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• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

  And back to the error with no meanings: I’ve created a document, published it on an IIS, and opened it from the IIS, resolved the security problems, and now facing this error message: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a CO ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Window Hiding and Showing issues (February CTP)

  Hi everyone, I've been witnessing some strange behaviour regarding WPF Windows and I wanted to know if anyone else has been seeing the same thing. I have derived from the System.Windows.Window class and have provided a custom handler to the Closing event. The custom handler simply hides the window using Window.Hide(). Now, on the window I show it, close it, show it again, close it again, and after that sequence it won't show. So it won't ...Show All

• Visual C# GDI form transparency problem

  I'm trying to draw a transparent form using GDI, by overiding the OnPaint and OnPaintBackground event handlers. This technique works well enough on the first draw,and it produces a nice result, however, on subsequent draws, it works less spectacularly. For some reason, the screen is never cleared, and when it redraws the new things are composited ontop the previous draws, making the transparent images darker and darker. Here is the contents of ...Show All

• Visual Basic "Resume Next" throws an InvalidOperationException

  I am using VB.Net2005 Express.  I am iterating through a sentence string which has been split into words usung For .... Next.  If the value of the word equals a ceratin value I want to skip over it and resume the "Next". The following code throws an "InvalidOperationException" if "myString" does equal "Chips,": For i = 1 To myString.Length - 1    If myString(i).Equals("Chips,") = True Then     &n ...Show All

• Windows Forms Where is sqlexpr32.exe?

  I have built a C# application that I'd like to distribute on CD with all prerequisites included on the CD so that the end user doesn't have to download any of the redistributables. They include .NET framework 2.0, Windows Installer 3.1, and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. When I initially tried to publish with the "Download prerequisites from the same location as my application" setting, I was presented with errors such as: Error 5 ...Show All

• Visual C++ When is operator void* invoked.

  I have a class A and it has an STL container as a member. I also have a class A_Iterator which provides functionality to iterate over the member variable within A, in different ways. When I want to use this iterator , I do something like main(){ A a; A_Iterator iter(a); do{ // do some stuff; } while (iter++); } For the while loop to exit, I am having to provide a conversion function within A_Iterator of the for ...Show All

• .NET Development Copy table from MS Access 2000 Database to MS Access 1997 Database2 using C# and ADO.NET

  MS Access 2000 Database MS Access 1997 Database Table 1 Copy Table 1 How Table 2 & Table 2 to How MS Access 1997 Database I have situation where I have to perform operation of copying table from MS Access 2000 Database to MS Access 1997 Database2 using C# and ADO.NET. Is there anyway to this operation fast a ...Show All

• .NET Development Readbyte Timeout...

  I am trying to collect information from a serial device, but sometimes that device might not be connected. When it is not connected, the serialport.ReadByte line of code will just hang forever it seems. Is there a way I can set a timeout value to this Below is my code.... serialPort.DiscardInBuffer() serialPort.Write("1" & Chr(gage.MuxPort - 1) & Chr(Asc("1") Xor (gage.MuxPort - 1))) Di ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Activities Menu Unavailable

  I've noticed a number of instances with users not being able to access our P4 application because the Activities menu is consistently unavailable.  I have witnessed this situation myself over several  home broadband connections and the Activity list comes up with the following message: "List of games or activities is temporarily unavailable. Please close and try again later." I initially thought this was due to a restriction on the c ...Show All

• Windows Forms Any one pls Help - .Net Smart client application

  Hi,         I apprec if any one help me to shortout the  below issue in Smart Client application in VB.Net.    i've a Main Application window which includes some links (these links are different Applications). If i choose any of the link inside, the Main Application window will be minimised and visible in the system tray and the clicked Link Application window is ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Universal)

  Hello everybody, Today Visual Studio 2005 Professional was released on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. We were unable to find the Team Suite Release. Any help Best regards Ralf Rottmann Word on the newsgroups is that your transition options are limited by your partner level. I've heard variously that - Gold partners get Team Developer, no role choice, no upgrade - Standard partners get Professional only, no Team Sy ...Show All

• .NET Development XSD problem on upgrade project to VS2005

  Hi I recently did my first project upgrade from 2003 to 2005.  All went well except for an error with the XSD file i have in there. I can see it in the designer but the code has no code and no dataset.  It wont compile (i cant be specific on the error message as it seems to be a different one each time but at present it says "Custom Tool error: Could not retrieve the current project). Any ideas even be ...Show All

• SQL Server Not able to extract all records from a flat file

  I have a flat file that has over 50,000 records. When I import that file into my table I'm only able to extract 26,612 rows. I'm using a Flat File connection manager The format for this connection is Ragged Right There are about 25 columns, or so My Data Flow Source is a Flat File (Imagine that! ) I appreciate any ideas that you may have. Thanks!! Did you have the error output as i ...Show All

• Windows Forms Set Background Color on TabControl in VS2005/VB

  Is there a way to set the background color of a tabcontrol in VS2005/VB It is not in the "Properties" There is no property to do this, but with a lot of work it is possible. If you would like to know how, then see the tips on my site: http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/tabcontrols.html ...or if you want the option without all the work, then try TabControlEX in which I have already done the work: http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/controls.ht ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to use pagination

  Hi, How to use pagination in pocket pc application for a datagrid Thank you If you mean "fetching only visible rows and fetching more as user scrolls", you can use SqlCeResultSet class which does that. For other data source you would need to implement it yourself. ...Show All