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• Dgates123 High level tutorial on using EnvDTE?

  Where's the best place to find tutorial-style information on EnvDTE I'm looking more for background information rather than the reference pages for individual objects. For example, what's the difference between using DTE.foo vs EnvDTE.bar, what's the relationship between the selection and the active point, etc, etc I've managed to throw together a macro (mainly through trial-and-error) to move the caret to the start of the work to the right (I ...Show All

• SquadMP Reflection and Excel Toolbars

  In our VSTO Excel solution we are building our own toolbar. When trying to use reflection on the toolbar buttons to determine if they are hooked up with events, the .Net framework functions always return no result. Is this by design because the buttons are Com Interop The code is trying unhook the events from the button if the active workbook is not one from our VSTO solution, but there is no way to check and see if a button has an event to unho ...Show All

• Daniel King Windows SDK for January Build

  It seems that the only Windows SDK I can find is for the Feb CTP build. But the January build is the one that has the Go-Live license and therefore would be the one to use for development assuming you need the Go-Live license, which I do. My problem is that the only SDK build I can find is Feb, and that doesn't work with the January build of WinFx. Can anyone help me with this issue Where can I find the Jan build of the SDK Thanks. ...Show All

• iMo Finding a group of text in between double x0a's with RegEx

  Hello. I need to select all the text between double newline characters with a RegEx expression but the syntax is killing me! I am searching for a name but I need all the other info within that group as well and the problem seems to be that there is also a few newlines in some of the 'groups' that I need. I tried something like this: Dim Expression As New Regex("\012{2}( <tag>.*individual.*)\012{2}") This chokes up on m ...Show All

• Raichur VSS Data

  hi, before restore (copy) the dirs DATA & USERS to new server i can’t see the projects. that I can make to see the projects thanks! Basically its in some kind of encrypted form. But when ever you will access your db after restoring projects will be visible in VSS client as before. Daniel, I am not clear on what you are asking. Did you copy a sourcesafe database to a different machine or restore an archived projec ...Show All

• The Goat problem with connector

  hi, i've got the following definition within my *.dsldd file. the problem is that i cannot connect 'RootFeatureShape' with ' FeatureSetShape' with the ' RelationshipFeatureSetConnector ' in the Designer DebugMode although this allowed within the connector definition. Any Ideas <connectors>           <connector name="DependencyLink">        &nb ...Show All

• Sabayyal Noor Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect hangs when trying to debug

  Hello, well I have this problem...........I created a Windows Application and everything was just fine, then I installed NUnit to test my classes and suddenly the debugger doesn't start.....The compiler builds the application correctly, I can run my .exe file without any problems, but when I try to debug my application, Visual Studio hangs after building the project......Are there some files I should modify or what can I do to use the debugger a ...Show All

• aboudzko Binding.TargetUpdated event

  I am trying to set up a behaviour on a TextBlock element where it will flash when data binding changes its Text property. Enclosed is the XAML style code. As you can see in the comments, If I replace the Binding.TargetUpdated event with an event like Mouse.MouseDown, it works fine. This leads me to beleive that the TargetUpdated event isn't firing. Can anyone shed some light on this <Window.Resources> <Style x:Key="FlashSt ...Show All

• Haddibhai Loosely Coupled Events

  What's the equivalence to COM+ Events in WCF I would like consumers to be able to subscribe to datagrams from my service in a loosely coupled fasion like COM+ Events. /Jonas Roman is correct in the sense that we do not have pub/sub "in the box" for WCF V1. That said, there are some techniques you can use to build event-style patterns. The most straight-forward technique to use is duplex con ...Show All

• Zac Boyles can't generate proxy classes for WCF SDK samples with svcutil

  Hi, I tried to generate a proxy class for GettingStarted service yesterday with FEB CTP svcutil.exe on FEB CTP Vista. But svcutil failed after reporting a few warning messages. The GettingStarted Service was running OK and I didn't modify it in any way. Does anyone know what is it I've read some known issues concerning FEB CTP svcutil. They do not seem to be relevant to the case. Hi, I've sen ...Show All

• Anders Olsson - Sweden Team Build and ConfigurationToBuild

  I'm pretty new with MSBuild but have so far been successful creating a Team Build that builds and publishes a test Web app using the new Web Deployment Project (WDP). I read that only DEBUG and RELEASE are valid values for ConfigurationToBuild (of course I can't find that link now but I proved it by creating a new configuration name with the same attributes of RELEASE - which was working).  I want the functionality of the WDP that ena ...Show All

• hoos30 OpacityMask and PerPixelAlpha

  Hello people !! I'm trying fx3.0 and I want to made the principal window with a mask of opacity like I do with a rectangle (example I have an image like mask.png with alpha transparency). Can any give an idea of how to do that Thanks a lot !!!! Thanks Rahul. Do you know when this feauture will be available And If I want to use a png mask I would use the opacity mask in the main window using the AllowsTrans ...Show All

• wildabeast Opening a Feb CTP project with May CTP - OUCH.

  In previous CTP's there were tools like the XAML migtration thing, etc. Does anyone know if there is anything similar with the May CTP I have a large project (prototype) that we did with the Feb CTP of everything. Now, when opening up the solution/project with the May CTP - I can build the entire project okay, but if I open any of the pages, whammo - errors everywhere and then I can't "build". (which is strange in itself if you ...Show All

• reggio ServiceEndpoint collection empty from WsdlImporter

  Hello, running the following code I get two different results: EndpointAddress epr = new EndpointAddress(" http://localhost:8080/GreetingService "); MetadataResolver resolver = new MetadataResolver(epr); ServiceEndpointCollection eps = resolver.RetrieveEndpointsUsingHttpGet(); Console.WriteLine("/** Endpoints **!/"); foreach (ServiceEndpoint endpoint in eps) {     Console.WriteLine(endpoint.Address);     Conso ...Show All

• TanveerRashid How to get Count in GroupBy

  I tried to translate the very common sql query Select Category, count(*) as NumberOfProducts from Products group by Category into linq syntax. I was able to write it like this: var orderGroups = from p in products group p by p.Category into g select new { Category = g.Key, NumberOfProducts = g.Count() }; Question: is there a O(1) way, to get the NumberOfProducts without using the Count()-Function running presumably O(n) Th ...Show All