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• Srinath - MSFT VS 2005 Final. Document Explorer crash.

  Every time I change the "Filtered by" combobox the document explorer crashes: "Microsoft Document Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close". What is a problem As I've already told, I have this bug on "clear" machine, w/o Beta2 preinstalled. Repairing installation didn't help to me. But our company received at last the VS.Team Suite DVD and the problem disappeared. Any PC I installed the Team Su ...Show All

• Mike Vernal Another deployment problem

  Hi, this time another user reported me this while trying to install my Outlook Add-in: I'm not able to install the file you uploaded. It returns: Unable to locate application file 'RemoteCalendarsVSTOSetup.msi'. See the setup log file located at 'C:\DOCUME~1\bbendick\LOCALS~1 \Temp\VSD3B68.tmp\install.log' for more information. The following properties have been set: Property: [AdminUser] = true {boolean} Property: [ProcessorArchitecture] = Int ...Show All

• NewInput Problem Installing Mobile 5.0 SDK

  I have installed the mobile SDK 3 times already and have been able to correct some of the problems of the installation reading several posts, but I am unable to find a solution to this problem. In VS2005, I am able to create a new Mobile project, but the designer is not coming up with the Mobile device to drop the controls on. It has a grey screen with mainMenu1 in it and no device. I have created a project of all 5 device types, but still no ...Show All

• Eduardo Martinez Newbie: Transition to VSTA: Just generating C# project

  We have had a .NET application for over 3 years, which has its own proprietary framework to support plug-ins, since VSA was pulled out of .NET 1.0.  We had to create our own watered-down IDE to edit and compile the plug-in code.  Now VSTA has come along, but we need to transition to it in steps. As a first step to transition to VSTA, we would simply like to generate standard .csproj files in addition to the ...Show All

• larrywph Invalid Characters for Excel Sheet Names

  i was not able to find in documentation what are Invalid Characters for Excel Sheet Names. I was able to find few like , * etc. but need a complete list to avoid any runtime errors before Renaming sheets. Copy from a VSTO sample :   static internal string CreateValidWorksheetName( string name) { // Worksheet name cannot be longer than 31 characters. System.Text. StringBu ...Show All

• mks033 Publish fails for WPF app using November CTP

  If I publish a simple WPF app to http://localhost/TestClick I get the following error: Error 1 Publish failed with the following error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.  1 1 WindowsApplication1 Here is the info from the error log: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at System.Xml.XmlReader.CalcBufferSize(Stream input) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderIm ...Show All

• matthew4oz Help: How to add keyboard shortcuts to Excel Custom Menu and Menu Items

  I can't figure out for the life of me how to assign a keyboard shortcut to a custom toolbar in Excel. I am using C# and have successfully added the toolbar with menuItems but can't find a method or property to allow me to accept the actual keyboard shortcut and execute code. Any ideas I am using CommandBar, CommandBarControl, and CommandBarButton. There's an EXECUTE method for CommandBar controls. I've never tried it in Excel, but we use ...Show All

• Pedro Reis Unable to acquire/convert string signature from primary or satellite DLL

  Hi, there. I made a VSIP package and get a PLK. So, I tested my package, the package loads successfully. But I get couple of same message from the package loading. I really don't know what the message mean. Is there anyone knows what the follow first two message mean --> VSIP: Unable to acquire/convert string signature from primary or satellite DLL. --> VSIP: Unable to acquire/convert string signature from primary or satellite DLL. &nb ...Show All

• Thiago Silva Experimental UI - show and hide shapes and connectors

  How would I add a function to collapse a group of shapes e.g. the concept linked to an owning concept Hi, a.) You can force the Diagram to refresh by calling: Diagram.Invalidate(). b.) Did you originally layout the shapes using AutoLayoutChildShapes or through the user dropping them on the diagram Hi FoleyP, Did you get this workign to your satisfaction 1. How are you initiating the chan ...Show All

• JSR13 need help in crystal report

  hi how i can build line counter in crystal report,i can count line in detail section using whileprinting record but this work if the the record is only one line ,how i can count line for section if record consist of one or more line second question how i can read ifieldobject value or its text in formula editor as example ' field6.value ' formula compiler give me an error on this formula thanks ...Show All

• Mumtaz sorting

  Hi, I'm have a report which i want to group by a field but sorting by another field Accending. For eg: my report will be group by 'id' but i want the data sort by field 'name'. I cannot group my data with 'name' because of 'name' is not an unique data. Is it possible to sort my report by 'name' but not 'id' Hi Keith, Thank you for your reply, but how can i have a group on ID and sort by name wit ...Show All

• johnzlin How Can We Improve the Help Documentation and Sample Code?

  Hi All, I wanted to start a thread here for anyone who has an idea to make the Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Help and Sample Code better. Is there a sample missing Have you got a sample that you think is really useful Is there something missing from the documentation Is there a better way to organize it for you Make a post in this discussion or check out Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 on the MSDN ...Show All

• Chris0144 MSMQ using Contracts vs XML String

  I have a WCF Service with MSMQ Binding. The client doesn’t use any WCF proxy class. It uses MQ directly like this: LoginRequestContract msgLogin1 = new LoginRequestContract (); msgLogin1.userName = "Test"; msgLogin1.password = "Test"; Message msg = new Message(); msg.Body = msgLogin1; msg.Label = "Login"; MessageQueue serverQueue = new MessageQueue(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Ser ...Show All

• G.Lakshmi VSIP SDK for VS 2005 Beta 2 download not quite ready yet?

  I see a new item show up on extensibility web site called "Visual Studio 2005 SDK 2005 Beta 2". That downloads SdmSdkDownload.111 file of only 448Kb. Perhaps the site is in the process of being updated but I thought I'd bring this up to your attention. One more thing. There is another new download item available for Beta 2 called "Visual Studio 2005 Team System Extensibility Kit for Beta 2". What's the difference between the two VSIP VS 2005 dow ...Show All

• Kyron How to access reporting dataset after report is run?

  How do you access the dataset that the current instance of the report is run on outside of the report The reason I want to do this is because I have created my own parameter toolbar and want to be able to populate the dropdown menus with data that is returned from the dataset. Specifically, I want to be able to extract things like the UserIDs and/or the Status fields that are returned inside the dataset. I ...Show All