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• Harag Questions on VSTO "v3"

  Hello, I have started to play with the VSTO "v3" CTP, and I am wondering where I could post questions regarding this CTP. I have not found any information on the download page or the readme file concerning the correct feedback channel. Should I use the Office12 Beta channel Does anyone know something about it Thanks a lot Hi, You can find out more information about the VSTO V3 CTP from Eric's blog. http://b ...Show All

• PUYBARET Trying to add a new class to the References folder...

  I add the class and rebuild the solution, but the class is not included in the library that's built.  It may have something to do with my action element in the binding recipe I am not real familiar with that element).  This is all to add a reference to an unbound reference.  Any thoughts Thanks! >>>Is there some setting that must be set on new files added to the project You can doubl ...Show All

• JesseStC Reverse Engineering – Auto Display Class Associations

  When you reverse engineer a project, i.e. show the class diagram, the inheritance tree is presented but class associations are not. It appears that you have to right click on the member variable or property within a class and indicate that you would like to show the association. Is there any way to have all associations shown automatically Hi Ramesh: I sent the following to the newsgroup before finding out th ...Show All

• ColdCold Display a dialog in a xbap?

  It seems a dialog box could not be shown in a xbap Thanks! What do you mean by dialog box You can show a MessageBox but you cannot show modal or non-modal windows. This is not possible even in a Full-Trust environment, e.g. enterprise intranet Another question is : is showing a window related to security risk As noted in several places, this weakness is making is extremely difficult to use browser apps for any real lif ...Show All

• Sudhir Kumar Not precompiling Web Project from MSBuild

  In the property pages of a Web Project, there are options to set the MSBuild behaviour for precompilation of the solution. There does not, however, seem to be any way of actually turning this functionality off. I want to be able to call 'build' on the solution so that MSBuild sorts out all the reference projects, but then doesn't call aspnet_compiler as we need to do this manually in our build script (we can't replicate the command line we requi ...Show All

• Mandzuka PLK Generation Error

  I went to the partner site to request some updated PLKs this morning and got a nasty error, no ability to retry the operation, and am not sure where to email to get this resolved. Any pointers If the site error persists, email vsipinfo@microsoft.com , and inform them the site is down. Most everyone on Redmond campus was out for the holidays, though, so its going to take a day or so for MS people to dig ...Show All

• ErikLidman IPropertySetStorage::Open() fails for some MS Word documents

  The following code fails with HRESULT 0x800300fb where wcFileName is a path to certain MS Word documents that contain embedded images.  I would be happy to provide examples of such documents upon request.  They are easily created.  Also, Right clicking on the document in Windows Explorer and selecting properties will fail to display the summary information for the document, so it looks like the Windows OS is running into the sa ...Show All

• speed32 Parameters / credentials?

  Hi,    I'm getting an "A parameter or data source credential is missing a value. Prompting for this value has been disabled. Supply a value or enable prompting." error when I try to show a report in a Windows Form with Local Processing.    The "ShowParametersPrompt" and "ShowCredentialsPrompt" are turned on, but maybe the problem is I don't have a way to "link" the datasource parameters (its a stored procedure table ...Show All

• Paytheon ... like in Ruby

  Is it possible to extend int (simple types) to be able do something like in this code, written in Ruby 3.times { print "X " } Hi What about the lambda function in C# Can they be used in order to make the code more like the ruby example By the way, will the lambda function be available in VB, too Lovely! We'll defini ...Show All

• Prodactor Crystal report using dataset read prompting for database login on a deployment machine

  Hi,   I created a windows application that reads data from ms-access database using OLE DB connection. I used push method (filling dataset and adding dataset to the report object). Everything is working fine on my development machine.       I included merge modules during build process and created msi. When I installed the app in a different pc, the database login screen pops up with already fill ...Show All

• meweaver27 publishing outlook add-in

  When I publish my application everything goes fine, I put it on my harddrive/website/desktop. But when I try to run it I get this error: This application is improperly formatted PLATFORM VERSION INFO Windows : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT) Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.42 System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) dfshim.dll : 2.0 ...Show All

• FrankaFarrerajr Toolswindows out of control.

  At work, I have no problem with DSL tools (Nov CTP upgraded to Mar CTP), but at home, serious problems. The biggest problem is that whenever the focus leaves the Model window to, to a toolwindow, all my tool windows flash and seem to redo the window layout. Frequently, it involves changing the toolwindow I just clicked on, to something else. It really is quite annoying. I would click on a model element in the graphical design surface to set t ...Show All

• zoomkat What can be created with DSL?

  Is DSL just for structural design or processes could also be designed How DSL development is different from developing a framework from extensibility point of view and by aplying changes How constraints are implemented are there any relations with OCL Could DSL be used for Data modelling (keys, trigers, constraints) Felix, I am in the process of creating a DSL based on an existing product / toolset, so I'l ...Show All

• SteveFogel Enable/disable popups in main menu

  Hi; We have an Add-In where we need to enable/disable a couple of menu items based on the location of the caret in the document. As an example, think of the Cut menu item in Edit - it is only enabled if text is selected in the document. Is there any event or any other method where we can enable/disable the menu items just before the menu is displayed. Possibly an event that occurs when the user clicks on the main level menu that will cause it's ...Show All

• JoeBuddha How to restore MainWindow to maximized on startup

  I tried to restore the MainWindow on application startup on the second screen. I saved some window position, Size and state on previous window shutdown. On startup i tried to restore the old state. window.Left = rectangleLocation.Location.X; window.Top = rectangleLocation.Location.Y; window.Width = rectangleLocation.Width; window.Height = rectangleLocation.Height; if (state == System.Windows.WindowState.Maximized) window.WindowState = state; ...Show All