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• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO over VS pro?

  Hello Please tell me the advantage of having vsto when creating solutions that use office as interface or in background or whatever, in general. It seems like you can have the actual office document screen loaded in VSTO but not in VSpro. What other advantages does vsto have Does vsto produce more lines of code automatically so that you dont write as much code by yourself or something is there anything that VS pro can not do that VSTO can that really make a big difference. Im considering which version of vs to get. please help. VS pro gives you access to download and install tools for office. At leas ...Show All

• .NET Development Com+ Error

  I am using Com+ object pooling in my application .I specified the attribute for connection string using   [Transaction(TransactionOption.Required),ObjectPooling(MinPoolSize=-1,MaxPoolSize=3),       JustInTimeActivation( true ),SecurityRole("Authorized Users", false ),       ConstructionEnabled(Default="Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle;data source=DBOracle;uid=XXX;password=XXXXXX")]     Then later on I modified it to [Transaction(TransactionOption.Required),ObjectPooling(MinPoolSize=-1,MaxPoolSize=3),       JustInTimeActivation( true ),S ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista ASP.NET & SQL Persistence/Tracking Woes

  I'm attempting to add SQL Persistence and Tracking to my ASP.NET StateMachine workflow, and I'm not having luck. I added the following to me web.config file: <WorkflowRuntime Name="WorkflowServiceContainer"> <Services> <add type="System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting.ManualWorkflowSchedulerService, System.Workflow.Runtime, Version=3.0.00000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" /> <add type="System.Workflow.Activities.ExternalDataExchangeService, System.Workflow.Activities, Version=3.0.00000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" /> <add type="System.Workflow.Runtime.Hosting. ...Show All

• .NET Development Post XML request and get response

  Hi all, I am developing a web appliaction in C# .net. I have to integrate UPS rate and service. For this it is required to post an XML to UPS server and get reponse from same. To my plight I did the entire coding using AJAX "assuming" XMLHTTPrequest to across domain might work. IE gives permission denied if the security settings are not set to prompt for cross domain. Can anyone help me out with C# code to simply place a request using XML and get the response. Regards Yoshita Nanda You can make Http requests using System.Net.HttpWebRequest or System.Net.WebClient. That said, this sounds very much li ...Show All

• SQL Server Add a DateLoaded column to input data

  OK, I *know* this is trivial, and please feel free to giggle,  but after years of DTS 2000 my poor brain can't make all the jumps neccesary to cope with SSIS 2005. I have a Transfer data task. Source input (non SQL Server) has x columns, SQL Destination has x+1 columns, where the extra column is a non-null smalldatetime column DateLoaded. This will be populated with the Date & time the row was added. In DTS I do this either by adding a GetDate() equivalient to the Source SQL statement (which I can't do in this case) OR by an ActiveX script to put DATE()+TIME() in the final column in the Transfer pane of the designer. This must be ea ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio Beta 2 - Errors related to .net framework?

  I am working with a development team in a fairly large software team.  We have been using Visual Studio Beta 1 and I am testing Beta 2.  I have two machines, one is running Beta 1 and the other is running Beta 2.  On my Beta 1 machine, if I try to compile a solution it compiles with no errors.  On the Beta 2 machine, I get all kinds of errors.  One in particular says "The type or namespace name 'IKeyComparer' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference )" and I have gotten other similar messages with other names.  I have looked up "IKeyComparer" in help files and on Microsoft's ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Does Dec CTP have updated Ink analysis?

  Does the Dec CTP of the Windows SDK include the pieces that were in the Mobile and Tablet SDK   In particular the new Ink Analysis APIs Yes, the new Ink Analysis APIs are included in the Dec CTP of the Windows SDK. Just look for "Microsoft Tablet PC Ink Analysis Managed Library" when adding a reference to your WinForms project.  ...Show All

• Windows Forms a control that looks like VS.NET toolbox

  How can i create this kind of control  Or where kan i buy it   I have tried to make something that looks like the Visual Studio toolbox. But i cant get it right!  Please help! I'm trying to greate a "button list" that has the same look and feel as the VS.NET toolbox... I have checked out the lib you sugested, but& ...Show All

• Windows Forms CancelButton not compatible with ToolStripButton

  I want to use a button in my ToolStrip (a Forms.ToolStripButton) as the "escape key handler" for my form. In the form designer only plain Button objects show up in the list of candidates for the property. Also, if I try to cast my ToolStripButton--as in "this.CancelButton = (IButtonControl) myToolStripButton"--that generates a runtime error. So my conclusions are: Only plain Button objects may be assigned to the Form.CancelButton property. The Button object must be visible. The Button object must be enabled. Why these limitations How about removing any or all of these limitations in future versions... ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Cannot connect to Smart Device via Activesync

  I am trying to debug my application on the target device. I can connect using Activesync, and copy files back and forth. I can even run the application there. However, when I attempt to connect to the device using Activesync, it always fails. I have followed every example I could find, and I have had no luck. I have gone as far as I can with this application without being able to debug on the target, so I am absolutely desperate. I am on my knees here...can someone help me, or point me to where I need to go Is there a specific Microsoft place I can go to pay for help if necessary PLEASE help if you can! Geoffrey Callaghan ...Show All

• .NET Development How to UNlock a file

  Hi, how can i unlock a file, so i can change, move or delete it It doesn't matter, because i run through a list of files and want to delete them all. At the moment i catch exceptions and don't delete files if they are locked in any way (maybe by another application) cause i don't know how to unlock them. ...Show All

• .NET Development ODBC CreateStatementHandle - SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS ???

  Hi, Would anyone be able to help me implement the ODBC CreateStatmentHandle Basically I am trying to limit the result rows from an ANSI compliant odbc driver using the SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS attribute. However i cannot see a way to do this in the framework and the CreateStatementHandle is listed as internal from the object browser ! Thanks, Matt. Brilliant! I'm in shock - from admiration! This is exactly what I needed to do... and I never would have been devious, or clever enough, to come at it from this angle. Now all I need is to figure out how to set the equivalent property for an OLE DB provider, to ...Show All

• Visual C++ Can't override ToString().

  I have the following class: #pragma once using namespace System; namespace AutoTickets { ref class Model : System::Object { public : Model( void ) : M_model( "" ) {} Model(String^ model) : M_model(model) {} property String^ model { String^ get() { return M_model; } void set(String^ p_model) { M_model = p_model; } } virtual String^ ToString() override { return M_model; } private : String^ M_model; }; } For some reason ToString() is not being overriden. I have other classes that do the same thing and work fine. When I c ...Show All

• SQL Server June CTP to RTM

  I have a package that I wrote, initially, with a June CTP version of SSIS. I recently created a blank RTM SSIS project and brought in the dtsx file that was developed using the June CTP version. The package runs without errors. However I get wrong - and inconsistent - results from the data that I load into my SQL Server tables. If I run the package using the June CTP version, everything is correct. It would take me a lot of time to recreate the package in RTM. Since the entire package definition is contained in an XML file, it seems that there should be some simple setting(S) that would get my package working in RTM. Any help would ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) joins in linq

  Consider this query which implements a join. var q = from c in Customers, o in Orders where c.CustomerId == o.CustomerId group o by new { o.CustomerId, c.CompanyName } into g select new { g.Key.CustomerId, g.Key.CompanyName, NumOrders = g.Group.Count() } As far as I can tell, this implements a nested-loops join, which has O(N^2) performance. Is there a recommended way to do a more efficient join in LINQ Can we consider more general Join - e.g. from co in customers.Join(orders, (c,o) = > c.CustomerId==o.CustomerId) select new {co.CustomerId} ...Show All