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• Visual Studio August 2006 Sandcastle is now available for download

  August 2006 Sandcastle CTP is currently available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=e82ea71d-da89-42ee-a715-696e3a4873b2&DisplayLang=en . This blog http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2006/08/27/727310.aspx , details what's new, xsltransform syntax changes and bug fixes in this version of CTP. I have also modifed the CHM generatation steps at http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2006/07/29/682398.aspx . I plan to post additional blogs with details about steps for CHM generation, new MSDN link option in Sandcastle. Visit http://www.sandcastledocs.com  wiki site for additional details.   Anand.. I've found a way around this, in sandcastle.config there is the fo ...Show All

• Visual Studio how to solve shdocvw.dll error

  Hi, I have an application (download manager) which runs ok on my pc (with VS.Net 2005 and full Access 2000), but when create a setup using setup and deployment wizard . Setup create & run also. But after installation of the software using above setup.exe it gives me this error: Could somebody help me, please what is a problem & how can i solve See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.SHDocVw, Version=1.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. File name: 'Interop.SHDo ...Show All

• Visual C++ Building a code library

  I am writing a COM component. However, there are files that I would like other developers to use as an SDK. How do I build a code library In particular, I would like to supply 3 classes to other developers so that they dont have to redesign the wheel if they wish to use my library. I am using VS2005 COM components are "self descriptive" and don't need a link library. This is done through a type library that is embedded in the component. It is genered by MIDL compiling the .idl file to create a .tlb file and having it added as a resource in the .rc file. Either use ATL or MFC and a project wizard to ensure you get it right. Just give the developers your COM DLL (or .EXE), they'll register it and can either use ...Show All

• Smart Device Development MSMQ Book Order Application Sample

  hi i have taken this example at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180970.aspx this is used to transfer messages between device and desktop queues this application run ok but it doesn't send the messages to desktop queue i am using vs2005 and and emulator pocket pc-wm5.0 please suggest thanks arvind Hey arvind, Just wondering if you solved the issue you described above. I'm having the EXACT same problem, and if you had a solution, I was hoping you'd share. Thanks! ...Show All

• SQL Server Processing AS2000 Cubes from SSIS

  Hi All, I have a scenario where I want to execute AS 2000 Cubes from a SSIS package. In my Prod environment I have two servers one with the SQL 2000 database and the AS2000 cubes on it and the other with SSIS installed on it. What I am doing here is I have a DTS package with a process cube task in it, this DTS package is saved as a structured file and then I call this DTS package from SSIS using the Execurte 2000 package task. Just FYI the process cubes task is using local as the server reference. I want to know how this will work when I execute this DTS package from within an SSIS package running on a different server Appreciate all help. Thanks The "normal" way to process AS 2 ...Show All

• Windows Forms How to add ContextMenuStrip to menu item?

  Hi! How can I add a ContextMenuStrip to a menu item Matt Don't do it, your users won't discover this by themselves in a million years. If you insist: implement the MouseDown event for the menu item and call the Show() method... ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Release date?

  Any news yet on when VSTE DBPro will be officially released and out of CTP A bit more info can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mattnunn/ Again, linked from the official product info site, under Blogs: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718764.aspx ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting Application Theme/ColorTable

  Hi all, In my project, I want to use WinXP theme with blue color schema whatever user's machine color schema ( if user enabled WinXP theme ). It is easy to setup blue color schema for menustrip, toolstrip, etc. with the helps of custom Professional ColorTable. I have used reflection to get values of AreteOutlookCustomColorTable properties. However I need that all controls' of application with blue schema colors. How can I do this ToolStripManager.Renderer = new ToolStripProfessionalRenderer(new AreteControls.OutlookStyleItems.AreteOutlookCustomColorTable()); using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Drawing; namespace AreteControls.OutlookStyleItems { /// <summary> ...Show All

• SQL Server Need help with SQL statement

  I have the following SQL statement that pulls in the correct data, however I need one of the columns from one of the tables to pull in ALL records even if there are not any. Okay, so I am still running into some problems. Here is my select statement (this is using ODBC for an AS400 DB2 mainframe): SELECT DISTINCT QS36F.UEVTREG.ARM, QS36F.UEVTREG.REG, QS36F.UEVTREG.SHOWDT, QS36F.UEVTREG.TRIAL, QS36F.UEVTREG.BRDCOD, QS36F.UEVTREG.BRVAR, QS36F.UEVTREG.CLASS, QS36F.UEVTREG.DIV, QS36F.GRPMST.GROUPCODE, QS36F.GRPMST.BREEDCODE, QS36F.BRDMST.BRDESC, QS36F.UEVTJUDGE.JUDGENAME, QS36F.UEVTJUDGE.JUDGE, QS36F.UEVTREG.EVENTCODE FROM QS36F.UEVTJUDGE, QS36F.UEVTREG, QS36F.GRPMST, QS36F.BRDMST WHERE QS36F.UEVTJUDGE.EVENTCODE = QS36 ...Show All

• .NET Development Collection without duplication

  I can't find a collection in the framework that doesent allow duplicated values. is there an alternative thanks in advance System.Collections.Hashtable and System.Collection.Generic.Dictionary<K,T> don't allow duplicate keys. Maybe you could use one of those as a collection. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Execute another file

  How to execute another file (.exe) from C# 2.0 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development what is this Compact Framework.net

  what is this Compact Framework.net and how is this different than a windows forms application the reason I ask is this Dear Customer, I think I got the cause of the problem. Are you trying to use EasyTrial in a windows application I have just tried using it in a windows application and gave the same error; this is because EasyTrial is designed for Compact Framework.net application only, and not compatible with Framework.net. Please review EasyTrial webpage http://www.awady.net/products/easytrial.html Kind regards, Awady Software " The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is the smart device development framework for the Microsoft .NET initiative and a key part of rea ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WSDL file reading error

  I made a very simple service that has one function called multiply which takes in two integers and multiply these two ints and then return the result. I set it so that it would do the reliable messaging over http. However, I get the runtime error when I excecute the client program saying that it cannot be processed at the runtime. What I think is the problem is when I read the wsdl file, I get the warnings. If you know how I can fix this problem, that would be super appreciated. Thanks. When I executed the following command svcutil http://localhost:8080/ReliableApp/CalculatorRMService WSDL /namespace:http://calculator.me.org/,ReliableMessageJavaClient /out:Client .cs /config:app.config Then I got the following result. Microsoft ...Show All

• Visual Basic Mircosoft office document imagaing file locking Visual Basic 2005

  Hi all, please can someone have a look at my code and tell me why i keep getting file locking issues when using a simple sql statement. Background info: My program splits a mulitpage tiff file (batch of purchase orders from Sage MMS) into separate files by doing OCR and using the MODI functions. My code has three main loops. 1st loop goes through each of the pages and splits the tiff into separate tiff files based on order number and stores them in a directory. for each order i also create an array of information by doing OCR from the tiff ie. order number, customer etc etc. 2nd loop goes through the array. for each order number in the array checks to see if there is another tiff file existing in another directory. This could be ...Show All

• Visual Studio Crystal report showing blank data when its source is ado.net dataset?

  For some reason I'm getting no data populating in my crystal report. I built my crystal report off my dataset in my project, and I fill the dataset when opening the main form, and count the records just to make sure there is data in the dataset, and then open the form containing my reportviewer control with the crystal report added to it and it still shows no data when it opens. I built my crystal report off the wizard when right clicking the report layout and choosing Database expert, then choosing Project data, ADO.NET datasets, and then the table from my dataset. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. OK, from my main form I have a button that opens the form with the Crystalreportviewer on it and also fill the dataset and c ...Show All