David Harrison_ch's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office ClickOnce with VSTO - The application is improperly formatted.

  Hi, I am trying to deploy a VSTO application using ClickOnce. I am getting the following warning in Visual Studio's Error List. Warning 1 Assembly 'VstoSmartTagDemo.dll.manifest' has mismatched identity 'VstoSmartTagDemo.manifest', expected filename: 'VstoSmartTagDemo.manifest.manifest'. C:\Programme\MSBuild\Microsoft.VisualStudio.OfficeTools.targets 0 0  Note that the status bar displays the message "Publish Succ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Second form not showing

  I have a main form and a secondary form. If another program coveres them up and you press the program button in the task bar only the main form shows, the other one doesn't. In vb 6 all the forms came back when you pressed the task bar button. Right now I have placed a button on all my pages in a tab control to show the second form. I have tried the main form "GotFocus" but it doesn't fire. Where else can I place code to reshow the second form T ...Show All

• Windows Forms seeking help to find specific index in combo box in VB.net

  Hi all, how could i get the last index of the item being selected by using ComboBox during the items being added to the combo box control since the last index of the combo box is depends on variance number, it was hard to get the last index of the combo box item being selected by default. No dude , May be i am not able to convey my problem to you , I dont want to add value in combo box . i just want to re ...Show All

• Windows Forms It seams I found part of the answer my self :)

  Oh components, I am writing one of them since a week, too much, I know :)  The last think that I was not able to solve is how to make the component discover where he is exactly during initialization, in other words, on what form  ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF, a good fit for Kiosk application?

  Hi, I am working on an application which allows the customer to do self check out in the store. The question I have is whether WWF will be a good fit for this kind of application and what is the pros and cons One of the major benefit I was hoping to get from WWF is to easily add or change business logic. But looking at the speech application bundled with the Beta 2 release, it seems to add a new state or add a new action to a state, my ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How to set the icons for setup.exe, start/programs/programname.exe etc?

  Hi I've set the Icon (32x32) in the property of my form, and it works well running the application (the icon is showed in the upper,left corner of the form. But the icon on setup.exe and also the icon on the program shortcut in programs/myApplication is not set. Any solutions Many thanks Hi I copied all Icons to this folder, it makes no difference. Any more ideas thank you ...Show All

• Visual C++ msvcr80d.dll not found

  I've created a simple Win32 console application. When I try to debug it, I get the message:  "This application has failed to start because MSVCR80D.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." The Release version runs fine. Any idea as to what the problem could be Thanks, Jonny This means several things. a) your console application does not have manifest. Either embedded inside or ...Show All

• Smart Device Development CAB Header structure

  Hi! This might be a bit off-topic, but here goes.. I'm currently trying to understand the file structure of a cab built for wm 5.0 devices. This differs from the earlier structures. Does anyone know where or how i could get hold of the struct for the header I have the "common" structure already.. but i want to find where offset to AppName and Provider is stored... For the moment, I'm using a hex editor and trying to find the off ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System 503 Service Unavailable

  Guys, I'm having some problems with our TFS install. It was working fine until a couple of days ago when the SQL DB started getting transaction log is full errors on workitemtracking db. Most things were still working but yesterday when I tried creating a new Team Project I got the same error and it also said TFS could not rollback. So the project did get created since I checked in the DB tables. Well the problem was found to be that SQL serv ...Show All

• Visual Studio MSBuild file for .Net 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, Compact Framework 1.0 & 2.0 and Mono

  Greetings, Intro: I'm currently working in a library that has to target both .Net 2.0 and .Net Compact Framework 2.0. My initial approach was to have two projects for each assembly. The source code would be all the same, with #if's testing for the compact or the full framework. One of the projects would have all the files, and the other all the files from the first linked. As the number of source files and assemblies growed, this turned into pro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Document Explorer Crashes on Search

  Clean install of Windows xp Service Pack2, Sql Server 2005 Developer Edition installed, VS 2003 installed, Whenever I perfrom a search or filter I get Document Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. Document Explorer works fine for Sql Server Documentation, it only exhibits this behavior with Visual Studio Documentation and does not matter if it is launched from the IDE or from menu. Help!!! this is very frustrating. Thanks ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Sheduling API Feature Request

  Are there plans for a task scheduling API as in SQL Server I've seen many workflow applications written as a number of EXEs just so they can use the configurable Windows Schedule Tasks similarly people control workflow from SQL server because it has a powerful scheduling ability. This would be an extremely useful inclusion as a configurable managed API . There are many tasks which need activating at certain times but also need to check ...Show All

• Visual Basic SaveFileDialog won't save my file.

  I have never used this before and can't get it to work right. I got this: Private Sub menuSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles menuSave.Click Dim save As New SaveFileDialog Try save.CheckPathExists = True save.FilterIndex = 0 save.OverwritePrompt = True save.RestoreDirectory = True save.ValidateNames = True If save.ShowDialog <> Windows.Forms. ...Show All

• SQL Server Service Broker

  My service broker seems to be broken... The database was restored from another crashed server but i have tried the ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE :: [SPYDERONTHEWEB] TO [SA] ; The error i'm getting is Service Broker needs to access the master key in the database 'SpyderOnTheWeb'. Error code 25. The master key has to exist and th service master key encryption is required. Error: 28054, Severity 11, State: 1. ...Show All

• .NET Development use macros with SqlDataSource

  Hi everyone, Is there any way to use "macros" with SqlDatasource Scenario: a statement: SELECT * From Blah Where 1=1 Depending on how user interacts with the application I would have to add an aditional line(s) to this statement, for eg: SELECT * From Blah Where 1=1 and flag = true when page launches for the first time I would show both true and false flags and user could filter that later on. My point is, is there any way to do it ...Show All