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• jimkeir DockPanel Width Limited by Bitmap effect?

  Hi all, Ive been struggling to make a dockpanel component wider than around 900 pixels - im using one as a header on my application - it therefore needs to expand to fill the full width of the application. It seems to be limited by the application of a BitmapEffect drop shadow. For example with the followign code the dockpanel downt paint anywhere near 1700 pixels wide, but when i comment out the bitmap effect element the panel fills the wid ...Show All

• horace.cx ReportViewer Controls - Updated?

  Has there been any update / hotfix to the ReportViewer controls that shipped with VS2005 If so, where would one find the update If not where will this update be availble when it is released Would this be rolled into a general SP for .NET framework or seperate Thanks, Adam Brian, Thanks for the pointer to SP1 infomation. Will the API be 100% unchanged in SP1, or does Microsoft plan to trickle out some additional functionality ...Show All

• catalinx Serious error when hide the column

  Hi, I have one ListObject on ExcelSheet defined as: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ListObject myListObject = this.Controls.AddListObject(this.Range["A10", missing], "myListObject"); Then I am binding this listobject as follows: DataSet dsTrims = new DataSet(); string strWhere="select col1, col2, col3, col4 from tableTrims"; dsTrims = MyProvider.ExecuteDataSet(System.Data.CommandType.Text, st ...Show All

• hpux Cyrstal Reports Disappearing

  Hello, I'm using Cyrstal Reports developer 11 for .NET.  I have several reports that work, but on two they disappear as soon as I hit the print icon.  Does anyone have any idea why a report would disappear when you hit the print icon Thanks in advance for your help, Remulac Hello Remulac, I have not heard of this before.  What type of application is it, a Winform or Webform app Can you give more ...Show All

• WilliamBushman Adding query results to a List, can it be done?

  I've been testing linq and I'm wondering if this can be done.  The code compiles fine but crashes when run. I'm trying to get LINQ to create a new instance of my class for each result set that I then add to a typed list using foreach.  Now, is it not working because my class does not implement IEnumerable or is it some other reason Here's the code snip I'm trying to get to work. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; ...Show All

• Mike12345 Items and properties set in one target not available in others? Why

  Hi I've got this build file (below), I have a property named TestProp, I want to change this in one target (in target Debug-Build) and have its new value in another (in target Deploy). TestProp as you can see is a property, but I would also like to do this with items. For example the item named @(AssembliesBuiltByAllProjects) created by the MSBuild task that contains the TargetOutputs from the build. What I would like is the conte ...Show All

• Simon Temby Anonymous Methods and LinQ

  LinQ provides query language for our collections as far as I understood, And by the way in c# 2.0  there is Anonymous methods which provide us using closures as functors. Did anybody have issues with Anonymous methods Why did they introduce LinQ what is the best way to select elements of a list that satisfy a given predicate LinQ or Anonymous Methods using closure sorry I am kind of confused. Doh!  Yes indeed, meant to ...Show All

• -Codeman- Has anyone else noticed EID is now unusably slow?

  Since installing Beta 2 of WPF and MayCTP of EID, doing anything in the designer is slow to the point where it is unusable. I am seriously thinking of going back to the Feb CTP! For example, clicking on the file menu takes about 10 seconds to fade in! Anyone else noticed this Cheers Simon I'm running WinFX Beta 2, May CTP of EID on Windows XP SP2 on a Pentium Duo 3.2 with a GeForce 7800GTX running at 2560x1600 and the latest ...Show All

• joan_h Modify Window Chrome via templates?

  I've been playing around with Avalon for quite some time. I love it and am really looking forward to what people can create with it. My only gripe is the fact that the Avalon application resides inside a regular window chrome. Now, I understand why this was done, but does anyone else see a need to allow for customization of the window chrome Could anyone explain to me how Microsoft Max accomplished this Finally, I've opened up a suggestion on ...Show All

• Eric_Gruber_MS how to group shapes

  Hi I created some shapes in a canvas but here the problem I want to group those shapes in to one howz it possible Thanx-Nagu I think I answered this question here recently enough. Just use canvas elements to group them. <Canvas> <Shape ... > <Shape ...> </Canvas> Sure it's quite simple really. <Canvas> <Canvas Name="Gr ...Show All

• ananasgroup VSS diff

  I need to compare 2 VSS6.0 projects using a script. The diff command in VSS6.0 does not have the option to compare 2 projects. How do I do that I suspect you want to use the VSS command line (ss.exe) to compare 2 projects $/Project1 and $/Project2 in the database. The "ss.exe Diff" command for projects can only compare a project in the database with a folder on the local disk. So, you have 2 choices: ...Show All

• Vahid66 bind excel sheet with database without using typed dataset.

  Hi, I am using VSTO with VS.Net 2005. My problem is that I want fill the excel sheet with the database at the startup but not directly with typed dataset created through wizard (Actually I dont want to use wizard, I want to write code as with VS.Net 2003). Is there any example or any webcast there for creating a data access layer in a class file and then binding the excel sheet from this class at the start up. Any one have any idea re ...Show All

• gmhtid Dynamically generate and "install" DSL

  Hallo, I'm currently working on a DSL for a Component-Based Software Architectures. I've created a DSL for the basic entities and their properties. Now I can design "childs" of the DSL (e.g. an EmailEntity) and add different properties in the created designer. What I want to do next is to dynamically create a new DSL from the model I've drawn in my designer within the debug instance (where I have drawn my model). When I now ...Show All

• Vantage Max number of sourcesafe database?

  Dear experts, For easy management, our company want to set the visual sourcesafe to each project own a database. So, is there a max number of database can be created in visual sourcesafe and visual sourcesafe should support simultaneously running multiple database, am I right Finally, would numerous databases (say over 40) deteriorate the performance much Thanks all. Yes, VSS supports multiple databases. There is no max nu ...Show All

• bpmerkel How can I use ResourceDictionary for string resources

  I'm looking into how localization is handled in WPF. I would like to write the following: < Button Content = " {StaticResource MyString} " > Windows forms applications used ResourceManager for string tables. This there a way to use ResourceManager or equalivent to load strings from a string table and assign the string to a control in XAML I have found a way to use a ResourceDictionary to hold strings and then merge ...Show All