Colt Kwong Blog

I have a User Control containing a Error Provider, and I need to find and parse it out of my Action Pane control. So, I get a reference to the parent control and then loop all children recursively (pretty common approach, right?) Once I find the Error Provider, I can cast and further work on it ideally.

However, I can't find this control from the control tree (surprise me) because I'm able to see the parent control (ContainerControl) of the Error Provider is the User Control itself...



What I finally did is to create a Get property on the User Control and expose the Error Provider.

Colt Kwong

SQL 2000:

I install the latest 2007 Office System Beta 2 build in my dev machine this morning, the first dialog box make me confused immediately:


I select English and process installation, but the title and language are displayed (as Spanish I guess) in all of the remaining steps.. so I aborted and start step 1 installation again. This time, I select the first item in the ListBox (Pay attention to the title in the diagram above) and process the installation.

After installation, another locale problem found because I can not run my VSTO application! An error message come out:
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80028018 (TYPE_E_INVDATAREAD))

I searched up and down and found this "unbelievable" fix: http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2005/06/15/429515.aspx
[Copy the Excel.EXE (Application file) and rename it as XLLEX.DLL (Application Extension) file then it work? What's the secret and logic?]

Ok, this fix the problem, but I found the linkage of VSTO runtime and CLR runtime were lost. (Another error message come out:
The CLR runtime could not be loaded... blah blah). Therefore, I have to manually re-register the VSTO load up runtime, done. My VSTO app run again.

I heard lots of good feedback about 2007 Office System Beta 2 build, so I want to give it a try once I received the DVD. However, the experience of installatio make me so worry now... I can fix all problems apparently, but this blog mentioned that I may face other "unexpected" and "unknown" problem in different locale and CultureInfo environment for my VSTO solution... How can I make sure everything is alright because I'm pretty sure there're lots of combination and locale for my VSTO clients and information workers in my company. :(

Colt Kwong

Normally, my PC at work is always on and I connect to it via VPN even I'm at home. However, I can't use remote desktop client to control my PC at home recently.

After authenticate with the VPN server successfully, a "black" screen come out if I try to connect to my work PC and then an error message will appear:

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Fatal Error (Error Code: 5)
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The session will be disconnected. Your computer may be low on memory.
After closing some applications, try to reconnect the session.

I have no idea what's happened and I try to close as many program/services as I can before I leave work. I also report this problem to a technical service IT Pro colleague and he asked me to wait for some more time as bandwidth maybe the cause of problem... well, I wait until the error message come out and... guess what? I found this trick tonight and it helps me a lot! (without solving the root of problem though)

I haven't try the latest Beta 2 release of IE 7 yet, but is it mean that I can't access to the partner site? (I tried Firefox and IE 7 5335.5 build but both failed).

Downloading now... (252Mb)


Colt Kwong

It's a big and good news about VS Express products for all Microsoft dev, I believe lots of freelancers or dev have the excuse to (re)write their app on Framework 2.0 from now on. :)
(Be sure to check out the FAQ before writing or deploying your app to your client)

Colt Kwong

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