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• Visual Studio Tools for Office F5 -> "File already exists"

  Hi, I'm new with VSTO development and been experiencing this really annoying issue. Everytime I hit F5, it launches the Excel document associated with the project. However once Excel launched, it often (not all the time but quite often) gives me the "File already exists" error message. I then must open the Excel file manually from File -> Open. Everything works then. Strange that it doesn't do this all the time, just occasionally. Any ideas Cheers, Victor Hmm didn't have time to try. But I found a 'workaround'. If I leave my original Excel file open, everytime I hit F5 from the Visual Studio it'll re-open the file but this time telling me the file is opened by another user (me) and if I want to open it as &q ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Right click...

  Hi... I have 2 doubts, 1. How to get the menu handle which appears when the user right clicks in slideshow window 2. Is there a way to write our own code for the selection of the menu item from the menu which appears when the user right clicks in the slideshow window... Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz someone help me in this... Are we still talking about Powerpoint I'm guessing that you do mean an external application: regardless, you are not going to be able to do it easily, especially with VB. Are you comfortable with Win32 API Calls Do you know how to use Spy++ (I don't know if either of those will work - my guess is it's unlikely you will be able to get direct access to a third party ...Show All

• Smart Device Development extending smartphone form designer

  hi, I am currently working on a project in which i need to extend the form designer which is used for smart phones and pocket pcs. These form designers have a different look and feel when compared to the standard windows form designer. I need to host this smartphone designer in a tab and the code into another tab. so can anyone tell me how can i host this smartphone form designer into the tab pane. thanks and regards atri To host a designer use the DesignSurface class but yes resgister all the services which are needed like the toolbox service to have the toolbox integrated with the designer. To host a codewindow use openstandardeditor function to open standard files. For custom designers and codewindows ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Displaying a picture with Transparent Background

  Dear ppl, I have a .bmp picture with transparent background..but when i display it on the form using a picture box, the area that should suppose to be transparent is being displayed as the background color of the picture box. Even if i set the picture box background color to transparent , it doesn't make any difference. So I created a user control and override the onpaint() method to draw the picture using the imageAttribute SetKeyColor() method, but that is not working as well....what is happening is the picture is being displayed properly with transparent area not being displayed, instead the transparent area is being painted as the backcolor of the usercontrol...even if i set the back color of the usercontrol to transparent it ...Show All

• .NET Development XmlSerializer and the Page object

  Hi! I want to create a log if an error occurs in my ASP.NET application. To get as much information as possible from the page where the error occurred,I'm trying to serialize the page this way: XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(m_page.GetType()); The page itself only consists of a single button. The error I'm getting is "There was an error reflecting type 'ASP.TestForm_aspx'". Does anyone know what is causing this error and/or how to fix it! Thanks!! Basically some member of the ASP.TestForm_aspx is not XmlSerializable, please look at the full exception message (with all inner exceptions) to determine which member is not XmlSerializable, then you can use the technique p ...Show All

• SQL Server Unable to truncate transaction log -- Replication was the problem

  I'm posting this because I just did quite a bit of searching on dealing with a huge transaction log that wouldn't truncate and didn't run across the solution for my issue, so I thought I'd post it here to help others. We had a Sql Server 2005 that had a huge transaction log and we were backing up the transaction log regularly. We couldn't get the log to shrink because sql server said it was in use. Turns out the problem was that we had played with having the database push a few tables to several sql server express edition databases via the builtin replication mechanisms. Those machines were no longer attempting to replicate however we hadn't turned replication off at the server. As a result it was leaving entries in the transaction ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL 2000 Enterprise Memory usage

  Hello... I have a couple servers that are running SQL 2000 Enterprise on Windows 2003 Enterprise edition with 8gig of ram.  However, we cannot seem to get the SQL server to take more than 1.7GB... Is there something that we are missing do we still need to to the /3g switch or any other startup switches Also is it a good idea to set the 'reserve physical memory for SQL Server' option for a dedicated machine Thanks for the help... I can seem to find this answer. and the windows server has the /PAE option set I was checking through task manager but we have a monitoring service that used the performance couters and that is the main data I was going off of.... how do you enable AWE I was ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Window AllowsTransparency="True" brings up error for Design view in VS2005

  Just been coding with WPF, and I always get this error when trying to look at the Design view when I have AllowsTransparency="True" for the window. I get the Whoops! screen, and more specifically I get an error in the Error List. Error: Property 'AllowsTransparency' was not found or is not serializable for type 'Window' To allow viewing in Design View, I have to get rid of the AllowsTransparency attribute. However, I can compile it and it runs fine with the AllowsTransparency property. And It also renders fine in Expression Blend's Design view. I know this is beta software we're looking at... but is it fixable BTW, Happy New Year from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia :-) Chris I ...Show All

• SQL Server Need to join two tables using only part of a field from one of the tables.

  I need to join two tables that both have a field called caseid. The field in table 1 is ten numbers and the field in table 2 is 15 numbers. The 10 most significant numbers are consistant in both table 1 and 2. How do I tell the join to only use the 10 most significant numbers from table 2 Or how do I tell the join to ignore the 5 least significant numbers from table 2 Thanks. Lonnie, Thanks, I was having a bit of difficulty getting the previous proposal to work for me, probably due to my understanding of the proposed solution. I was able to implement this option quickly and easily. I appreciate the input. ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums Keyboard layout for writing Russian coursebooks

  Hello, I'am using DDK for creating altered keyboard layout. There are a lot's of examples but i still have problem with russian accent (usually in russian don't use but in textbooks is still writing accent - it's heplfull for beginners). I tried to modify section with DEAD KEYS in my source file for layout but there is a problem that I need write for example " " or " " with accent and symbol with accent what I need is not in the Unicode chart. There are only > , > . I tried this, but it isn' works: static ALLOC_SECTION_LDATA VK_TO_WCHARS2 aVkToWch2[] = { // | | Shift | // |=========|=========| {'1' ,0 ,WCH_DEAD ,WCH_DEAD }, {0xff ,0 ,0x0301 ,0x0301 }, // it's only part ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions corewin_express.vsprops

  I am trying to edit this file per the instuctions. Can anyone explain the way to accomplish this Sorry for such an elementary question but I am an extreme novice/ 1. Find the file and copy it to a working location where you have write privileges. 2. In the VC++ IDE, select Tools | Options | Text Editor | All Languages | General. Check the "Display line numbers" box. 3. In the VC++ IDE, select File | Open File ... , navigate to the copy you made and open it. (It is an XML file that Visual Studio can open.) 4. Find the specified lines and make the indicated changes. 5. Save the file back where you got it. 6. Close VC++. 7. As administrator, return to the location of the original corewin_express.vsprops file a ...Show All

• Windows Forms Usercontrol inheritance stopped working in designer (VS 2005)

  Hi all.. I am creating an application that uses UserControl inheritance. I declared the base UserControl as abstract and derived from it 5 forms exist. When I used the designer, I could see visually all of the inherited controls. Until now. I don't know what happened but when I try to see any inherited control in the designer, the following error is shown : The designer must create an instance of type 'Gama.Tablas.Maestras' but it cannot because the type is declared as abstract. I haven't done any code change to the inherited forms. I tried by exiting VS and running it again, and the same happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think it is unuseful to post the code, because it is the same code VS creates when a new ...Show All

• .NET Development Database lookup with C#.net

  Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I desperatly try to find information about how to perform an automatic database lookup with C#.net. All I can find seems to relate to ASP.net. Currently I develop an application to maintain tarantula data, which should support different databases. The application should automatically detect databases either on a local machine or a network and present it to the user for selection. If anyone of you has got information relating to this topic, please let me know. Many thanks in advance, Andre Hexel Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I desperatly try to find information about how to perform an automatic database lookup with C#.net. All I can find seems to relate to ASP.net. Currently I develop a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System when i run unit test in team build i got error

  hi we are creating smart client application for our ERP product in that we are using web services for our windows base forms. we are using asynchronous mode to call the web service and get the response for that we put one model form for waiting. We are doing unit test of that from vsts unit test and its working properly but when i am trying to run my tests from team build i am getting the error. i change the the messagebox.show property as default desktop so its working for that but when the wait model form is used team build give the following error for that so please help me to solve the error so i can run my unit test from the team build. Error message Test method TestProject1.frmCorporateMasterTest.MCorporate_ValidateCorpC ...Show All

• Smart Device Development how do you hook Windows C.E 5.0 emulator to you VS2005

  I've got windows Mobile 5.0 Dev that contains a lot of emulator but none(Win C.E 5.0) i'm looking for, managed to get it on microsoft side as a separate project and i don't not how to hook it to vs2005 so that a can test my project against it for OS compatability. tried devmanager for smart devices without any luck. Visual Studio 2005 doesn't ship with Win CE 5.0 images. However the corresponding BSP is available free for ARM emulator (Emulator used by Visual Studio 2005). You will need to create image for WinCE 5.0 and roll & install SDK for it, then it will be visible in VS. This link explains the process http://blogs.msdn.com/barrybo/archive/2006/08/21/710908.aspx Hope this helps. -Thanks, ...Show All