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• Dany V How can I manipulate configuration/platform information in Solution file?

  Hello, Is there a way to programmatically modifiy/populate the configuration/platform information in the solution file Specifically, the following sections: GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution Default|.NET = Default|.NET Default|None = Default|None None|.NET = None|.NET None|None = None|None EndGlobalSection GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution {00643628-BB5E-4048-B264-233391C4A4A9}.Defa ...Show All

• neetu_fzr Modify Designer Colors

  I would like to create an addin that could control the designer's background color as well as the colors used for the different element types. Is this possible with the power toys framework The answer is probably "it depends" - if you'd like to just change the color of, say, all class shapes from blue to green, that's relatively easy. If you'd like to change the color based on some criteria, it will be tricker ...Show All

• Ron Barrett Unable to install VSTMOS 2005

  I have not been able to install Visual Studio 2005 Tool for MS Office Sytem. I get the following message: Office 2003 Service Pack 1 - Microsoft Office 2003 with Service Pack SP1 is not installed on the computer. I have SP1 and SP2 installed on it. I have the Teachers' and Students' version of Office 2003, which might not work with VS 2005 but wasn't Access 2003 another option for installation, as the software box states I have an independen ...Show All

• Ikhwan Nurdin Tooltip not showing up in ReportViewer

  I have a report that displays an image in a table column that allows the user to drilldown into a detail report. The image has a tooltip associated with it. When I view the report in Report Manager it displays the tooltip. When I display the report in a ReportViewer control (in remote mode pointing at the same report) the tooltip does not display. Is this expected behaviour When will this feature be released Please update us when this fea ...Show All

• FredF Excel Designer cannot be activated

  After I installed VS 2005 and VSTO I upgraded my Office 2003 to Office "12" Beta 1. I uninstalled Office "12" later and installed Office 2003 and SP2. I tried to create a Office application (excel workbook) and VS says "the project cannot be created". I uninstalled and reinstalled VS 2005 and even re-run VSTOR.exe but the problem persists. When I try to open an existing Office project, the project opens but when I try open a designer file V ...Show All

• Brian Houston, TEXAS VS. Net Add-in Installer doesn't load on another machine

  Hi All, I am really having a hard time with Visual Studio loading a project using VS. Net  I have a simple add-in that shows a message upon launching Excel. The add-in works fine on my machine, which I used to create the add-in. But when I try to load it on another machine using the .msi that gets generated by VS .Net, I don't see that message! :( I have made sure of the following:            that I see t ...Show All

• NotaProgrammer A little unsure about how to use Command system

  I've read several articles on the Command system WPF gives developers. While I undestand basic uses for this structure, I'm a little confused on how to implement it on a particular senario: I'm building a basic finance application to keep track of transactions, budgeting, etc... I'm using a basic NavigationWindow with Pages for different areas of the application. I have a page, Accounts.xaml, which lists all the accounts set up in a ListVi ...Show All

• Tammy! Network Not Found and/or Invalid Handle

  Oftentimes when performing a "Get latest version" operation recursively on a project, VSS 2005 Explorer will stop and display a "Network Not Found" op-up window and sometimes when I acknowledge this window, VSS Explorer will resume the get operation and some other times, it will display another pop-up; "Invalid handle" and stop. The VSS DB is configured to support the LAN and internet plug-in and the web.config f ...Show All

• Guru_Fordy Why will LINQ fail ?

  Microsoft tries to helping object developers to close the gap between the relational world and the object world.And they call this " object modelling approach " Dlinq. Using " custom business entities " in enterprise programming with Dlinq might seem the best thing after " sliced bread " but it isn't. For my part I have written my Mappers and used commercial OR/M tools. They mostly provide the same thing. __Read the table from the datab ...Show All

• Nathan Booth Error unfolding a project template

  I built a project template that contains some item. One of them is an "App.config" file, that should be copied in the project root folder when the project is unfolded. I defined a recipe to collect information about the project connection string that must be written into the App.config file at the end of the wizzard. To accomplish this task I'm coping many thing from the Teched example. I checked I declared correctly this file in the project.vst ...Show All

• Michael_001 [BUG] BitmapEffect of DropShadow not working on Label

  I have a Label and applying a BitmapEffect of a drop shadow has no effect on the element.  I would expect the text to get a drop shadow effect.  This is a very common case for drop shadow.  I hope this will be addressed for release if not for Beta 2. The real problem is that when DropShadow is applied to small size text, it does not show up to the naked eye. You either need a non-transparent background OR, a larger font siz ...Show All

• PiperNavajo Location transparency

  Hi to all, I would like to know if in the WCF framework there is some features similar to JNDI in java, or similar to what a "Broker" pattern do , someone that receive a request and know where the real service is Or do I have to implement it (maybe extending the Entity aggregation sample ) Could you give me any suggestion Thanks in advance Alex Are you refer ...Show All

• Mowali Obtaining a reference for a existing project

  Hello, I'm starting to work with VStudio Extensibility, I need to know how to obtain a reference for an existing project thank you If you are writing an add-in or a macro you can get the the Project object by enumerating the Projects collection, e.g DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1) will return the the first project object in the list of projects. If you don't know much about the DTE object model I would recommend the following web page ...Show All

• FassaBortolo How can I open a sql script file in a SQL editor in my own custome Project?

  How can I open a sql script file in a SQL editor in my own custome Project Anyone can help me Sorry, to specify further, you'll need to implement the openfilewitheditor method which is under the ivsproject hierarchy (ivsproject --> ivsproject2 --> ivsproject3) There are two ways to do this. You can make your custom project a flavor of the SQL project so that it inherits from it.  Then you get all the plumbing ...Show All

• Manoj Kumbhar Problem in Excel spreadsheet control in C# program

     Hi All,     I am using the " AxMicrosoft.Office.Interop.Owc11.AxSpreadsheet " excel control on C# WinForm. I am writing the data on the Cells at run time I would like to do formatting of the cells like Bold, Merge etc.     When I do in C# " _axsInkSeparationParameters.ActiveSheet.Cells.Font.Bold = true"  it says  Error: "try directly calling accessor methods 'Microsoft.Office.Intero ...Show All