satsrinivasan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Server side Mail-Merge using VSTO2005

  I have been trying to get a prototype running for doing server-side mail-merge for the past week now using VSTO 2005 and am going nowhere.. Has anyone been able to successfully do this My constraints are: 1. Avoid having to install VSTO Runtime on client machines 2. Avoid using Word 2003 automation on server since its not recommended. 3. The source documents are a bunch of Word documents stored in a templates folder on the server. 4. We have to mail-merge using a runtime datasource, then send the document over the web using asp.net 2.0. If there is a good sample or article out there, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, JGP Hi JGP Given Martin's response about the Word ...Show All

• Visual C# Before we proceed I really need some protection!

  If I were to make a C# program that contained a sensitive algorithm, how could I protect it I know that C# generates MSIL (this is what has me the most concerned), is there any way to get the compiler to scramble it or some thing The last thing I want is my code decompiled. I probally should have made a native C++ project, but it is so hard to motivate your self to do so when C# is sitting right in front of you. When the compiler declares variables in MSIL does it name them what you call them in C#, or does it assign them more machine like names Any suggestions would be helpful. Not exactly, but the logic will be there, only the names as i write will be crypted. So the name of class-s will be a, b, c, d ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Word: Normal.dot template menu bar

  I have programmatically modified the Normal.dot menubar (adding more dummy options), and I want to get rid of all of them, permanently, to return to the original state and appearance of Normal. dot.... How can I achieve that, please thanks Per the engineer: Please try the following steps to locate the Normal.dot : Open Microsoft Word Choose the menu “Tools” and then “Options” In the “Options” window, choose the “File Locations” tab In the list called “File Types” – select “User Templates” and click the button “Modify” The “Modify Location” dialog box would come up. Click on the down-arrow besides the “Look-in” Combobox to know the folder where the Normal.dot and other user templates are stored. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro How to read an www adress and gather infos from there???

  Hi My question looks simple I hope... I want to read an adress for example I have adress http://www.test.com/ and I want to export the text from this site and import it into my table... Is there a way how to do so Please give me a sample code... And I forgot something... I want to have an automatic and real time in my program... Is there a way how to gather the exact time from the internet But the main task is the url reading and expotring. Thanks a lot... This would be great if I want to download whole site on the disk... But I want to import some text from the site to my table... is there code to do that for example, somthing like that : append from and type and i dont know xls or something lik ...Show All

• Visual Basic MS Press book errors/corrections found where?

  Hi: I am working thru the book: "Developing Web Applications with VB.Net and Visual C#.net"-ISBN--0-7356-1927-1--and am finding many errors in it! Where do I go to find a list of errors (and hopefully corrections) for MS Press books I have been to the page on Microsoft's site where you type in the ISBN --and it returned nothing. thank you in advance! julie s Just as a side though - did you check that the version of .net products you are using is the same as the version that the product is referring to. There are three versions of .NET 2002, 2003 and 2005 and wach product has a number of different versions which may mean you will see some options in one version and not another. An example of this ...Show All

• Visual Studio Code references on the scrollbar?

  Hello, I'm used to using Eclipse IDE and one of the features I like is that when you left click any variable, all occurences of that variable in the code are highlighted on the scroll bar with little markers. You can click any of these markers to jump to that part of the code. It seems like the scrollbar doesn't have anything like this in VS as it is a standard scroll bar. There is a coloured line on the left with green and yellow but I don't know what that means. Is there any functionality to provide quick linkages between variable references in VS Do I have to right click and ask for the list That isn't very quick at all and is rather clumsy. Is there any extension that can add this functionality Thanks, Christopher ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. What's the Story with Background Music?

  Is background music something that's not supposed to be a part of XNAGSE ...or are we meant to use XacT to accomplish this It seems to me, using WAV files for BGM is like using your screwdriver as a hammer, which would suggest it wasn't part of the plan. Background music has a way of breathing life into a game. It would be a shame if it weren't feasible. This is one of the pieces of XACT feedback I've given the team -- you should, too! XACT needs to, at a minimum, support user-streaming audio. In that case, you can generate whatever you want, and play it out. Ideally, XACT would support WMA compression, so you can get 10:1 compression for background music, as well. Right now, you have the option of straight WAV, and 4:1 AD ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Who wants a FxCop VS2005 add-in?

  Hello, I have written a simple add-in for VS 2005 to enhance integration with the IDE for those who are not using the Team System version of the product. I am planning to release it to the open source community but I'm wondering whether there is much interest in doing so. Currently the add-in does the following things: Select one or more FxCop warnings in the Error List then right-click to copy C# code for SuppressMessage attributes to the clipboard. Select one or more FxCop warnings in the Error List then right-click in the code editor window to insert C# code for SuppressMessage attributes at the current insertion point. (Saves the work of copying to clipboard, then clicking back to the editor and pasting.) Double-click on ...Show All

• Windows Forms WebBrowser control shows HTML code

  Hello, I've a project where i'm assigning a HTML string to the DocumentText property of the WebBrower. On most PCs there's no problem with it, but there are PCs which show the actual HTML code instead of the webpage. Any idea's what's the reason and a possible solution :) Regards, Aussie Hi, all Yes, here is the VS2005's requirement details: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718687.aspx Thank you ...Show All

• Windows Forms copying a vb .net project to another and not losing dataset bindings on forms

  Hi all, I've been having an issue trying to figure out how to copy one vb .net project to another (as a template to start a new project) and keeping the bindings for the datasets on my forms. I do need to rename some datasets but I would think that I can just sneak behind the scenes and change it in the files and retain the bindings, but it almost always fails and I lose the bindings to the dataset on the form. I'm so, so, so frustrated as I put in a lot of work to create the template just to save time creating the subsequent projects and I keep losing it!! Can anyone help Thanks, Angie Hi - thanks for the response. Do you mean the .xsd file for the dataset I tried that and even regenerated but I still lose the bindi ...Show All

• Windows Forms context menu vs context sensitive menu

  Hi.. Is context menu and context sensitive menu the same If they are not, then what is the difference between context menu and context sensitive menu Hi a context menu is the popup menu when you right click on a control... a context sensitive menu is where the context menu items depend on your current selection/activity think of word: right clicking in a new document gives options for the entire document or page = context menu now select some text and right click on that text=> some specific possibilities concerning the selected text = context sensive menu Hope this answers your question, please close the thread if it does ...Show All

• Smart Device Development communication problem!!

  i can't surf the internet from my pocket pc that connects to my pc through a usb cable or bluetooth connectin while my pc is connected to the internet through a dial-up connection i could do this on windows xp using active sync but now it's not allowed to install active sync on windows vista so please help me your problem here isn't a smart device problem, and certainly not a smart device emulator problem. it's a vista/activesync issue. vista uses "vista mobile device center," not "activesync." I'm not sure if it's out of beta yet ... this is the latest download I can find: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=C23C8E6A-A72D-4AEF-9663-31CE2FEF ...Show All

• Visual Basic Send Message Api

  I need help using the SendMessage(a) API What I need to do is send a mouse click to a windows (hWnd) that I have the handle to and the mouse click needs to be at an X and Y that I specify. I would like to use this API Declare Function SendMessageA Lib "user32.dll" ( ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal Msg As Integer , ByVal wParam As UIntPtr, ByVal lParam As IntPtr) As IntPtr but I am unclear on exactly how to fill the perameters I believe the 2nd perameter I put in a constant, WM_LBUTTONDOWN or WM_LBUTTONUP both of which I am unclear of the value for, and then 4th perameter is what will determine the x and y of the click. I am not 100% sure though. Then use Jared's suggestion. You can find ...Show All

• SQL Server Can't connect to local instance

  Hi, SQL Server 2005 Developer edition Windows XP Pro This is a new install on this laptop. Trying to connect to the Database Engine using management studio using either TCP/IP or named pipes but getting errors regarding the server refusing connection. I've Googled these errors and as far as I can see I made all the adjustments that I need to. TCP/IP An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 10061) Named Pipes An erro ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Which File Type(.iso or .img). Do I need to download

  Which File Type(.iso or .img). Do I need to download to burn a cd and then install visal basic 2005 express edition without using anyother software. what is the difference between .iso and .img file As I kow the difference between .iso and .img is just the file-ending. I makes no difference which format you choose for download. On this page you will find a description and downloadlinks: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/ ralph ...Show All