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• Visual Basic Automate MS Word Doc with VB.Net

  I amtrying to pull info from a Sql Server to populate a word Doc using a VB.Net App any ideas Hi, If you're using Visual Studio 2005, a good place to start is Visual Studio Tools for Office: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d2tx7z6d(en-US,VS.80).aspx There is a section for automating Microsoft Word tasks: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/78whx7s6 Regards ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System "Open from Source Control" Problem

  Hello, I have problems to open a solution for Source Control using the menu item "Open from Source Control". Does this feature already work Regard Stephan Cool!  Glad it worked out.  Do you have any idea how that might have gotten messed up   Did you change your drive letters perhaps ...Show All

• Windows Forms Change label on one form from another forms code.

  This should be simple. I'm trying to change the label on a form from another forms code. I'm using a function in the first form as follows: Public Function WaitIndicator( ByVal intMin As Integer , ByVal intMax As Integer , ByVal intStep As Integer , ByVal strWaitMsg As String ) As Integer frmWait.lblWait.Text = strWaitMsg frmWait.pbWait.Minimum = intMin frmWait.pbWait.Maximum = intMax frmWait.pbWait.Step = intStep frmWait.Show() End Function It is a wait form that I increment from the calling form. The ProgressBar works fine but the label shows up as a blank. I can change the title text o ...Show All

• Visual Studio Set up VSS so all files checked in before final release

  I like to know if there is a way in VSS to make sure all files are checked in before any developer can make a final release executable. Thank you in advance! J Hi J, No, this is not possible. VSS is not integrated with the build (which can be in VisualStudio, command line build or msbuild, etc) Alin ...Show All

• .NET Development Stripping certain part of XML for info...

  Hello, I posted this on the Visual Express Forum, but not many replies. I thought that the XML place could help me bit more... This is used on Visual Basic Express,just to let you know... Well, I need to strip out: http://img.maps.yahoo.com/mapimage MAPDATA=eJz6K.d6wXVM6myr2yRPfx6.kl.uMGgD3Tu4JtDQzr_33pFEsTTSaosZ9OCtsiDrsLv9t65fzjz0CJm6JO2v_ZIHLflY9gto.xWMK9ovlRJVmrBLO4FoSsh3Ipsr from: < xml version="1.0" > < Result xmlns:xsi =" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " > http://img.maps.yahoo.com/mapimage MAPDATA=eJz6K.d6wXVM6myr2yRPfx6.kl.uMGgD3Tu4JtDQzr_33pFEsTTSaosZ9OCts ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Smart Doc Pane Failes to refresh in WINXP but not in WIN 2K

  I have a SmartDoc Excel solution that is used in XP and Win 2k . The 1 st time I open my solution in both of the above OS(s) I can see and use the smart doc panel. However when I save the document in XP and reopen i t, the comboboxes in the Smart Doc pane are not drawn (a white space is left on the panel) , but I can see all the other GUI components and use them. The solution RUNNING   in Win 2K doesn’t have the effect described above. Any ideas any body It's a drag that this is not working as you expected it to. Let's see if we can make some progress on it. 1) Is this a VSTO solution o ...Show All

• .NET Development How to use Type.GetType(string)? Doesnt seem to work.

  I'm trying to write a function to genericly return a new instances of a Windows form control based on its typename. It would seem that I should be able to do something like. Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetType("System.Windows.Forms.Label")) to accomplish this. I can make Type.GetType work for simple types such as "System.Int32" or "System.String" but it does not work when I ask for a label or textbox. Obviously I'm not getting the typename right, but it seems right to me and I really dont know where to look next. Please help! Bill "System.Windows.Forms" is different then "tyepof(Label).Assem ...Show All

• Windows Forms Merging ContextMenuStrip to ToolStripMenuItem

  I have a context menu which defines a basic set of items(add, remove, properties). I would like to add these items to a ToolStripMenuItem. Using the MainMenu and ContextMenu from .Net 2003 this was very simple to do using the following code: MainMenu1.MenuItems(1).MergeMenu(ContextMenu1) I have tried the ToolStripManager.Merge function but the incoming types are different. There is very little documentation still for Whidbey, as expected since it is still in beta. Can anyone help me out Am I just goin at this with the wrong approach now, has the architecture changed radically Here's the solution Sheva ...Show All

• Windows Forms "working" progress bar

  Hi, i need some advice. I have a form which is being filled up with data from a database. Whilst it does this, i want to display another form that i have created as a working/progress bar on the top to show that the program is still working. I know i cant call the working form from the main form, as that locks it up whilst the working form is open. I tried putting the working form in a seperate thread, however the result of this is that it no longer 'locks' the main form to the user, and also it doesnt stay on top of the main form, as the user can just click on the main form, and it comes infront of the working dialog. Any help would be appr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions .net 1.1 and .net 2 on same computer

  Is this possible can both be installed Thanks, Paul Yes both can be installed on the same computer wth out a problem. You can also use both the VS2003 and VS 2005 IDE Systems at the same time, this includes the express products. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Forms Designer throws error but compiles OK

  I'm using VS2005 with a managed C++ project. I have 2 user controls in the project (along with a lot of other stuff), I was previously able to manually add the first control onto the GUI of the second but now I get an error from the Forms Designer: Could not find type 'Mcomms_Design.ControlOverlayImage'. Please make sure that the assembly that contains this type is referenced. If this type is a part of your development project, make sure that the project has been successfully built I have #include'd the control's .h file and manually added references to the control, but I still get the above error. The project compiles and runs O ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Working with the WebBrowser control and Flash sites

  Using the WebBrowser control I'm trying to create a simple web browser that my kids can use. A lot of the sites that they play at use Flash and I've found that the pages do not respond to clicks correctly. For example at the site www.myscene.com , the initial page loads correctly, but after clicking on the link for the "Hot Fashion Game", none of the buttons on the next page work. Of course it works fine in IE. I've also noticed that if I switch to another application and then back to my kid browser, then the flash link works. Anyone know how to get flash player working correctly with the WebBrowser control ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) loadbaml/xaml: where do things stand?

  hi all, I need to load dynamic content into my canvas. Application.LoadComponent seems not to be an option, because the content is created separately from the loading app. If loading baml is faster than loading xaml, I'd much rather use the binary format. What are my options, what is the recommended way and is there a clear tested C# code snippet for doing this (thanx etc.) Hi dfl.. If you’re going to dynamically load xaml, check this out: http://sheva.cnblogs.com/archive/2006/02/21/334977.html There you have all the code you need. just get rid off the StringReader object and replace it with a FileStream object.. I cannot give yo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Issues with the deployment Manifest

  Our application is built with VS2005 Beta 2. We uses ClickOnce to deploy the application. Here is the issues we have experienced on some client machine. When we click the install button from the publish page, the deployement manifest is open in the browser instead of lauching the application manifest On other machine, every is fine, the install button lauch the installation sequence on the client. Any idea what could the problem. Regards, Sounds like .NET 2.0 is not installed on the client machine, so the MIME extension mappings have not been set up to launch the app with ClickOnce. ...Show All

• Visual C# how do I run an external program?

  I would I run an external executable file from C#   Also, how would I pass it command line parameters to affect its behaviour Thanks for your help. Take a look at the method Process.Start()   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemdiagnosticsprocessclassstarttopic.asp HTH. Bye. ...Show All