Clas's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Need Help on VSTO2005 TaskPane

  Hi All,              I am developing an excel based application using VSTO2005. I have a set of user controls that i am embedding in the  task pane (document actions pane). I am not using a application specific actions pane control though. when my excel spread sheet is opened it all works fine , but when i have another instance of excel opened and i close the task pane ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Configuration Files -- BIDS vs. dtexec

  Hoping someone can help me out quickly on this. I have a package with package configurations enabled.  I have an XML file specified for a configuration, with the connection string being loaded from the configuration.  After configuring this, the package knows that the connection string for the connection should be loaded from the XML file.  When I run the package within BIDS, it finds the XML file at the specified path, grabs the ...Show All

• Visual C++ TextOut() and LPCWSTR

  in win32 project i have a code: char buffer[80]; static int wm_paint_count=0; . . . case WM_PAINT: hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps); SetTextColor(hdc, RGB(0,0,255)); SetBkColor(hdc, RGB(0,0,0)); SetBkMode(hdc, OPAQUE); sprintf(buffer, "WM_PAINT called %d times. " , ++wm_paint_count); TextOut(hdc, 0,0, (LPCWSTR)buffer, strlen(buffer)); EndPaint(hWnd, &ps); break ; When i run ...Show All

• .NET Development Deleting Files Using oledbcommand

  I have currently worked out how to add and edit records with vb.net frontend and access back end. im having some problems with working out how to delete things however. Can anyone explain how this can be done When i go to nthe qery builder to try and delete, i select delete from the SQL list however i am then unable to specify that i want the system to wait for the record i tgive it before it deletes. assignment due tuesday. please help!! ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to improve the user interface?

  Hi All, I am hoping to improve the user interface of my application, instead of using the standard form and control, how to use apply and create custom forms, skins and others to improve the user interface Please can someone help me, advice, tips, suggestions, sample codes or web resources all are welcome. Thanks in advance.... How long are you willing to wait http://blogs.msdn.com/mikezintel/archiv ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions SQL with VB Express

  Hallo! How can I Access to an Microsoft SQL 2000 Server in my Network. I found out that I only can access to an MSDE. (MDF File) Thank you for help Nightlinerdev wrote: Hallo! How can I Access to an Microsoft SQL 2000 Server in my Network. I found out that I only can access to an MSDE. (MDF File) The Data Access tools in Express are limited to Microsoft Access databases and local SQL ...Show All

• Visual C# Setting Exchange Master Account SID

  Hi, Can you provide an example of setting the msExchangeMasterSID for a mailbox, in case you want to delete the NT account that owns it I already know how to set Active Directory properties, my problem is where do i get this SID, is it a GUID of another object in the domain etc Thanks Vin Hi Vin, I am just checking to see how this is going. Please drop me a quick note at your convenience to let me know the current status ...Show All

• Windows Forms Listview scroll bar

  The listview has vertical scroll bars and the user clicks the scroll bar to do a page down or page up, the grid lines are drawn through the items on the page down , and page up. What kind of event will fire if the scroll bar scrolls. Actually, I would like the load the data to the listview as a chunk. For example, I have 10000 items, and I only load 100 one time and when the user scroll down the scroll nod, load the next block of 100 items, etc. ...Show All

• .NET Development CLR Profiler for VS 2005 RC1?

  Is there some place I can download CLR profiler for VS 2005 RC1 I tried CLR Profiler Beta 2 on RC1 applications, and the profiler dies with an exception. Searching on Microsoft's site only gets me to the Beta2 version of the CLRProfiler. Thanks Pawan Hi, Looking at the release schedule, I think only an updated version of the profiler for the RTM version will be made available after the release of VS2005 on No ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Problem with reading (*.doc, *.rtf and *.txt) Files

  Hello, I have a problem with reading files the problem is : I`m using IO history to read *.txt files in textbox but it cannot read some languages like Arabic I`m using this code to read StreamReader files = new StreamReader (openFileDialog1.FileName); tmpbox.Text = files.ReadToEnd(); files.Close(); it reads all files correctly but not Arabic files ================================= Second part with RichTextBox: I ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Error upon project creation - VSTS Release / Beta 3 Refresh

  After creating a CMMI project and opening the portal, the following showed up in the browser: For builds and remaining work, the reporting services pages (I thought this would just be the output, not someone being able to put the query information in the page) For the Issues web part, the following error message: The item '/Effort Tracking/Issues' cannot be found. (rsItemNotFound) Where 'Effort Tracking' is the name of the project. For the Bug R ...Show All

• .NET Development Dataset WriteXML and XML dateTime

  Hello All, I have an issue when I write a dataset to an XML file.  I have a dateTime element and when it is written it writes out the full date and time including milliseconds.  I use the DateTime.Now to get the time value.  I want to write this without milliseconds.  Is this possible DateTime.Now when viewed as a string does not include the milliseconds but it does when it is written. Any ideas Regards, Darren. Thanks ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Desktop search does not think Outlook is installed

  I recently installed windows desktop search on my XP SP1 machine running Exchange 2003 in cached mode connecting to an Exchange 2003 server. Windows desktop search won't let me select Outlook because it doesn't think I have it installed. I checked from IE and Outlook is set to my default mail client. Any suggestions of other things to check is appreciated, searching through my mailbox and .PST files would be great! Thanks. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Being able to acces the data connections of the server explorer from a Custom Wizard

  I'd like to know if there's a way to access the data connections of the server explorer from a Custom Wizard Im developing, I know I have to manipulate the DTE object, but I dont know how... Any help will be thanked. I un ...Show All

• Visual C++ Confusion with watch values during debugging

  The debuggee is a mixed (MFC + /clr:OldSyntax) exe. The application is linked with some assemblies (MFC extension DLL's, /clr:OldSyntax enabled) Compiler settings: Release build, Unicode, Disable optimzation After a breakpoint is reached, I will watch some values. Here is a look at my watch window: + this                      0x01010a8 ...Show All