Shelby Goerlitz's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office API request: Chart drawing in Excel

  You may already have this capability, but I am guessing you do not. We want our add-in to be able to paint a chart in Excel. The reason for this is a user will create a report template in Excel. It will include chart(s). The “data cells” for the chart will be tags pointing to the data. We will then pull the data based on the tag and use that to create the chart. The best solution is if our add-in can provide the data and Excel will still dr ...Show All

• .NET Development Fail to load .NET 2.0 COM registered dll from Word with both .NET 1.1/2.0 installed.

  Hi, I'm having troubles convincing my Word macro that the COM component that I reference, should be loaded using .NET 2.0. I have registered the dll with regasm /tlb /codebase, which used to work fine in .NET 1.1. But now I have both .NET 1.1 and 2.0 installed and on executing the macro it's using .NET 1.1 to load the assembly, which fails. Word reports a very uninformative "Can't find file or assembly name bla" (HR 80070002). But checking wi ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Installation does not install sqldmo.dll

  Hello, if I do a unattended installation using this command setup.exe /qb ADDLOCAL=Client_Components,Tools_Legacy,Connectivity SECURITYMODE=SQL SAPWD=xxx INSTALLSQLDATADIR=C:\ sqldmo.dll is not installed, although "Tools_Legacy" should do this. What am I doing wrong I have a few questions for you: 1) What platform are you installing on (e.g. a 32-bit OS or a 64-Bit OS) 2) Why do you thi ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Advanced Content & Standard Content labelling

  Hi, Is there some Advanced Content (or Standard Content) labelling on an HD DVD box Thanks. I am just a consumer who wants to identify "standard" / "advanced" discs. Thanks Peter! Thanks Rajat! ...Show All

• Visual C# Anyone know Accountability pattern?

  Does anybody have an idea about accountability pattern from martin fowler. We have problem figuring out the database schema. You can find more information regarding Accountability pattern as discussed in this thread ( http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=8054 ).  You can try posting on VSTS for Software Architects or replying to the thread above. HTH, Karen ...Show All

• .NET Development NetworkStream.DataAvailable - what is the "timeout" period?

  Hi all, in my application I am using this piece of code: while (MyStream.DataAvailable) { numberOfBytesRead = MyStream.Read(myReadBuffer, 0, myReadBuffer.Length); newData = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(myReadBuffer); UsePacket(DecodeNewPacket(newData)); } The server application is sending let's say 25 packets per 1000 bytes to this client. Since every packet is processed by the function DecodeNewPacket() I n ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to replace color in picture box ?

  hello, i have another question. My program has a few pictureboxes in which i load some .jpg images. I would like to know how can i replace a specific color in those images every time my prog loads. I want to replace the background color of each image with the form background color which changes according to the windows theme that the user has. Thanks, G X If you're using VB.NET, try drawing the images yourself ...Show All

• Visual Studio .Net Framework CANNOT uninstall or reinstall

  Hi All, My .Net Framework 1.1 does not give me the option to repair. I tried to reinstall, but it did not work because it gives me a message saying that I already have the current version installed. I'm trying to uninstall previous version of .Net Framework before doing a clean install of SQL Server 2005. When I tried to uninstall in Add/Remove, the following file it asked for, and I don't think it is on my harddrive - tmp1DD.tmp - any help ...Show All

• Windows Forms Transparent Image to see through form?

  Hey people, I have a slight problem. I have a transparent PNG file. I want to see through the transparent png to below the window, but for it to still take click events, unlike the transparentcy key in VB. I tried setting the form background color to black, with no success. Tthe form shows transparent, but the image has black behind it, from the form color. If I change the backcolor to something other then black, behind the image is that co ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Problems with Tutorial Lab03/Ex02/Task02

  I am having problems with Lab03/Ex02/Task02. Following the directions I get different problems with different connection strings. For reference, I am using SQL Server 2000 sp4 and has a name of (local)\Tutorial. I have a Data Connection in the Server Explorer to the database, so I know I can connect and view data. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Dave ================================ static string connectionString = @&qu ...Show All

• Visual Basic Simulate a mouse click in a program

  I have a VB program and I need to simulate a mouse click in a webbrowser window. How would I go about simulating that click on the screen. Thanks Hi Everyone, I know this is an old topic, but I reveived alot of emails on this subject since i wrote it more than one year ago, in fact, I'm still receiving messages on this subject. So let's solve this once and for all by posting the right declarations for the AP ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Animation not working in code

  I set some animations in a WBA. First I register the name: Application.Current.MainWindow.RegisterName(myElement.Name, myElement); When I try to set a storyboard and set an animation on this element I get 'The name 'myElementName' could not be resolved in the name scope of 'MS.Internal.AppModel.RootBrowserWindow' like the name is not registered. This code used to work in Sep CTP. Did something change for Nov CTP regarding ani ...Show All

• Visual C# How to dynamically Create huge grid of editable textboxes at runtime..Help..

  I'm working on a windows program that will open a tsv (tab seperated file) and store the values into an arrary and then put these values into a grid of textboxes where I can edit the values. I got to the point where i parse the text files into the arrary fine and I can put the values into the grid of textboxes.. but Im creating a grid of 12 X 100 which is 12000 textboxes i manually have to put into the form through the IDE. There has to b ...Show All

• Windows Forms Installer - updater

  When i make an installer for my project, it works fine. But when i make changes in my project and I make a new installer. When you want to install this new version, you always have to delete your previous version first, before you can install the new one. Is there a way to make an updater or something, so that you never have to delete an older version I never did this before, so every help is welcome... Thanks! ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Debugging Multiple COM dll's

  I have a large CE workspace that I migrated from CE 4.0 to CE 5.0 using the built in conversion tool in VS 2005.  When I try to debug the code (running on a PPC 2003 device) I can not hit a break point in any of the lower level dll's.  Visual Studio disables them and I get the following message: "The break point will not currently be hit.  No executable code is currently loaded at this position." Is there something I need to do in ...Show All