Rachael Martino's Q&A profile

• SQL Server ETL "tool cost" question

  I have been told that many ETL tools used to cost hundred of thousands of dollars. Is this true or were they referring to the ETL and Analysis tools, together Can anyone provide some actual product names and estimated "costs" that hits these marks TIA, barkingdog It's difficult to get license costs for ETL products, as vendors typically offer a range of services / licenses / connectors / training etc. Forrester Research published a good survey of the state of the market in 2004 - before SSIS was released. You can read a copy on Informatica's site - thanks INFA! http:/ ...Show All

• Visual Studio No items in the toolbox

  I have created a brand new Domain Specific Language Designer project based on the class diagram template but when I debug the solution and open the sample file there are no items in the toolbox.  Can anyone help   This even happens if I try to run one of the samples from the Microsoft DSL Tools Samples - November 2005 At the Microsoft DSL Competency Workshop I went to in December, the same thing happened to me. Our coach - the wonderful Annie Matthewman - told me to restart all my Visual Studio instances (I don't think I had to reboot). Worked for me! ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Problem when hosting Windows Forms Controls in WPF

  I am trying to use Windows Forms Controls in my WPF application. I did the following steps. First added reference to System.Windows.Forms.dll and WindowsFormsIntegration.dll Then I added the following tags to the XAML file < Mapping XmlNamespace="wf" ClrNamespace="System.Windows.Forms" Assembly="System.Windows.Forms" > < Mapping XmlNamespace="wfi" ClrNamespace="System.Windows.Forms.Integration" Assembly="WindowsFormsIntegration" > <Window x:Class="Test.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Menu Strip and trade mark in name of Form

  Hello for all, I was start to create application (like skype app). But i have problem with menu strip i dont have idea how to this menu strip looks exacly same like skype. Here is my application: http://vradovic.googlepages.com/downloadfiles There is source code also Any idea Also SKYPE have small tm (trade mark) in name of form how to do that Regards ps: thx for help The menu strip in the version of Skype I have is exactly the same as every other menu. Do you have an image of what you mean by 'menu strip' Do you mean a trade mark symbol as in (of course, the use of such a sy ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO Outlook Addin Setup on Client Workstation

  I created a VSTO Outlook Addin.  With the setup project that was created for me I created a MSI file that is run on all the user workstation as an local admin since users can not install software on their machines.  During the install I pick All Users and the install completed successfully.  I see my addin in Outlook and the addin works fine.  Every other user that sign on to that box for the first time have to run the install again and choose the repair option to get the addin to show up in Outlook.   Does anybody have an idea what is going on here   Thanks Ignus ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Copy files...

  Hello, Has anybody written some C# code to copy files to a WM5 image running under the new Device Emulator 2.0 It doesn't seem to work using old CEMGRC COM interop wrappers... Thanks in advance from the rainy Netherlands, Peter Vrenken. I am not sure if i understood the question correctly. Can you please let me know following. 1. Does it used to work with Device Emulator 1.0 2. Can you please post a sample code -Thanks, Mohit ...Show All

• Visual C++ about vc++ ??

  I already learn c++.now,I want to learn vc++ .net. But i don't know what book i shall use. As a beginner,who may help me to find some web as  to   learn vc++ Take a look at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=107484&SiteID=1  for recommended books. Thanks,   Ayman Shoukry   VC++ Team ...Show All

• Windows Forms How do you guys work with VS.NET like this? CONTSANT DESIGNER ISSUE??

  Nearly EVER TIME I open a form, the designer is unable to load the form with weird & mysetrious errors (see sample errors below). How is anyone supposed to develop like this To try and resolve the problem, I have to try any of these: 1) Close the form and open it again 2) Close form, recompile solution, open form 3) Close visual studio and open up project again Again, this is 80% of the time I try and open up a form inside Visual Studio 2005 by double click the form (even right after a successful build). I am not exaggerating. This has brought our teams productivity to a near stand still and is completely frustrating. What are we doing w ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Linq newbie FK ref question

  Hi, I've started using Linq rather than Nhibernate in some tests/personal apps I'm using. Linq is fantastic and far more natural to use than Nhib, with as much power. c# 3 features allows us to fully utilise these persistable graphs to the most, with interesting set-based processing capabilities. However, in my Unit Tests I retrieve a particular object graph (Customer -> Client) whose FK relation (Customer.ClientID -> Client) is non-null. If I add several of these objects to a parent collection (Customer Groups [] -> Customer -> Client) and persist (db.CustomerGroups.Add) I get unusual behaviour. If I run the test on it's own i ...Show All

• SQL Server Str() not locale aware

  If I execute the following Transact-Sql: declare @number float set @number=123.4567 select str(@number,10,2) I get: 123.46 Now, my windows is setup to use "," as a decimal symbol and I would have expected SQL Server to return "123,46". But apparently SQL Server does not take that into account. Is there a setting within SQL Server that controls what SQL Server uses as decimal symbol Or will it always use "." as decimal symbol If it always uses "." then I can of course substitute that with a ",", but that is an ugly solution. All this is done on an English SQL Server 2000. Thanks, Henrik Bach Thanks ...Show All

• SQL Server SSIS "source code library" for others to use

  In SSIS can one create “user defined functions” \ “subroutines” and put them in the SSIS designer for other developers to use TIA, Bill You can create custom components, tasks, transformations, destinations, sources, connections that can sit along side the stock components in the toolbox. You can't write little snippets or functions to reuse though. ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro VFP querying records with same ID

  Hi all, I have a table with the same id numbers and different dates(ex. below) ID field1 field2...............date 1 01/03/06 1 09/04/05 1 03/13/06 3 05/25/04 5 12/12/06 5 08/05/06 I need one record for every id with the max date(date closest from today) ID field1 field2...............date 1 03/13/06 3 05/25/04 5 12/12/06 Please help if possible, I've been trying inner join, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System FxCop 1.35 RC1 exception during analysis

  I regularly get the following error message when running an analysis with FxCop 1.35 RC1: 1 exceptions occurred while loading <assembly name>. 0) Could not resolve member reference: System.Configuration.IConfigurationSectionHandler::Create. Is this a bug Joe, Thanks for sending a great repro. We reproduced this and we are investigating the problem. Thanks for the feedback! David ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO2005 Word XML Expansion Pack Error

  Hi All, In our VSTO2005 Word project we binded XMLSchema definition. For some of the XML Tag Elements,we presented Windows Form "Label" control as a content in order to enable users having the functionality of hyperlink so that we can have event handling. At the time of Document closing we are removing the labels and in place we are inserting the label caption as content and saving the document. If the user opens the saved document we need to insert labels again in the place of contents. But after calling the method which does this, an error occurred as shown below, "You are currently viewing this window in multiple windows. To attach an X ...Show All

• SQL Server remote connection to 2005 express: Login Failed?

  I followed the steps outlined in a blog I found to setup SS2005 express for remote connections. Everything appeared to go smooth until I actually tried to logon ;) I have Sql Server 2005 Express installed on my WinXP PRO machine at home (no domain). I have opened the ports on the firewall, etc. When I try and login from the SQLCMD command line tool I get a Login Failed error. Here is the connection string that I'm trying to use: SQLCMD -S **.***.**.*\SQLEXPRESS -U Steve -P MyPassword The error: Login failed for user 'Steve'. When I use Management Studio Express on the same machine running Sql Server, it shows the User name: NEVERSTILL\Steve ...Show All