Chris Lyon - MS's Q&A profile

• .NET Development .Net Framework 2.0 prevents 1.1 DLL from loading

  I have 3 managed C++ DLLs compiled with VS 2003 against framework 1.1. One of them also has unmanaged code it in. The unmanaged code in the that DLL is called from an unmanaged Delphi application. (The DLL is loaded via a LoadLibrary call in the Delphi application.) The transition from unmanaged to managed is done via IJW. I make no calls to create/host my own application domain. This has been working fine on all systems with just 1.1. ...Show All

• Visual C# FileSystemWatcher question

  I have several c# apps that are all dependant on a couple critical data files. If the files are modified by any one of the apps,then all others apps need to react. I have been using FileSystemWatcher to monitor the files and every thing has been fine. I was recently notified by a network admin type that the filesystem is being interogated so much that other non c# applications are unable to continue. I really don't believe it is because of ...Show All

• SQL Server Selecting the first sheet in an excelfile when using For Each Loop

  I have a For Each Loop which cycles through some Excel files which is delivered to a FTP location. In the loop the DataFlow Task uses a Excel Connection Manager, in which you have to specify which sheet you want to take the data from. But what can i do if the sheet name is different from file to file I was thinking about a script task which somehow can read the first sheet in the Excelfile thats found in the Loop -> put it into a va ...Show All

• Visual Basic Where to get Active Data Objects 2.6 or greater

  Hi, I need to run some VB code in VS 2005 that requires ADO 2.6 or greater, so I can add it to my project as reference. Where can I download it Thanks You can download MDAC which contains ADO from the following locations http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/mdac/downloads/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Cannot play video after installing WinFX

  It seems strange, but since I installed WinFX (runtime components, sdk and extensions) Feb CTP I cannot play video in IE, neither do I get any flash conent in IE. To make sure that it was due to WinFX, I built a WinXP VPC and got the same outcome. Is there anyone who has faced this issue Does anyone from MS know about this Regards, Deepak Do you have Windows Media Player installed If so, what version Also does this machine have a ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro a child form needs 2 clicks to close

  I have a form calling a secondary form. In order to close the latter I have to click twice the button that has the following statements in the CLICK method: ACTIVATE SCREEN "CLICK fired " THISFORM . Deactivate () THISFORM . Destroy () THISFORM . Hide () THISFORM . Release () 4 statements are there out of desperation. I tried them separately and in many combinations. I see on the SCREEN that the event fir ...Show All

• SQL Server XML Config files

  I am new to SSIS. I created a XML configuration file for my package. I found lots of data on how to do this but I can't find anything on how to get the values back out. I am trying to get them out in a Script file. Any help and maybe examples would be appreciated. What are you doing with a script file, I don't understand what you mean, or why you need to do something else like this Configuration files are used to set properties within a pac ...Show All

• SQL Server Import XML string into DB

  I'm not sure what an "edge" table is.   Can you post a sample of the XML, the OPENXML syntax you're currently using, and the output you're trying to achieve   -- Adam Machanic SQL Server MVP http://www.datamanipulation.net --     < GBez@discussions.microsoft..com > wrote in message news:c959c905-bfac-4471-b7a1-059439279ef9@discussions.microsoft.com ... Hi, I have ...Show All

• Windows Forms Old school DBGrid control

  I've often worked with Data Bound Grid (DBGrid) and Data control in Visual Basic 6.0. It was very simple and quick, because what is complicated - is slow and erroneous. In VB 2005 there is also DBGrid control (COM), but can anyone help me, how (with what) to fill the DBGrid.DataSource property to bind the DBGrid with data source Nothing of this is possible: ADODC, DataSet, DataBindingSource, DataTableAdapter. In addition there is no DataSo ...Show All

• SQL Server Maintenance Plan Logging

  As part of the logging facility in my backup maintenance plans, I have set the logging options to generate a text file report and mail it to an agent operator which I have set up. The job which runs this successfully send a completion email to the same operator when the job is finished, however the text file report fails with the following message: Could not generate mail report.An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement o ...Show All

• .NET Development I want the CLR to probe the local folder BEFORE the GAC

  Hi,   I have some assemblies in the GAC.   I am running an exe from a folder, and the assemblies in the GAC are also in the same folder as the exe.   Is there a way to stop the CLR from loading the assemblies from the GAC and load them from the folder (if they are found)   Is there an element I can add to the .config file for the exe I am running to tell it to do this   Thanks. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Using XML in VB.NET 2005

  Can everyone give me some example about how to use XML in vbnet2005 im newbie, sorry :D Im trying to do some application that writes a dictionary in multiple languages and then find some word in spanish/english, etc. thanks a lot!!! Well, although I am by no means an expert on the subject, I have successfully gotten my program to do exactly what I wanted it to do with XML.  In fact, I use a very simple XML ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) XamlReader.Load error

  Hello! I’m trying to import XAML from files to my project.. however it f-cks when I’m trying to convert the XamlReader to an UIElement. My code is as follows: ( cheers sheva!) private void loadXaml() { StringReader stringReader = null ; XmlTextReader xmlReader = null ; string xamlDocument = "c:\temp\test.xaml" ; try { stringReader = new StringReader (xamlDocument); xmlReader = new XmlTextReader (string ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Copying a converted VB6 project gives Class Not Registered errors

  I am converting a relatively small VB project from VB6 using VB 2005 Express. I was working on it using my workstation and then I copied the directory tree to my laptop to continue working at home. Both machines are Windows XP with VB 2005 Express installed. When I opened the project on the laptop I get Class not registered (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG). Looking in the project references, I noticed that some objects like Interop.MSAdodcLib are not in th ...Show All

• Visual Basic "hello world" won't run

  I am a newbie who just downloaded visual web developer 2005 express on my xp home system.  It installed without errors as far as I can tell.  Is express really stripped-down, and they don't tell you what is missing Like this "hello world" program example:  I can't paste the example page here, Right-click WON'T LET ME! Anyway, the page says "create visual basic console application project".  The closest I could find was a ...Show All