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• MPlowman Setup & life cycle

  This is going to be a bit longer ;) I see two kinds of DSLs at this point (and all kinds of shades inbetween): 1) A company builds a DSL and sells it. They come up with a new version every two years. Having the new setup project type is great for that scenario 2) DSLs that evolve rapidly with a project (or many projects). I am going to focus on 2. I see this as follows: Someone builds an app. Sees code patterns that could easily be automated wit ...Show All

• Paganelli Francesco LayoutTransform

  Is there a method of setting two or more Transform (MatrixTransform, RotateTransform, ScaleTransform)  to FixedPage->LayoutTransform, though it wants to set two or more layout of FixedPage. You can use a TransformGroup to combine multiple transforms, then animate or change them separately.  If you are trying to change between different transforms you can use triggers to change the value depending ...Show All

• Ankur gupta - Shared Add-In

  Hi I just created a new shared Add-in project in Visual studio 2005 and i selected application host as "MS Word" and laguage as "Visual basic". I have office 2003 installed in my machine. I just added a message box in OnConnection event and i did build the solution. Now I opened word application but the message box doesn't pop up. But i can find the entry in registry key in word AddIns. I am trying to resolve this ...Show All

• LIMTL An annoying problem - A site that works locally in VS2005 - doesn't work when copied to the web & IIS 6

  Hi, This is really frustrating. I have a working site when run through VS2005. All previous versions of the site worked. So I publish the site with "Allow this precompiled site to be updatable" unticked. I remove the old site versions files and Copy the new version of the site upto the server. Lots of stuff works , new pages work, however some old unchanged pages no longer work and the error message is: The file '/App_Forms ...Show All

• Hardik Mehta Font in Search Results window too small and can not be changed

  When I do a Search in Visual Studio 2005 Help, a Search results window appears.  The font in that window is so small that I have a hard time reading it.  (My eyes are 64 years old.) Ok, no problem, I thought, I'll just change the font size to a larger font.  Oops, there seems to be no way of changing the font size in the search results window!  (In Help windows displaying a help article, you can change the font size, ...Show All

• bigjefe How to translate from Properties to Items?

  I have a property that has comma-separated values, like "A,B,C,D" and I need to pass it to another target. My current solution is to declare it as items and the pass it to msbuild with batching: <PropertyGroup>    <MyProperties>A,B,C,D</MyProperty> </PropertyGroup> < ItemGroup >    < MyPropertiesAsItems Include = "A;B;C;D " /> </ ItemGroup > < Target Na ...Show All

• Frank Winter How To Navigate over Links

  Hi, Are there any code examples of how to iterate the roles within a relationship   I want to use the roles for output in a text-templating file. Thanks, Phil -------------- Let's suppose you're working in a solution derived from the Entity-Relation template. Simple link navigation First of all, navigating across links from one object to another is very easy: if you're looking at an entity, and the DM file says that every Entity ha ...Show All

• T.Ramesh - FALAFEL Software Inc How to set the connector decorator position to middle of the link?

  Is it possible to set the connector text in the middle of the link Something like this <------------------------------------------->                     Communicates Thanks. The connectorText element in the DD file has a "position" attribute which can be set to "CenterTop" or "CenterBottom":   <connect ...Show All

• Matthew Hunter Can't debug ASP in VS2005

  VS2005 doesn't seem to support debugging ASP pages. Is this really so That's a serious problem if it is. Thanks Jeremy We have made the decision in Whidbey not to explicitly support ASP debugging anymore. This is because we expect more and more customers to swithch to ASP.NET. However, actual support is not totally cut, it's just not that obvious. In order to be able to debug ASP sever side script you have to: ...Show All

• inDistress How to set the Formuals options of Excel 2003 in Csharp code as runtime.

  Menu: Excel2003>Tools>Options>Click View tabpage. There is a Formuals option.Can you tell me how to set the option in runtime Thanks! This is more of a question for the Excel Programming newsgroup. You can post your question here:   http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.excel.programming&lang=en&cr=US Thanks! Mike Hernandez Community PM VSTO Team ...Show All

• newtWales Install errors if VS2005 Windows Workflow Extensions previously present

  Installed VS2005 RTM Developer edition. Previously I had beta 2 + VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow installed. Completely uninstalled beta 2, and all the clean up tools reported my machine was good to install. However, I had forgotten to uninstall the VS2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow, before installing VS2005 RTM. None of the cleanup tools picked up on this. During RTM install, I had a couple of error dialogs popup aski ...Show All

• Liviu Ursu Limit foreign-table retrieval

  using all kinds of tricks I am trying to retrieve all customers which have orders in a specific year. So far, so good, this works. but this customer object refers to the orders-collection and whenever I access that ALL orders are retrieved. No matter how I try to persuade the object to just retrieve needed rows from the DB, if I access the orders through the parent "customer" object, I fail. can someone provide me with a hint on how ...Show All

• tweduk ThisApplication_Startup - can't stop at breakpoint.

  I am trying to debug a VSTO outlook add-in (compiled in debug) app but can't get the debugger to stop in ThisApplication_Startup(). The debugger displays a warning saying "this breakpoint won't be hit. No Symbols have been loaded for this document" Yet I compiled it in debug and set the debug options to load outlook as the external EXE program. Whst am I doing wrong Thanks in advance... Found the answer to my ...Show All

• cmag1951 Please insert the Visual Studio .Net Prerequisites disk for visual studio.net

  Following a system failure I have been trying to re-install VS2003, it fails to find the Prerequisites CD the "CD's"  are all iso's I have installs VS2002 from physical CDs but 2003 still fails, help!!!! Message "You have inserted the incorrect disk. Please insert the Visual Studio .Net Prerequisites disk for visual studio.net" Many thanks for getting back I think so, to make sure I only set up one Virtual drive ejected Disk 1 the ...Show All

• Anderson Farias Carneiro YES ITS A BUG! -- Bug Caching Non-DataSet objects in ServerDocument???

  Is there a bug with caching objects that are not DataSets in Office 2k3 docs Although the examples state that anything xml-serializable can be cached using the "Cached()" attribute, I have had no luck trying to cache a simple string in a Word doc. My code in ThisDocument.cs is something like: public partial class ThisDocument {     string id = string .Empty;     [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Run ...Show All