santhony7's Q&A profile

• SQL Server 64 Bit drivers IBM Db2

  Hey guys .. I am trying to run SSIS on the WIn2k3 .. The server is a 64 bit machine. I could not find Db2 drivers for a 64 bit one .. any clues as to how , I can find it. By the way .. I have been running the package in 32 bit mode for now .. which I dont think is a very good idea. Any suggestions are most welcome .. Have you tried the Microsoft one ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=D09C1D60-A13C-4479-9B91-9E8B9D835CDC&displaylang=en ) The standalone Microsoft OLE DB Provider 2005, which ships in the Feature Pack for SQL Server 2005, offers a single download package and setup program. The setup will detect the processor and install (1) X86 only on Windows X86, ...Show All

• SQL Server Key Maintenance and Stored Procedures

  Basically I would like to ask whether parameters can be used to pass the value of the 'symmetric key id', 'certificate' and optionally 'password' to a stored procedure that uses encryption functions. The reason this is appealing is that when encryption keys etc change over time (we have a requirement to decrypt data, destroy and create new keys, then encrypt data every time we lose a staff - don't ask), as we would be passing the value of keys, passwords and certificates as parameters to a standard stored procedure. Hardcoded Example (Working) USE PSS GO CREATE PROC insert_payer_ba -- define parameters @param_rec_id NVARCHAR ( MAX ), @param_bsb NVARCHAR ( MAX ), @param_account NVARCHAR ( MAX ), ...Show All

• Windows Forms Make Thread-Safe Calls to Windows Forms Controls

  I have an application that uses remoting - the usual pattern - Client calls a proxy of a remote object - remote object fires events which are broadcast to the client using delegates and call back - client recieves the broadcast messages and it has to display it on a form. The problem occurs in the last part. I use the thread safe method of calling the form rich text control. Private Sub ClientEventHandler( ByVal Msg As String ) Handles RemoteEvent 'I confirmed that Msg has the write value SetText(Msg) End Sub Private Sub SetText( ByVal [Text] As String ) ' InvokeRequired required compares the thread ID of the ' calling thread to the thread ID of the creating thread. ' If these t ...Show All

• .NET Development Why doesn't System.Array have an indexer?

  I'm probably missing something here, because my all of my searches came up with nothing. It seems only natural for Array to have an indexer. But instead, we have to use Get/Set Value(). Why is that The "indexer" is provided by each concrete array type (derived from System.Array), and not System.Array itself. That way the indexer can be strongly typed (Array would have to return Object) and take the appropriate number of index parameters. ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS - Wizzard Works - Manual execution causes error?

  Hello   I have an odd problem that is driving me nutz. I have a very simple SSIS package that imports a 5 colum flatfile into a sql Server 2005 Table. When I created this package with the wizzard, it will execute perfectly fine and processes all rows into the destination table. But when I hit F5 to execute it manually it will fail before inserting a single row.   The error it generates is (Spalte 5 is a Datetime in the format DD.MM.YYYY) : Error: 0xC02020A1 at Datenflusstask, Source - Daten_NC_1_txt [1]: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Spalte 5" returned status value 2 and status text "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.". Error: 0xC020902 ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) wpf books

  Are ther any books on wpf I'm happy to report to the community that the SDK samples are now downloadable from http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com <http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com> . Just click the link for "Download Sample" and it will take you to the Microsoft Download Center, where you can download and install a package which includes all of the WPF samples. We're working on breaking these out into individual samples for our V1/RTM release, so it won't necessitate such a huge download when you just want to see a targeted sample. ...Show All

• .NET Development Which version is appropriate

  I'm an old Access Client/Server guy (for 10 years) getting into .NET and Web Development. I currrently have NO significant experience in either. Heck - I can't even spell WWW I'm getting ready to get tooled up and trained. I would appreciate a little info to make sure I make the right investment. The general forum referred me to this form for the Client Server question. Question 1 : I'm a little confused with the product name. I'm going to omit abbreviations to be clear. Is there a Visual Studio 2005 and a seperate product name Visual Studio .NET 2005 or is this two names for the same product If they are not the same - I ASSUME I need to get Visual Studio .NET 2005. Question 2 : If I want to create a Client Server applicat ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PPC Windows Version

  Hi Experts, I am developing a project on i-mate PDA2K EVDO running on Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition Version 4.21.1088. The project is built on Visual Studio 2005 C#.Net CF 2.0. It renders very well on i-mate PDA2K EVDO. But when I am trying to deploy it on an i-mate JasJar which runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 Version 5.1.1700 , we are facing problem with way the form controls are aligned. I have compiled the project for the platform Pocket PC 2003 . Is this a problem with Windows Version If so, how to solve this Also is there a way to create this application compatible to both Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 Please help. Regards, Suman Ghosh You can System.Drawing.Font class to find out the size & other propert ...Show All

• .NET Development ProcessStartInfo to execute vb script with certain user

  I tried to use ProcessStartInfo to execute a vb script with certain user name. My Code: --------- ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo(); psi.FileName = fileName; psi.UserName = userName; psi.Password = password; psi.Domain = domain; psi.UseShellExecute = true; Process.Start(psi); The Problem: ---------------- When I set UseShellExecute to true --> the error is "The Process object must have the UseShellExecute property set to false in order to start a process as a user." When I set UseShellExecute to false --> the error is "The specified executable is not a valid Win32 application." Any Help please Bishoy Try: psi.Filename = "WScript.exe&quo ...Show All

• Windows Forms custom shaped forms

  Hi I want to use an image as a mask to shape the forms. I have found some methods but they are not usable because they are slow. Does anyone know some faster methods Check out the property Form.TransparencyKey , you can use that to make skinnable forms. This property informs the form not to paint any colors that match the transparency key. Use your skin bitmap and set the key to a specific base color, then that color found on the form will not be drawn. ...Show All

• SQL Server Merge: Records associated by a JOIN Filter not being sent to a subscriber

  Hi, I have a merge (SQL 2005 Standard -> Express) topolgoy which is having problems  The main problem is that the join filters don't seem to work for one area and I am hoping someone can help me with some troubleshooting advice There are 140+ tables in the topology but the ones causing  particular  pain are a parent child relationship where the child is actually a bridge/linking table to another table. Therefore although it is a parent child in the replication filters it is the reverse. i.e. the child has the paramterised filter on it and the parent is one level down joined by it's id.  There are other tables joined to this parent table but it stays at three levels deep.  The @join_unique_k ...Show All

• Visual C# AppFroge s60 Appz with C#

  Can any one tell me how to develop an s60 app with c# i see AppFroge crossfire have a tool for that but i couldnt get it. can any one help me ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Timer won't fire

  I have a timer on form1 with the timer_tick set up like this:     Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick         teaTime = False         MessageBox.Show("End timer")     End Sub In a module I have:     Public Sub Transition1()         Form1.Timer1.Enabled = True         teaTime = True         Dim st As Integer = 0         Do While teaTime             ...Show All

• .NET Development Assembly.LoadFile and Dependencies

  I have found what I consider a very strange behavior. Basically, I am loading several assemblies "manually" using Assembly.LoadFile. This works fine and dandy unless one of those assemblies depends on another one. In that case an error is not thrown right away but is when you try something like GetExportedTypes(). So, imagine this: Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFile("/somedir/a.dll"); Assembly b = Assembly.LoadFile("/someotherdir/b.dll"); // "b.dll" uses types from "a.dll" foreach(Type t in b.GetExportedTypes()) {     Console.Println(t.FullName); } Well, that will throw an error on the GetExportedTypes call saying something like "Could not load file or assembly 'a, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or ...Show All

• Visual C++ system() is not available in VC++ 2005

  Is there a VC++ 2005 substitute for system() It worked in .NET 2003, but it appears to be unavailable in VS 2005. I need some way to execute a command line statement from within my program - specifically to zip and unzip files. Including process.h did the trick. What still puzzles me is that the help system has nothing about the system() call. There was no way that I know of in VS2005 that I could have discovered what was necessary to make the system call work. The process.h header was not needed in the 2003 .NET version in order to be able to use system(). Thanks for the help. ...Show All