Magannahan Skjellifetti's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Corrupt PDFs

  I have a series of PDF documents, all around 500k, all created using Adobe Illustrator CS. These documents are used in my project as templates for PdfSharp to generate PDF documents. The PDFs upload fine to Visual SourceSafe, however, when they are downloaded again to another SourceSafe client, the PDFs are corrupt. If opned in Adobe Reader, I get the error: An unrecognised token 'm8.1' was not found. Is it a known issue that checking PDFs (created by Illustrator CS) in to SourceSafe makes them corrupt Thanks, Nick Yes, PDFs can be corrupted if you're letting VSS autodetect the file type. The quick workaround is to add *.pdf to the binary type list (tools -> options -> file types) but tha ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office seprating location of vsto excel sheet and dll's in windos installer

  Hi, i have created a vsto excel application that installs in the program file in the set security project i keep default values /assemblyName="ccccccccccc.dll" /targetDir="[TARGETDIR]\" /solutionCodeGroupName="MyCompanyName.ccccccccc" /solutionCodeGroupDescription="Code group for cccccccccccc" /assemblyCodeGroupName="cccccccccccc" /assemblyCodeGroupDescription="Code group for ccccccccc" /allUsers=[ALLUSERS] how can i seprate the excel sheet and other dll's i wish to install excel sheet on the desktop and dll's as it is if u have the ans plz reply it is urgent Thank's varun Apurva - Now that you've posted ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development No images in IE7 from script

  I have a simple vbs script to display a splash page. This has worked in all prior versions of IE. I tried the registry change (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BLOCK_LMZ_SCRIPT) as mentioned on another thread, but that didn't help. I also tried adding about:blank to the local sites. I've tried resetting and setting various security settings, all to no avail. If the page that is generated by the vb script is saved as an html file the page displays correctly with the images. But no amount of coaxing will get the images to display from the script. I'd appreciate any hints as to whats going on here. Script: set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") giftop = fso. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Using Excel as a DataSource for coded web tests

  I have a web test which is databound. The backing datastore is an Excel spreadsheet and this works. However, if I turn that test into a coded web test the tests fail to run (note the tests don't fail, they don't even execute). If I remove the DataSource attribute from the coded test then I can get the test to run. The DataSource attribute looks like this: [DataSource("DataSource1", @"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\temp\Starbuzz\Starbuzz\testdrivendata\CoffeeMakerTestData.xls;Extended Properties='Excel 8.0'", DataBindingAccessMethod.Sequential, "Sheet2$")] And I get the following failure Error WebTest1Coded WebAppTest Could not run web test 'WebTest1Coded' on agent 'MACHINENAME': Ob ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Deployment and XML Content

  I have been looking but have not found information on the deployment process as it applies to my app. I have a Media folder in my project in Visual Studio Express.. It has many subfolders. The texture, Shader, and Sounds all get exported to the "deploy" folder automatically and get deployed to the xbox. However, here is my problem. All my other folders custom mesh format folder(binary), Skeletal structures folder(binary), and XML settings files in sub folders get completely ignored on compile and export. (When The process puts the files into the deployment folder (at compile time) and also ignored when sent to the XBOX. ) What am I doing wrong All the files are in the project but anything that is not turned XMB gets igno ...Show All

• SQL Server printing reports

  Hi Iam able to print only the first page in the local reports!!! Also, can I give the user the choice of using the local version or the enterprise version of the reports Any suggestions plz help Thanks contractor Not sure about the printing, but the following article by Teo Latchev shows a sample application that connects to both local and server reports http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/30424/0 ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get the MethodName?

  Hi there, I want to make use of my method names without typing each one, e.g. when throwing an ApplicationException. Whilst I can use this.ToString() for the class name, what can I use for the method name (All help I have found so far pertains to threading, a subject I am not yet ready for!) TIA, JackStri. You could use the StackTrace class. It is pretty expensive but so are exceptions. Here's an example: void throwException() { System.Diagnostics.StackTrace trc = new System.Diagnostics.StackTrace(true); throw new ApplicationException("From " + trc.GetFrame(0).GetMethod().Name); } Or more practical: public static string GetCallerName() { System.Diagnostics.StackTrace t ...Show All

• Gadgets Can I pay someone to build a gadget for me?

  I would like to have a gadget that will allow me to watch IP cameras on my sidebar. I use Axis IP cameras around my home and would love to be able to have them on the side bar with the ability to click on it to enlarge. Is this possible That sounds great. The axis cameras usually use an active x plugin. If you dont mind, I can send you an email with a some streams you can view online. Let me know and I will do that. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Extracting Cell information from Dataset or DataTable

  Hello, in .NET Framework you can extract the Exact cell info using the following ds.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item("columnName") In .NET Compact Framework there isn't an option you can get as far as ds.Tables(0).Rows(0) or ds.Tables(0).Columns("columnName") but there is no way to specify the Item or row... how can I extract the exact Cell from a Datatable in Compact Framework... It's exactly the same as on desktop framework: ds.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item("columnName") or without unneeded Item: ds.Tables(0).Rows(0)("columnName") What makes you believe you can't do it ...Show All

• SQL Server custom assembly problem

  I am developing a report in Reporting Services 2005 that references a custom assembly. In the custom assembly there are a function that get data from an access (mdb) database and returns a string value based on the parameter value that it receives. I have no problem using that function from the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, but when I try render the report via Report Manager the expression that uses the custom assembly function displays #error. The function do her job inside a try/cacth structure and if there are some error the return value of the function is the exception message. I test this and it works but here nothing about the message is diplayed. I reference a second custom assembly that have no data access components and it works fine in ...Show All

• Visual C# Returning an array

  I still need help understanding what is happening here: class ParamArrayWithReturn { public static void Main() { F(3, 2, 15); } public static int[][] F(int n, int m, int value) { int[][] x = new int[ n ][]; for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { x[ i ] = new int[m]; for (int j = 0; j < m; j++) x[ i ][j] = value; } return x; } } I see that we are going to dimension array to 3 indexes. Then I see what happens after that is that we then create two internal array indexes inside those 3. I also see that in this case, we will end up having the value of 15 at each index. I believe it will look something like this: 15, 15 15,15 15, 15 Now why would we return x here And what happens to it when it returns to the method call I am confused by that part ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Microsoft SQL Server is missing from the DataSource dropdown, cant connect to a SQL Server Express Database.

  I am trying to do the Chapter 1 project of Getting Started with ADO.net 2.0 Step by Step (microsoft press)... I enter the data source configuration wizard and select database, and press next. I then press the new connection button, and the Choose data source screen appears. In the List are only 2 options: Microsoft Access Database File Microsoft SQL Server Database File. The option they want me to choose does not appear in the list. Microsoft SQL Server sqlclient I tried following the instructions in this thread [http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx postid=85686&siteid=1] where a user had a similar problem, but had no success. I have reinstalled C#, reinstalled SQL Server Express 20 ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Problems Using DirectX 8.0

  ok, What I really would like is to download visual basic 6.0, but I cant find anywhere to do that.. My problem with visual Basic express edition, is I cant seem to get my reference to Directx 8 to work, I have reinstalled directx 8 and VB but it still wont work for me, any ideas> I am programming in BASIC and am very new at it... if anybody could help me I'd be very thankfull, you can contact me by emailing me at Lukeskiwalker@bellsouth.net , or posting here... Thank you very much, Wesly Are you typing the fully qualified typename when your typing them in If you added a reference and you havent put an imports statement in then you will have to type a fully qualified typename. If ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGrid like excel

  Hi, I don't have excel on computers where my application will be run. But I need something that works like excel. I mean that I want the datagrid looks and works like excel grid. Thank's Alexei The dataGridView will probably do the job for you, as it looks like excel but does not quite operate like excel. all the operations you would have to do manually (such as calculations etc...) you can fill the dataGrid with values from a datasource (Excel, SQL etc...) and can retrieve the values, update/delete/insert records. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.datagridview.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot create new project in Visual C# Express Edition IDE

  I just downloaded and installed Visual C# Exp Edn yesterday. When I do "create project" and type any project name, it failes with the error "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect". This happens irrespective of the project name chosen. Note the my USERNAME on this computer has an "&" in it, like "Mike & Jane" and I can not change that. The USERPROFILE environment variable also has an "&" in it consequently. My guess is that this ampersand mught be causing the problem. Is there any way of using Visaul C# IDE without changing my USERNAME Hi, Dmitra. >> Is there any way of using Visaul C# IDE ...Show All