Loretta Fischer's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Express Editions removing up/down arrows from numeric control

  How do you change the numeric control so that the up/down arrows are not displayed. i.e, create a numeric indicator ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Custom Build Rule "works" but makes project undeployable

  I am trying to use a Custom Build Rule to build assembler files, much as described by Jeff Abraham and I am kind of running into the same problem. The rules files only differ on the extension used and some quoting practicalities. I don't agree with Jeff's analysis of what is going on however: An unfortunate side effect of this build rule is that you end up deploying the .obj produced, because it becomes a project output As far as I can see it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Again: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

  I just got this error message again: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component Using the benefits portal sample on a brand new Windows XP installation in a virtual machine, all updated. Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Working with Microsoft Excel

  I want to know how can i work with Excel sheets.\ I want to insert data to the sheet and to merge cols Well i used the Excel addin using c#, useally two ways is avilable in .net to program with excel one is addin another one is template's Open visual studio IDE, click menu create new project [ creation window opens ]-> select other projects ->Extensibility project -> choose Shared Addin i ...Show All

• .NET Development Copmpact PC with Windows CE

  How get running processes via .Net, or some else availible method... Under Windows you can use the GetProcesses() method of the Process class (System.Diagnostics.Process)... unfortunately that method does not exist under the Compact Framework and instead you have to do a little more work. Fortunately though Microsoft has an MSDN article that explains exactly how to do it, take a look at it here: http://msdn.micro ...Show All

• Smart Device Development "Failed to start debugging"

  When I start VS2005 debugger (press F5) to debug a simple native app built for WCE5.0-based smart device, the debugger does not start and, after several seconds, displays error message "Failed to start debugging". This does not appear to be the issue in http://blogs.msdn.com/srini/archive/2006/01/05/509599.aspx , where the conflict is thought to be a co-install of Platform Builder and VS2005, as the recommended work-around does not ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office How to delete the user’s Command Bar?(Outlook)

  I made a outlook COM Add-in , and the Add-in will create a new commandbar when the outlook starts. But how to delete it when close the outlook Thank you! Hi, This forum is specifically for questions regarding solutions created with VSTO. You might try posting your question in a newsgroup specific to COM Add-ins such as COM add-in issues : office.developer.com.add_ins newsgroup http://msdn.micro ...Show All

• Windows Forms Wait until form is displayed

  Hi out there, i want to display a dialog at startup of the application. It should behave as the dialog in powerpoint where you can choose between different types of opening  or creating a presentation. I placed the ShowDialog-Call in the Load-Event  ...Show All

• Visual C# Getting StreamReader to recognize unicode escape characters

  I am reading in a file which has a header similar to a java properties file. name=My Software Package The issue is the value of the property (the right side of the =) can contain unicode escape characters (\udddd). When this file is read in by my StreamReader (new StreamReader(file, Encoding.UTF8)) the escape characters are not recognized as individual characters. Instead of seeing one symbol they are read in as six chars (ie \\u02ed ). Is ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Server Agent on XP Pro

  I'm trying to schedule an SSIS package using the SQL Server Agent on XP Pro using MS SQL 2005 Developer's Edition. I keep getting an error about "Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user ..." Is this because I can only do this on Windows Server Thanks! This is a question relating to SQL Server Agent, not SSIS. Unfortunately there isn't an Agent forum but perhaps you could try this: http://forums.microsoft.co ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Adding work items not working on TEST server

  We are on team foundation beta 3 refresh. Let me try to explain what we are trying to: We are trying to create work items via a webmethod in a webservice. The webmethod works fine on my local development machine but when I deploy the webservice to the test machine, which also happens to be where the team foundation server, that is where it is failing. The test server is a windows 2003 with sharepoint server on it. I have tried the followi ...Show All

• Windows Forms Need ideas on creating an email To: recipient textbox with underlining

  In outlook, when an email or contact exists in the To: recipients text box, it is underlined. Any idea how I can create a similar control It is just a simple textbox which keeps checking a list at every keypress event. When the textbox text matches any item of the list. The textbox font changes and underline.. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installation problem with Reports Server

  I'm trying to do a single-server (beta 2) install but keep hitting a problem during setup. The system says: Miscrosoft SQL Server 9 Reports Server services is either not started or not installed which isn't true. All prerequisite software has been installed and is working. I can browse localhost/reports and both reports and teh server are running in their own app pool. The only place I didn't follow the installation guide exactly is that SQL Ser ...Show All

• Visual Studio Can't set crystal report properties vs2005

  Hello, I have the following problem: Whenever I try to set a crystal report properties, focus is on the property name which is read-only and when I click out of name I get the error: "property value is not valid" and in details: "property name is read-only". This blocks me totally (the message shows up continuously and I have to close the report -or even the whole application- in order to get rid of the messages. And I cannot edit any report pro ...Show All

• Visual C++ fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file ",.obj"

  I compiled my program after doing all those settings in "Project Setting Menu" but i got an error : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file ",.obj" I think there is some problem in the settings. I checked all the settings tht i know but still not able to remove this error. If anyone know about the settings in VC++ then plz reply any help will be of great use Thanks in advance I checke ...Show All