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• Ade Morgan Msbuild for vdproj

  Automated Compiling of MSI project from MSBuild  I'm creating a automated build process, a process witch needs to result in the creation of a installer (.msi). My choice was to use the Setup project in VS 2005 RC Running Vs 2005 manually I am having no problems ... I have tried a build MSBuild task with then projectfile mySetup.vdproj .... no succes Msbuild says : The project file mySetup.vdproj is not supported by MSbuild and cannot be ...Show All

• gloira Can VSS 2005 and VSS 6 co-exist?

  Can Visual SourceSafe 2005 and 6.0 co-exist on the same machine If not the databases, can the clients Thanks, Klas How about this scenario. Most of my staff is using VSS 6.0, but I am using VSS 2005 to access a VSS 6.0 database. Is their any problems or concerns Also, Can VSS 6.0 access a VSS 2005 database The database format is the same, however VSS 2005 treats Unicode file differently from VSS 6.0 However it ...Show All

• cuco Tab stops in RichTextEdit

  Is there a way to specify tab stops in a RichTextEdit control Thanks Any plan to add it On the framework level, I dont think its possible for now. Content is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights. ...Show All

• HT XLinq xsi:nil="true"

  I was wondering if there was any consideration about providing "first-class" support for indicating that the content of an XElement equates to "nil". The XML Schema spec is pretty clear that you can only use xsi:nil="true" when the element contains no content. But to detect this, you currently have to do a nested if{}: if (x.Element(_SupplierID).Attribute(_nil) != null ) { . if (x.Element(_SupplierID) ...Show All

• Alex Paterson VS .NET install problem on XP pro

  Hi All I am trying to install VS .NET 2003 but I'm encountering a problem. I insert the installation disc and it autoruns. I then click on step 1 - Pre-requisites. As I don't want to host web applications I skip the installation of IIS and the front page server. At this point a installshield dialog pops up saying: "Command line parameters: /L language ID /S Hide Intialization dialog. For silent mode use: /S/v/qn /V parameters to MsiExec.exe .. ...Show All

• Dennis Rose Accessing DTE within VSPackage

  Hi, Is there anyway i can access DTE interface within a VSPackage I need this since i want to use a third party addin component, within a VSPackage, that is dependent on DTE. In addition is there anyway to access the IVsTextView (or some other interface which can indirectly lead me to the aforementioned object) pointer within an addin using the EnvDTE::Window object (or some other EnvDTE::<*> object) Infact is there anyway to access the VS ...Show All

• Ken D. Crystal reports XI R2 and Visual Studio 2005 issues

  Has anyone got this error after updating (fresh install) to Crystal Reports XI R2 with reports in Visual Studio 2005 I am posting here because I am not sure if it is a Crystal reports XI R2 bug or a Visual Studios 2005 problem. I thought it might be that my programming was wrong so I tried the samples that come with R2. If anything these should work since the people who developed the software wrote the examples. Even the examples ...Show All

• CJ_Barnhart Release date for WPF/E

  In an interview with Mike Harsh ( http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx postid=193367 ), he says that there will be an alpha/beta release of WPF/E for us to play around with this summer. Any updates on the date of this release i am desperetly waitng for wpf/e ctp, if any body has any information about it please share. especially i would like to know will it be released in a month or more than that. ...Show All

• Germano Freitas Support for the June or July CTP of VS .Net 2005?

  Does anyone know if there is support for the June or July CTP of VS .Net 2005   I tried to install the Guidance Automation Extensions, but I received an error. Justin. Hi, there is only support in this newsgroups here or at the msdn product feedback center ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ ) Hi, The current GAX release is tied to VS.NET beta 2 and not supported on any CTP. ...Show All

• Stefan.Dobrev crystal reports in c# / disable parameter prompt

  Hi everyone, is there a way to disable the parameter prompt of the crystal report viewer in c# (2005 beta2) I've got a simple report viewer, which doesn't have the smart tag to disable the parameter prompt as apparently the viewer for asp.net does, I'm loading a simple report with a parameter at runtime where I also set the parameter in the code, but still it'll prompt me for that anoying parameter and use the one from the prompt!! I didn' ...Show All

• Jemini Joseph SourceSafe in a ASP.Net project with multiple developers

  I want to create a scenario that will work at this way. I have a server running Windows 2003 and IIS that will have the original cop ies and will receive the files checked-in. And I have multiple developer's machines that are running Windows XP and IIS too, so I want to get the latest version of the ASP.Net project on the deve loper machine, run on developer's machine, check-out some files, and after e diting files, I want to check-in the ...Show All

• iodra Running SQL scripts against multiple database backends

  I have to run a series of sql scripts from a specified directory against sql server, oracle, and access. The scripts need to be run in a particular order. I see that there is a Sql.Execute task in the SDC tasks but it looks specific to sql server I checked out the latest source from the svn repository for the community tasks project and the SqlExecute task is also sql specific. If i use either of these (just for sql server for now) they ...Show All

• CarlW Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack

  I'm new to this forum. I hope you can help me. I'm using the Enterprise edition of VS 2005. When I debug my project an exception is raised - 'Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack'. I can't find anything about this on-line. I suspect this message is hiding the true exception. Does anyone know what this message means Regards, Andy Ham ...Show All

• Epsilone3 xsd document not "protected" from paste

  Building a VSTO 2005 app in Word 2003 that uses document protection and XSD to allow user to enter things into placeholders but not elsewhere in the document. When a placeholder is highlighted, the user can start typing and that works really well. However, we noticed that the user can also paste; if the user pastes, the XML element/node is deleted and the schema becomes invalid and Undo is disabled (!). Yikes. Any thoughts on how to stop this fr ...Show All

• scubagrig VSS 2005 Issue

  At two of my XP machines I successfully setup VSS 2005. Issue is at the server which is an Windows 2003 Standard. It seems that when I check Server -> Configure then Enable SourceSafe Internet for this computer and corresponding option bellow Enable SourceSafe Internet for this database VSS Administrator does not properly create virtual dir, to be more precise, it does note create VssUpload_db1 and VssDownload_db1 sub-virtual dirs. Moreover, ...Show All