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• Prof 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 Wow! Speedtriple, I am truly grateful to you! Thanks. This is exactly what I needed. I am started in the ...Show All

• RobertG1 XAML (office 12) Ribbon control

  Hi, is there or are there plans to build an office 12 ribbon control for XAML The 'ribbon' definition in office 12 is already in a XAML like XML format so why not imediatly build a XAML version of the whole office 12 ribbon concept And make that available for all developpers so that we can really have a cross application vista experience for the users. Best regards, Kris Ok, in general terms, the r ...Show All

• yangwulong WPF hosting Flash

  Hi, I want to host a SWF file in XAML layout. Is this possible at all and if so what is the way to do Thanks try using the Frame object. <Window> <Frame Source="myflash.swf"/> </Window> The other way to do this is to use the WinFormsHost and then use that to host the Flash .ocx, which lives down in c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash -- ...Show All

• Poshi Crystal Reports .NET & ASp.NET printing incorrect font - PROBLEM SOLVED

  Hi Have a problem at a client site with our ASP.NET web application and Crystal Reports .NET. Printing reports on our development printers works fine - report is exactly the same as is expected (printing on a HP and a Minolta). However, printing on a Kyocera and a HP at client site produces reports where the font (Arial) has been subsituted to something else that makes the report unintelligable. We are printing direct from the Crystal .NET viewe ...Show All

• Olaf van der Spek Swapping Endpoints at Runtime

  Hi, Is there a way to swap target service endpoints at runtime on the client side if I do not have access to the source Meaning, is there a mechanism (Behavior, Inspector, etc.) that would let me point a calling client to a different service endpoint at runtime I noticed I can modify the ServiceEndpoint in the ApplyBehavior, and it works, but I'm not sure if thats the best way. This would have to happen on a per-call basis. Thanks! Sinclair Schu ...Show All

• BetterTrades after installing WinFx MSDN docs, many problems using MSDN help for Visual Studio 2005

  With the language filter to C# : 1. I click on sub-topics that are clearly under a header topic that says Win Forms and somehow I end up on a WinFx page 2. While trying to navigate somewhere like the summary page that shows the inheritance tree of an object like a TreeView or Class, the links are broken, and I often simply get there. 3. VB .NET topics show up. 4. I would expect WinFx docs to be spotty since it's in such an early form ...Show All

• Computing student Object-oriented network database

  Hi, All! I am Ukrainian scientific researcher and developer. I am developing object-oriented network knowledge database which is based on object-oriented database engine. I already implemented .NET 1.1 support. It's very cool that MS devolops declarative object query language for C#. I hope I'll be able to integrate LINQ features into my engine. Now I have to use three fields to store object soft pointers. One for object hand ...Show All

• MikeLim Opening an existing Word doc via a Word addin

  I've got a Word addin coded in VS 2k5 beta 2. I want load an existing Word document from within the same instance my addin is running. How can I do this Example: Dim test As Word.Document = ThisDocument.ThisApplication.D ocuments.Open(strFile) With the code above Word creates a new instance of itself and loads the document. I am confused with the scenario. Can you clarify what is you are trying to do Do ...Show All

• Brett Metcalfe How to Get click event in my code behind file

  Hi I am using the following code to custmize my button. How can I get the Click event for this button in my code behind file Thanks Viswanand < Page x:Class = " AvalonApplication7.Page1 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005 " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/xaml/2005 " Title = " Page1 " > < Page.Resources > < Style x:Key = " ButtonStyler " TargetType = " {x:Type Button} " &g ...Show All

• alexanderpg Location of Perforator tool?

  I can 't seem to find the Perforator tool in the WinFX September CTP.  It is not "under the Tools submenu of the main SDK Start menu item" as mentioned in the WinFX SDK Documentation .  Is it available for download somewhere Thanks,  Dan Ignore, I was not seeing the x86 directory. Ignore Hello Dan, Try looking under: \P ...Show All

• BrianLL MSBuild and SmartDevices

  We are generating smartdevices projects and we need to compile, deploy and run the application in the emulator. Is it possible to do this using msbuild tasks I know that I can build the project but I could not find the tasks for deploy and run the application. I mean start a process in the device. ie: I start a create database process on the device and I need to know if the process was executed ok. The tool Jason mention ...Show All

• zoulasc How do I submit a BUG for office in general? (not just VSTO)

  Can't fint a site with a simple form for submitting bug reports on office topics! Hi Cindy Well, it takes one minutes to reproduce and the error is persistent at least up to Excel 2003 (tried 2000 and 2003) using 98 and XP. Philip Hi Philip I'm not an Excel expert, but it sounds as if your Excel workbook could be damaged. Providing a link to the file was the right th ...Show All

• m_vspg BinaryMessageEncoding and TcpStreaming Binding in September CTP

  Was binaryMessageEncoding removed from WCF due to the fact that it was not interoperable In Beta1, you could flag a binding for binary encoding this way < binding configurationName="TcpStreaming">   < binaryMessageEncoding /> < /binding> September CTP bits don't like that BinaryMessageEncoding element. I am told that it is invalid child element of binding. I can't find any examples in the docs that don't do it this way, b ...Show All

• syedasad Custom text markers in VS2005 beta 2

  Hi All, We have a weird problem with custom text markers under VS2005 Beta 2 (8.0.50215.44). <br> Our AddIn registers about 30 custom text marker types. We tested it under VS2005 and, seemingly randomly, some of them work and some do not. What happens is that markers do appear in the editor (tooltips are showing, for example), but they have wrong colors (not what our implementation of IVsPackageDefinedTextMarkerType says they s ...Show All

• Aamir Keyhook event handling at Word Document level

  Hi, We are on VSTO Customizations for Word 2003. We binded the XML Schema to the word document. At some of the nodes we need to capture the keys entered by the user and based on that we need to do some action. For that we have written KeyHook events. The following link is the source of our reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/CuttingEdge/ For that we added filters and allowing the keyhook event only bei ...Show All