grooveBiscuit's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Managed Outlook add-ins do not start automatically

  Hi! I've played around a little bit with managed outlook add-ins. They work fine so far. The problem. assume that i've activated such an add-in within outlook - and it works. when i shutdown outlook and restart it again, the add-in is not loaded automatically! when i go to the outlook add-in manager, it's still activated (selected). i then have to deselect it, close the dialog and reopen it and select it again, close it and then the add-in runs again... any ideas thanks -olaf   See also this blog post:  http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2005/02/01/365021.aspx ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How much of WWF designer support in VS is managed by the project system?

  Hello, In order to create a new workflow in VS, one normally selects a template from the Workflow node of a C# or VB.NET project type in the New Project dialog.  I tried creating an empty C# project (not of the workflow variety), copying the .cs and .Designer.cs files to this project, changing the namespace, and adding the same references to my empty project system that are present in the one created explicitly from the C# Workflow template.  Everything built fine, but when I tried to display the editor, it failed with an error message about ''System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Design.IMemberCreationService'&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting an image out of the resources

  Hi there, I added a jpg-image to the project resources and want to use it, but don't know how. :-/ I did not compile any new resource file, I just did a right-click on "resources" chose "add resource", then set the extensions to "*.*" to see all files and added my jpg-image. Here is what I tried to get this image:   System . Resources . ResourceManager res =                 new System . Resources . ResourceManager ( typeof ( MainForm )); PictureBox PB2 = new PictureBox (); PB2 . Image = (( System . Drawing . Image )( res . GetObject ( ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Binding workflow parameters with activity properties

  Can someone provide a code snippet to show how to bind workflow parameters with (custom) activity properties. Note that the workflow is to be composed dynamically. I am trying to compose a WF dynamically by stringing together certain predefined activities that have some properties defined on them. I would like the WF to take certain parameters such that they are bound to appropriate properties in the activities (.i.e parameterizing the activities). As much possible I would like to use a built-in WF class like for eg. SequentialWorkflow class (and not define a custom WF class) for constructing my workflow. thx Jay ...Show All

• Visual Basic Where is LoadPicture in Visual Studio .Net?

  Hi, the book I am using is for VB 6. To load a picture into an image box, it says do this: imgBox1.Picture = LoadPicture("Blah\Blah.jpg") But, in Visual Studio .Net, it first of all doesn't recognize .Picture (it wants .Image ), and says that Name 'LoadPicture' is not declared. How do I load an image from a file in VB .net Hello Imagebox.Picture has been replaced now. Simply use PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile( "c:\image.bmp" )   to load a image into a picture box now. ...Show All

• Windows Forms DateTimePicker

  Hi, Is there any way to handle with 'Null' values in DateTimePicker control when it is bound to datasource Any sugestion... Thanks You could also use Infragistic's NetAdvantage UltraDateTimeEditor. It can naturally work with Null values. ...Show All

• Windows Forms access to Setup1.Version

  I would like to read the version property in the build project properties from within my application during run time.  Does anyone know how to do so I want access to the Setup.Version project added to my Solution.  The Application.ProductVersion seems to be something that the compiler manufactures and I have no control on what I would&nbs ...Show All

• Windows Forms creating a new table in the data source

  Is there a way to push back a new table created on a dataset to a data source I can create a new table in my dataset as follows: Dim newTable As DataTable = new DataTable( "MyTable" ) newTable.Columns.Add( "ID" , Type.GetType( "System.Int32" )) newTable.Columns.Add( "Name" , Type.GetType( "System.String" )) ds.Tables.Add(newTable) but i only know how to push back rows, colums, etc to existing tables in the data source. I can't find a way to create a new table in the data source. any help is appreciated. mikheil ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Numeric 101

  Okay, can a knowledgeable programmer explain to me numeric types with examples such as...   Long short double Int32 int64 Integer   My main problem is I will be working with numbers ranging from 1 to billions and I want to know when to assign value types.  For example, if a variable will not exceed 300, what's the best type to use... whereas, if I'm working with billions, I'll have to go long.  So when do I use these diff types   Thanks Long  64 bit signed entity meaning that it can express +- 2^63 -1 Don't forget there is Uint64 an unsi ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) how to set width, height to auto in code-behind?

  Anyone who knows how to do this something like listBox.Width = auto; thanks in advance, Kimme I think this is what you want listBox.Width = double .NaN; ...Show All

• SQL Server Importing SQL 2000 data into 2005

  Hello! I've got some backuped files from a 2000-server Analysis services and I need to import them into 2005. The problem is that I am not sure how these files where made and thus what they are. AFAIK they are simple dumps of databases. At least they have the same names: msdb_db_<date>.bak (500Mb) model_db_<date>.bak (800Kb) and the actual database with data which doesn't have a file-ending at all. These files are used as backup and apparantly it is possible to restore the 2000-server using them. Basicly this is all I know about these files. Is there any way I can do this The background to this story is that I am t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System LongAcronymsShouldBePascalCased

  Once again I have run into something that has me puzzled.  We have decided to call our namespace Nuwc.Npt, but when I enter the line "Namespace Nuwc.Npt" into the class lib, VS automatically uppercases it and fxCop complains that "Long acronyms should be pascal cased".  What am I missing here          Prescott .... What does VS upper-case your name to What version of VS are you running If you're exposing a public API, you should follow FxCop's guidance here. If I can get a repro of the VS behavior, I can follow up if we think it should be changed... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Search Work Items in VSTS

  Is it just me, or does the lack of a Search feature in Team Explorer make it extremely cumbersome to use We have been using VSTS since Beta 2 to manage and track our projects.  Of course, the number of Work Items has been steadily increasing over time, and we now have over 1500 Work Items (Task, Bugs, Risks, QoS Reqs, etc...).  With so many Work Items, finding a specific Bug/Task/whatever is a tedious process.  Since there is no Search feature in VSTS, I usually export a Query to Excel and use its Search features to find the specific Work Item I am looking for.  Needless to say, this is not the optimal workflow - e ...Show All

• SQL Server Backup & Restore encryption key

  Hello!   I started Configure Report Server (2005) and have executed backup of the encryption key. Problem occurred on restore of the encryption key as following error (I have provided correct backup snk):   ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvider.WMIProviderException: The version of the report server database is either in a format that is not valid, or it cannot be read. The found version is 'C.0.8.39'. The expected version is 'C.0.8.40'. To continue, update the version of the report server database and verify access rights. (rsInvalidReportServerDatabase)    at ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvide ...Show All

• Visual Basic VB6.0, ShellNotifyIcon

  Why the icon not displaying in the status bar when i try to use loadpicture directly. And i dont want to use form or picture box to get the picture/icon. 'General Declaration Private Type NOTIFYICONDATA cbSize As Long hwnd As Long uId As Long uFlags As Long uCallBackMessage As Long hIcon As Long szTip As String * 64 End Type Private Const NIM_ADD = &H0 Private Const NIM_MODIFY = &H1 Private Const NIM_DELETE = &H2 Private Const WM_MOUSEMOVE = &H200 Private Const NIF_MESSAGE = &H1 Private Const NIF_ICON = &H2 Private Const NIF_TIP = &H4 Private Const WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK = &H203 'Double-click Privat ...Show All