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• Visual Studio MsBuild Doesn't support WebProjects (ASP.NET)?

  Does MsBuild supports WebProject to be build -Priyananth. Yes, but you need to download the Web Deployment Projects add-in to make it work. You can get it from http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/ . Neil ...Show All

• Visual Studio is it possible to programmatically dock a tool window?

  I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to programmatically dock/tab a tool window the same way that windows such as Solution Explorer and other builtin windows are docked when they are first opened.  I've tried CreateLinkedWindowFrame, but this doesn't seem to do quite what I want.  It does allow multiple windows to be tabbed together, but it creates a floating frame.  I would like to be able to add my tool window into t ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Can i create DataTemplate in code-behind?

  Normally I can create DataTemplate by XAML code but i cannot find the way to create DataTemplate in code-behind. Is it possible Someone has worked on this/ Anyone found a solution for this I got the same problem as VarunK. I already build the Grid in code-behind but now I would like to assign it to a DataTemplate so I can use it as a ItemTemplate of my ComboBox. Phil ...Show All

• Smart Device Development COM interop in VS NET 2005

  Hi all, I'm trying to develop a com object for windows mobile 2003 se/5.0 using Visual Studio net 2005 native c++. Is it possible to make the com object act like any .Net class in the code where i'm using it(managed code c#) Exemple : Native com objet called Object 1 that expose this : method : void method1() void method2() event : event1 And in c# i would like be able to instanciate object like and register his event and method. Object1 tem ...Show All

• Visual Studio Help provider moved?

  Hi When I perform a search all providers except local fail with the following error : Object moved to http://services2.msdn.microsoft .com/search/service.asmx How can I fix this Same problem here. I had devenv.exe blocked for internet access, but it still gave that error, so the error must be generated internal to the document reader (probably yet another wininet kludge). If you see this, you can probably assume that you have no intern ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office replacing text in header & footer

  I know how to find and replace text in a Word document using Visual Basic 2005 (see code below), but I don't know yet how to change the header and footer. Can anyone give me a clue dim aWord as new Word.Application dim rng as Word.Range aWord.Documents.Open(doc) rng = aWord.ActiveDocument.Content rng.Find.ClearFormatting() rng.Find.Text = sourceTxt rng.Find.Replacement.Text = newTxt rng.Find.Execute(Replace:=Word.WdReplace.wdReplaceAll) aWord.A ...Show All

• .NET Development Short key to my band object

  Hi I am developing a special search bar to be placed on the toolbar. It consists of a text box. The thing is that I want to activate it (put the cursor on it) just by pressing Alt + q or something. I've searched but havn't found anything usefull. Please help me and I might share my creation =) As far as I know, the only build in way is to set the keypreview property of of the form that hosts the toolbar to true ...Show All

• Visual C# how to display Expand Collapse rows in datagridview 2.0

  Hello I am using .net 2.0 In my windows application datagridview. I want to display the data in master and child relation ship. i.e displaying in the form of Expand & Collase mode. This is straight forward in .NET 1.1 winforms DataGrid. anybody anysounds plz help how to do this usng VS 2005. hi, i saw this question b4 , and the anwer was its not supported in datagridview just the datagrid, the good news is that you still can add ...Show All

• .NET Development Combining two ICollections into one IDictionary

  Given two ICollections, where the first one contains strings, and the second one contains Objects, is there a standard way to combine them into one IDictionary where the strings from the first provide the keys, and the Objects from the second provide the values An example would be a ConnectionStringBuilder class. It contains two ICollections, .Keys and .Values. I would like to make one HashTable out of those. Right now I CopyTo() an array for b ...Show All

• .NET Development How to test connection to the SQL server DB?

  Hi, Who knows how to test connection to the SQL server DB I don't want to pull any data, just need to monitor connection state. So, I have a timer to do so. It opens connection nad closes it right away. Works just fine ... even if network cable is disconnected. %-) If I run a simple select statement between Connection.Open() and Connection.Close(), it works right, But I don't really like the idea of pulling data from the server and thro ...Show All

• SQL Server Problems with error logging

  I've added a new application to an existing instance of NS allready running another application. The new application has a single event in it, but when I added the application yesterday it didn't submit anything to the EventBatches table. The event query interval was set to 30 seconds. There was no error logs written at all. This morning, there was still nothing in the EventBatches table, but there was 6 simoultaneous errors thrown with a time ...Show All

• .NET Development Erroneously empty DataReader

  A method that has successfully returned a Datareader for many queries has started returning a DataReader with no rows. No error is generated as a true DataReader object is present, just empty (I can force an error by submitting an incorrect SQLquery).  The same query run in Access works. It makes no difference whether I submit the query as SQL or call a stored procedure in Access with the same SQL. If I reduce the query to a simple SELEC ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 doesn't want to run!

  I downloaded uninstall tool to kill previously installed Beta2. Than I ran Visual Studio 2005 Final Release setup. All went well, setup completed successfully. But... I launched Studio IDE, it showed Studio Logo and than disappeared. It didn't run. Oh, Lord, give me strength... :) To fix my machine, I only had to uninstall the VS 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation. Thanks for the tip! ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ Express B2 not working with Platform SDK

  Microsoft claims that you can write native Win32 applications with the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Beta 2.  Microsoft claims that this can be done simply by downloading and installing the Platform SDK. Is this in fact true   Are they really giving away a full-featured IDE and SDK that would allow you to build Win32 applications   Let's find out... These are the EXACT steps I've gone through 3 times now to get this to work ...Show All

• .NET Development Connection String problem with MSDAORA.1

  Hi. I have two connection strings for my application, one using Microsoft ODBC Driver for oracle, and another using Oracle ODBC Driver. I am getting "Object not found error( ASP)" when I use MSDAORA.1. I am using oracle 8i. Thanks. Sandeep Chanda wrote: Hi Paul, Its every line which has a CreateObject call. I'm sorry but that isn't enough information. What object are you trying to create ...Show All