JanT [MVP]'s Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office PInvokeStackImbalance was detected

  I am trying to create a smartdocument using Office 2003 professional edition and implementing the same on VS.NET 2005 edition. As soon as I load the winword.exe(as startup from VS.NET 2005) and attach the manifest in debug mode the following error is displayed. Can someone shed some light on how to overcome, any Microsoft VSTO team members, pls help. ERROR: PInvokeStackImbalance was detected Message: A call to PInvoke function 'WRDomainSet ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WF failed to work, if i add a service

  Hi, I am using WF Beta 2.0 and i have developed sequence activity, which is called from web app. In my web app, the WF worked properly and i have decided to extend the workflow. So i have added an in house service (Note that, this service is not a service, which implements ExternalDataExchange and also not a part of WF implementation, but provides input to WF) and tried to access the service from ASP .Net app. As soon as i have creat ...Show All

• Visual C++ How can I handle this error

  Dear all ,    I couldn't handle this error like the code below.    I know "strncpy" shouldn't pass the value -1 , but    how could I debug this kind of error         try    {        char test[20];         strncpy(test,"123",-1); //problem here -1    }    catch(...)   & ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System accessing Work Items via the webservices

  Hi, I am trying to write java application that integrates with the Work Item service. Obviously I cannot use the Microsoft SDK as it provides .net api's. Has anybody tried to do this already ..if so do you have any tips or things I should be aware of Even some exaple code would be great! thanks I've never tried this with Java, but I do own the WorkItem Web Services piece so if you have any question on ...Show All

• Windows Forms add customized combo box in datagridview

  i have my customized combo box found in the other site. i need this to add in dfatagrid view the combox box have multiple columns which i find it suitable for me.for now, the problem is aading it in datagridview heres the my code public class mycombo inherits datagridviewcomboboxcolumn public withevents columncombobox as mtgccombobox ---this mtgccombobox is mycombobox found on the other site ........ end class th ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista [MFC] How to use MNS_AUTODISMISS in a MENUITEM ?

  StdAfx.h #define WINVER 0x0500 // Attribuez la valeur appropriee a cet element pour cibler Windows 98 et Windows 2000 ou version ulterieure. MainFrame.cpp ... MENUINFO menuInfo; menuInfo.cbSize = sizeof (MENUINFO); menuInfo.fMask = MIM_APPLYTOSUBMENUS; menuInfo.dwStyle = MNS_AUTODISMISS; GetMenu()->SetMenuInfo(&menuInfo); ... It doesn't work... ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error

  I have SQL 2005 standard edition (64) installed on Win 2003 (x64) as the database server. (dbserver machine) Despite setting up: Remote option under surface configurator, TCP settings under configuration wizard, No firewall, I am still getting the same message when I try to connect from the application server using the SQL manager. I can connect to the server on the dbserver machine but not remotely. I have read through the thr ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Installation error : "...error occurred during the login process..."

  Hello, I have selected SQL Server and Windows Authentication Mode and the Login properties ->Status section for the new SQL login is set to "Enable". I work with Windows 2003 Server (without domain), SQL Server 2005 during installation of TFS i get the following error in "msi log file": ================= Is WSS Installed : True ConfigDBName : Not Available ConfigDBServer : Not Available Virtual Server State: Nee ...Show All

• Visual C++ Localization using C++ and Visual Studio 2003

  I am attempting to localize a small application which has a default language of English. I started by using the "Insert Copy" feature to create a French Canada copy of the String Table. I added a "Release (French Canada)" configuration to compile to that locale which has the Culture set to "French (Canada)(0xc0c). When I compile using this configuration, the application always compiles in English. At one point it compile ...Show All

• Windows Forms DirectX.AudioVideoPlayBack.Video problem

  I have a strange problem. I've made a small program that should play a number of video's one after another. They are all wmv-format, encoded with Windows Media Encoder. But, sometimes videos are just skipped, and I don't know why! The movies are all ...Show All

• .NET Development Frequently accessed data driven page BUT rarely updated database (ASP / ADO.NET)

  Imagine a shop with an online price list based derive from SQL server. The page gets lots of hits and this generates lots of SQL queries BUT the price list itself only changes once per week. this is creating many undeeded calls to the SQL server, for what is really static data. 1) any suggestions on 'caching' the result sets and maybe updating the page only when the data is changes. Application vairables maybe OR is it efficient to let SQL ha ...Show All

• Visual C++ compilation error

  i am trying to write a program with an array and when i try to compile it it gives me an error message that reads : "Cannot compile the file 'f:\AgeGroups', no compile tool is associated with the file extension". however, it will build. please help, im so new at this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Removing Code and Action Pane from Excel

  How can I save an existing excel workbook that has code and action pane as a normal excel workbook with no code nor action pane. I can't see how "removecustomization" is useful. because i want to do that when the user presses a button from within the workbook lets say a submit btn. when pressed the workbook should deliver data to an external database and be saved as a normal workbook with no code nor action pane. how can i accomplish t ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Client Error

  Hi everybody, I keep getting sporadically the following exception the only solution I have found so far was to replace the AppID. Does anyone else have a better idea Does anyone else have this problem (I tried changing the culture info with no luck so far) System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Client Error    at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse respons ...Show All

• .NET Development Internal .Net Framework Data Provider error 1

  I am getting "Internal .Net Framework Data Provider error 1" error while calling execute reader. Any body has idea what is the cause and fix This method is called many times and fails after a long run. I ran task manager and memory is hitting 100% before the error. Though I am not sure, if it is happening due to memory, the errror provide no information to fix the problem. stack trace : ...Show All