Don McDonald's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Word 12 Document Project & Ribbon Controls

  With a Word Add in Project i was able to sucessfully create a ribbon control.. Now i am working with a Word 12 Document Project and i would like to create a ribbon control inside of that project type but i dont see the option.. Are ribbon controls only avaiable inside of addins Is this by design or just that they haven't implemented it yet inside of other project types thanks MJ Hi MJ RibbonX is quite different from anything we've known before now. The definition is XML, and is stored as part of the XML document file. Once the file has been loaded the content of the Ribbon for that document context is "set in stone". Things that are defined for the ribbon in the customui.xml can be enabled/disabled, made visible/invisi ...Show All

• SQL Server Visual Studio 2005 does not bring up table list for ODBC Sql 7

  I walk thru the data source configuration wizard on a SQLServer 7 via ODBC connection and am not seeing tables and views returned. Does VS2005 work with SQLserver 7 This process works fine connecting directly to a SQL2000 database. ...Show All

• .NET Development setting up security with asp.net?

  I am attempting to set up a login system for a development application. This is using SQLServer Express 2005. When I go into Asp.net configuration or through the application to create an account I get an error message that the password needs to contain 7 letters with at least one number. I have tried to make the password very long and I still get this message. I know this is a configurable field. I have not changed it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies Why would anyone want to install WDS 3 instead of 2.6.x?

  Is it just me or does WDS 3 just seem broken I am trying to understand why I should install WDS 3 when it seems that many features I use each day have been removed. Examples include requiring an add-in to search UNCs, no Group Policy support, no PDF iFilter. Another problem is many of the iFilters I currently use don't work with WDS 3 like the old PDF iFilter. Does this mean that Search in Vista is just as broken Someone indicated that there was a whitepaper or document explaining how to chose the version to install. Does this document really exist --Greg David, Thanks for the reply. My two main concerns are the ability to index a UNC without an add-in and inability to select/unselect speci ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Apparent caching issue

  We are trying to run some test scripts and it doesn't seem like VSTS is simulating IE caching correctly when SSL is used. When we executed the tests w/o SSL, we saw about a 90% reduction in the number of HTTP requests made. After changing the IE settings for caching encrypted files, we were able to see similar results in running the same pages manually and doing HTTP traces, but VSTS doesn't seem to simulate those settings properly. Any ideas Thanks, Matt Ed, Thanks for the response. Turns out that the person running the tests wasn't aware how the setting for loading dependant objects worked. He turned that off and the tests still loaded all the same objects. He then re-recorded the script (with the setting off) and it t ...Show All

• SQL Server Special/Foreign Language Characters Issue

  Hi,   We have a package that does a simple table to table data loading. Both source and destination have the same Codepage (850) and collation (SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_CI_AI). However, there are some foreign language characters in the source table, and it gets messed up when it's loaded into the target.   Here's an example for a column with this type of text:   Source: Solut§es Informst Target: Solu■oes Inform t   Both columns are char(30).   I have tried to load this row into another server in a different location and it works just fine, however the original target of data displays the text incorrectly.   I have no idea what can be causing this.   Thanks, ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Import WPF/E XAML files

  Hi, is it possible to import WPF/E XAML files in the Expression Designer I didn't find any way to do this. Michael I can't figure out how to do it. If you want to see something really strange, uncheck the binary format for file type in the preferences. I was thinking you could hack the xaml in the design file, but the design file doesn't appear to use Xaml at all! Strange stuff in there... I'd try the expression forums since they are the ones who own this. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Change default build number

  Hi, The default build number property "$(BuildNumber)" returns value in this format 'BuildTypeName_year.month.date.number'. I need just the build number portion of it i.e, year.month.date.number without build type name to use as the folder name for multiple projects. I'm a new bee and any help is appreciated. Thanks!! Regards, Swamy Check out the following blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/07/13/438077.aspx . Buck ...Show All

• Visual C++ Automatically open up error-list after build with warnings or errors ??

  Greetings! Is it possible to tell VS2005 to automatically open up the error list tab after a C++ build finished Or do I always have to manually switch to the error list view thanks! br, Martin select "Tools/Options" menu item. in "Options" dialog, expand "Projects and Solutions" and select "General". check "Always show Error List if build finishes with errors". No sweat. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Setting Caption property of Toolwindow...

  Hi, I am customizing the IDE using PPE. In my package I am hosting User Control using Toolwindow. I have set Event from User control and it passes the String. I would like to set that string as the title (Caption) of the toolwindow. How do I implement this What is the best way to achieve this This is very important requirement. Any quick help is appreciated! Thanks, Atul ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Calling another application?

  I have another .exe application that I wish to envoke from a C# program and pass it a parameter. Normally I would open a command line and run the .exe this way "merg.exe inputfile.xml". I'm looking for a way in C# to detect a file name in a certain directory and then call the merg.exe application with the file name as a parameter. Thanks, David use the ProcessStartInfo class: System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo theProcess = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo( filename ); theProcess.Arguments = argumentsHere ; System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(theProcess); does this help you can also redirect your standard input/output and error messages using the ProcessStart ...Show All

• .NET Development Asking too much of Visual Basic Or The .Net environment??

  We have been putting together a SMTP Filter in .net (using vb) which seems to be out of the scope of what the .net framework can support in terms of performance. The application its self is very basic really, all it does is listen on port 25 for new connections, for every new connection it receives it makes a second connection to our Exchange server. It then passes the messages it receives from the client to exchange and anything from exchange back to the client. which works perfectly. What it also does is save the contents of the E-Mail in to a string builder so we can rip it apart to scan/save the E-Mail into a database. This is where the problem lies. When we have detected the SMTP client it sending the body it will append t ...Show All

• Visual Basic Visual Studio Is Busy?

    Pentium IV - Northwood 3.5 Ghz - I Gb of Ram. XP SP2 .. all current patches applied. VS2005 RTM Team Suite On occasion while debugging the IDE becomes nonresponsive and I receive a Bubble message informing me that "Visual Studio is busy waiting for an internal operation to complete - If you receive this message often, please inform Micorosoft" After I receive this message the IDE never recovers. All I can do is to delete the process and restart it. Any idea what's occurring Hmm, sounds like a deadlock somewhere. My apologies for the nuisance! I'd like to get to the bottom of this. When you kill the process, is a report being sent to Microsoft If so, chances are it will land on our plate fairly soon in ...Show All

• .NET Development Need guidance for a client/server system (programmed using visual basic)

  I'm programming a small client-server system that will be used in a small office of up to 10 computers on the same network. The server computer stores a database, and I'm writing a program to go on the server to be in charge of communicating with the database, and also communicating with the client programs installed on each other computer. The client programs will often request data from the database which the server software will send back to the client software. Also the server software will need to message the client software with certain events happening etc. So basically I need to program a communication system between a server program connected to several instances of a client program. Various messages will need to be passed back ...Show All

• SQL Server A war between me and the network admin over the SQL EXPRESS

    The network admin is saying that if I run my SQL Express in the office , it will intefere with his SQL Server 2000 connection and its services. He asked me to disconnect myself from the network and do the work locally, what the! I had my SQL express remote connection set to Local and remote connections (using TCP/IP connection ) However , I really dont believe a SQL express running on my laptop would in anyway steal incoming connection to the SQL server 2000 running on the company server. I now have my SQL express set to Local connections only, I would like to ask you guys does SQL express actually conflict with ANY services running on the same network Thanks a million ...Show All