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• Davide Rinaldi Can you detect all installed packages?

  Is there a way to programatically detect which packages are installed on the current machine while executing a recipe/action You can ask for the IRecipeManagerService service and get a list of installed packages from it, as well as enable/disable packages, etc. ...Show All

• Med Bouchenafa How do I set a data breakpoint?

  I have tried both native and managed projects, running and not running apps, but the 'New Data Breakpoint' option is perpetually disabled (greyed out) in both the main debug menu and the break points window.  In MSVC 2003, the breakpoint setup was straight forward.  Could someone please tell me how to get this working I disagree ;) Turns out if you install Intel Fortran 9.1, the visual studio integra ...Show All

• FishBlub Please help-----Unable to debug: The binding handle is invalid

  In Visual Studio 2005 when I try to debug ASP.NET 2.0 project I get the error " Unable to debug: The binding handle is invalid ". In Windows Form projects I can suppress this error temporarily by disabling the hosting process in the project properties. How to do it in the ASP.NET projects. Also If I try to attach to the running managed application I get the same error. Any workaround for this Thanks in advance   This thread to ...Show All

• Pamish Using Word add-in does not work when opening second document

  Hi, I created a very simple add-in to Word that creates a toolbar with a button that colors the selected text when pressed. I've tried to create a new add-in keep it as simple as possible to narrow down the possible errors. I'm using c# in Visual Studio 2005 and Word 2003. It works fine when running it from Visual Studio or opening a word document. Problem: If I o ...Show All

• Magius My Pet Peeve of the day

  When Word goes to load Add-Ins, we really, Really, REALLY need a way for it to tell us what Add-Ins it is loading (the assembly and file location) and if they fail, why they failed. And for the fail, the core error too. For example, saying mscore.dll was unhappy is not very useful. Saying that it failed because assembly X is not strongly named - that IS very very useful (a problem I had many many months ago with my AddIn). thanks - dave ...Show All

• John Walker Modify a control from a different class in the same project *urgent*

  I have a DummieApplication with the following classes: MainWindow, MessageWindow, Provider, Notifier. Now I want to acces the text in a textbox, from Mainwindow, in the class provider. I want to change the text of the Mainwindow.txtBla from the class provider. How can I do this "MainWindow.txtBla" isn't the answer. Thanks in advance Ah yes, t ...Show All

• Friendly Dog Using SQL Native Client VS 2005 April CTP

  Hi, I can't seem to get crystal to use the new SQL Native Client to connect to a SQL Express database, when I try I get the error : Logon Failed. Details: ADO Error Code: 0x Source: Microsoft OLEDB Service Components Description: Format of the initializartion string does not conform to the OLEDB specification. Is there something I have to do to work around this issue Maybe it's fixed in the June CTP :-) Hello, I was able to reprod ...Show All

• Tim Stall targetNamespace

  In my WSDL, I see <wsdl:definitions name="MyService" targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org/">. How do I override targetNamespace with my own URI Under .asmx, I did [WebService(Namespace = "http://foo.com/bar/baz")]. The Namespace property of ServiceContractAttribute seems to affect every element except for the root element <wsdl:definitions />. I see this when I hit htt ...Show All

• funklessbeavers Expression Trees

  When creating an expression tree, the current Linq release requires me to explicitly state what the type of the expression is: Expression<Func<int,int,int>> expr = (x,y) => x + y; I cant even seem to be able to use type inference here: void GetExpression<T>(Expression<T> expr) { Console.WriteLine(typeof(T)); } GetExpression((x,y) => x+y); // error Do we think that the type inference is going to get better i ...Show All

• mimminito ItemSource - removing item from collection

  Is there a best practice associated with removing an item from an ObservableCollection that is bound to an ItemsControl via ItemsSource   The data template associated with the ItemsControls also has datatriggers bound to properties of items in the ObservableCollection.  When I attempt to remove an item in the ObservableCollection, I get an exception.  The item appears to get removed from the collection but the exception seems to b ...Show All

• Erick_T How do I remove the "main report" button in Viewer

  I am creating a report using the Crystal Reports that comes with VS 2005. I have a report that I shwo in the viewer. Under the viewers toolbar there is what looks like a button with the text "main report". How can I remove this button I can't find any properties. Thanks Simmy   Hi Simmy7, What you are seeing is a TabControl for the Main Report display. The viewer allows you to open several tabs ...Show All

• markeboyle Determining order for build

  I have a solution which contains 15 projects. How can I automate the build process for my solution I don’t want to write a batch file that call MSBuild.exe for each project in the solution, doing so I have to ensure that the batch file always call MSBuild.exe in appropriate order. Secondly there could changes on day to day basis which could make maintaining the batch file a tedious task. How does IDE determine the build order, is it ...Show All

• Prem_Thomas Need Help on VSTO2005 TaskPane

  Hi All,              I am developing an excel based application using VSTO2005. I have a set of user controls that i am embedding in the  task pane (document actions pane). I am not using a application specific actions pane control though. when my excel spread sheet is opened it all works fine , but when i have another instance of excel opened and i close the task pane ...Show All

• Jose Angel Error deploying Crystal with Beta 2

  I get a row of errors when i run CRRedist.msi, during "Updating Component Registration", giving "Internal Error 2908" and a long string starting with "{73E86397-" and so on. then I get the same error 3 or 4 times and then the install aborts. Please any help appreciated! /Mikael Hello Mikael, What are the target operating systems that you are deploying to Does this happen on all machines This error usually points to a lack of rights in wr ...Show All

• RoccoSmit Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en' is invalid

  I have installed a RC version of VS Team Suite along with full MSDN installation. After completing installation, I'v got " Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en' is invalid " error when I have tried to access it by doing "Start" -> "All Programs" -> "Microsoft Developer Network" -> "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005" When I accessed it from VS ...Show All