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• SPA Complex Selection

  I have a ListBox and a Canvas. Both share a list of objects that are displayed in the controls. I'd like coordinate the selection between these. Are there any good patterns used in WPF or examples of creating something that can handle a bunch of controls that can contribute to a single selection state (aka Selection Model ) ...Show All

• sjohn Collaboration from the US to Europe

  We have two developers (me in the US, and my counterpart in Holland) that need to work on the same project. Would SourceSafe be the way to manage and coordinate this I would imagine one of the sites to be the 'master' site and the other to be a replicated site. Does VSS handle this type of scenario Thanks. No, SourceSafe does not support replication. The closest equivalents would be a single database where the Holland user is served via HTTPS, or two independent 'master' databases that you synchronized by hand via archive/restore. (I would not recommend the latter.) Using the HTTP server from Holland shouldn't be *too* bad. Whether it's acceptable or not depends on ...Show All

• a.d.m Dynamically configured Client

  I want to be able to create a client endpoint in code (not in the config file) The closest thing to this that I have found is to dynamically update the config as follows: Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None); ServiceModelSectionGroup sg = ServiceModelSectionGroup.GetSectionGroup(config); ChannelEndpointElement ce = new ChannelEndpointElement(); ce.Address = new Uri("net.tcp://localhost:47552/myService"); ce.Binding = "netTcpBinding"; ce.BindingConfiguration = "netTcpBinding"; ce.Contract = "ImyService"; ce.Name = "myTCPEndpoint"; sg.Client.Endpoints.Add(ce); // This writes it to the config file config.Save(); // this does not appea ...Show All

• Dvlnblk How to get VS2005 to recognise that Outlook 2003 SP2 in installed

  I am running VS2005 with VTOS, Outlook 2003 SP2 and Office XP for the rest. When I try to create an Outlook Addin project I get the message that I need to have Outlook 2003 SP1 or newer installed in order to create this project. I have reinstalled VS2005, VTOS, IPAs and checked Outlook 2003 SP2 is up to date. OTKLOADR.dll was not found on my PC when I searched for it so I downloaded it off the web, put it in the ....\Office11\Addins\ folder. Anybody have any other ideas as to why VS2005 is not recognising Outlook 2003 SP2 Thanks in anticipation. Mark What SKU did you install Outlook 2003 from It should to be from an Office 2003 Pro distribution. I unin ...Show All

• R8VI Debugging nightmare - Help!

  I am going insane over this. I have a W2003 R2 server with IIS 6 and VS.Net 2005 installed.  The application server works fine.  The problem is debugging.  I load a simple project.  NOT on a remote workstation, I load VS.Net ON THE SERVER and run it there.  I go to start debugging and I get the error: "The debugger could not be started on the web server.  The debugger cannot connect to the remote computer.  This may be because the remote computer does not exist or a firewall may be preventing communication to the remote computer." - There is no remote computer.  This is all there is.  I think it exists. - Since I'm trying to debug on this server, I don't see how a firewall can affect it ...Show All

• Spangltk Backslash problem

  Hi there. I am programming J# in my high school computer class and I ran into a little problem. I am making a consol application and it is displaying text but the first displayed character after my quotation mark needs to be a backslash. Whenever I go to debug this program it tells me that the backslash is an invalid escape sequence. If anyone could tell me how to fix this so the backslash is not recognized as a escape key but as regular text this would be great. Thank you very much in advance Perhaps you need to do \\ in languages like C# and J# the \ is used to "escape" a character. For example if you wnated a carriage return yuou would put "\r\n"; Well obviously you have to e ...Show All

• Tamirro MenuItem Click event. Which menu was clicked?

  I'm using a single MenuItem click event for all of my menu items. In this event I want to use a switch to determine which MenuItem was clicked and then call the appropriate method. How can I identify which MenuItem was clicked I add a value to the Name property of the MenuItems, but the MenuItem variable is null below. private void MenuItem_On_Click ( object sender , RoutedEventArgs e ) { MenuItem mnu = ( MenuItem ) sender ; switch ( mnu . Name ) { case "mnuAddSeg" : AddLineSegment ( thm ); break ; case "mnuRemoveSeg" : RemoveLineSegment ( thm ); break ; } } ...Show All

• dron747 How can I get the Drawing of a Button for rendering on an Adorner?

  I have a control, for example a Button, which i create in code and don't (!) want to display in the window directly. Now I need the Drawing of the Button to paint it on an Adorner, because, as I see, the DrawingContext only supports DrawDrawing(..). How can I get the Drawing of a Button because the following sample just doesn't work since I never get a DrawingGroup back from the VisualTreeHelper.GetDrawing(foo) function: //my adorner OnRender method: protected override void OnRender(DrawingContext drawingContext) {     Button foo = new Button();     foo.Content = "bla";     DrawingGroup drawingGroup = VisualTreeHelper.GetDrawing(foo);     if (drawingGroup != null)    ...Show All

• Martin00 How do you work with repeating areas in C#/Word?

  Filling in an XMLArray from C#. I have been searching and searching but I cannot fint a good example on how to make a part of a word doc dynamic and use C# to populate it correctly. This is a sample to show what I want to do. The word document is a simple page that shows a Customer Name, Address, Zip, Phone Number and then has a area for Contacts (Name,Cell,Work) that can happen from 0 to 100 times. When a button is clicked (Figure 2 below) the document loads information from a Web Service and populates the screen with information from a passed XML Object (Figure 3 below). The XSD(Figure 1 below), based on what I have researched, should be set up to accept the fields required, but I cannot figure out how to fill in the repeating Cont ...Show All

• zuoliang Error trying to run the vcbuild task

  Hello, I have installed the Visual C# 2005 Express and created a c# project. I'm trying to create a build file that builds this project. I created a target which uses the VCBuild task with my project file (.csproj) as parameter. I get the following error: \build.xml(20,3): error MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe". To fix this, 1) install the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK,2) install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or 3) add the location of the component to the system path if it is installed elsewhere. I guess I'm missing something, I tried to find the file "VCBuild.exe" and coudn't. Should I install the latest vesrion of the SDK or maybe I must have the visual studio 2005 and not the express ...Show All

• Terry A. King EID Slow when on two monitors

  So, this behavior caught me off guard. EID is maximized on my secondary monitor. Undock the properties window and drag it to my primary monitor. EID gets unusably slow. Drag the properties window back onto the original monitor and in a second EID is back up to normal speed.... July CTP XP Pro, 3.4 P4, 1G Ram, 256 MB Radeon X600, split for two monitors Thanks Lester, I'll do that. you could post it on the EID newsgroup for a faster reply http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx dg=microsoft.public.expression.interactivedesigner&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• Bartosz Hyperlinks in a WPF application not run in a browser

  I have a WPF app that I do not want to run in a browser. However, I would like the main page to have some links at the bottom that the user could click to open our website in a separate browser window. I added some hyperlinks, set their NavigationUri, but when I clicked on them, nothing happened. I then added TargetName = "_blank" thinking that would help, but it did not. Is there some easy way to make this work, or do I have to actually write code to launch their browser manually You have to handle hyperlink's RequestNavigate event. http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.documents.hyperlink.requestnavigate.aspx That got it, thanks. And if anyone else is rea ...Show All

• numbatit WPF apps slow for some reason

  Everything is slow for some reason. I tried Max, and that ran decently (aside some weirdness I'll explain below), but I try running some of the sample code and other stuff I compile on Visual Studio, and it's unbelievably slow. I tried the samples here  on XamlPad... I can click on a button at a rate of about 2-3 times a second, and my CPU usage will jolt up to 100%. Most other sample applications run just as slow. Max runs okay, except that it takes about 40% of my CPU time even when it's minimized. By the way, is there something I can do about text being blurry Here are some of my machine specs: Pentium 4c 2.4ghz HT 1gb DDR 400 dual channel RAM ATI Radeon 9600 128mb (full DX9 and PS2 support), recent drivers DirectX 9.0c September ...Show All

• ElliotHC Debugging VSTO2007 for Outlook addins...

  Hello all, I have an existing addin that runs/installs fine in Outlook2003 with VSTO2005. I have migrated it over to Outlook2007 with VSTO2007 and it runs in the debugger fine. However when I create the setup project and install the addin, it will not get loaded when Outlook is launched. Is there a way to debug or get more information about why the addin is not getting loaded I tried to set the VSTO_SUPPRESSDISPLAYALERTS=0 and that does not seem to show the more information box like in Outlook2003. Thanks in advance, ~Joe So I have narrowed down the problem significantly and have a good idea of what is happening, but I don't know if this is a bug or a new feature in Outlook2007... My install ...Show All

• ChristopherN VS2005 does not show MS Excel 9.0 in COM object list. What do I do?

  I wrote my program on my machine which is running VS 2005 and Office 2003. The program worked on my machine but the program is actually going to run on a machine with only Excel 2000 on it. So, when it runs on this other machine it does not open Excel and write data to it as it did on my machine. I assume this this due to having only the Excel 11.0 object library referenced in my project I tried to add the Excel 9.0 library but it does not appear in my list of COM objects so what do I do Will I need to change my connection string also from ... Dim sConnectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" _ & "Data Source=" & XLFile _ & ";" & "Extended ...Show All