Yvan's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System Extraction Rule

  Hi, I am trying to extract an HTML response and reuse it for the subsequent request. The response contains a list of <a> tags with the following format: <a href='client_home.aspx N=1&gldx1.1=1740' target="_parent"> <a href='client_home.aspx N=1&gldx1.1=1741' target="_parent"> Basically, I would like to parse and extract the value of gldx1.1. That is, for the first <a> tag, I want to ge ...Show All

• SQL Server FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize for Data Flow Destinations

  Is there a way to programatically set (using expressions, variables) the FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize property of an OLEDB destination in a data flow for Fast Load Operations. Basically, what I want to do is based on the # of records which are going to be inserted want to set the FastLoadMaxInsertCommit size. FastLoadMaxInsertCommitSize is not an expressionable property, so you can't use expressions, variables etc. to set it. Feel fre ...Show All

• SQL Server Metadata driven SSIS

    I am looking for some pointers on Metadata driven SSIS.   Specifically, how to automate creation of a large number of packages in SSIS using metadata.   I am looking at this as a solution to deploy multiple packages on multiple servers. Any other ideas on this would be highly appreciated.   Thanks   Vishal Verma By the way, I think what Suresh may be talking about here is ...Show All

• .NET Development What's new with DataTables?

  I'm curious if someone could explain the new features relating to DataTables in .NET 2.0. I've heard that it is easier to share tables across datasets. Is this true I'm in the situation where I'd like to have the same datatable be in several different datasets. I'm not sure the best way to go about doing this. I'm assuming that I'd have to create it in multiple places. I can't just create a stand-alone datatable, can I ...Show All

• Windows Forms HELP!!! --> setting up terrarium server

  well, i have been trying almost every options to get this terrarium server running, but... the problem there i think is that i can not get the "Connection String" right to set server up. i have : WINXP PRO SP1 + VS.NET 2003(SDK1.1) +  ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem getting SQL Server Express Service to Start

  I have had SQL Server 2005 (Full Version) installed along with SQL Server Express and suddenly SQL Express quit starting and will not start manually. I have reinstalled VS 2005 (Team Edition for Software Dev) and tried to reinstall SQL Express but the installation fails when it tries to start the service. Any suggestions Keith If it had been working for a while but stopped, and it logs on with an account other than local I would check t ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Availability of Visio for Enterprise Architects 2005

  I have been reading up on the different versions of VS2005, and I can't find where VEA 2005 fits in.  How can I get it in a cost effective manner, when the majority of my work is DB design   Or, is Visio 2005 (not VEA) going to have the same database round-trip features Thanks, Kevin Nechodom Hi Kevin, My understanding is that VEA 2005 is bundled with Visual Studio Team Edition for Softwar ...Show All

• Architecture Why use an application server?

  My boss wants me to explain to him the advantages of having an application server in our web app. Currently our web app talks directly to SQL Server. What are some of the pros and cons of having an application server in this type of application --SY There are several reasons why you want to separate your User Interface layer (Web) to your Data layer (SQL Server). For example from a scala ...Show All

• Visual C# foreach loop to loop all the text box in a form

  I am new to C#, I am hoping that can anybody teach me how to use the foreach loop to loop throught all the text box in a from. Thanks. Hi, Use following loop.   foreach ( Control c in this .Controls)             {                 if (c.GetType().ToString( ...Show All

• Visual C# How to get system icons and descriptions

  Hi, Would anyone tell me how to get the system registered icon and description of a file For instance: *.doc (Word document, [MS-Word icon]) with tanks. 1. Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon() really solve your problem this time 2. any handle easy used in .NET related classes by call to method like FromHandle() and Icon class also have ToBitmap() method that can help you to convert it to image if you need it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Challenging question on transparent windows forms controls

  I have two controls, whereby one control is covered "on top" of another, and the controls on top is transparent, or can be translucent. I design in this way because the control below is a third party activeX control, which does not have generic events provided. I also want the top control to physically intercept the mouse events. The top control should be capable of drawing simple shapes like rectangles or lines. I make th ...Show All

• Windows Forms MaskedTextBox / TextBox (maximum number of chars event) ?

  Hello, I have several forms that use TextBoxes/MakedText boxes for the user input. Both of them only accept a maximum number of chars. Now when I reach the "end" of the text box I need to move to the next one. My question is, is there any event, that handles this Or I have to extend the text box and create a new Event Thanks in advance for any help. Regards Luis de Sousa ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System What are the improvements in beta3?

  Is it worth uninstalling beta2 on one of my computers and installing beta3   It''s disappointing that I can't find the differences in the vs2005 home page. dennist685 I think you would want to post that feedback in either the VB forum or the .NET framework forum.  At this point, that stuff won't change for the release of Visual Studio 2005, but now is a great time to influence the decisions made for th ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Checking in/out project does not check in/out all files as expected

  I am noticing that in a couple of our projects when I check in or out the entire project not all items are checked in/out as expected. This behavior does not happen with all projects. This seems to happen when I check in/out these projects from within Solution Explorer when right clicking the project and choosing "Check in" or "Check out for Edit..." We are using Team Server Beta 3 Refresh with Visual Studio .NET 2005 RTM. Does anyone know why t ...Show All

• SQL Server Carriage Returns and Line Breaks

  I have an address field that is coming back as a single field with carriage returns and line breaks and I would like to have it properly wrap in a single box, but the wrapping is all off. How can I get this to properly break Thanks Nope. That is not the issue. It is cangrow = true. What I want is to take a field that comes out as: John Smith CR LB 123 Main Street CR LB Anytown, MA 01888 CR LB USA as ...Show All