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• Tyler Carver User defined reports

  Can the final user modify the .rdlc file to have a customized report Is there (o will there be) a "Designer" external to Visual Studio Short answer: No. There is a "Designer" external to Visual Studio; it is called Report Builder. Report Builder is meant for end-users, but it cannot be used to edit .rdlc files. Report Builder can only edit reports that were created using Report Builder. What is your ...Show All

• EricN How to remove Outlook add-in

  I have created an add-in with VS2005 for Outlook 2003. When I debug the application I see the new toolbar, and it's work very fine. On ShoutDown event I remove it. But if open again Outlook 2003 (not from debug) the toolbar is still there ! How to remove it In Outlook, open Tools->Options->Other->Additional->COM Addins and from the list, click on the addin you want to remove and click on Remove button. Thank You ! ...Show All

• Gamemaster 3000 The "ResolveAssemblyReference" task failed unexpectedly

  Hello, I have the exception hereafter while building (or rebuilding) my application. How can I know which directory he's talking about I tried to remove all bin and obj directories to make a "clean" build, but it does not help. Sebastien Error 1 The "ResolveAssemblyReference" task failed unexpectedly. System.IO.IOException: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 e ...Show All

• Hitesh Mangal Problem with ActiveX control in RS Report Viewer Control(Urgent)

  In SQL Server Reporting Service SP2, Microsoft added a new feature to print reports directly in client side by adding an activex control. It is very nice! However, I encountered a problem that, this control can not print reports with my dotmatrix printer (Epson LQ1600K), it is always in  double width and half height . But if I try to print to other laser printers or print to the dotmatrix printer in VS.NET, th ...Show All

• Ryan Ragsdale groupstyle question in listview

  following is the style that I am applying to an Itemscontrol grouping works except for the fact that the groupstyle is not working properly, the style for groupstyle is taken directly from the sdk. things get grouped properly but the header template for the expander doesnt get rendered The group style example in the sdk does work. but when it is nested like this it doesnt I am using Beta2 < Style TargetType = " {x:Type loca ...Show All

• trix Windows SDK for January Build

  It seems that the only Windows SDK I can find is for the Feb CTP build. But the January build is the one that has the Go-Live license and therefore would be the one to use for development assuming you need the Go-Live license, which I do. My problem is that the only SDK build I can find is Feb, and that doesn't work with the January build of WinFx. Can anyone help me with this issue Where can I find the Jan build of the SDK Thanks. ...Show All

• Gabriel_XD Purchasing Source Safe 2005

  According to the info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vs2005/editions/pro/  I will have to buy the Visual Studio 2005 Professional with MSDN Premium Subscription for $2299/yr in order to obtain VSS. Is this the only way to get the new version of VSS I have a team of 4 people and paying this for all 4 seems very expensive. Would i need a full copy of sourcesafe 2005 on every station with vis ...Show All

• C. Adrian Silasi CursorSafeHandle is unavailable

  I was reading through: http://www.schanda.co.za/blog/ couldn't find CursorSafeHandle - does anyone know which namespace does it reside in Or at least is there any workaround for that missing type Thanks If you are trying for the drag drop effect, Marcelos blog has the right way of doing it :) msdn.blogs.com\marcelolr What you need is this class I w ...Show All

• mani_rt Installing Visual studio 2005

  I would like to install the new 2005 version on a PC but the installer keeps complaining that there are serveral versions of other software installed and therefore installation is canceled. But in configuration-> software none of the programs is listed. Is there a patch ore a extra piece of software that i can run to solve this problem. Regards Harry H. Arends Check out this site. https://blogs.msdn.com/aste ...Show All

• KarthikChennappan VS 2005 RC1, VS Beta3

  Why is there a Beta 3 if a Release candidate is already out   this is rather confusing...should we be expecting any features in Beta 3 to be included in the release, or should we stick with RC1 also, i heard there is a tool to automatically uninstall previous beta version.  Can someone point me to that tool thank you The only BETA 3 version I know os for Team Fundation Server, not Visual Studio 2005.... Latest version of VS 200 ...Show All

• ProjectGKR Using "Like" in LINQ

  Can i use the "Like" operator which we use in standard SQL in LINQ any examples if its possible, or is their some other way of acheiving the same functionality using LINQ In our NPersist version ov linq we simpy made an extension method for system.string where n.Like("%hello%") select n we also added a .Soundex method (there is a working soundex implementation on codeproject.com) ...Show All

• Alfred Ortega Random colors

  Hi here i'm trying to create some shapes on canvas at runtime then how can i get different colors to each shape Thanx-Nagu You could create a random number generator which maps to the colors. HTH ...Show All

• ragc Can I draw something on the report?

  I want to draw sth on the report, how can I do that Thanks in advance. Long btw if its a simple text that you want as barcode you can use a barcode font. Other than using an images (stored in DB or http links) referenced from the report, the report control in server mode support something called custom report items. Take a look at the following post that explains how bu ...Show All

• markbate Sourcesafe Web Service SSL Problem

  Hello, I have found various posts describing this problem, but I don't understand the answers given in any of them! Please help! When I try and connect to VSS through Visual Studio using HTTP, I get the following error: "The certificate authority is invalid or incorrect" I know that my server SSL certificate is a temporary one, and IE also complains when I browse to it so I'm not too surprised (IE says "The security ce ...Show All

• Kromek ActionsPane with a Shared Addin

  Hi, I need to add an ActionsPane with a Shared Addin to a Word Document but I can not find the way... I have a user control and when the user creates a new document i want to show the user control in the task pane. Can i do it with a Shared Addin With VSTO I found the way, but i didn't find with a shared add-in. It is possible Thanks a lot, Juan One thing I noticed is that when I run my Excel VSTO solution that has both ...Show All