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• Aji Jose VSTO Question: Looking for WORD Action Pane example that lists and select contacts from Outlook

  Would really appreciate any help or guidence. I want to have an Action Pane in Word that somehow allows the user to select a contact from the Outlook contacts and insert that information in different parts of the document. Are there any examples of integrating contatcs and using the action pane Thanks for any help, VA For a newbie - you saved my life. Thanks. By creating a new instance of the application is slower and ...Show All

• nparis Databinding DataTable to Report ?

  Hi, I've created a crystal report that I display in a windows form. The report is displayed in a tab with the data entry controls on another tab. The data entry controls are bound to a data table. During runtime I set the data source to the same DataTable that the controls are bound to. The idea is if the user edits the data table then report will update. It's not working though. So my question, how do you bind a Crystal Report to a data s ...Show All

• Rick40 Extending the LocalReport class

  I am considering using the localreport class to do my reporting on a project that I'm currently working on.  I was originally going to use ReportServer Express, but that seems to have a lot more overhead, but doesn't really have too many more features than does the localreport class to offset the cost of the overhead. The one feature that localreport is missing that I need is the ability to export to an HTML format.  Seeing as how that ...Show All

• ConfettiNet Problem while executing my Add-In

  Hai.....,     I have build an Add-In for VS.NET IDE. I 'm storing the information required for my Add-in to a file. The method i used to store is as follows; BufferedStream bs = new BufferedStream( new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Write)); BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter(); bf.Serialize(bs, hashShortcuts); //<--hashShortcuts here is a Hashtable bs.Close(); bs = null; b ...Show All

• Angelo_f Generate makefile in vc

  In VC 6.0 you can create/ generate MakeFile of your project, but it seems this option is not there in VSIDE .NET 2003. Do u know how to create the makefile of your project or solution As far as I know this is no longer supported and has been removed. Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi www.sedodream.com ...Show All

• Manjubashini TextBlock Height exception

  Hi, Any reason why this throws an exception <TextBlock Height = " * " /> Thanks Andy Figures, I have run into this before using code . Given that Height should except *, Auto or double it would be nice to see the same scheme across elements. Because Height is a double and you can use a string representation of a double or "Auto". It's ...Show All

• Othmane Rahmouni-MSFT Studio 2003 Pro + Platform SDK = no run

  I’ve had Studio .Net ’03 Pro (MSDNAA service at school) for a whilebut I just recently installed the latest platform SDK (Server 2003 SP1) for use on XP Pro. Everything was fine until I “Registered PSDK Directories with Visual Studio”. The process seemed to delete all of my VC++ build directories (executable files, include, reference, library, and source) making it impossible to compile anything. I tracked down and restored the original paths a ...Show All

• Kaarthik Sivashanmugam Webcam preview in an Avalon app

  Hi, I am building a small webcam API which is part of a larger final year project at my university. In the samples I've seen the camera preview attached to a window, given its HWND handle. The lines of code looked roughly like this (taken from the PlayCap sample in the DirectShow SDK): ... HWND ghApp = CreateWindow(...); ... IID_IVideoWindow g_pVW; ... g_pVW->put_Owner((OAHWND)ghApp); ... So, what I want to do is actually have the preview go ...Show All

• Sarat Gollapudi A very technical (I think) VSTO startup question

  What is different on a system before VSTO customized document is loaded and after Let me explain. We've got a Word customization that takes 58 seconds to load the first time after a reboot, but only 18 seconds thereafter. Our customization is installed in the GAC, is NGEN'd, and rather large. We have a shimmed managed Word addin that starts .NET CLR with the STARTUP_LOADER_OPTIMIZATION_MULTI_DOMAIN flag so that multiple documents don't requ ...Show All

• techno.coder Dynamically create shapes

  Hello, Is there a way to dynamically create shapes. I would like to create a ModelElement on loading the .xyz designer. Is it possible to create multiple shapes / connectors on drag and drop of an element from the toolbox. In the ElementAdded method can I create shapes - do we have a method CreateModelElement() or API's to create model elements Thanks, Julian Jewel So, suppose you want that every time the user ...Show All

• Reagal VSTO 2005 Hands on Excel Lab Problems

  I'm having some trouble with trying to run through the Hands-on Labs for Excel 2003 which I downloaded from the MS VSTO 2005 site. Not sure if my problem is an installation problem with VSTO 2005, VS 2005 or Excel 2003. I can create the Hands-on project using the Excel Workbook template. However when I run the project in Debug mode I receive the following error message. Problem #1: A call to PInvoke function 'WRDomainSetup!WRDomainSetup ...Show All

• tp_hi Are DataContract types not serializable?

  Hi there... I have a web application that is fed by a web services business tier. I've recently upgraded to WCF services and, using svcutil, I've generated the proxy classes for my services and the data classes they expose. I have a web page that allows a user to edit one of the data classes, and then submit the edited version back to the web service. However, since I've upgraded to WCF, I'm getting errors that say my data class isn't seri ...Show All

• Mamta M Package Load Failure

  Howdy.. Just got this nasty error and wondered if anyone could help me to resolve it fast I have been running Expression Interactive Designer on a test box along with the Cider extensions for VS.. all running sweet... I installed SQL2005 on the same box for some further testing and now when I go to open a XAML page in designer mode in VS, i get a Package Load Failure with the specific package being.. PresentationDesignVisualStudio Anyone Anoth ...Show All

• hugh2005 13 tries & still no luck.

  wow, ive been trying to install vb express beta 2 now for over a month, with no luck.  i have read every post related to installation problems, and still havent found any usefull information.  heres my problem,  I uninstalled beta1 according to the guidlines. I installed beta2 , and now when ever i try to start the program, it errors out. I have uninstalled, and re-installed beta about 13 times now, still with the same result. i ...Show All

• Lawrence Spear How to get the Target name that is current been processed

  I want to know how I can get the Target name value that the Excecute method is executing. Thanks for the reply, The reason I need to get the task name within the task is so when I raise an exception I can write the task name that was executed, this information can also be written to the eventlog as well. Hi, I don't think you can get this value directly. I would imagine ...Show All