qberry's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office importing data from an excel file

  hi,  i'm developing an app wich needs to read some xls files , i  found the docs, on how to open the file, and read from it, using oledb , but i was wondering if this was the only way to do this, also does vsto only reads excel 2003 files or can it read xls files from older versions of excel thanks! it's an app destined to run on Win98, excel is installed on the target machines but since i've never ...Show All

• Visual C++ error lnk2028: unresolved token

  I'm using VSNET 2005 June CTP. When I create a MFC ActiveX Control and specify common language runtime support, old syntax, I get several error lnk2028: unresolved token messages. I have tried the "Remove the Entry Point of the Managed DLL" solution from http://support.microsoft.com/ id=814472 I really though this has already been fixed before. I am suprised it is still in recent builds. I am going to inv ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Is there a control for the Designer and where is it

  Is there a control that allows you to ember the workflow designer with the tools from Visual studios in your own project. Yes, check out the hands on lab 10, I believe which has some examples of designer re-hosting. (You can download the hands on labs here ). You can also look at the Workflow Monitor and WorkflowDesignerReHosting samples which are included in the SDK. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Create partial class on upgraded code - vs2003-->vs2005 (extract windows form designer code)

  Hi, what is the best way to create a partial class to move all windows form designer code from the main class file (the way the 2005 IDE creates). I have a number of forms that were converted from vs2003, and I want to go through and seperate the winform designer stuff out. what are the gothcha's thanks. Lex. I'm not sure how you'd tell the IDE to regenerate that code to a different file, but if you created pa ...Show All

• SQL Server Maintaining Security

  I am a beginer in SQL Server. I have developed a simple accounting application in VB and SQL. Now I have successfully completed my application. Now I want to deploy it to my client. So I installed SQl Server and required VB components in the clients computer. I also created 'sa' login and secret password only know by me. I thought my data in that clients computer was full safe but later on i found that we can also connect to the sql server using ...Show All

• SQL Server Line numbers in Report Builder

  I have a report in which the user community would like line numbers associated with each row.  Has anyone done this or have any ideas how to accomplish this Line Item   Manufacturer 1               Mazda 2               Ford 3        &nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Case check

  Hi All, I am having the following Questions 1)How to check Camel case and Pascal case in custom rule 2)How to access inbuilt spell check in custom rule Thanks, Phani Phani, What are you trying to achieve If you want to run the existing naming and spelling rules over internal code, you can already do this via the external FxCop standalone: Choose Project -> Project Options Select th ...Show All

• Visual C# ListViewItem checked status change

  All I need to do is enable a few buttons whenever at least one item in my ListView is checked. I tried using ItemCheck event but it seems to execute my code before it actually changes the Checked property of the item I change. That might be just fine if it weren't that if I have a ListView with only one item in, and that item is checked, trying to uncheck it results in enabling of those buttons too, when I really want them to be disabled. Questi ...Show All

• Smart Device Development compact framework

  what and how I install to be able to make a Windows Mobile 5 application with VB.NET 2003 I don't know if it's compatible with VS 2003 but for VS 2005 there is Windows mobile 5 SDK with windows mobile 5 emulator (you have to download windows mobile 5 apart from VS 2005) You have to look if VS 2003 is compatible with CF 2.0 or Windows mobile 5 SDK ...Show All

• .NET Development DirectoryInfo and System Volume Info

  I am attempting to retrieve all of the (*.mpeg,*.mpg,*.avi, etc.) movies on a harddrive and return that as an arraylist. When I do so on "C:\\" rather than "C:\\specificFolder\\" it throws an error (some sort of protection level or something ). How can I find all of these files without throwing an error ... can't find a way to exclude Sys Vol Info or another folder (C:\windows prob fails) from the search. Any ideas ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Pocket Office on emulator

  Am I correct to say that there is no Pocket Office on the emulators (I tried the smartphone SDK, haven't tried the Mobile 5.0 SDK) Can Pocket Office be installed on the emulator and how Well the other solutions that have been available are not a robust as the option in Pocket Word. The has been one of the most useful features in Pocket Word and removing that feature from Word Mobile is a bone-headed decision. You could have actually made ...Show All

• Visual Studio Export to pdf of report creates messtup image in pdf file (resolved)

  Hello all, any help would be appreciated: I'm using evaluation version of Visual Studio 2005 (Team System edition) I created Microsoft report (rdlc) that contains Image control in document header (logo). It's External image pointing to a file (if it's significant) I bonded the report to reportViewer control. Report shows nicely. When I print the report to printer everything is well, but when i export report to Acrobat ( ...Show All

• SQL Server Exclude a Table from SQL 2005 Backup Maintenance Plan

  Hi All, I'm seeking feedback on a backup issue.  I have several databases that I run full backups on nightly (simple recovery) using a SQL 2005 maintenance plan.  Each database has 1 or 2 tables that hold non-critical spam hit data.  This data accounts for approximately half the database size and grows daily. My question: Is there a simple way to skip / exclude 1 or 2 tables during a native SQL backup rou ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Implement similar behavior as http:// address for Network File Path in word

  In word, enter http://cnn.com and then space. Word will underline http://cnn.com . Right clicking it shows a list of customized popup menu. Hover mouse over the text. A tool tip shows up saying "Ctrl+Enter to follow link". I would like to implement the similar behavior for Network File Path. Is this possible using a pure VSTO and managed code to implement it Thanks very much! Yuhang. You coul ...Show All

• Visual Basic I need help with Printing

  Ok, I am making a program for a this small bussness I work for. Now they wanted me to set up a database for our products serial-numbers and a front end program for it. Now on top of the program they want me to make they also want hardcopies of each serial number entered, including all the info that goes along with it. Now I have been hunting all over for information to make it so I can just print the MDI child form as is. Well all ...Show All