Jonathan Kotthoff's Q&A profile

• Software Development for Windows Vista xoml specs or xsd?

  Is there any specs or schema for xoml available for download Thanks Hi guys! I will write my monograph about process definition language and I would like to write about xoml. Are there a way to get a beta specification/schema of xoml Regards. Rafael L. ...Show All

• SQL Server Job To Execute A SSIS Package Fails - The Command Line Parameters Are Invalid

  I have created a job to execute a SSIS package located in the SSIS Package Store.  When starting the job I receive an error.  The history log reports: Message Executed as user: DOMHARRPROMAST\SQLMAIL. The command line parameters are invalid.  The step failed. This is the command line: /DTS "/File System/DataWarehouse/AgencySCD" /SERVER ntharrsqlt500 /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF What am I doing wrong How do you get this bloody thing to save to MSDB ! ! ! I don't see anywhere a 'save to server option' or any documentation on how to export it as a SQL server importable package. Th ...Show All

• SQL Server passing variables to a package before execution

  I would like to pass variables to the package before it is executed (e.g. I am calling the bcp utility and I need to pass a password to the command line), so that at runtime a variable is set and then used. Does anyone has some hints for good approaches Every idea is welcome. FYI: I do not use the bulk insert task as I need an errorlog file and the command is buggy with the errorfile option, therefore I chose the bcp approach. My connections are dynamic as far as servername and userid is concerned, but I did not find a solution for the password issue. Configurations, lookup them up in Books Online. ...Show All

• Visual Basic How to keep a Form on screen without clicking on a usercontrol behind the form

  Hi, I have a main form with buttons at the top and inside this form, I have a Panel control to host usercontrols. Within the usercontrol, I have a linklabel control that calls a form. What I want to do is keep the form on screen and prevent the user from clicking on the usercontrol on the main form unless the user clicks on the Cancel button. How do I go about resolving this small problem. Regards Dipendra Hello Dipendra, If I understand the issue correctly it sounds like you simply need to open the form modal via Form.ShowDialog instead of just using Form.Show. I hope this solves your pro ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development What is the good IDE Tool for iHD programming?

  Hi, I'm totally new to this iHD / HD DVD world and I'm exicted that I found this forum. Hopefully I'll learn a lot from and contribute some opinions to this forum. My 1st question in iHD programming is what IDE tool should be used in programming iHD And my 2nd question is how to run / preview all 3 samples from HD DVD Programming Guide. Thanks, -mh Hi mh, Welcome, and glad to hear you're excited! :-) At the moment we are using Visual Studio to do development, since iHD is XML and ECMAScript. Visual Studio provides both XML and ECMAScript authoring support, as well as ECMAScript debugging. You can a ...Show All

• .NET Development Including an xml schema in to a dataset

  Hello Everyone, I'm trying to include an xml schema which has a complex type into a dataset. After doing this, when I run the "MSDataSetGenerator" tool to generate the code-behind Designer class for the dataset, it throws an error "The Custom tool MSDataSetGenerator Failed". Unable to convert input xml file content to a dataset". From what I understand, the dataset is unable to find the xml schema(and complex type underneath it) and could not run the MSDatasetgenerator tool. If I use the absolute path of the xml schema (which has the complex type), it works fine, which is quite strange, since both the xml schema and the dataset which in ...Show All

• Windows Forms Timers

  Hey, I added a splash screen to my program but I need to amke it is after about 10 seconds it goes away and shows the main form, I think I need to use a timer but I dont know how to use it... I fiddled around with it and code to see if I could get it to work but I could not get it, so could someone help me out Thanks, I am using Visual Basic 2005. Hello, try this: doubleclick on 'MyProject' to access the project's settings dialog; select the 'Application' tab and click on 'View Application Events'; in the 'MyApplication_Startup' event write: System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000) This should do the trick. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Getting "Download Failed" Message!

  Hello Experts, We are facing this issue quite a while now and we have to repair our SDK everytime to get rid of this error message. Please help us find out WHY we get this Download Failed message everytime we start the emulator while working on evcpp The emulator works perfectly though once loaded but failed to show the application files. Any comments/suggestions will help us a lot! With Best Regards, Vicky We managed to resolve the issue! The system's NIC was not configured properly. Moreover, it has to be connected to network to acquire correct address. eVC uses TCP/IP con ...Show All

• Visual Basic ContextMenuStrip and RightClick Event

    Thanks in advance for any help/advice... So heres the problem: I would like to use a ContextMenuStrip with a DataGridView, no problems getting that to work at all.  I would like to select a row and display the ContextMenuStrip on a right click.  I have tried the _CellContextMenuStripNeeded and _MouseClick methods with no luck.  I have also tried to manually display the menu through these methods instead of attaching it through the properties; when I do this the menu does not line up with the mouse, or even the form-no matter how much I tinker with it.    ...Show All

• SQL Server Deploying a Model

  I have a report model that I'm trying to deploy to a report server. When I deploy it I get an error that says Maximum request length exceeded. How do I fix this error and get the model deployed There is a limit to the size of data you can deploy through IIS. To adjust the size upwards to allow for a large model, you will need to edit the metabase.xml file on your IIS Server. Set the property to as high as you would like then restart IIS. The number below is about 1gb. ASPMAXREQUESTENTITYALLOWED=1073741824 ...Show All

• SQL Server connecting to database from script component

  Can someone please send me some sample code on how to connect to the database from the script component I tried using the connection manager to establish a connection and then use it inside my code in VB.NET but it did not work. Please send me some samples. See also http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms135897.aspx And here is a sample of destination component: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms135939.aspx ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Multiple Filter Graphs with DirectShow

  Hi All, I've created an application that uses a custom allocator-presenter that I created based on the VMR9Allocator example found on the DirectX SDK (well, now it's on the Platform SDK). I've managed to uderstand most of what I've "implemented" and I now have almost everything I need, except for one thing. I need to be able to play more than one video at the same time and to control them independently. To do this I know that I need to have multiple Filter Graphs rendering the videos on private textures and then have the Allocator-Presenter show them on screen (this I know, but I don't fully understand how). The SDK has a multiple ...Show All

• SQL Server Importing non-hidden rows from Excel?

  I have a need to import only non-hidden rows from an excel spreadsheet. When I create the package in SSIS, it imports everything. Due to the use of the data on the spreadsheet, we cannot simply delete the data. Is there a special setting in the Excel Source or Connection manager that can be set to "only import non-hidden rows" Also, how do I go about setting the sheet with an index instead of the actual Sheet name The user changes the sheet name at random, but I know I only need the first two sheets on the file. Thanks! Matt Michuta No, there is no setting like this. You at the mer ...Show All

• Smart Device Development TableAdapter / Datagrid refresh

  TableAdapter / Datagrid refresh   Hello, I’m a new basic.NET 2005 programmer, before I used MS Visual FoxPro but there’s unfortunately no PDA compiler available. I have some small problems with the TableAdapter and the DataGrid: To update my SQL Mobile database I use TabelAdapter.Update(column1,column2,column3….) But I cannot see the changes in the grid, until I fill the grid again: TabelAdapter.Fill()   Is this correct How can I go to the record number before I did the TabelAdapter.Fill() Because I want to go to the row I was before..... Is a “faster method” (than Update, Fill……) available to get a bet ...Show All

• Visual Basic UDP.Send exception issue

  Hi, This hopefully is extremely easy, but here we must have a mental block or something as we are battling a recurring Exception issue in the system Dll on this one line of simple code that sends UDP messages We only recently noticed this exeption as these were not being caught in the Application error handler in the application, but rather in the System.dll. Each time we send a UDP message we generate this exception and it is a performance hammer as we are sending hmmm one every 20 ms or about 50 a second Here is the exact Exeception info: ------------------------------- A first chance exception of type 'System.Net.Sockets.So ...Show All