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• Visual Studio Tools for Office Changing the completed task color programatically in outlook 2003

  hi,  how can i reffer the Completed task color and Overdue task color   in outlook 2003 i have 3 conditons and based on that conditon the task should be displayed in different colors.     Are you referring to the category color This can be done using the Category.Color property. You should also look at the resources I list here: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnrdurant/archive/2005/12/07/vsto_outlook_resourcelist.aspx Best, John ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Editing QTControllerConfig.xml Manually

  Hi, I find that the Controller to Agent Mapping information is stored in QTControllerConfig.xml in the following format. <agent> <name xmlns="">AgentMachineName</name> <port xmlns="">0</port> <online xmlns="">1</online> <weighting xmlns="">100</weighting> <enableipswitching xmlns="">0</enableipswitching> <baseip xmlns="" /> <netmask xmlns="" /> <ipstart xmlns="">0</ipstart> <ipend xmlns="">0</ipend> <nic xmlns="" /> </agent> Whenever we edit the Agent ...Show All

• Windows Forms Display messagebox without the default cross button

  Good Day, How do I display a message box without the close button at the top right corner Thanks. Regards Alu ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Geometry instancing support on 360?

  I'm working on a geometry instancing demo and I noticed in the XML documentation for GraphicsDevice.SetFrequency() that the method (and related methods) are "Windows Only". Is this a mistake I haven't the link by hand now, but you can read the NVidia SDK 9.5 documentation with a performance comparision diagram and the recommendations. Probably the techique has been greatly improved in the newest Direct3D10, I have no info but http://www.nvidia.com/object/dx10-instancing-gdc-2006.html ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tool to find circular dependencies?

  Hi, Is there a tool/add-on to find circular project dependencies It's easy to find when you only have 3 projects, but I've got a lot more than that, and it doesn't seem trivial to figure out (yeah yeah, I'm working on improving the design, but in the short term, I'd like to find this circular dependency). Visual Studio (2005) tells the user that there is a circular dependency, but, annoyingly enough, it doesn't say what the circular dependency is. It wouldn't be hard to list all the projects that depend on each other, in order: project1 depends on project2 project2 depends on project3 project3 depends on project1 Or, more tersely, project1 -> project2 -> project3 -> project1 Hmm, thanks for doing that, and I h ...Show All

• Windows Forms Oledbcommand issue

  I have a problem with my piecie of code. Dim SelectID, returnVal, ErrID, Head, Tail, NewErrorID, where_cond As String Dim LenErrID, LenHead, LenTail, LenVal As Integer Dim dr As OleDb.OleDbDataReader If ModuleID <> "" Then where_cond = "where Module_ID='" + ModuleID + "' Group By Module_ID;" Else where_cond = "" End If 'this will select the last error_id that in this table. SelectID = "Select Max(Error_ID) as Error_ID,Module_ID From Error_Tracking " + where_cond + " " OleDbConn = New OleDbConnection(connStr) cmd = New OleDbCommand(SelectID, OleDbConn) OleDbConn.Open() 'cmd.Connection.Open() dr = cmd.ExecuteReader Do While dr.Read ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions IE Plugins

  how can i add my IE plugins to my web browser i'm making HOW COME I'm NOT GETTING AN ANSWER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...Show All

• .NET Development vfpoledb & cdx > dbf problems

  Cindy, I am running into a similar issue with an Application written in FoxPro that I am trying to link to in SQL 2005. I have created a linked server and pointed it to the System DSN that I created, however I receive an error message stating the file I'm trying to query does not exist. Here's the particulars. SQL2005 Standard Windows 2003 Standard SP1 File I'm trying to link to was created in Abra, called hrPersnl.dbf (There is also a CDX file). System DSN: Name is hrPersnl and it is set to "Free Table directory" and pointing to a mapped network drive "r:\Programs\Data" Linked Server Information: Provider: MS OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers Product Name: hrPersnl Data source: hrPersnl Provider strin ...Show All

• .NET Development Writing carriage return control characters

  I would like to write out physical carriage return control characters onto a MS Access text field. E.g. I would like to write out the following data onto a text field "DATA". ".Net <cr>" "Framework data access <cr>" "and storage <cr>" I've an OleDbConnection to MS Access, and created a SQL statement "insert "INSERT INTO table (DATA) VALUES ('.Net Framework data access and storage'). What character should I be using First of all it is better to use parameterized query. It would allow you to pass any acceptable values with the special characters to the SQL statement and avoid potential SQL injection issues. To pass carriage retu ...Show All

• SQL Server accesssing mirrored databases via SQLNCLI linked server?

  Does anyone know how to configure a mirrored pair as a linked server on a 3rd instance Say I have a mirrored database on two servers: PRIMARY and SECONDARY. I want to create a linked server on a 3rd machine that allows me to access the database on the mirrored pair. This is what I'm using: EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver @server = N'MIRROR', @srvproduct=N'', @provider=N'SQLNCLI', @provstr=N'Server=PRIMARY;FailoverPartner=SECONDARY;' select count (*) from mirror.pubs.dbo.authors and it works fine if the database on PRIMARY is alive. however when the mirror has failed over to SECONDARY and PRIMARY is no longer available, I get the following when I try to query the database via the linked server: OLE DB provid ...Show All

• SQL Server Diffuculty with printing fonts in Reporting Services

  Printing different fonts in a report seems unreliable - sometimes the chosen font is printed, sometimes a "default" font.  If it isn't a standard windows font, it seems to always print a default font instead.  The report views ok, its just printing.  Is this just me or is there something I can do to get round it   I'm printing certificates which need to look attractive, hence the need for unusual fonts. All the fonts in use are installed on both the server and the client. John   ...Show All

• SQL Server how to create usable copy of live database

  SQL 2000 question... We have a reporting database (db_new) that is created each night - a process takes about 12 hours. During this time we would like to give our users 24 hr access to a full copy of the most recent database and when creation of the new data is complete 'swap' the new database into the visible position (db_vis). We have discussed several possible way of achieving this: e.g. using sp_renamedb, backup/restore or just copy the .mdf/.ldf files. The quickest method will be the prefered solution, also one that takes account of users possibly accessing the db_vis at time of switchover. Many thanks Lonsdale As you have no doubt noticed, it is impossible to have users actively using a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Deploy error: User does not have permission to run DBCC auditevent

  I am wondering if anyone has run into this error when trying to deploy a Database to server environment not locally. User does not have permission to run DBCC auditevent I have tried cutting out permissions, users, even everything but the table objects and nothing has worked. If anyone can give any insight into this error I would appreciate the help. Yes, if you have different users in the project vs. the target we will always script out the differences in users, roles, etc. Permissions will always be in the permissions.sql post-deploy script and will simply be those that were imported initially. Sounds like you found the correct work-around to take care of your situation. ...Show All

• Visual C# Feedback on Generics Prototype

  I am building a generic data mapper factory and would like any feedback on the following snippet which would represent the mapper factory. In the code below, MyEntity is a custom entity that is hyrdated by the MyEntityMapper which implements IDataMapper<T> (constructing T as MyEntity in the implementation). The client would call the method as follows: IDataMapper < MyEntity > mapper; mapper = DataMapper .GetMapper< MyEntity >(); MyEntity entity = mapper.FindSingle< int >(5); Specifically, I am interested in any concerns around the way I determine the type of T, and, if the resulting API could be any cleaner or more efficient: public static IDataMapper <T> GetMapp ...Show All

• Visual C++ VC++ 6.0 & VC++.Net

  I have been programming in VC++ 6.0 for some time. I recently migrated to .NET platform with C#2.0 & VB.NET 2.0.... What I want to know is that : 1) Will VC++6.0's MFC code will run as it is in VC++.NET 2.0. 2) Also, are VC++6.0 MFC's classes and VC++.NET 2.0 MFC's classes same, or have they evolved in the .NET version in any way.... Also, have any new classes been added to the .NET MFC's library That was absolutely new for me, and have raised a few more queries... 1) I have heard of both Managed C++ & VC++.NET... Are they really the same thing, or are they two diferent flavours of the language (I thought them to be synonyms ) 2) Now, when you talk about C++ (the C99 standard based) & C++/CL ...Show All