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• Damich Showing Error while running the Setup

  Hello All, I prepared the setup for my word template application. I followed all the steps given at the link( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerWalkthrough.asp ). It builts the setup successfully. My problem is when i run the setup sometimes it is giving "Object reference not set for an instance of an object" and stops the installation. I am unabl ...Show All

• Anonymous0011 How to insert a Date Picker into a MS Excel cell.

  Hello all, I have an excel workbook and i want to introduce dates into one column, i want to use a date picker control , do you know how can I add this control to a cell (in every cell of the the entire column) Thanks in advance, Rigo. Hi, Here's a link to documentation that describes how to add a DateTimePicker control to an Excel Range:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4za48s1h Kathleen http://blogs.msdn.com/kathl ...Show All

• Pete Nelson Anybody managed to find a workaround for the "Black Window" bug in the Nov CTP?

  I think I'll create this post as a checkpoint where people can post any info on this bug. For a background, some of us using the November CTP for WPF and either Visual Studio 2005 or C# Express, are experiencing a black window when running the simplest of WPF apps (i.e an app that does nothing but window.Show()). Other people experience it intermitently in XamlPad itself. A few links to the problem... [1] [2] ...Show All

• kirupa Commands: Conceptualizing Menus and Groups

  I'm a VSIP newbie and am having a difficult time understanding some aspects of commands, particularly the menu/group hierarchy. I've been trying to to understand the Creating a Top Level Menu walkthrough at ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.VSIPCC.v80/MS.VSIP.v80/dv_vsenvsdk/html/58fc1a31-2aeb-441c-8e48-c7d5cbcfe501.htm. When I study the PkgCmdID.h and PkgCmd.ctc files and then see how the code is reflected in the test IDE instance, I'm stumped by a cou ...Show All

• plgy2000 Problem in Connecting to Object Collections in VS.NET 2005

  Hi, I tried to pass a collection of objects to the crystal report i created but it kept prompting the error message 'Load Report Failed'. I debugged step by step and realized that the collection of the passed in objects became empty after i set the data source for the report. I doubted bcs of this so i encountered the error. Can anyone help me since i've been struggled for several days Thanks for your kindness. Cheers, xiangyap ...Show All

• -andy- Retrieve all calendar items.

  Hi, I'm trying to create an Outlook add-in using VSTO 2005 to sync all Calendar items, Inbox items, notes items, etc... to my MSSQL database. From reading many articles related to this topic, I'm able to make my add-in work. Some thing that I notice from the result which I can't quite figure out: 1/ For Calendar items, it only get all items from the past up to the current date, it's also won't retrieve any recurrence item. Here's my loop ...Show All

• Dylan Lingelbach MSFT Canvas, Rectangles, ClipToBounds slowness

  We are thinking about starting a new moderately complex graphical application in WPF. But before committing to the platform, we are testing features to see if WPF can handle it. >:) One test application so far has a Canvas with ~800 Rectangles (added with C# using “canvas.Children.Add(..)”. These rectangles are movable by dragging them… implemented with Canvas.SetLeft(rect, newLeft) and Canvas.SetTop(..) from the MouseMove handl ...Show All

• richie_crazy57 How to control order of transformation steps?

  Hi all, Is it possible to get some more details about how to cascade templates I'm curious about the approach briefly mentioned in this post by Alan Cameron Wills. On a somewhat related note, I'm also interested in how to apply a two-step transformation; the first step uses the template to read the model and transforms it into a logical representation of the target artifact (for example, based on xml), the second transformation converts the l ...Show All

• Frango How to get data from xml files in VS 2005?

  I have several xml files with data and tables in them. Is it possilbe to set data source of the report from xml files How to do that in VS2005 Thanks! auhe Hello Auhe, Yes you can use an XML file as a datasource with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005. When creating the report select the Create New Connection from Available Data Sources, then ADO.NET.  This will bring up a dialog box that will le ...Show All

• ashish taralekar Simple TCP Server/Messaging?

  Does anyone know of a current sample (seems like so many are uncompilable) that demonstrates setting up a raw-tcp WCF service to interact with legacy clients Alternately, is there a TCP channel that converts strings sent over raw TCP into messages so I can work at a higher level. It seems like all the examples are WCF-WCF which doesn't help much. Thanks! James What specific client are you trying to communicat ...Show All

• jhervieux Standardization XAML, as WEB the standard ???

  I am developer WEB of applications and I use technology ASP.NET 2.0. After first acquaintance with WPF, I have understood, that I should be reoriented on new technology WPF, besides many official sources Microsoft write that Avalon and XAML functionalities which in hundreds times surpass DHTML give! In connection with that, that XAML applications can be integrated very easily with WEB, I believe, that would be ...Show All

• Dana Reed Error code 0x80072EE7 occurs with HTTP Remote Access

  Hello All - By reading all the threads here we have been able to get the VSS Remote Access working up to a point.  We have actaully has to perform all the tweaks mentioned from manually editing the client reg files to creating the virtual upload and download directories.  I have checked all the permissions on the share and folder. We are now able to browse the database and drill down into the various sub directories.  However when ...Show All

• Liren Zhao VS SDK paired with VS2005 RC?

  When will the VS SDK paired with VS2005 RC released The Visual Studio SDK 2005 September (2005-09) Community Tech Preview is compatible* with the Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate. The VS SDK 2005-09 CTP can be downloaded from http://www.vsipdev.com/downloads/vsseptemberctp.aspx . * - Note that we did not do as an exhaustive test pass with that combination as we did with the VS SDK 2005-09 C ...Show All

• xzhutiger How can I auto-populate two MS Word document fields (customer name) and (address)

  How can I auto-populate two MS Word document fields (customer name) and (address) From the Northwind database Example: MS Word Document: New customer Information This is to inform you Mr. _________(customer name) has a new address of _______ (address) Here is my scenario: User logs in to web page and updates a record for the customer’s new address, which will be stored in the customers table of t ...Show All

• Virtue More custom code questions

  I've been through Brian Likes's custom code blog entries and I can get code to work but only the easiest of examples. I'm using a local report rather than SQL reporting services so I think that a custom assembly might be easier in my case, and hopefully the deployment code (likely ClickOnce) will understand that there is a referenced assembly. But using a custom assembly or even just local code, I can get Hello World to work but I can't figu ...Show All