Amit Banerjee - MSFT's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms I need to run an exe as part of the install

  I need to run an exe that installs an ODBC driver for an odd database. How can I get ClickOnce to see this as a prerequisite and run it if the driver isn't installed If you really want to make it a ClickOnce prerequisite, i.e. place it in the ClickOnce manifests, you'll probably need to use Mage to edit/update the manifest. If the ODBC driver doesn't show up as a project reference, then I don't think we can get ...Show All

• Windows Forms Databinding

  If i make a class i know i have to do nothing in order to bind it to a text property for example. i can do this by code. How do i implement in my component class to serve as a consume provider at design-time. what i want is, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions md5 checksum for the .img files

  can someone please post md5 checksums or something of the sort I downloaded VC.img manually but am not sure if everything came in OK. Please help. thank you in advance thanks fo the md5. Do they hold true though for the latest, now public release of Vista Beta 2 I would think, perhaps wrongly that with each build, the md5 would also change Is there a url somewhere on MS website, that publishes the MD5 checksums For example, I ju ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Work items menu in Excel

  Hi there, I am having some problems installing the Team System Client. when i install the TS Client in Windows 2000, it show the "work items" menu in MS Project, but not in MS Excel. It works fine if i use Windows XP or Win 2003. what is the problem with Windows 2000 Thanks in advance, Guino. The # 3 was the solution! 3.  Create a '1033' directory under <program files>\microsoft office\office11 (if it doesn't already exist) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Help with C++

  Can anyone tell me where can i found a tutorial or a manual from wich i can learn how to program in C++, i appreciate any suggestions. Thanks ps. please answer to gonzalo_c_z@hotmail.com Check out the books at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=107484&SiteID=1 . Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms text based games for beginers

  i need to know how to make my text based games run on turns. in c++ like cout<<"you have 30 turns how many do u want to youse "<<endl; cin>>turns; cout<<"you have yoused blank turns"<<endl; cout<<"you have blank turns left"<& ...Show All

• Visual C# Page rage!

  Hi everyone, Can anybody out there help me with this one:- using the following code: wordApp.Selection.get_Information( Word.WdInformation.wdActiveEndPageNumber ); I can get the current selection page number. Easy enough. Now, if I try and late-bind that, it all goes pear-shaped and I get unknown name exceptions: Object selection = wordApp.GetType().InvokeMember("Selection", BindingFlags .GetProperty, null , wordApp ...Show All

• Visual C++ Japanese Application

  Hi I developed an Jananese application in MFC (VS 7.2). When i run this application in Japanese Windows its working fine, if i run in other then japanese it display charactors. How can i solve this problem Manoj Jangid No, sorry. I've never tried to actually accomplish what you are trying. I have always been able to require that my customers use the correct language OS. Displaying Chinese (or Japanese) on an English OS i ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System looking for web test

  VS 2005 newbie. I have VS team edition for software developers RTM version. I am trying to create a web test.  However, web test is not an option. NOTE:  The AuthoringTests.txt eludes to test version - but this is not specifically stated. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vs05tmsyswebtst.asp  does not give an explicit statement that the web test is for test edition only. " ...Show All

• Visual C++ HOW GET THE TITLE TASK WHEN ALT+TAB ARE PRESSED?

  hi forum members, excuse me if I bother you, but I need your help with some ideas about advanced visual c programming, this time I have a program , that with your given support , the program can get the text from the buttons which have the focus, but now I’m trying to get the window’s title that is displayed when the user press ALT + TAB for switching the task, I’m trying to get this with CBT HOOKS, but the only data that I got was information a ...Show All

• .NET Development How to send mail from a Windows Application??

  I am attempting to write an application which will send a mail message with an attachment. Here's code: using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Data; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Mail; string filename = "c:\\stuff.xls" MailMessage send = new MailMessage(); send.To = " validmail@mymailserver.com "; s ...Show All

• SQL Server Installing RS2000

  We want to start working with Reporting Services on a Windows Server 2003 (SP1) server that has SQL2000 (SP3) Standard Edition. I thought I could load RS from the CD but it does not appear to be on there. I seem to remember that Microsoft added RS to SQL2000 in the last year or so. Can I download a copy of it, or how do I go about getting a copy and how to I show my boss that it is a legit copy Thanks... Hi, I clicked on the link s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Network write access problem?

  Hi. I've got the task of making a Proof-Of-Concept project using VSTO in our company. But i'm already stuck. I've have installed VS.NET 2005 and VSTO, and i can create Office projects. I have created an excel project, but when i try to save the project i get an error stating "Cannot Access VSTO POC.xlt" (VSTO POC.xlt is the name of my excel template). The project is located on a network drive, which is mapped to a drive letter in windows. Whe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Trying to Save VSExpress Programs _ Thanks

  Hello All, Have been searching for a way to reinstall VS Express Editions after reformatting drive, without having to re-register. I believe I found the answer on this site at one time but have since lost it ( forgive me for asking a quest'n that's already been answered ) . Something about saving a file as .old or something, Thank You for any help. <<< " Man I Love This Stuff ! Programming _ The NEW Drug ! " >>> ...Show All

• Visual Studio suddenly extremely slow performance with VS 2005 June CTP

  I've already submitted this as a bug, and unfortunately I cant tell them how to reproduce this. All I know is that VS 2005 was working fine until Thursday evening. Now I am dealing with EXTREMELY slow performance, especially when transition to or from debug mode. It takes literally 5 minutes to enter debug mode and the CPU is pegged at 100% the entire time. Has anyone experienced this before I'm ready to uninstall VS and reinstall from scratch, ...Show All