dick giles's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office WordML and tags order (updated)

  Hi, Please forgive me if this is the wrong section for posting about WordML ... I want to use MS Inference Tool to create a XSLT in Word to format the display of a XML data file. here is what I did: - Write a sampel XML file - Generate the correspong XSD with Visual Studio 2005 - Add minOccurs="0" for optionnal XML tags - Add my XSD to Word - Start a new Word document, and start writing my template and referenceing my tags - Generate the XSLT using teh Inference Tool Now my problem is my tags can only be displayed in the same order as they are written in the XML file, even though their display should not be this way. In Word, the error mess ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System SQL Express Install Problem

  I am ready for the bridge, or a breakdow or both, I have un-installed, re-installed, used the .net cleaning tool and the Beta cleaning tool used Aron Stebners clean up directions. tried to install an instance and default and have tried to install as a part of Web Express Install and a stand alone install and still I cannot get SQL Express to install VB Express and Web Developer installed without a problem. I have .net 1.1 and 2.0 on my machine, I have an Instance of MSDE installed, I am running Xp/Office 2003 all service packs and updates are current. Help would be appreciated, TKS, BB3 Please post the question in the forums for th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I have it install correctly but I keep get this error (in message) and can't do anything

  Could not load type "microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.ivsrunningdocumenttable2" from assembly "microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.8.0, version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, publickeytoken=b03f5f11d50a3a'a My guess is that you missed something in uninstalling the Beta. From the error message, it sounds like the VSPackage for the Windows Forms designer isn't getting registered properly, possibly due to an artifact from the Beta. The folowing thread in the Express Editions forum may be of help: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=134495&SiteID=1 - Steve Hoag ...Show All

• Visual Studio Online help doesn't work

  Hi, I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (version 8.0.50215.44, Beta 2.050215-4400) and I'm having trouble accessing online help - it seems as though the "Microsoft Document Explorer" can't see the Internet. When I press F1 to see the reference on some C# keyword, for example, I get the error show in ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_commoner/html/1702ec84-76f9-4a82-9043-9ab8acb8aa5e.htm which is "The information you are trying to access could not be found. Various events could have caused this error." etc. This happens no matter what I search for - it only finds stuff I have locally (like help on help). I access the Internet (with no problems ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista how do you install vista ???

  i must be an idiot or something ive been trying all week to install vista on my pc with nothing but problems. i have a sata hard drive running windows xp. i also have a fully formatted ide hard drive that i want to install vista onto only. i dont have a dvd burner so i cant burn the iso files to a cd to create a bootable install . i can use a virtual drive ( daemon tools ) for this i believe what is the best thing to do in my case should i re-install xp onto the ide drive , then add a partition for vista or leave xp on the sata and install vista onto the ide ( basically run two differnet operating systems on two seperate drives ) i re ...Show All

• Windows Forms app.config is read only?

  Do you guys know how to override the app.config file to allow writing back to the file (during runtime)  When I try to save some custom user settings in the app.config file, it says the collection is read only. There must be a very simple way around this, isn't there  Thanks for any help. Collection is read-only   If you are  ...Show All

• Smart Device Development How to modify the properties of a SDK for WinCE5.0 to Load Emulator Image?

  Hi, I have a pre-created SDK for Windows CE 5.0 which runs on my platform. And now I created a Emulator Image of Windosw CE 5.0 by PB. I can launch the Emulator using DeviceEmulator.exe in command line, but I can't see it in DvcEmuManager.exe. I can't restore the image file in DvcEmuManager.exe,either. And I want to modify the properties of the SDK to lunch the Emulator Image in the Emulator manager,but I don't know how to do it. Is there anyone knows how to do it Thanks a lot. Hi Are you using the new Device Emulator BSP released by Microsoft to build your Emulator If so, have a look at ...Show All

• SQL Server Sql server CONNECTION STRING...

  Hi all, I am trying to make a connection string for the SQL SERVER..in all the sites i m getting To connect to SQL Server running on a remote computer (via an IP address) oConn.Open "Provider=sqloledb;" & _ "Network Library=DBMSSOCN;" & _ "Data Source=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,1433;" & _ "Initial Catalog=myDatabaseName;" & _ "User ID=myUsername;" & _ "Password=myPassword" but i cant understand where should i write this in the QUERY WINDOW(it doesnt work)...where exactly should i write this connection string.... unlike in oracle there is NET MANAGER where i can just create a new SERVICE NAME....but here can someone PLEASEEEEE tell ...Show All

• SQL Server Potential workaround for SP1 failure

  SQL Server installation fails with the message: "A recently applied update, KB913090 failed to install" The last executed task was: Integration Service The last installation message was: Checking for lock files via Windows installer sqlrun_tolls.msp It's not immediately obvious what went wrong. Please post a description of your configuration and a link to your SQL Server install logs. Thanks, Paul ...Show All

• Windows Forms messagebox

  how can i make a messgaebox contains two buttons (yes and no) so that when the user press the yes button then a certain code will be executed and another code will be executed when he presses the no button. thank you for the time and for the help that you gives me. Dim result As DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show(Me, "Body",& ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System maximun length of server response in web tests

  ACT has a maximun response length of 10000 bytes. I would like to know if there is any limitation in Web Tests of VS2005. Thanks. We have a similar property in the Web Tests in VS2005. By default we will save 750000 bytes of the request and 1500000 bytes of the response. This is what is saved and what is available for use in validation rules, extraction rules, and plugins. We still send and receive evry byte. So if the response is 2000000 bytes, we will receive the entire stream, but we will the only keep the first 1500000 bytes for use in rules and plugins. This value is configurable if you are using a coded web test. In a code ...Show All

• Windows Forms Can't add new animals ..

  Anyone else having problems when attempting to add a new creature   I get a message that states that there is a problem with the terrarium server, please try again later.  Well ... it's been three days and no luck. The server should be functioning correctly again.   ...Show All

• Visual Basic How To Add Coulmn in table MS Access database

  I'm using VB2005 , 2003 I have created my database, but with time I need to add or delete some columns in my table, How can I do it You can do that With ADOX. 'note this class depends upon two COM MDAC v2.8 References ' made in Project References ' Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library ' Microft ADO V2.8 for DDL and Security Protected Const cNoConn As String = "No Connection has been Opened." Public Connection As ADODB.Connection Public Catalogue As ADOX.Catalog Public Table As New ADOX.Table Protected m_databaseOpen As Boolean = False ...Show All

• Visual C++ LINK : warning LNK4075: neglect“/EDITANDCONTINUE”(由于“/INCREMENTAL:NO”)

  LINK : warning LNK4075: neglect “/EDITANDCONTINUE”( “/INCREMENTAL:NO” ) what does that mean I'm a freasher to use Vs2003.net   anyone help   I just use the enviroment to develop ANSI C  In order to benefit from the Edit-And-Continue feature of Visual C++, you need to enable the Incremental linking (Project Properties->Linker->General->Enable Incremental Linking = Yes). Most people see this warning as: 1>stdafx.obj : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/EDITANDCONTINUE' due to '/INCREMENTAL:NO' specification ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Emulator display too large

  I am using the VGA emulator to target a 320 x 480 device. 1) How do I know how large to make the form also when I run the app in the emulator, the emulator goes off my display it is so large. How do I fix this. Thanks. Hello, I am not sure what you meant by question 1. Regarding emulator being too large, you can change the switch your monitor to higher resolution or disable the skin (if you can manage without that). You can also specify the video size using Visual Studio Emulator Config dialog, if you want emulator to be smaller. -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All