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• Flip597 Can an application either provide a service or consume the service

  I am trying to write a highly available Windows Service application, hosting a WCF service. There may be multiple instances running on multiple computers. However, only one of them is the master providing the WCF service and the rest of them are in the standby mode. I am thinking of adding a method to the WCF service so that the master and standby instances can communicate. This means that a standby instance needs to create a proxy of the WCF service. Since the code base is the same, it implies that it needs either to provide the service or to consume the service. It does not seem possible if there are data contracts and the call involves them. While I did get it to work when the data contracts are not involved, the workaround involves man ...Show All

• Phonics3k Control right-hand edges

  I've noticed that a number of my controls, Buttons, Progress Bars, etc. all have their right-edge about one or two pixels too far to the left. This applies to both my test applications and any programs I run (e.g. New York Times Reader). I'm on a laptop with ClearType enabled, but disabiling that doesn't seem to change anything. I don't see screen-shots from others exhibiting the same problem... I have the dotNet 3.0 RC1 installed. Regards, Ray ...Show All

• Amir Gheibi Xbap and standalone applications in Vista.

  I came across some errors while developing wpf applications in vista. So I have a couple of questions. I would appreciate anybody who makes an effort to go through them and answer. I have tried to document what I tried in some detail. Question 1 I created an xbap (formerly known as WBA) application using a standard template provided in VS 2005.Hit F5 to start application with debugging, so my xbap application launches within IE. This is the expected behaviour. Until this point everything looks good. Go to the bin\debug inside my project directory and double click on the xbap application there. I get an error message. Well this no the expected behaviour. "Application cannot be downloaded. Check for network connectivi ...Show All

• Ultrawhack Can Shapes that house/own other shapes?

  Hi All, I am trying to figure out if this is even possible Can a shape own or be a compartment of other shapes Thanks This has been raised before. You might find the following post helpful: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=807805&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Alain de la Kethulle possible 3D LookDirection bug

  the scene has a cube at the origin. the camera is looking down on it from LookDirection="0,.0001,-1" ... and that works. but if i change it to LookDirection="0,0,-1" ... then the cube cannot be seen. i'm assuming a DivideByZero bug happens somewhere during processing Just copy/paste the XAML below into a file and open in IE. Thanks, casey < Canvas ClipToBounds = " true " Width = " 400 " Height = " 300 " xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation " xmlns:x = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml " xmlns:d = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/interactivedesigner/2006 " xmlns:c = " http://sche ...Show All

• exulted Compiler crash

  How can I submit bug I was trying to use C5 generic collections in C++ code but both C++ compilers (Orcas and 2005) were crashing: C5 binaries from http://www.itu.dk/research/c5/Release1.0/C5.bin.zip or built from the source code http://www.itu.dk/research/c5/Release1.0/C5.src.zip C++ program that uses C5::LinkedList generic class (similar error was produced using C5::ArrayList class but no errors with C5::HasDictionary and C5::TreeDictionary classes): === cpp_fail.cpp === using namespace System; int main(array<System::String ^> ^args) { // C5 collections test typedef C5::LinkedList<String^> data_t; // data_t^ a = gcnew data_t(); C5::LinkedList<String^> a = gcnew C5::LinkedList<String^>(); return 0; } ...Show All

• Jiajia edit -> delete on excel disabled, after excel vsto installed

  I have created a excel project utilizing VSTO 2005 and now I have installed it on different computer to test it. It works great on their computer and does everything it is suppose to do. The issue is now when the user’s tries to use their regular excel the “Edit-> Delete” is disabled. Any ideas, why And how to fix it… Thank you Hi johnnym Have you checked by putting a breakpoint, that the shutdown event for the VSTO application for Sheet1 is indeed being invoked and the above code is being executed. Try this - Use the VSTO solution with the code mentioned in my previous post. In the VSTO solution the Edit->delete is expected to be disabled. Shut down the application and ensure that the breakpoint a ...Show All

• jorisp Setup project for executing msbuild project

  I have a msbuild project say foo.proj that works well when I execute the following at the .net 2.0 sdk command prompt. msbuild.exe foo.proj /v:diag Now I want to package it so that I can distribute the install on a CD. What can I do to create a setup project for it Thanks, mg It's just an xml file, you don't need a setup for it.... but if you really want it, just create an install for it using VS (new setup project). You wouldn't distribute MSBuild itself, you rely on the client to download that, although as part of the "install" of your proj file you could do a check to make sure MSBuild is installed on the client machine. Is this what you were wanting sluggy ...Show All

• sebahattingokce Optionj buttons... HELP!!!

  I created a custom form in Outlook 2000. I have a set of bounded option buttons and a text box. The text box is disabled upon form load. What I want is, when I click one of the option button, the text box will be enabled, but when I click the other option button it will be disabled again. What is the right code for that. Anyone, please help me.... This forum is specific for the support of the VSTO technology. (VSTO is an extension of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE for the .NET framework that targets Office 2003.) Since your problem concerns Outlook 2000, it's certainly outside the scope of this forum. Try asking your question in the Outlook-specific newsgroup for "Form" questions http://msdn.mi ...Show All

• ghe Getting the position of the cursor in a textbox

  How can I get the position (Point) of the cursor in a textbox Regs, Biggo void textBox1_MouseMove( object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { Point p = Mouse .GetPosition(textBox1); } Hi. That gives me the position of the mousepointer. What I need is the position of the cursor, so I can make a popup menu appear at that exact spot. GetRectFromCharacterIndex method on the TextBox class did the trick. Not sure, but I think TextPointer::GetCharacterRect might help you. HTH, Drew ...Show All

• dstorch Concatenate doesn't work

  Any reason why below code doesn't work string[] names = {"MSFT","IBM","CSCO","GOOG"}; //Get a list var msft = from s in names where s == "MSFT" select s; //Get all symbols from global list except microsoft var msft1= msft.Concatenate(names); //Gives compile-time error Thanks in advance Are you looking for Concat As Steve Eichert said,"Concat" will work for you: var msft1 = msft.Concat(names); Based on your comment in the code, "Get all symbols from global list except microsoft", you might want to use the method "Except": var msft1 = nam ...Show All

• dc3 May CTP install fails on Vista

  I'm trying to install the May CTP on Vista RTM running VS 2005 SP1. The install fails immediately with the following error message: "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2738." If I run "msiexec /i "LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi" /log log.txt" and log the MSI install, here is the start of the log, with the errors: === Logging started: 1/13/2007 0:55:38 === Action 0:55:38: INSTALL. Action start 0:55:38: INSTALL. Action 0:55:38: ProgramMenuFolder.492C141007D74A398E35467AE6109B0C. Action start 0:55:38: ProgramMenuFolder.492C141007D74A398E35467AE6109B0C. Action ended 0:55:38: ProgramMenuFolder.492C141007D7 ...Show All

• Deldy Batch executing VSTO smarttags action

  Hi, I've tried everything I know but keep coming up empty, so if someone can point me in the right direction, that would be great. I have a collection of x-number of VSTO smarttags in a Word document. Each smarttag is the same and has one associated action (which works fine when individually clicked) but the user will have the choice of executing the action individually or in a batch. The action does some Word formatting. The C# code I'd like to use would be something like this: for (int x = 0; x<Globals.ThisDocument.SmartTags.Count; x++) smarttag.get_index(x).SmartTagActions("ActionName").Execute(); So basically, what I'd like is to iterate through the collection of Smarttags contained in the Word do ...Show All

• DanBog Exception occured on closing Report Viewer

  Hi, I have a problem that if I close report viewer before it has displayed data completely, it throws an exception that "<Application.exe> has encountered a problem and needs to close.". Also asks to send report to Microsoft. I have used Try-Catch block, but it is still thrown. Please help me on this. This is a known bug in the viewer control. You can work around the problem by adding the following code to the FormClosing event: ReportViewer.CancelRendering(System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite); Why the people in this forum are so busy that they even dont bother to just reject the query if they dont want to answer ...Show All

• David Mc Quillan Easiest way to create a simple report?

  Hi there, I would like to create a simple report on a Windows Form, using a ReportViewer, so that viewing the enquiry and printing the report are really easy and can be done from the same form. How do I go about binding my dataset (containing a list of Customers) to the Table control on teh report layout Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA, JackStri. Hi, Please check my step by step tutorial to create a simple report using web client: http://www.aspnetpro.com/newsletterarticle/2006/12/asp200612as_l/asp200612as_l.asp Hope this helps, Asif I have a long chapter on the ReportViewer control in my new book "Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual ...Show All