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• Kosmo007 Move to Dec CTP SDK

  Hi All, Currently I'm working with DSL Tool v.1 from September 2006 SDK. I would like to try the Dec CTP. Is there any problem if I just install the new SDK with my DSL project Should I re-install September SDK first I'm in the middle of a project, I'm affraid if something goes wrong then I cannot continue. Can anyone give me suggestions about this TIA. Regards, Hi All, As I promised to let you all know about the result, it also "just work" in my other machine. I used a testing environment, with Sep and Dec SDK installed. It works OK untill now. But I also got an error. It is about VsIdeTestHost. When I first run my old project, there was pop up window says something like: "The Add-in VsIdeTestHost failed to load o ...Show All

• tmigliorino Word 2003 addin, automatic repare damage document

  Hi, I have a Word addin, with Word 2003 and .NET 2003. the addin is activated when a user open a document, if document is fine I have no problems but when de document is damage Word throw a warning message, now I want to caught the "document damage warning" and reopen it automatically repareing, it is possible thanks, Mauricio. Hi Mauricio No, unfortunately neither the Word nor Office object models offer an interface with which you can intercept this state and do something with it. ...Show All

• n0n WPF - Drawing

  Hi, I need to draw a circle inside a circle and from the edge of inner circle lines should pass and touch the outer circle. 5 lines needs to be drawn. Can anyone provide the XAML code for the same. Thanks ...Show All

• vkan disable list control toolbar

  I've noticed in the VS Team System generated spreadsheets (generated from a work item query) that although they use the list control to store the list of work items, they disable most of the options on the list toolbar and if you right click in the list object the list sub-menu is disabled. Is this an easy task to do in VSTO or is it complicated In Excel, all the menu commands are modelled as controls in commandbars. You can use the OM documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbaof10/html/ofhowToolbars.asp to enable/disable or change the commandbars/menus. One of the ways to get to existing commandbars is to use Application.Commanbars and enumurate their captions and ...Show All

• Shaolyen Document explorer favorites

  Hi guys =) Anyone knows where document explorer stores it's favorites links I bookmarked them in the document explorer which comes with .Net SDK 2.0 (not in VS2005) & need to backup. Thank you. Hi, DExplore can be launched in such a way that it saves it's Favorites file to a folder specified by the launching program (VS, for example, launches DExplore to save it's favorites file in Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\VS Help Data\Favorites.xml) If you do a search under the Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data directory for "favorites.xml" you should be able to find the favorites file you're looking for Nishan Jeban ...Show All

• pangitko79 SQL 2005 RS Related formatting problem.

  This is quite bizarre.   The textbox in a reprot layout has a Format property which wakes up the expression builder. If you want to format currency you will use an expression like this: -=FormatCurrency(Fields!SALARY.Value,2) to show decimal points after the value in that field. if the value is 24000, the formatted field should look $24000.00 Hey. It looks like this: $2424000.00 I like this salary, but not the formatting. Could this be a bug Infact FormatCurrency() takes other arguments also for which Microsoft does not provide any help apart from some code. In fact the "Example" in the Microsoft Documentation is conveniently empty.  Shame on you. ...Show All

• Mannequin666 beginner needs advice

  i am planning a .Net smart client app. i need to decide between .net2.0 and .net3.0. one of the factors here is web services. can anyone tell me or point me to a resource where i can find the key improvements between WCF and .NET2.0 web services so that i can better reach a decision. (security, performance, etc.) thanks thanks this is exactly what i was looking for Here you go: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/wsmsplatform.asp In general, WCF is the super-set of previous technologies, so it is recommened you use WCF. ...Show All

• format1337 How to create an attribute that will add build warning to users of a method/property

  I want to create a custom attribute that would make the compiler show warning messages when someone tries to use a method or property that is tagged with my custom attribute. I want it to look like something like obsolete attribute but obsolete is not extensible. Thanks in advance. Hi Neil, Thanks for your reply. This would be very helpful. Winwin, One approach is to write a custom build task that knows how to take in a list of assemblies, then does reflection on them to see if the attribute is present. It can then raise warning messages to the build process. For information on writing custom build tasks visit http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2 ...Show All

• Elad Saar How to desing data manipulation services?

  My question is not a new one. This problem appeared long ago about web services. Assume, that I have a WCF service to manipulate some data. I have the data layer as well, and a business logic layer with huge number of business objects in separated assembly. The business objects know some logic, so they have lot of methods impelmented about validation, manipulation and so on. I want to share these business objects with the clients allowing them to validate user input. I use the WCF service as a facade layer therefore the interface methods has the shared business objects as parameters or return values. I can use the business objects both at server and client side by adding a reference. When I want the client proxy to be generated the svcuti ...Show All

• pyeung FlowDocumentPageViewer find text

  Hello I'm trying to found a text in a FlowDocumentPageViewer Control when a button fire event. I've a textbox, a button and a FlowDocumentPageViewer, and the idea is to complete a text, press the button and search that word in the FlowDocument. Any idea of how to do that Thanks a lot !!! you could traverse the visual tree and populate the search textbox and then get the FindNextButton. The search is then performed through code as follows. AutomationPeer ap = UIElementAutomationPeer.CreatePeerForElement(findNext); IInvokeProvider iip = (IInvokeProvider)ap.GetPattern(PatternInterface.Invoke); iip.Invoke(); HTH ...Show All

• lagu2653 .Net Excel Add-In project: How to add Custom function on excel sheet cells.

  Hi, Anybody know the best atricle related to excel automation in which my subject has been covered. Because i have worked in excel VBA and made same custom functions which get values from database based on given parameters and then put values to excel cells. And you know if i provide a parameter from excel cell (that is reference from excel cell), when i update a value in that cell my custom formula automatically updated according to the value in the reference cell. Any better suggestion or link for this regard will be highly appriciated. Best Regards, Haseeb Ahmad. Haseeb, This may not be the correct forum for your question as it sounds like more of an excel macro issue then VSTO. However, I'm having a bit of troubl ...Show All

• DaveDB Not able to attach my code to .NET Process

  Hi, I have a simple problem that I am trying to solve for the past 2 days. :(( I have an application in system that is basically a MFC application and for a module it does CLR hosting and then on it runs .NET code. I am trying to attach my .NET code to it but at the instant when I attach the app.exe to my code, it gives an error message with just the words "UNABLE TO ATTACH TO THE PROCESS". Whereas am able to do the same thing in another system.( a WIN 2000 machine but mine is XP :() Not sure if this is due to some OS problem or some security tweak that is missing in my system or something to do with CLR hosting. Thanks, Mani Hi, I identified the problem. I had installed both ...Show All

• jwellsntr parallel use of TFS MSSCCI Provider AND Source Safe in VS 2003

  We would like to use TFS in VS 2003. Therefore we installed the TFS MSSCCI Provider and it works fine. But now we are not longer able to connect to Visual Source Safe which we are still using for existing projects. Is there a possibility to switch between TFS and VSS like in VS 2005 Best regards Markus Have a look at the tool SccSwitch. ...Show All

• karfast Slow performance while accessing MailItem fields using VSTO

  Hi, I'm developing a C# based Outlook add-in using VSTO 2005. This add-in collects information from multiple Mail items, so I've a simple code like this: Outlook. MAPIFolder inbox = this .Application.ActiveExplorer().Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook. OlDefaultFolders .olFolderInbox); Outlook. Items items = inbox.Items; foreach (Outlook. MailItem mailItem in items) { resultList.Add(new FoundMessageItem(mailItem)); //Takes some fields from the mailItem like subject, sender, recipient } Running this loop on even quite small mailbox (about 100 items) takes a long time (about 10-12 seconds) which is unexptable in my case. What can be done to improve the performance Thanks in advance, Maxim ...Show All

• HariAdu How to find TreeView from TreeViewItem

  Hi How do I find the hosting TreeView when I only have a TreeViewItem Best regards, Thomas Andersen Lee's right. Looping through TreeViewItems until TreeViewItem.Parent is null and then using the method works. Thanks to you both :-) ItemsControl exposes a static method ItemsControlFromItemContainer Since TreeView is an ItemsControl, that method is available on TreeView as well. if the item is nested, we get the parentitem and not the control. I think we have to loop using this method or using logicaltreehelper. ...Show All