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• Windows Live Developer Forums Windows Live Messenger Beta Invitation Winners

  Last week, the Messenger team offered Windows Live Messenger Beta invitations to the first 5 people who submitted Activity Apps that passed the provisioning process. Drum roll please...  And the winners are: 1. Notesaic by Daniel Tse 2. Quatro by Chris Weeink 3. Boter kaas en Eieren by Glenn Klijn 4. Let's Play Chess by Prasad DV 5. CooperYoung by Frans-Willem Hardijzer Congratulations to the winners!  You will be receiving your beta invitations shortly via the email address used when you submitted your application to the contest. Keep the apps coming!  The Worlds Best App contest continues until midnight (PST) December 31, 20 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Activate bluetooth feature?

  I have bluetooth device for my laptop, and also have install Windows Mobile Emulator Pocket PC 2003 SE. Now I found that on control panel it have bluetooth setting. How can I use bluetooth on emulator but the device an external hardware (I have Bluetooth IVT USB device) Thanks. You can't since emulator is not designed to use USB devices. I suppose you can set up virtual COM port on PC and map emulator's serial port on to it, but BT stack on emulator won't work. If you're planning to use virtual COM ports, that should do. If not, you'd need to get real device with BT stack you're intended to support. There ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Any changes in the shim program?

  Hi; I am using the shim code that I downloaded from MS about 18 months ago. I am now building under VS 2005 instead of 2003. Is there an update to the shim code and does it have anything critical in it Note, my add in is IDTExtensibility2, not VSTO. I'd prefer not to change because I made a bunch of changes in the shim code so that if there is an error loading, that error is displayed to the user instead of it failing silently. thanks - dave Hi; We have a version of the shim program that pops up a message box if the Add-In it calls won't load. It's specific to our Add-In in places (hard coded names rather than getting it from the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Does Visual Studio Team System support WAN Remote Access

  I have seen several comments to indicate that Visual Source Safe 2005 will better support WAN by way of HTTP access over the web. Is there going to be strong support for WAN source code control in Team System as well    Presently we need to use SourceOffSite because of the poor performance of Visual Source Safe 6 over the WAN.  We are very interested to know if Team System will remove the need for third-party products for remote access. Thanks in advance for any replies I've set up a VPN on both my server and on my client and I've made port forwarding on my router for IPSec and PPTP. When I cli ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Cannot connect to local SQL 2005 Express

  I get an error that states: Unhandled Exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An error has occurred w hile establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 200 5, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Se rver does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) After reading the error, I fired up the SQL Server Management tool. I ensured that "Allow Remote Connections" was enabled, and restarted the SQL Server service. Then I tried to run SQLMetal again, but same error. I ran SQLMetal like this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Launch MSDN Express Directly

  HI, how can i open MSDN outside the IDE, without first opening the VB Express. what is the command line to open MSDN Express, there is no shortcut in my start menu. i installed using the image file. thanks, Abhishek Good morning... Start - Run - DExplore.exe (it takes a little while to load - at least it did on my laptop, but eventually it shows up). It's in the path C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help 8 Check-out this web site: http://www.mshelpwiki.com/index.php page=Help2 .  There are some good links - though it seems to be a bit dated. ...Show All

• Windows Forms derive from base Control, why do child controls not render correctly?

  I'm trying to derive a custom list-type control from System.Windows.Forms.Control. But I need to put some scroll-bars on it. I'm doing everything, but I just can't get the scroll-bars to work correctly. I need to either inherit from Control, or I need to come from Panel (but I don't want the developer to be able to put child controls into it at de ...Show All

• SQL Server Load time of packages? Turn off validation while loading?

  Nitesh, Loading packages can be a looong process in September CTP too, unfortunately. Andrew Watt MVP - InfoPath wrote in message news:b795f68f-0c7c-4263-a698-e572902def57@discussions.microsoft.com... > My solution contains 28-30 packages in one solution. > Each time I try to open a package (which was closed earlier), it takes a > loooooooooong time to load. Is it only june CTP or thats typical. > > Is there a way I can disable validation while loading but keep > validation ON while developing the package My solution contains 28-30 packages in one solution. Each time I try to open ...Show All

• SQL Server The first axis of the query should not reference any dimension other than the Measures dimension?

  Hi, The first axis of the query should not reference any dimension other than the Measures dimension I am writing a MDX Query in reporting services and I cannot use any dimension other than the Measures dimension in the first axis. When I run this query in SQL Server management studio it runs well . Why not in Reporting Services Note that I'm using the SQL Server Standard .The error is : ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The query cannot be prepared: The query must have at least one axis. The first axis of the query should not have multiple hierarchies, nor should it reference any dimension other t ...Show All

• .NET Development remoting?..networking? am lost

  hi all, after spending some great deal of time on the internet searching...i surrender. i am an ASP.NET developer who has moved recently to work on WinForms application. i have to create this application which is composed of client/server sides. client and server share some datatables between. which need to be synchronized from time to time. and since am illitrate in anything of networking and remoting !! i ask help....where should i start...do i need remoting for this application or only networking how to move records and do synchroniztion between each !! damn i started to miss asp.net already! :) any help is highly highly appreciated ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to print access report through printdialog with VB.NET 2005

  I have an access file which contains report called "restaurant" I know that if i want to print it through VB. I may use "DoCmd" in the format like: const acViewNormal=0 access.DoCmd.OpenReport("restaurant",acViewNormal) But now, since I want to have a dialog to choose printer etc. before print out the report. would you mind to teach me how to do that Thank you very much! ********************************************************************* Chieng Sisovin Managing Director A1 Angkor Co., Ltd. Address: 045, Dak Po Village, Slakram Commune               Siem R ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Action Pane & Print View

  Hi there, how do I marry Action Pane with Print View in Word 2003 document I've a document with my custom Action Pane, but since I type (I do from within ThisDocument_Startup) Globals .ThisDocument.ActiveWindow.View.Type = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word. WdViewType .wdPrintView; I get an error saying: You are currently viewing this document in multiple windows. To attach XML expansion pack, you must first close all additional windows so that you are viewing the document in only one window. After that I'm getting 'Choose Expansion Pack' dialogue.... Saving of that document leads to even more problems - it complains ab ...Show All

• Windows Forms + Exception occurred during store operation.

  When I tried to Run an application on remote desktop I get the error: Unable to install or run the application. The application Requires that assembly: CristalDecisions.CrystalReports.EngineVersion 10.2.3600.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache(GAC) First. This is now installed and the error persists. I get the followin log: PLATFORM VERSION INFO  Windows    : 5.1.2600.131072 (Win32NT)  Common Language Runtime  : 2.0.50727.42  System.Deployment.dll   : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)  mscorwks.dll    : 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)  dfdll.dll    : 2.0 ...Show All

• Windows Forms Docking controls dynamically

  Hi I am creating datagrids and adding them to a panel  at runtime. I have assigned dockstyle of grids to left, but when I run it the datagrid at the left most position is the one that was added the last instead of being at the right most position. Please see the code below. parser_OnNewField is called whenever I publish an event. private void parser_OnNewField( object sender, DataTable table) { DataGrid dg = GetDataGrid(); dg.DataSource = table; plRecord.Controls.Add(dg); } private DataGrid GetDataGrid() { DataGrid dg = new DataGrid(); dg.Width = 300; dg.PreferredColumnWidth = 125; dg.Dock = DockStyle.Left; re ...Show All

• .NET Development How to "de-hash" a WSE UserNameToken password?

  I've just started using WSE for web services security (using v3.0) and have a successful prototype that does custom dbms authentication with an override of UsernameTokenManager.AuthenticateToken(). I'm sending the password with PasswordOption.S endHashed, which is important for this question. Now I have added a caching mechanism using the UsernameTokenManager.TokenCache property. All is well and good except for one thing: When I get a token from the cache, I no longer have a password string that matches the original string created on the client; it's been sent with the SendHashed option. Soooooo, how can I get back the original passwo ...Show All