EJLindsay's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Help - Tasks that have circular dependencies

  Hello, I have a package, which calls a sub package to poulate a table depending on a flag in the database (using an ExecuteSQL task to return flagged table name). The inner package populates some tables, and calculates what needs to be processed next. It sets the next flag. However, I can't make this work in the control flow, as once the Execute package has completed, I need to start again from the top, as the flag will have changed to the next item. I hope that I have explained this well enough. I really need this to work, but SSIS will not let me create a circular dependency. Does anyone know a way around this, or can offer me an alternative solution I am getting desperate, so any suggestions will be welcome Many ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Data Access Layer using WCF?

  Hi, My scenario is that I will be implementing a multi-tiered application where the SQL Server databases are hosted on a remote (internet) server, and all applications (a mix of windows and web) will use WCF to interact with the database. The tiers I envisage are the traditional ones of presentation, business logic and data access. What would the best way be to implement this, considering there'll be a fair amount of data going back and forth I can think of a few possibilities, the two most likely candidates are: 1) The data access layer is entirely on the remote server. The business logic layer accesses the data access layer over the remote link (via WCF), so that the WCF endpoints are onto the publicly accessible methods of t ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Using the downloader for downloading the XAML

  Hi, Is it possible to use the downloader object for downloading the XAML that contains the WPF/E content and control its rendering For example start rendering only after 50% was downloaded Thanks, Keren It is possible to use the downloader object to download the Xaml (as documented here ) but it can't control the rendering. However, you could easily achieve the above by splitting up the Xaml into two or more files and then adding the additional items as they are downloaded. So you could have the first file just contain the canvas and maybe a background and then use the downloader to pull the remaining items in one or more other files. ...Show All

• Visual C++ Running a very simple Win32 app... / VS2005pro & MFC: Same thing?

  Hi! I have installed VC++ 2005 Express and the Platform SDK according to the instructions on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx Compiling and running the following program on the dev computer works like a charm: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/simple_window.html I then changed to release-mode, turned off debugging in the project properties and copied the .exe to another computer without VC++ 2005 Express on. I pretty much expected problems, so I wasn't very surprised when I got the error message saying that there was something wrong with the program configuration, like the one here: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx postid=23371&siteid=1 I have since then combed this forum and ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) ScaleTransform a Visual to create reflection effect

  Hi I'm trying to apply a visual to a border to make it reflect the content above it, the problem here is that I need to set the CenterX and CenterY to be half the size of the visual. Now the values are hardcoded, you can see what I have below. Is it possible to do this with XAML Thank you Bruno Silva Here is my take on one way of doing this: http://learnwpf.com/Posts/Post.aspx postId=9b745fe8-7d51-4d01-a8c7-f31083c4be94 ...Show All

• Gadgets Gadget With PHp

  Is there a way to use .php instead of useing .html I have a code that I would like to use but its from a php script $url="www.YourSourceURL.com"; //replace with the full URL you wish to fetch the data from preg_match("/^(https :\/\/) ([^\/]*)(.*)/i", "$url", $matches); $domain = "http://" . $matches[2]; $page = $matches[3]; $fd = fopen($domain.$page, "rb"); $code = ""; while(!feof($fd)){ $code .= fread($fd, 4096); } fclose($fd); $start= strpos($code, "START PONT"); // replace with your STARTING POINT source of HTML page $finish= strpos($code, "END POINT"); // replace with your END POINT source of HTML page $length= $finish-$start; $code=substr($code, $ ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Sprites drawing problem

  Hi, I'm having a problem while drawing sprites with D3DXSprite->Draw(). The images are drawed diferently from the original image. It's seems to be kind of blured. I'm using fullscreen (set to 1024x768), and the image size is 1024x1024 (I'm only displaying part of the image (1024x200). Another thing. I'm drawing some text with DrawText() and the text seems also to be blured. Any ideas Ty I don't think the problem is related to scaling the image. I'm passing NULL to the destination rect in the Draw function. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Uninstalling Visual Studio 2003 Standard after installing Visual Studio 2005 Standard Upgrade

  Does anyone know whether or not it's completely safe to uninstall Visual Studio 2003 Standard after installing the Visual Studio 2005 Standard Upgrade good question. hmmm I always thought that you need the previous product installed if you have done an upgrade. I guess you could restore it back if things went wrong using System Restore ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Cannot databind a csv file

  I am trying to databind a csv file to a webtest. I am entering the connection properties as "Microsfot Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider" and advanced extended properties as "Text" and entering the path of the folder in which the .csv file is located. I am not including the name of the .csv file in the path. No tables show up after the data binding is done, a blank "Choose tables from datasource" box appears. This happens no matter how many times i try. The same functionality works on a different system. Any ideas are appreciated....Thanks! I tried doing that option too, creating a new folder with just the .csv file in it, tried at different places, like on a share and also on the lo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Dynamic Fields in Crystal Report

  Hi, I have a report in VB.NET 2005 in which I want to display data dynamically, that on selection of field in the form, the report should display only those selected fields in report Here is the Scenario, I have one table called tblClients which has following Fields: ID Name Address Employed (checkbox) For that I need to be able to select the client and get the information displayed on the report. Employed field is a checkbox(yes/no) type. I appreciate if someone could direct me to the right start. Thanks, Mel You'll need to create a parameter in your report and then restrict the records shown based on the value of the parameter. Then when you want to display that ...Show All

• Gadgets Dynamic Height

  Hello to all, this is my first post, i hope you can help me :) I'm creating a gadget for the forum of a my friend. The gadget reads, from a php web page, the title of the latest 3 active topics in the forum, the number of replies, and other info, it writes them in a table, the table is composed by 3 cells, the first and the third are used only for display pictures (the "head" picture and the "end" picture of the gadget), the middle one is where the information read from the php are written. I also add the refresh function and it's work perfectly. The gadget works pretty well but the topics title isn't everytime of the same length, so i can't set a default height for the gadget but i need to set it dinamically, bec ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro SMS through visual foxpro

  Dear Sir, Please send me source code for SMS through visual foxpro, or favour me with some clues. Thanks & regards, - Ravi Awasthi Dear, This may be helpful but have some doubts. How we can locate every domain like for Tata Indicom, Reliance India, Airtel, Hutch and son on.... Plz give me some example in details Thans & regards, ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Something

  I have noticed if I uninstall Player 11 and the 11 Runtime Format that the voice codec works as it should, but otherwise it doesn't. Even re-encoding audio files that were encoded the the 9.1 voice codec to mp3 or something produces bad results as long as the 11 runtime is installed. Is this a bug Try posting this question on the WMP newsgroup ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US ) and/or the WM SDK newsgroup ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.sdk&lang=en&cr=US ) ...Show All

• .NET Development Triple Des cipher text length - how to determine length ?

  Im using the TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider. Is there any way to determine how long the encrypted text is going to be, based on your key and the text to be encrypted Reason being is the database field that the encrypted text will be stored in has a finite length requirement, so I need to know how long the encrypted text is going to be. For any symmetric algorithm, the answer I think depends on your block size and your padding mode. For TripleDES, the block size is 8 bytes. In theory the maximum size should be the size of the data to be encrypted, rounded up to 8 bytes. If the data is already a multiple of 8 bytes, there may be one more 8-byte block added for padding. So that I think should be the worse case. Brian Stern [MSFT] ...Show All

• Visual Studio VS2005 not processing IF statements

  Hello all, here is my issue. While stepping though the code below one line at a time the VS process the if block and then the else block IF TRUE then 'process some stuff ELSE 'prcess some other stuff ENDIF We are sure the expression evaluates to TRUE and we have actualy put in code IF TRUE. It goes into the true part and then executes the else part right after. Has anyone ever seen this It has happened to use twice already, the first time went away and we are not sure why. This time it is not. Thanks Shawn I have indeed seen this when debugging release or optimized builds. Under these scenarios the generated assembly can be rather different in structure than ...Show All