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• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Newbie - Connect to SQL Server Help Needed

  Hello all. I'm looking for some assistence on my current task. I come from an ASP Classic background and have been tasked at working on my companies Notes to Outlook migration. Included in this is much custom Outlook programming. As you could imagine, coming from an ASP Classic background, and now working directly in .NET development is quite a shift.....so please be patient with anything I'm missing as I'm learning along the way....:) My current task is to use VS & VSTO to connect a simple Outlook Addin to a SQL Server Database and execute a Stored Procedure using Visual Basic .NET. Even though I come from an ASP classic background, I can still do my research and find sample code and alter it for my use. But for the lif ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Migrating WorkItems to a new project.

  Okay so we've completed our first project using TFS. I'll have some comments regarding the experience on my blog later. I want to branch the code into a new project and migrate the work items...or maybe somehow branch the workitems as well. The trunk will be used for the production version of the system, while the branch will be v.next. Some of the work with v.next will fix the code from prod and we will want to merge it back into prod. For the most parts the changes to prod will be specific to prod and we don't want new prod code going into v.Next. There are definitely some work items/scenarios et. al that I'd like to bring over to the new project rather than re-entering them. I know that exporting to excel and importing to the n ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Ordering Visual Studio Express

  I'm wondering if there is anyway to order the Visual Studios Express Editions directly from Microsoft. I need this simply because my Dial Up makes it a pain. There are also some books that have been released that include the cd inside, you might be able to look into on of them. Here is one of the books. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764595733/sr=8-3/qid=1156474696/ref=pd_bbs_3/104-1779541-4439131 ie=UTF8 ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Problem with an existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

  Hi, I got a very strange problem on WM5. My code works fine on PC2002, PC2003, .NET1.1 (WinXP) but it does not on WM5. The code works fine when I query a web-site that respondes with Keep-Alive tag and it doesn't work when a web-site respondes with Proxy-Connection : Close. The code is very simple - it accepts connections and for each connection creates two sockets, one is accepted socket and the other soket is to a proxy server. Then the code just passes queries-responses between browser on PDA and the proxy server. There are 2 threads per connection, one thread reads from browser and writes to my proxy server, another thread reads from the proxy and writes to the browser. I have removed all unnecessary code t ...Show All

• SQL Server Error in sending mails !

  I am trying to send email thro DTS using Activex Script. Here is the code : ' ********************************************************************** ' Visual Basic ActiveX Script '************************************************************************ Function Main() const SMTP_SERVER = "MPBAKOREX01.corp.mphasis.com" set iMsg = CreateObject("CDO.Message") set iConf = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") Set Flds = iConf.Fields With Flds .Item(" http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing ") = cdoSendUsingPickup .Item(" http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver ") = SMTP_SERVER .Item(" http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configura ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Feature request

  When importing database schema from an existing database, it would be nice if the file names were prepended with the schema name (e.g., dbo.<tablename>...sql). I have a database with multiple schemas, and some of the objects in various schemas share their names. As a result, the files/directories in my project become difficult to organize (think about AdventureWorks db - i have a similarly organized db) Another feature that i think is missing, is scripting out custom error messages. If you have particular error messages registered using sp_addmessage, those error messages do not become a part of your project. Diagrams and Intellisense would be high on my list of requests as well, but i know they're not going to happen in this ...Show All

• Visual Basic hiding the startup form

  Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to immediately hide the startup form on startup. The Me.visible = False and Me.hide() Methods don't work. I am trying to make a simple program that has a login form and the main form. When my program starts i want the login screen to appear and the main form to immediately disappear, then when the user clicks OK the login screen closes and the main form shows. Everything works except when the program runs both the login and the main form window appear and i can't seem to make the main form disappear, and for other reasons setting the login form as the startup form is not an option. Hope this is a simple fix. Connor SJWhiteley, I read through your post and i was kinda c ...Show All

• Windows Forms Deplying an ActiveX control using setup and deployment?

  Hello, I'm trying to deploy an ActiveX control for I.E. using the setup and deplyment from Visual Studio, but I'm missing some registry keys. What are the keys needed to install an ActiveX control using setup and deplyment Thanks, HoraShadow Here i developed one Activex control to view tiff files using vintasoft dll(third party) in VB.Net.then i have added the ActiveX control in my aspx page.I deployed that application in my local machine.It's working fine in the local machine using http://localhost/Document/Tiffviewer.aspx .But when i tried to access the same application in my intranet machine, http://sankar/Document/Tiffviewer.aspx, the viewer is not working.Do u have any idea regarding this issue ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Text-To-Speech and Web Service

  Hi all! I want to create a Web service with a method that receives a string, converts it to speech using the System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer object (that is part of the .NET Framework 3.0), saves it to a WAV file and then returns the array of bytes to the client, which can reproduces the file. The Web method is the following: [ WebMethod ] public byte [] CreateSpeech( string text) { SpeechSynthesizer ss = new SpeechSynthesizer (); ss.SetOutputToWaveFile( "Output.wav" ); ss.Speak(text); ss.SetOutputToNull(); ss.Dispose(); return File .ReadAllBytes( "Output.wav" ); } However, If a try to execute this method (using either the integrated Web serve ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums MSN Add-In developer info

  After writing a couple small msn add ins for fun I though I'd share some of the things I've learned from this. Security Unless an addin is signed with a strong name key and loaded into the global assembly cache it will run with very restricted access. E.g the permission set "Internet". Error codes: 8013150A = An error relating to security occurred. ( COR_E_SECURITY ) More info about how strong naming works can be found here . Sending Messages (Limitations) You can only send messages in the IncomingTextMessage event. And only to the person who sent you the message. This means you can't have for example a timer sending out a message to someone every X hours. Or forwarding all messages from Bill to Bull Error codes: 810003DF = Attempt sen ...Show All

• Visual Basic need to open a text file, rearrange contents, and save with a new filename

  I have several hundred job files from an earlier CAD program that I need to rearrange so they can be read by a newer CAD program. Each program can read and write ascii files, but the formats are different. The files are split into sections with a keyword at the beginning of each section (like *lines* or *parts* etc. ) and each section needs a different kind of rearranging. Not only that, each section contains descriptions for many entities. So I have a group that has a line with one format, then several lines of another format, for each entity. Not only that, but some of the sections require location data from the middle of the input line to be inserted in a new line which is to be inserted into middle of the entity description. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Problem with Visual Studio 2005

  Hi, I installed Visual Studio 2005 and it was working perfect till yesterday. I installed another SW Development (DevCpp) to study the differences. The problem is that now when I try to create a project with Visual C++ it hangs I can’t do anything. I tried to uninstall both and reinstall Visual Studio 2005 only, but still same problem. The problem is only with Visual C++, if I try to create new project in any other language there is no problem. Anyone can help Thanks, regards I had the same annoying problem. I reinstalled it about a thousand times, uninstalled other programs i thought would have a problem with. Nothing worked. I finally found the answer. It has to do with a jscript.dll not being reg ...Show All

• Visual C++ Facing a problem with editing a text file using C++

  Dear all, I am writing a network project that contains an error logging routine in a sequential text file. I am using native win32 C++ with Visual C++ 2005 express edition IDE on windows XP pro. My problem is that whenever I try to open my log file the second time to add more log data somewhere (not appending) in the file, all the contents of the file will be changed to rubbish and unreadable data. I tried with different opening modes (like ios::out, ios::ate ios::app) without getting successful. The program is: Dear Viorel, Thanks for your help, I have tried it and I have done succefully. However, I am depending on two references through my programming, one is a text book "C++ How to program 5th edition f ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Binding NOT operator (!)

  I was hoping that binding syntax had some sort of syntax for the not operator like: <CheckBox Name="MyCheckbox" Content="Enable"/> <StackPanel IsEnabled="{Binding ElementName=MyCheckbox, Path=!IsChecked}"> <Button>Ok</Button> </StackPanel> This would enabled the stack panel and button if the checkbox wasn't checked. If this can't be done what is the guidance for doing this Creating a ViewModel and binding to that It's not built in, but it's easily done using a value converter. <StackPanel IsEnabled="{Binding ElementName=MyCheckbox, Path=IsChecked, Converter={StaticResource MyConverter}"/> public class MyConverter : IVal ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Does C++ Express Support subclassing?

  At the bottom of my Form1.h I recently added a subclass derived from a panel... public ref class NoScrollPanel : Panel { protected: virtual void WndProc(Message% m) override { //Do my stuff here return Panel::WndProc(m); } }; The problem is that while I can see it in the Class View and all looks complete and good, I can't do anything with it. I can't add it to my toolbox, I can't drag it onto my form, nothin... Same goes for classes I make using Add Class... How do I actually add these to my form1 Well, I can't say too much about actually using this stuff because I generally do things the hard way and code it myself. But I will confirm that VC++ Express does support inheritance. Right now you just need to ...Show All