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• Borelord VSS Web Service: Unexpected error 0x80004005

  Having spent most of 4 hours trying to get the VSS web service working (thanks to Alin Constantin and a few others with blogs out there), I'm at a point where I'm pulling out what remains of my hair. I can finally connect successfully via HTTPS to IIS (had to self-sign and import my own CA), but when I try to connect to the VSS Web Service, I get an error that says: The SourceSafe Web Service cannot be accessed at the specified address. ...Show All

• adi Reference Task success value

  With the ContinueOnError attribute, it is possible to let a build continue, even if a Task's Execute method fails (returns false). Is there any way to reference that result, so that other Tasks can act accordingly (via a Condition or otherwise) For example: <Target Name="DoStuff"> <MightFailTask ContinueOnError="true" /> <DependentTask Condition="'$(MSBuildLastTaskResult)' == 'true'" /> <DoRegar ...Show All

• Karlekar LINQ Licensing

  Are the binaries that ship with the LINQ preview restricted from a licensing perspective from being used in production -Scott Thanks for the reply, Dinesh. I understand the issues around the LINQ assemblies and the prototype compiler not being supported, and the implementation not having yet been exposed to all necessary forms of testing, but I'm wondering what the repercussions would be for putting LINQ into ...Show All

• Erick Ellis Programmatically adding items to/creating the 'Solution Items' virtual project

  Hello, I need to be able to add items to the Solution items (and/or Miscellaneous Items) virtual project programmatically. How do I go about doing this if the latter does not pre-exist in the solution (IVsSolution.GetProjectOfUniqueName() with argument EnvDTE.Constants.vsSolutionItemsProjectUniqueName returns null in this case) Thanks for your help, Gabriel Hi Gabriel,   In VS2005 you can add items to ...Show All

• N. Franks question about scroll in custom scrollviewer

  HI, I have defined a custom scrollviewer so that I can use custom button instead of standard scroll bar. The question I have is how to disable the scroll down button if there is no need to scroll down. For scroll up button, I can enable/disable the scroll up button using the following code < ControlTemplate.Triggers > < Trigger Property = " VerticalScrollBarVisibility " Value = " Hidden " > & ...Show All

• dougec LINQ Preview and VS2005 RTM

  What exactly are the implications of installing the LINQ preview against VS RTM I mean, does it replace the c# compiler In that case, does the new compiler work seamlessly against standard .NET 2.0 / c# 2.0 applications (I mean, is it safe to use the new compiler for standard development ) Regards, Juan No, it doesn't replaces an original C# compiler and you'll have two compilers. Besides you may not install ...Show All

• DonBaechtel Bindings & Duplex Contract

  What out of the box bindings can be used with a duplex contract Thanks BenECM Found the answer, in the online SDK.- WsDualHttpBinding, NetTcpBinding, NetNamedPipeBinding & NetPeerTcpBinding. Duplex requires Sessions in bindings. Hi Ben, glad you found it. For other folks out there, a description of the features supported by our different bindings can be found i ...Show All

• RA-SJD Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Disc One won't launch the installer.

  Hi my new Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Disc one seems unable to launch the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Installer only once it did however it could not get past installing Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 on my machine. The disc usually freezes my PC and also other times it seems to copy parts of the installer into my temporary files whilst freezing and freezing up the rest of my PC too. I am running Windows XP Professional with Se ...Show All

• bicodeR Save worddocument

  I am building an Word application and I want the user to save the document to a special place. Can I make a byte[] array of thisDocument that contains the worddocument. Because when I try this. It crashes when I try to load it to a filestream. _d.SaveAs( ref fileName, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, r ...Show All

• Luke Breuer Superscript and Subscript text in Crystal

  I am using Crystal Reports for VS.NET 2003. Is there any way to implement superscript and subscript text in Crystal   For example, I would like to superscript the numeric portion ("235") of the following string: "U235 is my favorite isotope" The only way I have found to do this is to put the "235" in a separate text field that uses a smaller font size, and overlay it into the gap that I intentionally left in the larger text field.  ...Show All

• woef22 Crystal Reports 9 .Net Server Setup

  Can anyone assist Have been trying to deploy a website that uses crystal reports and am getting the apparently common error that keycodev2.dll is missing... Have tried all the fixes set out in the Business Objects and MS Visual Studio sites but all to no avail. Have just tried running the CR 9 .NET Server Setup on the web server and when prompted for the 19 digit licence code and being told that is not valid or had expired. The code i have start ...Show All

• Robert Conley Get current project in custom Task

  On the Engine class there is an internal property, ProjectsLoadedByHost, listing all the loaded projects. Is there a public version of this property somewhere, or a correct way to get a Project object for the current project the task is being executed for Cheers, Stu No, there's no way supported way to do that. We intentionally designed the interface between tasks and Projects/Engine so that tasks were i ...Show All

• Adrian M Package Setup and lost Keymappings

  I can't be the only one with this annoyance. When I setup my packages, I follow the by the book method and execute devenv /setup at the end of the MSI. This installs my package well, but custom keymappings are killed in this process. Does anyone have a technique around this Is there any plan in VS or the VS SDK to give us an installation option that doesn't require mangling VS itself with /setup You keymapping ...Show All

• Chule trigger for IsFocused - not working?

  I just want to add a trigger for the main window, when it goes out of focus, so I did a little test app, and it seems to be broken. It raises an exception, in which it says that 'IsFocused' string is not a valid value for 'Property' property of type 'DependencyProperty'. Here's the code: <Window x:Class="WindowsApplication1.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http:// ...Show All

• moulincourt Unable to move outlook add in code to other machine

  Hi, I'm trying to move my code to another machine so I can work from there too. But the add in does not compile once moved. It gives me errors like not reconizing thisApplication class or the declared variable outAddIn of OutlookAddin Type. Also, I run the msi on my machine for the registry entries but it didn't fixed either. Does any body know how to fix it Best Regards Luis, I'm sorry you are having trouble with y ...Show All