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Data UI Property Page Error

I am having trouble displaying the data source tool box. When I use the menu option it gives the message "Operation failed. Only true type fonts are supported. This is not a true type font."

When I go into the options menu and go into the 'Windows Form Designer' and click on 'Data UI Customization' the pane displays ""An error occured loading the property page".

I previously had down loaded the RC version and then uninstalled and loaded the full express version. I had also loaded the web developer.

I have unloaded all the visual studio and reloaded but to avail.

Can anyone help?

[598 byte] By [KevinPulford] at [2008-2-6]

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# 1

Hi,

This is a known issue but I haven't been able to reproduced this. What version of Windows are you using? Are you installing Visual Basic Express released version - English?

Did you uninstall your RC version using the tool / instructions available on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/uninstall/?

Best regards,

HuyN_MS at 2007-9-8 >

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# 2

The uninstall was done using the unistall tool linked on the web page. The version of Visual Basic is the english version. The version of OS is windows XP home with SP2.

I hope this helps.

KevinPulford at 2007-9-8 >

# 3

Hi,

Sorry for missing this but is your Windows XP Home an English version?

Also, did you see this error in other places of Visual Basic Express?

Thanks,

HuyN_MS at 2007-9-8 >

# 4

The version of XP was English but also UK English. I have not so far come across any similar problems with Visual Basic Express.

Are there any work arounds like a clean version of the Data UI Cutomisation page that will fix the problem?

Thanks for you help so far.

KevinPulford at 2007-9-8 >

# 5

Did anyone fond out what this was? I installed Visual Web Developer Express and uninstalled it and got the same problem!

Aknittel at 2007-9-8 >

# 6

I've discovered the bug and it will be fixed. In the mean time, would you please try this?

Open Display Properties | Appearance | Advanced | Icon: Change the icon font to true type font such as Tahoma, Arial.

Thanks,

HuyN_MS at 2007-9-8 >

# 7

Yes, me and another user from Canada just found this workaround by accident. After all this hair pulling, can you at least tell me what the background of the bug was?

Aknittel at 2007-9-8 >

# 8

I'm the guy from Canada that Aknittel mentioned. I fiind this totally infuriating that half of the data tools in VS 2005 don't work because I'm using MS Sans Serif for many of my font settings. MS as in Microsoft! Switching them all to Tahoma (or any valid TTF) fixes many problems. The problems this causes include (but may not be limited to):

DataSet designers fail with error message about click behavior
Opening a SQL Server table in design view results in error "The parameter is incorrect"
The Data Sources window fails to open with a message about an invalid True Type font
Data UI Properties option page will not load.

I'm sure there are other issues right now, but I can't remember them all. I reported this issue through the Microsoft bug reporting web pages last night. Hopefully, you guys can fix this for SP1.

BTW, the SQL Server table designers do not work in VS 2005 with this issue but they do work in SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP.

Mr.Furious at 2007-9-8 >

# 9

Hi,

Surely it's not enough, but my apology for the problems you've been through.

The bug is caused by a method used by different components of the designer DLL. This method attempts to get the system setting font and convert that to a managed font usable by Windows Forms. On system with MS San Serif, this causes the exception above.

A large portion of our developer / test machines run Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and on these systems the font is Tahoma. Therefore we were having troubles finding out the cause of this exception. I've reactivated the customer bug about this and it will be fixed for SP1.

Thanks for your understanding,

HuyN_MS at 2007-9-8 >

# 10

Hi Huy,
Thanks very much. I'm glad to hear this is going to be fixed and that you are able to reproduce the problem. Your explanation makes sense. It's been driving me around the bend since release but now that we've found the problem it's easily avoided. Just nice to finally be able to use those features. I think the DataSet designers were the biggest problem for me since I ended up managing database tables in VS 2003 up until now.

Regards,
Russell Sinclair

Mr.Furious at 2007-9-8 >

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