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• xRuntime Can I migrate all my existing Excel/Word add-in VBA toolbars to Office2007?

  Hi all We have couple of add-ins/toolbars developed in VBA and those are working very fine. 1)Can we migrate them to 2007 as it is 2)Can we take the benifit of VSTO SE just to customize the UI part only For example use the same VBA code and only customize the toolbar to ribbon and add custom images to robbon etc 3) Please refer me some good books/articles on VBA to VSTO migration, UI customization etc. Thanks skpradhan Hi Pradhan Any code that creates and manipulates toolbars should continue to function without errors in Office 2007. But all the toolbars it works on will be displayed under a single Ribbon tab (Add-ins), so if you have any large toolbars or use lots of toolbars, things can get crowded rather qui ...Show All

• Kyong Kwak Outlook creating modal windows?

  Hey, i know i'm not a regular here, but i could really use a hand if anyone has a minute. I'm trying to write a VB pluggin for Outlook 2003. Its been working great, but i just discovered a really intersting problem. When i try to email someone a webpage from within IE 7, a new outlook message window pops up on my screen. My pluggin kicks in when the message is sent, and pops up as it is supposed to. however, it would seem that the new message window is modal, or something along those lines, as my plugin will not respond to any mouse or keyboard events. It doesn't crash, as it still responds to paint events and the like, but it seems as though the message window is blocking all mouse and keyboard events. Does anyone have any idea why this m ...Show All

• HendrikG Fax report viewer output...

  neew to automatically fax report from report viewer ... help ...Show All

• sachin kumar rana Newbie question about WPF

  This may sound like a stupid question... but as I don't know very much about WPF I'll have to ask.. Which is better to be used for communication between the logical and presentation layer (WPF) - ObjectDataProvider or an ObeservableCollection... Well I meant easier to use.... But is there also a difference in speed during runtime I don't know if I'm the one to answer that but here is a great piece on ObjectDataProvider http://www.beacosta.com/2006/03/why-should-i-use-objectdataprovider.html It may help a little. Later Mike Greenway better in what respect Faster, easier to use ...Show All

• Webbert COM exception when trying to add picture as inline shape in Word 2007 RTM

  Environment: Windows 2003 running under VPC, Office 2007 RTM, VS2005 I have a schema attached to the document in question and here is the code snippet which errors out with a COM exception. Dim nd As MSWord.XMLNode = wordDoc.XMLNodes.Add("dummyNode", <<namespace>>, CObj (rng)) Dim img As MSWord.InlineShape = nd.Range.InlineShapes.AddPicture("c:\blah.jpg", SaveWithDocument:= True ) 'COM Exception occurs here when trying to add a picture NOTE: The 'rng' object points to a bookmark inside a text box placed under the first page header section The exact exception trace is shown below: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException was caught ErrorCode=-2147467259 Message="Error ...Show All

• Sarguna NotImplementedException on OnComponentChanging/Changed

  Hi, I have found a problem/limitation with CustomWizardPages which I would like to patch, but I don't know where to start... Here's the context : I have a CustomWizardPages which contains a DataGridView. It is bound using the same method as used in the Web Service Software Factory guidance package. One of the columns in this DataGridView is a strongly-typed IList implementation (List<SomeObject>). The DesignerColumn offers the right TypeEditor for the collection; a CollectionEditor. The problem occurs when I press "Add", "Remove", "OK" or "Cancel" in the editor form. Here's the exception that arises : System.NotImplementedException : "The method or operation is not implemented." at Microsoft.Practices.WizardFramework.ValueEditor.Ser ...Show All

• SuperFox Error opening file while accessing a table in crystal report.

  Hi all, I am trying to access a table which was created in runtime in a crystal report using vb 6.0. but it is saying Error Opening File and there are no fields in the table. would be greateful can anyone suggest me. ...Show All

• JHarjung RequestContextMessageProperty class throws NullReferenceException

  The "IDisposable.Dispose()" method of the internal class RequestContextMessageProperty throws a NullReferenceException, because it does not check if the context field is null before it attempts to close it, i.e. context.Close() I came accross this bug when I used the wsProfileDualHttp Binding and executed the following code: MessageBuffer buffer = msg.CreateBufferedCopy(int.MaxValue); msg = buffer.CreateMessage(); // do stuff msg = buffer.CreateMessage(); buffer.Close(); The last line, i.e. buffer.Close(), throws the exception because it contains a RequestContextMessageProperty property that has a context field value which is null. Anybody else came accross this problem ...Show All

• RobFellows My WPF application doesn't run on a machine which has .Net3.0 but doesnt have VisualStudio2005 and its extensions for WPF/WCF

  Hello, Please let me know what are the minimum requirements for running a WPF application(using XAML) on a machine that doesnt have Visual studio 2005 and orcas Our application end users just have .Net3.0 installed on their machines.When this app.exe is run on a machine with just the .net3.0 framework, we get a msg like : "app.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.WE are sorry for the inconvenience.If you were in the middle of something,the information you were working on might be lost." This otherwise works fine.Can you please suggest me what I am missing here Do I need to create a deployment package everytime so that all relevant dlls(w.r.t WPF) are also intalled our end user's machine.Am I missing something ...Show All

• yjacket2006 Platform SDK (R2) & MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005

  Platform SDK (R2) & MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 These are two different things right .. I use the SDK all the time but only because it has all the fun API stuff in it. Doesn't all the stuff in the SDK come in the MSDN Library - np MSDN library is just the documentation of the SDK - code examples, class explanations, references etc... its a big giant book :-) SDK is the actual "API's". Sometimes it includes the docs, othertimes it doesnt - but do not quote me. MSDN library AFAIK is just the documentation itself, nothing more.     Hmm.. because I can open the MSDN Library, and type in any API (i.e. messagebox), and it will give me the messagebox function... ...Show All

• John Kinghorn Visual Studio customization

  Hi, My ultimate goal is to get a limited and simplified IDE in which only a handful of options are available and, hopefully, at a low technical cost. The idea is to take advantage of VS to avoid having to develop an IDE-like application and the language to do something similar. I am new to Visual Studio Extensibility and, considering the amount of technical posibilities (VSPackages, diferent hives, Automation, Templates, ...), I would appreciate some advice or directions on how to better aproach the customization of Visual Studio 2005 aimed at the following: 1. I am interested in being able to launch VS with only: One of the integrated languages (for instance, VB), with capabilities of editing, compiling and debugging class ...Show All

• dagfari Problem with installing SP1 for Visual Studio .net 2003

  Hi, When I launch VS7.1sp1-KB918007-X86.exe on my computer, the windows installer launches with the message "Please wait....", nothing else happens, after about 5 min the following message appears:"This patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer patch package." I have verified that the package exists and that its accesable. I am certain that it is a valid Windows Installer patch package. Im using XP(SP2), .Net 1.1, Anyone have any idea what might cause this problem         It is possible that the download got corrupted but there can also be other fa ...Show All

• DusanMihajlovic Setting my own Environment variables

  Hi, I created an environment variable like this: set TARGETPATH=D:\SOMEPATH in DOS shell i referenced it in the proj file as $(TARGETPATH). In the XML it is happy. If i open the IDE it doesn't recognise. If is use a system environment variable the IDE is happy. Where do i need to setup custom environment variables so that they can be seen by the IDE the way system ones are. When you say "Whe I open the IDE" do you mean that you start a new instance of Visual Studio or are you loading a new solution into an existing instance The reason that I ask is that Environment variables are a bit flaky. You have to have the environment variable set prior to firing up the IDE so that the VS pro ...Show All

• Andrea Montanari Crystal reports vs sql reporting services

  Hi, with vs 2005 you can do a report with both, crystal reports and sql reporting services. Which is the best Thanks Hi If you are new to reporting then it is recomanded to use SQL Reporting because it is easy and upcourse free. while if you are familier with CR then it is also not a bad option to use. SQL reporting is faster then CR but CR is an Industry standered and SQL R will need some time to be. Crystal reports version that comes with vs2005 is not free Hi It is free but it has some limitations ...Show All

• mabster Creating .NET 3.0 RC1 projects

  Now that .NET 3.0 RC1 is released, what do I use to create WCF projects against that release I do see the 3.0 components installed in C:\Windows\Assembly, but Visual C# Express Edition 2005 filters out all the v3.0 components in the Add Reference... window. Do I use the June CTP release of "Orcas": http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=1A994549-94CB-4F61-903D-A8C8E453EEF4&displaylang=en PS: I had installed the Visual C# Express Edition 2005 after installing RC1 on a clean machine. orcas tools for RC1 may be available to customers this week -Thank you Madhu Orcas tool is available now: Link: Orcas RC1 download One of the blog posts stated that EID should ...Show All