Fartlek's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VBA or .NET?

  Hi, I'm planning on creating a customized toolbar for Powerpoint 2003 which would have a custom color palette, custom icons, create new slides based on a table of contents, etc. I'm weighing my options trying to decide between VBA and .NET with VSTO 2005. I talked to Microsoft MVP Jonathan West concerning this choice, and his gave me some pretty compelling reasons for choosing VBA, namely: VSTO 2005 has no special tools for Powerpoint VSTO 2005 SE only works for Office 2007 (not Office 2003) COM add-ins are a pain with .NET Accessing the Powerpoint object model with VBA would be easier than with .NET for this specific project What does the forum say about this Is VBA the clear choice Thanks, Pete Thank ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Smart Device Programming Working example

  Hi, I try to write a simple application with winform and web service for smart Device ( Pocket PC 2003 SE) in VS2005. In the toolbox, I could not find any object such as textbox, button or label controls at all. I downloaded some examples application for smart device in Microsoft website and none of them are working ( may be I do not know how to configure to make those work). Do you have any simple working example like "Hello Wolrd" for me to take a look Regards, JDang Hi, see these links: http://office.ifd-sofia.com/vs1.jpg http://office.ifd-sofia.com/vs2.jpg Regards ...Show All

• Visual C# What is the difference b/w running 2.0 web sample by directly pressing F5 key and CTRL+F5 keys?

  Please let me know the difference between running 2.0 web samples by directly pressing F5 key and CTRL+F5 keys. Every time while I run the new web sample if asks both the option like “ Run with out debugging ” & “ Add a web config file with debugging enabled ”. I have a web config file globally in root directory. So I need to disable this option and run all the samples with out debugging. Thanks in advance. Actually, at run time, ASP.NET uses the configuration information provided by the Web.config files in a hierarchical virtual directory structure to compute a collection of configuration settings for each unique URL resource. So, before start it up the web.config knows nothing about it, it is about  IIS se ...Show All

• SQL Server SqlCeResultSet - Problem After Deleting First Record

  Hi, I've noticed that after the first record from a ResultSet is deleted, HasRows property throws an exception like "The current row was deleted." Method ReadFirst() throws similar exception as well. More details: 1. Create a ResultSet: ExecuteResultSet( ResultSetOptions .Updatable | ResultSetOptions .Scrollable | ResultSetOptions .Sensitive) 2. Let's say, there is no records in the resultset. Insert two new ones. Then call: ReadAbsolute(0); Delete(); HasRows; and the exception is thrown. 3. Then you can call ReadFirst() or Read with the same result. 4. Now call ReadAbsolute(0). It returns true. Call HasRows, ReadFirst() or Read() and you will get the exception each time. I tried to explain th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 not recognizing 2005 solution files

  Hello, I apologize if this has been asked before or if I am placing it in the wrong section, but I searched and couldn't find anything pertaining to my bizarre problem, and it seemed to fit in this area best. I am using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition at my workstation. I have used it to successfully open and use a number of solutions which were converted over from the 2002 format several months ago. However, as of today, Visual Studio has decided for no apparent reason to no longer recognize these solution files that I opened as recently as yesterday. Whenever I try to open a solution file from the "Recent Projects" list (which, again, is how I generally always open solutions), Visual Studio runs the Conversion Wizard, w ...Show All

• Windows Forms Converting Point from Control to Parent Form coordinates

  Hi all Is there an easy way to convert a Point object (such as MouseEventArgs.Location) from the local Control's coordinate system to its Parent Forms system Currently I am doing something like: void MyMouseDown(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { Point ScreenPoint = ((Control)sender).PointToScreen(e.Location); Point FormPoint = this.PointToClient(ScreenPoint); //this is the Form object } But that seems something of a hack to me. The only other way I can think of is to work my way up the heirarchy of parent controls, adding their location to the mouse location until I get to the Form. But that seems even worse. Is there simple function such as the PointToClient() for the Form Cheers ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development IE7 and issue with TrackPopupMenu(Win32) within ActiveX-control

  Hello. I have a trouble with calling win32-function TrackPopupMenu from ActiveX in new Interner Explorer 7 (RC1 and all betas). The situation is: I have some ActiveX-control - "MyPopupMenu". This control is being used to show context popup menu. To do it, it used win32 function from winuser.h. There's an issue with one of them - TrackPopupMenu. Control has worked fine in IE6, but in IE7 it doesn't. When TrackPopupMenu is called in non-dialog window, nothing happens! There's no popup menu (it was constructed by calling CreatePopupMenu and InsertMenuItem previously). But popup menu still works fine in dialog windows (ones that created in script by window.showModalDialog). Can anybody help me THX. Hi, Can ...Show All

• Community Chat Developer Solutions team needs you! Well your ideas anyway...

  Hi everyone, I'm a PM on the Developer Solutions team (I work with Joe), and I need some input from you all. I'm putting together a roadmap for some of our future Power Toys work, and we need some good ideas. I've posted about what I'm looking for over on my blog so if you're interested in helping us out, pop on over and check out my post. Thanks in advance for all the great ideas I know you'll send us. :) -Jeremy Kelley i know i won't be spending money on anything that dosen't do the job i need it to, and that would include VS without support for the database i already have infromation in. I suppose anyone else with MySQL databases setup already who want to develop a web or desktop app to utiliz ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC when trying to access Range properties

  I just starting to experiment with VS2005 and the VSTO 2005 SE Beta and I've run into a problem I don't seem to be finding the solution to. I'm working in Windows Vista and Office 2007 and have applied the service pack and the Vista update to my VS2005 Professional installation. What I'm trying to do is determine whether an Excel cell that is double clicked is in a named range. My first experiment was to display the local address in the cell when the cell was double clicked and this worked perfectly. When I try to access the name property, however, I recieve the following error Exception rethrown at [0]: at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg) at System.Runtime.Remo ...Show All

• .NET Development How to establish an SSL sesion

  How can I establish an SSL session ! When I connect to a SSL site using my browser, the SSL session is established. But when i try to do the same using C# I don't seem to be succesfull. Thanks! In C# on line; Stream streamPostData = p_aWebRequest.GetRequestStream(); I get the following message; The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. ...Show All

• SQL Server how to do this in SSIS? soory if i m a noob

  Hi all, Am trying to setup a SSIS package between a sql2000, sql2005 source and a sql2005 destination. I have 2 concerns, firstly, due to performance reasons (we have 2 huge legacy databases): After 1st run, Source table has: 1 - 1000 records Destination table has: 1 - 1000 records For 2nd run, Source table has: 1 - 1500 records Destination table has: 1 - 1500 records How I insert only the 1001th record - 1500th record, without touching the 1st to 1000th record Secondly, if there are any changes in values in the records 1st to 1000th record, how to I compare and only update the value that has changed Is there any particular configuration setting in sql that I can use Many thanks for any help provided. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Localization in WCF Service PerSession

  Hi, I did like it : [ ServiceBehavior (InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode .PerSession, ConcurrencyMode = ConcurrencyMode .Multiple)] [ ErrorBehaviorAttribute ( typeof ( ServicesErrorHandler ))] public class suNETServices : IMonitorService , IOperatorService { private System.Globalization. CultureInfo _cultureInfo; public suNETServices() { SetCulture(); } private void SetCulture() { if (_cultureInfo == null ) { _cultureInfo = new System.Globalization. CultureInfo ( ConfigurationManager .AppSettings[ "Culture" ]); } Thread .CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = _cultureInfo; } } The problem is even using PerSession as client call any method, WCF create a new Thread and uses the windows defau ...Show All

• Windows Forms prevent TabPage from getting focused

  Hi, All How can I prevent TabPage from gettign focused while selects it programmatically (through TabControl.SelectedTab property) Thanks, in advance. Unfortunately, exactly in this case it is reasonable to prevent focusing. In two words I have next situation: I have the form with TreeView and TabControl controls on it. User can navigate through TreeView by arrow buttons and can select any TabPage in TabControl using predefined shortcuts. Each TabPage contains a piece of information about selected TreeNode in TreeView. I think it is better to get focused on TreeView to allow user to navigate through it continuously. P.S. I suppose it is not good behaviour of control to stealing focus. It is mu ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) |DataDirectory|

  Hey team, I know this is a bit obvious, but I wanted to make sure it's covered... Are you guys planning on supporting the |DataDirectory| keyword in the mapping connection string :) Mike What kind of information exactly do you want to pass to the connection as “DataDirectory” ...Show All

• SQL Server Cannot connect to 2000 analysis services from SSMS for 2005

  I am not able to connect to SQL Server 2000 analysis services from the SSMS for SQL Server 2005. I have both domain admin and sql server 2000 admin permissions for the sql server 2000 box in question. The error message I get is as follows: A connection cannot be made. Ensure the server is running. Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it ( system) This is a Standard Edition install of both SQL Server 2005 and of SQL Server 2000 on separate servers. I can connect to database engine just fine. Any ideas about what permissions I need that I've screwed up on setting Thanks S Wells I hope you are wrong too because what I need ...Show All