TimLovestrand's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office IDTExtensibility2.OnConnection not called on first load of Word after installation

  I've written a managed com add-in for Word using Visual Studio 2003. The solution includes a com addin shim created using the wizard available through msdn. I've noticed that the OnConnection method, which in turn calls the OnStartUpComplete method, does not get called the first time that Word is loaded after the add-in is intalled. If I close Word and open it again, then the method runs. The LoadBehavior registry setting is 3, which I und ...Show All

• Windows Forms Visual inheritance problems

  Hi. I am experiencing a strange problem with visual inheritance in VB.NET. My project has one form, that serves as the base of several other forms. All was working well but suddenly, every time I add a new form to the project, VS.NET 2003  ...Show All

• .NET Development Gridview need help

  Sorry for posting this in the wrong forum - but cant find a forum for Web.UI controls. If someone knows of a good forum for asp.net web ui please post as it. I have a GridView component in which I have defined a "delete" configured CommandField. When selected, the DeleteCommand of the configured datasource calls a stored procedure to delete the selected record. However the deletecommand is firing twice. There are no pre/post dele ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Beta 3 Refresh Install Problem: SharePoint Services Not Installed

  I receive the following error trying to install the Beta 3 Refresh as a Single-Server deployment: "Windows SharePoint Services with SP2 or later is a prerequisite for this product. You must first install the latest Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 service pack before you install this product." I'm pretty sure I'm carefully following the setup instructions and that SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP2 is installed. I can bring up the SharePo ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2005 specifications and performance documentation

  Does anyone know the links to doucments showing the SQL 2005 specifications and performance data for the various versions of SQL 2005 including SQL Express Not sure if you mean the system requirements If so, that's here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/sysreqs/default.mspx If you mean data on different benchmarks for performance, scalability, etc., if so, just head to the SQL Server home page and browse the variety of white pa ...Show All

• Visual C++ cannot overload operator >> , << in VC 6

  I wrote a CMyString class and want to overload operator << to output the content, In my class, I declare : friend ostream& operator << (ostream& outDev,const CMyString a); outside the class, I have : ostream& operator << (ostream& outDev,const CMyString a) { outDev << a.mpContent; return outDev; } but the project cant compile, it says : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '&' . It ...Show All

• Visual Basic Delete old data sources

  I feel like screaming! I have been using VB since version 1 and i have never been so fed up with it. I wish i'd stayed with 2003 now! does anybody else find it sloooow Ok i'm using a laptop ATM but a good one! My main gripe is that it keeps freezing and have to close it down an restart but i have had so many problems i can't remember them all. My present problem is with the Datascources view. I added two new scources via the da ...Show All

• Visual Basic resx assembly error

  Hello I am trying to open a project given to me by a colleage which was developed in vb.net 2003 I'm using .net 2005 beta 2 I'm getting the following error: Warning 1 ResX file The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) Line 279, position 4. cannot be parsed.  279 0  What does it mean   - how do I proceed - thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Job Monitoring

  I work in an Informatica shop which is looking at SSIS as a possible replacement. In Informatica, when a job is running I can bring up a window for a job that shows the tables being accessed, the # rows successfully processed, # rows that failed, read throughput and write throughput. This information is very helpful. Does SSIS have anything that can provide the same type of information on running jobs If not, does it have the constructs necessar ...Show All

• Visual C# Answer enable intellisense in web.config files

  Hi, We all know we can create web form and coding using designer and IntelliSense. I would like to know if we can do the similar things on web.config file Right now, I am typing everythng in this file. I believe there should be a way I don't know yet. Any advice is welcome. Karl In vs.net 2005 intellisense is available for web.config file.Another better way to edit  is using Asp.net configuration tool.you can navigate to this tool fro ...Show All

• .NET Development Adding child nodes to my xmldocument

  hi there, i have 2 functions:  the one method (serialize) must create a new xmldocument and call the other method (getxml), which will create and return an xmlnode.  the problem is i keep getting the same error message: "The node to be inserted is from a different document context." i don't want to pass the whole xmldocument to the method because of performance reasons.  here is the code, can anyone help public ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How do I compile a VB.net application to a normal *.exe file? I mean that could be run in DOS mode.

  Well you see. It is really stupid to make a cool program that can't run on other computers that don't have the .net framework installed. I ve been searching for such a program that can compile my .exe (for .net) program into a normal .exe . I couldn't find anything like it so any help. If you are kinda new and you don't know why is this just rename your program into a *.txt file and open it. It says: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. That ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Windows Mobile 2003 SE and embedded Visual C++ 4.0

  Hi! I developed a program with embedded Visual C++ and tested it on the emulator. But when I try to deploy to my smartphone the procedure stops. I don't know why. It just says: "Error: Connection was not created". I'm using activesync 4.1 and embedded Visual C++ 4.0 with SP 4. It seems there is a problem with activesync Any hint THX! Tobias This is likely a security configuration issue (The emulator i ...Show All

• .NET Development HttpWebRequest - Error

  I don't get how I can get around this problem I have, the only thing I can think of, is that the headers sent by the servers are different... (note: This is the mini web server within my cable modem) The headers returned by the modem (vb.net errors): "Content-Type: text/html " The headers returned by my local IIS server (vb.net loads html ok): "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1 Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:21:49 GMT X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Transfer- ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How TFS is suitable for real projects?

  Hi all, I know, the question seems to be stupid, but how current version of TFS Beta 3 Refresh is suitable to be used for real work I mean, is this beta could be used only to see the progress and learn, or it is possible to use it with real projects without big risks Especially interesting the source controlling part. How buggy is it Where I could see the known bugs May be there is some experience when try to start/continue some proje ...Show All