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We were trying to upgrade an Wod 2003 template (dot) to 2007 template (dotm). This template has a custom toolbar and the toolbar still seemd to work in Word 2007. Problem was, the key tips ware all messed up like my buttons are being assigned key tips I didn't assign and there just doesn't seem...
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This thing is still such a pain in the %#2. Or maybe I just don't have enough UI designing experience. I had to make the UI flexible enough to fit on different screen resolutions , different font sizes and flexible enough even on form resize . I can't describe how I did it exactly but the major...
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Ok, some of you might find it bad that I'm triyng to relate Eclipse with Visual Studio too much, feature to feature. But I can't help it, having used Eclipse for the past 3 years. So I was trying to find a functionality like " Open Resource " (CTRL + SHIFT + R) in Eclipse. I've...
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Here's an interesting exercise for the day. In Visual Studio 2005/2008, 1. Create a new Console Application. 2. Put in the following code in Main: double x = 5.15; double y = x / 100; Console.WriteLine("y = " + y); 3. Put a breakpoint at the Console.Writeline(..). 4. Press F5 to debug the...
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So for those of you aching to try the new partial methods feature this is your chance. You can access it here . Scott Guthrie has a post about the features and an installation note to prevent your older asp.net ajax applications from having a dependency on the asp.net ajax binaries that come with beta...
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Jetbrains has just released their beta version of Resharper 3.0, download it here . Again, VB.NET guys out there, you should try Resharper since it now supports your language. Resharper 3.0 will now come into three versions (C#, VB and Full edition). I will be upgrading my copy to just the C# version...
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This is my first blog post using Windows Live Writer . Setting up WLW to post to devpinoy was a great experience. All I had to do was give it the URL for my blog [http://community.devpinoy.org/blogs/velocity] and my username + password and it will try to guess the web blog provider as well as download...
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I encountered this problem last week, wherein the LINQ project templates were missing in the "New Project" dialog of VS2005 Team System even after doing "everything" (machine reboot, "install IDE support", etc.). By searching the web (through the help of our trusty buddy, "google"), i was able to determine...
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If you're not using this shortcut you probobly be either using a build server or build script on your project OR you are suffering from waiting for your build to start and press Stop to continue working, because you have accidentally pressed the F5 while coding. Now that you're have 5+ web projects,...
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We've just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 (finally!) and I'm currently exploring Visual Studio Tools for Office for my next project. It's my first time to use it and i have seen it used in one of the events through MS Philippines. The project's specification targets Excel 2000 three years ago and according...
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i just found out a bug on visual inheritance concerning the new controls in .NET 2.0. Basically it says that if you have an inherited control (non-private), designer won't allow you to "design it" in the child form (they're locked). more info here .
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i noticed yesterday that my double quote key is switched with the @ key in visual studio. i tried it in notepad and it seems to be working. i'm glad i found a helpful post in the msdn forums this morning on how to fix this and it turns out that i have two language settings installed, US and UK, i...
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the development machine of my teammate is pretty messed up so i assumed that the hooking up of visual studio ide events on his machine is not working. one of the features i love with visual studio is when it automatically highlights the currently active code sheet in the solution explorer and this feature...
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i was creating this excel workbook reader module so i referenced the excel com interop assembly which resulted in a failing build in our build server minutes after i commit. the problem is because the said assembly is in my machine's global assembly cache, however, it is not existing in the build server...
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i have encountered a lot of errors using ankh to checkin my changes with subversion for the past week. it's just that there are few updates on the development of ankh and tortoisesvn is more reliable. although i admit, it's a little tedious going to explorer just to use tortoise to checkin the changes...