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What is the difference among Visual Studio Express edition, microsoft.net and VS professional edition?

Hi, Could anyone guide me as what is the difference among the following, 1) Visual Studio Express Edition 2)Visual Studio Professioanl Edition 3) Microsoft .Net And is there any thing like Visual Studio.Net? Please guide me, as I am currently working on express edition, but my other colleaques are working on different environment which...

How to DataBind to specific item properties in an ItemsControl in the most elegant way?

Scenario: A ListView is DataBound to an ObservableCollection<CustomClass> and is displaying it's items through a custom ItemTemplate. The CustomClass just contains three string properties and one boolean property and already has INotifyPropertyChanged implemented on every of it's four properties. The custom ItemTemplate of the ListView h...

open a password protected word file in java?

how to open a password protected Microsoft word(.doc, .docx) file in java assuming that the password is known? ...

Synchronizing the database failed with the message 'string truncation...'

Using N-Tier synchronization to a Microsoft Compact DB: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb882690.aspx. Trying to refresh the local database cache to account for changes in the schema of the db we are syncing against. In the middle of Synchronizing local database cache, the message Synchronizing the database failed with the mes...

Proper choice of rules in VS2010's static analyzer

There are many groups in VS2010's static analyzer: All Rules Basic Correctness Rules Basic Design Guideline Rules Extended Correctness Rules Extended Design Guideline Rules Globalization Rules Minimum Recommended Rules Security Rules But it is too hard to decide on a proper option. What option do you use? What option do most of...

Disconnect MS keyboard volume keys from master volume control

The MS natural ergonomic keyboard has buttons on it for volume control. I would like to use these keys as hotkeys to control the volume on my media player instead Problem is, it controls the master volume only and there is nothing in my keyboard software or in my system utilities that can disable it. I have done some searching over the...

ReportViewer Render number of copies

Hi, I am using Microsoft ReportViewer (VS2008/VS2010) to generate PDFs on the server. This is the code I use to build my PDF report: PdfContent = rvEngine.LocalReport.Render("PDF", deviceInfo, mimeType, encoding, filenameExtension, streamids, warnings) If (PdfContent IsNot Nothing) Then Try Using fs As FileStream = New Fil...

Where can I download the Tech Days 10 Sessions DVD?

Where can I download the Tech Days 10 Sessions DVD? ...

SQL Server Replication subscribers filter

Guys, I have a task to do for my colleague and I need to know if is possible to specify the filter to subscribers when using replication in SQL Server? What I mean is, I don't want to create 3 types of publishers, each one to each one subscriber (with filter in publisher to redirect to specific subscriber but the inverse.) I want to in...

Where do I get Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management.dll?

Having a look at this code http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee862406%28VS.85%29.aspx It says "Add the Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management assembly to your project" but i cant seem to find out where to get Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management from. ...

How do you change the text colour of a label programmatically in Microsoft Expression Blend 4

Hey guys, How do I change a label's colour (for example labelname = myLBL) programmatically? Thanks Andy ...

Accessing a Microsoft Access database on Windows server

I have the unfortunate task of working with some legacy asp code and an Access database. I've uploaded the .mdb file to the web server (which is windows) but when I enter the url into the browser, I get a 404 page. Seems that the server is not recognising the database. Is this a problem anyone else has come across before? ...

Microsoft Bing?

What is the name of the algorithm used in Microsoft BING Search engine? ...

hide, or disable, the RibbonWindow icon

.net 4 wpf, microsoft ribbon control library, how do I hide, or disable, the RibbonWindow icon so that users can't double click it to close the window/application? I handle the window closing event, but if the end user double clicks the icon it closes the window even if I set cancel to true within the closing event handler. ...

Microsoft office Macro - Why is the document jumping around?

Hello All, This if the first time I write a Microsoft Office Macro. Basically, we have a few check boxes on page 1 and when one of them is checked, I need to auto-fill a text box on page 10 depending on which check box was checked. So each checkbox "on Entry" runs a macro. Say the options are "Outstanding", "Exceeded" and "Unsatis...

Microsoft Office 2007 Macro - Odd behavior. Cursor Jumps

Hi, I hope someone have some insight into this. I have a check box on page 1 and when it's clicked, it will launch a macro & insert a value to a text box on page 10. Simple The problem is, the script in the macro is looking for the value of another text box on page 5 to do some calculation. Whenever i do text5value = Val(oFFld("Text5...

Microsoft Chart Controls compiles to C# exe but won't run

I'm building an exe file using Microsoft Visual C# and I've installed Microsoft Chart Controls as an add-on. But whenever I try to run the exe on a different computer, it won't even open and it just crashes. I've tried creating the exe using both 2008 and 2010 editions. The problem is that the other computer doesn't have Microsoft Chart ...

Bootstrappers that download packages over the web from Microsoft

What are the best practices for creating internet download bootstrappers that reference Microsoft packages? For example InstallShield has a Setup Prerequisite that can download vstor40_x86.exe from Microsoft.com through a go.microsoft.com/fwlink link ID that resolves to the download url for that EXE. InstallShield didn't create a PRQ...

Does Visual Studio 2010 have a 64bit version?

I am really confused, I am trying to read about its new features but some pages in google come up with 64bit versions, but not in MS' official site. To my knowledge MS decided to keep it 32bit for the time being for VS 2010. Is this the case? ...

Updating form elements from classes that don't have access to them

I want to access certain form elements from classes that normally don't have access to them. Allow me to illustrate the problem. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Net; using S...