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• SQL Server ODBC Connect Failed in SQL Job

  I am running SQL Server 2000 sp4 in Win Server 2003. I have a DTS packages which connects to FileMaker 6 files via the ODBC driver installed with FielMaker. The DTS packages work correctly when executed directly. However, when executed from a SQL Server Agent job, the same DTS packages fail. Always with the same message: Error: -2147467259 (80004005); Provider Error: 16394 (400A) Error string: [FileMaker][ODBC FileMaker Pro driver][FileMaker Pro]Connect failed Error source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers Searching for info on the above message seems to indicate a permissions problem. However, I am running the jobs with an full administrator account. All connections and the FielMaker files reside on the one ...Show All

• Visual C# Enum.Equals vs ==

  Hi, I have another newbie question. I was looking at documentation for the ' Enum.Equals() ' method at the msdn2 website, Enum , and I was wondering what is the difference between using something like; enum Mammals { Cat, Dog, Horse, Dolphin }; Mammals myPet = Mammals.Cat; Mammals yourPet = Mammals.Dog; if (myPet.Equals(yourPet)) { } // and this statement if (myPet == yourPet) { } Does one method have an advantage over the other At the msdn2 website they don't even mention "==" in the documentation. Which method is the acceptable standard and considered a best practice Thanks, Erica Enum.Equals is declared as "bool Equals(object)" which means that enum value passed in would need to be boxed &a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Uninstalling VC++ Express

  I have the final (not beta) version of VC++ Express on my pc, but since i'm running out of disk space and i never use it, i decided to uninstall it. The uninstaller bar got about 25% of the way across before the setup crashed and closed. Now when i open the uninstaller again, the 38 files are copied correctly, but the 'loading installation components' bar gets halfway before this message appears: The Windows installer package: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition - enu\vs_setup.msi could not be opened. Retry/Cancel. I tried to run the installer again, but it just gives an 'Installation failed' message. What can i do Well it seems to have logged a few events a ...Show All

• Windows Forms "Specified <entryPoint> is not valid" while reading Application manifest?

  Hi all, I'm trying to deploy a .Net 1.1 application using ClickOnce. All clients have .Net 2.0 installed (on which the 1.1 application runs fine), its just that the client code *has* to be built on the 1.1 platform. Hence, I can't use VS2005 to generate the manifest and deployment files for me, because it will cause the client code to be built for .Net 2.0 before generating the manifest and deployment files. So I figured I should use the Manifest Generator tool (mage.exe / mageui.exe) to generate these files for me, since it doesn't require my code to be rebuilt first. This seemed to work pretty well: just have Mage create a .exe.manifest file that contains all assemblies used by my application, and then have it create a deployment f ...Show All

• SQL Server Configuring AWE and SQL 2005 Memory ! Is this right ??

  Hi All I would appreciate any help from you all with regards to this: I have a SQL 2005 standard installation with windows server 2003 enterprise Operating system The server has 7GB of memory available to it, but as I know SQL 2003 standard edition would make use of the total server memory available to it. Here are the changes that I have made. (I have converted it all to GB for easy reading) I added the 3GB switch to the boot.ini file I enabled AWE I set mini server memory to 5GB I set max server memory to 6GB I turned on Performance monitor and the Target server memory counter = 6GB, the total server memory is also set to 6GB. Now after all the changes above, the ser ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System copying dynamic values to database

  Hi, Can some one please help me how to capture a dynamically generated value and store it in a text file or access database. I enter the details of a member in member form and submit it.A unique Member ID is generated.I want to copy this Member ID into a text file which can be retrieved in later pages when i have to search for the details of the Member. Using extraction rule,every time a Member ID is generated i can capture it (Extract Regular Expression) and pass it to other page manually(Set the parameter value=Context parameter name).But if it is to generate hundreds of Member IDs and pass them in the next search member page,how would i capture the dynamically generated Member ID and copy it to a text file Hi pk, yo ...Show All

• Windows Search Technologies WDS Takes too much harddisk space?

  WDS Takes up more than 4 GB of harddisk already and it has only indexed 4022 items and missing 3271 on a 80 GB harddisk. Sounds crazy to me. I saw that 500 Gb of free space was recommended. Google DS did not take up so much space. What do you say Version 02.06.5000.5378 Hello Six, Sorry it has taken so long to get you a reply. The size of the WDS index is difficult to predict. There are a number of factors that come into play with index size. Here is some basic information that may help us determine if this is a bug or expected behavior. WDS indexes textual content of files. It does not index media (though it does index media metadata). It should also be noted that WDS indexes the first 2MB of the ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Not installing the "xnagse setup"

  When the setup is nearly finished a error message pops up saying Can someone help Thanks In Advance! My account is the System Adminstrator and is the only account on the PC besides the guest account but it is not on. Any way I have just realised I am using a Windows Vista Transformation Pack that is not supported by it. When it is close to the launch of Windows Vista I will renew the PC so it is back to the normal operating system, don't worry about the topic! ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with SMO on a ASP.NET page

  Hi ! I have done an EXE which copy a database using SMO. When i double click my exe everything is working fine. If i tried to execute my EXE in a ASP.NET web page the process is start but doesn't do anything. If i tried other EXE i've made it's working fine so the problem seems to come from SMO. Did i have something to add to my code if i want to use it in a webpage Thanks ! I've figure out what was the problem. To be able to use my EXE in my web application i've got to add those lines myServer.ConnectionContext.LoginSecure = False myServer.ConnectionContext.Login = "****" myServer.ConnectionContext.Password = "*****" Now my EXE is working fine when i'm calling it fro ...Show All

• Visual C++ /Wp64 and sprintf

  Can anyone suggest a portable way to deal with the /Wp64 warning from the following code, targeting 32-bit int main() { int * blockRef = 0; // simplified char buf[100]; sprintf( buf, "blockRef=%x\n" , blockRef ); return 0; } warning C4313: 'sprintf_s' : '%x' in format string conflicts with argument 1 of type 'int *' Thanks. Ah, thanks. So I take it that "z" is a C99 thing that hasn't been implemented by Microsoft I'll keep the macro in mind--so far this is only in one place in my code. ...Show All

• Visual C# local or remote path

  Hi, how can I determine (inC#) if a path refers to a folder/file on the local machine or on another machine in the network Thanks for your help, Ralph Hi, Simply by checking the file path starting characters you can find that if its starts with "\\" then its network drive and if its not starts with "\\" then it would be local drive (Except the case of Mapped drive so if you are not using mapped drive ). If you can't use this because of mapped drive will give you the wrong result, then inform me, HTH, ...Show All

• .NET Development Unable to display image on explorer of client site

  Hi all, I try to make a simple proxy server via socket, everything works fine but all images are missed, I just don't understand how do a proxy server work that way any idea hi larry cleeton, Thanks for your reply. i know the question i asked is hard to understand, plz forgive my poor english writing. Anyway, i try to mention my question on other way: OBJECTIVE yes, I try to write a Http proxy which can carry out some basic functions: Clients are able to explore webpages via my proxy,just like connect with internet directly. WHAT I HAVE DONE I have transfer all text content of web page(such as CSS, Javescript, Html) to client side basing on the client's request . I send all content( including i ...Show All

• Internet Explorer Development Context Menu Extension in Internet Explorer.

  I have a new context menu in internet explorer by modifying regsitry. Now I want an exe to open when user clicks on the menu item in internet explorer, but I am failing to achieve this. Can some one please help me. I have just placed exe path in the default value. Can some one help me > You have to write JavaScript code, to launch the exe file. After this, save this JavaScript code to some html file (in appropriate tags), and provide path to this file in the registry. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Error when trying to run the debugger

  Hi there, I've just started to write my first VB application. I have designed the UI but not done any coding. When I have pressed 'start' on the debug toolbar to view my new UI I get the following error message: ' Error while trying to run project: Could not load file or assembly ‘”Oli’s RSS Reader”’ or one of its dependencies. The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)' I can't think why this is and i'm completely stuck as if I can't debug then I can't build! Any help is appreciated. Thanks Oli Hi, Oli, I figured it out -- it's the single quote marks in your name (I was able to reproduce the error on my machine just now on a hunch). You will need to: - Rename you ...Show All

• SQL Server how to change visibility of a column group in a matrix?

  Hi, how to change visibility of a column group in a matrix Thanks, Igor ...Show All