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• Dominique Gratpain VS 2005 Help options

  I have just installed the full product version of VS 2005. When I go to the Help section, I have no options to select from in the "Filtered by:" drop-down box and therefore cannot access help on Visual Basic's Try/Catch block (for example). When I try the same thing in the VS 2005 Express Edition, I get 7 different choices to select from in the "Filtered by:" selection. Selecting Visual Basic here allows me access to he ...Show All

• Krishna Samaga Hints on implementing a custom control for histogram needed

  I want to create a custom control that just displays a histogram and has events when I move the mouse over it in order to display the value in a tooltip or in a status bar. So I need some advise as what would be the best way to do this At the moment I have a class derived from Control (to use it in the main window xaml file and for easy databinding of the real histogram) that contains a child that is derived from FrameworkElement which then cont ...Show All

• Matt84 MailItem Properties

  Hi I would like to set custom properties on a mailtiem. The custom proerties needs to be accessible for all user, so I guess the UserProperties won't work. Is there some other way of doing this The actual need is to set a reference number which is GUID that can identify the mailitem in the future. please help Hi, You will be able to get a much quicker and effective response by posting this question ...Show All

• johanm specified cast is not valid error when tryning to create new word template project

  hello, i am trying to create new word template project in VS 2005 this is after I created few word project on the dev computer, and done some deployment practice on the same computer like : set framwork security, using publish wizard and setup project and such things. Now every word project(document or template) I am trying to create I getting this error: specified cast is not valid and the create project failed if it is excel pro ...Show All

• notoryus uninstallation errors. need help.

  I am trying to uninstall my beta version of visual studio 2005.  i am having probnlems uninstalling the msdn documentation. every time i try to uninstall it or install it (if installing it says it needs to roll back changes and get the same error). I get an error saying the installer terminaled prematurley.  Can anyone help me get rid of this error i have solved a similar problem with the help of thi ...Show All

• charliestrause Problem Installing DSL Tools September 2005

  I've tried downloading and installing the DSL Tools September 2005 release, and when I have unzipped and tried to run setup.exe I always get the following error.  It looks like maybe the zip file has a wrong version - does anyone else get that problem   I've tried it on 2 machines with different operating systems. Setup has detected that the file 'E:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\VSD71.tmp\dotnetfx\WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x ...Show All

• bluffmastor Edit.FormatDocument not working

  I try to open an xml file in Visual Studio and call the format document command but it fails with an exception saying the command is not available. However, if the xml document has already been opened, Edit.FormatDocument works fine. Is there something missing in the following code to get Edit.FormatDocument working Dim w As Window = DTE.ItemOperations.OpenFile( "C:\MyXMLs\Web.config" ) Dim w2 As Window2 = DirectCast ...Show All

• Bobsabb Plugging into VS help is not happening automatically

  I'm using an *.msi file to install a help (MS Help 2.0) project that is supposed to plug-in as a child to MS.VSCC.2003. It installs the files and there are no errors, but it does not plug-in to the VS help. If I open the Collection Manager (ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/VSCCCommon/cm/CollectionManager.htm), it is listed as it should be, but the checkbox is not enabled. If I check it and press the Update VSCC button, my collection does get correctly plu ...Show All

• Prathvi How I can change report's database.

  I have report created with Crystal Enterprise 9. It connects to MS SQL database. This report contains several subreports. Both report and subreports get data from stored procedures. But SPs are called by qualified name including database name and owner name. If I change database and server name: ci.ServerName = serverName; ci.DatabaseName = database; ci.IntegratedSecurity = true; TableLogOnInfos tlis = crViewer.LogOnInfo; foreach (TableLogOnInf ...Show All

• Marcus Perry [FR]SvcUtil.exe

  Bonjour(Hello) Sorry my english isn't good. Ne sachant pas trop m'exprimer en anglais je pose ma question en francais en esperant avoir une reponse. Voila je viens de rentrer dans WCF que je trouve formidable, sur une WebCast j'ai compris que l'on pouvais utiliser SVCUTIL.EXE pour generer cote client les proxy a la place de referencer les dll d'interface. Hors je n'arrive pas comprendre comment utiliser cet outil. Merci de vos rep ...Show All

• fellobo Expression trees and type inference

  Hi, I'd like to do some modifications of expression tree. This is a bit difficult and I posted suggestion to product feedback regarding this (there is class called ExpressionVisitor which makes modifications on expression trees much simpler, but it is not public). But this is not my question :-). For this purpose I created method that does these modifications (currently I want to work only with lambda expressions that take one parameter and r ...Show All

• maheer System.TimeoutException in "Hello World" sample

  Hello I'm newbie to WCF so i started by playing with "Hello World" sample Everything works great except last step ( Securing Communication Between the Client and Server ) When i change binding to WSHttpBinding and run app (server then client), messages are sended ok, client ends but server hangs on HService.Close(); After a while, System.TimeoutException is thrown : System.TimeoutException was unhandled Message="Unable ...Show All

• jepatte Page Margins are jacked up

  I have created a simple report with just a title and some lines in the header. I set the page margins to .5 inch all around. Centered the title and drew lines on either side all the way to the margins like: ------------------------------- Title ------------------------------- It looks great on the screen, but when it prints the left margin is quite noticeably wider than the right margin.  Is this a known bug or am I missing something ...Show All

• Visio User Unable to Show/Hide NamedRange object from the ActionPane

  By invoking folloving code from my my Action Pane I'm getting an exception on the line: object h = nr.Hidden;   The whole method's code: private void btn_RangeShowHide_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { Tools. NamedRange nr = Globals .Sheet6.Controls[ "subj_1" ] as Tools. NamedRange ; if ( null == nr) return ; object h = nr.Hidden; nr.Hidden = true ; }     Am I missing something Exception: Unable t ...Show All

• Stephen York ClearCase Integration with VS.NET 2003

  I installed Visual Studio .NET after I installed ClearCase.  Therefore, ClearCase hasn't properly integrated into VS .NET.  VS only recognizes Visual SourceSafe, which I don't use.  I heard that uninstalling then re-installing ClearCase with VS .NET already installed will allow ClearCase to properly integrate into .NET.  But, the ClearCase installation takes a lot of time, and then there are all of the development views to do ...Show All