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• CLPMAN Help doesn't work

  I just got my MSDN Universal subscription cd's and included was vs.net 2005. I installed without any errors but when I first opened it and looked at the start page my news channel does not appear. I went to tools, options, startup and I saw the channel pointed to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ linkid=45334&clcid=409 and when I copy and paste to my browser it works fine. Why does it not show up in my Visual Studio Developer News Window An ...Show All

• TarPista How can receive plain text Message?

  Client: Message msg = new Message(); string str = "microsoft"; byte[] content = System.Text.Encoding.Utf8.GetBytes(str); byte[] header = new byte[4]; header = BitConverter.GetBytes(content.Length); byte[] cmd = new byte[1]; cmd = BitConverter.GetBytes(82); byte[] b = new byte[content.Length + 5]; header.CopyTo(b, 0); b[4] = cmd[0]; content.CopyTo(b, 5); MemorySt ...Show All

• xrvjorn AnyCPU or "Any CPU"?

  There seems to be special treatment for the "Any CPU" platform. For example, a C# project file might list the configuration as  "Debug|AnyCPU" but in the Configuration Manager dialog the project platform drop down lists the platform as "Any CPU". If I make calls to IVsCfgProvider2::GetPlatformNames I get "Any CPU" and get a valid configuration from IVsCfgProvider2::GetCfgOfName by passing in the same string. This seems to be the only s ...Show All

• LiquidBlaze Enhance the Unit test environment

  Hi, We are currently working with Unit Test in our development cycle and we would like to continue and even expand the ue of "Unit Test" into integration and even peformance. Using the VS Extensibility, will I be able to extend VS's unit testing capabilities Regards Martin Hi Craig! Wow, that was fast! We would like to introduce new attributes to test methods. Some would just be to refine the w ...Show All

• MBoy Identity Mapping and projection queries

  How will identity mapping work with projection queries If I execute the following two queries: var one = from customer in db.Customers               where customer.CustomerID == "BONAP"                select new {customer.CompanyName}; ObjectDumper .Write(one); var two = from order in ...Show All

• Michael _Kidd How to speed up help integration into Visual Studio help collection using merged modules?

  Hello everyone,   I am developing an installation of a .NET component for Visual Studio 2003/2005. I have created a HxS documentation for the component and included the necessary merged modules to my installation. Everything is working fine and help is integrated into the Visual Studio environment. But the installation takes very long time. I think the problem is that the Index and TOC files of the Visual Studio help collection and ...Show All

• Sandhya AssemblyInfoTask usage w/ Subversion problem

  I've installed AssemblyInfoTask and now have it working, however, it does not work nicely with Subversion as the configuration management tool. Subversion has a .svn folder along with sub-folders that control the AssemblyInfo.cs file. There are several filenames that begin with the AssemblyInfo.cs* stem name. AssemblyInfoTask seems to recurse through the .svn area and generate build error because it does not find what it expects. Is there a w ...Show All

• megatiko Is it not possible to update tables with ListObject without dataset (created through wizard)

  Hi, I am new to VSTO. I am still not getting any suitable answer for my earlier posts. Let me expalin my actual problem: I have used following code to bind the ListObject: DataSet dsTrims = new DataSet (); dsTrims = MyDataAccessLayer .Provider.ExecuteDataSet(System.Data. CommandType .Text, strWhere); this .bindingdataSource1.DataSource = dsTrims.Tables[0]; myListObject.AutoSetDataBoundColumnHeaders = true; myList ...Show All

• Joshizzle Install issue - ServerDocument cannot write to client's Manifest

  First off I know that my VSTO solution works locally and will work with remote assemblies, on my machine and anothers client. But on a third machine (the client), I have run into a situation on a where I am trying the methodology of "Quick Start #3: Deploying a Document to a Local Folder, and an Assembly to a Network Folder" I have created the console application to handle the writing to Excel's manifest using the ServerDocument cla ...Show All

• Spadzan "Failed to open a rowset"

  Help me.... I am using Crystal reports 9 embedded. I have a report which I'm loading using the following code. When I deploy the application in a client's pc "Failed to open a rowset" is the error that appears. I am using an ODBC connection. Any help would be appreciated.... Dim cr As New crptCMR Dim crtableLogoninfos As New TableLogOnInfos Dim crtableLogoninfo As New TableLogOnInfo Dim crConnectionInfo As New ConnectionInfo Dim ...Show All

• Bistesh Help collection integration

  Hi All, This is for plugging in one help collection to another one, Let me explain the requirement: We have two VSIP packages, say Product-1 and Product-2, and both have their on help collections. Let the root node in TOC of the first collection be HelpProduct-1 and the second- HelpProduct--2. These packages will be installed in separately, and the requirement is to show in help contents, these two collections as children ...Show All

• Kim Meyer Getting Excel install folder

  I'm doing a project using VSTO for Excel, and would like to install a shortcut to my excel template in the XLSTART folder, so that my add-in loads automatically at startup. How do I retrieve the Excel install folder in order to include it in my setup project TIA Thanks for the info, but my problem is how can I tell the Installer to put the file in the folder at installation time There is sthg called "Custom Folders" ...Show All

• arvas Lost implicit "and" search functionality in MSDN Library after installing VS 2005

  I had Visual Studio .NET 2003 and MSDN Library October 2005 installed and working just fine.  Normally, to search a topic in the MSDN Library I used to just list the words separated by spaces: e.g.  activex license deployment.  The space between the words used to function as an AND operator. That is, only the articles containing ALL the words would show up in the Search Results window. Then, I installed Visual Studio 2005 wit ...Show All

• _Othello_ How to support editing file path properties in the properties window

  Hello, I've implemented a simple property page by extending SettingsPage.  One of my custom properties is a string that representes a file path, like so:  [ Category ( "Test" )] [ Description ( "Path to a test file" )] [ DisplayName ( "Test File path" )] public  string MyFilePath { get { return this .myFilePath; } set { this .myFilePath= value ; this.IsDirty = true; } } How do I support the editing of thi ...Show All

• Grismath Could not find schema information for the element 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0:system.serviceM

  using CTP bits i can rebuild the samples and all ok - building my own project i get the following error: "Could not find schema information for the element 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0:system.serviceModel'. C:\Documents and Settings\jim\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\msnsearchclient\MSNsearchIndigo\app.config 3 6 MSNsearchIndigo" all of this is using VS 2005 beta2. jim tried that but ...Show All