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• Gheatza What does this icon mean???

  So I've got an ASP.NET that's under sourcesafe 6.0 control and some of the files show an icon of a circle with a slash through it.  So I do a search on icons in the on-line help and nothing comes up.  I can right click and I get all of the regular ss options: Get Latest Version, Check Out, etc. and they seem to be working.  However, I'm getting some compile errors in the project that are looking for missing classes. Anyone know wh ...Show All

• tronkl Report footer not printing in landscape A4

  I am printing landscape on A4 (width=11.69in, height=8.27in). My page number in the footer shows fine in preview mode in the designer but does not print. What am I doing wrong Tia ...Show All

• nitinca Crystal Reports field question

  I am attempting to use Crystal Reports to generate a report for a Windows App with Visual Studio 2005 beta.  I want to insert the values for various parameters that are determined through the course of running the app into the report fields.  However, reading the documentation seems to imply that you can only use databases as sources for the data in the fields.  Is there not a way to take internal data members from the app and put ...Show All

• Brunni from purticular pc VSS database not able to connect

  hi all am not able to connect vss from a particular pc, but from the other pc i can open the database with the same user, the error is when i connect is "unable to access the user.log file", but user same or admin i can login from the other pc. pls help me out thanks in advance You may not be using the same Windows account to access the database share when connecting from different computers. The Windows ...Show All

• SrikanthR LINQ install fails (May CTP)

  Hi, When starting the installer, I get the message: "Cannot find a valid Product to install LINQ with" and then tells me that I need a version of Visual Studio 2005 installed in the next dialog. I do have Visual Studio 2005 Professional (German) installed and I never had such problems with other previews that involved VS 2005 (e.g. Orcas). I believe that the problem is related to the german language version of VS 2005 since th ...Show All

• smanche WCF on Windows 2003

  Hi On which minimal version of 2003 can I install and run WCF Elad. In my browser it seems like you answered the question the minute it appeared in the forum - WOW, very impressive. Probably RSSed this forums... That would be Windows 2003 Service Pack 1.   Good luck!   Guy http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/   ...Show All

• Ramkumar S.N. Cracking the DDEX nut

  Ok, so I've gone and written a handy-dandy ADO.NET 2.0 provider for SQLite and decided to look into the DDEX side of things just for completeness. Just to get something on the screen, I followed the chapter entitled " Registering a Non-Package-Based DDEX Provider" and am having trouble getting it to show up. Under the SupportedObjects subkey for my guid, I've added the keys: DataConnectionProperties DataConnectionSupport DataSourceInformation Ac ...Show All

• tigreye007 How to bind to a property of a property ?

  In one of the samples (MasterDetail sample) I see that this is possible to do: ...     <DockPanel>       <TextBlock Text="{ Binding Path=Divisions/Name }"/>       <ListBox  ItemsSource="{ Binding Path=Divisions/Teams }" />     </DockPanel> ... However, it didn't work for me when I tried to bind to a class that has a property called Pers ...Show All

• Chris D. Strategy for debugging XAML runtime errors?

  I'm having trouble tracking down XAML runtime errors since the debugger just breaks on app.Run and the error message gives me no information about the location or context of the error. Is there something I can do about this The parser is throwing because its not able to convert Foo to a property. This is probably because you havent given enough information to resolve the proeprty. Some options& ...Show All

• pieter-kun Why can't MSBuild create XML documentation for a VJ# project?

  I asked how to make MSBuild create the XML documentation file for my Visual J# project, and the answer I got in the VJ# forum was... You can't do that.  I'm finding that answer a little hard to swallow, so I thought I'd come here for an explanation. Basically, the situation I have is... I have a Visual J# project/solution.  When I build that solution in VS.NET 2005, it generates an XML documentation file for me.  But when I build ...Show All

• Vinit Asher Feb 2006 CTP what happened to presentation framework.dll?

  Hi, I was just trying to get the Feb 2006 CTP to work on my Win XP SP2 PC. I did a clean uninstall of all previous CTP versions. Also ran the cleanup msi tool given on the CTP download page. After correcting my XAML pages according to the breaking changes done in FEB CTP like changing the XML namespaces in top, I am still unable to open my XAML pages. It keeps trying to load the file forever in IE. Curious I checked with fuslogvw and it seems th ...Show All

• Khaja Imtiyaz Release Build

  I have just upgraded to VS 2005 Express Beta2 and I can't fine where the release build option is. And help points me to the wrong place. So where can I change my build option from debug to release That would work on 2003, but in 2005 Beta2 I only have, Build, Rebuild, Clean and Publish. It's a bit more complicated than that - Release isn't normally the default configuration. W ...Show All

• Uli1962m Getting the Attachments from the Outlook Contacts

  Hi, Can anyone help me to get or know the attachments that have been added to a contact and also get the files that are added to a contact using WEBDAV. Thanks in advance, Kota Hi Kota, This question is beyond our question expertise. I have re-posted your webdav question to the exchange forum. http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.exchange2000.development&lang=en&cr=U Thanks ...Show All

• NickBuck LinearGradientBrush - Improve smoothness

  Hello all, linearbrush->StartPoint = Point(0,0); linearbrush->EndPoint = Point(1,1); linearbrush->GradientStops->Add(gcnew GradientStop(Colors::LightGreen,0)); linearbrush->GradientStops->Add(gcnew GradientStop(Colors::Green,1)); The output is as expected, but is there anyway to get the transition smoother Right now there are clearly a countable number of gradient blocks, where you can clearly see the color transitions. ...Show All

• Frank Wang Capturing Text Output from Exec Task

  Is there any way I can capture the text that is output to the console while executing the <Exec> task to a property I'm porting my NAnt Scripts to MSBuild and we Create SCM ChangeLists from the exec task. I'd just like to extract the ChangeList ID. Chike I checked the msdn2 page for the Exec task ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/x8zx72cd.aspx ) and it says: One disadvantage of using the ...Show All