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• Shoaib Aleem vs2003 with sql2003?

  Can Vis. Studio 2003 work with SQL Server 2005 If you mean access a SQL 2005 database, yes, it will work.   ...Show All

• Brad Peterson PSS MSFT LINQ Licensing

  Are the binaries that ship with the LINQ preview restricted from a licensing perspective from being used in production -Scott I am not a lawyer so I can't interpret EULA for you and only a lawyer can really answer this question. But do consider the following: First bullet of EULA discusses the issue more or less clearly - not for "live operating environment". In addition, please also consider: - It ...Show All

• David L27550 VSTO project does not appear in "VSTOprojects" CAS list

  Hiya, I am going thru the VSTO articles, trying to build a VSTO app in whidbey. When I run the app, I get an error < error > The current .net security policy does not permit the customization to run. <\ error > So, I  follow the advice on how to assign a strongName to the assembly: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/0c0116yz(en-us,vs.80).aspx However, when i navigate  to the "VSTOProjects" folder, the p ...Show All

• Vince Scaccia Multiple fully-qualified paths in a single Task

  I need to pass two sets of fully qualified file names to a task.  Fully qualified paths are required because the task, (NUnit, in my case), doesn't accept relative paths for every parameter. The only way I know to get full paths from a relative path is to first create an item group, <ItemGroup>    <Foo Include="*.foo"/> </ItemGroup> and then reference it with the following syntax, %(Foo.FullPath)&nbs ...Show All

• husky1 RunOnUIThread - Callback Contract

  Hello, I'm build an application using WCF. I have a service contract which is declared with a callback contract. The service is running inside console applcation using NetTcpBinding. The client is a Windows Forms application which create a duplex channel to the service. After I call to the method Login on the service the service keep a callback proxy (from OperationContext.Current.GetCallbackChannel). When an event occure the serv ...Show All

• iGNOSaurus VSIP/Visual Studio 2005 SDK and open source language services?

  In the near future I would like to attempt a language services plug-in using the Visual Studio 2005 SDK (formerly called VSIP I believe); the free version, to be specific. However, since I may or may not have much time in the future to work on it, I was wondering if a non-viral open source license - something like MIT or BSD that does not propogate up the chain - would be OK. I do not care much about the particulars of whatever licenses are ac ...Show All

• Raven TGC ElementName does not work on derived UserControls?

  I used the sample http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=96651&SiteID=1 of Beatriz, where a slider changes the LayoutTransform of a TreeView. The only thing i changed was that i use "UserTreeView" instead of TreeView. Whereas UserTreeView ist derived from TreeView. Here is the exception: Cannot find source for binding with reference 'ElementName=slider'. BindingExpression:Path='Value'; DataItem=' ...Show All

• Chris Foley DLinq as a Datasource

  How can DLinq table be used as a datasource Assume we have a conact class, that is a table in a DataContext. How can it be used as the DataSource in a DataGridView Public Class Context Inherits DataContext Public Sub New ( ByVal connectionString As String ) MyBase .New(connectionString) End Sub Public Contacts As Table( Of Contact) End Class Put the ...Show All

• yumin Package load failure in IDE - 'devenv /resetskippkgs' ?

  I've installed VS2005 beta 2 - appeared ok, but in IDE I get lots of package load failures, and recommendations to skip package loading (and suggestion to use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable). Having completely uninstalled and re-installed several times, nothing seems to work. Any suggestions Sounds similar to this: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vsnet.ide/browse_frm/thread/7ac44a69aef72ae0/2278abc3da86a3e1 q=%27 ...Show All

• mars76 PowerPoint to XAML converter?

  We are exploring creating an Avalon object in WPF to render existing Powerpoint slides. I saw a demo at the PDC where they achieved this. Does anyone know if this converter exists and is available If not, how would one go about taking apart a PowerPoint presentation and displaying it in Avalon The converter we used to render PowerPoint slides as WPF basically walked the PowerPoint object model and emitted co ...Show All

• awake Custom Data Visualizers

  I have seen the Custom Data Visualizers and I attempted to create one but I found the sample to be extremely lacking (or perhaps I am thinking lightyears ahead of the plans of the VS.NEt team again) A sample of what I wanted to do was I wanted to be able to build into vs.net such that the data visualizer for something like a hashtable. would have an extra row. And when this row was expanded it would display 2 columns. Column 1 would show all of ...Show All

• Corrupt65805 Hi All

  It is possible to pass a value to a formula field, but how can I pass the path to a bitmap I am using VS2005 Beta 2 --Goos van Beek Hi,   See this thread. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=18729     cheers, Paul June A. Domag Keith Thomson wrote: Hello Goos, Unfortunately, it is not possible to pass the path of an OLE Object at runtime using the version of Crystal Reports included wi ...Show All

• Rodrigo Diaz LINQ for compiling cool... but what about dynamic queries at runtime?

  just curious how this'll be handled.   having queries directly embedded in the code is awesome from a type safety standpoint, but what about at runtime i assume some kind of "on-demand" Compiling for a program like "SQL Query Analyzer" (more aptly named LINQ Query Analyzer) that is dynamically compiling these LINQ queries and seeing results, kinda like snippet compiler. I bring this up becomes sometimes you gotta give query ability to ...Show All

• ZMAN&amp;#33;&amp;#33; VSTO Installation and Excel 2003 and VS 2005

  The documentation says that I must install VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 first in order to create GAC. Then I must install MS Office. My question is if I have installed first MS Office and then VS.NET 2005 can I add Office PIA's to the GAC just reinstalling .NET programmability support in Office Do I need to reinstall the whole Office just to have the PIA's added to GAC Thanks, Martin Kulov Hi Martin, You should be able to simply re-run the Offic ...Show All

• Coleby Where is VSTO Installed?

  Can someone tell me what files I need to look for to tell me where VSTO 2005 is installed. I believe it is supposed to be: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Visual Studio Tools for Office In this folder, what files do I need to look for to let me know this is the installation folder Thank you The default install path for VSTO 2005 is : "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Visual Studio Tools f ...Show All