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• Visual Studio Tools for Office LoaderLock exception thrown when calling Delete method on CommandBarButton

  I've got a very simple add-in (pretty much cadged from the how to article about building managed addins in C#). However, due to security requirements for where it'll be deployed I'm using a VC++ shim (totally cadged from a how to article) to sit in between Word and the managed addin In the OnBeginShutDown I'm calling something like GetVariablesButton . Delete (t emporaryTrue ); GetVariablesButton is a member CommandBarButton variable (referencing a button on Words 'standard' CommandBar) and temporaryTrue is a local object variable cast to True (I've also tried the call to Delete with a literal boolean True, a bool variable set to ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Writing to the Frame Buffer

  Can someone tell me how to set the framebuffer write mode to accumulate and also explain what it means. Kirk Barham Thanks for the info. I want to perform matrix vector multipliaction on the GPU. What I have done is transfer the matrix values to a 1xN texture, t0. I also transfer the values in the vector to a another 1xN texture, t1. I access the current texel using the following. float4 value1 = tex2D(t0, input.tc); How can I get the get the next texel...can I peak ahead Kirk Barham Microsoft.com Home | Site Map Search Microsoft.com for: Manage Your P ...Show All

• SQL Server Incremental cube processing

  I'm trying to use the "Process Incremental" option when processing a cube in SSAS 2005. There are about 100million records in the fact table, but I'm only interested in the most recent 1.5 mil that were added last night. It's acting like a full process because it's reading all the rows in the fact table and not the ones most recently added. Do I need to specify (in the config options) a query/table that only points to the new rows It appears that is the case, but if it is, it's not really documented in the GUI or the online help. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks, Doug I am usin ...Show All

• Visual Studio Unable to find required file 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll' - VS2005-B2

  I thought I had managed to install Beta correctly from the DVD, but when I go to create an empty VB project I get the following error: "Project "Project1" could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 compiler could not be created. Unable to find required file "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll'. I am able to create a web project, but not compile it ('compiler initializatin failed unexpectedly: Unspecified error'). Tried uninstall / reinstall / repair / etc.  Installed just the VB.NET portion and also tried a complete install.  I even downloaded and installed the express edition, but now I just have two versions I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Downloaded merge moduled different version than the assemblies on VS 2005

  I downloaded the merge module CrystalDecisionsRedist2005_x88.msm from business objects web site but it appears that they are version 10.2.9700 and the CR assemblies on VS 2005 is 10.2.3600. What is the correct version for VS 2005 Is there a separate update I was supposed to use for VS 2005 Should I just install the new msm Thanks ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office ClickOnce with VSTO - The application is improperly formatted.

  Hi, I am trying to deploy a VSTO application using ClickOnce. I am getting the following warning in Visual Studio's Error List. Warning 1 Assembly 'VstoSmartTagDemo.dll.manifest' has mismatched identity 'VstoSmartTagDemo.manifest', expected filename: 'VstoSmartTagDemo.manifest.manifest'. C:\Programme\MSBuild\Microsoft.VisualStudio.OfficeTools.targets 0 0  Note that the status bar displays the message "Publish Succeeded". I notice that a file with an extension of ".manifest.manifest" is not being found. The extension seems a bit unusual, is this expected behaviour When I go the publish location and click on th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Comments color in Word

  Hi, I'm trying to change the backgroud color of the comments I add to a word document. I can do it using Options.CommentsColor but this function modifies the color of all of the comments in the document. Is there any solution to modify the color of the comments in an independent way Can I have various comments in a different color in the same document without change the author thanks for your help, I already use the highlight option but the problem is that the comment is in the foreground so the highlight is invisible when a comment is added to same text section... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setting the IDE properties

  that is a guess atg the proper topic. What I want to do is change the following to what I use in VS6 and VS .NET: F4 loads the cource file and displays the error after a compile Set tabs to 4 spaces None of the things are intuitively presented. ...Show All

• Visual C# Entering data in calculator-style R->L

  Hi! I'm using a masked text box for numeric entry with the mask "009.9". I'd like to enter numerals from right to left (is in a calculator), so that if there are only two numurals to enter, the result doesn't look like "890.0" when what I intend is "8.9". Does anyone have a short bit of code that'll do this Thank you! John F. Thank you very much for the help, Vijaye! Looks pretty elegant to me! John F. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Copying root directories (e.g. USB device)

  G'day, I am trying (in vain) to copy a USB device to a network share location. Relevant section of code is below: 'USB Copy Process... Dim strSourcePath As String = "F:\" Dim strDestinationPath As String = strUNCPath & "\" My .Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(strSourcePath, strDestinationPath, False ) I keep getting an error because of the source directory being a root directory as below: IOException was unhandled. "Could not complete operation since directory is a root directory: 'F:\'." Is there another way to do this, I am a very new beginner and haven't as yet been able to find a ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro import from excel

  how can i import an excel sheet with huge text on some cells... i try it, but the character field is only 254 chars size, i did try to create a table and then append the big text cells to memo fields, but they remain empty... thanks for the help !! I wrote this a while ago to convert an excel file to a foxpro dbf... its need some cleaning up but it should give you a good start. Dave * * FNXLSTODBF * ** *FUNCTION TO CONVERT AND XLS TO DBF *FNXLSTODBF('FILE.XLS','FILE.DBF') *MXLSFILE TO CONVERT *MDBFFILE TO CREATE LPARAMETERS MXLSFILE,MDBFFILE IF VARTYPE(MXLSFILE)<>'C' RETURN .F. ENDIF ...Show All

• SQL Server Online Data Transform

  Dear All, I am new to SSIS, and just watched some of the webcasts and take a look at SSIS Hands on Lab on the MSDN site. I want to handle an online data transformation scenario which has some data mappings between. I want the SSIS to add each new record in source table, insert in the destination tables online. If this is possible, please let me know where can I find a sample package and configurations. Happy new year, Sassan Sassan, just to add a little thing... I just wrote something about the updates on the whislist maintained by Kirk in this forum... So I thought about how to implement tha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions can you help

  Keep in mind that i named my label to box   1.                   If we want to keep the box within the boundaries, then we must have a way to test whether the box is moving out of the boundaries.   a.       Which properties of the box would you use to check b.       Which properties of the boundaries would you use to check   2.                   If the box is de ...Show All

• Visual Studio how to add several data sources to the crystal report

  hi, i want to show some fields from different tables on the form at the same time, i try to use the SetDataSource method of my ReportDocument but i can add only one dataset by this way, don't i need to add more than one dataset to achieve my goal i will acquire information from three tables so i need three datasets to add to the reportdocument..so how can i do that If you are using SQL Server, use a stored procedure. You can then set the report datasource to the stored procedure name rather than the actual table. For example: The following three tables: Customers-CustID,CustomerName (CustID is primar ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Programmatically insert requests

  Sometimes I have to use 3rd part tools to retrieve requests invoked from clientside javascript. These tools (primarily HttpWatch) lets me save output in xml format. To get the testing right, I manually insert request based on data from xml. a) Is it possible to write plugins to the "webtest-editor" context-menu b) Can requests be programmaticly inserted to the "webtest-editor" a) It is possible, but difficult. b) What are you trying to do with inserting requests programatically.  Do you mean conditionally execute certain requests ...Show All