folks for this, try one of the following: 1. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/support/newsgroups/default.mspx ...Show All

• Chris Howarth Crystal report in Visual Basic 2005, No data!? :( Help!!plz!!Urgent!

  I have created a query in a dataset , then i used the crystal wizard to connect it to the fields in the dataset. I then use the report viewer to conect the .rpt files to it. However only the title or fieldname is displaying but NO DATA!! Can you please help me to solve this problem :( Note: I have used Visual Basic 2005 Pro and SQL Express 2005. oh i see, I will try to put the .rpt file in the folder you req ...Show All

• Bill Foust-DAI Changing the cursor programmatically

  Hello, can anyone tell me how I can set my cursor in the code with a relative path to my .cur tnx in advance, kimme When I try that I get the following error: Absolute path information is required. My cursor1.cur is in the same directory where my application.exe is Yes, for now the path is still absolute and this works, but I would like to change this. this.ImageMap.Cursor ...Show All

• confused_adp VS Beta2 crashes and restarts when I try and run it in debug mode.

  When I try and run my web application in debug mode, the IDE will build my application, but when it comes time to display it using the IDE's development server, the IDE displays a warning message, that I should save everything and VS will shutdown and restart. If I just do a build of my application it builds successfully.  Is anyone else having this issue Does anyone know of a fix Thanks Jason, I've been h ...Show All

• CoolVanilla Rewriting the My.Blogs in C#

  I'm attempting to rewrite the code in My.Blogs that handles the commandbars for multiple open explorer windows. I'm adding some functionality like the ability to store the state of the commandbar and use a custom bitmap. I'm new to C# and I'm stumped. The code works fine for the initial Explorer window opened, but subsequently, when it fires and is picked up by the Explorer.Activate event handler, the Explorer parameter that is passed in does ...Show All

• CanopenR design consideration

  We are integrating our language into VS. We are starting with a class library project type. Our language generates cobol, so we also have under our solution a cobol class library, where the generated source will go. My question is, is there anything to be gained by nesting this cobol project under my project versus just having it as another project under the solution Thanks, Mike Hello Mike, I think ...Show All

• gimmick Crystal Report Problem Connecnting to Database

  Greetings, I am anextreem newbie but need help with a problem that i thought would be really simple to perform. Ok, I have an app, with database containing several tables. Wanted to put a crystal report into it to view the info. Later this would be query run but baby seps to start. Have put the viewer onto a form, created the report, linking to one database table showing 5 of the 14 fields within the database. Followed through the s ...Show All

• Mark Wills Problem with AppDomain in an VS2005 add-in.

  I'm developing a VS2005 plugin that would allow user to right-click on a project and choose "Synchronize with toolbox" to put all controls containing in that project to a toolbox. In order to do it, the plugin compiles the project, loads compiled assembly, iterates through all types in it and puts controls into a toolbox. It works fine, but at the end of this excersise the assembly gets loaded into VS2005 process space, which prevents the studio ...Show All