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• bmssoftware1 API request: Chart drawing in Excel

  You may already have this capability, but I am guessing you do not. We want our add-in to be able to paint a chart in Excel. The reason for this is a user will create a report template in Excel. It will include chart(s). The “data cells” for the chart will be tags pointing to the data. We will then pull the data based on the tag and use that to create the chart. The best solution is if our add-in can provide the data and Excel will still dr ...Show All

• david7520 Collapsible Actions Pane sections

  I am creating a Word actions pane using VSTO. I would like to have various collapsible/expandable sections to this pane. I found a sample project showing subpanes, but it is not exactly what I am looking for....what I really want is one like VSTO's controls Toolbox (with the little gradient bars that have a + or -). How can I create subpanes that have the same look and feel as VSTO's toolbox Thanks Th ...Show All

• HWM get_XML

  I have several bookmarks in my document and I'm trying to retireve the Word html data associated with each programatically.  I thought I would be able to use this method: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word. Bookmark bookmark; string data = bookmark.Range.get_XML( false );   This returns to me a lot of Word document tags, etc, but not the actual text within the bookmark. So, I tried the same call with 'true': Microsoft.Office.T ...Show All

• Hojgaard How to make custom BitmapEffect.

  I want to challenge making MyBitmapEffect. However, information (or samples) for that was not able to be found. Thank you. It holds out based on this information. See the following sample in the Windows SDK: http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms771475(VS.80).aspx Also see the additional instructions needed to get the sample to compile: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=431448&SiteID=1&P ...Show All

• MUGHRA How to set mode Password for TextBox control?

  I want to set TextBox to password mode (with * for each character). I can not find out how to implement this feature. Please help me... Thanks. Is there any way to monitor the caret index of a passwordbox like you can in a textbox the passwordbox doesnt support it.... You are really looking for a masked textbox which isnt supported in the current version. .. an alternative is to use the Winforms M ...Show All

• Chris D Jones Upgrade record

  How can i upgrade record from excel to db table (msaccess), when i use vsto dataset merged into excel spreadsheet Have you a sample please Thank you Carlo Cantoni Hi Carlo, Yes, you should be able to use the same code within a Microsoft Word VSTO project to update the underlying data source. You would obviously need to change the code slightly such as: Globals.ThisDocument.CustomersTableAdapter.Update ...Show All

• Strivedi Parameter Fields - Retrieving a percentage of data from a table as output in CR

  Hello, Could someone point me to the right direction please. I am creating a sickleave software application. Fields include the persons name, date of leave etc I want to retrieve the top 10% of team members who have the highest sick leave of the team members in the table. If someone can help me it would be helpful and appreciatted. Thank You Joe ...Show All

• JeffBoneHead Speed of XAML

  Is it possible for you guys to give us a realistic timeline on when XAML wil be ready to be a actual viable option to develop applications for E.g when will the whole framework standardize and when will we be able to develop apps that won't run at snail speed Thank you very much, Jaco There are two kinds of performance issues in any software. One is systemic. The architecture is just slow and ...Show All

• Jeff Johnson Will VS 2005 coexist with VS 2003?

  I am about to rebuild my computer so that I have a fresh machine for Visual Studio 2005 (I had the RC installed until now).  Once I install everything (including VS 2003) will Visual Studio 2005 install fine and will both Visual Studios work as expected They peacefully coexist on my computer I would install msdn with vs 2003 The problem is solved already. After installing .Net framework 2.0, t ...Show All

• __gapman__ How can I use ResourceDictionary for string resources

  I'm looking into how localization is handled in WPF. I would like to write the following: < Button Content = " {StaticResource MyString} " > Windows forms applications used ResourceManager for string tables. This there a way to use ResourceManager or equalivent to load strings from a string table and assign the string to a control in XAML I have found a way to use a ResourceDictionary to hold strings and then merge ...Show All

• JPC16 Made a mistake...unable to uninstall!

  When I was trying to find a right SolutionCodeGroupName, I forgot to change it into the right UninstallCutomActionData... So, I've been able to install it (I found the error, there was a space missing)...but I cannot uninstall it, even using the Add/Remove program of the Control Panel... What can I do I tried however to develop it again, using another name...it gets installed, but it gets an error on runtime so the AddIn isn't loaded! But, when ...Show All

• mike in nyc SQL server 2005 supporting .net V2.0.5x

  Which version of SQL server Express edition supporting .net framework v2.0.5 Please reply soon There have been several releases of SQL Server Express by Visual Studio and by SQL Server through Betas and Customer Technology Previews. The version of SQL Express must match the version of the Framework that shipped with it. There isn't one specific build that matches all framework builds. ...Show All

• Colbert Philippe Documenter

  I would like to construct a documenter for vs 2005. As I asked in another post MSFT didnt put this functionality in vs 2005. Where should I start     You have two different paths you can take. You could create a tool that runs when build has completed, or you could build a tool that works like a project inside of VS. If you just want to hook into build, then you could create an Add-in to do it, and it would be a lot easier. ...Show All

• Deepesh Verma Opening mscorlib sources in editor

  Hi! In my add-in I'm trying to open source files of classes in editor. It works well with classes inside projects, but I don't know working meth to open any system class (e.g. System.String). I tried to to get CodeType object for this class - it works, but exception occurs while getting Start/End Point or ProjectItem. Maybe someone knows rigth desicion VS is using sources generated from metadata - is there any way to obtain such sources without ...Show All

• sloppypoet Getting even weirder...

  Hi; I built a VS 2005 simple Add-In, tested it, and it worked and I could break into it in the debugger. I then did the same in VS 2003 and it also would run and I could set breaks in the debugger, but it required winword.exe.config set to .net 1.1 I then went back to the VS 2005 one (deleted winword.exe.config). Now when I try to run it, breakpoints I set in the 2005 Connect.cs (the projects & dlls have different names) break in the 2003 co ...Show All