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• SQL Server Problem appending to a raw file

  I have subscription records for five different magazine titles that i process by looping each one though a dataflow using a for-each loop. I am using the following instructions to append to the raw file: http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2005/12/01/2443.aspx This works fine when I pass four different magazine titles. when i try to run all of the titles(five), i get the following errors: [Raw File Destination [131195]] Warning: The parameter is incorrect. [DTS.Pipeline] Error: component "Raw File Destination" (131195) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0x80070057. Any ideas Thanks. Frank I've tested leaving various titles out, but there is no one ...Show All

• Visual C# multithreading

  I need to do multithreading. It is my fist attempt. It failed. This is the setup: There is a form with tabControl and a few pages. There is a progress bar on one of them. It is supposed to measure progress of file downloading. WIthout multhithreading it is dead while the files are downloaded and then in the end it jumps to 100%. This is what I did. Everything compiled but the progress never was activated even after the downloading was over. In other words my code actually made the things worse. In the main form I put in this code at the start of procedure that is handling the download: ThreadStart threadDelegate = new ThreadStart ( Work.DoWork ); Thread newThread = new Thread ( threadDelegate ); newThread.Start ( ); T ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How do I pass credentials in an IIS Hosted WCF Service

  How do I pass credentials in an IIS Hosted WCF Service Can I pass the credentials in the client code instead of the client config. What would that look like What do I do to get the Service to accept those credentials I am sorry. I am a beginner. Most of that went over my head. I have the following client code: // Open channel to the service Uri uri = new Uri("http://10.14.1.50/JOHN1/service.svc"); // ChannelFactory<HelloService> factory = new ChannelFactory<HelloService>(new WSHttpBinding(SecurityMode.None)); ChannelFactory<ICalculator> factory = new ChannelFactory<ICalculator>(new WSHttpBinding()); ICalculator p = factory.CreateChann ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Definition of XNA

  Hi Did you want to know http://www.newsxna.com ...Show All

• SQL Server UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY confusion.

  I wrote this stored procedure and it works fine, it seems. The questions I have are as follows: (1) What is the difference between PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE. They seem to pertain to the same behavior. When I used only UNIQUE as qualifier I did not see that the column was marked as primary in the SQL Management Studio. What I need is for a column to be unique in the sense that it would not allow duplicate values and it must have an INDEX on it. I need it to be descending . (2) Did I do it right or there are aspects in here I do not quite see set ANSI_NULLS ON set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[CreateTableDailyClose] @symbol varchar (10) = null AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(500) SET @SQL = 'CREATE TABLE dbo. ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Where is the WWF download needed for WSS 2007?

  I am having a real issue here trying to get either WSS or SPS 2007 up and running in my VMWare enviroment, I have everything configured, IIS, .NET, ect execpt for one major piece of the puzzle, Workflow Foundation Beta 2 or greater! I have been googleing and searching M$ site now for 3 days and no luck....can someone help me out I have downloaded the extensions for .NET but that is not what I need as the installer says the same thing everytime. Setup is unable to proceede due to the following errors: This product requires Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 2 (build 3.0.3807 or later) Please refer to the readme file for instructions on how to obtain these pre-reqs. The readme has no helpful information for this issue. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Background Worker Cross Thread Help

  I hate spammers so much so that I decided to write a program that extracts all the IP addresses, actually the first 15 characters of every line in my log. Well I have used a Background worker before, to copy and move files. That worked so nicely too, but from what I read, Background Workers don't like the GUIs like textboxes. Is there away around this Here's my code for the Cross Thread Error: Friend WithEvents FetchIP As BackgroundWorker = New System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker() Private Sub IPSettingsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles IPSettingsToolStripMenuItem.Click Me.FetchIP.RunWorkerAsync() End Sub Private Sub FetchIP_DoWork(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVa ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS Logging to Flat File Destination

  Hi I am trying to use a conditional split task so that I can check for specific fields. If the value doesn't exist I am piping the records to a derived field task, where I add an error. I then try to send these records to a flat file destination so that I can keep track of them. However, when I execute the SSIS data flow task I get the following error [Log Invalid Records [5496]] Warning: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. This file isn't being used by any other process as far as I can tell, and the only process using it is the SSIS task trying to write to it. If anyone has any ideas, then I would really really appreciate it Thanks Darrell I s ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. I'd like to have a game developed...but I need a partner.

  I teach 1st grade. I have an idea for a simple 2D (Phonics) game...but I don't have any skills as a programmer. I wanted to know if any programmers would be interested in a partnership   The game basically involves a little character running around the screen to pick up letters and form words. The character would have to avoid certain obstacles on screen. The game would require a lot of speech to sound out the words that the onscreen character created. Sounds interesting, as I have my share of rugrats in that same grade level as well. Send me an email, and I'll take a look at what you are thinking. At a minimum, I can give you a realistic timeline of what it may entail. Kids ...Show All

• SQL Server Using Cube Views as a data source to build Mining Model

  Hi all, I am new to SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and would like to use the OLAP Cubes as a datasource to build Mining Model . However i would like to use a particular view of the OLAP cube that i have generated to be used as the datasource for the mining model . I find that i am not able to save the Cube View while browsing the OLAP cube in Business Intelligence Studio. Is there a way i can acheive this requirement. Any ideas regarding this will be really appreciated. Thanks & Regards, Satya Yes, your cube is based on your data source view. Once you edit the data source view for your cube, you will be able to browse your cube on the way edit your cube structure based on your data source view thus being able t ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Transactions - ensuring consistency between WF and MSMQ

  Apologies in advance this might be quite a complex one! I should say at the outset that I don't want someone to write my solution for me, just am trying to understand a bit more about how to achieve transactionality in WF. I'm currently trying to pilot an STP engine using Workflow Foundation to prove its suitability. Everything in the engine is driven using transactional MSMQ queues. It's essential that no information is lost, and that the workflows remain in a consistent state with the contents of the queue. These are the scenarios I'm trying to tackle at the moment: 1. A message arrives on a queue and triggers the creation of a new workflow. 2. A message arrives on a queue and is passed into a waiting workflow. 3. A workflow ...Show All

• Commerce Server Loading And Updating The Commerce Catalog

  I would like to ask for advice on loading the Commerce catalog from an outside source. Let me first explain how we are currently doing this and ask for comment on how we could do it more effieciently as it now takes an unacceptable amount of time to load it with a lot of data. First, our site is set up for multiple stores. Somewhere around 1000 stores will be loaded into the system, currently there are a little over 300 stores. All stores share the same basic product data, or master catalog, however, not all stores sell the same products and each store has its own pricing. Therefore, we have created a BaseCatalog containing all available product data. Each store is then setup with its own VirtualCatalog which contains just the products ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Help finding the next similar cell using VBA

  I am working on an Excel worksheet that has the word "TOUR" listed throughout the spreadsheet. How can I find the next "TOUR" and insert rows to make sure it is in the row I want it in Hello Derek has shown you how you can find each occurrence of "TOUR". Once you have found the adress of the cell that contains "TOUR" (which the above code will do) the compare it to the adress you would like it to be and insert or delete rows as you need. Chas Or you could post more of your code and I'll see if I can suggest anything more ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. SDK won't compile on VS2003 -> Syntax error in D3D10.h

  When I try to compile the code from Tutorial 01 that comes with the October SDK in VS2003 it gives the following errors; i:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK\Include\D3D10.h(818): error C2061: syntax error : identifier '__out' i:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK\Include\D3D10.h(822): error C2061: syntax error : identifier '__in' i:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK\Include\D3D10.h(826): error C2059: syntax error : ')' What do I need to do to resolve this problem Thanks. D'oh... don't know why I didn't realise that :P I knew DX10 was for Vista only, I just assumed it would be backwards compatible with DX9... well I guess I should download DX9 SDK instead then :P Thanks anyway :) ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Build script

  Hi! I have VSTS4DBPRO project (and bunch of other projects - SSIS, SSAS, C# - in my solution). And i need to create sql script wich should create database using my custom installation tool and supplied (by user of that tool) database server name, database name, physical layout (database files names and paths) options (assume that database has finite filegroups). Any workarounds how I must build my solution to achive desired result How could I get this by VSTS4DBPRO Seems that it coukld be a right decision, BUT there is no dbproj at deployment (installation) time, so there is no possibility to rebuild project with database name supplied by end-user. I'm sure I do not want to supply whole databa ...Show All