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• SQL Server Executing Package Question

  Hi, Simplification of setup: - SQL Server Box with Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2005 - Workstation with the client tools (Managment Studio, Business Intelligence Studio, etc) SQL Server 2005 installed running Windows XP 1. Am I right in saying that I need to install the SSIS service in order to run this package on my workstation from the command line, the Execute Package Utility tool, or through Management Studio 2. I can however execute the package on my workstation in the Business Intelligence Studio without the SSIS service installed, correct 3. Assuming I need to install the SSIS service on my workstation, if I execute the package via the command line or the Execute Package Utility utility, will it run on my local machine or on the ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Extending the Check-in Behavior

  I want to write code to automatically calculate the number of hours since the last check-in and update the work item. However I want that to be done right before TFS updates the work item from Active to Resolved. How can I acheive this Thank you, Sammy Maybe it can be done with a CheckIn policy, which is the only way I know to do it before the change to the workitem is done, but the problem is you will need to deploy the policy to all yout clients of TFS. ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Combination bug of TextBox.MaxLength and Ime?

  It is a thing when MaxLength of TextBox is set and used. Conversion ends on the way when conversion that exceeds MaxLength by the Ime conversion is done. MaxLength should be applied to the input result, and should not be applied in the state under the input. Will this be corrected in the future It was confirmed that this bug was not corrected. Windows XP SP2 + Microsoft Office IME 2007 + Windows Presentation Foundation Framework Library 3.0.6920.0 (vista_rtm_wcp.061020-1904) It is a very big problem that cannot use the MaxLength property. Is not this corrected ...Show All

• Visual Basic windows media player

  Robinjam, I don't think this will work. If you reduce the opacity of a container of a control, the controls opacity is also reduced accordingly isn't it ...Show All

• Windows Forms List box above list box. How do I get to anchor correctly

  I have a form that has two horizontal list boxes on it and several buttons, two of the buttons are inbetween the list boxes. My problem is when I maximise the form at run time the bottom list box runs over the buttons and into the top list box. I have tried all the anchors and have found that I can't get the two boxes to remain the same distance apart. How can I make them work together or how can I anchor the bottom list box to the the bottom corner of the top box so the middle margin stays the same and the boxes expand with the window I can get the top box to expand to the correct size and place, but the bottom if anchored to top/right/left/bottom runs over the top and buttons. If it is anchored to the bottom/right/left it remains s ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies IGatherNotify

  Hi if I good understand IGatherNotify interface is to adding URLs do WDS, is it true When i'm trying create IGatherNotify COM obiect I have error "class not registered, ....". How to register that class or it shouldn't be registered by WDS during instalation Is it other way to add urls to WDS. (I have my own protocol handler registered... etc.) Tomasz Rutkowski hi, I have 2.6.6 and I have tried at 3.0(VMWare session) at Windows Server 2003. I have read that IGatherNotify is used to: add/delete/notify-changes in WDS Gather. Describing my problem: Index content of special tables from db and my files etc. I have done: 1. I have implemented Protocol Handler (called "SDL")(ISearchProtoco ...Show All

• Gadgets Way cool ideas!

  Here are a couple of ideas for if you're wanting to make a gadget but no creativity spark is going off: A gadget that you drag files to it then push Burn and it burns the files onto CD A newspaper "reader" that displays headlines from the newspaper website's RSS feeds of your choice. Make a configuration window so you can choose your city's paper. MiniNet, an Internet Explorer window in your sidebar. a MyEbay Viewer. Shows your watch list, highest bid on list, won list, outbid list. (I think I've seen this before, but i don't know.) Quotes (they have this for Live.com, but not sidebars) Word of the day (same reason as #5) Have fun!   Eiran wrote: a My ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Custom UITypeEditor Is Ignored After Activity.Bind called :(

  Hello Everyone, I've created my own custom PropertyBindDialog because the one that Microsoft provides is pretty deficient. Unfortunately my own custom PropertyBindDialog will not be used after I call Activity.SetBinding - after I do this for a given property my own custom PropertyBindDialog is ignored and the Microsoft BindDialog is used. Here's some of my source code... The problem occurs when I call SetBinding on the property Test. After I call SetBinding, my PropertyBindDialog is no longer used when I want to edit the Test property - the Microsoft BindDialog is used and my custom PropertyBindDialog is ignored. Anyone out there have any ideas namespace MyActivityLibrary { public partial class MySpe ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Excel: Smart Tag icon not visible in worksheet copies

  Hi everybody,(I'm using VSTO 2005) In a very simple Workbook test project containing a SmartTag wich inherits Excel.SmartTag and overrides Recognize, everything works perfectly as far as I type my text in the 3 default sheets. As I copy an empty worksheet (i.e. sheet3) and try to type the same recognizable text in the newly added worksheet (i.e. sheet3(2)) : 1. The smart tag still always recognize correctly every cell (I put a breakpoint on the line where I perform the PersistTag method in the Recognize override). 2. On the newly created worksheet the smarttag icon (and relative arrow and menu) doesn't appear anymore 3. On the original worksheets (1,2 and 3) the icon remains visible only associated to text previously typed but as I type ...Show All

• Windows Forms Recalculate row height in a DataGridView

  I've got a datagridview with AutoSizeRowsMode set to DataGridViewAutoSizeRowsMode .AllCellsExceptHeaders One of the column has WrapMode set to True and the rows resize fine to begin with. But if the text in a cell changes from e.g. three lines to five, the row height doesn't change, and the final two lines of text isn't shown! Also, if the row starts with five lines of text and the text changes to only occupy e.g. four lines, the row remains at the previous height. Is there a way to have the row height recalculated whenever the values change Regards, Kenneth ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Establishing a connection to the internet.

  Hello. I was wondering what is the best practice way of connecting to the internet via GPRS, etc. My application accesses .net web services. At the moment, I simply call a dummy web method. This in turn causes the device's modem to automatically dial in if not done so already. The web service call then continues ( I catch a web exception if the connection failed). However, this seems like a bit of a hack. The application seems to hang while it awaits the connection. Our users do not like it very much. What is the most common way you guys would create a connection I'd imagine there's probably a proprietory method in the device's API but I'd like the app to be as generic as possible. Thanks in advance Lee. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Error 1406 Installing Web Developer Express

  Successfully downloaded all 344 MB of the Visusl Web Developer Epress load (VWD, MSDN documentation, SQL Server Express) Encountered error in doing VWD setup using Windows Installer 3.1 in Win XP SP2 machine. (SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition has been sucessfully installed previously and is currently installed on the machine and the service was running). -------------------Error Message Box-------------------------------------- Title: Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Setup Message: Error 1406.Could not write value to key  \CLSID\{AC0714F7-3D04-11D1-AE7D-00A0C90F26F4}\ProdID.  Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel. Buttons: ABORT RETRY IGNORE ---------------- ...Show All

• .NET Development DataSet thread safety

  Hello, I’m trying to understand some thread safety issues with DataSet. If I have one thread writing to DataTableA and another writing to DataTableB is that safe or do I have to prevent concurrent writes to different tables If I’m using remoting to transfer the DataSet which marshals by value I assume my remote instance of the DataSet can perform reads and writes concurrent with reads and writes with the local instance of the DataSet. Do I have to lock against local writes when I marshal the DataSet Thanks, Jeff As far as I know, marshaling by value, or any kind of serialization, should only be a read operation. But I can't be sure if the serialization process is ...Show All

• .NET Development web service via javascript error

  I am calling a web service from javascript and it returns an array of objects. Everything works fine until the array returns a larger number of objects (601), and then I get the error shown below. Ideas _exceptionType: System.InvalidOperationException _message: Maximum length exceeded. _stackTrace: at System.Web.Script.Services.RestHandler.InvokeMethod(HttpContext context, WebServiceMethodData methodData, IDictionary`2 rawParams) at System.Web.Script.Services.RestHandler.ExecuteWebServiceCall(HttpContext context, WebServiceMethodData methodData) Is this an AJAX question (I see System.Web.Script seems to an AJAX namespace) There's a couple of possible solutions at the AJAX forums ( http://fo ...Show All

• Visual C# Formatting dates from string

  Hi there, I have a string thus: 16-12-2006 That I have managed to get looking like this: 16/12/2006 00:00:00 By doing this: string date = System. Convert .ToString(newString); date = System. Convert .ToString( DateTime .Parse(date)); BUT! I cannot for the life of me find out how to make it display is this manner: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 Can anyone help a bit of a newbie out please TIA, d. Boban - I don't find your reply helpful, because often one doesn't know in advance the format of the string that one wants to convert into a date. Why doesn't .net provide a method to convert strings in unknown format to dates (I know there is the Parse method, but t ...Show All