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• Visual Studio Hook VS Save event(s)

  Hello all, I am newbie to IDE extensibility. Please help in the query: I have a custom window (created throught VS package) whose fields I want to save when the save functionality of Visual Studio is invoked. The save event(s) has to be handled from all sources: Save as, Save, Save all, Ctrl(s). Any help or pointers for this will be of great help. Thanks in advance. Anna-Jayne is correct, but for more languages, you can download the automation samples from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/code/automation/default.aspx , specifically you want to look at the EventWatcher sample. Craig ...Show All

• Visual C# Why some of the fonts settings are missing?

  My VS2005 has a problem. I just want to change the fonts of the source editor but I found there are only 3 items listed on the [Options->Enviorentment->Fonts and Colors->Show Settings For] dropdownlist. I have checked on another computer and there are far more than 3 settings which should be listed. I reinstalled VS2005 but the problem still exits. Any workaround to get it fixed Thanks. Could you try running devenv /ResetSkipPkgs (after shutting down VS) and see if that fixes it Package load failures may be preventing all categories from being shown. If that doesn't work, you could try devenv /ResetUserData, but th ...Show All

• Visual Basic retrieve and parse HTML data

  Hi in VB.NET 2005, what is the best way to retrieve and parse HTML data from a URL, a bit like a search engine crawler I am building an app, where I need to parse a website, and collate data from it (the website uses some tags that I could pull out to get the appropriate bits of data).  I want to be able to do this in a thread, and just update a DB with the data, and give the client app a status update of the progress. Any ideas/samples/links that you can point out to me that you might know of Thanks Chris Ok. Please know I'm not the worlds greatest parser. I just "do what I do" but rather enjoy it. Mo ...Show All

• SQL Server Trigger question

  I would like to know how many records there are in the INSERTED & DELETED tables at once when a trigger fires. I'm looking at a trigger that checks for COUNT(*) in both tables (INSERTED & DELETED) and will perform a different T-SQL statements base on COUNT(*) being 1 or greater than 1. I always thought that triggers fired for every record in a INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE transaction. If so, there should not be more than one record in neither table (INSERTED & DELETED). his saleyoun, Welcome to the forum!!! The inserted and deleted tables refer only to row that was currently inserted/update/deleted. ...Show All

• Windows Forms type Q??

  Hi all, i'm just starting programming in .net and got the folowing Question Somebody can explain why this is not valide Function Something(ByVal Expr As Object, ByVal somType As Type) As Type ...... ....... ........         Return CType(Expr, somType) End Function Regard Remco Are you trying to write a function whereby the type of the object returned is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Specify Own Build Steps in VS2005 Based Output

  All, Does anyone know of a way to specify your own build steps in the VS2005 based output shown after starting a TFS build from Team Explorer For example I am always shown the progress of the "Initializing Build", "Getting Sources" and "Compiling Sources" steps but within these I have declared my own targets and ideally I would like there progress shown. Thanks... Actually I just found that Nagaraju, one of my colleagues in Team Foundation, have blogged about this in his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/nagarajp/archive/2006/02/03/524418.aspx Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Print preview maxed out

  I am an old timer who used to program in DOS basic, DOS assembly, and Dbase III. I have not done any programming in about 12 years, but am now trying to learn VB using the free express version. Anyway, my question(s): I have clipped in and modified slightly some code I found on how to print stuff. The print preview and everything else involved with printing works fine as long as the source text (a textbox) is less than 13 pages or so. After that, the print preview starts showing blank lower numbered pages, but as you take the print preview up to higher number pages, you will start to see some text. The textbox being printed is set t ...Show All

• Windows Forms Application.Exit

  Hello all, I have a strange problem that i'm hoping you guys/gals can help me with. I have written an application that i need to update on a regular basis. I have purchase an autoupdater problem that allows me to transfer files from my webserver to the client. But, before i can use it, the application itself has to be closed. I execute the Application.Exit() command and the program appears to close, but it's still listed in the task manager as being open. So, when my updater software runs, it fails on the updates because the exe is still in memory. Has anyone else had this happen to them and how do i solve it Thanks. Richard M. ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Who is using XACT?

  If you are using or considering XACT for your product, could you let us know Recently we heard from a developer who was about ready to ship an XACT title, and we had no idea. We try to provide as much direct support to early adopters as we can, help them with any problems they bump into, etc; we can also adjust and prioritize our features based on real-world usage. So, if you're using XACT "secretly", please come out the woodwork and let us know, and maybe we can help. Thanks! Dugan Porter - Game Audio Team - Microsoft This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights Our company is using XACT as it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Again problem with version of code under source control!!!!

  Hi ! I'm sorry I follow your advices but I always have the same problem ! Let's me explain you a litte bit: My team-mate and I are working on a project: project1. He made some modifications in many classes of project1 and even in the structure of project1. Then he checked in all project1 in the source control in the server. Now suppose his local machine login name is Mike. When I download the latest version of project1 on my machine (I am working on the domain) from the source control, I made some other modifications in some classes of project1. But unfortunately, when I run project1, I see that it doesn't see the modifications ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Treeview with contextmenu

  Hi Guys, Does anyone know how to display contextmenu per items in the treeview For example I have contextmenu1 and contextmenu2. I want to display contextmenu1 if the selected item in the treeview is parent and I want to display the contextmenu2 if the selected item is child . I've tried to include it in the styleselector but I'm getting an error and I also tried it in the HierarchicalDataTemplate but it's not working either. Did I overlook something Thanks in advance! Below is the code in the HierarchicalDataTemplate --- < HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key = " Template " ItemsSource = " {Binding ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Newbie General Questions & Error on Non-Dev Machines

  Hello, I've just started programming C++ as of today, so yes I am a newbie, but I do have some experience in Java and GML so hopefully it will come in handy. First off I'd like to know if there is some kind of function list for standard C++ Libraries.. For Java and GML their is an obvious list of all the functions and parameters easily available to all programmers. From what I can see, even MSDN doesn't offer something like this. Secondly whenever I use, lets say, #include <windows.h> I get an error similar to: Error 1 fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or directory c:\documents and settings\ ...Show All

• Visual C# Window Media Player Errors

  Hi Forum, I'm not sure if this is the best part of the forum to discuss it, but it involes c# to a large extent anyway.  I am developling a c# application which uses Windows Media Player and Real Player components, and I have discovered 2 errors - yes 2 errors! - with Windows Media Player. Error #1: Winodws Media Player crashes (freezes - not responding) when it fails to connect to a server whilst in its 'handshaking' state. e.g. Try to connect to this URL with the Media Player a few times: http://stream.krfcfm.org:8000/veryhi ...sometimes the media player will manage to start buffering, but if it can't, ...Show All

• Windows Forms Select textbox text

  I put on a winform a textbox and then in Enter event i execute the following code to select the text when the text box get the focus: private void textBox1_Enter(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {             textBox1.SelectionStart = 0;             textBox1.SelectionLength = textBox1.Text.Length;  } This code doesn't work. W ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom Service and long running Workflow

  I built a custom Service to listen to MessageQueue Messages: using System.Workflow.Runtime.Messaging; using System.Workflow.ComponentModel; using System; using System.Messaging; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls; using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages; namespace connvision.Sharepoint... { public class AskSharepointService : IAskSharepoint { string _SharepointSite; System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, Guid> KeyToProcess = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, Guid>(); public string SharepointSite { get { return _SharepointSite; } set { _SharepointSi ...Show All