MSFT Abel Valadez's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms AutoUpdate Component on toolbox?

  Hi, I've just downloaded the autoupdate compontent, but when I try to reference it in the customize toobox window, it says:  Can't add AutoUpdate.dll to toolbox because there's is nothing to add... I'm using VS2002.  Does it only work on newer versions  ...Show All

• Windows Forms Access and sql server

  hi iwnat to develope an application using the form desiner of access and sql server as a backend (someone had told me that is  more efficient the using vb or vb.net) ,access have a somehow effician database engien so this is advatage numbe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Help please. I need to protect my work in Microsoft Word.

  Is there any tool/option I can use to restrict people copying/editing/formatting my work I dont want readers clicking on my work and copying and pasting it to another document. Is there a way I can prevent this I know PDF is a good solution, but I want to keep my file DOC for a specific reason. Please get back at me. Thank you for the help. This is not a VSTO-specific quesiton, but I'll see if I ca ...Show All

• Visual Basic terminate vb.net console application

  Environment:   Running this code on my PC via VS 2005 .Net version 2.0.50727 on the server (shown in IIS) Code is in ASP.NET 2.0 and is a VB.NET console application   Problem & Info:   Application.Exit() is throwing an error in VS 2005 when I debug   Error: Name 'Application' is not declared   The code:   Imports System.IO Imports Sys ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Use of Sub Main As Startup Instead Of Form

  Hello All, Does .Net still support the use of Sub Main as the startup object for an application I do not see the option to use it at all. Regards, V. Shane Curtis Hi The use of Sub Main is still very much supported. However, to set the option you have to turn off the option "Enable Application Framework" in your project properties. Then you will be able to select Sub Main from the list of Startup Objects. ...Show All

• .NET Development Parse Error / Two Much WhiteSpace

  I just want to open an excel file from my VB.NET app but i get a strict parse error saying that it is too much whitespace, any help on what i should do would be fantastic. i have this in my btnclick function Dim tw As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("C:\book1.xml.") tw.WriteLine(" < xml version=""1.0"" >" & _ "<Workbook xmlns=""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet""" & _ "xmlns: o = ""urn:schemas-micros ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problem getting started

  I am trying out Windows Workflow Foundation on my VS 2005 Version 8.0.50727.7. I created a new project using the C# Sequential workflow template. When I try compiling, I got this warning message: The "System.Workflow.ComponentModel.BuildTasks.CompileXomlTask" task could not be loaded from the assembly System.Workflow.ComponentModel, Version=1.0.00000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71530258abd56239. Method not found: 'System.Object Microsoft. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Linkgroups in Dynamic Help

  I am using VS 2005 Beta 2, and I am having trouble grouping links in Dynamic Help.  (FYI, I have followed the steps in http://www.helpware.net/mshelp2/demo/DynamicHelp.htm ).  I do not have a topic level HxA file, but I have a collection level HxA file.  Here is the relevant content of the collection level HxA file: <AttName Id="8" Name="LinkGroup" Display="No" UIString="LinkGroup" AttType="Enum">  <AttVal Id="8_1" N ...Show All

• SQL Server Generic staging design of data warehouse

  I have a question about staging design using SSIS. Has anyone come up with an ETL design that would read table names from a generic table and dynamically create the ETL to stage the table. 1. Have a generic table which would have table name and description and whatever else that was required. 2. Have a master ETL that would enumerate through the table and stage all the table names found in the generic table. This way I wouldn't have to ...Show All

• Windows Forms Custom Designer Window

  Developing a cutom designer form for my control.  Form has a treeview control in it.  How do you embed a propery designer window inside a form in runtime.   The property designer window is like when you are in design mode and rig ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) View sorting does not work for me

  Hi, I created a ObservableCollection and all items implement INotifyPropertyChanged . Then I bound this list on a ListView and all updates made to items are displayed correctly. But I want to sort the collection bound to my listview by a property. So I created a ListCollectionView of my ObservableCollection , set Sorting and bound it on my ListBox. Captions are I still updated but my ListBox does not resort even after calling view.Ref ...Show All

• SQL Server sql server 2000

  This is my last attemp at trying to install sql server installed, which its been quite reluctant too, as I've spent the last 2 hours with no progress. I've downloaded MSDE2000A.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=413744D1-A0BC-479F-BAFA-E4B278EB9147&displaylang=en Installed it in the default directory. "C:\MSDERelA" And ran setup which returned this error "A strong SA password is required for securit ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error TF60024

  I tried to run VSSConverter on a fresh install of TFS and got the following error: TF60024: Unable to create the database on Microsoft SQL Server due to the following error: CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master'. Thank you, Alex Well maybe that is the problem, as you can read in this article, you must have also administrative permisions on SQL Server Express, http://msdn2.microsoft.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problem in changing the System.AreaPath Field in Work Item.

    Hi, We customized the MSF Agile Template according to our project requirement. Now when we create a new Work Item we now want to make the "Area Path" field to accept the values from given by the user who is going to create the work item. But the problem is that it is by default displaying the project name in that field and if the user  want's to changes the value it is not allowing him to do. We placed the following statm ...Show All

• .NET Development Web datagrid how would I pass a dynamic value into a HyperLinkColumn text field

  Hi I have a datagrid in which i want display a image from a database using a HyperLinkColumn  This is my code: asp:HyperLinkColumn DataNavigateUrlField="ImageIdentity" DataNavigateUrlFormatString=var w =window.open ('GetEnlarge.aspx ThumbNail=\N\&ID={0}' ,null,'width=400,height=400,location=no')" Text= "img border='0' src='GetEnlarge.aspx ThumbNail=\N\&ID=58 ' " This works fine but i just want pass a value from the ...Show All