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• Mike Q Accessing excel worksheet in a word document (VB macro).

  Hello, would you please assist me in solving this problem: I have an Excel object (Excel.Sheet.1) in MS Word document. I'm trying to write a Visual Basic macro for MS Word to change the data in cell A1 of this table. How can I access the cell I can only activate the table for example like this: ActiveDocument.Fields(1).OLEFormat.Activate - this leads to the same result as double clicking on the table object...Thank you! ...I know how to acces ...Show All

• adlammons 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

• Arulvel Adding an image to a Crystal Report

  Hi, I'm new to Crystal reports, but I have to get a report done by the end of today! I've read up on the basics, and it seems similar to Access Reports. I understand that I can simply drag and drop fields onto the designer, from both table fields (pull) and datasets (push). I have an image column (stored as a byte array) in SQL Server 2000. If I select the relevant records into a Dataset, including the image, will I be able to simply drag ...Show All

• hiren VS 2005 Pro Fails w/ unable to locate files

  Hello All, Initially, I received an error that VS 2005 installation could not locate a file named htmllite.dll even though I could see it on the CDs. I then found information stating that if one had downloaded the installation and had burned a CD, that the CD volume name would not match the directory name that the installation was seeking. Therefore, I copied the files to the harddrive and named it "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Profes ...Show All

• AshishKSrivastava soap security negotiation failed

  I have a service with no security, atleast i didn't configure any. When I try to call it from another machine it throws an exception saying thta soap security negotiation failed. It works fine when the client is on my development machine but not when it is on other machines. Any ideas Steve Hi, I have a similar issue and I think it maybe related to the UPN and SPN settings. Any help will be much appreciated. Basically I am runni ...Show All

• Len Weltman What should we do with a "Display of data source" menu for making it inactive?

  In Visual Studio 2005, if COBOL Project is created or opened, how to make a "Display of data source" menu inactive Shinya, Thank you for the question on how to deactivate the "Display Data Source" command. I assume you are creating the COBOL project system.  If you are not creating the project system yourself (with your own code) then there is little you can do as a user. As a project system owner, you ca ...Show All

• RluD Outlook accounts

  I'm creating an Outlook AddIn, and I just want to retreive a list of all accounts in Outlook. Does someone know how I could do this. TIA, Isabel Isabel, You need to use the Outlook 2003 Integration API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/olintapi/html/OverviewOlintapi_HV01155862.asp It is also helpful to remember that this forum is mainly for issues that d ...Show All

• Basha save each page of a word merge as a seperate pdf file.

  I have a word merge, and I need to save each page as a seperate pdf file. I would think i could do something like a for each page in document.pages and then use the Contact field in the doc to save the file, I have never worked with word vba or vsto before and my excel VBA and Vb.net experiance doesnt seem to translate as well as i thought it would Thanks All also can anyone recomend a VSTO book are there any web cast on vsto ...Show All

• Michpre DTE.ActiveWindow.Object.GetItem doesn't work with File Share (File system) websites

  I get "Wrong parameter. (Exeption from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))" I have tried recording a macro doing the same project selection. Running this macro gives the same error... ...Show All

• robgordula Common Settings for all the projects in a Solution

  Hi, I have an issue, if you could find time then can you please suggest some opinion Issue: I have a dotnet solution and under that a no. of projects are existing. I want to control project settings(like buid type, Enable/Disable Framepointer etc..) for each project from one common place (may be xml file or anything else). When ask to build solution it should read settings from that file and apply to each project and then it should build. One w ...Show All

• Priyananth Different Search Results for the same topic ??

  http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_fxmclictl/html/e79a9d4e-64ec-41f5-93ec-f5492633cbb2.asp ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_fxmclictl/html/e79a9d4e-64ec-41f5-93ec-f5492633cbb2.htm Both the links point to the same article. The second has incomplete info whereas the first one doesnt. I was reading a post by a PM at MS, that the code didnt compile in the second case, s ...Show All

• EESTIC Can Outlook folders simulate Listview presentation of ADO records

  Hi, I’m in the middle of planning a new project where VSTO and Outlook will be the keystone in the architecture. Outlook will be used as the main client performing search and presenting (read-only) data from our main application which is based on web services. I’m thinking of using an Outlook folder that simulates grid/ list view functionality. Post ADO records in to the folder after running some predefined search in a combobox. I ...Show All

• ffattizzi Custom TriggerActions

  Are we supposed to be able to create our own TriggerActions TriggerAction is not sealed, but the abstract 'Invoke'  method is defined as Internal in the base class, so there is no way it can be overridden outside of the WPF assembly. It would be nice to be able to do that, but something tells me MS has sealed this API off for now because they don't want to support the contract or there are internal require ...Show All

• Dmitry N. Oleshko How would I receive messages sent to IDE windows?

  I want to receive the messages written to the Output window when I build a solution. I'd also like to somehow access the edit windows and capture the syntax errors that are detected by the IDE. Can anyone point me in the correct direction My goal is to have an application that monitors the activities described above. I need the diagnostic messages that the IDE generates as a developer writes and compiles code. Thanks, Bill Ni ...Show All

• BrianGoffNY Debugging Problems in VSNet 2005

  When I start a web project using Debug-->Start Debugging, I get the error: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Libary - Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe The application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact... Then when I click "OK" I get: iexplore.exe - Application Error. The exception unknown software exception (0x40000015) occurred in the application at loc ...Show All