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• duoshock Using custom UITypeEditor in language project property pages

  Hi, I have a language project, for which I'd like to assign custom editors for some of the properties on the property pages of the project. If I use the 'predefined' editors - like FileNameEditor - it works fine, but not for my own editors (just displays a simple text-editor, as if no customer editor was specified). The same happen if I try to use a custom TypeConverter as well. These custom editors/converters are defined in the same assembly in where the VS package/project/everything are. If I test them outside VS (with a simple winform PropertyGrid, referencing the package assembly), they're working as expected. I've tried putting them into the IronPython sample project, and specifying them as editors/converters for some of the properti ...Show All

• moreOncoding MSM producing error upon installation via WIX

  I'm throwing a question out to the community in case someone knows the solution before I attempt a radically different approach to our build process. I use the Crystal Reports Engine for VS 2005 in a windows forms application. Prior to adding the Crystal Reports component, we were deploying the application by simple x-copy. Now that we've added it, we are conceding the need to build an MSI. I do not want to use the Setup project approach in Visual Studio as we have a full continuous integration build server running and wanted NAnt to build the MSI from scratch. We felt our best approach was to use WIX. I've included key portions of the .wxs file below. Now when I execute the compiled MSI, the installation crashes with the error code 2228. ...Show All

• Lakshmi N Loading a crystal report file gives this errormessage: Load report failed.

  Hi all I've read through quite a lot of posts and threads regarding this issue but haven't found anything that matches mine to the point. I have problems when loading a specific .rpt file. It opens and runs in Cystal Reports and I have opened many other .rpt files without any problems. Therefore I assume that there is no path issues or access problems. So, the line which makes my head ache: CrystalReportDocument.Load(InputFile); // Loads the Crystal Report It gives me the following errors when I list out the exceptions (sorry for the spam, not too sure what is of importance and what is not): Thank you for the reply Dharmesh! I'm not sure it will help as I'm not running it on a webserver. I am running it in ...Show All

• Asif Hameed ListBox ItemTemplate Wrapping and others

  Hi all, I have the following troubles with my first xaml application and I would welcome any advices on them.... I have a xml with items like: <items> <SectionID>29</SectionID> <Title>Mezinarodni grant AVMEDIA-SMARTBOARD</Title> <Preamble> very long line of text next line of text </Preamble> <Time>2005-01-16 16:23:52</Time> </items> and I'm populating the ListBox using: <ListBox Name="ObjectList" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource xmlItems}, XPath=/VeskoleOffline/items}"> <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <StackPanel> <TextBlock> <TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=Title}" FontWeight="Bold"& ...Show All

• Amos Soma TabItem IsSelected background property

  Hello, I am using the June CTP and here is my problem: I have a TabControl with some tabItems that I am trying to style. I have my style working and it looks great. The only problem is when a tab is selected it changes its background and forground. I am using the trigger property to catch when the tabItem is selected and am able to change the foreground color (im my case it changes to red). However, the background does not change (even with a simple color of black instead of my gradient). Am I setting the wrong property (background) or is this not implemented in the tab control yet <Style x:Key="tabItemStyle" TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}"> <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="TabItem.IsSele ...Show All

• Tadwick How to specify listboxitem style to listbox that is bound to XmlDataProvider

  I have a listbox that is bound to an XmlDataProvider. I have created a style for changing the background color of the listboxitem when it is selected. How can I apply this style All the examples I have seen have static listboxitem tags defined that have the style on them. <Style x:Key="ListBoxItemBackground" TargetType="{x:Type ListBoxItem}"> <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="ListBoxItem.IsMouseOver" Value="true"> <Setter Property = "Background" Value="Delete"/> </Trigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> <ListBox Button.Click ="ListBox_Button_Click" Background="White" BorderT ...Show All

• Pavel Burianek VS2005 not recognized during Extensions for Framework 3.0 install

  I am attempting to install "Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF) November 2006 CTP" (vsextwfx.msi) but keep getting an error: "Setup has detected that a prerequisite is missing..." and lists several products including VS 2005 Standard, Professional, Team System as options for the prereq. I have VS2005 Team Edition w/sp1, framework 3.0 RTM, and have the workflow foundation (WWF) installed, but it seems my install of VS is not being recognized. Sorry... I realied that after posting. I just "edited" the last post... please see that one and let me know. Thanks! Also to make sure that some registry information is not missing take the following steps: ...Show All

• Prodigal Son Data binding to a control's own properties - best practicies?

  Hello, I'm just getting started with WPF and Xaml, and I'm trying to figure out the proper way of dealing with what I thought would be a common situation. If I have a control, for example something simple that is supposed to just show the name of a colour on a background of that colour: <UserControl x:Class="WPFTest.Test" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Color}"> <TextBlock.Background> <SolidColorBrush Color="{Binding Path=Color}"/> </TextBlock.Background> </TextBlock> </UserControl> Firstly, is ...Show All

• mahima Remove search window tooltips ?

  Hi, How to remove search window tooltips which apear on each search result item thanks Vilius Unfortunately there is no way to disable these tooltips. However, if you go to Tools Options General you can check the "Show topic abstracts" box the search results won't show tooltips when you hover over the abstracts (they'll show a URL tooltip if you hover over the title) Nishan Jebanasam ...Show All

• Ananda Ganesh Infopath and WPF

  We have a requirement where we use Infopath forms for data capture from the users. Is it possible to host this infopath form inside a WPF application. Assuming there is an ActiveX control for InfoPath forms, you can host it by adding a reference to the DLL which will create a WinForms wrapper for the ActiveX control and then you can host that using WindowsFormsHost inside of your WPF app. HTH, Drew ...Show All

• Alex Yakushev What will the recommeded Build Process and Code Transition method in our case?

  We have very fast pace development environment; we release things to QA for testing very frequently everyday. Right now, all our 20+ developers send their code changes via email to a specific person who is specifically entitled to build the projects for QA and deploy them. I am sure we can automate our deployments to QA servers using Cruise Control and MSBuild. Our Big hurdle is, that we don't want to deploy everything from development source safe branch to QA, but just what has changed, because we have large web sites, building and testing whole web site every time a little change happens will be time consuming and regression test will be needed on whole web site and in the opposite case, only few pages that have changed will have ...Show All

• -M- Mouse-less ListBox - keystroke is being eaten

  I have a very simple scene - A single ListBox control with 5 items added. I want the first item selected upon initialization, and to allow the user to use arrow controls to scroll through the list. After initialization, I am doing the following: MenuListBox.SelectedIndex = 0; MenuListBox.ScrollIntoView(MenuListBox.SelectedItem); MenuListBox.Focus() So this successfully sets the the first item as selected, however, it takes two user actions to select the next ListBoxItem (i.e., you have to hit the down arrow twice. Which is really counter-intuitive. I am not sure who is consuming the first down arrow event, but my guess is that it is moving the focus to the first ListBoxItem (which I guess I actually want to have focus initially). ...Show All

• Andy McDonald How to set envrionment variables in MSBuild file?

  Experts,    In a msbuild file, How do I set a environment variable Thanks, I wrote a task to do this.  It is pretty simple: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Build.Framework; using Microsoft.Build.Utilities; namespace MSBuildTasks {     public class SetEnvVar : Task     {         private string _variable;         private string _value;         [Required]         public string Variable         {          &nb ...Show All

• Wolfram Menzel How to apply different ValidationTemplates based on severity?

  I am implementing a rather complex Validation model, which allows for both warnings and errors related to validation. How can I control the Validation Template that is applied when Validate returns false Thanks Awesome Josh SetErrorTemplate looks like what I need. Just gotta figure out how to get it into my glue layer (which lives outside code behind). Thanks so much. NIK This code should get you started... <TextBox Name="tb"> <TextBox.Text> <Binding Path="Bar" Source="{StaticResource foo}" UpdateSourceTrigger="PropertyChanged" NotifyOnValidationError="True" > <Binding.ValidationRules> <Exceptio ...Show All

• Ianmac Synchronization Services with oracle

  I have changed the walkthrough example from the documentation to synchronize an oracle database table (ms oracle driver). With varchar columns it seems to work but with number columns I get an error "SyncSchema does not have sufficient information for 'FIELDX'. The following information is missing: 'Precision/Scale". Ture, once you have client store datatypes different than server store datatypes generating schema automatically using the Select statement does not work with all types. To solve this problem, the ServerSyncProvider exposes the SyncSchema property. By default this property is not set. This tells the provider to generate the schema using the Select statement you supplied in ...Show All