Anand Todkar's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista Installation hanging (Dec CTP 5270)

  I'm installing Vista Dec CTP (5270) on a HP Pavilion zd8000 (3.2 ghz, 2gb ram, 7200 rpm drive), and I get a screen that says "completing installation", but then that changes to a screen that says "Installation is taking longer than expected, but should be finishing soon." I left it on all last night (10 hours), and all day today (8 hours - after I started the installation over), and it stays on that screen. Any advice gibbensr@hotmail.com ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) The 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema:schema' element is not declared

  Hi, I am using the FEB release of WCF. I am using typed dataset in my service. when I try to generate proxy for this service, i am getting the following error: The ' http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema:schema' element is not declared the same was working fine in previous version of WCF. Some thing seriously wrong with recent WCF release (FEB release) Thanks in Advance, Venkat Can you please describe your scenario a little more. Wha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Call VSTO Addin functions from external application?

  Hi all, Please pardon me if this is not the right place. I'm looking for a way to call functions in a VSTO Addin from an external application. In VS2003 and Shared Addins, I used to be able to do this using this code in the external app: lole_object = iole_outlook.COMAddIns.Item("OutlookIntegrator.Connect").Object -- synchroniseAppointments() is a publically declared function in the Addin lole_object.synchr ...Show All

• Smart Device Development What is the 1st Step?

  Hello,  1)   I'm New to Microsoft Mobile Development. I would like to know..., what is the 1st step to start if i want to develop an application for Window mobile 2)   Can Visual Basic do the stuff in developing "Microsoft mobile" 3)    Can Visual Basic do the stuff in developing "Symbian platform         smatphone application" Thanks, Regard, Joel (Stud ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista PersistOnCloseAttribute

  how can i use this class please give some code examples thank you in advance This attribute can be applied to the custom activities to create a persistence point after they complete which means workflow will  be persisted after successful completion of this custom activitiy [PersistOnClose] public partial class Activity1: SequenceActivity  {   public Activity1()   { &n ...Show All

• .NET Development Reinstall MDAC on XP SP2

  Hi, how reinstaller or to update the MDAC on Windows XP service pack 2.  Thank you in advance Found information at http://www.pqsystems.com/kb/question.php qstId=521 . I cut & paste the relevant info below - MDAC 2.8 SP1 (2.81.1117.6) - 2.8 Service Pack 1. The same version of MDAC that comes with Windows XP SP2 and SQL Server 2000 SP4. The MDAC 2.8 SP1 stand-alone release is not supported on the Microsoft Windows XP opera ...Show All

• Windows Forms UserControl Data binding & BindingSource.EndEdit() Effect

  I have written a simple user control with just a TextBox control on it and bound Its MyText Property to a DataTable Column. Using 2005 UI facilities I dragged this control from dataSources window on the form.In the form_load I fill my DataTable and by clicking a button I Call the associated BindingSource.EndEdit() whitout any change.But my underlying DataSet HasChanges() method returns true! how can I Fix this problem. here is my controls source ...Show All

• Visual Basic how to disable Enter Key in TextBox Multiline?

  Hi all, I'm just wondering if there is a way to disable the Enter key on a TextBox Multiline Thanks If nothing else works, you can catch the keypress event for the control and set handled to true if the enter key was pressed. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Is the Save method on the new configuration stuff supposed to work?

  What are the circumstances for making the Save method work   Up to now I've only gotten a series of errors telling me that I don't have the access required to save the file.  That is entirely fine I guess, but the property setting&nbs ...Show All

• Visual C++ How do I get an Environment Variable?

    I have 35 years of experience. I have mostly avoided the C world. when I've had to write in it, I've done OK in VS6. VS2005 C++ is so cantankerous. I'm writing a program that must run standalone  so it's very lean and doesn't rely on high level code. I am in need of a routine that returns the value of the %windir% environment variable in string format. My project is set for a unicode build. Thank ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System A Minor fxCop Bug??

  One of the dependencies in my application is on: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook when fxCop can't find it and prompts me to browse for it it, the file dialog box prompts me to look for Office.exe or Office.dll and won't let me change it to the correct name in order to find this dependency. Is this a bug It's not a big issue - I've been able to ignore it, but it would be nice if there were a fix because I get it everytime I run fxCop. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VS2005 Beta 2 and German Excel 2003 SP1 not working ?

  Hi, I've installed VS 2005 Beta2 and tried to create an Excel Workbook Project. Messagebox: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP1 or newer is not installed on this computer. You must install a version of Microsoft Office Excel 2003 that supports Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System projects. --------------------------- OK   Hilfe &nb ...Show All

• Visual Basic Any way to constrain generics to value types?

  Is there a way that I can constrain a generic type to only accept either integers or doubles  Seems like value types are altogether exluded from participating in generics but I wanted to make sure. Is this right Any reasons that explain this I'd like to write something like: Private Sub Foo(Of T As {Integer, Double})(ByVal Value As T ) Thanks in advance! Hi, what is near is that you can li ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Controlling WMP in PPC app : methods ?

  Hi, I'm a student completely new to .NET, PocketPC... A real newbie in Windows programming... I have to write for a university project a paper describing how to control WMP from a .NET app, on a PPC, with CF 1.0. It seems there are two ways : 3rd party : CFCOM, but it is not free Or writing my own DLL : For my .NET app / CF1.0, I write a DLL (unmanaged DLL ) (with eVC++ ) which uses WMP object (the app should be able ...Show All

• Visual C++ Visual C++ 2005 compliance with The C++ Standard

  Despite a boat-load of documentation on Microsoft extensions to the C++ language, I have been unable to find a single page describing how VC++ 2005 differs from VC++ 2003 (7.1) with respect to the serious non-compliance issues that plagued users of VC++ 2003 (7.1). This document http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vclang/html/vclrfNonstandardBehavior.asp is available for Visual C++ 2003 (7.1). Does anyone know whic ...Show All