I want to localize my installer but in Visual Studio 2008, Localization Property drop down does not contain the language. I think we could use code page but if users don't want to change locale in Region and language in their computers, characters will display wrong. I've read the article at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2005/10/05/msi-databases-and-code-pages.aspx, it said that MSI unofficially support UTF-8 but I'm not familiar with MSI. Have anyone experienced, please point me. Thank you.
Visual Studio offers only a small number of languages for package localization. If you want a language which is not in the list, you can try using a different setup authoring tool which supports it.
My requirements is similar, but not the same.
I want that my custom setup recognized the language of the OS and visualized all the messages in this language.
A possible workaround may be to insert a dropdown which has all my languiges, but i really don't know how.
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guys!
we are developing a formula editor.
we want to insert our formula in Word (the formula image is normally displayed in Word) and edit again, just like xlsx files.
when double clicking, we want to launch our editor program to edit the formula and then replace it in Word.
we have already done that on Windows, but under the macOS, we are confused because we do not know how to implement them.
can you please tell me if that possible? is there a similar function implementation of office word under macos?
any advice or suggestion is welcome!
No, it is not possible because OLE is based on the COM technology which exists on Windows only.
As a possible solution you may consider creating an Office web add-in which can be installed on all platforms from web browsers to Mac OS. See Develop Office Add-ins for more information.
You can post or vote for an existing feature request on Tech Community where they are considered when the Office dev team go through the planning process.
I want to create a dashboard on Google Data Studio using a template provided by my organization but I can't find any helpful resource to do that so I'm tempted to think that's not even possible. I tried to use "Extract theme for image" option in GDS but didn't work properly since it just tries to emulate the colors from the image and not the template itself.
Any advice or suggestion will be much appreciated.
Unfortunately, there is no way to achieve this.
Although last versions of Google Data Studio contains resources to allow it to present dashboards as it were a presentation software, I don't think it is intended to offer advanced resources for this task, neighter make it compatible with other presentation softwares (especially if you're talking about third party software, as Microsoft PowerPoint).
The best you can do is to create your own dashboard, and try to mimic your company's provided template.
you could also use an image as theme, it will at least uses the colors of you company as you can see in the image below.
And that's unfortunally what you can do with it, and for powerpoint themes, you could also use Microsoft Power bi which is way more advanced that Google Data studio
say, I have created a WP7 app using the default language in English. The application name that will show in the Application List is English. Now, If I want to change this english-Application name to other languages such as japanese, Chinese,Korean. what I need to do? would appreciate your help with some samples or links of references or tutorial on this subject. It is ok to use part english and part other language to create application name?
This is described on MSDN here. It's a bit convoluted but it does work.
While Paul Annett's answer represents the official recommendations, it also requires that you have the tools for C++ development (which the Windows Phone tools do not).
Patrick's Blog (I've been unable to find a surname) has posted a tool called WP7 Localizer that generates the localized dlls without having the C++ tools installed
I am working on in installer project that needs to gather some info and act on it during the install (mainly online key retreival and registration). The Setup Project UserInterface templates seem inflexible and poorly documented so I am looking at opening a WinForm as a Custom Action.
I know this is possible because I see reference to it in many places but this is my first Windows Installer experience and so far it is mired in googled contradictions, partial or outdated information and guesswork... erg....
Does anyone have (even a pointer to) a clear concise description of how one gets this done in a VS 2008 WinForm project...
Many thanks for inputs
There is no guarantee that the .net framework is installed when the installer is launched (especially on Windows XP). A best practice is to keep your installer away from any dependencies.
Put the online key retrieval and registration in your application rather than doing all that stuff during install.
Create a standard installer class. In the class create your form and show it (ShowDialog is prefered)
Imagine you homebrew a custom gui framework that doesn't use windows handles (compact framework, so please don't argue with "whys"). One of the main disadvantages of developing such a framework is that you lose compatability with the winform designer.
So my question is to all of you who know a lot about VS customisation, would there be a clever mechanism by which one could incorperate the gui framework into the designer and get it to spit out your custom code instead of the standard windows stuff in the InitialiseComponent() method?
I recently watched a video of these guys who built a WoW AddOn designer for Visual Studio.
They overcame the task of getting their completely custom controls to render correctly in the designer. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you need, but might be worth looking at. It's open-source:
http://www.codeplex.com/WarcraftAddOnStudio
I've also since discovered that DXCore from DevExpress is a tool that simplifies plugin development. The default implementation wouldn't let me dock as document (central) but regardless one can still easily generate a plugin with it that can compile a file on the fly and render the contents of it which may well do the job for me. :)