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Excel activity is viewable

Hi! I'm using the following code to generate an Excel file using Microsoft.Interop.Excel. The problem is that I can actually see the workbook generation, when the code is executed, an excel document is open on the screen and the doc starts filling out with data. Can this be done somehow in the background? Thanks Microsoft.Office.Inter...

Not able to run the Windows Workflow Foundation sample HiringRequest

Hi, I am currently exploring the possibilities of WF. Now i downloaded some sample from here. I wanted to take a look at the hiring request sample applications which is also showed in one of the webcasts from enpoint.tv. When I start op the project and want to see how the HiringRequestProcess.xaml looks like I get errors. It's says ...

How do I set a default message in Office Communicator when opening a new conversation with a URI?

I'm using the Office Communicator Shell Integration to launch a new conversation with a resource using a URI to launch the conversation. However I want to inject a default message that the user just needs to click enter to send. I want to accomplish the same that the mailto: shell integration provides, but is that possible using a URI f...

Questions Concerning CardSpace Security

I need to discuss and know the possible seucruity issues in Microsoft CardSpace. I have been reading the official guide for CardSpace. So far, one of the concern that I see is that it is plain XML information which is being communicated. Solution to that is SSL or some certificates. But besides that, what are known issues in Microsoft ...

Microsoft CDN - How about the .css and images of jQuery UI themes?

Hi I know that the usage of Microsoft CDN improves the website performance when talks about .js But what about the images? The styles of jQuery UI themes are hosted too in CDN, and all the images of the themes also. Using the styles of themes, and consequently images also, improves the performance like.js does? Thanks ...

Microsoft Media Foundation - Decode h264 samples

Hi, I used the Microsoft Media Foundation samples (namely MFCaptureToFile) to capture H264 frames from my webcam and write them to a file. I'm trying to use IMFTransform to decode the captured frames and get the underline images out (YUV, BMP, whatever). However, the ProcessInput method never returns with MF_E_NOTACCEPTING, and the Pr...

Disabling Depth Buffer checks in XNA 4.0 on Windows Phone 7

I don't see a RenderState as a member in the GraphicsDevice class, which is where the functions for disabling the depth buffer used to be. Anyone know how this is done with this new 4.0 API? It would be great if I could somehow access a full RenderState-like class somewhere.. GraphicsDevice seems to have gotten some of it, but not nea...

Is anyone member of microsoft websitespark program?

I'd like to know community feedback about this program. Sounds quite interesting but I doesn't seem that many people / companies are currently using it. Here is the link for those that don't know it. ...

how to do sharepoint database disk usage analysis and selective replication?

Hello, I have a SharePoint 2007 database that is 16GB in size and I want to know why, and how I can reduce the size. Ideally I would like a trimmed replica to use as a developer workstation that retains a good sample data set, and has the ability to be refreshed. Can you please tell me if there are any third party tools or other meth...

Using Vim to edit Microsoft Word files

I have found a vi emulator for microsoft word here: ViEmu but I wanted to use vim to edit DOC or even rtf files. My question is , is this possible ? Are they any other formats that preserve page/paragraph layout combatible with both Microsft Word and Vim ? I am also open to OpenOffice formats . ...

Silverlight in Safari and Firefox by default?

I'm curious, how does Microsoft plan to embed Silverlight into Safari and Firefox. Because if it doesn't come shipped with Safari and Firefox by default, why should anyone use it? They are counting on that the average user is installing it when he/she sees: "Silverlight need to be installed"? Maybe they won't install and just leave th...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 - Custom Views for entities (Advance Find - saved views) - where are their queries in database?

So each CRM user has their own saved views for each entity such as Account, Manager, Fund etc. But here's the issue: I need to delete a tab which has some form data. But if I delete the tab the views that use the information on this tab will break. For example, if I deleted a tab called "FUNDS" then a view that I had saved as "Fund In...

Microsoft Project Link a task inbetween another task

I am using MS project 2007. I know I can split a task to delay it when interuptions happen. But what if a task is intentionally delayed by another task during certain periods of the week before returning back to the main task. In other words task 1 ------------ ----------------------- task 2 --------- I could just...

VB macro to open a SaveFileDialog using the Microsoft Project application

I'm working on a VB macro which generates an Excel report out of a Microsoft Project planning. In order to save the report, I have to open a Save File Dialog by calling GetSaveAsFilename("name", , , "Title") but I don't want to use the Excel.Application for this because I'm supposed to activate it first which doesn't make sense. How s...

Why should I test for both MSXML2.XmlHttp and Microsoft.XmlHttp version-independent ProgIDs?

I have read the MSDN blog post about the subject. And this question doesn't help me much either. As far as i can tell checking Microsoft.XmlHttp is enough. Someone could confirm me this bug? Are there any earlier version of IE which require detecting both? ...

QT: How Can I build QT under Microsoft Visual C .NET 2005

Hi All. I need to build and use QT within Microsoft visual C 2005 project. Is it possible to do that and how to? ...

MS Ribbon for WPF - How can I change the skin

Hi All, I'm using the latest version of MS Ribbon for WPF (3.5.40729.1). Downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2BFC3187-74AA-4154-A670-76EF8BC2A0B4&displaylang=en and want to change the skin of ribbon. How can I change the skin ? Is microsoft planning to provide any skins in the next release? ...

How to transfer data from Microsoft Access to SQL server 2008?

Hi friends, In my current project i have to transfer data EVERY DAY from MS Access to Sql Server 2008 standard edition. of course i can use SQL Migration tool to transform Access database into Sql Server database, but problem is i have to do this again and again every day to keep updating my sql server database. SO is there any way i c...

Microsoft patterns and Practices, Anyone?

I happend to go through the below site from one of the Stack over flow Questions. http://webclientguidance.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Getting_Started_Feb_2008 Is this "One of the" way to create our web app from VS? I can create a Website,Web App,MVC web apps. now one more? man, its getting confusing. ...

Deploy Red5 on Microsoft Azure

Does anybody know if red5 can be deployed on Mircosoft Azure Cloud? The only hint I got was in MSDN forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/d58fdffe-27a4-4e77-8683-4f58fc037ff9 Thanks! Marc ...