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• Annihil8 Suggested Refactoring: Promote Anonymous Type

  Hi I've been playing with some of the ideas around anonymous types and one of the obvious limitations is that they cannot be used outside the local method scope. The suggestion is that if you want to do this the developer should create a proper type to be returned. The thing is the compiler/VS already knows what this type should contain, at least as a starting point. I propose you add something along the lines of promote anonymous type to concrete type refactoring. Implementing this feature will essentially save on work that would otherwise be fairly repetitive and similar. What do you think Kind Regards Duncan I think that is a good idea. In the mean time, if you are using VB then you ...Show All

• Knvb1123 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Languages

  As I began installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, everything was written in French. I pressed through the installation successfully, but when I run the program everything is written in French as well. How can I switch it to english, or where can I find an english language pack for it this is interesting. Can you confirm that your OS is English Well really this shouldnt have mattered I would thought. Something is fishy but not sure exactly where. On a last resort, I would start to repair VS.NET and see how that goes. But you want to try and avoid it if you can until absolutely neccessary as a last resort. in VS2005, go to tools > options > Environment > International Settings and ...Show All

• flash.tato Help with Bouncing Ball Code

  I am enrolled in an intro to java class and our lecturer veered off to show us what could be done with the graphics. We are using JCreator for the class but his graphics example was done using visual j#. Since it was not really part of the class he did not really hand out the code but showed us an example of a ball bouncing within the confines of its frame. I tried to copy as much as I could so I could replicate it at home but now I am stuck. Could someone please show me how it would be done. Here is the code I managed to get: [code] package BouncingBall; import System.Collections.Generic.*; import System.Data.*; import System.Drawing.*; import System.ComponentModel.*; import System.Windows.Forms.*; /** * Summary description for Form1. */ ...Show All

• MrJavaGuy Deleiting Linq

  Hello, I installed an early build of linq to my visual studio 2005 RC. Now I want to deinstall that version of linq. When I call the deinstall setup first a messsage with the content "Visual Basic 2005 not found" is displayed. After a while the second message with a general network failure appear. I tried to download the new version and install the new version, but the same errors are displayed. Is there a tool to deinstall linq completley from my pc or do you have some other tips thank you This is happening because VB LINQ Preview updated some files in .NET Framework 2.0 PDC 2005 Release version. To successfully uninstall, the installer needs to find the PDC 2005 Release of .NET Framework in ...Show All

• Chris Langsenkamp System.TypeInitializationException was unhandled

  I have recently put Crystal Reports XI Release 2 onto my PC, after having installed CR XI SP 2. I had an older Visual Studio .NET 2003 WinForms app, written in C#, that I decided to convert to VS .NET 2005. I went through that process and VS.NET 2005 noticed the newer Crystal Reports and so it updated everything. I changed absolutely nothing in the code , just did the update. Then when I go to run it I get an error which is the following: I'm experiencing a similiar problem with CR10 and VS2005.  No upgrade, this is a fresh VS2005 project but I'm getting the same error in the InitializeComponent() method on the following line of code:   Me .crystalReportViewer = New CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.CrystalReportVie ...Show All

• kconcept CommandBarButton Selected?

  How do I determine wheteher a button in the standard toolbar is selected. I need to now whether the "Email" button is selected in the standard toolbar. Hi Eigel OK... and now could you please describe what you mean by "selected" Do you mean you need to capture when the user clicks the button Or do you mean something else To capture when the user clicks the button, you need to add a Click event handler. Declare a field at the class level to "hold" the button object. In the appropriate method (such as one that's executed when the Add-in loads) pick up the button (probably using CommandBars.FindControl) and assign it to the field. In the next line, type the fieldname ...Show All

• CodeCommando Adding rows to a report table horizontally

  Using Microsoft reports, I am building a report with a table that will grow vertically depending on the number of rows it has. However , if the table has 4 or more rows, I want the table to expand horizontally as opposed to continuing to expand vertically like a normal table would do. For example, if my table has 5 rows, I would like to visually split the table into two components, with 3 rows on the left side and 2 rows on the right side, like this: ID Name 1 Name1 2 Name2 3 Name3 ID Name 4 Name4 5 Name5 Does anyone know if this can be done with one table If not, any ideas how to do this nicely with multple tables Thanks in adv ...Show All

• MalikF data set name is missing in the data region 'DataSetName'

  hey guys.  I got this error when working with reportviewer in local mode.  Using a connection string and Dataset which is new I created another viewer with a .rdlc.  Everything was working fine.  I check in to source safe, close up, and re-load visual studio and now I get this weird message coming up saying:                      \                       \\\\ \\\\     An error occurred during local report processing. The definition of the report ' ...Show All

• pdaitguy WaitForSingleObject Returns WAIT_FAILED

  In my Add-in, I am trying to wait for some event created by another win32 application, but it always fails. Here's part of the code: HANDLE hEvent = OpenEvent (EVENT_MODIFY_STATE, FALSE, "Global\\EventInApp"); //successfully, hEvent != NULL DWORD errorCode = GetLastError (); //errorCode = 0 DWORD waitResult = WaitForSingleObject (hEvent, INFINITE); //waitResult = WAIT_FAILED errorCode = GetLastError (); // errorCode = ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED //Part of application code: HANDLE hEvent = CreateEvent (NULL, FALSE, TRUE, L"Global\\EventInApp"); It's strange. An event created by other win32 application can't be be waited by a Add-in Or could any one help me find out the reason Thanks. ...Show All

• Jordan Y How to get Outlook mail body text using active window search in VB2005 express

  Hi, I am struggling to find out how to do this: How to get open/active Outlook mail body text into string using active window search(using the win32 api) in VB2005 express. Has anyone seen or coded this kind of thing before Cheers Kim Why not use the Outlook object model Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem.Body Please note that this is a forum for Visual Studio Tools for Office, not VB2005 Express. Also note the resources on the main forum listing where to go for Outlook programming questions. ...Show All

• archimed01 Life without source safe?

  I have used source safe in the past and it was very helpful. I don't have a copy of it in the place i work right now. It's going to be a while before we get that in. I just want to know that if 2 developers work on the same project (saved at a shared location) and ALWAYS work in different forms. Will this cause any problems Thanks for your time!! Thanks for your reply Richard. I got MSDN in the "Visual Studio 2005 professional " product that my company bought. Does it count as an active subscription If not, is there any particular freeware that you would recommend. I am asking this just in case you (or someone you know) have tested any of those personally and have a recommendation. I know how good sou ...Show All

• ColinTo Orcas Mar CTP Samples?

  Are any/all of the EDM/LINQ samples included in the Mar CTP I've been successful forward-porting the October EDM samples, but I don't see any samples in the CTP itself. Am I missing something obvious Thanks, Bob Paul, Please see my post on this issue. http://blogs.msdn.com/erickt/archive/2007/03/06/problems-with-the-linq-to-entities-101-samples-in-the-march-ctp.aspx Thanks! Erick I found the linq samples. The VB ones I looked at are definitely updated. The path in the TOC is: DevTools/Visual Studio/.NET Framework Programming /Language Integrated Query/LINQ Samples the url is ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v90.en/MS.MSDN.v90/MS.VisualStudio.v90.en/dv ...Show All

• Ben Vanik How can i delete everything from a destination directory?

  Hi folks, i've got a pretty simple MSBuild proj file working. It was a Web Deployment project which i've tweaked slightly to zip up the web site code and then copy the web site code to our development web server. all works fine. What i'm trying to figure out is how can i delete EVERYTHING from the development web site folder before i do a copy over eg. \\DevWebSiteComputer\WebSiteShare That share folder has some files in it and some folders with files in it (eg. \images, \bin, etc). How can all that be deleted, please Can you use the RemoveDir task Check out the Delete task in MSBuild ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7wd15byf.aspx ).  You will probably have to create an ItemGroup that ...Show All

• Tony512 Release Images from process

  I have an ASP.NET application to generate pages for a magazine. To generate this pages I use WPF, I call a new Thread with a STA Appartment. Thread call = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Generate)); call.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA); call.Start(); In the magazine I'm generating I use some images that I can download from the web, after downloaded these images are stored in a server folder to be used later by WPF to generate the pages. The problem is that after generating the pages I want to delete the images, after the process is complete and the application process keeps locking the images. I've tried to terminate the process using the images, but it seems that it is the webserver using the images and the only way I f ...Show All

• Alexander Petukhov xmlns:src="clr-namespace:DataBindingLab"

  Hi! I'm using:VB.net in Visual Studio 2005 ver 8.0.507... with Orcas Technology Preview - WinFX Dev Tools 1.0 I'm trying to get the DataBindingLab from the Hands-On-Lab to work -- with a caveat -- it does actually compile and execute, but there is what must be a small issue. The "Design" page of {Design, Xaml, Source} from DataBindingLabApp.xaml doesn't display, I get the "Whoops! Visual Studio has encountered an error reading the designer..." The code that fails is the xmlns:src="clr-namespace:DataBindingLab" ==> assembly could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference DataBindingLab is the project name and this is the default code. It's probably helpful to note that every place that xmlns: ...Show All