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• unthreaded How to get a child's rect

  After an ArrangeOverride, how do I get the rect given to the child by the parent in some other ocasion Something like: child.GetRect(); Thanks. :) ...Show All

• ceilidhboy I am not able to install Orcas Technology Preview for .Net 3.0 on top of .NetFx 3.0 RC1

  I am not able to install "Orcas" Technology Preview for .Net 3.0 on top of .Net 3.0 RC1 . I had installed .Net 3.0 RC1 and Win SDK 3.0 RC1 but was working with June CTP using msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1 mentioned by Rob Relyea on his blog.. http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!167AD7A5AB58D5FE!616.entry/ I have tried uninstalling everything and installing everything back again but the install programs would not run and complains of missing .Net3.0. How can I solve this nightmare Any leads.. Looking at comments since yours on that post...Sounds like somebody else was having a similar problem. They used the workaround (msiexec ...) to i ...Show All

• iamdon Problem installing update

  Hi, I am trying to install an update for VS 2003, and whenever I open it, it will open up and say "Preparing to install" and just hang there. I let it sit there for half an hour and it didnt do anything. When I hit cancel, it will just hang and say "Canceling" and I have to shut it down w/ taskmanager. I think that it may be the msiexec that is the problem, because I have another program I am trying to install and it is having the same problem. I've looked high and low all over the web for a solution, any ideas Thanks, David argh why did it have to be that simple to fix ! lol Thanks a lot I was about ready to pull my hair out! --David have you tried to disable your anti virus software Also which update ...Show All

• Angry Coder The Roadmap

  The last LINQ CTP has been issued a long time ago - in May :) Is there some information about the roadmap, next CTP and release dates, etc LINQ is a really intersted feature but developers got a bit tiered from betas (LINQ, Atlas, etc)... yes. it wont ;p and theres been recently may ctp bugfix oct relase The components in the May CTP should start showing up in Visual Studio/.NET Framework "Orcas" betas. It takes some time to get to RTM. Meanwhile, thanks for your patience. Dinesh rad9k is correct. ".NET 3.0" is what was known as "WinFX". "Orcas" (including LINQ) is a later release. Hi, May CTP was the last CTP of LINQ. LIN ...Show All

• Rekire What does this error mean: "A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in System.Configuration.dll"

  While I was using System.Configuration classes, I got this message on the VS 2005 Output pane: A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in System.Configuration.dll What is the meaning of this message My code was running well without any exception thrown. Please help! Hi, Take a look at the following link: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=142215&SiteID=1 -Vikram ...Show All

• Stupidav WPF ListView Optimisations

  Hey guys, I recently came accross a problem with the WPF ListView control. You can view the details here: http://www.paulstovell.net/Posts/Post.aspx postId=23682cee-3908-4f17-8690-3185e39a733b Essentially, when a bound object raises a PropertyChanged event, this normally causes the list to update. In my case, I was raising 400 PropertyChanged events at the same time. While this is not a problem under Windows Forms using the DataGridView, it slowed down my WPF application for a good minute. Is there a workaround for this I belive the problem comes down to the ListView simply not being optimised to handle this many update requests - if this is the case, will it be optimised in the future Thanks for any information, Paul ...Show All

• voxanBoxer Outlook Macro - send email separately to multiple contacts?

  Hi, I'm trying to write a macro for outlook 2003 to send email different contacts separately that means when some person receives the email, they will see their email address in the To section. Currently if I use BCC, the person will see the same email adress for From and To. Do you know how to write codes to connect to the"new message" windows in outlook and all the controls in that windows Thanks. Sue, I have this same problem at work but I am not advanced enough in Outlook coding to understand your answer above. Here is an example of my problem.  Daily we have to send mass emails to customers and we use the TO line.  But, we want the customer to only see his name.  I ...Show All

• Khookie Update

  hi every one, I'm trying to run the benefits registeration example on my machine but I keep getting this error when I try to open the *.doc from IE The customization does not have the required permissions to execute. I tried  to republish the BenefitForm incase it was using Absolute Paths. but that did not change anything. I tried uploading a new *.doc but also got the same error Using .Net Framework 2 configuration tool   , I gave Full trust to the path \BenifitsRegisteration\CS\BenefitsPortal\Forms\* under user,machine and enterprise but still got the error. From the file system, Double clicking on BenefitForm.Doc at \BenifitsRegisteration\CS\BenefitsPortal\Forms works fine but double clicking on Fit ...Show All

• DarrellMerryweather Visual Studio 2005 VSTemplate file LocationField value isn't working.

  I have a custom template generated from Visual Studio 2005 Pro that will not hide or disable the location field. Anyone know why not vstemplate file: < VSTemplate Version = " 2.0.0 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005 " Type = " Item " > < TemplateData > < DefaultName > Project Item.sl </ DefaultName > < Name > Project Item </ Name > < Description > Project Item </ Description > < ProjectType > VisualBasic </ ProjectType > < SortOrder > 10 </ SortOrder > < Icon > __TemplateIcon.ico </ Icon > < LocationField > Hidden </ LocationField > </ TemplateData > < Templat ...Show All

• Scott Lock XAML to C# converter?

  I've noticed mostly all XAML code snippets have a C# equivalent... after all, Microsoft posts many of their XAML examples in C#, VB, etc. Are there any tools out there that will convert XAML code to equivalent C# code Code Block public static Canvas ToCanvas(string uriString) // give path of xaml file here { object obj = null; Canvas objCanvas = null; try { FileStream fs = new FileStream(uriString, FileMode.Open); //Omkar 9July2007 Begin //System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent(canvasLocator); //can be added to do same fuctioning if (fs != null) { obj = XamlReader.Load(fs); //obj = System.Windows ...Show All

• Mike Barry Error 1305

  While installing VS Professional Edition 2005. I am encountering Error:1305, cannot read from the file " file path" make sure files exists and have a access to it.. can you please suggest what is the cause of this error. Thanks Ravi Thapliyal I had trouble a while back installing an older SQL Server version on a then new laptop. It would give some type of file access message, I can't remember if it was similar to yours or not. Regardless we discovered that because file sharing was not yet enable on the laptop we could not get the SQL server set up. - It may be useless info, it might help. Good luck! It is sounding as though you ...Show All

• danskcarvalho Locking Hints and LINQ

  Hi there, is it possible to do locking hints like NOLOCK or pessimistic locking hints in DLINQ and LINQ for Entitities as well as in eSQL Thanks Tim Hi Dinesh, Hi all, thank you for all your comments. I summarize that we all agree that locking hints/or translevels are important. DLINQ only supports translevels. However you need to side-step the TransactionScope model and assign a SqlTransaction to the DataContext manually. This will be supported in RTM of DLINQ with Orcas. Note: This shall work for most scenarios. Thank you Tim Dinesh, correct me if wrong. If transaction isolation is sufficient for your scenario, ...Show All

• LeoXue CDATE() Error in RDLC

  I'm having trouble with a line in my RDLC when trying to convert strings into dates I am taking the data from an xml file as a string and i need to convert the dates and decimal values into dates and decimals, so that when they are exported into excel they immediatly useable as dates and decimals. The only way i have found to do this is using CDATE(), which workd fine unless the date is blank. To get around this i am tring to use an IIF() and ISDATE() function which correctly identifies the dates and blank fields, but as soon as i put the CDATE() function in the formula it converts the dates, but brings up #error for all of the blanks. This is the line i am putting in the formula of the cell: =IIF(ISDATE(Fields!LeavingDate. ...Show All

• narend Media Element Formats and Player

  My question relates to the video format and media player in WPF. In previous frameworks, while mostly used, Direct3D was used to play videos in specific formats such as AVI or WMV. While this may work in the new framework, it is under my impression that the WPF Media element only works with WMV. Plus, in order to play the media element itself the user must have windows media player installed in order to play (version 10 or 11). When I have used the Media element it only sometimes works while loading wmv files without any other codecs necessary. Is this an issue with WPF in general, or am I have I missed something here - Thomas I recently found a wiki entry on the technology behind media features of WPF and Vista in general. A lot ...Show All

• Wing Lee I don't like xaml :-)

  Everything that I can do using xaml I can do from C# code, right And I am not sure whether this is true also other way round. I know people are saying that xaml is great because tools used by designers can generate xaml files and whole UI can be created by them independently of programming language (C# or VB) and so on... But I know C# and I don’t have designer and I am going to create whole application alone and I don’t want to learn some kind of new language (xaml) only to use it because it is cool. Also when I am writing xaml I feel like doing web page and not implementing standalone application. And I have some feeling (maybe wrong) that doing things in code runs faster then when using xaml. A ...Show All