Answer Questions

• Matt Ellis Difference between MSBuild and VS2005 IDE build

  When I was building a solution with several project in VS2005 IDE, the build process can compare the time stamp of input and output and decide whether to skip the build. However, if build the same solution using command line MSBuild, it looks all projectes were compiled regardless of the input output time stamp. Do both of them use microsoft.common.targets and microsoft.csharp.targets Then why there is a difference here. My questions also refer ...Show All

• Pyromanci Visual Studio 2005 doesn't show the panel for XAML Design on one of my user logons ?

  hi i finally got all those things needed to start developing applications for XAML and i saw me stuck with the screen without a designer on one of my logon id's in my home machine. Whenever you open a xaml file from a WinFX application, it will show "Design, Xaml, and Source" in a tab. but one of my other logon id's show just the source and no option for me to switch to UI and design it is there anything i messed up with my vi ...Show All

• Jean Olbrechts Sourcesafe 6.0 in VS2005 Professional

  I just installed VS2005 Professional and couldn't find SourceSafe on the installation disks. Searching here I find out that it is no longer included! I'm stunned. I'm a one person programming consultant and have always used VSS to make sure I can back out of changes and keep track of the evolution of my code. I don't need the rest of Team System (and can't afford it). And I can't afford the $500 or so to buy VSS 2005 separately. So ...Show All

• stigmat TextFlow, TextBlock and text

  Hi, While you can use paragraphs in textflow you can't use them textblock. Textflow should'nt be used in C# (as recommended by the docs) but to use textblock but that then causes problems for layouts. Any recommendations Andy What kind of layout problems If you're having a problem with TextBlock we would love to know about it. If you intend to show a large body of text in your application TextFlow may ...Show All

• Jeff Papp Copy build files

  Hi, I need copy all my build files in a result folder. I use this task but don't work... Can you help me Thanks <Target Name="AfterBuild"> <Copy SourceFiles="@(TargetDir)" DestinationFolder="c:\foocopy" /> </Target> Thanks, Your answer is true, but it don't copy subfolder files. Have you another solution Thanks Do you want ...Show All

• pfdeveloper Problem Installing MS VISIO

  I hardly use any software from Microsoft except Operating system and MS Office. I found out that VISIO is a good tool to create diagrams and flow charts. While I was installing MS VISIO , I got the following error. "You must first install one of the qualified Visual Studio Editions" Any Solutions What should I install first I don't want to pay microsoft hefty fees. Because I am not going to use any other software othe ...Show All

• ivanw Installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer Edition after Professional Edition

  Hello, I currently have Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition installed. (This is the actual release version, NOT the pre-release version). I want to upgrade to the Team Developer Edition, and was wondering if I can install it in parallel, or do I have to remove the Professional Edition before installing this Thanks! Hello Eddie. Yes you can install them side-by-side. I actually have Visual St ...Show All

• Taha Manual binding example

  I have a lot of RDL reports that I would prefer not to convert to RDLC. www.gotreportviewer.com mentioned manually binding data sources to these reports, but I could not find an example of how to do this. Does anyone have an example of this Thanks Is this the only way to convert and can this be done programatically RDL-to-RDLC Conversion When converting a .rdl file to .rdlc format, you must manually rep ...Show All

• fmorales 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

• Clay B How to support Code Snippet

  We want to support a code snippet for COBOL Projects. Please teach me how to support code snippets. In C#, the XML file is put on the snippets folder of VC# folder. How has it related to the package Best Regards. Hi Shinya, is your language service for Cobol written using the managed package framework or native code   There is a good document that describes how to support code snippets using th ...Show All

• adfm No HttpContext when IIS hosted?

  I have a custom datacaching class that works fine under an ASMX web service, but reports that HttpContext is null when used in an IIS hosted WCF web service. Am I doing something wrong To answer my own question... I found this shortly thereafter: http://blogs.msdn.com/wenlong/archive/2006/01/23/516041.aspx A very good article. Unfortunately, the config attributes he refers to are invalid. Instead ...Show All

• CBrittWardSr LAN booster & RPC error 06ba

  Hi,   we have problem with LAN booster service. Visual studio reports " Unable to use SourceSafe LAN service, performance of SourceSafe operations will not be optimal ". After some investigation i suppose there should be some problem with anonymous RPC on server: DebugView reports VSS RPC Service call failed, server: develop1, err: 06ba , which means that RPC is unavailable small utility SSServiceTest (Alin C ...Show All

• Yoshi NorwaY MAPI Extended Headers and MailItem with no EntryID

  I have been doing some heavy duty Outlook 2003 Add-In work with VSTO 2005 and needed access to Extended MAPI properties (Extended Headers in particular) as well as the MailItem that was in the Send event but not yet assigned an EntryID (normally with MAPI you get a MAPI.Message via the EntryID). After extensive CDO 1.21. pain I finally went with Redemption http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/ which solved all of my issues. Should we expect ...Show All

• whs Markers - Symbols

  What is the best approach to show markers (symbols) at particular positions which can be rotated individually ...Show All

• Patrick MCormick Change name of Extension & name of the language afterwards

  Hi, i've created a dsl which works fine. finally i realized that the name of the extension, the name of the language and the namespace is not very apposite. is it possible to change the name of the extension & the name of my dsl afterwards Or do i have to create a new project and import the files i changed within this project Any ideas Thanks, Benjamin Jos, i also tried Gareth's me ...Show All