Hammo's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Appointment Instance not closing

  Hi I have created a simple outlook Addin using VSTO. I am adding a button in the standard tool bar of the mail item and done some functionality on button click. I am currently facing an issue in this implementation. When opening a new inspector I will be checking whether it is a mail item or not and then adding a button to the standard tool bar. The following is my code for new inspector open event. Private Sub _Inspectors_NewInspector(ByVal Inspector As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Inspector) Try If Inspector.CurrentItem.MessageClass = "IPM.Note" Then End If Catch ex As Exception Throw ex End Try End Sub I am creating an recurring appointment in the calendar and ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deploy multiple exe's

  Hi I have a windows application and I have a windows service. I want to make one installer and install both the windows application and the windows service. This is the first time I was doing something like this. How do I proceed with this Any article links or help will be appreciated. ...Show All

• SQL Server How "NOT" to expire the ReportSession and ControlID in the request

  This question is related to VSTS and above parameters in the request. Question is: A script created with VSTS for testers has hard coded values for ReportSession and ControlID in the requests, These IDs are expired after some time and scripts fails to run after few hours. Can some one tell me how to set the session expiration time on these ID's in the Report server so I can increase the value to 60*24*365 (1 year) this would solve my problem with hard coded values in the scripts for above mentioned IDs. The "SessionTimeout" is a system property. You have to set it via SOAP API or rs.exe http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=525110&SiteId=1 ...Show All

• SQL Server Where do I put my SQL Update Statment

  OK I have my SSIS Dataflow behaving the way it should but how does one map to a table that needs an updatde to a table. In this case it is an Oracle Table so the SQl would liik like this... UPDATE PPS_PRINCIPALS SET NAME = @Variable2 WHERE (PRINCIPAL_ID = @Variable1) Sorry about that, I meant the OLE DB Command. Thats what i'd normally use to run a SQL command in the data flow task. I haven't tried it with Oracle though. ...Show All

• Visual C# Interfaces or direct class access ?

  We are creating a C# windows application using a layered approach ie. with Application,BusinessLogic and DataAccess Layers. We have a number of BusinessLogic classes e.g BLPerson,BLDepartment etc which in this case are basically facades for getting, manipulating and persisting data to and from a database. Previously we have accessed methods and properties of the Business Logic classes directly, but is seems that it is better practice to access them via an interface e.g IPerson,IDepartment etc. I have read and think i understand the reasons for accessing classes via an interface but in our relatively small application am struggling to see the benefits in our case. One possible benfit would be that accesing via an interface would ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Interop problem: WCF service & Java client

  Hello, I tried to call a very simple WCF web service from a Java client. But the partners don't understand each other, the service receives null instead of the value the Java client sent, and the Java client is not able to deserialize the web service' response. The web service is quite simple, here its interface: namespace Common { [ServiceContract()] public interface IHello { [OperationContract] string SayHello(string t1); } } The sayHello method is implemented as return "Hello "+t1; The service binding looks the following: <system.serviceModel> <services> <service behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehavior" name="Service"> <endpoint address="" ...Show All

• SQL Server Date Picker formatting

  Im sure we have all seen this error before: "The value for the report parameter XXX is not valid for its type" I have a report (RS 2005) that has 2 date parameters, "start" and "end". My SQL in not very complicated at all, I have a simple WHERE date between @start and @end But when I go to view the report in VS2005, I get the above error. I am yet to find a decent fix for this, what is going on the date I am trying is: "26/02/2007" now, obviously its trying to us the en-US formatting, but im in Australia, so I want en-AU. I have changed my report Language setting to be en-AU, my local settings in Region Setting is English (Australia). (BTW, I had to change the Language setting in my report through th ...Show All

• Visual J# THANK YOU!

  How can I choose which form will be appear first after compile Thanks. In a project you will find a file called "Program.jsl". Open it and locate this method: public static void main( String [] args) This is the start point in your application. Application .Run( new Form1 ()); This line tells me that the application will start with the Form1 dialog. Regards, Lars-Inge Tonnessen Microsoft VJ# MVP ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista IDMOWrapperFilter::Init alternatives?

  Do DMOs really have to be registered in order to be used with the DMO Wrapper Filter I suspect the answer is "yes" based on IDMOWrapperFilter::Init. It would be nice if IDMOWrapperFilter::Init could take a pointer to an IMediaObject - that way the DMO could be "compiled into" our executable, it wouldn't have to be registered, and our proprietary algorithms in the DMO wouldn't be available for use outside of our application. (We compile many of our DirectShow filters into our application in this manner and it has worked great, not to mention it makes the installation a lot easier - almost an xcopy!) Are there any alternatives to the DMO Wrapper Filter that could wrap an IMediaObject in this manner I have done a ...Show All

• Visual C# Help refactoring a method

  I want to get rid of repetative code in the attached method I created (like in my If statements as you can obviously see, most is repeated but just for different product types) but not sure the best way to restrucure it: http: / / www. webfound. net/ forum_ posts/ repetative. txt Dude, first off... this is code in progress .  As you or any other developer knows, this may not be "working code" yet....DUH! homework assignement...kiss my a** as far as that comment goes. Stick to my quesiton ...not BS. This is for a huge public e-commerce site so again, kiss my a**, I've been in IT for 8 years. Yes, I'm taking that personally as you can tell because comments like yours is not necessary.  It's a stupid remark...an ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Subject: Path animation in resource dictionary

  Hi, I have all my styles and application visuals in a resource dictionary and at this moment I'm trying to do a path animation with an ElipseGeometry the problem is that in the PointAnimationUsingPath I need to put the object name, the problem is that in ResourceDictionaries we can't use the x:Name attribute. Is there any way to implement this kind of animation in a Resource Dictionary Thanks Bruno Silva I am aware of that solution, but I can't use codebehind, I can only use xaml files with a resource dictionary so that the application can be customized by the designers for each company. That would mean that they would have different backgrounds with different animations. Thanks Bruno Silva ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Two problems: Delay in showing form AND changing Opacity without animation.

  I have two issues that I've created schlocky solutions for. I have two forms. I use ShowDialog to display the forms. The user does something on the first form, things happen and the second form is displayed. Things happen, the second form fades out and gets hidden and we start all over again. The forms get displayed over and over again and I need to keep them loaded because A) I develop interactives and B)Loading takes too long. Problem 1) The original panel on Window2 needs opacity set back to = 1 before it is reopened. so that when I reload it, the original panel is once again visible. Setting it back to 1 before showing the form again or even when the form is activated doesn't appear to be working. Right now, the only solution that ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development VC-1 and PEP

  Given the promise of so many good things from MS's adoption of the VC-1 codec and the wonderful marketing campaign surrounding WMES , despite downloading all possible tools I still remain unable to do a simple operation : rejoin .wmv segments without glitches or artifacts showing in WM Player . I have heard a few people say that it is down to the player being unable to deal with the artifacts left behind during the splitting process, but I can see these problems even before the files are joined and whilst they are played individually. Can anyone help me solve this mistery Thanks to all in advance. Claudio Hello Ben, I do apologise for the lateness, and thank you for your reply. We have used a number of programs ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Next .Net 3.0 release date, Orcas- When?

  I was wondering if there is another .Net 3.0 release will be coinciding with the projected RC1 release of Vista in the next couple of weeks, and if we should expect a .Net 3.0 RTM at the same time Vista is at the RTM stage. On a side note, although we're all very grateful to have Visual Studio 2005, has anyone heard when we will have complete visual tools for WPF development The current offering isn't of much use! Thanks in advance, Josh I think a visual Studio Add-in based on Expression Interactive Designer should be a very good thing (as ID is far more advanced than Cider, and far more stable and powerfull). However, EID is not yet perfect. I encountered some issues like disordonned xaml generati ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How do you develop WF in distributed environment?

  Hi; I've read two books on MS WFF and some of the articles and still have no clue about the following situtions. Almost all the info relates to the WF being hosted and run within one application, is on one machine, but most of the situations that I'd use WF would be when the WF is split among many users. Suppose an order is taken by user and the accuracy of parts and prices have been verified. Now the orders are transfered to another department for deciding whether the order should be made inhouse or outsource. If inhouse, then the order would go to manufacturing plant and mutiple work orders are created for different parts. Some parts are created in parallel and some are in sequential. Within this sections, parts will ...Show All