softwater's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Adding a new toolbar into a ToolWindow

  I have a working Tool Window developed using VSIP 7.1. I want to add a toolbar to it that mimics actions already defined in a top-level menu. I have read through a bunch of postings to this thread talking about manipulating the toolbar once it's there, but I cannot figure out how to get in the plugin in the first place. I have the CTC group and commands, as well as a something that I thought could lead to a toolbar: MENUS_BEGIN men ...Show All

• Windows Forms FontDialog and TrueType fonts

  Hi, I have a question regarding the FontDialog .NET component. Basically I want to only list TrueType fonts that are available on the system, and to exclude other types of font from the list. I read somewhere that .NET only supports TrueType and OpenType fonts. Is this true If so, is there a way to determine whether a font is TrueType or OpenType Thanks, Richard Hardy. Yes I did realise that the extension was ...Show All

• Windows Forms Accessing overlapping forms in a mdi-app

  If Windows-B-form is in the foreground and Window-A-form  is in the background, the only way I can see to bring Window-A-form  to the foreground is to click on its title bar.  But in VB-6 apps, you could click anywhere on Window-A form  to bring it to the foreground.  Is there a way to do this in vb.net Thanks for any help. Suzanne Haig David: I think I have to do more research on this ...Show All

• SQL Server Controls missing in toolbox

  All in sudden all the Controls (Table, Crosstab, textbox...) disappeared from my Toolbox. I clicked View -> Toolbox and still it is empty. Anyone has any idea what is going on.. Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to receive all events of control to my class ?

  I want to get some method in my class object that receives all delegate calls of some control, or like OnCmdMsg() in MFC to have method that receives all controls call in a form, so I can find which control created message, and what is that message by some identifier. How to make it thanks you ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Create New doc from some parts of old one

  I was wondering if I could make a macro that would identify table cells as headers and content. Then be able press a macro button to create a new doc with this info in different formats. Example (I have a complexe document with many tables in it, one set of tables are like this one below) Audio Name Audio Content SBO_010_Intro.wav Intro Text here SBO_010_Intro ...Show All

• SQL Server Help on Calculated Members

  Hi Gurus, I am new to Microsoft Analysis Services. I wanted to create a new Average Calculation. The Syntax is Avg ( Set [, Numeric Expression ]) . I am using the Foodmart cube. I have tried using many things but have not achieved any success. These are the following things that I have tried. Avg([Product].[Product Family].&[Drink].&[Dairy].&[Dairy].&[Milk] , 'Avergare of Milk ...Show All

• SQL Server Upgrading databases from beta 2 to rtm?

  Hi! We are currently developing an application for SQL-Server 2005. We have a machine with Beta 2 of SQL-Server 2005 with a few user databases and want to install RTM of SQL-Server 2005 on a clean machine in the next few weeks. What is the best way to upgrade the databases to the new machine I guess backup/restore will not work Thanks! Jus You can detach/attach just fine, if your prior version of databas ...Show All

• Windows Forms Programatically Moving Focus.

  I have a text box and I am handling the Key Down Event for it. Whenever I hit the RIGHT or LEFT key, I want to move focus to LinkLabel. I do the following next.Focus();  But the focus rectangle doesn't show up. If I hit ENTER or& ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom Events problem

  I have the following situation: I'm trying to build a ASP.NET application that uses State Machine Workflow. Each state has eventDriven Sequences that should be activated from events raised by a custom service. Here is the definition of the service: [ Serializable ] public class PhoneRepairService : IPhoneRepairService { #region IPhoneRepairService Members public event EventHandler < PhoneRepairEventArgs > P ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Vista UI lacks of Transitions, Fades and some other things

  I like Windows Vista very much, but when i compare the current December CTP [of which I am beta tester] with a Mac OS X Tiger video found on the apple homepage, Vista falls behind in some areas. What I find so pleasing in Mac OS X are the cool but not annoying transitions in various parts of the user interface. In Vista, except of the window minimize to taskbar, maximize from taskbar, window open and window close effects, there are none noticabl ...Show All

• .NET Development creating SOAP header in a .NET

  I'm having a problem creating SOAP header in a .NET The required SOAP header looks like this: < s11:Header > < MessageID s11 : mustUnderstand ="1"> uuid:18db2ad2-5bac-11da-a4ef-18db2ad1a4ef </ MessageID > </ s11:Header > But when I create a class derived from SoapHeader called MessageID contained public member for the element I want to include, the resulting SOAP fragment is ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) design time features in feb. ctp

  I've read the articles from Brian Pepin about Cider Extensibility but can't find anything of that stuff in the feb. CTP. Knows anyone about design time features in that CTP We use Cider's extensibility points (Extension, ExtensionServer, EditingContext) internally to implement Cider and thus the architecture that Brian discusses in his articles here and here is in the Feb CTP. At this point, we don't have an SDK but you can search for t ...Show All

• SQL Server Connect MS SQL Server to UniData tables

  Does anyone know how to configure MS Sql Server to link or connect to a UniData db table I know our company would be interested in doing this... if you ever find out would be interested in finding out. ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you No-Touch Deploy third party components?

  I have read some posts about using the app.config to run dll components that are not in the client's global assembly cache.  Is this possible   If so, can someone please provide some sample code Here's what I'm doing: I am using third party&nb ...Show All