Toengel's Q&A profile

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Controlling a Word Mail Merge with Excel

  I'm having trouble running a mail merge in Word using Excel.  I've followed the example in the help file, and have the Workbook opening the appropriate Word Document.  My problem, is I can't control the mail merge from code embedded in the Workbook or in the Document.  The reason I'm using Excel to run the code to open Word, is because I have three different mail merges with three different "Forms" and depending on the ...Show All

• .NET Development can Xml string be deserialized?

  I have a string that contains the exact contents of my serialized XML document. I did this so I can save the string in a database table and retrieve it. Right now, I retrieve the string, write it to an XMLDocument, then deserialize that document. Is there a way that I can just skip a step and deserialize the string that contains the serialized XML objects Thanks. I'm not quite sure what you're currently doing in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Uploading Process Template

  I have created a new process template from the existing Agile development one on our test foundation server. I would now like to take this template and load into another team foundation server we are setting up that will be used for production. When I try to load the above template it fails with this error message in the log - ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 2006-06-06 10:17:13Z Module: Template Importer Exception Type: System.Net.WebEx ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums outlook code modification

  the following code executes in the some machines..but it fails in some machines...please help and point out the line to be modified var app= new ActiveXObject("Outlook.Application") nameSpace = app.GetNamespace("Mapi") var AddLists = nameSpace.AddressLists var AddEntries = AddLists.Item(1).AddressEntries var AddEntry = AddEntries.GetFirst for(i=1;i<AddEntries.Count;i++) { alert(AddEntry.Address); ...Show All

• SQL Server Calendar slow to load

  Is anyone else experiencing performance problems with reports that use the calendar control for date parameters   Whenever we load a report that uses a calendar it takes several seconds to fully load the form (you can see something like this in the status bar:"...ReportViewerWebControl.axd OpType=Calendar...").  This is not a serious problem, but if the user tries to use the control before it fully loads then the page throws javascript ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom MessageBox on Pocket PC

  Ok here's the case: I need to show a messagebox, that looks just like the ordinary Pocket PC (or smartphone) MessageBox. Only difference should be, that the messagebox should have timeout time and it could be playing sound in a loop. I can handle those, but the look and feel of the message box causes me problems. I have tried to make a form, that looks like message box, and show it using ShowDialog method. In Visual Studio 2005 designer it looks ...Show All

• Windows Forms Paint of PictureBox

  Hi, I have the following problem: I need to create a pictureBox and draw some lines on it. The coordinates of the lines to be drawn come from a collection of the list of collections. So, in each pictureBox, I need to pass the index of the& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System No luck in installing TFS in a more or less single server installation. Different Error 32000's...

  Hi, I've been trying to get VSTF Beta 2 running for last 3 days with no luck. Always ending with different Error 32000's example: Error 32000.The Commandline '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise Server\widbloc.exe" -s hostname -d CurrituckDB' returned non-zero value: 1. I have a Lab domain, consisting of 2 DC's running smoothly (and have been for well over a year now). No errors whatever if I use Netdiag or DCDIAG. Now I have ...Show All

• Smart Device Development VS2005 (RTM) + WM 5.0 SDK + VPC2004 + config = close but no dice

  Installed: 1. VS 2005 RTM (en_vs_2005_pro_cd1.iso/en_vs_2005_pro_cd2.iso) 2. Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK.msi 3. VPC2004SP1Trial.zip (need for communication to emulator) Configurations: 1. Changed “Allow connections to one of the following” to DMA from COM1 in the Connection Settings of ActiveSync 4.0 2. Checked “ Enable NE2000 PCMCIA network adapter and bind to ” (the box was grayed out to “Connected network card”) with the network tab ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) table of data

  I need to display the contents of an XML file in tabular form. The basic structure of the XML is; <table> <row> <column_name_1 /> ... <column_name_n /> </row> </table> where column_name_* etc could be <name>, <age>, etc. For example, <table> <row> <name>Bob</name> <age>32</age> </row> <row> <name>Alice</name> <age> ...Show All

• SQL Server Conditionally referring to fields

  Hi, I am using RS 2000. In a report, I have database field whose name keeps changing everytime based on some condition. Say, a stored proc returns a field Aug2005. The name of this field becomes Oct2005 on some other condition. How can I use this field in the layout (to drag n drop). By what name/alias could I refer to this field. I read that in RS 2005 there is an option like Fields.Items( index).Value to access the field conditionally but I ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Splitter bars?

  How would I go about inserting a splitter bar between two panels to allow the user to resize the width of the content Is there a control for this Thanks! You need to place the content in a Grid and use GridSplitter. I place the splitter in its own column/row but there are other options. The docs on GridSpliter are a bit sketchy, but the information is there. You need to set whether it is rows or columns, the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Can't remove .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1

  I'm attempting to install the VC# Express Edition 2005 Beta 2 package and have run into a snag. I previously had some of the Express Edition Beta 1 packages installed (VB, VC#, VC++), but removed them in order to install Beta 2. I also have the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1 package installed, which refuses to uninstall. First, I tried removing it via Add/Remove Programs. The uninstaller complained that 'netfx.msi' could not be found, and quit. The ...Show All

• Windows Forms Validating event not fired

  I have a form with a number of textboxes, an errorprovider and a button. Each textbox has it's Validating event implemented like this private void TextBox1_Validating(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e) { if(ValidID()) { ErrorProvider.SetError(this.IDTextBox,""); } else { ErrorProvider.SetErr ...Show All

• Windows Forms .NET Updater Component

  I really think the self-updating component is pretty neat, and I plan to play with this feature over the weekend.  However, I'm curious about the need to download all files when a new version is released. Version 1.0.0.0 of the app and 1.1.0.0& ...Show All