paulfriday's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Persisting Package Variables

  I was able to write successfully a Script Task to set the values of several package variables. But when the execution completes, the variables still contain values which were specified by default. What I want is a method of persisting the values assigned to a variable through a script. I believe this was possible in DTS The variable is not saved, because you have not saved the package. There is no way to do this really, so for anything you wish to persist between package executions you should store externally. If you want to see the value of variables during execution then use a breakpoint and drag the variables to the watch window ...Show All

• Visual Studio Stepping through the debugger takes a life time.

  Hi all, I have just gone through the process of upgrading to VS 2005 from VS 2003 and have noticed that when I debug my application stepping through it takes an absolute age now. It takes around 12-15 seconds for each step - making my debugging life hell :( Are there any ways I can look in to actually speeding this up Thanks Tryst Are you running into this http://blogs.msdn.com/greggm/archive/2005/11/18/494648.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Do you not want people to use x64?

  Could someone please explain why it is that Edit and Continue while debugging in Windows x64 doesn't work And in fact why it's been disabled at all We do want people using x64. All of the core debugging support works on x64, including fancy things like property-evaluation (func-eval) and continuable-exceptions. EnC is a fundamental restriction in the CLR Debugging Services, mainly made out of resource constraints (I don't want to fan any flames, but Interop-debugging is restricted for the similar reasons). We know it's not ideal, but we had finite resources and had to make calculated decisions about ho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Opening worksheet in VS 2005 RTM crashes IDE

  Hello, I am experiencing constant crashes of my VS 2005 (RTM) when I do the following.  All it takes to crash the IDE is to open my solutions and double click on any one of the worksheets.  I can open the workbook w/o any issues in Excel and I've also reinstalled VSTO Tools for VS and the run-time. Any ideas would be much appreciated... Regards, Dima Kherson P.S.  I was able to overcome this issue once before by wrapping a try and catch block around the entire code block in the ThisWorkbook_Startup event handler.  This time I've tried commenting out all of the code I have in the worksheets and the workbook ...Show All

• Visual C# I cannot ADD a new class or some other object into my project

  there is a dd_vserror80.txt file, but with no text in it. I uninstalled every Visual Csharp, Framework, Framework Hotfixies, Jsharp redistributable, Framework 1.1SDK, SQL sevrve, MSDN2beta and than, I installed only the framework1.1, its update and hotfix. than the Csharp, with MSDN2, SQL and framework2beta. I didnt install Jsharp redist, Framework SDK. Than I started Csharp and everything worked. There were that items, but I worry that they wont be there in a period of time.. Im pretty sure, that I havent deleted any of the files from the Visual 8 folder... Do I have to install the Framework 1.1 + its hotfi ...Show All

• Visual C# Keeping the arraylist value to the next program run.

  Hi, I have built a C# program that processes a huge amount of data and keep the processing results in arraylist. This is takes a long time , so if I need to keep these results to be used in the next time , How can I do that. Is there any way Thanks too much. Aya. The following link provide an example that solves the problem: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2003/Nov/StockPaperTrader.asp ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Error when add control in the actionsPane

  Hello! I'am creating a project wordDocumet with Visual Studio 2005. When I add a control DateTimePicker to Action Pane: this.ActionsPane.Controls(new DateTimePicker()); And run my application, results this error: First, I show a popup that say: "Choose expansion XML package": Microsoft Actions pane or nothing Expansion XML pack . I choose any but not work. After show this error: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. at Microsoft.Office.Tools.IActionsPaneSite.SetClient(Object control) at Microsoft.Office.Tools.ActionsPaneInternal.HookupSmartPane() a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How can I load data into a 2-dimensional array?

  I have some data in a text file in the format: X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,I,O,O,S,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X and I want to load it to an array (e.g. myArray) which is declared as: Public myA ...Show All

• SQL Server What are the performance characteristics of RDA?

  I have a server table containing a field of filenames and a field of type IMAGE containing large .tiff bitmaps, which I wish to pull via RDA down to my device connected by ActiveSync on it's cradle in a "refresh the device" scenario.  Is there anything anyone knows about the way in which RDA performs in this scenario about which I need to be concerned   Performance seems to drag to the extent that I'm reluctant to perform anymore trials because they are so time consuming. For one thing, there seems to be a distinct heartbeat when the data is being pulled, during which there is a noticiable delay that alternates with a flurr ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums A question on the ISV/Software Solutions competency customer reference requirements

  Could you please clarify the ISV/Software Solutions competency requirements for customer references The “Competency requirements” web page ( https://partner.microsoft.com/40012621 ) reads: “Submit at least three customer references for tested packaged software solutions. The solution must be a business application, deployed for a minimum of five users.” I have the following questions related to the quote above: Do the references have to be provided for the same software product that has undergone the ISV Testing Framework testing and received a Product ID from third party testing vendor If the answer to "1" is true, does this ind ...Show All

• .NET Development Error passing a large variable as a parameter to a remote method

  When passing a large byte array as a parameter to a remote method, I get the following error: System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: The input stream is not a valid binary format. The starting contents (in bytes) are: 53-79-73-74-65-6D-2E-57-65-62-2E-48-74-74-70-45-78 ... Server stack trace: at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.SerializationHeaderRecord.Read(__BinaryParser input)... etc. The largest byte array I can successfully pass across the wire is 4,193,890 elements in size, as soon as I go to 4,193,891 it bombs out with the above exception. I am running the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2.  The server is ...Show All

• Visual C# Does Visual C# 2002/2003 work with .NET 2.0?

   hi all i have visual C# 2002 STD; i dont know the price of visual C# 2005 but i dont want to get it cause am saving for longhorn(yep am broke) will visual C# 2002 work with .Net 2.0. if(true) with generics support You can view a list of pricing here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-21VS2005PR.asp ...Show All

• Visual C# ToolTip Control on HelpControl Button Click??

  Hi..All, I want to show tooltip for each control in my Form..when i Click on Help Button on the corner and i want to show tooltip on every control i press it..with that button Best Regards Bassam Basamad As far as i understand your problem, when you click on the help button, tool tips for all controls in form gets activated, i.e. when you hover mouse over the control tool tip is displayed. Well you can handle this on click event of help button. In event you can define tooltip control and assign to desired controls in forms. How to declare and use tooltip can be found on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) How To Get rid of Focus Rectangle Around The ToggleButton Element

  I know this question has been asked ages ago, but I just cannot find the previous thread, so I ask it again. Sheva Hello! I used this in codebehind to get rid of them.. myRectangle.FocusVisualStyle = null; /erik ...Show All

• Visual C# newbie question : I have to use a C library in a C # project...

  hi I have to use a library written in C language but I can not use the old "# include file.h". What is the simpliest way to use this library Do I have to make a C++ class with my C library in it, and add it to a new C++ project in my solution or do I have to make a dll Or ... C # is great but I do not find it very easy to use with classical code like C... Thanks for helping me !!   iznogood wrote: I have to use a library written in C language It isn't really clear what you mean by 'use'.  Are you trying to combine the source statements in the C file with your C# program &n ...Show All