I've built COM add ins for PowerPoint XP and 03 that work perfectly, now I am trying to get them to work in Office 07 and am getting no where.

The problem seems to be that when I call an out of process (microsoft encoder) my code dies. There are no errors thrown, there is ummm, nothing, just dead code.

As an example;

Set encoder blah, blah, blah

encoder.start

Msgbox "Done".

In the above the encoder indeed starts, runs as expected, and then, zip, nada, nothing. Its as if the rest of the msgbox doesn't even exist.

We have some applications that uses Office Interop's. We have downloaded the PIA's from Microsoft and references the Interop dll's that are included there.

The problem occurrs when moving to a build server: In order to install the PIA on the build server, we must first install (at least one) Microsoft Office Application.

While we can do that, this seems somewhat incorrect to install client applications on a build server in order to just make it compile.

What is the recommended approach here In other projects we have created Interop-files manually be using the TlbImp tool. But with MS Office, we don't have a type library file.

Regards

/Jakob

I am trying to use the Entity Framework with a WCF service. It is giving me the following exception:

System.ArgumentException was unhandled by user code
Message="The default entity container name 'eKnowledgeSpaceDBModel.eKnowledgeSpaceDB' is invalid. The required mapping and metadata information could not be found.\r\nParameter name: defaultContainerName"
Source="System.Data.Entity"
ParamName="defaultContainerName"
StackTrace:
at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext.CreateMapConnection(String connectionString, String defaultContainerName)
at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext..ctor(String connectionString, String defaultContainerName)
at eKnowledgeSpaceDBModel.eKnowledgeSpaceDB..ctor(String connectionString) in f:\eKnowledgeSpaceSolution\eKnowledgeSpaceObjectModel\obj\Debug\eKnowledgeSpaceObjectModel.Model.cs:line 8656
at eKnowledgeSpace.Service.UserRegistrationMessageDirector.RegisterUser(UserDataContract user) in f:\eKnowledgeSpaceSolution\UserRegistrationService\MessageBuilder.cs:line 42
at eKnowledgeSpace.Service.RegistrationService.UserRegistration(UserDataContract user) in f:\eKnowledgeSpaceSolution\UserRegistrationService\UserRegistrationService.cs:line 26
at SyncInvokeUserRegistration(Object , Object[] , Object[] )
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.InvokeDelegate.Invoke(Object target, Object[] inputs, Object[] outputs)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc)

I am self hosting the WCF Service, and the host application config file is as follows:

< xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" >

<configuration>

<configSections>

<section name="system.data.ctp" type="System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactoriesConfigurationHandler, System.Data.CTP, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />

</configSections>

<system.data.ctp>

<DbProviderFactories>

<add name="SqlClient Data Provider" invariant="System.Data.SqlClient" description=".Net Framework Data Provider for SqlServer" type="System.Data.SqlClient.SqlClientFactory, System.Data.CTP, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />

<add name="Map Data Provider" invariant="System.Data.Mapping" description=".Net Framework Map Provider" type="System.Data.Mapping.MapProviderFactory, System.Data.Entity, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />

</DbProviderFactories>

</system.data.ctp>

<connectionStrings>

<add name="eKnowledgeSpaceDBConnectionString" connectionString="metadata=.;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider connection string=&quot;Data Source=EKNOWLEDGE\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=eKnowledgeSpaceDB;Integrated Security=True&quot;" providerName="System.Data.Mapping" />

</connectionStrings>

<appSettings>

<add key="HTTPBaseAddress"

value="http://localhost:8000/Registration/"/>

<add key="TCPBaseAddress"

value="net.tcp://localhost:8010/Registration/"/>

</appSettings>

<system.serviceModel>

<services>

<service name= "eKnowledgeSpace.Service.RegistrationService" behaviorConfiguration="RegistrationService">

<host>

<baseAddresses>

<add baseAddress="http://localhost:8000/Registration/"/>

<add baseAddress="net.tcp://localhost:8010/Registration/"/>

</baseAddresses>

</host>

<endpoint

address="Register"

binding="basicHttpBinding"

contract= "eKnowledgeSpace.Service.IRegistrationService"

</service>

</services>

<behaviors>

<serviceBehaviors>

<behavior name="RegistrationService">

<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />

<serviceSecurityAudit auditLogLocation="Application" messageAuthenticationAuditLevel="SuccessOrFailure" serviceAuthorizationAuditLevel="SuccessOrFailure"/>

</behavior>

</serviceBehaviors>

</behaviors>

</system.serviceModel>

</configuration>

What should I do to solve this problem. Is there any example of a Entity Framework being called by WCF Service

...is up at Codeplex.

D2X converts both 2D and 3D files, and comes with a sample application and documentation.

If you're at all interested in any mixture of CAD/WPF, download the release and let me know what you think.

Cheers,

F.

Hi,

I have an object called Product and that product as a property of type List<Photo>. Photo is an object with an URI and a few more properties. What I want to do is in the DataTemplate access the first Photo of each product. I have something like this for the other properties in the Product Object:

<GridView x:Key="gridView" AllowsColumnReorder="True">
<GridViewColumn Header="Tipo de negocio"
DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=TypeOfBussiness}"/>
<GridViewColumn Header="Tipo de imovel"
DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=TypeOfProduct}"/>
<GridViewColumn Header="Tipologia"
DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Path=Typology}"/>
</GridView>

And I wanted to define another GridViewColumn to show the photo, that will be in a data template. The problem here is binding to the path provided in the first Photo object of the List<Photo> in Products.

Thank you
Bruno Silva

help urgently required.

I have attempted to run a CognosController.Msi file but the installation failed with the following error: "There is a problem with this windows installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run."

I currently have .NET framework 1.1 including SP1 installed.

Any tips on how I can resolve this problem.

Thanks

I created a report that works and displays properly in both the preview tab in the IDE and when previewing it in the running application (using the crystal report viewer control in a windows form).

I wanted to use the same report in another project. So, I chose to add an existing item and found the report. The report was added to the project just fine. However, if I run the application and preview the report, bold text and lines are not displayed in it. Oddly enough, if I resize the preview window using my mouse, they suddenly appear, so they are there. If I scroll or do anything else, though, they disappear again. They also don't appear in the preview tab in the IDE.

Any ideas How can I use the existing report

By the way, I'm using VS2005 for this.

Thanks!

• Draft.PresentationDesignMarkup.dll (408KB)
• PresentationDesignCore.dll (184KB)
• PresentationDesignDevelopper.dll (372KB)
• PresentationDesignFramework.,dll (84KB)

Hello,

I have an ItemControl which have its ItemsSource set to a List instance. The ItemsControl's ItemsPanel property is set to StackPanel.

I want to connect two elements in the ItemsControl with a line when the user click with the right mouse button on an item.

How can I draw a line between the two elements

Thank you,

Ido.

Hello everyone.

I have a question about the Office 12 Interops - I wish to develop a solution for that platform under .NET v2, But the interops i have right now are either COM or .NET v1.1 assemblies.

Are there any v2 interops planned (Although the v1.1 interops seem to work with v2 form applications) Which are preferable - COM or Managed

Thanks in advance,

Ran Sagy.